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Program Code: TCR180001A
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00:31 Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
00:34 My name is Tim Standish and I'm a scientist, 00:37 that means that sometimes I speak a language 00:40 that doesn't really sound like English. 00:44 So thankfully, 00:45 I have here with me Shelley Quinn, 00:48 who is going to help me stick. 00:49 Keep you on the straight line. 00:50 Will stick to English... 00:52 Yes, please. 00:53 In this fabulous program 00:55 in which we are going to talk about 00:58 what the creation tells us about the Creator. 01:03 You know, we're so excited about this, Tim, 01:05 because first of all, we wanna thank 01:07 The Geoscience Research Institute 01:09 who has allowed him this time off to come 01:13 and produce this series. 01:15 And we're very excited 01:17 because Creation Science is something 01:20 that is doubted by many, 01:23 it to me... 01:25 It's, there's so much proof that God is with us that, 01:29 God created us. 01:31 And that's what we're going to do here. 01:32 Now, the first 15 minutes of this program, 01:36 you're gonna get introduced to a scientific fact. 01:38 The second 15 minutes of the program, 01:42 we're going to tie that in 01:44 as to how it affects you in a personal way 01:48 and how you can put it into a practical application. 01:53 I'm looking forward to that part. 01:54 Yes. 01:55 But of course, as a scientist, what I want to do is dive in 01:58 to what we are going to talk about, 02:00 and I want to just prefix 02:04 our discussion of the science with something 02:07 that the Apostle Paul wrote almost 2000 years ago. 02:11 It may seem like an unlikely thing to choose. 02:14 But remember that Paul was writing 02:18 to all kinds of different people 02:21 back there in the Roman Empire. 02:23 In this letter to the Romans, he wrote these words, he said, 02:28 "For since the creation of the world 02:32 His invisible attributes," 02:34 this is God's invisible attributes 02:36 "are clearly seen, 02:38 being understood by the things that are made, 02:43 even His eternal power and Godhead, 02:46 so that they are without excuse." 02:49 What he is saying here 02:51 is that we just as the Romans could, 02:55 can look at what God made 02:58 and we can learn certain things about the Creator. 03:02 In other words, the creation reveals the Creator. 03:07 So what is the thing we're going to learn today? 03:11 Well, we're going to learn about machines, 03:14 but not the large machines that you're used to thinking about, 03:19 things like cars and tractors and cranes, 03:22 and those sorts of machines. 03:24 These machines operate on exactly 03:27 the same physical principles, but they are microscopic. 03:31 In fact, they're smaller than you can see 03:34 with a normal microscope. 03:36 They are molecular machines, they're made up of molecules. 03:40 But first we need to understand why living things need 03:47 these little tiny machines inside. 03:50 So let's sort of step back and think about how life works 03:55 and we all know 03:56 that the sun shines and that's sunshine, 04:00 that light that comes down is a form of energy. 04:04 And that light energy is what plants use 04:08 so that they can grow, right? 04:10 Is that photosynthesis? 04:11 Photosynthesis, right. 04:13 And so in this amazing process of photosynthesis, 04:18 there are all these machines, little tiny machines 04:21 that are taking energy in the form of light 04:25 and converting it 04:27 into another form into chemical energy. 04:30 That's what machines do. 04:32 They convert energy from one form into another form 04:37 and by doing that they do work. 04:39 All right, but if that same light source 04:44 is shining on an inanimate or an object 04:49 that is not alive, like asphalt, 04:52 it's not producing anything. 04:53 Yeah, exactly. 04:55 Most people who drive have probably noticed that 04:57 the roads do not grow and repair themselves 04:59 when the sun is out. 05:01 That's not what happens 05:02 because roads are not living things 05:04 and living things 05:06 are distinctly different, in part 05:08 because they have these little machines in there 05:12 that are doing this work 05:14 that are converting energy from one form into another. 05:18 All right. 05:19 All right, so that's what we're talking about here. 05:23 Now the parts of machines that the molecular machines, 05:27 these little tiny machines 05:28 that the parts are made out of, primarily protein. 05:32 Most people know what that is. 05:34 So there's a question, 05:35 where did that protein come from? 05:38 Charles Darwin had a theory about that. 05:40 Now, remember Charles Darwin, he's a materialist. 05:43 So he's trying to figure out how can we do this without God? 05:46 And he wrote this to a friend, 05:48 he said, "If and oh, what a big if, 05:51 we could conceive in some warm little pond 05:54 with all sorts of ammonia and phosphoric salts, 05:58 light, heat, electricity, etc., present, 06:02 that a protein compound was chemically formed," 06:06 so not by God but by chemical formation, 06:10 "ready to undergo still more complex changes..." 06:15 So he's saying, hey, maybe we can get proteins 06:18 in a warm little pond that was full of chemicals 06:22 but there's a problem with that, 06:24 and you have to understand 06:26 how these protein parts are made. 06:29 So let's take a quick look at that. 06:31 Okay. Okay. 06:32 So proteins, they're made out of things 06:34 called amino acids 06:36 and those amino acids can be joined together 06:39 by removing a water molecule 06:43 and you can just join them together one after the other. 06:46 Usually proteins 06:47 will be hundreds of these amino acids long 06:51 and each one of them is joined together 06:53 by removing a water molecule. 06:56 So you don't have to... 06:58 Yeah, you don't have to be an expert. 06:59 I can get this. Yes. 07:01 What's gonna happen? 07:02 So it's not gonna have, 07:04 proteins are not going to be developed 07:06 according to Darwin's theory in a warm little pond, 07:09 because if you were trying to process in a pond, 07:12 it's going to add H2O elements, not. 07:18 Exactly, 07:20 water is so important, right? 07:21 Right. 07:23 So water is going to go into things, not come out. 07:25 So how is it then that in living cells, 07:30 they can make proteins because remember, 07:33 our bodies, those cells that our body is made up of, 07:37 they're more than 50% water. 07:39 So how is it that this happens? 07:42 And the secret is, again, in machines. 07:45 There are machines that take the amino acids 07:50 and bring them together and remove that water molecule. 07:54 They use energy to do that work. 07:57 Okay. 07:59 Okay, there's a lot of power involved in all of this. 08:02 So think about the irony of that. 08:04 Yes. 08:06 You got to have the machines to make the proteins 08:09 from which the machines are made. 08:11 Okay. 08:12 It's like a chicken and egg situation, 08:14 you got to have the whole system functioning 08:16 before you can have any of it functioning. 08:18 Oh, boy, that statement that, 08:21 to me really supports an intelligent Creator or God. 08:26 Oh, my yes, you know. 08:28 So let's, let's continue on. 08:30 I'm gonna show you a protein machine 08:32 one of these machines, 08:33 and this particular machine is like a wind turbine, 08:37 the exactly the same principles are involved. 08:41 So on a wind turbine that wind energy is, 08:45 it starts the turbine turning 08:49 and that energy is transferred them to a generator, right? 08:53 So the wind energy is then converted 08:55 into electrical energy. 08:57 That's how it works. 08:59 The same principles are involved in this 09:01 fabulous little tiny microscopic, 09:05 submicroscopic machine called ATP Synthase. 09:10 It generates energy, 09:11 it provides power to your cells. 09:16 So that part there that you can see at the top, 09:18 the blue part is like the turbine. 09:21 It twists things around and down at the bottom, 09:24 the red part is the generator part. 09:27 It makes this substance called ATP. 09:31 And you can see 09:32 that they're joined by a protein 09:34 that transfers that twisting energy, 09:36 a drive shaft. 09:38 Okay. Protein. 09:39 So without the protein, 09:43 nothing would be happening. 09:44 Exactly, you'd have a generator or sorry, 09:47 a turbine spinning around doing nothing 09:49 and the generator sitting there doing nothing 09:51 without that drive shaft 09:53 protein joining the two things together. 09:56 Is it fair to say a protein 09:57 in as a building block for at the cellular level? 10:01 Yes. Oh, yes, yeah. 10:03 They are the very parts of these machines 10:06 are made out of and if you're missing some of the parts, 10:08 the machine isn't going to function at all. 10:10 It certainly, 10:12 all of these machines require a set of parts. 10:14 So one protein isn't going to do much for you, 10:17 you've got to have a whole lot. 10:18 Here's another machine that's also involved in 10:21 what we call the energy metabolism of the cell. 10:23 Let's not worry. 10:24 So this is a little bitty microscopic thing 10:26 we just looked at. 10:27 Yeah, this is just another way of showing 10:30 what these machines look like. 10:32 And the different colors are different proteins there. 10:35 How amazing. 10:37 Really a complicated thing, the reason I wanted you to see 10:40 that particular one 10:42 is because it's part of something 10:44 we call the glycolytic pathway, 10:46 that means sugar splitting pathway. 10:50 This is 10 different machines that are equally complex, 10:56 sometimes more complex than that one 10:57 that I just showed you 10:59 and each one of them has to do their job 11:03 because if they don't, 11:05 you've got a big problem on your head, 11:07 you're turning sugar, in this particular case, 11:09 into another chemical cold Pyruvate 11:12 and you're getting energy out of the sugar. 11:15 The problem is, 11:16 you've got to put energy in the beginning, 11:18 this is like lighting a match to start a fire, 11:21 you're putting a little bit of energy in. 11:23 And it's not until later on in this process 11:27 that you start getting out chemicals 11:28 that are actually useful for energy. 11:31 So that protein 11:33 so that you know that protein is that step number six 11:38 in this series of steps 11:43 in this assembly line. 11:45 If you want to call, it's a de-assembly line. 11:47 So splitting the sugar is what gives us the energy 11:50 and if any one of these steps is missing, 11:53 it's not gonna happen. 11:54 And every single living things 11:56 has this whole pathway in there. 11:59 It's not just one or two machines, 12:01 it's a whole set of machines working together. 12:05 In every little cell. 12:06 In every single human cell, in every single rat cell, 12:11 in every single fish cell, in every single bacterial cell, 12:15 every single plant cell. 12:17 That's amazing. 12:18 Yeah, it's jaw dropping, when you think about it. 12:22 Okay. 12:23 So what can we learn from this? 12:26 What does this tell us about the Creator? 12:30 Well, remember what Paul said about power, 12:36 God's eternal power. 12:38 I would suggest that there are two things. 12:42 First of all, "God's power is revealed 12:45 in the numerous machines He created 12:50 so that life can exist." 12:52 In addition, "His power to create and sustain 12:57 is revealed in the intricate mechanisms 13:00 hidden within living things." 13:03 So these are invisible to us. 13:05 And yet when we dig down, when we zoom in, and look, 13:10 there they are, and they tell us 13:13 something profound about the Creator's power. 13:17 That is astonishing. 13:20 I think, I want to just think about for a moment how God... 13:26 The Bible says, 13:28 "We are fearfully and wonderfully made," 13:30 and how amazing it is 13:32 that all of this is going on in every cell of our body. 13:36 Think about how amazing it is 13:38 that we're as healthy as we are, 13:40 when there is so many things that could go wrong. 13:42 It's a miracle, isn't it? 13:44 It is. 13:45 And we're going to talk a little bit more 13:46 about this miracle, 13:48 but we're going to do it 60 seconds from now. 13:51 So please do not go away. |
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