Participants: Pr. John Carter
Series Code: CR
Program Code: CR001514A
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00:09 The Carter Report Presents,
00:10 The Living Word around the World. 00:17 Hello, my friend, I'm John Carter. 00:20 Welcome today to the Carter Report. 00:22 And topic today is 00:24 the biggest hoax in all the world. 00:28 I have a special guest today, 00:30 Dr. Faz Rana from "Reasons to Believe." 00:35 Dr. Rana is a great scientist. 00:38 And today we're going to look at the evidence for 00:42 and against the theory of evolution. 00:45 Welcome today to the Carter Report. 00:51 Hi, I'm John Carter. 00:53 My wife Beverley and I were watching television 00:55 the other night, watching the news, American News. 00:59 They told us that the church 01:00 in North America is actually shrinking. 01:03 They said that atheism 01:04 is the fastest growing religious movement 01:06 today in North America. 01:08 And people are saying, 01:10 "What on earth can we do to save the church?" 01:12 Well, of course Christ died for the church, 01:14 He saved the church. 01:15 But what they mean is, 01:17 "How can we keep the church as a vibrant force 01:19 in the world today, in Australia, 01:21 in America and in Europe and in the rest of the world?" 01:24 Let me tell you a little story. 01:26 John Wesley was one of the greatest preachers 01:28 of the English speaking world has ever heard. 01:31 John Wesley came upon the scene of the church in England 01:35 a few hundred years ago, 01:36 when the church was dying like the church today, 01:39 it was a shrinking church, 01:42 but the people in the church were in a state of denial. 01:44 They refused to accept the reality 01:47 that the church was dying. 01:48 John Wesley did something 01:50 that other people said it couldn't be done. 01:52 He revived the church through public evangelism. 01:56 Did you hear that? He started to preach Christ. 01:59 He preached the Bible 02:00 and he preached out of doors and indoors 02:03 and the church was saved. 02:05 Not only did he save a lot of souls, 02:08 the souls of sinners, 02:09 he saved the souls of the saints. 02:13 Please join me, my friend, in evangelism. 02:19 It's what Jesus did. 02:21 Write to me John Carter, 02:22 Post Office Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California. 02:26 In Australia write to me at address on the screen 02:30 at Terrigal, in New South Wales. 02:33 Join me, my friend, in preaching Christ. 02:37 Join me in public evangelism around the world. 02:42 Thank you in Jesus' name. 02:52 Welcome back to the Carter Report. 02:54 Today we're talking about 02:56 the evolutionary theory of Darwin 02:58 that we consider to be the world's greatest hoax. 03:01 My guest today is Dr. Faz Rana, 03:04 Vice President of "Reasons To Believe." 03:08 He and Dr. Hugh Ross co-authored the books 03:12 "Origins of Life" and also "Who Was Adam." 03:17 After reading these books 03:20 Nobel Prize winning chemist Dr. Richard Smalley said, 03:25 "Evolution has been dealt its deathblow. 03:30 After reading "Origins of life" 03:32 with my background in chemistry and physics, 03:35 it is clear evolution could not have occurred." 03:42 We're glad that you're on our program today. 03:44 Well, thank you for having me, Pastor Carter. 03:46 And, Dr. Rana, it is our honour to have you with us today 03:50 and we want to thank you for joining us. 03:53 We're going to get right into the matter. 03:54 We're gonna jump into what some would say, 03:57 is a difficult subject when you talk about evolution, 04:01 because people tell us 04:03 evolution is a proven scientific fact 04:07 and they use Junk DNA. 04:10 What is Junk DNA? 04:12 Well, when the human genome was sequenced, 04:16 this would have been in 2000, 2001 04:18 what was discovered at that time 04:21 was that most of the genome 04:23 didn't code for any kind of useful products. 04:26 And so the thought was that this was all junk. 04:29 And so the idea was 95% of the human genome 04:33 is made up of garbage DNA 04:34 that just is an evolutionary wastage. 04:37 And in fact when you look at humans and chimps and gorillas, 04:42 there's a shared Junk DNA sequences 04:44 and everybody argued, this is evidence 04:46 for an evolutionary history for humanity, 04:48 evidence for common descent. 04:50 Because why would God put the stuff 04:52 in there that's no good. 04:53 Exactly, but in the last few years 04:55 there's been a radical revision 04:57 in terms of how we understand the human genome. 05:00 We now know that virtually all of the DNA 05:03 in the human genome is actually functional, 05:05 only a small fraction of it codes 05:07 for useful protein products. 05:09 The rest of it is basically 05:10 functioning as the control system, 05:13 telling the cell when to make certain proteins 05:15 and when not to make proteins and how much to make them. 05:18 And this is critical for 05:20 the development of the human being 05:22 from a small egg to a fully formed individual. 05:26 So what we're looking at here is 05:27 an incredibly elegantly designed system 05:30 that is far beyond anybody's imagination 05:33 in terms of its complexity and elegance. 05:35 The DNA is full of information. 05:37 It's loaded with information. 05:39 How much information in a bit of DNA? 05:41 3.2 billion generic letters 05:45 and that's in each cell in our body. 05:47 I want to get this clear. 05:49 I was told there were 3.2 billion generic letters, 05:54 but this is in each cell in the body. 05:57 Each cell and there's about a trillion cells in our body. 06:00 Now each cell has the same, 06:02 same 3.2 billion generic letters, 06:04 at least the first approximation. 06:06 And so you got these little letters 06:09 in the right sequence inside the cell. Yes. 06:13 That you can't see with the naked eye? 06:14 That's right, you can't see it with the naked eye. 06:16 And in fact I've seen the entire human genome 06:19 printed out in book form and it literally is, 06:24 like a set of encyclopaedias 06:25 that goes from the floor to a ceiling about 15 feet high. 06:29 And it's just volume after volume after volume of letters. 06:34 Now remember you're dealing here with a hoax. 06:37 I don't know much about this, 06:39 that's why we got you on the show. 06:40 Tell me this about the library again? 06:42 Well, the information in one cell, 06:44 if you simply typed out the generic code, 06:48 that those 3.2 billions letters, 06:50 it looks like a volume of encyclopaedias 06:53 where each volume would correspond 06:55 to one of the 23 chromosomes in the human body 06:59 or in the human cells. 07:00 And this happened by itself? 07:02 Well, that's what evolutionary biologists... 07:04 This came from nothing. 07:05 That's what evolutionary biologists would say. 07:07 That Darwin didn't know what you're telling me today? 07:08 No, he didn't know that. 07:09 He thought the cell was a bit of blob, 07:11 just a bit of nothing. 07:12 Right, a protoplasm, a bit of jelly. 07:15 Somebody told me 07:17 that if you took the information 07:19 that is in one cel... 07:23 you need, I think it was 1,500 books, 07:28 each of a 1,000 pages. 07:30 Yeah, that sounds right. 07:32 There's a library. 07:34 But I thought that meant the whole-- 07:35 When I read it I had an idea, this is the whole body, 07:38 but this is one cell in the body. 07:40 This is one cell in the body, exactly, exactly. 07:43 And I actually saw again the human genome printed out 07:46 and there were-- 07:48 It was just volume after volume after volume 07:50 and this, the bookshelf went from the floor to a ceiling 07:53 15 feet high jammed with books. 07:56 And I pulled one out and I looked at it 07:58 and the print was so small-- 07:59 Tiny print? I could barely read it. 08:01 And it's digital information, isn't it? 08:03 It's digital information. 08:04 This is not an analogue, it's digital? 08:06 Yeah, it's just, again it's like a-- 08:08 the information in a computer system. 08:10 It's digitized. 08:11 Have you thought about this, Doctor? 08:13 John 1:1 says, 08:16 "In the beginning was the word." Yes. 08:18 Now, the word has the connotation of information. 08:22 So in the very beginning the information came 08:26 and that gave way to the universe 08:29 and the human race. 08:30 But the evolutionists says, 08:32 in the beginning there was nothing. 08:35 Much to do about nothing. 08:36 In the beginning there was nothing 08:38 and there was confusion and randomness 08:41 and everything by chance and it gave birth to the cell. 08:46 You got to have a lot of faith to be an atheist 08:49 or an evolutionist. 08:50 Yeah, you sure do. 08:51 And to think about, you know, John 1:1. 08:55 It's interesting because in our experience, 08:58 information always comes from our mind. 09:00 Anytime we encounter information, 09:02 we recognise that it's the work of a mind. 09:04 Yes, we do. 09:06 And it's provocative to think 09:07 that at its essence biochemistry is information. 09:10 Most people don't know this. 09:11 They are information systems, 09:13 and you know as I mentioned in the previous episode, 09:16 the way in which the cells machinery 09:17 manipulates that information 09:20 is similar to how a computer system functions. 09:23 And people have used that insight 09:24 to build literally computers using DNA 09:27 in the cells machinery. 09:28 This is called DNA computing. 09:31 And tell me about this DNA computing? 09:34 Explain this to me? 09:35 Well, the idea is that because DNA is information 09:38 because it's digital information 09:39 just like, which is found in a computer system, 09:42 you can manipulate that digital information, 09:45 do all kinds of complex tasks. 09:47 And the cell basically does the same thing. 09:50 In the vein which it does that 09:51 is fundamentally how a computer system operates 09:55 at its most basic level. 09:57 And again exploiting that idea, 09:59 there are now nanotechnologists 10:02 that are building computer systems out of DNA 10:05 and these are more powerful, 10:07 the systems that they are building are more powerful 10:09 than the most powerful super computer system 10:12 that we're aware off. 10:13 Or you have information theorists 10:16 who study problems in molecular biology 10:20 who have concluded 10:21 that the way in which the information 10:23 in the cell is structured is identical to human language. 10:27 This is quite amazing. 10:29 And so it's not just merely the presence of information 10:32 but how it's structured, how it's handled by the cell, 10:35 it's identical to how we structure 10:37 and handle information. 10:39 And that to me suggest not only a work of a mind, 10:41 but it says, there's something about the way 10:44 that we think that it's in resonance 10:46 with how that Creator thinks. 10:49 And of course scripture tells us 10:50 that we're made in God's image. 10:52 And if we're made in God's image, 10:54 we're mini creators 10:55 and doesn't it really make sense 10:57 to think that what we would do, would somehow echo 11:01 what the Creator has done when He has created. 11:03 And so to me it's not just merely... 11:05 This is evidence for intelligent design. 11:08 But when we think about it, it really points to the fact 11:11 that we're made in God's image 11:13 and we have this connection to the Creator in someway. 11:16 You know, if I go down to the beach-- 11:18 Well, not just the beach, 11:20 to say if I'm out in the desert, 11:21 a lot of sand, like at the beach. 11:24 And I'm dying of thirst and I come along 11:27 and I see written in the sand, 11:31 100 yards to water and it has an arrow pointing. 11:36 I think I could logically assume 11:39 that the letters are an indication 11:42 of a mind that wrote it down. 11:44 Exactly. 11:46 But the atheistic evolutionists 11:49 looks at the writing in the sand 11:51 and he says, it came from nowhere 11:55 and it happened by blind chance. 11:57 And man is the product of time plus matter, 12:01 plus chance that we believe 12:04 is the greatest hoax in all the world. 12:08 Now I want to ask you this question 12:13 and I'm enjoying this. 12:14 This is quite amazing. 12:16 And we're running out of time for this segment, 12:17 so we'll have to go through this fast. 12:19 Is man genetically different to a animal, say a chimp? 12:23 What makes mankind distinct? 12:26 Well, we are built out of the same building blocks 12:29 as a chimp, 12:31 but I look at that as evidence for common design. 12:34 Designers will use the same materials 12:36 and make very different designs with that. 12:37 But have we got cells like the chimp? 12:39 Yeah, we are genetically similar to chimps. 12:41 We're bio chemically similar. 12:43 We got the DNA and all that stuff. 12:44 Yeah, we're atomically similar, we're physiologically similar. 12:48 But I look at that as evidence for common design, 12:50 not common descent. 12:52 And what we do stand apart from chimps in radical ways. 12:56 And a lot of it has to do with the way our brain is structured 12:58 and the way that our brain operates. 13:00 And in terms of what's called gene expression, 13:03 we're radically different than chimps 13:05 when it comes to our brains. 13:06 Because we were made in the image of God? 13:08 Exactly. 13:09 Yeah, we're not descendent or related to the chimps 13:14 because man is a new and distinct creation 13:18 from the hand of God. 13:21 And therefore we believe, Dr. Faz, 13:24 that every person is distinct and glorious 13:27 and every person is important 13:28 and we believe that life is full of meaning. 13:31 We believe that because we came from the hand of God, 13:34 one day we shall go back to the hand of God. 13:38 You're watching the Carter Report. 13:40 My guest is Dr. Faz Rana from Reasons to Believe. 13:44 Just stay with us, my friend, 13:46 because we're going to be back with you 13:49 after this brief message. 13:52 Stay with us. 13:55 God has His time and His place for everything. 14:01 And the time and the place 14:03 now is Latin America, including Cuba. 14:08 Time Magazine talks about 14:10 the second Protestant Reformation 14:13 and describes how hundreds of thousands 14:16 even millions of Latinos are coming to the gospel of Christ. 14:23 I'm not an armchair theologian, 14:26 I'm speaking according toexperience. 14:28 I've seen it with my own eyes. 14:32 Recently we went down to El Salvador. 14:36 There I spoke in the largest football stadium 14:39 in Central America with the biggest crowd 14:42 that, that football stadium had ever, ever seen. 14:46 They came not to see a football match, 14:49 but to hear about the blood of Christ. 14:53 Millions are coming to a knowledge of God 14:56 in Latin America. 14:58 Doors are opening in Cuba. 15:02 Who knows we may be going to Cuba soon as the doors open. 15:07 By the grace of God we're going to step through those doors. 15:12 And we want you to step through those doors with us 15:16 and be part of our team for such a time as this. 15:21 Please write to me, friend, don't put it off. 15:23 Write to me John Carter, Post Office Box 1900, 15:28 Thousand Oaks, California, 91358. 15:32 In Australia write to me at Terrigal, New South Wales. 15:37 Be part of the Second Reformation. 15:41 Join us to see the miracles of God. 15:46 Amen. 15:57 Hello, friend, I'm John Carter. 15:59 Welcome back today to the Carter Report. 16:01 We are talking today about the greatest hoax 16:05 in all the world. 16:06 And my special guest is Dr. Faz Rana 16:09 from "Reasons to Believe." 16:11 Welcome back, Doctor. 16:12 Thank you for having me, Pastor Carter. 16:13 Glad to have you here. 16:15 Now we're talking today about ideas that influence millions, 16:19 perhaps billions, there are families and children. 16:22 Tell me about your family? 16:25 Well, I've been married almost 29 years 16:27 and it's amazing to me that my wife was able 16:29 to put up with me for 29 years. 16:32 But we have five kids. Five children? 16:35 Three biological, two that we adopted 16:37 and they are all grown up and they are out of the house 16:39 and we're empty nesters now. 16:41 And they are figuring out how to make their own way in life. 16:44 And one of our daughter is married, 16:46 and one will be married this summer. 16:47 So we've got a full family. 16:50 And you're a happy man. 16:51 I'm very happy. I can tell. 16:53 You got a happy face. 16:54 I'm going to read you this statement. 16:58 Atheistic evolution is a theory 17:01 that is devastated the human race? 17:02 I want you to comment on this in a moment. 17:05 Darwin, without intending to, abolished God. 17:10 The death of God always leads to the death of man. 17:14 This is important philosophically. 17:17 Carl Marx seized on Darwinism. 17:21 Friedrich Nietzsche gladly accepted evolution 17:24 and the concept of the survival of the fittest. 17:28 Hitler worshiped Nietzsche, 17:30 and he slept with a copy of Nietzsche under his pillow. 17:36 It was the heart of the Nazi system. 17:39 The communists in Russia... 17:41 Listen to this, my friend. 17:43 And in China were ardent atheist, 17:46 ardent evolutionists. 17:48 And I believe this caused the greatest deaths 17:51 in the history of the human race. 17:54 The greatest wars in history, Pol Pot was an atheist. 17:58 No God, no purpose, no meaning. 18:02 If God is destroyed, then man also is destroyed. 18:07 And it seems to me that in America 18:09 and in Australia and in another parts of the world today, 18:12 people have lost hope 18:14 and they have lost purpose in living. 18:16 Could you comment on that? 18:17 Well, I think 18:19 that's a very powerful statement that's there. 18:21 I wrote it. 18:23 Well, it's very powerful, 18:24 but it's absolutely true in my opinion, 18:27 that is why, you know, 18:29 I'm personally troubled by the theory of evolution. 18:32 Me too. 18:33 Because if life's origin and life's history 18:35 can be explained exclusively through evolutionary means, 18:38 there's no need for God. 18:40 And as you point out, when there's no need for God, 18:42 then what are human beings? 18:44 We're just simply the product of evolutionary processes. 18:48 We don't have any meaning. 18:50 We're no different than any other creature on this planet. 18:52 We're just simply an ephemeral entity-- 18:55 Or just another animal, no better than a frog? 18:58 That's exactly what-- 18:59 And that's what people say, you know, 19:01 we're no better than a frog. 19:02 Well, and there's whole idea of species of now today. Yes. 19:04 We're to think that human beings are somehow special 19:07 is, is an upfront to many people. 19:10 How could you-- 19:11 They would say, make human beings special 19:13 versus these other creatures 19:15 who were no better or no worse. 19:16 Well, that just undermines as you say any kind of idea 19:20 that there's purpose in life, it undermines human dignity, 19:24 anything is permissible in that kind of a framework 19:28 and I think it's a horrendously frightening idea, 19:34 you know, that has, you know, profound implications. 19:37 Ideas have real consequences. 19:39 I'm sure you're aware of this. 19:41 When Darwin put out his idea of evolution, 19:43 it wasn't science. 19:46 He was groping in the darkness 19:48 and people like Huxley who accepted his ideas, 19:52 did so not on the basis of science, 19:55 but on the basis of what they wanted to believe. 19:58 Yeah, well, Richard Dawkins once said, 20:00 Darwinism allows me 20:02 to be an intellectually satisfied atheist. 20:04 Yes. Yeah. 20:05 And so it's as if Darwinism is co-opted to fuel 20:09 the rejection of belief in God. 20:11 Why, because if evolution can explain it, 20:13 then you don't need God. 20:15 And this is why I think it's so important for people 20:19 to realize that the case for evolution is 20:22 not strong scientifically. 20:23 No, it's not a scientific idea. 20:25 That the origin of life looks to be miraculous, 20:28 that when you look at the history of life on earth, 20:30 that looks as if there were places 20:32 where evolution just simply can't account 20:34 for what's happening in the history of life, 20:37 that you have to have divine input, 20:40 that there has to be a Creator that is intervening. 20:43 And if that's the case and it's easy for me to believe 20:46 that Creator is intervening in my own personal life. 20:48 On the basis of the evidence? On the basis of the evidence. 20:51 This is not wishful thinking. No. 20:53 This is-- this is based on the evidence. 20:54 Dawkins said during a debate with Dr. John Lennox 20:58 from Oxford University. 21:00 He said, you Christians have got faith, 21:02 we've got the evidence on our side. 21:04 You just got faith. 21:06 What he doesn't understand is this, 21:07 that our faith is built upon evidence. 21:10 I don't believe in God because I just want to believe in God, 21:12 neither do you. 21:14 I do not believe in Genesis 21:15 just because I would feel like I want to believe in Genesis. 21:18 I believe in it 21:20 because I believe the evidence supports it. 21:22 And we believe in an intelligent faith 21:25 that is based upon truth. 21:29 Was Lucy our ancestor, Doctor, 21:35 who were the hominids. 21:38 Well, the way I like to think about them as a Christian 21:40 is that these were creatures that were made by God, 21:43 that they had intelligence, they had emotional capability, 21:47 but they didn't have the image of God. 21:49 They didn't have-- They weren't spiritual beings. 21:51 That is a category reserved exclusively for human beings. 21:55 Yes, man is made in the image of God. 21:56 And that's how I think of them. 21:59 I think of them in the same vein 22:00 as I think of the great apes, chimpanzees, 22:02 orangutans and gorillas, fascinating creatures, 22:06 remarkable creatures, 22:07 but there's clearly a difference 22:08 between an ape and a human 22:10 and I think that difference is primarily 22:13 the fact that we bear God's image. 22:15 Apes don't go to church. They don't. 22:18 And there's a reason for this. 22:19 But what's interesting is that, 22:21 when you look at the behavior of the hominids, 22:22 so many people look at that behavior 22:24 has being kind of an antecedent 22:27 to what's happening with modern humans. 22:29 They see this in evolutionary terms. 22:31 But the fact of the matter is 22:32 that more then we learn about their behavior, 22:34 the creatures like Neanderthals, Homo erectus, 22:37 the more then we see, 22:38 but their behavior really is categorically 22:41 like that of the great apes. 22:42 It's not behavior that, 22:45 at anyway I think connects them 22:47 to humans in evolutionary sense. 22:48 Let me read you a statement and then I want your comment. 22:50 Professor Leakey who discovered Lucy. 22:54 He says, or he said. 22:56 "If pressed about man's ancestry, 22:58 I would have to say that 23:00 all we have is a huge question mark. 23:04 To date, there has been nothing found to truthfully purport, 23:09 as a transitional species to man, including Lucy. 23:14 If further pressed, I would have to state that 23:16 there is more evidence to suggest, 23:19 to suggest an abrupt arrival of man 23:23 rather than a gradual process of evolution." 23:28 Yeah, this is really, I think an important point. 23:31 So often times when people think 23:33 about hominid fossil record, 23:34 they think of Lucy which is about a 40% complete skeleton, 23:38 or they think of the Turkana boy 23:39 which is almost 100% complete skeleton. 23:42 Those were highly unusual, rare finds. 23:45 Most of the hominid fossils are partial skulls, 23:49 teeth, jaw bones. 23:51 Then often times they are damaged 23:53 and they are deformed and nobody knows 23:55 how many species existed of the hominids. 23:58 Nobody knows how the hominids 23:59 would have been connected to each other 24:01 in evolutionary terms. 24:03 Most of the hominids that people traditionally think of 24:05 as part of the ascent of man Lucy and The Handy Man 24:10 and the Peking man, and Neanderthals 24:12 are acknowledged by evolutionary biologists 24:14 to be dead end since high branches. 24:16 Nobody knows the pathway 24:18 from some kind of a legit ancestor to modern humans. 24:22 The area of research in anthropologies in total chaos. 24:27 Yes, it is. 24:28 Every time there's a new find, 24:30 it always rewrites human evolution. 24:32 Well, that tells me that nothing in that whole area 24:36 is scientifically concerned. 24:38 No, no, no, it's wishful thinking. Yeah. 24:40 It's a religion. Yes. 24:42 And all religions have their-- 24:44 Well, most religions have some crazy ideas 24:47 that are built upon faith and supposition 24:50 and wishful thinking. 24:52 It is true that those who believe in evolution. 24:56 We say this was courtesy, Christian courtesy. 24:59 Darwin taught that the geological column 25:02 was the ultimate proof of evolution. 25:04 He says, you're gonna see it in the rocks. 25:06 Are they missing links? 25:08 Are they transitional species? 25:11 You know this is something that's interesting 25:12 because when Darwin wrote Origins of Species, 25:15 he had a couple of chapters 25:16 devoted to potential problems with his theory. Yes. 25:19 And one of them was the fossil record. 25:21 In Darwin's day, 25:22 the fossil record didn't show gradual evolutionary change, 25:27 it showed sudden appearances of groups 25:29 followed by no change or stasis. 25:32 And Darwin thought, well, give us more time, 25:35 we'll collect more fossils 25:36 and these missing links will be filed in. 25:38 The fact of the matter is that's not the case. 25:40 The same pattern... That's not the case? 25:42 The same patterns that Darwin saw 25:44 on the fossil record of the same patterns 25:46 that we recognize today. 25:48 No transitions? Very few. 25:50 If anything that could be considered even a transition. 25:53 And when innovation happens in the history of life, 25:56 it happens explosively. 25:58 The queen mother of all examples 26:00 would be the Cambrian explosion. 26:02 When animals first appear on the planet, 26:04 they appear explosively in a geological instant. 26:08 And there's a radiation for mammals, 26:11 there's a radiation for birds. 26:13 In fact a couple of bird radiations, 26:15 there's radiations for reptiles and amphibians and for fish. 26:18 Every time innovation happens, it happens explosively. 26:22 And that to me is exactly what I would expect 26:25 the geological column 26:26 to look like if God is involved in creating. 26:29 This thing suddenly would appear 26:31 in their full range of diversity, 26:33 and that's what we see in the fossil record. 26:36 Tell me this because our program is coming to a close. 26:39 You believe in Christ? I sure do. 26:42 You believe in the Bible? I sure do. 26:44 Do you believe that a person, ordinary person like me 26:48 and the people watching our television program, 26:50 do you believe that ordinary people 26:52 gonna have a relationship with God? 26:54 Of course. Yeah. 26:55 I most certainly believe that. 26:57 I have a relationship with Jesus Christ 27:00 and I'm so grateful for His life, 27:02 death and resurrection 27:04 because that's the means by which I have salvation. 27:06 And you're a scientist? I'm a scientist. 27:09 And you believe in God? I believe in God. 27:11 And you don't believe in evolution? 27:14 I'm very skeptical of the evolutionary paradigm. 27:17 But you do believe in the text, in the Bible that says, 27:20 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." 27:23 I not only believe it, but I think 27:24 that there's scientific evidence 27:26 that supports the idea that the universe had a beginning. 27:28 And you also believe the text that says, 27:31 God said, "Let us make man in our own image." 27:34 Yeah, I believe that, 27:36 that we're special creations in God's image 27:39 to be in a relationship with Him. 27:41 And even though we messed that up 27:42 in the form that God has gone through great lengths 27:45 to restore that relationship to the person of Christ. 27:49 And I think there's powerful scientific evidence 27:51 that supports belief in God and mankind's special status. 27:55 And at this stage of the program I can say, amen. 27:59 You've been watching Dr. Faz Rana 28:01 from Reasons to Believe. 28:03 We believe that God made us 28:05 and we came from the hand of God. 28:07 Please write to me, John Carter, 28:09 Post Office Box 1900, Thousand Oaks, California. 28:12 In Australia you can write to me 28:13 at the address on the screen at Terrigal. 28:16 Also remember this, God made you, 28:20 Christ died for you, God loves you. 28:23 And until next time God bless you 28:25 and thank you for watching this program today. |
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