Revelation Now (new)

Science And The Bible

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Participants: Jac Colon

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00:18 In Revelation 4, we discover
00:23 one of the two main reasons that we worship God.
00:29 In Revelation 4, John was envision in the spirit
00:35 and verse 2, he says,
00:36 "There before me was a throne in heaven
00:41 and someone was sitting on the throne.
00:45 He described him and went on to say,
00:48 in the center around the throne were four living creatures."
00:55 And verse 9, "Whenever the living creatures give glory,
00:58 honor and thanks to him who sat on the throne
01:01 and who lives for ever and ever,
01:04 the twenty-four elders fall down and worship him."
01:12 Now, why do they worship the one sitting on the throne?
01:20 Listen they say, verse 11,
01:25 "You are worthy, our Lord and God,
01:30 to receive glory and honor and power,
01:34 because you created all things,
01:39 and by your will they were created and have their being."
01:45 We worship God because He is the Creator
01:51 of the heavens and the earth
01:54 and all of the beings in heaven
01:59 adore and praise and honor God
02:03 because they know He is their Creator.
02:08 In Revelation 13:8, "All of the inhabitants
02:14 of the earth will worship the beast
02:19 except for those whose names are written
02:20 in the book of life belonging to the Lamb,
02:22 in the heavenly circles all living beings
02:26 worship the Creator, but on the earth
02:29 they worship the beast who is the creature.
02:35 And I want to tell you that, that is the focal point.
02:39 That is the issue of the Book of Revelation.
02:41 Read through the Book of Revelation
02:43 and over and over again,
02:45 this word appears, the word worship.
02:48 We worship the Creator and the issue in Revelation
02:52 is the worship of the Creator God
02:55 or the worship of the creature.
02:57 The beast is the creatures.
03:01 And practically the whole world worships the creature.
03:07 In the mid 1880's, modern science joined hands
03:15 with God's church, infiltrating the ranks of God's people
03:20 with a new philosophy that will undermine God's authority
03:25 as the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
03:28 In the mid 1880's, Charles Darwin
03:32 published his book, 'The Origin of Species'
03:36 popularizing the theory of evolution
03:40 and since that time neither the world
03:44 nor the church have been the same.
03:51 Satan knew that if he was ever to receive
03:57 the allegiance of those who want to be the people of God
04:02 he must somehow obscure the significance,
04:07 the authority of God as the Creator.
04:14 But God wasn't caught by surprise.
04:21 Revelation 14:6, "I saw another angel flying in the midair,
04:26 he had the eternal gospel to proclaim to those
04:29 who live on the earth, to every nation,
04:32 tribe, language and people.
04:34 Every living being on this earth
04:37 and he said in a loud voice Fear God and give Him glory
04:41 because the hour of his judgment has come."
04:44 We are close to the very end.
04:46 This is God's special message crafted for the end times
04:50 and listen to what it says, "Worship him." Worship who?
04:57 "Worship him who made the heavens, the earth,
05:01 the sea and all that is in them."
05:04 Worship the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
05:08 At the same time that Satan is trying
05:10 to turn the attention of the world away from the Creator
05:14 towards man, towards himself.
05:17 God has a message, worship the Creator
05:25 of the heavens, the earth,
05:26 the sea and all that is in them.
05:28 You see the last book in the Bible
05:31 points us all the way back to the first verse in the Bible.
05:38 Look at it with me, Genesis 1:1.
05:45 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."
05:50 The Bible tells us clearly,
05:52 "God created the heavens and the earth
05:56 and there was darkness over the surface of the earth,
05:58 And God said, let there be light and there was light.
06:04 And there was evening
06:05 and there was morning, the first day."
06:10 Now you need to understand something
06:12 that if you can read this in the Hebrew.
06:13 the Hebrew words are a Ereb, boqer
06:16 there was a ereb, boqer, evening, morning
06:20 the first day ereb, evening, the dark part of the day.
06:25 Boqer, morning, the light part of the day.
06:28 There was the dark part, there was the light part.
06:31 One day, there is no way
06:34 that God could have said it any clearer
06:36 that He is talking about the same kind of day
06:40 that we have today, a literal 24 hour day.
06:46 And then the Bible says,
06:47 on the second day God made the sky
06:50 and there was erab, boqer, evening, morning the second day.
06:54 And then on the third day,
06:56 God caused the dry ground to appear
06:58 and the trees and the plants, the vegetation, the flowers
07:02 and there was evening
07:03 and there was morning the third day.
07:08 Tell me something.
07:11 If there had been a team of scientists present on that day
07:18 and they saw this tree that God had just made.
07:24 And they walk up to the tree and drill into it,
07:28 extracting a core, counting the rings
07:31 how old do you think
07:33 the scientist would say the tree was?
07:40 You see science can't always account for the things of God.
07:46 I'm not putting down science but I'm lifting up God.
07:55 And then God created the sun, the moon, the stars, the planets
08:02 and there was evening
08:03 and there was morning, the fourth day.
08:07 God created the universe on the fourth day,
08:10 one evening, one morning
08:12 and then God filled the waters with the fish
08:15 and He filled the air with the birds
08:17 and there was evening
08:18 and there was morning, the fifth day.
08:23 How long did it take for God to make a bird?
08:29 One evening, one morning, fifth day.
08:36 And then on the sixth day God made the wild animals
08:42 according to their kinds.
08:47 I don't see room here for any kind of interpretation
08:51 that allows for millions of years of time to pass
08:55 with the survival of the fittest
08:57 and the struggle to survive with animals
09:01 living and dying and living and dying
09:04 and killing and struggling to survive.
09:06 I don't see anything like that.
09:08 I don't see randomness in this chapter.
09:10 I see order, I see a God of power,
09:13 who orderly brought things into existence,
09:16 not by chance but by design.
09:21 And then on the sixth day, in verse 26, God said,
09:26 "Let us make man in our image."
09:38 Chapter 2:7, "The Lord God
09:40 formed the man from the dust of the ground
09:44 and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
09:47 and the man became a living soul."
09:57 You know, there is something that escapes us
10:00 if we don't know a little Hebrew.
10:04 You see in Genesis 1, the word used for God is Elohim,
10:11 a word that is filled with
10:14 an expression of the power of God.
10:19 But when we get to Genesis 2,
10:23 where it describes God forming the man,
10:27 He didn't just say tree and there is a tree,
10:33 sun and there is a sun, giraffe and there is a giraffe,
10:38 hippo and there is a hippo,
10:41 He didn't do it that way,
10:45 says the Lord God formed man.
10:50 He knelt down and with His own hands
10:53 tenderly, lovingly, shaped his body
10:56 from the dust of the ground, bent over
11:00 and gave it the kiss of life
11:04 and it became a living being.
11:10 What a picture of God and what you miss in the English
11:14 it uses a different word for the name of God,
11:20 it uses the Hebrew word that we think is pronounced Yahweh.
11:25 The covenant God, the loving God,
11:29 the God who would come and die on the cross
11:33 to save the creatures He had just made, what a God.
11:42 In Genesis 2:1, "Thus the heavens and the earth
11:46 were completed in their vast array.
11:50 And by the seventh day God had finished
11:54 the work He had been doing,
11:56 so on the seventh day he rested."
11:58 He put an exclamation point beside the word finish.
12:03 He rested, God was done creating after the seventh day
12:08 that does not leave room for millions and millions
12:11 and millions of years of evolution,
12:14 it's just supposed to be still going on today.
12:17 He was finished after the sixth day.
12:24 I believe the Bible account of creation.
12:29 I believe that God made this world
12:32 in six literal 24 hour days
12:36 and on the seventh day
12:37 God finished His work, I believe that.
12:43 And I believe that it's essential to believe that,
12:46 if you are even going to understand
12:49 the Book of Revelation, the last book.
12:57 Because God is going to recreate this world again
13:04 just like He intended for it to be at the beginning,
13:08 Bible writers all believed it and they all talked about it.
13:12 One of my favorite places is in Psalm 33:6,
13:16 "By the word of the Lord were the heavens made,
13:19 the starry host by the breath of his mouth."
13:22 He spoke, verse 9, and he came to be he commanded
13:26 and it stood firm." What power?
13:32 I remember years ago
13:33 when the last Star Wars movie came out,
13:36 some of you-- you remember that?
13:38 They showed a news clip on television, people lining up
13:40 block after block around the block
13:42 waiting to get in to see Star Wars,
13:46 so you could see the force.
13:50 This is the force
13:55 a God whose very word has the power
13:59 to make that word happen.
14:04 If He wants a tree, He says the word tree
14:06 and in the word is the power for the tree to appear.
14:10 Now that's force.
14:13 He wants a universe He says universe and it's there.
14:17 Star War says nothing on our God.
14:25 I believe the Bible account.
14:28 I believe it's essential in order to understand Revelation,
14:32 but I want to tell you, it's not popular today.
14:36 In fact, your children are being taught
14:39 something entirely different in the public school systems.
14:45 Your children are being taught that life as we know it today
14:49 is not the result of an intelligent loving God
14:52 but it's a result of accident, chance, survival of the fittest,
14:56 living and dying and killing
14:58 and living and dying and killing.
15:00 You have heard of the Big Bang Theory.
15:03 I believe in the Big Bang Theory.
15:07 God said it and bang, it happened.
15:12 They don't teach it that way in the schools,
15:15 they just say it happened.
15:16 Well, what happened? What was the bang?
15:20 What was there before the bang?
15:21 What made it bang?
15:25 You see, they can't teach them that.
15:28 But we know and the tragedy is that
15:35 in teaching the theory of evolution
15:38 as though it were a scientific fact
15:41 and as though anyone else who believe,
15:43 anyone who believe something different was ignorant
15:48 is setting your children up
15:52 to worship the creature instead of the Creator.
15:59 And to take the mark of the creature
16:03 which is the mark of the beast.
16:05 That's why, folks, we are going to take some time
16:09 to divert our attention a little bit.
16:12 In the world today,
16:13 the issues that are threatening your children and even you
16:16 to divert your attention away from God's authority
16:20 as a Creator of the heavens and the earth,
16:22 we are going to take a little time.
16:25 Because anyone who tends to believe
16:27 anything other than the theory of evolution
16:30 is considered an ignorant, a moron.
16:33 In fact Richard Dawkins wrote,
16:35 he is a famous atheistic evolutionist,
16:38 he said, "If you meet somebody
16:40 who claims not to believe in evolution
16:42 that person is ignorant, stupid or insane."
16:48 And then he added, "Or wicked,
16:51 but rather not considers that."
16:53 Why not? Because he can't.
16:58 Because I'm going to show you if you believe in evolution
17:00 there is no such thing as wicked.
17:05 But that comes a little later, may be you had never heard of
17:09 Dr. Phillip Johnson of California, Berkeley,
17:12 who assembled the team of famous scientist
17:15 in June of 1993 at Pajaro Dunes, California,
17:20 these scientists, men like Jonathan Wells,
17:22 William Dembski, Michael Behe,
17:25 who wrote "Darwin's Black Box"
17:27 and stood the scientific world upside down
17:31 with his irreducibly complex system.
17:34 He discovered that life consists of systems that are so complex,
17:39 if you break them down to their basic pieces,
17:41 if you take away anyone of those pieces
17:44 it would cease to function therefore it was impossible
17:47 to be result of a gradual process of evolution.
17:51 There is still no good answer for irreducibly complexity today
17:55 they think they have, but they haven't.
18:00 May be you would have never heard of these men
18:02 who are dissatisfied with Darwin's approach to evolution
18:06 and left the Pajaro Dunes Conference in agreement
18:10 that life as we know it today
18:12 must be the result of an intelligent designer.
18:17 That's exactly what Michael Behe said.
18:20 He concluded in his book Darwin's Black Box.
18:23 "Life on earth at its most fundamental level,
18:25 in its most critical components,
18:26 is the product of intelligent activity.
18:29 The conclusion of intelligent design
18:32 flows naturally from the scientific data itself
18:36 and not from sacred books."
18:38 We didn't get it from the Bible,
18:39 we got it from nature and the study of science
18:42 pointing to an intelligent designer.
18:47 Are these men stupid, are these men ignorant,
18:50 are these men insane or evil?
18:55 And then may be our friend Dawkins
19:00 forgot about the Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.
19:03 In 1927, the German scientist Heisenberg discovered
19:06 that you can't measure both
19:08 the position and the velocity of a subatomic particle.
19:14 If you measure its position
19:16 then you can't know its velocity precisely,
19:19 if you measure its velocity,
19:20 you can't know exactly where it is.
19:24 And therefore he said, "The measuring or observing
19:27 of a subatomic particle not only determines
19:31 where it's going to go but collapses it into existence.
19:35 The particle doesn't exist until someone observes it.
19:43 And it's forcing scientists to rethink some things,
19:50 Dr. Paul Davies wrote in his book the New Physics
19:52 in a chapter called the Quantum Factor.
19:54 You can always claim that
19:56 everything you perceive is real, is there
19:58 because there exists a larger system
20:01 which collapses what you see into reality
20:04 by measuring or observing it.
20:07 And this isn't science fiction,
20:09 this is science, quantum mechanics.
20:13 He said in recent years, physicists have been interested
20:16 in the quantum theory of the entire universe.
20:23 By definition, there can be nothing
20:25 outside of the universe to collapse
20:27 the whole cosmic panorama into existence except God, perhaps.
20:34 I could have told him that a long time ago.
20:37 Who is the observer?
20:41 If there has to be an observer, who is he?
20:44 The physicists conclude
20:46 there have to be observer to measure but who is it,
20:48 they don't want to talk about that.
20:52 But we are not afraid to.
20:55 We are not afraid to face the facts.
21:03 I don't claim to be able to prove to you
21:05 that the Bible account of creation is true.
21:12 I can't prove it.
21:16 Nobody was there when it happened, except God.
21:22 If you want to believe in the Bible account of creation
21:24 you have to believe it by faith.
21:27 Faith in God, faith in His word.
21:31 Now I believe the evidence points that way,
21:33 I believe that but you can't prove it.
21:39 I don't claim to be able to stand here
21:40 and prove the theory of evolution is false?
21:43 Because that can't be done either.
21:48 But I do want to show you that
21:50 if you want to believe in evolution,
21:51 you're going to have to believe it by faith.
21:55 Evolutionist start, Charles Darwin himself
21:59 started with the presupposition the basic fundamental principle
22:04 that life as we know it today through the process of evolution
22:08 happen without any supernatural input whatsoever.
22:12 Now how does he know that? He didn't know that.
22:17 He took that position by faith,
22:21 faith in chance, faith in miracles,
22:24 instead of faith in the loving, all knowing Creator God.
22:35 God warns us about things like the theory of evolution,
22:43 1 Timothy 6, Paul wrote, Timothy,
22:49 he said, "Be on your guard, Timothy,
22:53 with what is been in entrusted to your care.
22:55 Turn away from godless chatter
22:59 and the opposing ideas of what is falsely called science,
23:05 which some have professed
23:06 and in so doing have wandered from the faith."
23:10 Watch out for what is falsely called knowledge or science.
23:14 And I want to tell you tonight
23:16 that evolution is falsely called science.
23:22 And that's precisely what He is talking about to Timothy.
23:25 Watch out for those kinds of thoughts,
23:28 those kinds of philosophies, those kinds of ideas.
23:32 Now we find the answer to the question?
23:34 What does a person believe it
23:36 to discoveries of modern science contradict the word of God?
23:40 The answer is, it's not science.
23:44 If it contradicts the word of God,
23:45 it's not science, everything was created by God,
23:48 we know that, we believe that by faith.
23:50 By faith the evolutionist says no
23:52 it all happened without God, but he doesn't know that,
23:55 it's not science, it's a philosophy,
23:57 they put us down for bringing faith into the classroom
24:00 when they are doing the very same thing
24:02 on the opposite end of the scale.
24:07 I'm not putting down science, folks, I believe in science.
24:13 I believe in the scientific method.
24:16 I got my degree in chemistry
24:19 and I did graduate work in organic chemistry,
24:22 so I understand science.
24:25 I understand the scientific method.
24:28 What I'm telling you is evolution is not science.
24:32 It's a philosophy.
24:35 Now you may see a pile a bone fossils
24:38 and you may study them and scientifically analyze them
24:41 and come to the conclusion that those are dinosaur bones
24:45 but you cannot scientifically apply the scientific method
24:49 and come to the conclusion that,
24:50 that dinosaur came from a flying monster bird.
24:56 You can't know how they got there, that's faith.
25:01 Faith in chance and miracles.
25:07 By far, the largest body of evidence
25:09 that scientist point to in support of
25:11 theory of evolution is the geological column
25:13 and that's not really that hard to understand,
25:15 you have all seen pictures of the earth sliced in half
25:18 and its looks like an onion, all the different layers
25:22 and those layers are different periods,
25:24 different eons of time
25:26 and the further you go down into the earth,
25:28 the older those layers are and they show us
25:32 that the deeper you go, the simpler the fossils are
25:35 and as you move out to the top
25:36 the fossils get more and more complex until on the surface,
25:40 they are all the complex life forms right there
25:42 including the monkeys and men.
25:46 Now the problem is, there is no place on earth
25:48 that exists exactly the way they show it in the science books.
25:52 In fact, there are millions and millions of acres
25:54 where just the opposite as it is a case
25:56 and there are more complex life forms in the deeper layers
25:58 and more simpler life forms on the outer layers.
26:02 An impossible dilemma for an evolutionist
26:04 who says there could not be any complex life forms
26:08 in the deeper layers, an impossible dilemma.
26:14 And then, what about the Cambrian explosion?
26:17 In 1984, in Yunnan, China, they discovered
26:20 the most extensive and well preserved Cambrian layer
26:26 that confirmed what even Charles Darwin himself had seen
26:31 that the Cambrian layer contains virtually
26:35 all of the different phyla of life that exist today
26:39 already in the Cambrian layer with no transitory,
26:43 no fossils leading up to its simpler fossils
26:47 they just were there, they just appeared.
26:50 Where did they come from?
26:53 One scientist said, well, they must have
26:56 obviously evolved somewhere else.
26:59 But scientists had been looking
27:00 and looking and looking for over 150 years
27:03 and they are always saying,
27:04 well, it must have been somewhere else.
27:05 Evolution can't always be happening somewhere else.
27:12 No one has ever seen transition
27:16 of the different kinds of life that God created.
27:24 Cambrian layer is a real problem
27:27 for Charles Darwin, he knew about it.
27:30 And Charles Darwin said,
27:35 if this pattern holds,
27:37 It's a genuine argument against my theory.
27:41 Interesting, the pattern still holds
27:45 all the basic phylums structures
27:48 almost all existed in the Cambrian layer.
27:52 With all the body plans and parts,
27:55 a body plan is similar to a car.
27:59 All cars have the same basic body plan,
28:01 they have wheels, they have an engine,
28:03 they have a steering wheel,
28:04 they have fuel tank and an exhaust system.
28:11 My car has the same body plan as a Rolls Royce,
28:16 even though it's not a Rolls Royce,
28:19 it's a simple little Toyota, but that's the way life is.
28:23 There are different animals,
28:24 all have the same basic body plan.
28:26 And those body plans
28:27 were already present in the Cambrian layer.
28:29 The Cambrian trilobite is just as complex as a modern crab,
28:37 it was already there.
28:38 You see Darwin's theory is that life began with one cell
28:41 and it began to multiply and divide
28:42 and get more and more complex, he called it the tree of life
28:45 and out of the outer branches
28:47 there is a more complex forms of life.
28:49 It's a bottom up expansion of life
28:51 but the fossil said something else.
28:54 The fossil said, no, it's topped down not bottom up,
28:58 because the phyla already existed suddenly
29:00 without any gradual leading up to it,
29:02 it was preplanned by an intelligent designer.
29:09 The Hawkins agreed with Darwin.
29:12 He said without gradualness we are back to a miracle.
29:17 Welcome Dawkins, I wish he would just believe
29:22 and then there are more problems.
29:25 Number one, D.N.A.
29:30 See, D.N.A. is a double helix that actually determine,
29:35 it consist of amino acids arrange in double helix
29:39 that actually determine the production of protein.
29:44 No protein can be made without DNA,
29:49 but DNA is a protein, where did it come from?
29:56 And furthermore DNA can form the protein
30:00 but it can't organize the protein into body plans
30:04 and major parts, in a cell
30:07 in a egg the cells begin to multiply
30:11 and as they accumulate they migrate out
30:14 towards the outer membrane,
30:16 they line up around the outer membrane of the cell wall.
30:20 And then without any kind of information from the DNA
30:26 they suddenly begin to migrate
30:28 to the different parts of the body
30:30 that they are going to become
30:32 a foot, a hand, a eye, a heart, a brain,
30:35 it's like a band scattered all over a football field
30:39 with a trumpet here, and a trombone there,
30:41 and a drum here, and a violin here,
30:43 and a flute there and all of a sudden
30:45 the drum master gives the signal
30:47 and they all come in to line in a perfect formation.
30:50 They are the cells, they are out there,
30:52 the signal is given and they all go
30:54 to right where they are supposed to be
30:56 and that information is not stored in the DNA alone,
30:59 no one knows where that information comes from.
31:03 It has to come from God.
31:11 God is never embarrassed
31:14 by the evidence like evolutionists are.
31:17 In Job 12, the little book of Job 12.
31:25 Look at it with me.
31:32 Verse 7, "Ask the animals, and they will teach you,
31:35 or the birds of the air, and they will tell you
31:38 or speak to the earth, and it will teach you,
31:40 or let the fish of the sea inform you.
31:42 Which of all these things does not know
31:44 that the hand of the Lord has done this?"
31:48 Study the animals, study the fossils,
31:51 study the fish, the birds, study nature
31:55 and see if it doesn't point to an intelligent Creator God.
31:59 Dr. Wernher von Braun, father of the American space program said,
32:02 "The more we explore the far recess of the space
32:05 the more convinced we become of the Creator God."
32:10 God isn't embarrassed by the evidence.
32:13 The Bible flood explains the geological column,
32:17 different layers with different sediment rates,
32:20 any exceptions to that?
32:22 Complex life form in a deeper layer,
32:25 simple life form in a outer, that easy for us to understand,
32:29 but it is an impossible dilemma for someone saying
32:33 if there was no complex life form
32:36 during the time of those deeper layers.
32:40 God's never embarrassed by the evidence.
32:44 Now I'm not trying to say that
32:47 there is no kind of evolution at all.
32:51 I believe in microevolution for example,
32:58 variation among the species adaptation
33:01 that's happening, we see it, can't deny that.
33:06 Somebody asked me,
33:08 what about the salamander ring in California,
33:10 they are different kind of salamanders.
33:13 I say, yeah, they are different
33:14 they change but they are still salamanders.
33:19 We don't see them becoming monkeys or something else,
33:23 they are still salamanders,
33:25 each produces after its own kind.
33:28 There is variation, I don't believe
33:31 and may be I'll get in trouble for this
33:33 but this is what I think.
33:36 I don't believe that God made St. Bernards
33:39 and Chihuahuas, and Poodles.
33:42 I think he made a dog,
33:45 and through the process of mutation and variation,
33:47 we've got all the different kinds of dogs.
33:51 But they are still dogs, they are not cats.
33:54 They are still dogs.
33:57 Each producers after its own kind
34:01 just the way the Bible said it would be.
34:07 And there is another thing about imitations, change.
34:11 A mutation always subtracts information from the gene pool.
34:17 It never adds information, it subtracts
34:23 in order to become a more complex live form
34:25 it would have to add information
34:27 that no one has ever seen that happen.
34:32 Study the earth, study the animals
34:34 and see if this isn't the work of an intelligent creator.
34:37 And by the way, if you believe in evolution
34:39 that life began with one single cell,
34:41 they got more and more complex until we have man living today,
34:45 where did that cell come from.
34:48 No, they don't want to talk about that.
34:50 They will say that's origins, not evolution.
34:53 If you are going to believe in evolution
34:54 there has to be an origin, you can't separate the two.
34:57 Where did it come from?
34:59 Well, bolts of lightning stuck a pool of slime
35:02 and it become a cell.
35:05 Where the lightning come from,
35:06 where the pool of slime come from?
35:10 It's not an explanation.
35:14 If you say, well, God made it
35:15 and then He guided the evolutionary process.
35:19 If you believe God made the first cell,
35:21 why don't you believe everything else God says about creation.
35:25 In six days He finished His work,
35:27 on seventh day He rested.
35:36 Evolution is a faith, faith in chance,
35:43 faith in miracles and we can't compromise it
35:47 with true faith in the word of God.
35:52 Dr. Charles Singer confessed his faith and he said
35:57 "Evolution is perhaps unique among major scientific theories
36:00 and that the appeal for its acceptance
36:01 is not that there is any evidence for it,
36:04 but that any other proposed interpretation of the data
36:07 is just too impossible to believe."
36:14 Amazing, isn't it? Why?
36:18 Why do they want to point
36:21 to a pool of slime as the origin of life,
36:25 instead of the hand of a Creator God?
36:29 Why, what's the motivation behind it?
36:38 Not all scientists believe that.
36:42 Dr. John Moore, university, of Michigan State University
36:47 after a debate spoke to my father-in-law and told him
36:52 you can face anyone in this earth
36:53 with the fact that there is no experimental evidence
36:55 whatsoever for evolution to have occurred.
36:59 Evolution is a faith, a faith in chance,
37:01 a faith in miracles and it cannot be compromised
37:03 with the one true faith for all Christians in Christ,
37:06 faith in the wonderful words from Genesis to Revelation.
37:09 I agree with that scientist, what do you say?
37:13 What about Genesis 1 in science, mean it?
37:16 Moses, Moses wasn't a scientist they say,
37:20 may be he didn't know what he was--
37:22 he was just writing poetically
37:24 to describe the process of evolution,
37:26 it doesn't sound like it when you read it.
37:31 And Jesus didn't believe that.
37:34 Jesus said, "If you don't believe Moses,
37:36 you can't believe me." In John 5:47.
37:40 Jesus believed Moses.
37:43 In fact, when they challenged Him
37:46 about marriage and divorce and remarriage,
37:49 Jesus said, "Haven't you not read
37:51 that he who made them from the beginning,
37:53 made them male and female
37:55 and said a man shall leave his father and mother
37:57 and cleave into his wife
37:59 and the two would become one flesh."
38:00 Haven't you read that?
38:02 Jesus quoted Moses as an authority
38:05 to support his argument, I believe Moses.
38:11 Did you know Jesus was the only human eye witness to creation
38:17 and He didn't think it was important to change one word
38:19 that Moses wrote, so why should we.
38:24 I trust Jesus or may be those days were just symbolic
38:29 of long periods of time
38:32 and God was guiding the evolutionary process,
38:38 may be that's what was really happening.
38:44 Well, I'm going to show you
38:47 that if we take that approach
38:49 as many Christians are trying to take
38:53 that you will virtually abolish the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
39:01 So, don't go to sleep,
39:05 I'm going to come back to that point in a moment,
39:08 but I want to answer the other question
39:10 that we asked first, and that is why is it,
39:13 why do men desperately want to believe in a theory of evolution
39:19 instead of life as a result of a Creator God.
39:23 What's the driving motivating force?
39:25 Peter tells us, if you look with me in 2 Peter,
39:29 2 Peter 3, Peter answers that question.
39:36 2 Peter 3:3, "First of all, you must understand
39:42 in the last days scoffers will come,
39:44 scoffing, following their own evil desires
39:46 and they will say, 'Where is this coming'
39:48 that he has promised?" Now watch.
39:51 "Ever since our fathers died,
39:52 everything goes on since it adds at the beginning of creation."
39:58 But they deliberately forget,
40:03 that long ago by God's word the heavens existed,
40:05 the earth was formed out of water and by water
40:07 and by these waters also
40:09 the world at that time was deluged and destroyed.
40:12 By the same word, present heavens
40:14 and earth are reserved for fire,
40:16 being kept for the Day of Judgment
40:18 and the destruction of ungodly men."
40:22 You see if you choose to believe in the Bible account of creation
40:28 then you have to believe God made us
40:31 that He knows more about us than anyone else
40:35 including ourselves that He put within us certain laws,
40:41 He drew those laws around us as a circle.
40:44 And He said if you want to be peaceful and have joy
40:47 and happiness in your life, live according to these laws.
40:51 These are the principles that I made for you,
40:53 they define what it means to love.
40:56 But if you break them and step out of bounds,
40:58 then you are going to hurt
41:00 and other people are going to hurt
41:01 and this whole thing is going to collapse.
41:04 If you believe in a Creator, then you got to believe
41:07 in their obligation to believe and obey that Creator.
41:13 And so those who choose not to obey a Creator
41:17 would rather point to a pool of slime
41:21 as the origin for their life
41:24 than a loving God to whom they are created to
41:26 but to me it makes a lot more sense to believe in a Creator.
41:31 If I'm walking down the beach one day
41:33 and I see something there
41:34 that looks like a washed out footprint,
41:37 I could say, I think there was a human here
41:40 but I may not know that
41:43 and I walk along a little further
41:45 and I see a bunch of rocks strung out along the beach
41:48 and I say look at those rocks they are kind of organize
41:51 may be there was a human here
41:53 and I go a little further and I see those rocks
41:56 lined up in a pile, all stacked up a bunch of rocks.
42:01 Somebody had to do that, the waves couldn't, could they?
42:05 May be, but I walk a little further
42:10 and I see a bunch of rocks all aligned in a way
42:13 that says Jack Colon, I love you.
42:21 Now, if I would to say to you that the waves did that.
42:28 You would think, man he is either stupid
42:34 or ignorant or insane,
42:39 or he is trying to avoid something
42:43 because if I believe that someone out there that loves me,
42:48 and I need to know who that one is, amen.
42:53 It makes more sense, look at us, look at life,
42:57 look at the miracles all around us,
42:59 it just make so much more sense to believe
43:01 that we are the result of the Creator God.
43:04 I want to shift our attention now.
43:06 This last part of what I want to say
43:08 the results of believing in evolutione.
43:10 What happens when people shift away
43:13 from the Creator to the creature?
43:15 You are going to be surprised about this.
43:16 Romans, it's kind of lengthy but bare with me,
43:18 Romans 1, in Romans 1,
43:23 "Since the creation of the world,"
43:25 verse 20, "God's invisible qualities,
43:27 his eternal power and divine nature have been clearly seen,
43:30 being understood from what has been made."
43:32 Study nature you will understand the creator God.
43:36 Verse 24, "Since they rejected that
43:39 God gave them over
43:41 in the sinful desires of their hearts
43:43 to sexual impurity for the degrading
43:45 of their bodies with one another.
43:47 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie,
43:50 and they worshiped and served created things
43:54 rather than the Creator.
43:56 That's what Revelation is all about.
43:58 Those who worship the beast worship created things
44:02 rather than the Creator of the heavens and the earth.
44:06 So what's the result of this creature worship?
44:10 Here it is, verse 26, "Because of this,
44:12 God gave them over to shameful lusts.
44:16 Even their women exchanged
44:18 natural relations for unnatural ones.
44:21 In the same way the men
44:23 abandoned natural relations with women
44:27 and were inflamed with lust for one another.
44:31 "As a result of rejecting the Creator God,
44:35 men abandoned natural relations,
44:38 noticed, the link, men and woman,
44:41 but they abandoned that
44:43 and they were inflamed with lust for one another.
44:46 "Men committed indecent acts with other men,
44:49 and received in themselves
44:51 the due penalty for their perversion."
44:55 The theory of evolution, forgetting the Creator
45:00 results in the different kinds of things
45:05 that we see happening all around us,
45:09 if you don't believe that God made the man and the woman
45:13 and the man is to leave his parents,
45:15 cleave unto his woman,
45:19 then what's wrong with evolution.
45:23 It's just another choice, an alternate lifestyle.
45:30 But God didn't make us that way.
45:34 And before you get too loud with the amens,
45:39 I want to make it clear what I just read is not popular
45:43 and the time is coming
45:44 when I'll probably be considered criminal
45:46 for reading what I read to you a few moments ago,
45:49 they are already considering it in Canada.
45:53 And I know that the only hope they really have
45:55 is the same hope that you and I have
45:57 and that's to cling to the cross of Jesus Christ
45:59 and that's why I don't like loud amens
46:01 when we get to this part, folks.
46:04 Because they are no more sinful than you and I.
46:07 In fact listen to this. Paul has a list.
46:11 "Furthermore, since they didn't think worth while
46:13 to retain the knowledge of God,
46:15 he gave them over to a depraved mind,
46:17 to do what ought not to be done.
46:18 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness,
46:20 evil, greed, and depravity.
46:22 They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, malice.
46:25 They are gossipers." I don't hear amens now.
46:34 "They are gossipers, slanderers, God-haters,
46:37 insolent, arrogant, boastful, inventing ways of doing evil,
46:41 they disobey their parents, they are senseless,
46:43 they are fruitless, they are faithless,
46:46 they are heartless, murderer."
46:48 Gossiper right in there next to murderers.
46:53 You see, all I'm trying to say is that
46:55 when we reject the Creator God
46:59 and turn to a theory of evolution,
47:03 then things change in us and in the world
47:07 and there is a blur distinction between right and wrong anymore.
47:13 Who can say to a homosexual that what they are doing is wrong
47:19 when they are gossiping about homosexuals
47:21 to everybody else in the church.
47:27 No wonder they resent and resist coming to church.
47:31 May be we need to change our attitudes a little bit.
47:35 God doesn't like the sin but He loves the sinner.
47:39 if He didn't like the sinner, we all be in trouble, amen.
47:46 Evolution not only changes
47:49 what's taught in the science classroom,
47:53 but it changes our whole perspective on life in the world
48:01 Richard Overman discovered in his research paper
48:05 comparing origins of belief and moral views.
48:09 In his surveys he discovered
48:11 the more the subject believes in creation,
48:14 the less he or she is willing to morally accept
48:16 sexual relationships between two unmarried consenting people.
48:21 In other words those who believe in creation
48:23 are not nearly as likely to get involved
48:26 in sexual relationships outside a marriage
48:28 than those who do not believe in creation.
48:32 Now, that an interesting correlation
48:35 because evolution becomes not only a science but a world view.
48:39 For years and years scientists believe
48:41 that God created the universe with laws, to function by laws
48:45 and He created the humans to function according to laws,
48:48 it was the job of science to discover what those laws were.
48:53 Herbert Spencer in the late 1880's wrote,
48:56 "The poverty of the incapable, the starvation of the idle,
48:59 the pushing aside of the weak by the strong,
49:01 are all decrees of a large, farseeing benevolence a love.
49:09 Funny way to describe love,
49:12 trampling the weak into the dust
49:16 and that kind of thinking gave Marquis de Sade
49:20 the inspiration to say as nature has made us men
49:24 the stronger we can do with her, woman as we please.
49:29 How many women want to be evolutionist now?
49:34 And in the early 1990s a very powerful world leader
49:39 emerged to embrace the theory of evolution
49:42 and survival of the fittest.
49:47 He said, The law of nature
49:49 must take its course in the survival of the fittest,
49:53 the Christian notion of charity should be replaced
49:56 by the ethic of strength over weakness.
49:59 Adolf Hitler resolved the gas chambers
50:03 as he tried to exterminate
50:05 the weaker races and eliminate them.
50:11 Darwin gave credence like no one ever before
50:17 he gave credence to the basis form of racism.
50:24 Charles Darwin himself wrote on the Descent of Man, a quote
50:28 you don't see in the science books today.
50:31 At some future period, the civilized races of man
50:34 will almost certainly exterminate,
50:36 and replace the savage races throughout the world.
50:42 And he lined them up according to the color of their skin,
50:48 that's what evolution is all about.
50:54 No one believes that, do they?
50:56 Or ask Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
51:00 he believes that the Jewish race should be
51:02 extinguished and wiped out today.
51:05 In fact Professor Robert Simon said this in Readers Digest
51:10 in 30 years of college teaching
51:12 he said, "I have never met a student
51:13 who denied that the Holocaust happened.
51:16 But what I see increasingly is worse
51:19 students who acknowledge the fact of the Holocaust
51:22 but they can't bring themselves to say
51:24 that killing millions of people is wrong.
51:27 Oh, yeah, it happened
51:29 but who am I to say that it's wrong,
51:32 of course I dislike the Nazis, one said
51:34 but who is to say that they are morally wrong?
51:36 How can he if he believes in evolution
51:39 because there is no absolute standard of right and wrong,
51:42 it's strength over weakness, survival of the fittest.
51:48 That's where we are today.
51:51 I was watching an interview on the O'Reilly Factor
51:56 just after Littleton, Colorado, you remember that story?
52:01 And they were talking to one of the parents,
52:07 Brian Rohrbrough the child who was killed
52:09 and the parents said, the opportunity
52:11 to witness a video that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold
52:16 had prepared before the incident,
52:18 It's unreleased and others can't see it
52:21 but this man was on television telling us what he saw
52:25 and here is what they've said,
52:27 Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold said
52:29 and the reason we are doing this is because of evolution.
52:34 It's time to kill off the weak
52:35 and evolution gives us the right even the obligation to do it.
52:41 Interesting, isn't it?
52:43 Now no evolutionist would ever teach that,
52:45 Charles Darwin never would
52:47 but the point is who can argue against it
52:52 unless you are stronger than they are.
53:01 Evolution is Satan's ultimate weapon
53:06 against the people of God.
53:10 Remember the two points of attack,
53:13 the commandments of God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
53:18 If you believe in the theory of evolution
53:20 you are going to eventually do away
53:24 with the commandments of God
53:27 because strength will rule over weakness
53:30 and there is no absolute standard anymore.
53:35 The two can't go together.
53:40 A lot of people don't know this,
53:43 but the theory of evolution is not invented by Charles Darwin.
53:50 The first indication that we have of it
53:54 was the venerated catholic scholar
53:59 St. Augustine of Hippo in the fourth century
54:04 when he wrote, that God should have made use
54:06 of natural, evolutionary, original causes
54:09 in the production of man's body, is not improbable.
54:13 Darwin just made it popular
54:17 John Paul 2 confirmed the theory of evolution
54:20 saying the gist of the theory of evolution
54:22 is a scientific hypothesis.
54:23 It is in perfect agreement
54:25 with the Christian conception of the universe
54:27 for scripture does not tell us
54:30 in what form the present species of plants
54:32 or animals were originally created by God?
54:35 He would do away with the commandments of God
54:38 and the gospel of Jesus Christ.
54:40 But I want to show you that the theory of evolution
54:43 subtlety takes away the cross of Jesus Christ.
54:48 Romans 5, "Therefore," verse 12,
54:53 "Just as sin entered the world through one man,
54:55 and death came through sin
54:56 and in this way death came to all men."
55:00 How did death come into the world? Through sin.
55:06 Death is the result of sin.
55:12 But if you accept the geological column
55:14 as it's explained by the evolutionists
55:16 you have millions and millions and millions of years of life
55:21 living and dying and becoming extinct
55:24 and living and dying and becoming extinct
55:27 of fighting and struggling to survive of dying
55:30 and dying and dying and dying until finally man evolves.
55:38 So, if you believe in evolution
55:41 then death cannot be the result of sin
55:48 but the Bible says that it is.
55:52 Death came into the world through sin
55:56 but if death had been happening
55:58 through the ages, through the centuries,
56:01 through the process of evolution
56:03 then death cannot be the result of sin
56:05 because sin didn't happen until Adam and Eve ate the apple.
56:13 Furthermore if death is not the result of sin
56:22 then Jesus Christ couldn't had paid the price for your sin
56:27 when He died on the cross.
56:31 And evolution, suddenly but thoroughly
56:35 pulls the rug out from underneath
56:37 the gospel of Jesus Christ. Two points of attack,
56:42 the commandments of God and the cross of Jesus Christ.
56:50 In John 1:1, the Bible says, "In the beginning was the word
56:57 and the word was with God and the word was God."
57:02 And who was the word? Verse 14.
57:04 The Word became flesh and dwelt among us.
57:08 The word was Jesus Christ, He was present with God
57:14 He was God, He made us in the beginning
57:17 all things were made by HIM, the word
57:20 and nothing was made without Him.
57:23 who was the God who said let there be light,
57:26 and there was light?
57:27 It was the Son of God who would later become Jesus Christ.
57:31 Who was the God who said, let there be birds,
57:34 let there be animals?
57:35 Who was the God who knelt down
57:38 and breathe into that body the breath of life
57:40 and watched it become a living being?
57:43 It was Jesus Christ, the Son of God
57:46 who would one day become a man and die on the cross.
57:53 Worship the Creator of the heavens and the earth.


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