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Program Code: CR001805A
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00:03 Science teaches that facts are superior to superstition,
00:07 John Carter agrees. 00:09 In the following program, 00:11 he presents 10 top reasons why God exists. 00:14 No superstition, just facts. 00:20 Young man goes to university, he comes from a Christian home. 00:25 And when he is in his first class on science, 00:30 the professor says, 00:32 "I want to see the hands of those 00:34 who believe in God in the class." 00:38 Nobody moves. 00:40 Everybody is sort of terrified, 00:42 but he comes from a Christian home, 00:45 and he puts up his hand. 00:48 And for the next 60 minutes, 00:53 he is the butt of every joke. 00:59 And that's why so, 01:01 so many young people give up their Christian faith 01:07 because they believe, it's against the facts. 01:12 I want to say right now 01:15 that I believe in true science. 01:20 And I believe in the facts. 01:24 They ridicule him for an hour or so, 01:26 it happens in every class, 01:28 he's made to feel like 01:32 the village idiot. 01:38 And then the professor challenges him 01:42 to a debate. 01:46 They're going to get the best professor on the campus 01:49 who is an atheist who is going to 01:53 chew him up and spit him out. 01:58 And I will tell you what happened 02:00 at the close of this program today. 02:03 Here is a statement I want to read to you 02:05 from Dr. Will Provine, 02:08 Professor of Biological Sciences 02:12 at Cornell University. 02:14 One of America's great universities. 02:19 He made this statement during a debate 02:21 at the great Stanford University 02:23 up the road. 02:25 Listen to the statement. 02:29 "There are no Gods, no purposes, 02:34 no goal directed forces of any kind. 02:40 There is no life after death, when I die, 02:43 I am absolutely certain that I am going to be dead. 02:49 That's the end for me. 02:51 There is no ultimate foundation for ethics." 02:55 Did you hear this? 02:56 No ultimate foundation for ethics. 02:58 Of course, he's right. 03:01 If there is no God, 03:03 there is no foundation for ethics. 03:06 Because if there is no God, there is no good. 03:10 Now this man is completely logical. 03:13 "There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, 03:16 no ultimate meaning to life, 03:19 no free will for humans, either." 03:25 Of course, he's right. 03:30 Is this thing between my ears is the product... 03:35 Now listen carefully. 03:37 If it's a product of time 03:38 plus matter plus chance, 03:43 then why should I trust it? 03:46 Why should I trust his conclusions? 03:50 And why should he? 03:53 If he is right, then nothing can be known, 03:59 including his beliefs. 04:03 Now today, 04:06 I want to give you the top 10 reasons 04:10 you can believe in God 04:12 and not be an idiot. 04:17 Top 10 reasons you can believe in God. 04:19 Number one reason, science and the universe. 04:22 And firstly, let me say this, 04:25 I believe in true science. 04:31 I believe in the facts. 04:35 I do not believe, 04:37 this is where I might disagree even here with the audience. 04:40 I do not believe in mere faith. 04:46 I do not believe in faith in faith. 04:52 I believe in faith 04:56 in the facts. 05:00 And let me talk firstly about science and the universe. 05:05 The most important statement 05:07 that was ever made 05:08 in the history of this cosmos 05:11 is Genesis 1:1, 05:15 which says in the beginning 05:16 God created the heavens and the earth. 05:19 Let me tell you 05:21 why it's the most important statement, 05:22 why it is the most scientific statement. 05:27 Einstein who gave us the theory of relativity, 05:31 believed with virtually every scientist in the world 05:36 that the universe had always been there. 05:41 This has a name in science, 05:43 it is called the Steady State Theory. 05:47 Einstein believed in the eternity of matter, 05:50 all scientists did. 05:54 But Professor Hubble 05:56 after which the telescope is named 06:00 on one occasion met with Professor Einstein 06:04 and showed him some photographs. 06:08 And the photographs showed the red shift in the galaxies, 06:15 that means that the galaxies are exploding out into space. 06:20 These pictures from Dr. Hubble 06:24 convinced the great professor Einstein 06:28 that the universe was expanding. 06:33 If the universe is expanding, 06:37 therefore, the universe had a beginning. 06:42 Thus listen, my skeptical friend, 06:48 the Bible was right, 06:50 and Einstein and all his colleagues were wrong. 06:54 The Bible is the only book 06:58 that taught 07:00 that the universe had a beginning. 07:02 Scientists call it the Big Bang. 07:07 Now I come to the anthropic principle. 07:12 This is widely used today by all scientists. 07:17 Anthropic comes from the Greek word anthropikos. 07:23 Anthropikos means man, anthropology. 07:27 Listen carefully, this is pretty solid material, 07:30 I'm giving you simply facts. 07:35 Scientists today, every one of them 07:38 including Richard Dawkins 07:40 believes that the whole universe 07:43 is so constructed 07:47 so that human beings can exist. 07:51 Do atheists believe this? Absolutely. 07:54 Everybody who is a scholar understands 07:57 the anthropic principle 07:58 that means that everything in the universe was made, 08:03 the purpose of it all is for the existence of man. 08:07 A millisecond after the Big Bang 08:09 or the moment of creation four forces came into being, 08:14 these four forces had not existed 08:16 before the point of creation. 08:19 Now we're not talking about this world, 08:21 we're talking about the universe. 08:23 The universe came into being 13.8 billion years ago. 08:28 How do you know? It's a fact. 08:30 It can be observed. It is the truth. 08:35 It is the truth. 08:36 Four forces came into being. 08:39 The strong nuclear force, the weak nuclear force, 08:43 electromagnetism, and gravity. 08:45 These forces had never existed before. 08:48 Listen to this. 08:50 Universe is born 13.8 billion years ago. 08:56 These four forces come into being, 08:58 if they had been 09:01 out of sync, out of balance. 09:07 Look at this. 09:08 Is it possible to believe this? 09:11 If these forces had been out of sync and... 09:16 I'm going to try to give you the figure. 09:20 Here it is. 09:22 One quadrillionth of one quadrillionth 09:26 of one quadrillionth of one quadrillionth 09:30 of one quadrillionth of 1%, 09:35 the universe would have exploded or imploded. 09:38 And there would be no meeting here today. 09:41 There would have been no universe. 09:45 This is why many atheists 09:50 have said this could not 09:52 have happened by itself. 09:56 This has to be evidence 09:59 for a tremendous mind. 10:04 If I say to you today, 10:06 "I want you to move your chair 10:10 by a billionth of an inch, 10:13 and if you miss it 10:16 you're going to be destroyed, 10:19 it will be your end." 10:20 You would say, "I can't do it." 10:25 The universe is balanced in every area 10:29 the anthropic principle one quadrillionth 10:33 by one quadrillionth by one quadrillionth 10:35 by one quadrillionth by one quadrillionth. 10:41 How did it happen? 10:43 Now I have some atheist friends and I respect them. 10:47 Now we're not trying to talk personalities, 10:50 we are talking facts. 10:54 Someone was in charge. 10:56 Professor Antony Flew was a famous atheist 11:00 in the same status as the great professor, 11:05 the Englishman Richard Dawkins. 11:09 "I do not believe in God," he said. 11:11 "It's all mystery, hocus-pocus, smoke and mirrors." 11:16 But in 2004, he surrendered to the evidence 11:20 and he wrote a book entitled, 11:23 There is a God. 11:27 He had written a book, There is No God. 11:30 One of the greatest atheist in the world 11:34 but an honest man, 11:36 he came in out of the code. 11:41 There's a mysterious force in the universe, 11:43 some of you have heard about it, 11:44 and some of you haven't. 11:47 It is called dark matter and dark energy. 11:50 Most Christians are oblivious to these truths. 11:54 I said do have shame. 11:57 More than 90% of the universe 11:59 is composed of dark matter and dark energy 12:02 that nobody comprehends or understand or even seen it, 12:06 we know it's there because of its force. 12:09 Dark energy drives 12:11 the expansion of the universe 12:15 at just the right speed. 12:18 It is incredibly fine tuned, any faster or any slower, 12:23 there would be no planet earth, 12:25 and you would not be here either. 12:29 I want you to think about this. 12:30 This is not easy to think about. 12:34 I want you to think of the United States of America. 12:39 We cover the United States of America 12:42 with dimes a foot deep, 12:47 but then we go to the moon. 12:51 Dimes to the moon. 12:53 And then we do it with another 12:56 bunch of United States of America, 12:59 so we've got multiple United States of America 13:02 covered with dimes reaching to the moon. 13:05 How many dimes? 13:09 Billions, and billions, and trillions, and trillions, 13:12 and trillions, and trillions, and trillions... 13:15 It seems to be infinite. 13:17 And one of those dimes has got a black mark on it. 13:24 And you are told to walk out, 13:30 on one of these United States of America 13:33 covered in dimes to the moon, 13:34 and on the first go you pick out the dime 13:39 that's marked with the X. 13:44 What's chance is there of that happening? 13:51 Let me tell you, it's impossible. 13:55 In the same way, 13:56 the odds are impossible that dark energy 13:59 just happened and operates by itself. 14:04 Now, there's a gentleman whom I greatly admire, 14:06 who has come here, and I've interviewed him, 14:09 Dr. Johnson, he has two doctorates, 14:13 you can see him on one of our television programs. 14:17 Got two doctorates, one of them is in information science, 14:21 he is a genius. 14:24 He once was an atheist. 14:28 He says in information science 14:30 we know there are three scenarios, 14:33 remember, possible, 14:37 probable, impossible. 14:43 The anthropic principle gives overwhelming evidence 14:48 that there is a creator, a designer, a mastermind 14:53 because these things 14:55 could not possibly happen by themselves. 15:00 That these things could have just happened 15:05 are completely impossible. 15:11 And that is called information science. 15:15 Number two reason, information and life. 15:21 An amazing text is John 1:1, astounding. 15:26 It says, "In the beginning was the Word, 15:28 and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." 15:31 In the Greek it says in the beginning was the Logos, 15:36 and from Logos we get logic, 15:39 it means information. 15:43 Atheism says this, and the atheist needs to be 15:47 very, very honest as I must be honest. 15:49 But the atheist can be as bigoted as any religionist. 15:55 And so the atheist also has got his problems with bigotry, 15:59 which he must try to overcome. 16:01 I would say by the grace of God. 16:03 But the Bible says in the beginning 16:06 was the Logos or information. 16:09 You know what atheism says, "In the beginning was chaos." 16:14 Total chaos that came out of nothing. 16:17 And from total chaos came information. 16:21 But the Bible says, "No, life and everything 16:25 came from the Logos, from the information." 16:28 Listen to this, think about this. 16:31 In the human body, 16:34 there are 300 trillion cells, 16:40 each cell is full of digital information. 16:45 Did Darwin know this? No, he didn't have a clue. 16:47 He thought it was just a blob. 16:50 Look at this book here, 16:52 this is a book of a 1,000 pages. 16:59 The information that is found in a single cell 17:02 that is so small that you cannot see. 17:06 Listen to this, young people. 17:07 Listen to this, my dear atheist friend. 17:10 In every cell there is a digital information 17:14 that would be contained 17:18 in a book of a 1,000 pages 17:22 and a 100,000 of these. 17:28 It's incredible. 17:29 A 100,000 books, each book of a 1,000 pages 17:35 and that is the information 17:36 that is put inside a cell. 17:43 Remember, possible, 17:47 probable, impossible. 17:50 Darwin had no idea. 17:52 It is impossible, that this happened by chance. 17:56 There is only one possible explanation, 17:59 in the beginning it was the Word. 18:02 The Word was with God, 18:04 and the Word was God. 18:06 Number three reason, 18:08 number three. 18:09 The mathematical odds. 18:13 There is only one pure science, 18:17 only one pure science, 18:18 not biology or any of those things, 18:21 it is mathematics. 18:24 The mathematical odds, the chance 18:27 that something happens by itself, 18:30 the likelihood of the spontaneous formation 18:33 of life from inanimate matter, 18:38 the chance that life 18:40 and the cell with all that tremendous information 18:44 that it could have a reason by itself 18:48 can be mathematically calculated. 18:52 Did you know this? 18:53 And the figure is 1 with 40,000 zeros after it. 19:03 Do you know how many atoms there are in the universe? 19:07 Ten with eighty zeros. 19:13 So is it possible? 19:15 No, it's not possible. 19:18 Is it probable? No, it's not probable. 19:21 Is it impossible? 19:22 It is totally impossible, 19:24 and I'm talking from a scientific viewpoint, 19:27 not from a religious viewpoint, 19:30 not from a biblical viewpoint. 19:35 What about science now? 19:37 The mathematical odds completely against it. 19:42 Now there is a famous atheist today in the world 19:47 who has tremendous influence 19:50 puts out heaps and heaps and heaps of books. 19:53 Who was a tremendous debater 19:56 but he seems to be consumed with a hatred for God. 20:02 He said, "I don't believe in God." 20:04 And he spends all his time talking about God. 20:10 What's wrong? 20:13 Well, I happened to know that this little boy 20:15 was brought up in a certain church, 20:18 and he was abused by a priest. 20:24 The hatred of God is a hatred of the priest, 20:27 and the hatred of the church, 20:29 and it's projected against God. 20:34 Possible, probable, impossible. 20:43 Top 10, number four, here it comes. 20:48 And I want to appeal to those who still believe in thinking, 20:51 who believe that truth matters, and who are not so bigoted 20:55 that they won't think a new idea. 20:58 Many Christians have never thought 21:00 a new idea in 50 years. 21:05 Their minds are completely closed. 21:07 They find it impossible to think new ideas. 21:12 And there are plenty of scientists the same. 21:15 Because atheism is a religion just the same as Christianity. 21:22 Now, I personally believes in the Bible. 21:27 Let me tell you just a few things. 21:30 I didn't always have an understanding of truth. 21:33 I set out as the young man to understand truth. 21:37 I visited all the Bible lands not once 21:39 but over and over again. 21:42 I studied under the great German archeologist 21:45 Dr. Siegfried Horn. 21:48 Let me give you... 21:49 I could give you a 100 illustrations, 21:52 I promise you, I could give you a 100 illustrations. 21:56 I meet atheists, met them by the thousands in Russia 22:00 and they say, "You can't believe it." 22:04 How on earth would they know? 22:07 The truth of the matter is they don't know. 22:11 Let me give you these four examples. 22:15 The Bible says Israel went down into Egypt 22:19 and they became slaves. 22:21 Not long ago, I was in the land of the pharaohs. 22:24 I went into the tomb... 22:26 I think it was Rekhmire. 22:30 And there you can see the Semite slaves in Egypt 22:35 at the time of the Exodus being beaten by the Egyptians. 22:42 It's history, it is not a fairytale. 22:45 Number two, Belshazzar's tablet. 22:50 Book of Daniel talks about Belshazzar 22:52 as being the last king of the Babylonians. 22:56 The atheists said, there you go again. 22:59 It's another lie because we know 23:01 from secular historians the last king of Babylonian 23:04 was Nabonidus. 23:07 Thank you. 23:09 But then this tablet was discovered 23:14 in the cuneiform, and I've seen it with my eyes, 23:18 I've looked at it, and it talks about Nabonidus 23:24 and his son Belshazzar. 23:29 And so Belshazzar took over the kingdom, 23:32 Nabonidus retired. 23:33 The Bible was right. 23:37 The skeptic was wrong. 23:39 It's okay to admit you're wrong when you're wrong. 23:42 The Bible talks about King Jehu. 23:48 So many skeptics said, there they go again. 23:52 The Jehu, a figment of the imagination, 23:56 and then we discovered this Jehu kneeling down 24:00 before Shalmaneser. 24:02 These are just... 24:04 "You've just concocted it." 24:05 No, I could show you hundreds, and hundreds, 24:10 and hundreds of examples. 24:13 If you want to get into scholarship, 24:15 go and read the writings of Kenneth Kitchen. 24:20 The greatest scholar in the world 24:24 where he almost laughs at people who say, 24:27 "You can't believe the Bible." 24:31 King David is mentioned in this Bible 24:33 on many occasions. 24:37 But skeptics have said, there was no King David, 24:41 it's a fantasy. 24:43 I was over in Israel not that very long ago, 24:47 went into this museum in Jerusalem, 24:50 and they showed me a brand new archeological discovery, 24:55 they showed me this tablet. 24:58 And the tablet had been discovered by a person 25:01 who did not believe in King David. 25:06 And there written down 25:09 are the words David. 25:14 You see, been to Egypt, 25:17 explored the pharaohs, 25:21 I've been to all the great archaeological sites. 25:25 Why do I believe? 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