Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001409
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00:07 From Arcadia, California, the Carter Report presents
00:10 "The Living Word" around the world. 00:17 Hello, I'm Dave Deno and this is the Carter Report 00:20 with Pastor and Evangelist John Carter. 00:23 And this is where we talk about the issues 00:25 that are involved in the Christian life. 00:28 Today, we're gonna talk about "Darwinism and Evolution." 00:33 Now we're gonna talk about an age of meaningless. 00:37 We'll talk about it in just a moment. 00:42 I wish you would come with me 00:45 to a land of more than a billion souls 00:50 all in need of hearing the Gospel of Christ. 00:53 Did you know this, my friend? 00:56 It is the duty of the Christian 00:58 to take the Gospel of Christ to a lost world. 01:03 And the lost world I'm talking about 01:04 right now is India, 01:07 land of millions and millions of pagan gods 01:12 but more than a billion lost souls. 01:17 India cries out for God. 01:20 We are now back on India TV. 01:23 We're broadcasting on prime time in India. 01:26 We need your prayers, we need your support. 01:30 Is it easy in India? 01:32 No, it's the hardest place we have ever worked. 01:35 Harder than Russia? 01:36 Harder than Russia. 01:38 Harder than America? 01:39 Harder than America. 01:40 Harder than Australia? 01:41 Harder than Australia. 01:43 Because it is a land that's given over almost 01:46 totally to demonism. 01:49 Now I could tell you about those demons, 01:51 I could tell you about the false gods 01:53 but what I want to tell you today, 01:54 is about the true God 01:56 and the true God who told us 01:57 go into all the world 01:59 and preach the gospel to every creature. 02:01 We're back in India. Yes, we're back in India. 02:05 And by the grace of God we're back in India to stay. 02:09 We want you to come with us. 02:10 We want you to pray for India. 02:12 We want you to give for India and do it today. 02:16 Please write to me, John Carter 02:18 Post Office Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California. 02:21 Write to me at Terrigal in Australia. 02:23 Email me, contact me 02:25 and say, "Yes, 02:27 I'm going to stand with you in the preaching of the gospel 02:30 to the lost souls of India." 02:32 Thank you in Jesus' name and God bless you. 02:43 Welcome to the Carter Report. 02:44 Today our topic is "Darwinism and the Death of Hope. " 02:49 And some of the topics that we're talking about 02:51 before I talk with John, 02:53 I want you to know that many of these topics 02:56 are now contained in a brand new magazine 02:58 that we have called Ebenezer. 03:00 And I'm talking about it at the very beginning 03:02 of our time together today 03:04 because I want you to have an opportunity 03:06 to see this magazine. 03:08 It's absolutely fascinating and it's yours free. 03:12 It looks like this 03:13 and all you have to do to get this 03:15 is go to our website www.cartereport.org 03:20 Again that's www.cartereport.org 03:24 We'll be very happy 03:25 to send you a free copy of this. 03:28 John, it is so good to be with you, 03:31 it's always good to be with you. 03:32 We're talking about a subject today 03:34 that I think is right smack dab 03:37 in the very middle of our lives and when I say that 03:40 I don't mean just sort of out there in society. 03:43 In the middle of our lives, in many of our families today 03:47 we're talking about not just Darwinism 03:49 but we're talking more importantly 03:51 about the death of hope. 03:53 Why is it called that? 03:55 What kind of times are we living in today? 04:00 Dave, about 150 years ago, a brilliant Englishman 04:04 by the name of Charles Darwin 04:08 brought to the world the theory of evolution. 04:12 When he started this theory out, 04:14 Darwin sort of was a semi-believer in God. 04:17 In fact, he'd been studying to become a clergyman. 04:21 But as time went by, as he explored nature, 04:25 he became a person who believed just in the forces of nature 04:30 and he gave up belief in a personal God. 04:35 And-- and his great champion today 04:38 is, is Professor Richard Dawkins. 04:43 Today there is a great 04:45 new religion in the world, Dave. 04:49 It is a religion of Neo-Darwinism 04:52 which is the death of God, that God does not exist. 04:56 Dawkins is the great high priest of this 05:00 so called new church 05:02 and it is based upon the idea that man is, 05:05 now wait till you get this, 05:06 man is the product of time + matter + chance. 05:12 That everything that exists in the world 05:15 is the product of chance. 05:17 This is taught in every, every secular university 05:22 in the world. 05:24 And this new religion is push down 05:28 into the open minds of young people 05:31 and they come out of these universities 05:33 with their faith totally shattered 05:37 because Darwinism, 05:38 when it is followed through towards logical conclusion, 05:41 gets rid of the God who made the universe. 05:45 I was playing golf the other day 05:47 and was paired up with a young man. 05:50 And when he found out what I do, 05:54 he wanted to talk about it a little bit. 05:57 He was not a believer. 06:00 And he said, "You know, people my age" 06:02 and I'll never forget this. 06:04 He said, "People my age, we believe that 06:07 religion really doesn't have anything for us." 06:09 Totally irrelevant. 06:11 Yeah, "It doesn't have any meaning in our life. 06:13 In fact, we're repulsed," his words 06:16 "By the dogma of religion." 06:19 That was his total view of religion. 06:22 That was as far as he would even think about it. 06:25 They will tell you this. 06:27 He may be in this category, I don't know. 06:29 They will tell you, you can believe in nothing. 06:32 Today, you can believe in nothing 06:35 except in Neo-Darwinism. 06:38 You can believe in this. 06:39 You can believe in Neo-Darwinism 06:42 which teaches us that we came from nothing. 06:45 Richard Dawkins, 06:46 the high priest of this new cult this-- 06:51 what could I say, a fundamentalistic cult. 06:55 He teaches that the human race came from nothing. 07:00 He knows that there was a great "Big Bang" 07:03 it happened 13.82 billion years ago, 07:07 that's what astronomers tell us. 07:09 But-- when he's asked, when he's pressed, 07:12 "Who made the 'Big Bang'?" 07:13 He said, "Nothing." 07:15 So everything, everything we see came from nothing. 07:19 People are very interested in nothing 07:21 but this has destroyed the purpose for living. 07:24 And this is one of the main reasons 07:26 why we have so many suicides in the world today. 07:29 Suicide has become the badge of our despair. 07:34 We see it in the news it become so unfortunate 07:38 because so many in Hollywood... Yes. 07:41 have resorted to, to this area, to suicide. 07:44 Now, Dave, depression is often caused by 07:49 a chemical imbalance. 07:50 We're not talking about this 07:52 but we're talking about the depression that says, 07:55 "There is no life after death." 07:57 It's meaninglessness. Yes. 07:59 Richard Dawkins says, "As the ship sinks, 08:02 goes down into oblivion, the best thing you can do 08:05 is to stand on the deck and salute." 08:08 That's Richard Dawkins. 08:10 And this cult 08:12 is one of the fastest growing religions in the world today, 08:15 it is a religion and it is a cult. 08:20 If life is meaningless, what hope is there? 08:25 What is the purpose of life? 08:27 Let me, let me read you something. 08:30 This is, this is interesting. 08:32 This is amazing. 08:34 This is from Alan Hayward in his book, 08:37 in "Creation and Evolution." 08:39 "Over the past 25 years, scientists have discovered an 08:42 exquisite world of nanotechnology 08:46 within living cells. 08:48 Inside the labyrinthine-- labyrinthine enclosures, 08:54 scientists have found functioning turbines, 08:58 miniature pumps, sliding clamps, 09:02 complex circuits, rotary engines, 09:07 and machines for copying, reading, 09:10 and editing digital information - 09:13 hardly simple 'globules of plasma' 09:17 envisioned by Darwin's contemporaries." 09:20 Now there is a choice. 09:23 You can say all of this that I've just mentioned to you 09:26 is the product of nothing. 09:28 Chance at best? Yes. 09:29 Chance, but it came from nothing. 09:32 You can say, this came from nothing 09:33 or it came from the hand of a Creator God. 09:37 Now the evidence is coming in today 09:40 that he's showing that Neo-Darwinism, 09:43 the Darwinian Hypothesis is fraudulent 09:48 through and through 09:49 and we have evidence to show it is not based upon fact. 09:54 But the religious overtones now are so strong 09:58 that people are dismissing the facts 10:01 and they're holding on 10:03 to their religion of no God, Dave. 10:07 It's another religion, it's another cult 10:09 and it destroys men and women. 10:12 But this kind of information 10:14 is not distributed out to the public. 10:17 No, it's not. 10:18 What you have just read to me today is a revelation to me. 10:20 I've never seen this in print, 10:23 I've never seen this on the evening news. 10:26 No, you won't see this. 10:27 Why not? 10:29 I think, Dave, this is-- 10:31 I don't think this is controversial 10:32 what I'm going to say. 10:34 I think people basically note, 10:36 we are all victims of a great brainwashing. 10:40 And many of the people who run the evening news 10:44 are the disciples of the doctrine 10:48 that there is no God. 10:49 God is not popular on the evening news, is He? 10:53 No, no. 10:54 We live in America 10:55 in an increasingly hostile environment 11:00 to Christianity and to the Bible. 11:02 But I want you to know today, 11:04 many scientists believe that Darwinism, 11:06 it's on the rocks and in coming years, 11:10 it'll be shown to everybody 11:12 to be the great fraudulent system that it is. 11:16 You have given me a quote from Patrick Glynn. 11:20 I wonder if you might share that 11:21 in light of what you're saying? 11:22 Yes, yes. 11:24 He's the assistant director of George 11:25 Washington University, Washington DC. 11:28 He was a complete atheist, 11:31 no God complete Darwinian atheist. 11:37 He said this, 11:39 "The past two decades have overturned 11:41 nearly all the important assumptions 11:43 and predictions of an earlier generation 11:46 of modern secular 11:48 and theistic thinkers relating to the issue of God. 11:51 Modern thinkers assumed that 11:53 science would reveal the universe 11:56 to be ever more random and mechanical, 12:00 instead it has discovered new layers of intricate order 12:05 that bespeak and almost unimaginably 12:09 vast master design." 12:14 Now, Dave, and I want to say this 12:18 to the younger people who are listening, 12:20 don't be taken in and don't be brainwashed. 12:23 Stop being brainwashed. 12:25 Start to think for yourself and realize 12:28 that some of the greatest scientists 12:29 in the world today 12:31 are saying that the Darwinian Theory 12:36 is absolutely riddled with inconsistencies 12:43 and falsehoods. 12:45 It is a great deception. 12:47 When we talk with young people like the one that I described. 12:51 Yeah. 12:52 And we challenge them 12:53 as you have been challenging us, 12:57 to not accept simply what they're told 13:01 but to look into it themselves. 13:04 So many times They're hesitant to do that. 13:06 They will not put in the work, why won't they? 13:10 This new religion, 13:13 and I hate it to be called a religion. 13:16 Richard Dawkins doesn't like us to call him like a high priest. 13:22 It is because it is a religion that does away 13:28 with personal accountability to God. 13:32 There's no God and there's no judgment. 13:35 And man is the master and the maker of all things. 13:38 Why do we want to escape accountability? 13:40 We want to escape accountability, Dave, 13:43 and this is getting to the very heart of the matter 13:46 because of the doctrine of original sin, 13:49 because we are born in a state of sin. 13:53 And man is born naturally alienated to God. 13:57 And when Darwin started to preach his idea of evolution 14:01 150 years ago, 14:03 many scientists said to him, "It's not true, 14:07 you'll never prove it." 14:08 And it hasn't been proved to this day, 14:10 we can talk about this also when we talk about 14:12 the lack of transitional life forms. 14:15 But it appealed to so many of the elite in England 14:21 because it got rid of oppressive religion. 14:25 Now they said, "We don't like religion 14:28 and we don't like preachers telling us what we ought to do. 14:32 We don't like the Bible 14:34 and we don't like the thought of a God 14:36 who is calling us to account." 14:38 If we do not have Accountability, 14:43 then we don't have guilt. 14:44 That's right. 14:46 And we don't have to behave the way scripture says 14:50 God wants us to behave. 14:52 We're gonna talk more about this. 14:55 We're gonna talk about the flaws in Darwinism. 14:58 We're gonna talk about something 14:59 called the anthropic principle and I'm fascinated by this. 15:04 We'll do this in just a moment. 15:06 Don't go away. 15:10 Did you ever have a sense of destiny? 15:14 Did you ever feel that God has put His hand upon you 15:17 for some tremendous task that you really got a purpose, 15:21 that God has called you for such a time as this? 15:25 I have that sense, that conviction today 15:29 because God is opening up doors for us in Latin America. 15:34 And in Latin America, my good friend, 15:37 There's a revolution going on. 15:39 It's not a revolution in the streets. 15:42 It is a revolution 15:44 in the hearts of men and women. 15:48 That's why the Carter Report is going to go to El Salvador. 15:53 We are renting an outdoor stadium 15:55 with room for more than 60,000 souls. 16:00 And we're planning a baptism in the-- 16:02 on the Sabbath afternoon 16:04 of more than 5,000 born again souls 16:09 in El Salvador, in Latin America, 16:14 where there is a revolution going on, 16:15 where the Holy Spirit is being poured out. 16:18 Don't you want to be a part of this great purpose, 16:24 this great task, this God designed outreach, 16:29 the Latin America? 16:32 Would you please write to me, John Carter 16:33 Post Office Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California. 16:37 Tell me, I'm going to support you. 16:39 Write to me in Australia, tell me, 16:41 I'm going to support the preaching of the gospel. 16:44 Write to me today and support 16:47 the preaching of the Word of God 16:49 around the world. 16:51 But right now, in Latin America. 16:54 Thank you and God bless you. 17:11 Welcome back to the Carter Report 17:13 with Pastor and Evangelist John Carter. 17:15 I'm Dave Deno and today we're talking about 17:17 Darwinism, evolution 17:20 and the loss of meaning in our society. 17:25 John, you have described I think very vividly, 17:29 what is going on in this generation 17:31 and why so many don't even want to consider 17:35 the truth of the Bible. 17:38 They don't want to consider that there is a God. 17:40 They don't even want to investigate it themselves. 17:44 Before we took our break, 17:46 I mentioned something called the anthropic principle, 17:49 this is fascinating, tell us what it is. 17:51 Dave, it comes from the Greek word anthropos 17:55 and it means man. 17:58 The anthropic principle says this 18:00 and this is scientific, this is true. 18:04 That everything in the vast cosmos, 18:07 in all of the universe, 18:09 everything exists 18:13 for the existence of human beings, everything. 18:19 The universe, now do atheists believe this? 18:23 Yes, they do 18:24 but they ignore the logical consequences 18:27 of the anthropic principle. 18:29 But the anthropic principle says that 18:31 everything in the universe, 18:33 everything that we can see and the things we can't see 18:36 are fine tuned so that the human race can exist. 18:40 Let me give you an example. 18:44 Imagine, Dave, I've got here a little dime, 18:47 can you imagine it? 18:48 Got it. 18:50 Is it heavy? No, very light. 18:52 Very small, it has tiny mass. 18:55 What I'm going to say, 18:57 a great scientist said to me some time back 18:59 and I said, "Does anybody else believe this?" 19:02 He said, "Everybody believes this, 19:05 everybody who knows science." 19:07 If the universe were bigger or smaller 19:11 by the mass of a dime 19:14 there could be no life on planet earth. 19:16 How so? 19:18 Because it is so 19:20 the forces that hold the universe together 19:24 as so finely tuned. 19:29 We are sitting on the edge of a knife. 19:33 Everything is so finely tuned so that life can exist. 19:38 Let me give you another one. 19:41 A milli, milli, millisecond after the point of creation 19:44 which scientists call the Big Bang. 19:46 Okay. 19:47 They were four great forces that came into existence, 19:50 they had not existed before. 19:52 Strong nuclear force, I'm going by memory. 19:55 A weak nuclear force, 19:57 electromagnetism I think and gravity. 20:00 These forces had not existed before 20:03 and so and time had not existed before that neither. 20:06 Time came into existence at the point of creation 20:10 and so God is not in time, time is in God. 20:13 So you got four forces that come into existences. 20:17 If those forces, Dave, had been out of sync, 20:21 now this is scientific truth. 20:24 By one quadrillionth of one quadrillionth 20:29 of one quadrillionth of one quadrillionth 20:33 of one quadrillionth of one percent 20:38 the universe would have either imploded or exploded 20:44 and they would have been no galaxies 20:46 and no planet earth. 20:47 What you're saying is that there is a divine balance 20:54 to all things? 20:56 Overwhelming, overwhelming. 20:58 We're just-- when you come down to our planet 21:01 we're just the right distance from the sun, 21:03 just the right distance from the moon. 21:07 And, and you could go on time after time, 21:09 you can talk about gravity. 21:11 I talk about-- I have a lecture on gravity. 21:14 You think of an old radio dial 21:17 and it is a trillion miles across, Dave, 21:20 trillion miles that goes right across the universe. 21:22 And it's calibrated in not inches but centimeters. 21:25 Okay. 21:26 And it is, we've got it lined up to zero. 21:30 This is negative, this is positive, 21:32 this controls gravity. 21:34 If we turn it one centimeter to the right, 21:37 the universe explodes. 21:39 If we turn it one centimeter to the left, 21:43 the universe implodes, it falls to pieces. 21:48 It's a meter, imagine, a trillion miles across 21:51 and gravity is so fine tuned. 21:55 This is the anthropic principle 21:57 which is amazing evidence for the unbiased mind 22:04 to believe in a great designer, 22:07 and a great Creator and if He exists, 22:10 then life has got meaning. 22:13 All of this flies in the face then 22:17 of the theory of evolution. 22:19 Absolutely. 22:20 So Richard Dawkins and his colleagues 22:22 when you press them, they will tell you that, 22:26 they won't say it in these words, 22:28 but I'll say these words for them. 22:31 If you leave hydrogen gas alone by itself long enough, 22:36 it will become people singing and dancing. 22:41 Now this is true. 22:42 This is what atheism teaches. 22:45 If you go back to the Big Bang and you say to Dawkins 22:49 another atheists, where did it come from? 22:51 They will say, "Well, it came from nowhere." 22:53 John, it takes more faith. 22:54 It takes more faith to believe in nothing 22:56 than to believe in the design. 22:59 Amazing amount of faith Dawkins has 23:01 and every atheist, any person- 23:04 and that is why today a vast number of-- 23:07 a large number of astrophysicists and astronomers 23:11 have become theists. 23:13 Because when they look 23:14 at the amazing balance in the universe, 23:18 when they study the anthropic principle, 23:21 they are forced to say, 23:23 "This could not have happened by itself, 23:26 we are not the product of time + matter + chance." 23:31 Let's go back to Darwinism then. 23:33 What evidence would you give to show that Darwinism then 23:38 is a deception and a delusion? 23:42 Dave, let me read you a statement 23:44 also before I answer that one 23:45 from Philip Adams, a scientist, an atheist, evolutionist. 23:51 "We are as significant 23:53 as the eight billionth grain of sand 23:56 beyond the final palm tree 23:58 in the most distant oasis in the Sahara." 24:02 That is very bleak. 24:03 That is why we have suicides, many suicides at least, 24:08 depression, that is why 24:10 when the atheists took over Russia, 24:14 you had vast numbers of people who were put to death. 24:19 Somebody said, God died in the 19th Century 24:24 and man died in the 20th. 24:27 Now to answer your question, number one. 24:32 Why I don't believe in Darwinism at all. 24:35 Number one after-- 24:38 and great authorities say this, "After 150 years, 24:43 the vast number of required missing links 24:46 is still missing." 24:48 Now I have written an article on this 24:51 and I would encourage our viewers 24:54 to get the magazine. 24:56 "After 150 years of vast number 24:59 of required missing links is still missing." 25:02 In his book, The Origin of Species, 25:05 Darwin said, "We haven't found them yet 25:08 because we don't have time." 25:09 But in the-- and that was a legitimate statement, 25:13 but then the geological column has been explored 25:17 for the last 150 years 25:19 and they have discovered and cataloged 250 million specimens 25:24 and there are no transitional life forms. 25:30 This is the science of Darwinism 25:34 and they have forced 25:35 and they look at the rocks and the specimens to say 25:39 that they appear, the creatures, 25:42 all the creatures appear suddenly in the fossil record. 25:47 Even Richard Dawkins says, 25:49 "This almost sounds like creationism." 25:52 Now there's another reason. 25:53 And I can give you plenty of reasons, Darwin said this. 25:57 He said, "There's something that worries me 25:59 and keeps me awake at night." 26:02 He said "It is the human mind." 26:05 If the human mind has evolved 26:07 from the lowest creature in the swamp, 26:11 has come from noting and simply a product of 26:15 time + matter + chance said Darwin, 26:19 Then how can we trust its processes? 26:23 We have just a moment left, 26:25 you believe in a personal Creator? 26:29 Yes, I do. 26:30 Why? Very briefly, why? 26:33 I believe in a personal Creator because of scripture 26:38 that presents a person by the name of Jesus, 26:41 who makes meaning to the madness of the world today. 26:46 I believe scripture can be shown true 26:48 because of amazing prophecies. 26:51 And I believe that scientific evidence today 26:55 is pointing to a great designer. 26:59 I believe in a personal God because not of blind faith 27:06 but because of overwhelming evidence. 27:10 And I would say to young people, 27:11 Dave, and everybody watching, start to believe in God 27:16 because He believes in you. 27:18 And when you believe in God then you will discover 27:22 that life can be very sweet and there's meaning. 27:26 And at the end of the road, there's a heaven, 27:29 a bright shining light and an endless life. 27:34 That is the end of our time together 27:35 but it could be 27:36 the very beginning of a new life 27:38 for someone who is watching with us today. 27:40 We hope so. 27:41 What we talk about today, 27:42 you can read more about in our magazine Ebenezer. 27:45 Log on to our website www.cartereport.org 27:50 We'll be happy to send you 27:52 a free copy of Ebenezer Magazine. 27:55 To write to us, and we'd love to have you write to us, 27:58 you can send your letter to the Carter Report 28:00 at P.O. 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