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Series Code: EI
Program Code: EI190013S
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00:37 Welcome back to, Evolution Impossible.
00:39 I am Dr. Sven string. 00:40 We've been considering so much evidence 00:43 that shows that evolution really is impossible. 00:46 But is there and alternative to evolution, 00:49 or are we left in scientific limbo with nowhere else to turn? 00:53 Joining me for this very important question 00:55 is Harley Southwell. 00:57 ~ Thank you for being with us. 00:58 Tim Turner, good to have you back in the studio. 01:00 And Morgan Vincent, nice to have you as well. 01:03 And last, but definitely not least, we have Dr. John Ashton. 01:08 And Dr. John Ashton has been doing research 01:11 in this area for almost 50 years. 01:13 And we're really fortunate that he has written all of this 01:16 research up in his book, Evolution Impossible. 01:20 In his own personal experience, Dr. Ashton has discovered 01:23 that while evolution is impossible, 01:25 there is a God who exists and who is able 01:28 to intervene in our lives. 01:30 Now that's a really exciting thought. 01:32 So Let's explore the evidence. 01:33 Now, John, you mentioned a few times that evolution 01:36 cannot explain consciousness. 01:39 Can you explain what you mean by that? 01:41 Well, as I've alluded to another time, we talk about our brain. 01:47 Our brain has mass, and it stores information 01:50 and has certain processes in it. 01:52 But our thoughts or our will are non-material. 01:56 We can't weigh our thoughts. 01:57 We can put our brain on a balance, weigh it, 01:59 we can squash then it into... 02:01 Well, somebody else could. We'd be dead. 02:03 ...squash it into a... ~ Not so fun. 02:05 ...squash it into a measuring cylinder and measure its volume. 02:08 But our thoughts we can't. 02:10 And this is fascinating. This is who we really are. 02:14 You know, inside this frame is a little boy, John, sort of thing. 02:19 And that's my thoughts, that's who I am. 02:22 Who I am is really non-material. 02:25 This body is just a transducer that converts my thoughts 02:29 into physical actions so I can operate in this physical world. 02:34 But who I really am is non-material. 02:36 And it fascinate me that the God who created us 02:39 also describes Himself as non-material; 02:42 as spiritual. 02:44 And so, it's through our mind that we communicate with God. 02:47 And hence, you know, prayer. 02:48 And also, God can impress our minds 02:51 and so forth as well and communicate with people. 02:54 And the Bible is a history of people who 02:57 God communicated with. 02:59 And this is, you know, this has fascinated me. 03:01 And there's so much evidence for this. 03:03 So turning to our panel here, you know, if the God of 03:07 the Bible exists; He's a God of love, and He's powerful as well, 03:12 what would He be capable and interested to do? 03:16 Well one thing I heard once that was really, really beautiful 03:19 was that God exists, and He looks like Jesus. 03:23 You know, and that is a personal friendly Person 03:26 who wants to invest in us and to see us grow. 03:30 And that's something I think I've discovered in my own life. 03:32 You know, I journeyed through deciding whether I was going to 03:35 believe evolution or creation. 03:37 In the end, when I saw the evidence pointing towards 03:40 creation, I accepted that God was real and that 03:42 the story in the Bible is true, and this God believes in me 03:46 and loves me, and wanted the best in me. 03:48 And then that faith that's reciprocated back to God 03:52 helped transform my life and has grown me into, 03:55 and is continuing to grow me into the person I am today. 03:58 And that's just, I find that to be a beautiful thing; 04:02 that there is a God who's capable of taking a person 04:07 and transforming them, and making them useful 04:10 and beautiful and believing in them. 04:13 ~ What about you, Tim? 04:14 What would God be capable of or interested in doing? 04:17 Yeah, what I think about just from a scientific perspective, 04:21 the universe had a beginning. 04:23 Everyone agrees that that's the case. 04:25 But I guess, according to Richard Dawkins 04:28 it came from nothing. 04:29 And then he goes on to define what "nothing" actually is. 04:31 Which is kind of funny. 04:33 But according to the Bible, God was the one 04:36 who created everything. 04:37 And so, if you can create an entire universe, 04:42 not to mention setting up all the laws of physics, 04:45 creating information in DNA, the magnitude of His intelligence 04:51 must be completely off the scale, and His power as well. 04:53 I guess, why would He do that? 04:56 I think the Bible has some really cool answers about that. 04:59 And it's for His pleasure. 05:00 He just, He loves being relational. 05:03 And like Harley said, it's something that He's craving, 05:08 that interrelational, I guess, space. 05:11 And so I think, yeah, if He's like that, then that's awesome. 05:17 ~ What about you, Morgan? 05:19 Yeah, similar to what Harley alluded to, that God 05:22 orchestrates times and events, seasons, situations. 05:27 And not just one in our life, but multiple, 05:30 and many at different times in our lives 05:32 to get our attention. 05:35 I like to think of God as someone who pursues. 05:38 ~ Like the hound of heaven. 05:40 Yeah, He's the one who takes the first step. 05:44 One of my favorite words at the moment is the word, prevenient; 05:48 which comes from two words that combine to basically mean that 05:51 God is the one who takes that first step. 05:54 And when I look at my own life and hear stories of 05:57 other people's lives, we can see how God 06:00 takes that first step in terms of 06:02 relationship with us, with humans. 06:04 And so, it's a fascinating thing to think of God 06:07 being the one and wanting to be the one 06:12 who enters into that relationship with us. 06:15 So much so that even though someone can reject Him, 06:18 can slight Him, put Him away for decade after decade, 06:22 after decade, God will still pursue them. 06:25 God will still be the one to want to dwell with them. 06:29 And we see that absolutely personified 06:32 in the life of Christ. 06:33 As both Tim and Harley mentioned as well. 06:36 Thank you very much, Morgan. It's really amazing. 06:38 And Morgan mentioned the concept of times and seasons. 06:42 And that brought me back to your fascination with 06:45 the philosophy of time, which we have talked about before. 06:49 But in relation to God, the whole concept of time is 06:53 very fascinating, particularly with regards to prophecy. 06:55 And that's one of the key evidences that you raised 06:58 to bring to our attention in the book. 07:00 Can you give us one of the best examples of a prophecy 07:06 which allows us to see what God can do in our lives? 07:10 Wow, well there are lots of prophecies in the Bible. 07:14 Of course, you know, there are many prophecies. 07:16 I think perhaps one of the most outstanding ones 07:19 relates to the dream of Nebuchadnezzar. 07:23 Because Nebuchadnezzar is, you know, a very famous 07:26 historical figure. 07:28 ~ King of Babylon. 07:30 Well yes, founded the Babylonian empire, 07:32 he built the hanging gardens of Babylon for his wife, 07:36 which was one of the seven wonders of the ancient world 07:39 according to Herodotus. 07:41 And so, it's very interesting that the Bible recounts 07:45 Daniel, one of the Hebrew captives after Nebuchadnezzar 07:50 conquered Jerusalem, that Nebuchadnezzar had a dream. 07:54 And in this dream he dreamt about an image. 07:58 Well, he had a dream and he couldn't remember what 08:01 the dream was, but he knew it was a very significant dream. 08:04 And he asked his wise men, you know, what did the dream mean. 08:06 And they said, "Well, tell us what you dreamt 08:08 and we'll tell you what it means." 08:10 But Nebuchadnezzar was a pretty clever guy, 08:12 and he said, "Well if I tell you what the dream was, 08:17 you can make up anything. 08:18 Well, I can't remember it anyway, so you know, 08:21 you tell me what I dreamt and then I'll know you can 08:24 tell me what the meaning is." 08:26 And of course, Daniel was one of the wise men at the time, 08:29 and he prayed and God revealed to him what the dream was. 08:32 And he told Nebuchadnezzar, and Nebuchadnezzar said, 08:35 "Wow, that's it. I remember that's what I dreamt. 08:37 What does it mean?" 08:39 And essentially, it was a vision of his empire and the 08:42 succeeding empires of the world. 08:44 That his empire would be followed by the Persian empire, 08:47 that would be followed by the Greek empire, 08:49 that would be followed by the Roman empire. 08:51 And then that essentially would disintegrate 08:53 into strong and weak kingdoms. 08:54 Now essentially that's exactly what happened. 08:57 You know, after Nebuchadnezzar died, his grandson, 09:01 I think it was Nabonidus who was the king, 09:05 and while his son Belshazzar was in Babylon, 09:08 Cyrus' general Gobryas came and marched in 09:12 and took Babylon in 539 BC. 09:15 And then we had the Persian empire, of course, followed in. 09:19 Cyrus and Darius, and so forth. 09:21 And then we had Alexander the great came in. 09:24 ~ Marched over. - Yes. 09:25 And defeated Darius in 331 BC. 09:29 And then we go on, and of course then the Greek 09:32 empire was divided up, and then subsequently 09:35 conquered by the Roman empire. 09:37 Which then degenerated into the states of Europe. 09:41 Some strong and some weak. 09:42 Some went on and some broke up. 09:44 The fascinating thing is, of course, that a rock 09:47 hit the bottom of the statue, and filled 09:49 and became the whole world. 09:51 And of course, that represented that one day God will destroy 09:53 the world and recreate it again. 09:55 So that part of the prophecy hasn't happened yet, 09:58 but all the other bits did. 10:00 ~ So what time period are we looking at here 10:02 from when Nebuchadnezzar had the dream, all the way to 10:06 the end of that fulfillment of that prophecy? 10:10 What sort of time frame are we looking at? 10:12 Well of course, Nebuchadnezzar was about 600 BC when he 10:16 first conquered Jerusalem, first took Jerusalem. 10:19 And of course, well we know Europe is still there now. 10:22 So it comes right through to the second coming. 10:24 So it spans the last part of the history of time. 10:27 But some of the details and things that fascinated me, 10:31 for example, Belshazzar was not recognized 10:35 in any of the secular historical records until recently, 10:39 and yet it was written in the Bible. 10:40 So the critics said, "Oh yeah, it's another made up story." 10:43 But then they discovered all these cuneiform tablets 10:46 that recognized that Belshazzar was the co-regent 10:50 with his father and was actually the king of Babylon at the time 10:52 while his father was actually fighting a 10:55 diversionary action with Cyrus. 10:56 ~ So archaeological evidence is supporting the biblical account. 11:00 Yes, and also the Bible talks about how Belshazzar was, 11:04 you know, all like in a drunken revelry feast 11:07 that they used to have. 11:08 The Bible talks about that. 11:10 And it's interesting, Xenophon, a later Greek historian, 11:15 records that, yes, that was actually the case of what was 11:18 happening when Gobryas took in, and that Belshazzar 11:21 was slain next to his throne. 11:23 So we had later, you know, all this confirmation 11:26 and corroboration of the historical accuracy. 11:28 And there's so many of the other prophecies that are like that. 11:32 And what about you guys? 11:34 Have any of the prophecies in the Bible really 11:37 impressed or inspired you? 11:38 Or have you ever seen the effect of this particular 11:41 prophecy in your own life or work or ministry? 11:45 ~ Yeah, I guess for me some of the most powerful prophecies, 11:49 I guess, are in relation to Jesus. 11:50 Like, you have the ones in Isaiah are hundreds of 11:53 years before Jesus was even there. 11:55 You have the ones in Psalms, it's like over three hundred 11:56 different prophecies that Jesus fulfills 11:58 every single one of them. 11:59 And I think just the surety of that. 12:03 Like, you talk about the probability of how the universe 12:05 could come into existence by itself, or life forming. 12:08 And just the probability of one Man fulfilling all three hundred 12:12 prophecies is just astounding. 12:13 And so, you kind of... Like, being able to see the... 12:16 God has provided us enough information to say, 12:19 okay, well I'm pretty sure that was who He said He was. 12:25 One thing kind of in the similar area, but 12:28 not necessarily prophecy, but something we can look back at 12:31 is the evidence for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 12:35 It's something that, you know, is a historical 12:38 verifiable fact that Jesus Christ lived and died. 12:41 And there's argument over whether He resurrected or not, 12:43 but the evidence that is seeming to mount, and mount, and mount 12:45 is very clear that there is evidence that He did resurrect. 12:49 You know, the different... 12:50 You know, He appeared to so many people. 12:52 There's the records of it being written down 12:55 by the apostles so soon after His death. 12:58 As well as there definitely was an empty tomb, 13:01 because that's what Jesus' enemies acknowledged, 13:05 that the tomb was empty. 13:06 And they made a story saying that all these Roman soldiers 13:09 were asleep, which is a very impossible story for these 13:13 Roman soldiers whose life depended on them staying awake. 13:15 And they're highly trained elite soldiers to fall asleep. 13:17 But they recognize that the tomb was empty, 13:20 so they had a make up this story to explain it. 13:22 And how would they have known it was the 13:23 disciples if they were asleep? 13:25 Exactly. 13:26 So there's just all this evidence for the 13:29 resurrection of Jesus Christ. 13:31 Which, I mean, if you were to found a religion, you know... 13:34 Like, there's been a number of men over history who have 13:37 founded religions, you know. 13:38 But Jesus founded His religion based on the fact that 13:41 He was going to die and resurrect. 13:43 That is such an unlikely, astronomically unlikely 13:47 thing to happen in just a materialistic world. 13:49 But Jesus did found His religion upon that, 13:52 and everyone around Him proclaimed, "He's risen." 13:55 And everyone was like, well there's proof for it. 13:56 And so, Christianity just exploded so rapidly. 13:59 And Jesus actually predicted His own resurrection 14:02 while He was still doing His public ministry. 14:05 So what you're pointing out is that there's supernatural 14:09 miracles and supernatural prophecy as well. 14:12 And John, I guess the question I have in mind is this: 14:15 I mean, you know, I go on the Bureau of Meteorology 14:19 and I look up the weather report, and I can get about 14:23 seven days in advance, and sometimes 14:25 they get it pretty wrong. 14:26 Which is a bit sad. 14:29 But you know, predicting two and a half thousand years 14:34 in advance, hundreds of years, seems like 14:38 a bit of a long stretch. 14:39 So how could God actually predict these things 14:44 so far in advance? 14:45 What power does God have? 14:47 What's the nature of God for Him to be able to do this? 14:52 Okay, well that's a fairly deep, you know, question to get into. 14:57 And I guess a number of people have argued with, 15:00 well, is there free will, and so forth? 15:04 You know, some of my own thoughts on this is that 15:06 God does help influence us and helps us make choices. 15:10 He doesn't force us to make choices, but He can change 15:13 circumstances so that, you know, we make choices over time. 15:16 And He knows the future. 15:18 Also, there's been different models portrayed that, 15:21 we often hear God can see the beginning and the end. 15:24 And they've been in some of the philosophical journals. 15:27 For example, let's say, well, if you imagine you had a 15:30 plain sheet of paper, and we're living in this 15:32 two dimensional space, and we're like little ants 15:36 crawling around on this space. 15:38 But you've got a pin going through your piece of paper. 15:42 And this has the future on this side and the past on this side. 15:46 And God is out here, and He sees the whole lot. 15:49 But we only see this little bit here. 15:52 But He can see the whole lot. 15:53 So I mean, these are just, you know, primitive models 15:56 to sort of try and explain that God is outside time. 15:59 ~ Transcends time. 16:00 You know, the whole concept of time and choice. 16:04 You know, there's evidence that humans have known the future, 16:07 certainly through premonitions and dreams, 16:10 and this sort of thing. 16:11 ~ And so what you're saying is, not only in the Bible 16:14 do we have, you know, prophecies and dreams 16:17 like Nebuchadnezzar had, 16:18 but also more recently there's been dreams. 16:22 Could you maybe share with us some stories 16:23 of people who have had dreams? 16:25 Well, it's a real life scenario. 16:27 I mean, earlier on we talked Professor Werner Gitt. 16:29 Now his story is really interesting. 16:32 He grew up in east Germany, which is very close 16:36 to the Russian border, and was born in 1937, 16:38 so it was before the war. 16:40 When the war broke out he was only a little boy. 16:42 And of course, towards the end of the war, 16:45 as the Russian soldiers came in, the people had to flee. 16:49 And his mother was captured by the Russians, 16:52 taken to the Ukraine where she died. 16:55 His older brother was taken away and never heard of again. 17:00 But Werner and a couple of aunties were actually, 17:08 he was quite sick at the time, they tried to flee, but 17:11 they were actually captured and held, 17:13 and then later expelled to a town on the island of Wyk, 17:18 I think, in the North Sea. 17:20 After the war they were put there to be dealt with 17:22 until everything was sorted out. 17:23 Now meanwhile, his dad had been captured 17:26 and was in an allied prisoner of war camp. 17:28 And he had no idea where his family was; 17:33 where his children were, where his family were. 17:34 Had no idea what happened to his wife, or anything. 17:36 But one night he had a dream. 17:39 And in that dream, he dreamt that he 17:41 visited a particular uncle. 17:43 And he asked this uncle... 17:47 His uncle was saying to him, 17:49 "Oh, you should come and visit us." 17:50 This is the dad that dreamt this dream 17:52 in the prisoner of war camp. 17:54 And in his dream, he asked his uncle, "Where do you live?" 17:56 His uncle told him an address. 17:57 And so he woke up straight away and he wrote the address down. 18:02 And he decided to write to that address. 18:05 And at that address was an uncle 18:09 that he hadn't had contact with for years. 18:12 He'd moved there, and everything was topsy-turvy after the war, 18:15 but he knew where his son was. 18:18 And he put him in contact. 18:20 And his son was the sole, Werner was the sole survivor 18:23 of his dad's family. 18:25 But that's just one of many dreams. 18:28 I mean, I can remember having a really 18:30 powerful premonition myself. 18:32 I was a tutor for the first year med students in chemistry 18:39 at the University of Tasmania. 18:41 And I used to give some Bible studies. 18:43 And one night traveling home, I was eager to get home, 18:45 it was a rainy night, coming into Hobart 18:48 as I'm driving down the hill towards the city, 18:52 I was strongly impressed to slow down. 18:54 Slow down. 18:56 And I thought to myself, "I'm only doing 60 18:59 kilometers an hour." 19:00 But it was, slow down, slow down. 19:03 So I slowed down just a little bit. 19:06 But I saw this green light ahead, and I thought, 19:08 I want to get through the green light. 19:10 And I was trying to balance, I'm slowing down 19:12 but I want to get that green light. 19:13 And it was on a blind intersection corner 19:16 where there was an office block on the corner. 19:18 And just as I came into that light, 19:21 a blue Datsun sports car came through at high speed. 19:24 And I hit him. I was in a 56 Chevy. 19:27 And I hit him and I spun him around. 19:30 But a fraction of a second faster, he would have 19:34 slammed into the side of me and killed me. 19:36 If I had properly slowed down as God was prompting me, 19:40 my Chevy wouldn't have hit him and I wouldn't have had 19:42 this big dang mudguard on the front. 19:44 But praise the Lord, I wasn't killed. 19:46 Listen to God. That's the lesson. 19:47 And I did a study among our research group 19:51 when I wrote on this topic of evidence that people 19:56 had seen the future. 19:58 Because the future is random or chaotic 20:01 from a human perspective. 20:02 And so, how can anyone know the future? 20:05 And there are many cases where people, 20:07 particularly Christians, have had powerful premonitions 20:10 that have protected them. 20:11 And even among the staff, we had about 100 staff, 20:15 and I think out of 100 staff there were 5 people 20:18 who had had powerful premonitions 20:20 that warned them of danger. 20:23 ~ I have a question in regards to this. 20:25 I was reading recently about a magician by the 20:27 name of James Randi who created a competition, basically. 20:32 He was an atheist and he created a competition 20:35 for anyone who claimed to be a diviner, or a psychic, 20:39 or you know, a telekinetic, or have some other kind of, 20:43 you know, clairvoyance, supernatural power, or whatnot. 20:45 He created a challenge for them that if they could prove 20:49 under scientific verifiable testable conditions 20:53 that they had a supernatural gift then he would give them 20:55 a certain amount of money. 20:56 It eventually grew to be around about, I believe, $100,000. 21:00 It might have been a million, if I remember correctly. 21:02 But over a period of 50 years and thousands of applicants 21:07 that came through, not a single one them was able 21:08 to demonstrate a supernatural power, 21:10 a supernatural gift. 21:11 And it kind of like seems that, like, when we try and prove 21:15 supernatural things in science, we can't verify it and test it. 21:19 And also, I guess, coming back to evolution, 21:21 you know, we've remarked on how it's impossible 21:24 to be tested and verified in a laboratory 21:27 setting, and so forth. 21:28 So if we have these two, you know, different things 21:31 that can neither be verified, where should we go? 21:35 Well I think we have the testimony in Christian 21:37 literature of so many Christians who have testified 21:41 to God's leading in their life, powerful changes in their life. 21:46 Werner Gitt's story is just one of, you know, 21:49 thousands, hundreds of thousands probably, of examples. 21:52 And people know and experience in themselves, 21:55 and I do too, similar to you, that God has changed them. 21:58 When I accepted God, my whole attitude 22:02 to life began to change, and God began to change me. 22:06 And you realize, that's a real experience that happens. 22:09 And I guess, God has warned these people. 22:11 So there are so many stories of miracles of people 22:14 surviving under different conditions. 22:16 You know, we think of that soldier in the second world war 22:20 that rescued all those people. 22:23 ~ Desmond Doss. - Desmond Doss. 22:25 They made the film about him, Hacksaw Ridge. 22:27 You know, he made all those trips up there. 22:29 People are being shot all around him, but he wasn't shot. 22:31 Now people say, "Well hang on, 22:33 there are good people that die too." 22:35 But you know, it seems that God, at certain times, 22:39 when God has miraculously protected people. 22:43 You know, I think of the story of Harriet Tubman 22:46 that led all those slaves to freedom. 22:48 You know, an uneducated woman. 22:50 But she said she heard the voice from God, 22:52 God would tell her to go this way or back that way. 22:55 And she made all those journeys and she was never caught, 22:58 and took all those people to freedom. 23:00 So it seems that when there's a purpose, 23:03 that there are times when God intervenes and blesses 23:07 His people, He protects them. 23:09 I mean, my wife and I have had, you know, answer to pray 23:12 just this past week while on holiday, sort of thing. 23:15 I've had so many personal answers to prayer. 23:18 I'm writing that in a book at the moment, 23:20 I'm up to about 60,000 words, of experiences myself. 23:24 Of course, there's many other Christians that have 23:25 written these books, particularly out in the 23:28 mission field where there have been no resources, you know. 23:30 And I think of, say, Mary Slessor. 23:33 Here was this young Scottish woman who went to the 23:36 Congo in the 1800's, walked barefoot into the jungles, 23:39 and converted the cannibals. 23:42 You know, so we can see the power of God is working 23:45 where it's working the power of good. 23:47 And there are so many stories like that 23:49 where I think they all add up that there is 23:51 an intervening God that we can come to and we can trust, 23:54 while we don't necessarily have specifically 23:58 our answers to prayer necessary at the time. 24:01 What I've learned is that we can trust that God 24:04 had our good in the long term. 24:06 And I can see that now of prayers that I have prayed 24:10 over ten years ago in particular personal matters, 24:14 and now I can see why God didn't answer the prayers. 24:17 And I remember praying and saying, "God, I can see 24:20 You're not answering my prayer, You're blocking my path. 24:23 Each time I make a move, You're blocking it." 24:25 And now ten years later I can see why, 24:29 and all the extra good that has come out of it 24:33 because I didn't pursue that particular path at that time. 24:37 But I couldn't see it at the time. 24:39 I thought that I was right. I was pursuing the best path. 24:43 And certainly, this whole concept of the supernatural, 24:46 but also the limits of science in terms of 24:49 being able to test it. 24:50 Tim, do you have any questions in that area for John? 24:54 I did, actually, but it probably comes from my own experience. 24:56 So when I was a little dagger, I had a, actually still got 25:01 a genetic blood disorder. 25:03 And they had to do an operation when I was little. 25:06 And my hemoglobin levels were really low, 25:10 and they are not able to operate when the levels are so low. 25:13 And so, my dad got his Bible out and sort of, you know, 25:17 you anoint the kid, get the elders of the church 25:18 together, and stuff. 25:20 My hemoglobin levels almost doubled 25:23 overnight, which is medically unheard of. 25:25 And so they were able to do the operation. 25:27 And after things like that where I'm lying in a hospital bed 25:32 and there's pain all through my abdomen, 25:33 and I look at my mom and say, "Pray," and she prays. 25:36 The pain disappears and goes away. 25:38 I'm kind of wondering, what does science do 25:41 to personal experiences? 25:42 Like, do they... 25:44 I know that in some areas of science, 25:46 they will validate someone's experience as this is something 25:49 that's actually, you know, we can test this. 25:51 This happened and is repeatable. That sort of thing. 25:53 But what do they do when they have supernatural experiences 25:56 in the human realm? 25:58 Well, some of those have been recorded in books, 26:01 and there have been studies, but they don't have an answer. 26:04 That's the problem. 26:06 Do you think that's because the supernatural 26:09 is not able to be put into a test tube? 26:14 ~ Well that's right. We can't force God. 26:17 That's the bottom line. We have to trust. 26:21 And you know, it's incredible to reflect 26:24 on how God can work in our lives. 26:26 He is a God who really does want to intervene 26:30 and show us that He exists. 26:32 This is the last episode in our journey, Evolution Impossible. 26:36 However, your exploration of this fascinating 26:40 topic can continue. 26:42 If you haven't already, we invite you to get a copy 26:45 of Dr. John Ashton's book, Evolution Impossible, 26:48 and delve deeper into the origin of life itself. 26:52 It could change your life forever. 26:55 But even more importantly, we would like you to 26:58 continue this journey with God Himself. 27:01 The last book in the Bible called, Revelation, 27:03 paints an amazing picture that God will recreate 27:07 this world to be a new world; a place where there's no more 27:11 pain, or suffering, or death. 27:14 We want you to be with us in the new earth. 27:17 And I'd like to invite you to join with me as I pray with you 27:21 as you consider this decision for eternity. 27:25 Father in heaven, we've been on this journey of 27:28 exploring evolution together. 27:30 We have discovered that all of the evidence 27:32 points to the reality that You created life and this world 27:36 just like the Bible says. 27:38 Please be with every person who has been 27:40 watching this program. 27:41 May Your Holy Spirit speak powerfully to our hearts. 27:44 May we know that You sent Your only Son, Jesus, 27:47 to die on the cross for us personally so we can 27:50 accept the free gift to a restored relationship with You. 27:53 - In Jesus name, amen. - Amen. |
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