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Series Code: TCR
Program Code: TCR180004A
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00:31 Welcome to The Creator Revealed.
00:34 My name is Tim Standish, and I'm a scientist. 00:39 Because I'm a scientist, 00:41 I believe in the Creator God of the Bible. 00:46 Amen and amen. 00:47 I'm Shelley Quinn and we want to welcome you 00:51 to this program. 00:52 In the first segment, 00:54 you're going to get a little scientific nugget, 00:58 something that will reveal the Creator. 01:01 As Paul said in Romans 1:20, that God's visible attributes, 01:06 even His eternal power in Godhead 01:09 are seen in the things that He created. 01:11 And what are we going to talk about? 01:13 Oh, the second segment is kind of a Bible 01:16 or life application. 01:18 So what are we talking about today? 01:20 We are talking about humans and other animals. 01:23 Okay. 01:25 And before we get into the science, 01:27 I want to draw your attention to the way 01:30 in which the Bible prepares our minds 01:36 to think about both ourselves and other creatures. 01:40 So let's get back into that creation account in Genesis. 01:45 We've gone from Genesis 1 to Genesis 2, 01:48 so Moses has told us, 01:52 up to this point, about the days of creation. 01:55 And now he goes back and he fills in some details 01:59 in Genesis Chapter 2. 02:01 So here, he's talking about 02:02 how God created human beings and he writes, 02:07 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground." 02:14 I want you to notice that, the ground, 02:17 that's what human beings... 02:19 That's what He made us out of. 02:20 "And breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, 02:26 and man became a living being." 02:29 So human beings were formed by God. 02:33 I love that idea of God forming us. 02:35 He got personal, didn't He? 02:37 Yes, out of the ground, out of the clay. 02:40 And then, God breaths the breath of life into Adam, 02:45 and he becomes this living being. 02:47 It's a little bit hard for us to understand 02:51 because we've never seen anything like that. 02:53 This is not science in the usual sense, 02:57 it's not the kind of thing we can do experiments on. 03:01 Yes. 03:02 It's a kind of thing that ultimately, 03:04 we believe by faith, 03:06 but it's also something that makes an awful lot of sense 03:09 because when we look at human beings, 03:12 what our bodies are made out of? 03:14 The elements of the earth. 03:15 The elements of the earth, right. 03:16 We're not made out of magic pixie dust 03:19 or anything like that. 03:20 We are the same stuff 03:24 that the rest of the creation is made out of, 03:27 but we have a different form. 03:29 We're not an oak tree, we're not a mountain, 03:32 we're a human being. 03:34 Now, 03:36 it goes on in the same book, 03:41 the same chapter actually. 03:44 God goes on, and He says something about... 03:47 Or Mosses tells us something about the animals. 03:51 So he says, "Out of the ground, 03:53 the Lord God formed every beast of the field 03:57 and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam." 04:00 So you can see here that the animals 04:03 are made out of the same stuff that we're made out of. 04:07 It shouldn't be surprising to discover that, 04:10 perhaps, there are some similarities there. 04:13 So we have some DNA 04:15 that would be duplicated, if you will. 04:18 Well, yes. 04:19 You know, same God, same material, 04:24 there's going to be some similarities there, 04:26 just as we would expect with a designer. 04:30 If a car was designed by the same engineer, 04:33 two different cars, 04:35 we would probably expect some similarities between those. 04:40 We're creations, so are the animals, 04:42 same God, same material. 04:45 And then I'm going to jump all the way down 04:47 to the story of the flood, 04:50 and there's an important detail that comes out in there. 04:53 So here the animals are, 04:56 they're coming on to the ark. 04:58 And it says this about them, 05:00 "And they went into the ark to Noah, 05:03 two by two, 05:05 of all flesh in which is the breath of life." 05:11 So there you have it. 05:12 The animals are made out of the ground 05:16 just as we are formed out of the ground by God. 05:19 And just as we have the breath of life, 05:22 the animals also have the breath of life in them. 05:26 You know why that's not hard for me to accept by faith 05:29 because here, we can put a man on the moon, 05:31 we've got the shuttles and everything. 05:33 All of the advances that we've made, 05:36 no one has been able to duplicate, 05:39 taking elements 05:40 and bringing in that spark of life 05:43 that ignites life. 05:44 Exactly, you know, 05:46 sometimes we will get excited, and then say, 05:47 "Well, what if life was created in a lab?" 05:50 Well, what would that show? 05:53 It's very unlikely. 05:55 But if it did happen, 05:57 let's just pretend it happen, would that happen 06:00 as a result of just natural forces and chance? 06:03 No. 06:04 It would be... 06:06 We would recognize who ever did that as a genius. 06:10 An engineering genius. Yes. 06:12 And the organism that was produced 06:15 as a product of genius 06:18 just as we, as Christians, 06:20 recognize human beings and the other animals, 06:23 and in fact, the rest of the creation 06:25 as a product of genius. 06:27 Well, let's continue on. 06:28 Let's look at this connection 06:32 between human beings and the other animals. 06:35 I'm going to start off here with a human femur. 06:39 Everybody has one of these 06:40 unless they've had their legs amputated. 06:43 And probably, familiar with the morphology of it 06:47 or the shape of them but if you cut open a femur, 06:50 there is something very interesting inside, 06:52 up there at the top 06:53 where that ball goes into the socket of your hip. 06:57 You can see something called spongy bone. 07:00 And if you look at that spongy bone, 07:03 it's arranged in an interesting way. 07:07 What you see... The direction... 07:09 That's right, the direction in which the bone is oriented, 07:14 is the direction in which the force 07:17 is exerted on the femur. 07:20 And you see this with other spongy bone as well. 07:23 What this does is, it makes our bones 07:27 a little bit lighter and a whole lot stronger. 07:31 So great engineering feat there. 07:33 Really great engineering. 07:35 I look at this, 07:37 and I think about those buttresses 07:41 that you see on gothic churches, 07:44 the buttress is coming out. 07:45 They're also carrying lines of force down to the ground 07:50 so that they're actually quite strong structures, 07:55 but they're using less material 07:57 than older kinds of construction methods allowed. 08:01 So there's an engineering principal 08:04 that translates over there. 08:06 It's kind of fun. 08:09 This kind of bone you find in human beings 08:13 and you also find it in other creatures. 08:16 So you can see there... 08:17 That's you. Yes. 08:18 There are human beings on the back of this elephant. 08:22 And the elephant has bones that when we cut them open, 08:27 they have a similar kind of structure to our own. 08:31 On the other hand, if we look at birds, 08:34 they have very specialized needs. 08:36 Their bones need to be as light as possible 08:40 and as strong as possible. 08:42 In addition to that, 08:43 there are some spaces in there to keep things light, 08:47 you know, to lighten them. 08:49 So if we look inside a bird's bone, 08:51 we see this. 08:52 Almost like a honeycomb. 08:54 It does look little bit like a honeycomb, doesn't it? 08:57 These spars basically inside the bones, 09:02 really make them very strong and yet very light. 09:07 So they're different 09:09 but they're different for a reason 09:12 because of the demands of flight. 09:14 That's what's going out, so... 09:16 So they were engineered in their design 09:19 for the purpose? 09:20 For the specific purpose that they serve. 09:22 So what we're seeing here is, there are similarities 09:26 which indicate a single design or single origin. 09:31 But also differences to suit the purposes 09:37 to which these are being put, 09:39 which indicates in a thought 09:41 about each individual kind of animal. 09:46 Let's look at one other thing that has do 09:48 with the arrangement of skeletons. 09:51 This is a tortoise. 09:53 And if you look inside a tortoise, 09:55 you can see that its skeleton has an amazing 10:01 different arrangement of things. 10:03 The clavicle is inside the ribs. 10:05 So this is... 10:07 It's this bone here on your back, 10:09 imagine what it took to move that inside, 10:11 that's a whole reengineering of things. 10:14 So while we have the same general design, 10:19 we have a back bone, and ribs, and things like that. 10:24 Tortoises and turtles have this incredible 10:28 reengineering or different engineering thing 10:31 for the specific purpose that they need. 10:34 And when you look at 10:35 all the other organisms that are out there, 10:38 we've just been looking at vertebrates. 10:40 But the invertebrates are so diverse, 10:42 the snails, the insects, the sea urchins, 10:49 they all have similarities 10:53 which point to a single designer, 10:56 and yet spectacular differences. 10:59 Oh, here's a jelly fish. 11:00 You could go on and on and on 11:02 about these profound similarities 11:05 and profound differences that you see between these. 11:09 You know, when you look at even like 11:11 all the different kinds of birds, 11:12 my husband's a birder. 11:14 And it is so amazing to see the diversity 11:17 within a single species, 11:19 but then you start considering everything 11:22 that God has created, He loves diversity. 11:25 He loves diversity. 11:27 And He's very good at it. 11:28 He doesn't make things different 11:31 just for the sake of making something different. 11:34 He is making different things that are profoundly beautiful. 11:38 Okay. 11:40 But when you say 11:41 if animals and people are made of the same substance, 11:45 we all have the breath of life. 11:48 What is the difference between animals and people? 11:51 There's a profound, profound difference. 11:55 And it has to do with relationships, relationships. 12:00 So I have a pet dog, her name is Jill. 12:03 Okay. 12:04 There is obvious differences between my dog and my daughter. 12:08 Yes. 12:10 But I have a different kind of relationship with my daughter 12:14 than I have with my dog, but we have a relationship. 12:18 I love my dog. Yes. 12:21 And she loves me. 12:23 I know that when I go home for making these programs, 12:27 I'm going to get a loud and joyous welcome from her. 12:32 You see, 12:33 God made human beings to fit a specific purpose 12:39 in His creation. 12:41 It's actually written about in Genesis 1, 12:44 it's laid out there right at the very beginning. 12:46 This is what God said, this isn't Moses, this is God. 12:52 Then God said, "Let Us make man in Our image, 12:56 according to Our likeliness. 12:58 Let them have dominion 13:00 over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, 13:03 and over the cattle, over all the earth, 13:07 and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth." 13:10 So God made us like Him. 13:14 He formed us in some profound way to be like Him. 13:21 And He gave us a relationship both with Him 13:24 and with the rest of the creation. 13:27 Yes, so we... 13:28 And He created us to dominate, 13:30 that was the purpose is we were to, 13:34 in a loving way like Him, 13:36 oversee everything that happened on earth. 13:39 Well, we are in charge, 13:40 which means we're responsible too. 13:42 Yes, yes. 13:44 And that's a very big deal. 13:46 We're not to lord it over the rest of creation, 13:50 we are to treasure it. 13:52 So what does this reveal to us about the Creator? 13:56 Well, His love of diversity is demonstrated 14:00 in the variety of other organisms, 14:03 so many different things, 14:05 and His love of diversity is evident 14:07 in the rest of creation. 14:09 It's not just the animals, 14:11 it's everything, He loves diversity. 14:14 God made diverse organisms to have a relationship with us 14:19 just as we have a relationship with Him. 14:23 So by looking at this, we see God's love of diversity. 14:27 Yes, and you know, 14:28 it is so exciting that God loved us so much 14:31 even to make animals that with whom we could relate 14:37 and have these special creatures in our life. 14:41 Well, we hope that you'll stay tune, 14:43 we'll be back in just 60 seconds. |
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