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00:04 - Welcome, everyone. 00:05 We're excited to share some country wisdom with you. 00:07 - King Solomon had a thing or two to say 00:09 about the path to wisdom. 00:11 In Proverbs four he wrote, 00:13 "Let your eyes look directly forward 00:16 and your gaze be straight before you. 00:19 Keep straight the path of your feet 00:21 and all your ways will be sure." 00:23 - Join us now for "Country Wisdom". 00:25 (light music) 00:32 (gentle music) 00:36 Can you see this? 00:37 Look at this. 00:38 All of that granite, slowly over time, 00:41 had fallen off of that top of that mountain. 00:44 Millions of years, and after 69 million years, 00:47 voila, this is what we have. 00:50 But wait a second, 00:51 does that really make sense? 00:53 But that's what many scientists would have us believe. 00:55 You just add more time and more time to anything 00:58 and it can happen. 01:01 You know, I had an acquaintance at Dr. Gentry 01:03 who did studies on granite, 01:05 that whole mountain is granite, 01:06 and he found isotope halos of polonium 218, 01:11 in particular halo had half life of three minutes. 01:15 There he found that the granite had cooled so rapidly 01:18 it captured those halos. 01:20 What does that mean? 01:21 Well, it means that the scientist 01:23 can't be right with millions and millions 01:25 and millions of years, 01:28 but God can when he spoke everything into existence. 01:31 (gentle music) 01:42 - I have heard you tell some pretty wild stories, 01:45 but that is just absurd. 01:46 - Well, that's exactly it. 01:48 You have to use the absurd 01:49 to try and get people to stop and think, 01:52 could it really happen? 01:56 Does a Boeing 747 just come together? 01:58 (both laugh) 01:59 - You know, there's completely, 02:01 well not completely a different topic, 02:03 but I can remember at different points in my life, 02:07 like even back in high school Biology, 02:09 realizing there are some major holes 02:12 in this whole Darwinian theory. 02:14 And one of them I, to this day, 02:16 have never heard a decent explanation of 02:19 is how, with the gradual little steps, 02:24 would you ever end up with male and female? 02:27 Because unless you have a conscious nature 02:31 that you just don't wanna call God 02:35 you would have to know as you're, 02:37 you know, over millions of years developing a female, 02:41 somebody has to be aware that there's a male over here 02:44 otherwise what's the point? 02:45 - That is a good point, yeah. 02:48 - The two really have to be fully formed, complete, 02:51 before they're gonna do each other any good. 02:54 So that just never made sense to me. 02:57 That, oh, they just developed. 03:00 And if, according to evolution, 03:03 really our whole purpose in life, 03:05 if there is a purpose to a randomly produced life, 03:10 it would be just to get our genes passed on, right? 03:13 I'm sure you've heard that. - Yeah, yeah. 03:15 - Well, wouldn't it have been much more efficient 03:18 if we were all just hermaphrodites? 03:21 I remember having my first little aquarium 03:23 when I was a kid and my dad said, 03:25 "Well, we need to buy a snail to put in the aquarium 03:28 to help keep it clean." 03:29 And one day, there was a little snail in there. 03:32 And I'm going, "Where did that come from?" 03:34 So my dad explained to me that, 03:36 I don't know if all snails are hermaphrodites 03:38 but this one was, and it's like, 03:40 oh yeah, you only need one and it'll produce by itself. 03:43 Isn't that what evolution should have done? 03:45 Because it's so much more efficient. 03:47 If your whole purpose is reproduce, 03:51 then why should you be dependent on someone else? 03:55 - Because according to evolution, 03:57 everything is always getting better 03:59 and better and better in producing 04:01 some higher form. - Something more 04:02 and more complicated. 04:03 - And more complex. 04:04 - I don't know if you've read this book 04:05 but I remember another big turning point for me, 04:07 Michael Behe's book, "Darwin's Black Box". 04:12 In that, there were sections I had to read 04:14 two or three times 04:16 because it was meant more for scientists. 04:19 And he wasn't even coming at it 04:21 from a perspective of being a Christian. 04:23 He's a scientist, what kind? 04:26 Microbiologist, something like that. 04:28 And he said, okay, Darwin, back in his day, 04:31 it was easy enough to look under a microscope 04:34 and see these cells look like just little blobs. 04:37 It was easy enough to go, 04:38 "Well, that's just a simple cell. 04:39 It could have arisen from primordial stew." 04:42 But we know now cells are anything but simple. 04:46 He talks about all the systems within a cell, 04:50 including - [Jim] Yeah. 04:52 - [Janice] an entire waste removal system, 04:54 without which the cell would die. 04:56 - Now that we've mapped the human genome, 04:59 Darwin would just- 05:01 - It just keeps getting more and more complicated 05:03 than - Exactly. 05:03 - the deeper you look. 05:05 And he said this could not have happened 05:07 on a gradual step-by-step basis 05:09 because you need that whole system 05:12 for the cell to function. 05:14 - Yeah. 05:15 - And if you were taking millions of years 05:17 tiny little steps, 05:18 how would nature know to select for something like that 05:22 until it was complete? 05:23 - Yeah. 05:24 - It had to be all at once. 05:26 - It's so interesting because everywhere we turn 05:29 there's evidence for creation as opposed to evolution. 05:33 - That's what I meant when I said 05:34 God doesn't just ask us to go on blind faith. 05:38 I know the phrase, "God said it, I believe it, 05:40 that settles it." 05:42 Ultimately it comes down to that. 05:44 If there's something you don't understand, 05:47 rather than saying, "God must be wrong here 05:49 'cause this is not making sense to me. 05:51 This isn't logical." 05:52 I have learned that it makes a lot more sense spiritually 05:56 to go, okay, I don't understand it, 05:58 but there's gotta be a reason 06:00 or God wouldn't have done it this way. 06:02 So you might need to get to that point at some point, 06:05 but there is so much evidence. 06:07 He's not asking us to believe 06:09 that He created everything on blind faith. 06:12 - Very true, very true. 06:13 And I had the privilege one time 06:15 of having Dr. Harold Coffin stay at our home. 06:19 He wrote "Creation: Accident Or Design". 06:21 I can remember in there talking about the human eye, 06:25 - [Janice] Oh, right. - [Jim] that complexity 06:26 of the human eye. - [Janice] Right. 06:27 - [Jim] But an exciting thing he was doing at that time 06:29 was studying Mount St. Helen. 06:31 Many years ago, but you remember, 06:32 Mount St. Helen- - [Janice] Yes, 06:33 I've been there. 06:34 Oh, it's incredible to stand there, 06:36 and years later, to look at the damage that that caused. 06:40 - And he was going year after year and study, 06:42 and he noticed in Spirit Lake 06:43 there used to be this gorgeous lake. 06:44 All of a sudden, here was all this logs 06:47 had washed in the lake and pretty soon their water logging 06:49 because they had their entire root mass 06:51 still intact with the tree with just no limbs. 06:55 They would upright themselves, 06:57 and pretty soon they begin sinking. 06:59 He decided to dive one year, went in there, 07:01 and here's all these successional layers of forest 07:04 laid down over millions of years. 07:06 But wait a second. (Janice laughs) 07:07 - We know when that happened. 07:09 - Yeah, it was only just a few years. 07:11 And then he came back one year 07:12 and all of a sudden this earth and dam kind of mud 07:15 had broken out and here is a mini Grand Canyon. 07:19 The whole thing 07:20 right there. - [Janice] A brand new canyon. 07:21 - [Jim] A brand new canyon with all the strata, 07:22 all the layers, all the levels. 07:24 And you think, "Ah, Grand Canyon, 07:27 could it have happened in just a short time?" 07:29 Yes, they could. 07:31 - Because until Mount St. Helen's scientists 07:34 would not have said that could happen in one day. 07:36 - Not at all. 07:37 And it's interesting too, 07:38 because he's got permission to do core samples 07:39 in some of today's petrified forest 07:41 that they say were laid down over millennial time. 07:44 Guess what? 07:46 Not the case. 07:47 All one forest, all one age of forest. 07:49 - You took the core samples and genetically 07:51 all those trees are the same. 07:52 - Same, yeah. 07:53 Same forest. 07:55 - Pretty good evidence. 07:56 - Now, another interesting thing, 07:57 and I know we kinda wanna wrap up this section 07:59 'cause I think you wanted to go do something. 08:01 - Yes! (Jim chuckles) 08:02 So hurry. 08:03 - Okay, but Darwin, he kept saying, 08:05 "Oh, we'll find more links. 08:07 We'll find more things in the future that'll corroborate." 08:10 Well, let me read to you what one fellow says 08:14 from Harvard University taught at John Hopkins. 08:17 He said, "Well, we are now about 120 years after Darwin 08:21 and knowledge of the fossil record 08:23 has been greatly expanded. 08:24 We now have a quarter of a million fossils, 08:27 probably even more now, various species, 08:29 but the situation hasn't changed much." 08:32 - [Janice] What situation? 08:33 - [Jim] "The record of evolution 08:34 is still surprisingly jerky 08:36 and ironically, we have even fewer examples 08:39 of evolutionary transitions than we had in Darwin's time." 08:44 - Still haven't found that missing link. 08:45 - Still haven't found that missing link. 08:47 But let's go check out what you want. 08:49 - We get to go to the zoo? 08:50 - We're going to go to the zoo. 08:51 - All right. 08:52 (light music) 09:01 So, you let me come to the zoo. 09:03 - [Jim] We got to the zoo. - I know, I know. 09:05 Look at these guys. 09:06 Isn't that evidence of evolution? 09:09 - [Jim] You mean because there's a horse and a zebra 09:12 that bred together? 09:14 - Yeah. - [Jim] No. 09:15 - It's a new creature. 09:15 It's still a hoof dam. 09:17 - It's a new creature. 09:18 (Jim laughs) 09:19 - That's a stretch. 09:19 And see, that's the way it is. 09:21 You look at these guys, you can breed cats with cats, 09:24 you can breed a tiger and a lion, right? 09:26 You get a liger. - [Janice] Right. 09:28 - They've done it. 09:29 But you can't breed a dog and a cat. 09:32 - Not the way we've ever figured out how to do. 09:35 - Not the how, because kind, 09:36 which is basically the family, 09:39 kind is this major covering. 09:41 I mean, I could work a long time, 09:44 probably longer in my lifetime anyway, 09:46 and I could get a, what would you say 09:49 from Great Dane to a Chihuahua? 09:53 - [Janice] Well, I don't think that's evolution. 09:55 That would be devolution. 09:57 (Jim laughs) 09:58 - Well now you're just- 09:59 - You know, you're going backwards there. 10:01 - But it's micro evolution. 10:03 If you look at from the standpoint of creating 10:06 a new "species" or whatever, 10:08 it's still all part of it. 10:10 By the way, - [Janice] That's- 10:11 - I've gotta interrupt just for a sec because I- 10:13 - You interrupt me all the time. 10:15 - I do. - What else to do? 10:16 - I caught you on a little something. 10:18 When we talked about the rings or the trees, 10:20 you said something a little bit different 10:21 about genetics of the tree. 10:23 Eh, really in genetics, it's kind of 10:25 the age rings of the tree. 10:26 - Or I was an English major, not a Biology major. 10:29 - There you go. - But as long as we're 10:31 on that pointing out. 10:32 You said a doctor at John Hopkins. 10:35 It's Johns 10:37 Hopkins. - Johns. Yeah okay. 10:38 - So there, we're even. 10:39 - We're corrected and we're even. 10:40 All right, all right. (Janice laughs) 10:42 - But this point is great because when people say, 10:44 I believe in evolution, 10:45 you really need to find out what they mean by that. 10:48 Because all of us believe in evolution. 10:51 I have a little herd of longhaired Doxies at home. 10:54 - That's truth, too. 10:55 Real truth. (laughs) - I know. 10:57 And they're adorable, 10:58 but they were not on the ark. 11:01 Only because Noah, if he'd known about them 11:03 he would've included them because they're so adorable. 11:06 But that's a new breed that didn't used to exist, 11:10 but they're dogs. 11:11 So yes, I believe in microevolution, 11:15 but there's still dogs. 11:16 There's no evidence of macroevolution. 11:19 - It's the dog kind, 11:20 right? - Yes. 11:21 - And that's what God said to take on the ark, the kinds. 11:25 And that's why the ark big enough to fit everything on it. 11:28 - And I've had people say to me, 11:30 "You don't believe in evolution. 11:32 What about the fossil record?" 11:34 And my response is, "What about it?" 11:37 - Yeah. (Janice laughs) 11:39 It wasn't too long ago they discovered 11:41 the Burgess Shale up in Canada. 11:43 - Okay, I've heard, 11:44 okay, Canada. - Burgess Shale. 11:45 - I couldn't quite place it. 11:46 - Massive, massive discovery of all these 11:49 different animals in different layers of rock. 11:52 And guess what? 11:53 After this massive discovery, 11:56 there's still no links. 11:58 A trilobite, through the layers, 12:00 is still a trilobite. 12:02 It just kinda keeps on going and going. 12:04 In China, they found an area way bigger 12:07 than the Burgess Shale 12:09 and everything they've discovered, 12:11 there's no missing links. 12:12 The links are still missing. 12:13 Why? Because there aren't any links. 12:15 The family tree that God created 12:18 is this multi-branch tree here, 12:20 not this one little thing over here, 12:23 some place that goes and then branches 12:25 and branches and branches. 12:26 That didn't the way God made it. 12:27 - Or this branch died out. 12:29 You know, because it was all God's part of His plan 12:32 that most of them would die out, 12:34 is He's working toward creation. 12:36 - And another thing, I know we don't have much time left, 12:39 but a pet thing is God just didn't create stuff 12:42 and then set it on its own, out in eternity, 12:44 and let us fend for ourself. 12:46 - You're not a deist? - No. 12:48 We serve a loving God who cares for us 12:50 and wants to be involved in our life. 12:52 - Very much so. 12:54 - Yeah. 12:55 Glad I got you here to the zork and the zonkies land. 12:58 - Zork? (laughs) - Zork. 13:01 - Read the sign, Jim. 13:02 - Read the sign. - Read the sign, okay. 13:03 (Janice laughs) Well, it's close. 13:05 - Zonky and zorse. 13:06 - Zonky and zorse. 13:06 Yeah, that was close. 13:07 (Janice laughs) 13:10 (soft music) 13:10 During my college years, 13:12 I became a staunch evolutionist. 13:14 I was convinced that we all arose 13:15 from some primordial lose. 13:17 I bought into every argument 13:19 that my professor set before me. 13:21 (chuckles) It wasn't until years later 13:23 that I really realized 13:25 there are actually credible arguments 13:27 for intelligent design. 13:29 I have a pamphlet I think you'll enjoy. 13:30 It's called "Evolution Impossible". 13:33 If your story is like mine, 13:34 go to TalkingDonkeyInternational.org 13:37 for your free copy today 13:38 and request offer number 104. 13:41 "Evolution Impossible". 13:45 (soft music) 13:46 - I have really loved being here at the Ark Encounter. 13:48 I'm not tired of it yet. 13:52 I'm especially glad, as we've gone around, 13:55 we keep hearing some great music 13:56 because we happen to be here, 13:58 we picked good timing. 13:59 - We did. 14:01 - Happened to be here during their 14:02 very cleverly named 40 Days and 40 Nights of Gospel Music. 14:06 And I know that I either read or someone told me, 14:09 largest gospel music festival ever. 14:13 - I know a lot of times we can hear the music 14:15 while we're filming. 14:16 - I know, I know. - It's pretty cool. 14:17 - It's hard to concentrate. 14:18 You have to keep, 'cause I'm going, 14:18 ooh, that's pretty toe tapping. 14:19 Who's that now? 14:21 And I've really enjoyed that, 14:23 but we're not here just to be entertained. 14:26 We are not here just to have a good time, 14:28 although we are. 14:30 I brought up a text here that I wanted to read to you 14:33 that is just so appropriate. 14:36 It's in Genesis 14:38 and it's Genesis 6:11-13. 14:42 "Now the earth was corrupt in God's sight 14:45 and was full of violence." 14:47 Sound familiar? 14:48 That part's not in there. 14:50 "God saw how corrupt the earth had become, 14:53 for all the people on earth had corrupted their ways. 14:56 So God said to Noah, 14:58 'I'm going to put an end to all people, 15:01 for the earth is filled with violence because of them. 15:04 I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth." 15:09 We've talked about before, 15:10 that's why Noah had to build the ark 15:14 because the Earth was full of violence. 15:17 But here's the question, 15:18 might be kind of rhetorical in your case 15:21 but not rhetorical for everybody who's here today. 15:24 Because a lot of people have come just out of curiosity, 15:27 who aren't convinced that it's a real story. 15:31 So it's really important. 15:34 Do you believe in Noah and The Flood? 15:38 - [Jim] It is interesting, Janice, 15:40 when you look at this, 15:41 they built this from the ark. 15:45 From the Bible, this is a pattern that they follow. 15:49 - [Jim] God told them how to build it. 15:50 It just wasn't some idea that Noah had. 15:52 - [Jim] And here it is over 500 feet long. 15:54 Now there's some discrepancy about exactly how long. 15:57 Some of the people maybe looking, 15:59 they're looking in their Bible and said, 16:00 "Well, it was 485 feet or something." 16:03 The difference was, you know- 16:04 - Did you know there were different cubits? 16:06 (Janice laughs) - Yeah. 16:07 - I don't remember that from Math class way back when. 16:09 - Because it's from the tip of your finger to your elbow. 16:12 And that was the length. - And my cubit 16:13 would be a lot. 16:14 My cubit's less than your cubit. 16:16 - [Jim] Unfortunately, I gotta say this, don't hit me. 16:18 It was a man's arm. 16:20 But there was also a royal cubit. 16:22 - [Janice] They were a king's arm. 16:24 - [Jim] King's arm and a little bit different. 16:26 And Moses actually, where did he come from? 16:29 - [Janice] Egypt, mostly. 16:30 - [Jim] Egypt, and his training was royalty. 16:32 So it would believe that probably 16:34 that's where the cubit came from 16:36 because he wrote about it. 16:37 So that's why this one's over 500 feet 16:40 is from that cubit. 16:42 - [Janice] You know, even if it was only 485 feet long, 16:46 it's still impressive. 16:47 - [Jim] Oh, it totally is. 16:48 - [Janice] Those extra few feet, I'm not gonna quibble. 16:51 - [Jim] Now, I've just gotta say this. 16:53 We got the wonderful privilege of going up on the top. 16:56 - [Janice] Oh, you're bragging. 16:57 (Janice laughing) - [Jim] Yeah, I kinda am. 16:58 It was so cool - [Janice] I know. 16:59 - [Jim] to get up on top. 17:01 And you think about Noah up there. 17:02 He didn't get to go up on the roof all the time, 17:05 because for a year this boat is rocking. 17:07 This ship is rocking. 17:08 - [Janice] You would've wanted to be on the roof. 17:09 - [Jim] Yeah. And you think people's come up 17:12 with all kinds of things. 17:12 Well, it couldn't be real? 17:14 And how could it hold all the animals? 17:16 Yet, there's much we'll talk a little bit about that. 17:20 - [Janice] It was one of their purposes in building it, 17:21 showing it could have been done. 17:23 - [Jim] It could have been done, yeah. 17:24 It could hold all the water. 17:25 It could hold all the food. 17:26 It could hold everything. 17:29 But I tell you, the devil doesn't want anybody to know that. 17:33 He didn't want anybody to believe in a flood. 17:35 - [Janice] You know, in fact, I don't know if you remember, 17:37 but when we were touring through inside, 17:40 there was a fabulous sign up there 17:43 and it had this snake wrapped around 17:46 like it was the frame of it. 17:48 - [Jim] Yeah. - [Janice] And it said, 17:50 "If I can convince you that the flood wasn't real, 17:56 I can convince you that heaven and hell aren't real either." 17:58 - Yep, yeah. 17:59 - Yeah, so there is a reason 18:01 why it's important to believe in Genesis. 18:04 Important to believe that if God said 18:06 there was a man named Noah, 18:07 if God said there was a flood, 18:09 if He said, "I saved this family, here's how I did it," 18:13 that you're not just viewing it as an allegory. 18:16 There's a reason. 18:18 It is important to take that literally 18:20 to understand God wasn't joking around. 18:23 He wasn't telling some little children's story. 18:25 Drives me crazy. 18:26 I know you've seen books like this. 18:28 - [Jim] Yeah. 18:29 - [Janice] Even in Christian bookstores, 18:31 maybe especially Christian bookstores 18:34 where they're appealing to little kids. 18:36 So it's cartoonish and you have an adorable little ark 18:42 and giraffe sticking their heads out this window 18:44 and the elephants out this window- 18:46 - And it's not a boat that could probably 18:47 really float either that they draw. 18:50 - No, no. 18:51 But, there's a danger in viewing Noah and the ark 18:55 in that vein. 18:56 There is a danger if that is your idea of it 19:00 rather than this kind of image. 19:02 - Jan, is the sad thing is 19:04 it's Christian parents buying their children 19:07 this kind of thing to program 19:08 that this is all just a myth. 19:10 This never really happened. 19:13 - Because if you're thinking of it 19:16 in the cutey kind of form, 19:19 it's not real. 19:21 You look at those books, 19:23 cute little story, but not real. 19:25 - It's right back to the devil in the gardens. 19:27 "Oh, you know, God really doesn't mean that. 19:30 Go ahead, take of the fruit. 19:31 It's okay." 19:33 - It goes back to where is your foundation? 19:36 Is your foundation in a real God 19:39 who does real powerful things? 19:43 I asked you, do you believe in The Flood? 19:46 I could just as easily ask you, 19:48 do you believe in a real creation? 19:51 That's just as important. 19:52 - Same thing, really. 19:53 Yeah, it's about God. 19:55 And I was thinking, I'd made a little note 19:57 'cause I didn't wanna forget this fellow. 19:59 But in 1872, George Smith basically was called 20:03 by the British Museum to come to a job. 20:06 What was the job? 20:07 Well, for years they had been doing archeology in Nineveh 20:11 and they found all these pieces of pots and stuff, 20:13 and it was just like, they couldn't make heads or tails up. 20:16 They threw it all in boxes, sent it to England. 20:19 When they got to England, 20:20 they didn't bother really packing it well 20:22 and it was little tiny pieces. - No, 20:22 Archeology has become a science, 20:25 but early on, they were destroying 20:26 some really great things. 20:28 - Oh yeah. 20:29 And so it was little teeny pieces. 20:30 And they finally thought, 20:31 maybe we should sometimes see 20:32 what all those little teeny pieces are. 20:34 So they called this guy, 20:36 he went down in the basement 20:37 and he spent 10 years in the basement. 20:40 (Janice laughs) 20:41 He put it all together and guess what it was? 20:44 It was an Assyrian story of The Flood. 20:47 It talked about The Flood. 20:48 And you and I have been in there 20:50 and they've got this beautiful mural 20:53 that shows all the different flood stories. 20:55 - [Janice] Right, from every continent. 20:57 Every continent has people on it 21:00 who had a version of a flood 21:03 and a man saving some animals and some of mankind. 21:07 - Yeah. - And when you have that 21:09 in cultures that were so divergent in location, in time, 21:16 and they're all have this hint of the same root story, 21:21 then you know there's gotta be a real root there. 21:22 - Exactly. 21:23 There's gotta be a seed in there. 21:25 And these are so blatantly 21:28 right there in your face that there was a flood 21:30 in each of these big, major continents and locations 21:32 that something's gotta be happening. 21:34 - What ties 'em all together? - Exactly. 21:35 - What's the common denominator? 21:37 Noah. (laughs) - Yeah, yeah, yeah. 21:39 Noah and God's truth, right? 21:41 - Yes. - That what it's all about. 21:42 - There's your foundation, though. 21:44 It's real. 21:45 I think I was so struck. 21:47 I already believed this. 21:49 It's why we came, we're already believers. 21:51 I already believed in a literal creation, a literal flood, 21:55 but when you park and you drive up 21:57 and you get the first glimpse, 21:59 it's like, "Oh wow. 22:01 That is not a little kid's story." 22:04 - Yeah. It's a little bit the same. 22:06 Terry and I have had the great privilege of filming 22:09 a lot in Israel and you get to each one- 22:11 - Go ahead, rub it in. 22:12 Rub it in. - I know, just a little more. 22:14 And all of a sudden it's all real. 22:17 The Bible comes alive and that's what it is here. 22:19 All of a sudden it comes alive. 22:21 I mean, they could really do it. 22:23 Noah could really build this thing. 22:25 This one can't float, but that one could. 22:29 Engineers have proven it. 22:31 And so it's pretty amazing 22:32 that we find ourselves here in this situation, 22:34 looking at this, and really asking the audience, 22:37 do you believe? 22:38 Do you believe in this? 22:39 Well, it's right there. 22:41 - And God has given us a lot of evidence. 22:45 He doesn't just ask us blind faith. 22:48 Yes, I believe because you said it, 22:51 but that's the only evidence I have. 22:53 I mean, even if it were, 22:54 if that was all you had, was God's Word, 22:56 that's plenty. 22:57 But He's very kind to us 22:59 and also gives us evidence in the world around us today. 23:03 - Very true. 23:04 You look at years ago when I was a total atheist 23:08 and didn't think anything about God, 23:10 I got to the Grand Canyon and I looked at that. 23:13 The massive Grand Canyon and this teeny river 23:16 all the way down on the bottom. 23:18 And then they said that river formed this whole thing. 23:22 And I think, "Seriously?" 23:23 (Janice laughs) 23:25 I can't believe that. 23:26 I just cannot believe that. 23:28 But that's you add enough time, 23:30 why, anything can happen, right? 23:32 - I think, I honestly believe there are people 23:35 who have not thought about it closely enough. 23:38 It's almost like, 23:41 I remember seeing a cartoon 23:42 with this like Albert Einstein character 23:44 writing on a chalkboard. 23:46 These Math formulas, Physics stuff all over, 23:49 and then there's this gap 23:50 and then there's more of it. 23:52 And in between it says, "and then there was a miracle," 23:55 (laughs) and then here. 23:57 Because we don't know what's connecting this to this, 23:59 but it had to have happened. 24:01 And then there was a million years. 24:02 - It's like all the old cartographer maps. 24:05 They didn't know what's here so here are dragons. 24:06 Right here are dragons (Janice laughs) 24:08 in the map. 24:09 - [Janice] And there are people who just think, 24:10 "Well, pile on another million years, 24:11 that solves it." - [Jim] Yeah. 24:13 - Or if a million you don't think that was enough, 24:15 put a B on it, billion. 24:17 There, problem solved. 24:18 - But you know, people need to know this was real then 24:23 and it's real now. 24:25 And everything we see, 24:26 all you have to do is go out and look for the evidence. 24:29 The evidence is everywhere. 24:31 Absolutely everywhere. 24:32 - All right. 24:33 (Jim chuckles) 24:36 (soft music) 24:37 During my college years, 24:39 I became a staunch evolutionist. 24:41 I was convinced that we all arose 24:42 from some primordial lose. 24:44 I bought into every argument 24:46 that my professor set before me. 24:48 (chuckles) It wasn't until years later 24:50 that I really realized 24:52 there are actually credible arguments 24:54 for intelligent design. 24:56 I have a pamphlet I think you'll enjoy. 24:57 It's called "Evolution Impossible". 25:00 If your story is like mine, 25:01 go to TalkingDonkeyInternational.org 25:04 for your free copy today 25:05 and request offer number 104. 25:08 "Evolution Impossible". 25:12 (soft music) 25:13 - I felt like Satan was constantly nipping at my heels 25:15 and I just couldn't catch my breath. 25:18 I was grieving. 25:19 I felt scared, confused, anxious, and depressed. 25:24 My life was literally turned upside down and falling apart. 25:28 I didn't know what to do, 25:30 but I knew who had the answers. 25:32 Can you relate? 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