The Creator Revealed

Design In Other Animals

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00:31 Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
00:34 My name is Tim Standish, and I'm a scientist.
00:39 Because I'm a scientist,
00:41 I believe in the Creator God of the Bible.
00:46 Amen and amen.
00:47 I'm Shelley Quinn and we want to welcome you
00:51 to this program.
00:52 In the first segment,
00:54 you're going to get a little scientific nugget,
00:58 something that will reveal the Creator.
01:01 As Paul said in Romans 1:20, that God's visible attributes,
01:06 even His eternal power in Godhead
01:09 are seen in the things that He created.
01:11 And what are we going to talk about?
01:13 Oh, the second segment is kind of a Bible
01:16 or life application.
01:18 So what are we talking about today?
01:20 We are talking about humans and other animals.
01:23 Okay.
01:25 And before we get into the science,
01:27 I want to draw your attention to the way
01:30 in which the Bible prepares our minds
01:36 to think about both ourselves and other creatures.
01:40 So let's get back into that creation account in Genesis.
01:45 We've gone from Genesis 1 to Genesis 2,
01:48 so Moses has told us,
01:52 up to this point, about the days of creation.
01:55 And now he goes back and he fills in some details
01:59 in Genesis Chapter 2.
02:01 So here, he's talking about
02:02 how God created human beings and he writes,
02:07 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground."
02:14 I want you to notice that, the ground,
02:17 that's what human beings...
02:19 That's what He made us out of.
02:20 "And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life,
02:26 and man became a living being."
02:29 So human beings were formed by God.
02:33 I love that idea of God forming us.
02:35 He got personal, didn't He?
02:37 Yes, out of the ground, out of the clay.
02:40 And then, God breaths the breath of life into Adam,
02:45 and he becomes this living being.
02:47 It's a little bit hard for us to understand
02:51 because we've never seen anything like that.
02:53 This is not science in the usual sense,
02:57 it's not the kind of thing we can do experiments on.
03:01 Yes.
03:02 It's a kind of thing that ultimately,
03:04 we believe by faith,
03:06 but it's also something that makes an awful lot of sense
03:09 because when we look at human beings,
03:12 what our bodies are made out of?
03:14 The elements of the earth.
03:15 The elements of the earth, right.
03:16 We're not made out of magic pixie dust
03:19 or anything like that.
03:20 We are the same stuff
03:24 that the rest of the creation is made out of,
03:27 but we have a different form.
03:29 We're not an oak tree, we're not a mountain,
03:32 we're a human being.
03:34 Now,
03:36 it goes on in the same book,
03:41 the same chapter actually.
03:44 God goes on, and He says something about...
03:47 Or Mosses tells us something about the animals.
03:51 So he says, "Out of the ground,
03:53 the Lord God formed every beast of the field
03:57 and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam."
04:00 So you can see here that the animals
04:03 are made out of the same stuff that we're made out of.
04:07 It shouldn't be surprising to discover that,
04:10 perhaps, there are some similarities there.
04:13 So we have some DNA
04:15 that would be duplicated, if you will.
04:18 Well, yes.
04:19 You know, same God, same material,
04:24 there's going to be some similarities there,
04:26 just as we would expect with a designer.
04:30 If a car was designed by the same engineer,
04:33 two different cars,
04:35 we would probably expect some similarities between those.
04:40 We're creations, so are the animals,
04:42 same God, same material.
04:45 And then I'm going to jump all the way down
04:47 to the story of the flood,
04:50 and there's an important detail that comes out in there.
04:53 So here the animals are,
04:56 they're coming on to the ark.
04:58 And it says this about them,
05:00 "And they went into the ark to Noah,
05:03 two by two,
05:05 of all flesh in which is the breath of life."
05:11 So there you have it.
05:12 The animals are made out of the ground
05:16 just as we are formed out of the ground by God.
05:19 And just as we have the breath of life,
05:22 the animals also have the breath of life in them.
05:26 You know why that's not hard for me to accept by faith
05:29 because here, we can put a man on the moon,
05:31 we've got the shuttles and everything.
05:33 All of the advances that we've made,
05:36 no one has been able to duplicate,
05:39 taking elements
05:40 and bringing in that spark of life
05:43 that ignites life.
05:44 Exactly, you know,
05:46 sometimes we will get excited, and then say,
05:47 "Well, what if life was created in a lab?"
05:50 Well, what would that show?
05:53 It's very unlikely.
05:55 But if it did happen,
05:57 let's just pretend it happen, would that happen
06:00 as a result of just natural forces and chance?
06:03 No.
06:04 It would be...
06:06 We would recognize who ever did that as a genius.
06:10 An engineering genius. Yes.
06:12 And the organism that was produced
06:15 as a product of genius
06:18 just as we, as Christians,
06:20 recognize human beings and the other animals,
06:23 and in fact, the rest of the creation
06:25 as a product of genius.
06:27 Well, let's continue on.
06:28 Let's look at this connection
06:32 between human beings and the other animals.
06:35 I'm going to start off here with a human femur.
06:39 Everybody has one of these
06:40 unless they've had their legs amputated.
06:43 And probably, familiar with the morphology of it
06:47 or the shape of them but if you cut open a femur,
06:50 there is something very interesting inside,
06:52 up there at the top
06:53 where that ball goes into the socket of your hip.
06:57 You can see something called spongy bone.
07:00 And if you look at that spongy bone,
07:03 it's arranged in an interesting way.
07:07 What you see... The direction...
07:09 That's right, the direction in which the bone is oriented,
07:14 is the direction in which the force
07:17 is exerted on the femur.
07:20 And you see this with other spongy bone as well.
07:23 What this does is, it makes our bones
07:27 a little bit lighter and a whole lot stronger.
07:31 So great engineering feat there.
07:33 Really great engineering.
07:35 I look at this,
07:37 and I think about those buttresses
07:41 that you see on gothic churches,
07:44 the buttress is coming out.
07:45 They're also carrying lines of force down to the ground
07:50 so that they're actually quite strong structures,
07:55 but they're using less material
07:57 than older kinds of construction methods allowed.
08:01 So there's an engineering principal
08:04 that translates over there.
08:06 It's kind of fun.
08:09 This kind of bone you find in human beings
08:13 and you also find it in other creatures.
08:16 So you can see there...
08:17 That's you. Yes.
08:18 There are human beings on the back of this elephant.
08:22 And the elephant has bones that when we cut them open,
08:27 they have a similar kind of structure to our own.
08:31 On the other hand, if we look at birds,
08:34 they have very specialized needs.
08:36 Their bones need to be as light as possible
08:40 and as strong as possible.
08:42 In addition to that,
08:43 there are some spaces in there to keep things light,
08:47 you know, to lighten them.
08:49 So if we look inside a bird's bone,
08:51 we see this.
08:52 Almost like a honeycomb.
08:54 It does look little bit like a honeycomb, doesn't it?
08:57 These spars basically inside the bones,
09:02 really make them very strong and yet very light.
09:07 So they're different
09:09 but they're different for a reason
09:12 because of the demands of flight.
09:14 That's what's going out, so...
09:16 So they were engineered in their design
09:19 for the purpose?
09:20 For the specific purpose that they serve.
09:22 So what we're seeing here is, there are similarities
09:26 which indicate a single design or single origin.
09:31 But also differences to suit the purposes
09:37 to which these are being put,
09:39 which indicates in a thought
09:41 about each individual kind of animal.
09:46 Let's look at one other thing that has do
09:48 with the arrangement of skeletons.
09:51 This is a tortoise.
09:53 And if you look inside a tortoise,
09:55 you can see that its skeleton has an amazing
10:01 different arrangement of things.
10:03 The clavicle is inside the ribs.
10:05 So this is...
10:07 It's this bone here on your back,
10:09 imagine what it took to move that inside,
10:11 that's a whole reengineering of things.
10:14 So while we have the same general design,
10:19 we have a back bone, and ribs, and things like that.
10:24 Tortoises and turtles have this incredible
10:28 reengineering or different engineering thing
10:31 for the specific purpose that they need.
10:34 And when you look at
10:35 all the other organisms that are out there,
10:38 we've just been looking at vertebrates.
10:40 But the invertebrates are so diverse,
10:42 the snails, the insects, the sea urchins,
10:49 they all have similarities
10:53 which point to a single designer,
10:56 and yet spectacular differences.
10:59 Oh, here's a jelly fish.
11:00 You could go on and on and on
11:02 about these profound similarities
11:05 and profound differences that you see between these.
11:09 You know, when you look at even like
11:11 all the different kinds of birds,
11:12 my husband's a birder.
11:14 And it is so amazing to see the diversity
11:17 within a single species,
11:19 but then you start considering everything
11:22 that God has created, He loves diversity.
11:25 He loves diversity.
11:27 And He's very good at it.
11:28 He doesn't make things different
11:31 just for the sake of making something different.
11:34 He is making different things that are profoundly beautiful.
11:38 Okay.
11:40 But when you say
11:41 if animals and people are made of the same substance,
11:45 we all have the breath of life.
11:48 What is the difference between animals and people?
11:51 There's a profound, profound difference.
11:55 And it has to do with relationships, relationships.
12:00 So I have a pet dog, her name is Jill.
12:03 Okay.
12:04 There is obvious differences between my dog and my daughter.
12:08 Yes.
12:10 But I have a different kind of relationship with my daughter
12:14 than I have with my dog, but we have a relationship.
12:18 I love my dog. Yes.
12:21 And she loves me.
12:23 I know that when I go home for making these programs,
12:27 I'm going to get a loud and joyous welcome from her.
12:32 You see,
12:33 God made human beings to fit a specific purpose
12:39 in His creation.
12:41 It's actually written about in Genesis 1,
12:44 it's laid out there right at the very beginning.
12:46 This is what God said, this isn't Moses, this is God.
12:52 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image,
12:56 according to Our likeliness.
12:58 Let them have dominion
13:00 over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air,
13:03 and over the cattle, over all the earth,
13:07 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth."
13:10 So God made us like Him.
13:14 He formed us in some profound way to be like Him.
13:21 And He gave us a relationship both with Him
13:24 and with the rest of the creation.
13:27 Yes, so we...
13:28 And He created us to dominate,
13:30 that was the purpose is we were to,
13:34 in a loving way like Him,
13:36 oversee everything that happened on earth.
13:39 Well, we are in charge,
13:40 which means we're responsible too.
13:42 Yes, yes.
13:44 And that's a very big deal.
13:46 We're not to lord it over the rest of creation,
13:50 we are to treasure it.
13:52 So what does this reveal to us about the Creator?
13:56 Well, His love of diversity is demonstrated
14:00 in the variety of other organisms,
14:03 so many different things,
14:05 and His love of diversity is evident
14:07 in the rest of creation.
14:09 It's not just the animals,
14:11 it's everything, He loves diversity.
14:14 God made diverse organisms to have a relationship with us
14:19 just as we have a relationship with Him.
14:23 So by looking at this, we see God's love of diversity.
14:27 Yes, and you know,
14:28 it is so exciting that God loved us so much
14:31 even to make animals that with whom we could relate
14:37 and have these special creatures in our life.
14:41 Well, we hope that you'll stay tune,
14:43 we'll be back in just 60 seconds.


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