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Series Code: HCAU
Program Code: HCAU190005A
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00:29 Hello, and welcome to 3ABN Australia Homecoming 2019 00:34 and we're at Wahroonga Seventh-day Adventist Church 00:37 in Sydney, Australia. 00:38 Our theme, as you can see on the board behind me is 00:41 "Certainty Amid Uncertainty" 00:43 there's a lot of uncertainty, isn't there Geoff? 00:45 That's a very good theme, I think, John, 00:47 because, as you say, the world is very uncertain today. 00:51 Hmmm... hmmm... so, tell me Geoff, 00:53 what's the special item and who's speaking? 00:56 Well, you know the special-item singer in a special way, 01:00 Rosemary, 01:01 and she's going to sing a song called, "The Captain" 01:04 and then we're going to be very privileged 01:06 and looking forward to Dr. John Ashton 01:09 who is an authority on the subject of 01:12 Evolution and Creation 01:14 so, I'm looking forward to that John. 01:16 "Evolution Impossible... " 01:17 Yes. 01:19 And I agree with Him... 01:20 the evidence... that's what we want to see. 01:22 His key text is found in Hebrews chapter 11 and verse 3, 01:26 "Through faith we understand 01:29 that the worlds were framed by the word of God, 01:32 so that things which are seen 01:34 were not made of things which do appear. " 01:36 Yes, Paul wrote that, 01:39 and it's a very good thought, isn't it? 01:41 It is, let's just bow our heads in prayer. 01:43 Our Father in heaven, 01:45 I just pray today that you will bless our speaker, Dr. John, 01:49 as he outlines to us a very important subject, 01:52 help us to pay attention, 01:53 it's a subject which is an issue 01:59 that has gone through every university 02:01 and every school 02:02 and our children are exposed to this matter of "Evolution" 02:05 and so, help us Lord, 02:07 and bless John in a very special way, 02:08 for Christ's sake, amen. " 02:10 Pause... 02:28 Music... 02:45 Tossed to and fro 02:48 by the storms of life, 02:50 I was going my way through the darkest of nights 02:56 Lost out at sea 03:00 You came to me 03:03 and You said gently, 03:08 "Let Me be the Captain of your ship, 03:14 Let Me be the wind that drives your sails 03:21 Through the storms and through the waves 03:27 I will guide you safely home. " 03:33 Music... 03:35 It's so hard for me 03:38 to let go of control 03:41 Hands gripped so tight 03:44 to the steering wheel 03:47 But You prove faithfully 03:50 That You know the way 03:53 and so I pray, 04:00 "Lord, please be the Captain of my ship 04:05 Lord, please be the wind that drives my sails 04:12 Through the storm and through the waves 04:18 I know that I am safe with You. " 04:24 Now that You've taken the wheel 04:34 My hands are free 04:37 to help others in need 04:40 Saving those souls who are drowning in sin 04:46 And pulling them in 04:53 So wherever You take 04:57 this ship that's now Yours 04:59 I know by faith through the trials and storms 05:06 That we'll make it through 05:08 Because You know the way 05:11 to a brighter day, 05:17 "Lord, please be the Captain of my ship 05:23 Lord, please be the wind that drives my sails 05:30 Through the storm and through the waves 05:36 I know that I am safe 05:40 with You 05:45 Through the storm and through the gale 05:51 I know that You will guide me home. " 05:59 Music... 06:16 Pause... 06:18 Shalom. 06:21 It's an honor to have the privilege to speak now 06:25 on a topic that I'm very passionate about. 06:28 The 1st of March, 1961 06:32 was a very significant date in my life. 06:35 Pause... 06:37 It was about 5 o'clock in the morning 06:41 and my mother woke me and knelt beside my bed 06:45 with tears in her eyes and said, 06:48 "Dad died at 3 o'clock this morning. " 06:51 I was just a few weeks short of 14 years of age 06:56 and at that time I remember 07:00 something felt like it was just torn from my inside, 07:04 then I realized life would not be the same. 07:08 We didn't have any family nearby 07:11 but an Adventist family had heard 07:14 that this young family in the neighborhood 07:16 had suddenly lost their dad, 07:18 and came in and showed us much kindness 07:21 and left the book, "Your Bible and You" 07:23 and they became friends 07:26 and that was my first introduction 07:29 to Seventh-day Adventism 07:31 but I praise the Lord that those people came... 07:34 that they came and visited. 07:36 I was a... a straight "A" student at school 07:40 I studied hard, I won some scholarships 07:44 and I got a job at BHP... I won a BHP Scholarship... 07:50 BHP was, at the time, the largest steel maker 07:53 in the southern hemisphere, 07:54 and I got a position in the elite research department 08:00 where they were bringing in Scientists with Doctorates 08:06 from all over the world 08:07 and I was assigned as the Personal Assistant 08:10 to a Dr. Neil Gray who was the Company's 08:13 Senior Research Chemical Engineer. 08:15 He'd just come from Imperial College, London, 08:18 and he was a Christian. 08:21 He was an Evangelical Anglican 08:24 and he kept Sunday like we keep Sabbath, 08:29 and he loaned me the book, "Mere Christianity" 08:32 and he used to talk to me about God 08:34 and his life was very different 08:36 from the lives of the other scientists that had come 08:39 that were Chemists and Metallurgists... 08:42 they'd come from Cambridge and Oxford, 08:44 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 08:46 and... but he stood out as a very loving man 08:51 and his habits were different, he didn't drink and smoke, 08:54 he didn't swear, 08:56 he didn't tell demeaning stories 08:58 and I found out too that he was a Creationist. 09:02 When I finished ?... 09:07 I wondered what life was all about 09:10 and I thought of the differences 09:12 and I decided to start going to church 09:15 and I decided to go to the Seventh-day Adventist Church 09:18 and at that time, 09:20 top scholarship was advertised in Australia... 09:22 the top Chemistry scholarship... and I prayed my first prayer, 09:25 I prayed, "God, if I win that scholarship, 09:29 I'll start keeping Sabbath... " 09:31 and that's a silly prayer really, isn't it? 09:35 How can we bargain with God? 09:37 But God understands and I won that scholarship 09:40 and I began keeping Sabbath as I understood... 09:44 going to church. 09:45 I moved to the town... to the new university... 09:51 I started going to church 09:52 and then I was going to church for probably close to 12 months 09:56 before someone said to me, 09:58 "You should do some Bible Studies... " 10:00 and I would encourage you again to ask anybody new 10:04 if they'd like some Bible Studies. 10:06 This Bible here is the Bible that I was given 10:10 with the studies 10:11 and it's dated the 19th of June, 1971 10:16 and I was baptized in 1971 in December 10:20 and I praise the Lord for that 10:23 and the experience of knowing that God is real... 10:29 that God answers prayer... 10:32 that God is someone that loves us and knows about us 10:37 and can change our life... 10:40 can change us to slowly become the beautiful person 10:45 that God made each of us to be... 10:47 a special beautiful person that had a relationship with Him 10:52 but unfortunately today, so many people are told 10:59 that we weren't created by a loving God... 11:02 we evolved over billions of years from some chemicals 11:08 that naturally formed some simple cell. 11:11 It's interesting that Dr. Gray left BHP after a few years 11:20 and went and joined the University of Melbourne 11:24 and while he was there, he invited Dr. Duane Gish 11:27 who was the University of California Berkeley Bio-chemist, 11:30 a brilliant Bio-chemist who was a Creationist 11:33 to talk on the new evidence and the growing evidence 11:37 that it was absolutely impossible 11:39 for a living cell to form by chance 11:41 and for evolution re-mutations 11:46 to produce new types of organisms 11:48 and after Dr. Gish spoke, 11:51 Neal Gray was called into the Dean's office 11:54 of the University of Melbourne and told, 11:57 "If you want to keep your position here, 11:59 don't do that again... " 12:01 and that was 35... 40 years ago, 12:04 and since then, the pressure to silence the growing evidence 12:10 that evolution is impossible has grown. 12:13 Just a few months ago, 12:16 a famed Yale University Science Professor of Computing 12:20 made this statement, his name was... 12:23 made a statement that he no longer believed 12:27 in Darwin's theory of evolution. 12:30 He called it a beautiful idea 12:33 that has been effectively disproven. 12:37 His name was David Golonsner 12:41 and he's cited as saying a number of things. 12:44 So, this was just a few months ago. 12:46 In an interview he said... 12:48 when he talked to many of his colleagues at Yale, 12:55 he said... from the intellectual behavior 12:58 and what they have published 12:59 and much more importantly what they tell their students... 13:03 "Darwinism has indeed passed beyond the scientific argument 13:07 as far as they are concerned, 13:09 you take your life in your hands 13:11 if you challenge it intellectually. 13:13 They will destroy you if they challenge it... 13:17 if you challenge it. " 13:18 And that's essentially what's happened 13:20 in our academic circles today 13:22 so our young people don't get exposed to the growing evidence. 13:26 He goes on to say in this interview, 13:29 "Now, I haven't been destroyed, I'm not a biologist 13:32 and I don't claim to be an authority on this topic 13:35 but what I have seen in their behavior intellectually 13:38 and at colleges across the West, 13:40 is nothing approaching free speech on this topic. 13:43 It is a bitter, fundamental, 13:45 angry, outraged rejection of intelligent design, 13:50 which comes nowhere near 13:52 the scientific or intellectual discussion. 13:55 I've seen happen again and again. " 13:58 This belief in Darwinism in that somehow 14:04 some natural, mechanical process can produce life 14:09 and all the new organisms on earth, 14:11 has in fact become a religion 14:13 that scientists are fighting over 14:16 but it's a religion that leads largely to Atheism... 14:20 to disbelief in God. 14:22 Firstly, it challenges the Bible... 14:25 the Bible account that in six days... 14:29 only about 6,000 years ago, 14:31 God created the heavens and the earth 14:34 and this planet in particular and life there on it 14:38 and we were created special. 14:40 The theory of evolution defies that 14:44 but in actual fact, 14:48 when we look at what we know today, 14:51 the evidence is overwhelming 14:53 that evolution is absolutely impossible 14:59 and I use that word "absolutely" 15:02 in an absolute sense. 15:04 It is absolutely impossible and never happened. 15:09 Sure, there's been refinement of species through mutations... 15:13 minor changes... 15:15 but evolution has never been able to produce 15:19 a new type of body part or a new type of organism. 15:22 Let's have a look at this. 15:25 This is a very important topic 15:29 because what we believe about our origins 15:34 can affect our destiny for ETERNITY 15:38 and why I'm so passionate about this evidence 15:41 is because I've heard so many stories 15:44 from parents and from friends 15:47 of people that have tossed in their faith 15:51 in allowing all-powerful God who does answer prayer... 15:56 who is with us 15:58 that helps us to get through to His kingdom... 16:01 and they've given up that faith 16:04 because of this false teaching that has been promulgated 16:08 in the name of Science. 16:10 Jesus told that from the beginning 16:15 God made them male and female. 16:17 He made us as humans. 16:20 We didn't descend from some ape-like creature 16:23 and Jesus also told... and this is a very important message 16:27 that it is God's will that everyone 16:30 that believes in Jesus as their Savior 16:33 and turns to Him in repentance 16:35 would have eternal life 16:38 and be raised from death on the last day. 16:41 So, Jesus' message... the message of the gospel 16:44 that God is now free to forgive us 16:46 gives us hope 16:48 and will eventually lead us to eternal life 16:51 to a new existence with God in an earth made new. 16:55 Godless-Science view asserts that somehow 17:01 the living organism... 17:04 our first living organism formed by itself 17:08 by just some sort of chemical processes 17:11 and over billions of years 17:13 why totally different life forms have formed from that. 17:17 The Christian world view, of course is 17:20 that God is our Creator 17:21 and He created everything on this world... 17:24 he created all the different forms of life. 17:27 Of course, there was a flood when people became very wicked 17:31 and God had to start again to some extent 17:33 and we have the evidence for that as well. 17:35 The Atheistic world view though... 17:38 life arose by chance and in the end there's death. 17:40 That's it... that's the bottom line. 17:43 There's no hope... 17:44 and so, of course this view can lead to, 17:47 "Well, make the most of life here... 17:49 dog eat dog... 17:51 I need to enjoy life as much as I can... 17:53 get the most out of life that I can. " 17:55 And we can see how the world is going in many places, 17:59 where religion is being rejected 18:02 and particularly it was mentioned this morning 18:04 in Atheistic Communistic countries 18:06 that the standards of living and the way people are treated 18:10 in those countries. 18:11 Let's have a look now at the signs. 18:15 What is actually required for the first living cell to form? 18:19 Well, for a start, millions... not one... 18:24 millions of identical protein molecules 18:28 of many different types... 18:29 some millions of one type of molecule... 18:33 millions of another type, 18:34 millions of another type... 18:36 many different types of proteins, 18:37 but in the millions quantities have to form by chance... 18:42 and there's a very, very long polymer molecules... 18:45 now if you get a few pieces of Lego together 18:48 and you wave them around, they're not going to break, 18:50 but if you try to make a really long chain... 18:52 a 100... 500 pieces of Lego... 18:54 just joined together and waved around... they'll break, 18:57 and it's the same with polymer molecules. 18:59 They break down in nature, 19:00 they're only going to form 19:02 in an non-aqueous-type environment... 19:05 with enzymes in water... 19:08 water breaks down long polymer molecules 19:10 so this theory you've heard... 19:12 hear about... that the first living organism formed 19:14 with their molecules coming together in a soup... 19:16 doesn't really work either. 19:18 All these things are against our known Chemistry, 19:21 this long-chain molecules don't form by themselves, 19:24 they only form with specific chemical reactions 19:28 inside the protection of a cell using enzymes 19:31 and specific chemical enhancers that are there. 19:35 But there's more... 19:37 we also have to have long-chain sugar molecules... 19:40 we have to have long-chain fat molecules... 19:41 and then, we have to have 100s of specific chemicals form 19:48 all in the same location 19:51 that somehow form themselves together into the cell 19:54 and we know Scientifically, that's impossible 19:57 because these compounds have to have specific functions... 20:01 have to have specific structures, 20:03 they're not formed by themselves in nature. 20:06 So, what they're asking is not a few molecules 20:09 but millions of molecules... 20:12 joint molecules somehow come together into one space 20:16 and form this cell. 20:18 For the cell to be able to reproduce, 20:20 there has to be a code representing that cell 20:22 and yet they have to claim that the code which we call DNA 20:26 somehow forms by chance 20:28 that actually encodes for the cell 20:31 that also happened to form by chance. 20:33 How can they be connected? 20:35 But that's not enough. 20:38 The code has to again characterize 20:44 the parts of the... the cell that we have 20:48 and again, as I've already just said, 20:50 a moment ago, it's an important point. 20:52 The code has to have somehow known 20:55 what the structure of the cell was... that randomly formed. 20:58 that's an impossibility... an absolute impossibility. 21:02 But even for the code to work, it needs a Code-Reading Machine 21:10 which we call a Ribosome. 21:12 Now, in 2007, a number of Chemists won the Nobel Prize 21:16 for determining the structure of the Ribosome 21:18 we still don't know exactly how it all fully works 21:21 but a Ribosome is a special Code Reader 21:24 that reads the DNA code and makes the new proteins 21:29 for the next generation of that cell. 21:32 Without the Code Reader, the DNA Code is useless 21:36 so, you have to have a specific Code Reader. 21:39 Now, if I spelled out the word, Z I V I S... that's a code... 21:45 but probably no one here could read that code 21:49 or understand what that code means 21:51 because you have to have the specific programming 21:54 to read that code 21:56 which is the Latvian language for fish 21:59 which in English you say, F I S H 22:02 and so, the Code Reader has to match the code 22:07 and this molecule 22:09 which involves, as I said, 100s of 1,000s of atoms 22:13 in a unique structure so complex 22:16 that it's taken teams of Scientists years 22:19 to work it out using X- Ray Crystallography 22:22 we have to expect that that Code Reader formed... by chance 22:25 that could read that specific code 22:28 using those four chemical letters 22:31 S A T and G 22:32 but even if we had all that, the cell would be dead. 22:40 It wouldn't be alive. 22:42 For it to be alive, 22:46 100s of bio-chemical reactions would have to be in a state 22:53 of disequilibrium... 22:55 that is, out of balance by just the right amount 22:59 to produce just the right concentration 23:02 for the next chemical reaction to go 23:05 to produce the next chemical compound 23:08 at just the right concentration 23:10 to produce the next chemical reaction... 23:12 at just the right concentration, 23:13 to produce the next chemical reaction 23:15 at just the right concentration 23:17 to produce that first chemical 23:19 at just the right concentration 23:22 because it's a circular set of 100s of bio-chemical reactions. 23:28 It's just absolutely impossible to occur. 23:31 We have so much Science that it is absolutely impossible 23:36 for a living cell to form by chance. 23:38 Absolutely impossible... absolutely impossible 23:42 and that's why dead things can't be made alive. 23:45 Evolution cannot explain the origin of humans. 23:50 But actually there's no mechanism 23:54 to explain how a new type of body part can form. 23:57 Sure, mutations occur... 23:59 they can destroy parts of the code 24:02 but destroying part of the code 24:04 doesn't produce a new type of organism. 24:06 Might produce a wingless beetle or different colored fur... 24:10 or something like that. 24:12 Mutations can produce... 24:14 cause small sections of the code to be duplicated... 24:17 extra finger... 24:19 we've seen pictures of chickens born with a second head 24:22 and so forth 24:24 but those are the parts that usually are not pretty 24:26 and they don't form any new part 24:27 and always these mutations... they're still just using... 24:31 duplicating pre-existing code, they're not developing new code. 24:35 Mutations can involve transfer... 24:38 or pieces of code to another organism and... 24:40 as a matter of fact the top ten food poisoning bacteria 24:43 that we have to encounter in today's times 24:47 probably evolved over the past 30-40 years 24:51 by the transfer of toxin genes from the toxic bacteria 24:56 to a harmless bacteria that can survive in us 24:59 and that harmless bacteria now has become a toxin producer. 25:03 That's not new code. 25:04 Mechanisms... these mechanisms can't provide a new code 25:09 that's going to produce a new body part 25:11 that's going to change a fish fin into a leg. 25:14 Evolutionists talk about that... you know, how the fishes... 25:17 the fins got a little bit stronger 25:19 and they evolved in lakes. 25:20 That involves massive changes in the genetic code... 25:24 massive changes in the code 25:26 to produce the codes for the new joints... 25:29 the new compounds that make up the surfaces of the joints, 25:32 the new blood vessels... nerves and so forth... 25:34 the muscles... 25:36 all have complex codes, 25:38 huge complex codes... have to arrive by chance. 25:40 Secondly, how can the code... mutation mechanism know 25:44 what the needs are of the animal? 25:46 It can't. 25:47 It's absolutely impossible. 25:49 Furthermore, it's never been observed either. 25:53 They bred E. Coli bacteria through 60,000 generations 25:59 and they're still just... stayed E. Coli bacteria. 26:02 They didn't even evolve into a different type of bacteria. 26:05 If we look at say an E. Coli Bacteria... 26:08 we've got about 4.6 million little letters in the DNA code 26:14 that makes up the code to describe all the little parts 26:16 in the organism. 26:18 But if we want to evolve into a Yeast, 26:21 we go from about 4 and a 1/2 million parts 26:23 to 12 million parts in Yeast 26:26 and that's still a single-celled organism. 26:28 If we want to go then... 26:31 that's another 7 and a 1/2 million new pieces of code 26:35 that have to arise by chance mutations 26:37 and would never observe that occurring. 26:41 If we then go through to a little roundworm 26:45 or a little Nematode about five millimeters long, 26:48 we're looking at about 97 million pieces 26:51 of code in the base. 26:53 For the yeast to evolve into a little roundworm 26:57 which has digestive system... reproductive system... 26:59 a little mouth and anus and so forth, 27:01 then, we need about another 95 million pieces of code 27:08 that have to arise by chance... a complex code 27:11 and no human scientist can write a code 27:13 to make a new type of organism... 27:16 the codes are so complex. 27:17 We have so much evidence now 27:20 and, of course, that little worm is just one part of an organism, 27:23 if we go to a mouse, 27:24 we have 2.6 thousand million pieces of code... 27:30 letters in the code. 27:31 Just imagine how many books that would represent 27:35 if they were stacked on top of one another 27:37 to just write the code out 27:39 let alone write a code that made sense... 27:42 the worked... that had all the different parts 27:45 and that's just a mouse... 27:47 a mouse is just one of 5,000 or so other mammals 27:50 all which have different codes... 27:52 all of which Evolutionists have to acclaim... arose by chance 27:56 and then of course, there's more. 27:59 What about all the birds and the reptiles 28:02 and the fish and the insects and the spiders and mice 28:05 and the plants and the fungi 28:07 and all the other classes and organisms 28:10 that have all sorts of other names 28:13 other than the cooler names? 28:15 They all have their own unique code 28:18 so it's extremely complex 28:20 that the theory of evolution claim... arose by chance. 28:24 We don't see it observing... 28:26 it's absolutely impossible. 28:29 And then, within plants we find absolutely amazing structures 28:34 and one of these is called Photosystem 2 28:39 and this is an amazing structure that uses light to split water 28:48 into hydrogen and oxygen! 28:51 How cool is that? 28:53 Use of sunlight to split hydrogen... 28:56 water into hydrogen and oxygen. 28:58 Now, of course, we can do that, 29:00 we can set up photo electric cells 29:02 and we could set up a little cell with electrolyte in it 29:04 and put some water in it, 29:06 we'd have hydrogen and oxygen there. 29:07 But the plants do it in a very effective way. 29:11 They actually amplify the energy from light. 29:16 Now, if sunlight could split water... 29:17 our oceans and our lakes would just turn into 29:21 hydrogen and oxygen. 29:22 The reason is that the energy in photons from light 29:25 is not strong enough by itself 29:27 to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. 29:30 Sure we can collect it in a solar ray 29:32 and concentrate it and run a battery and split it that way, 29:36 or a little cell and split it that way 29:37 but in a plant, God does it 29:40 and what He does is, 29:42 He takes Chlorophyll that collect the sunlight energy 29:45 and he collects two photons 29:49 and they pass through special little conductive protons... 29:53 proteins to this little cell 29:56 where a couple of water molecules are held 29:59 and zapped by the energy from four photons 30:03 and split into the hydrogen and oxygen. 30:06 That hydrogen is then combined with Carbon Dioxide 30:10 to produce sugars and starches 30:13 and cellulose that we find in plants 30:16 and the oxygen is released for us to breathe. 30:21 And that's an amazing little molecular machine 30:25 that again, the structure of that 30:28 was only determined recently. 30:29 As a matter of fact, Scientists still don't know 30:32 how the water molecules are actually bonded in Photosystem 2 30:36 and if we can crack that, of course, 30:39 we're looking at ways that we can develop more efficient ways 30:42 to generate hydrogen as fuel. 30:44 And yet, Evolutionists have to believe 30:47 that such an amazing molecular machine 30:49 arose by chance. 30:51 But that's just one of tens of thousands of molecular machines 30:56 that are in our bodies... in plants... 30:59 in living organisms... 31:01 that point to an amazing Creator-Designer 31:06 and of course, the code to build that machine 31:11 is in the DNA of the plant 31:14 and the code doesn't look anything like the end product, 31:18 it's a code... just like ZIVIS 31:22 doesn't look anything like a fish, does it? 31:26 Or APPLE doesn't look anything like an apple. 31:29 It's a code 31:30 and that's another thing that is lost. 31:33 There's no direct connection... physical connection so much 31:38 or association between the code and what it encodes. 31:42 It is a code... it's a pure code, 31:45 it needs a Code Reader... Ribosome... 31:48 to make that association. 31:49 All these things clearly point out 31:53 that life could not arise by chance... 31:57 that new species cannot arrive by chance. 32:01 Evolution, mutations cannot produce the massive amounts 32:05 of new code required. 32:08 Pause... 32:11 Octopuses are another one that are being studied 32:14 at the present time. 32:15 You see, if you cut the limb of an Octopus, 32:19 it will grow back again exactly the same... 32:23 to the same size. 32:25 Now, if we can understand the complex biochemistry 32:31 behind that 32:33 and there's a cascade of reactions that occur 32:35 that enable that to happen in an Octopus, 32:38 that has huge advantages in Medicine 32:41 for people that lose a limb 32:43 and have a serious injury 32:45 and teams of Scientists are currently working 32:48 on trying to understand this biochemistry. 32:51 As a matter of fact, in one paper, 32:54 that was published in quite a prestigious journal of Biology, 32:58 25 Scientists were listed as authors of the paper, 33:03 as I recall, 33:04 and they said, "Look, the genome... 33:07 the genetics of the Octopus is so complex 33:10 that maybe it came from outer space. " 33:13 Audience: Laughter. 33:14 This is in a Scientific journal, I kid you not, okay. 33:17 Pause... 33:18 This is the mayhem... 33:20 and yet Evolutionists have to believe 33:22 this amazing biochemistry and the code for it... 33:24 and remember the code is extremely complex 33:26 made up of letters A C T and G. 33:28 Drawing capital territory is good, right? 33:32 That encode for the amazing proteins, 33:36 we're now getting into the Ribosome... 33:38 the Ribosome to recognize the great amino acids, 33:41 filled with the amine salt, 33:43 and arranged them in just the right structure. 33:46 It's an amazing system. 33:49 To produce a new body part or type... 33:52 a huge amount of meaningful new code is required. 33:56 There's no known mechanism to generate this. 33:58 The theory of evolution was developed 34:01 at a time that was challenging the... the world view 34:06 and many scientists wanted to challenge 34:10 the Biblical world view 34:11 and it's promulgated today largely by Scientists 34:16 that want to remove any concept of God from Science 34:20 and unfortunately now with our education system, 34:24 we see Science as being the arbitrator of truth... 34:28 Science is the arbitrator of what is real 34:31 and if Science says that Evolution occurs, 34:34 well, it must be right 34:36 and people are believing that story right, left and center 34:38 and it's sad because it's an incorrect story. 34:42 We now have the evidence it's not true. 34:45 The other factor is, 34:48 well, if the earth was really millions of years old, 34:52 as is claimed... 34:54 as is being determined by Radiometric Dating and that 34:58 then, evolution need even with that amount of time 35:01 there's still not enough time 35:03 for mutations to produce the required structures. 35:08 As a matter of fact, people have said, 35:09 "Even if the whole universe was made of sort of carbon, 35:13 hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, and sulfur atoms 35:16 and there were random mutations going place all the time, 35:21 that a one single meaningful long biological protein 35:26 still wouldn't form by chance. 35:27 One of the things that we've been conned to... 35:31 a lot of people have given up their belief in Genesis 35:34 is because of these teachings 35:36 that the life on earth is billions of years old 35:39 and indeed, you go into National Parks 35:41 and you see those signs up, 35:42 "This rock formation occurred here 50 million years ago... " 35:46 "This particular species became extinct 35:49 three million years ago... " and so forth. 35:51 But you know, there's a lot of conflicting data on that, 35:54 let's have a look. 35:56 What we know is that the earth has had a catastrophic past 36:03 and you go and you seek that out there... 36:05 you can see all these layers of rock that have been laid down 36:09 and largely, most of the surface of the earth 36:11 the majority of the surface of the earth... 36:14 the rock that makes up... that has been laid down under water, 36:17 it's sedimentary rock... 36:18 and when you look at the structure of the earth, 36:21 there's just this thin layer... a sedimentary rock 36:24 over the outer shell layer of the earth. 36:27 We have the evidence for Noah's flood... it's right there... 36:31 we have the fossils of all the buried animals... 36:33 you know the Morrison Formation in North America... 36:36 you've got width on the fossil, dinosaurs and so forth 36:39 it's very deep with fossils 36:41 and it takes a lot to bury a fossil... of dinosaurs... 36:45 some of them were big animals 36:46 and we see the way they're laid out and so forth 36:50 random association of animals 36:53 and of course, they find mammals... 36:54 fossils of mammals that have eaten dinosaurs, by the way, 36:57 generally separated in the... in the periodic... 37:02 in the Geologic column 37:04 but they were existing together, 37:06 there's so much evidence that really... 37:09 the flood just mixed everything up, 37:10 the geological record of fossils is not as clear as they say... 37:13 claim... 37:15 the fossils of creatures of... 37:17 appear in the layer fully formed, 37:19 they don't change... 37:21 and then they disappear. 37:22 There's no evidence of evolution in the Geologic Column... 37:27 in the fossil layer... 37:28 and the leading Geologists and Paleontologists 37:32 acknowledge this. 37:33 There's no evidence of actual evolution 37:36 and also, we have the very lowest fossilized rocks 37:39 the main ones... like Cambrian 37:41 are full of highly complex creatures 37:43 like Trilobites and so forth 37:45 which have segmented bodies... reproductive systems... 37:48 digestive systems... more complexized eye systems 37:51 and Nautiluses which are similar to Octopuses 37:54 that have jet-propulsion systems 37:56 and so forth... 37:58 they're right down in the very lowest layers. 38:00 So, the theory of evolution from a fossil record 38:04 doesn't work either. 38:05 These long ages, of course, came about 38:07 when people studied deposition rates in rivers 38:11 and they said, "Look it takes only a year... 38:13 there's only a few millimeters of sediment depositing there 38:15 so these big thick sedimentary layers 38:17 must have been laid down over millions of years... " 38:19 that's how they came up to their conclusions. 38:22 And then, of course, they did the Radiometric Dating 38:26 but when we look at other data we can get today... 38:29 when we look things like erosion rates, 38:31 we can measure these today 38:34 and the continents are arising at about... 38:36 eroding about 60 millimeters per 1,000 years. 38:41 Now, 60 millimeters is about that much, right 38:43 in a 1,000 years... it doesn't seem like much 38:46 but if you want to claim that the continents 38:48 are billions of years old, 38:49 we need to recognize that because they've reached heights 38:52 for example of the American Continents are about 650 meters, 38:56 then after 10 million years, it's going to erode away. 38:58 How can the rocks of the Grand Canyon 39:02 be 250 million years old on the surface, 39:05 I think around 500 million years old at the bottom? 39:07 The Continents would erode away 39:09 in less than 10 million years based on the data today. 39:13 Now, in the past, rainfall was much higher. 39:15 Erosion rates were much higher. 39:18 The erosion rates would have been higher. 39:21 The Flood Model fits it so well today. 39:25 There's lots of other data there that we can look at. 39:30 If we look say in the Colorado river, 39:33 the erosion there is a 100 millimeters per 1,000 years. 39:37 So the supposed 500-million-year-old rocks 39:40 sedimentary rocks there in the Cambrianian... 39:43 in the Grand Canyon there, 39:44 which is up to 1 and 1/2 kilometers deep there 39:48 that would erode away in less than 20 million years 39:51 at that rate... their whole thickness 39:54 and yet they claim they're fine... 39:56 so what I'm trying to point out by this is 39:57 that we've got a discord in the data here. 40:00 What we measure today doesn't fit the long-age model. 40:05 Some might say, "Well, it's still 20 million years. " 40:07 Well, there's more... 40:08 there's more that we can look at. 40:10 Pause... 40:12 If we look at the deposition of sediments on the ocean floor, 40:16 again only 450 meters or thereabouts, 40:19 and again, on the basis of the rates 40:22 on which the sediments run in the ocean, 40:24 they would form in less than 15 million years. 40:27 Yet the Continents... we rate them by Radiometric dating 40:31 date at 2 and 1/2 billion years... 40:33 two and half thousand million years. 40:35 So again, straight away we got this discord 40:39 between what Radiometric dating results are telling us, 40:41 and what our Geography measurements say... 40:44 what Scientists are measuring... Geographists are measuring... 40:47 what we measure today... 40:48 the same occurs with volcanic deposits, 40:51 if we look at rate of which volcanic material 40:54 is being spewed out onto the earth, 40:56 all the non-volcanic deposits would form 40:59 in less than 34 million years. 41:00 But we can also say... most of the volcanos are dead 41:04 and, you know, you walk around the local environment here 41:07 and you see the dykes and sills 41:08 you know, thankfully they're not active today. 41:11 The volcanic activity in the past was many, many times... 41:15 much more than it is at the present time. 41:19 So again, this shortens the ages, 41:21 how can these continents be billions of years old? 41:24 What about Radiometric dating? 41:27 Now, Radiometric dating 41:29 is based on whole number of assumptions. 41:31 We actually don't know back when the rocks were formed here 41:36 what was the level of the different isotopes? 41:38 How Radiometric dating works is different isotopes 41:42 like if you're doing Uranium Lead, 41:45 then, Uranium is a radioactive species... it goes back to Lead 41:49 I measure the concentration of Uranium there 41:52 and I measure the concentration of Lead that is formed 41:56 and they know the rate at which it converts, 41:58 the half-life... 42:00 and from that they can do calculations 42:01 and estimate the age of the rocks. 42:03 But the fascinating thing is 42:05 that when we date rocks that we actually know the ages of, 42:10 right? 42:12 People saw them erupt... shhhupppp.. 42:13 volcanic eruption... we date them... 42:15 they also date at 100s or 1,000s or millions of years old. 42:20 Let's have a look at some data. 42:22 Somerset Dam in Queensland... 42:25 one of the main water supplies for Brisbane. 42:27 The Conventional fossil age which was based on estimates 42:32 at the rate of which rivers sediment, right? 42:35 And these rates were based back in the 1800s or so 42:38 now used by Lyle to estimate his ages for the geologic home 42:42 and the dates for the different fossils. 42:44 They've been refined or so over the last 100 years. 42:47 So, that's the fossil age... 42:48 of course, these fossils seem to use these indicators 42:51 of their different ages 42:53 and we can see there that the Conventional age 42:56 is about 220 million years from the fossils. 43:00 When we use Potassium-Argon dating 43:01 and these were all Isotope dating 43:04 which is the next accurate form of Radiometric dating 43:07 using different minerals on the same rock. 43:11 The Potassium-Argon age was 174 million years. 43:14 The Rubidium-Strontium age was 393 million years. 43:19 The Samarium-Neodymium age was 259 million years. 43:24 And the Lead-Lead age was 1,425 million years. 43:29 But yet the Australian continent would erode away 43:34 in less than 10 million years. 43:36 Pause... 43:38 If you're writing up your Master's thesis or your Ph. D. 43:41 what year are you going to put in? 43:43 The age of the rock. 43:46 Let's look at something else, 43:49 Mount Ngauruhoe that erupted in 1948... 1954... 43:54 and was dated... the lava was dated in 1999 43:59 at the Australian National University Earth Sciences 44:02 laboratories there. 44:04 Now, Australia National University... 44:06 one of the top universities in Australia 44:11 and there are the dates that they got. 44:13 Rubidium-Strontium... 133 million years is the average 44:19 197 million years for Samarium-Neodymium... 44:22 Lead-Lead... 3,908 million years, 44:27 Actual age... 45 years. 44:31 Audience: Laughter. 44:37 Now let's not hit dating, 44:39 I mean, that's our top university, 44:41 probably they would vie with Melbourne 44:43 for the top university. 44:45 Carbon 14 dating also supports young ages. 44:49 Now, one of the things that we need to understand 44:52 with Carbon 14 dating is that 44:54 there's a half-life of only 5,727 years, 44:57 and so, after a 100,000 years, 45:01 there would really be no realistic detectable Carbon 14 45:06 in a sample that you would put in a Spectrometer. 45:08 As a matter of fact, if the entire world 45:10 was made of Carbon 14, 45:12 after a million years, 45:13 there would be no detectable Carbon 14. 45:15 The fossils that came by the Radiometric dating 45:19 that most of the dinosaurs and so forth 45:21 to be more than 70 million years old 45:24 because that was the major extinction of the dinosaurs 45:26 at the end of the Cretaceous Period 45:29 and so, if we find Carbon 14 there, 45:32 there must be less in absolute terms, 45:35 it's probably less than 100,000 years old 45:39 and let's have a look at some things. 45:42 Carbon 14 now has been found in diamonds... 45:46 in coal... in fossils. 45:47 Let's have a look at some ages. 45:50 Number of coal samples have been... 45:53 these range from 40- to 300-million years 45:56 and the typical Carbon dates coming about 40- to 50,000 years 46:01 and one of the things I need to point out here is that 46:06 this is just the... the straight carbon age 46:10 which is based on the Carbon 14 in the atmosphere 46:12 that we have at the present time. 46:14 Now, the Carbon 14 in the atmosphere 46:16 is produced by cosmic rays coming from outer space 46:19 which are positively-charged particles. 46:21 They hit atoms in the upper atmosphere, 46:23 produce high-energy neutrons 46:25 those high-energy neutrons then produce... hit other atoms 46:29 and produce high-energy protons which are charge particles 46:34 a high-energy proton... 46:36 it is a nitrogen nucleus up in the atmosphere 46:38 sorry... high-energy neutron, sorry... 46:41 it is a Nitrogen atmosphere... a Nitrogen nucleus 46:45 knocks out a proton 46:47 and that changes it from Nitrogen to Carbon 46:50 because an element is defined by the number of protons 46:52 in the nucleus, 70 Nitrogen... 60 Carbon... 46:55 and so that's how it comes falling forms 46:57 so it depends on the flux of cosmic rays, 46:59 we don't know what it was in the past. 47:01 Secondly, the earth's magnetic field 47:03 protects us from cosmic rays 47:05 by repelling the initial positive particles 47:08 and we know that the earth's magnetic field 47:11 was much stronger in the past, 47:12 it's declined 10% in the past a 150 years. 47:16 So, we don't know what the level of Carbon 14 was in the past 47:20 but it would have been much less. 47:22 Furthermore, we know there was a lot more Carbon Oxide 47:25 in the atmosphere in the past, 47:26 it's not locked up as coal and limestone. 47:28 When we take these factors into account and do estimates, 47:32 it brings those 40- and 50-thousand-years ages, 47:36 back to only 4- or 5,000 years. 47:38 Now, I know that was fairly complex 47:41 but essentially what it's saying is, 47:44 these Carbon-14 dates are actually based 47:47 on the Carbon-14 level in 1950 in the atmosphere 47:50 that's why if we had a T-Shirt that we bought in Target 47:53 analyzed today, 47:55 we'd probably analyze it about 1,000 years old 47:57 because of the dilution effect 47:59 of the additional Carbon Dioxide in the atmosphere just recently. 48:03 So, these are some... when we correct for these, 48:06 our Carbon-14 dates all come back to the Biblical timeline. 48:10 So, again, we find diamonds which are very inert 48:19 when we date them... they have Carbon 14 in them as well. 48:22 So, again, all these things must fit the Biblical timeline. 48:26 There was soft tissue in a number of dinosaurs 48:30 that was being measured and showed to contain Carbon 14. 48:34 The... the fact that we've found soft tissue in dinosaurs, 48:38 again... that tissue can't be millions of years old. 48:40 We know the rate of which collagen in these tissues 48:43 break down. 48:44 They can only be 1,000s of years old. 48:46 So, all these things are pointing to a young age 48:50 for life on earth. 48:52 Also, we have the decay of the genome. 48:56 We are accumulating mutations. 48:58 We have more mutations in us than our parents 49:02 and more than our grandparents 49:04 and our children have more than us. 49:06 Every living thing is accumulating increased mutations 49:11 in Mitrochondrial DNA 49:13 and so, we know from that that life on earth at most 49:18 absolute generously 49:19 can't be more than 100,000 years old 49:22 and realistically, can't be more than about 10,000 years old 49:26 otherwise, we would have accumulated more mutations 49:28 and we probably wouldn't exist now. 49:31 We're on a clock that's winding down genetically 49:34 but there's more 49:37 and this is a very, very important point. 49:41 Evolution is about material things... 49:45 molecules, chemicals that make up the biological systems 49:50 but who we are is not material. 49:53 Let me ask you something, can you move your little finger? 49:57 Can you move your little finger? 49:58 Some of you can, I can see. 50:01 How did you move your little finger? 50:03 Audience: Laughter. 50:05 Let me ask you a question. 50:08 Can you weigh your brain? 50:10 Audience is quiet. 50:12 Yeah, you can weigh... 50:14 well, when your dead hopefully, or you know... 50:16 after you've died... it would be better then 50:20 but somebody could cut it out and put it on a scale 50:23 and weigh it. 50:24 They could squash it into a measuring cylinder 50:26 and measure its volume 50:28 can they weigh your thoughts? 50:30 Can't put thoughts on the balance. 50:33 Your thoughts are non-material. 50:37 Who you are is non-material. 50:40 This body is just as Paul describes it... a tent... 50:46 a temporary tent that we're in. 50:48 It enables us to operate in this physical world 50:51 that God created 50:53 but God is non-material too. 50:56 God said all this... He spoke it into existence. 50:59 The real "us" is non-material 51:03 and God designed us and made us 51:07 so that He could communicate with us. 51:10 How does He communicate with us? 51:11 With our mind... the non-material part of us... 51:15 that's the precious part of us... 51:18 that's why Paul says, 51:20 "No matter what people do to this body, 51:22 they can't really destroy me 51:23 because who "me" is is non-material 51:27 and that's why Jesus said, 51:31 "I'm the vine, you are the branches. " 51:34 We connect to Jesus through faith... 51:38 through our mind... 51:39 we are connected to God who is eternal. 51:44 That's why in John 17:3, 51:46 Jesus said, "This is eternal life, 51:48 to know God, and His Son whom He has sent. " 51:53 That's the important thing 51:55 and evolution can't explain the origin of the mind. 52:01 Pause... 52:03 Evolution is just material... it can't explain the mind. 52:08 The bottom line is this, 52:10 we didn't evolve. 52:13 Evolution is impossible. 52:16 A living cell can't form by chance 52:19 and even if it did, it can't become alive naturally. 52:23 God started everything. 52:26 We and life on earth are the evidence of the Supernatural. 52:31 There's no natural explanation for life. 52:36 Evolution... a new type of organism doesn't happen. 52:41 Life on earth is not millions of years old. 52:45 An Atheistic world view does not explain life on earth. 52:50 The Biblical world view fits Science 52:53 that a super Intelligent Non-material Creator 52:59 created this material universe 53:02 the world in which we're in... and us... 53:06 and we're special 53:08 and that's why He's called "Our Heavenly Father. " 53:11 God made humans in the beginning... 53:14 God destroyed the corrupted world... 53:16 God created humans with a mind that could communicate with God. 53:22 God walked with Adam and Eve in the Garden 53:26 and spoke with them. 53:27 That was His desire and that's His desire now 53:31 that everyone on this planet come to know Him 53:35 and that's our job... 53:37 that's our job. 53:39 Jesus came to show us the way. 53:41 Through Jesus we can be reunited with our heavenly Father 53:45 and that's the gospel. 53:46 That's what we've got to share... 53:48 that's why I am passionate about Creation. 53:51 This is the good news that Jesus spoke about. 53:55 This is the will of God 53:57 that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him 54:00 should have eternal life 54:02 and Jesus will raise Him on the last day. 54:05 Spread the message. 54:06 Thank you. |
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