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Series Code: ICJ
Program Code: ICJ190010B
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00:01 The world was shocked when Hubble discovered that
00:04 the universe had a beginning. 00:06 People started, many of the evolutionists started saying, 00:08 "Oh no, the creationists will take advantage of this." 00:11 Because they had heard about Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning 00:14 God created the heavens and the earth." 00:16 There's an interesting story told by Dr. Stephen Meyer. 00:19 Einstein had heard about this and he was troubled about it. 00:22 So he tried to put together a formula to show that 00:25 this really wasn't true and that the universe had 00:28 been here all along and it was eternal. 00:30 But he was invited out to look through Mr. Hubble's telescope. 00:35 There's a newsreel of actually Einstein coming out 00:39 after looking at the telescope. 00:41 And Einstein comes out and he says, "I now see the necessity 00:46 of a beginning." 00:47 And then later he said his fudge factor that he invented 00:51 to keep matter eternal was one of the greatest mistakes 00:54 of his scientific career. 00:57 So if the universe had a beginning, 01:02 then it no doubt had a Creator. 01:06 And that's exactly what the late Stephen Hawkins said 01:10 in his, Brief History of Time. 01:12 Quoting, "So long as the universe had a beginning, 01:15 we could suppose..." 01:16 And Stephen Hawkins, it seemed like he could 01:18 never make up his mind. 01:19 "...we could suppose that it had a creator." 01:22 Well I think Stephen Hawkins was on to something. 01:25 Genesis certainly said that it had a Creator. 01:27 Nothing comes from nothing. 01:31 Now we also live in a finely tuned universe. 01:33 I've referred to that several times because 01:34 God runs His universe by laws. 01:36 And He runs our life by law. 01:38 That's to preserve our freedom and to keep life. 01:41 You have to protect life with laws. 01:43 And that's how God does it. 01:45 Now our universe is finely tuned. 01:46 If you just move the moon just a little tiny bit, 01:50 then life will cease to exist on earth. 01:52 If you move the solar system just a hair, 01:56 life will cease to exist on earth. 01:57 Just change the expanse of the universe, and the same thing. 02:01 It's just really, not just a little bit finely tuned, 02:04 this thing is so finely tuned that they're saying 02:08 it's like 10 to the 37th power. 02:10 I'm going to explain what that means in just a moment. 02:12 But it's a measurement that is so fine and so careful. 02:18 But the universe, it has at least 200 of these 02:21 that they've discovered, 200 of these finely tuned things 02:25 that keep it in balance. 02:26 So what does it mean that it's finely tuned 02:30 to 10 to the 37th power? 02:32 Well if you were to cover the North American continent 02:35 in dimes all the way to the moon, 02:38 which is 239,000 miles... 02:40 By the way, in comparison, the federal deficit 02:44 or the federal debt would cover one square mile 02:47 less than two feet deep with dimes. 02:49 So that gives you kind of a comparison. 02:52 Next, after you cover the American continent with dimes 02:55 all the way to the moon, pile dimes from here to the moon 02:58 on a billion other continents... 03:05 ...the size of North America. 03:07 Paint one of those dimes red in all of those billions 03:12 or probably trillions of dimes, paint one of them red, 03:17 blindfold a person, 03:20 and ask him to pick out the red dime. 03:24 His chances of picking out that red dime 03:28 are 10 to the 37th power. 03:32 In other words, it's really impossible. 03:36 Fred Hoyle, a British astrophysicist, 03:39 said this, very fascinating what he says. 03:42 He says, "A common sense interpretation of the facts 03:47 suggests that a super intellect has monkeyed with physics, 03:51 as well as chemistry and biology, 03:56 and that there are no blind forces..." 03:59 See, evolution is based on blind forces. 04:01 "...there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. 04:05 The numbers one calculates from the facts 04:08 seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion 04:14 beyond question." 04:16 In other words, a super intelligence 04:19 has put this together and fine-tuned the universe. 04:25 Arthur Schawlow, if I've said that correctly, 04:29 professor of physics at Stanford University, 04:33 he's a 1981 Nobel Prize winner in physics, 04:37 he said this about the universe. 04:40 He says, "It seems to me when confronted with the 04:42 marvels of life and the universe, 04:46 one must ask this question: 04:50 It's not just why, but how did all of this come about?" 04:56 He says, "The only possible answers are religious." 05:01 He said, "I find a need for God in the universe 05:04 and in my own life." 05:06 What a wonderful testimony. 05:08 There was, some time back when they discovered 05:11 the universe had a beginning, there was a picture 05:13 made by someone that here were scientists working so hard 05:17 and they were trying to find out all about the universe. 05:20 And they climbed up the final hill, 05:23 and just as they got over the hill they found a bunch of 05:26 theologians on the other side. 05:29 Well the answers are found in Scripture, because it's clear. 05:33 Here's George Greenstein, he's an astronomer, 05:37 he says, "As we survey all the evidence, 05:40 the thought insistently arises..." 05:44 In other words, it keeps coming up. 05:45 that some supernatural agency, or Agency," he said, 05:50 "must be involved." 05:51 It's impossible. 05:53 "It's impossible that suddenly, without intending to, 05:56 we have stumbled..." 05:58 Oh no, he puts it this way. I'm sorry. 06:00 "Is it possible that suddenly, without intending to, 06:04 we have stumbled upon scientific proof 06:08 of the existence of a Supreme Being? 06:12 Was it God who stepped in," he asked, "and so providentially 06:16 crafted our cosmos for our benefit?" 06:20 Well the answer is a simple, yes. 06:23 It's a big, yes. 06:24 God put this whole thing together. 06:28 So the first two discoveries is the earth had a beginning, 06:32 the universe had a beginning. 06:34 And number two, it's finely tuned beyond 06:38 human comprehension. 06:39 And the third thing is the discovery of DNA. 06:43 All of these prove the existence of God. 06:46 In fact, someone said, "Who was instructing the cell? 06:50 Who wrote the script?" 06:52 This is Dr. Antony Flew, by the way. 06:54 And he became a Christian. 06:56 He was a well known evolutionist. 06:59 And I think he authored several evolutionistic books. 07:03 He said, "It's legitimate to ask oneself regarding 07:05 the three billion letter code instructing the cell. 07:11 Who wrote the script? 07:13 Who placed this working code in the cell?" 07:17 Do you know that the trillions of cells that you have 07:20 in your body, that every one of those cells 07:23 has a transportation system, 07:25 has all kinds of manufacturing going on? 07:27 It's an incredible complex machine. 07:30 Every one of the three, or how many, 07:33 trillions of cells are in your body. 07:35 As one person said, every cell in your human body 07:38 is busier and more complex than New York City. 07:42 How about that? 07:44 But who wrote the script? 07:46 Who wrote the instructions? 07:47 That's what Antony Flew has said. 07:50 President Clinton congratulated those who had 07:53 constructed the human genome. 07:56 And that was in 2000. 07:59 He said, "Today we are learning the language 08:01 in which God created life. 08:03 "And we're gaining," he says, "ever more awe 08:06 for the complexity, the beauty, and the wonder 08:09 of God's most divine and sacred gift." 08:11 Dr. Francis Collins, the director of the project, 08:14 followed Clinton to the podium, and he stated this. 08:18 He said, "It is humbling for me and awe inspiring 08:21 to realize that we have caught the first glimpse 08:26 of our own instruction book previously known only to God." 08:33 Your DNA is marvelous. 08:35 I don't have time to tell you. 08:37 The DNA can be read forward and backward, 08:40 and there's a whole bunch of other complexities 08:42 that go with it. 08:43 Try writing a paragraph, just one small paragraph, 08:46 that you can read forward and backward 08:48 and make any sense out of it. 08:50 It's an incredible thing. 08:52 Werner Gitt, he's the professor of Information Systems. 08:55 These are people that tell us how you put information 08:59 together, like computers and all of those kinds of things. 09:03 And he put it succinctly. 09:05 He said, "The basic flaw of all evolutionary views 09:09 is the origin of the information in living things, 09:13 in living beings." 09:15 And he goes on to say, he says, "It's never been shown 09:18 that a coding system and information 09:22 could originate itself." 09:25 He said, "The information theorems predict 09:27 that this will never ever be possible." 09:29 He's saying it's impossible that this information 09:32 came from nowhere, that it just generated itself. 09:36 And that's what evolutionists would have you to believe. 09:38 That kind of crazy stuff. 09:43 He goes on to say, "A purely material origin of life..." 09:46 And that's what evolutionists are. 09:48 They believe it's all material. 09:49 "...is thus ruled out. 09:51 The coding system used for living beings 09:54 is optional from an engineering standpoint." 09:57 Well I've got to get to John Lennox for a little bit. 09:59 John Lennox is a pure mathematician 10:02 from the University of Oxford. 10:04 He's a fellow of mathematics, he's world known. 10:06 And he's a Christian, he's a wonderful Christian person. 10:09 I've really enjoyed him. 10:11 And he gets into these debates. 10:13 You know, there was the debate about, or the book that was 10:17 written, The God Delusion; he counters that. 10:20 He says, "No, it's the atheist delusion." 10:23 And this is why he says it's a delusion. 10:25 He says, "Well you evolutionists, don't you believe 10:28 that you mind, your brain, came because of 10:30 millions and zillions of all kinds of, 10:32 by chance, little things? 10:35 That's how your brain came into existence?" 10:37 He says, "So tell me, how can you trust your brain?" 10:42 He says, "No, the universe was created. 10:45 And your brain was created so that you can appreciate 10:48 what God has done in His universe." 10:51 He says there are a lot of things that 10:53 science can't tell you. 10:55 He says, you know, Aunt Matilda makes a cake. 10:59 And he says, your science can tell you a lot of 11:01 good things about her cake. 11:02 You know, maybe how hot it was baked, 11:04 and what's in the icing, etcetera, etcetera. 11:06 But he says, there's one thing that science cannot tell you 11:09 about Aunt Matilda's cake. 11:11 And that is, why Aunt Matilda made the cake. 11:17 And then, of course, he noted that laws have an agent. 11:20 That's one of the big things they say now. 11:22 "Oh yeah, well all these laws, the law of gravity, 11:24 that's what makes it all work." 11:26 He says, "What?" 11:28 He says laws have to have an agent. 11:32 He says, in essence, and I'm paraphrasing some of his stuff, 11:35 and my apologies to him, 11:37 but he says, the law of two plus two equals four 11:40 will not put money in your bank. 11:43 No, in order to get money in your bank account, 11:46 you have to have an agent. 11:49 You have to have somebody that put it there. 11:51 Somebody puts those laws into effect. 11:54 The law itself doesn't make anything. 11:56 The agent makes the law work. 12:00 You know, he says the evolutionists always say, 12:03 "Well, where did your God come from if He created it?" 12:05 Well, I love his answer. 12:06 He says, "Well listen, we got rid of created gods. 12:09 We got rid of created gods a long time ago. 12:12 We don't believe as Christians in created gods. 12:14 Our God didn't come from anywhere. 12:16 Because our God always has been and He always will be." 12:22 He tells the story, he said, eating dinner with an 12:26 evolutionist because of some kind of program, 12:31 and the evolutionist looked at him and said, 12:33 "Oh no, this is not going to be a very good night." 12:34 And he says, "Listen..." 12:35 They got down to the discussion, he says, 12:37 "Tell me," he says, "this menu, you can tell me 12:39 a lot about this menu, but tell me what the letters mean. 12:42 Where did that come from?" 12:44 The man said, "I've spent a lifetime in my laboratory 12:47 trying to figure out how the information got in there." 12:51 And then, of course, you've got dinosaurs today 12:53 who are said to be 70 or 80 million years, 12:56 and they've got soft tissue. 12:58 Well the list could go on, and I've run out of time, 13:00 but I want to tell you, you can trust the Bible. 13:04 You can trust the Creator of the universe. 13:07 He has a purpose for your life. 13:09 He can do wonderful and marvelous things for you. 13:11 He created you, He made you in His own image. 13:15 And He loves you. 13:16 He wants you to be His child. 13:17 Don't listen to these evolutionists. 13:19 They don't know what they're talking about. 13:20 Don't listen to the atheists. 13:21 Don't let them rob you of the beauty and the power 13:25 and the love of God, your heavenly Father, 13:29 your Creator who really loves you. |
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