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It’s been called one of
the most powerful and
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influential scientific
theories in history: the
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theory of evolution by
natural selection, first
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published well more than
a century ago by Charles
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Darwin.
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And its powerful influence
on life--in virtually
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every realm of
understanding--would
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indeed be hard
to overestimate.
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But is it true?
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Many would
respond--Of course.
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Evolution has been proven
true a thousand times
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over!
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All the evidence we have
says evolution is a fact
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of nature.
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But is the evidence
really that solid?
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Is the theory of evolution
really indisputable?
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No, it is not.
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And today, we'll pull back
the curtain on some of the
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evidence that many
evolutionists would prefer
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you not see.
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Join us for this episode
of Tomorrow’s World where we
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will expose some of Evolution’s Dirty Little Secrets.
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♪
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Welcome to Tomorrow’s
World, where we help you
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understand your world
through the pages of the
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Bible.
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And our topic today might
seem far removed from
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those pages: the
theory of evolution.
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It is, perhaps, one of the
single most influential
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scientific theories in
history--with immeasurable
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impact on science,
philosophy, education,
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politics, and religion.
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And we are assured by many
that it is undoubtedly
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true--that no one of any
intelligence or education
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would even dare
to question it.
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Well, today we will
dare to question it.
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Because while evolution
puts up a good front, it
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has a long list of dirty
little secrets that you
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don't tend to hear about
in your classrooms or
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television programming.
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And the more you learn
about what evolution has
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to hide, the more you
wonder why so many put
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faith in an idea that
remains unproven.
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It’s a big topic, and
we'll only scratch the
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surface today.
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But we'll also offer
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This unique guide
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interested in
understanding where the
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theory of evolution falls
short and how even Bible
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believers misunderstand
the Scriptures about
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creation and leave
themselves, and their
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faith, vulnerable to
confusion and deception.
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Now, before we begin,
let’s understand what we
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mean by “evolution.”
Claiming that life began
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in a vastly simpler
form--similar, perhaps, to
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a microscopic
bacterium--the theory of
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evolution says that over
billions of years, life
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changed slowly...
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That the struggle for
survival rewarded slight,
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random variations in the
descendants of that life
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form that gave
them an edge...
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perhaps allowing them
to find food faster or
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reproduce more
successfully...
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and, similarly, it punished
those descendants whose
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random adaptions
were less favorable for
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survival.
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In this way and through
this unintelligent,
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unguided process,
evolution says those
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microscopic bacteria-like
organisms a few billion
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years ago have been
able to turn into the
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astonishing variety of
lifeforms we see today,
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including us--no divine
Designer or Creator
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necessary.
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Not long ago, Sotheby’s,
the famous auction house,
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offered a first edition of
Charles Darwin’s book
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On the Origin of Species
by Means of Natural
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Selection, or The
Preservation of Favored
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Races in the Struggle
for Life, published in
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1859--the book in which he
first published the theory
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of evolution.
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And at least when I saw it,
Sotheby’s recommended
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estimate for the book
was 250 to 300 thousand
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dollars.
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You might think,
why so high?
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It’s just a book.
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There are numerous
factors, but the book’s
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role in human history
is perhaps the greatest.
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Sotheby’s calls the book
“one of the greatest
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achievements of scientific
discovery.” Referring to
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Darwin’s book, science
historian Bern Dibner once
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wrote, “This, the most
important single work in
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science, brought man to
his true place in nature.”
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High-sounding
praise to be sure.
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But is it accurate?
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That depends, of course,
on whether the theory is true.
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If all life as we know
it today is the result of
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nothing but mindless
processes, then, yes,
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Darwin’s book is a
towering achievement in
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human history...
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a monumental discovery
that does, truly, put man
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in his place as nothing
special, nothing
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remarkable--just a random
lifeform on a random
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planet.
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And life, it turns out,
has no real meaning at all...
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Again...
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if that theory is true.
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Now of course, many claim it
is true--and claim so very
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loudly.
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Evolutionary apologist
Jerry Coyne writes in his
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popular book, Why Evolution
Is True,
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“Evolution is a fact.
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And far from casting doubt
on Darwinism, the evidence
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gathered by scientists
over the past century and
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a half supports it
completely, showing that
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evolution happened, and
that it happened largely
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as Darwin proposed,
through the workings of
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natural selection."
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Of course, many want it to be true.
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Evolution has become an
“escape hatch” for those
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who want to explain away
the beautiful diversity
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and complexity of life
without a Creator.
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As famous biologist
Richard Dawkins once said,
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“Darwin made it possible
to be an intellectually
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fulfilled atheist.”
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Is he right?
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Again, only if evolution
has been proven true.
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And, in fact, it has not.
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Despite claims that all
the evidence supports it
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completely, the truth is
that evolution has a whole
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host of dirty little
secrets that our
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classrooms and popular
science programs don't
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talk about too loudly.
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And we will examine just
a handful of those dirty
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secrets on the remainder
of today’s program.
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The first dirty little
secret of evolution is
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this: Even the simplest
living cell is devastating
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to the theory
of evolution.
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In Darwin’s day, little
was known about cells.
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Single-celled organisms
like amoebas were
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described by Charles
Darwin’s contemporary
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George Henry Lewes as
simply “a microscopic lump
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of jelly-like substance, or protoplasm.... entirely
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destitute of texture, and consequently destitute of
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organs.” In other cells, such as
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those in our body,
a nucleus could be seen,
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but its purpose was a
mystery, and the cell
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seemed otherwise
generally featureless.
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In such days, when the
smallest, simplest unit of
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life seemed that
simple--just a bit of
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jelly with a few boring
features--it was easy to
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imagine somehow,
within that mysterious
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“life-giving” jelly,
anything could happen.
09:38.678 --> 09:41.180
But as microscopes
improved and techniques
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were developed to tease
out the secrets of the
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inner world of the cell,
we have discovered that
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this supposedly simple,
“jelly-like substance” is
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filled with machinery of
astonishing complexity,
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ingenuity, and design.
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The world of the human
cell, for instance, is one
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in which approximately one
billion chemical reactions
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take place every single second.
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And these are not random
chemical reactions...
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A human cell is filled
with thousands upon
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thousands of proteins
of 10,000 different
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varieties--molecular
machines designed to work
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together to achieve
specific purposes,
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manipulating their
surroundings, creating new
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structures and dismantling
old ones, in a dynamic
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dance of complexity that
would make the Space
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Shuttle seem simple.
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In today’s free resource,
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motor protein
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used by some bacteria
to help them move.
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Built out of 78,216
different atoms, it is
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merely one example of the
world of complex cellular
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machinery that Darwin and
his contemporaries could
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have no idea existed.
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Life is impossible without
these complex machines,
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and even small changes to
organisms, as hypothesized
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by evolution, requires
changes to these
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machines--even the
design of new machines.
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And that is as
unlikely as it sounds.
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Biochemist Douglas Axe has
examined the probability
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of even one protein--of
any significant functionality at
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all--forming by chance,
and estimated it to be 1
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in 10-to-the-64.
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That is, 1 out of a number
that is a “1” followed by
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64 zeros.
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Along with colleague Ann Gauger, Axe explored the possibility
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that one
protein could evolve from
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another, similar one,
based on just a handful of
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necessary changes to
DNA, and found that--at
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currently understood rates
of mutation--it would take
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10-to-the-27 years for
such a change to take place...
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again, that's a “1”
followed by 27 zeros.
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Impressive, given that
scientists think our
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universe is only 13
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billion years old--or
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about a “1” followed
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by ten zeros.
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In other words, it’s just
not going to happen apart
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from intelligent
intervention.
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Again, even the simplest
living cell is devastating
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to the theory
of evolution.
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We mentioned DNA a moment
ago--and the nature of DNA
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is another of evolution’s
dirty little secrets.
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Because DNA represents
an abstract coding system
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that points to
intelligence.
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Deoxyribonucleic Acid, or
DNA for short, was unknown
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in Darwin’s day and is the
molecule responsible for
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carrying the information
needed to build all of the
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proteins that make
life possible.
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Each nucleus in each individual, normal cell in your body
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contains about
two meters of DNA,
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packed into a microscopic
dot--all of it containing
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the information
needed to build you.
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DNA uses base pairs
combining four different
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compounds that act
like the 1’s and 0’s in
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computer code, detailing
to the cellular machinery
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the information needed to
build all of the complex
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proteins life requires.
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Information from the DNA
is carried from place to
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place, where proteins read
the code and assemble new
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proteins from precisely
sequenced amino acids,
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based on that
information--making every
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one of your cells a
complex chemical factory,
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creating purposefully
arranged nanoscopic
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machinery and some of the
most complicated chemical
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compounds found anywhere
in the universe.
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But where did this
abstract programming code
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originate?
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Evolution can't
take credit.
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It’s a mindless,
purposeless process,
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remember?
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In fact, where
did DNA come from?
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You can't build proteins
without DNA--and yet, DNA is,
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itself assembled
by proteins.
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The discovery of DNA
should have been a great
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success for evolution.
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The secret to how the
characteristics of life
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are passed on to our
descendants was finally
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unveiled.
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But it has been
a disaster.
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The idea of a massive,
information-rich molecule
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containing an abstract
programming code capable
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of bearing the information
needed to build all the
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complex machinery of life
is incompatible with the
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idea that life has
supposedly grown in
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complexity through
mindless, natural
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processes.
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Evolutionists cannot
avoid the fact that DNA
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represents an abstract
coding system that points
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to intelligence.
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We'll look at another
dirty little secret of
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evolution in a moment.
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But first let me pause
very briefly to give you
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proven.
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And it examines the
biblical evidence for the
15:23.889 --> 15:26.759
claim that life and the
world have no history
15:26.825 --> 15:31.163
before Adam and Eve’s
creation 6,000 years ago.
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Our next dirty secret
of evolution is an
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opportunity to turn
the tables a bit.
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In short, the gaps in
the fossil record since
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Darwin’s day have gotten
worse, not better.
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The theory of evolution
depends on the slow and
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steady accumulation of
small variations--since
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large “jumps” in changes
would imply an active
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designer or planner.
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The result should be a
smooth transition in the
16:24.550 --> 16:27.986
fossil record, with
animals gradually, almost
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imperceptibly turning
into new animals through
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small, smooth changes.
16:34.226 --> 16:37.396
But this is not what the
fossil record shows.
16:37.463 --> 16:40.199
Instead of a smooth,
continuous transition of
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creatures, the record
indicates gaps between
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different kinds
of creatures.
16:45.537 --> 16:48.440
As Michael Denton wrote
in his seminal work,
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Evolution: A Theory in
Crisis,
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“The overall picture of life on Earth today is so
16:55.781 --> 17:00.219
discontinuous, the gaps between the different types
17:00.285 --> 17:04.223
so obvious, that, as Steven
Stanley reminds us
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in his recent book
Macroevolution, if our
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knowledge of biology
was restricted to those
17:09.728 --> 17:13.532
species presently existing
on earth, ‘we might wonder
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whether the doctrine of
evolution would qualify as
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anything more than an
outrageous hypothesis.’
17:20.105 --> 17:22.741
Without intermediates
or transitional forms to
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bridge the enormous gaps
which separate existing
17:26.578 --> 17:29.882
species and groups of
organisms, the concept of
17:29.948 --> 17:33.218
evolution could never
be taken seriously as a
17:33.285 --> 17:35.254
scientific hypothesis."
17:35.320 --> 17:38.490
Of course, seemingly “continuous” lines of some
17:38.557 --> 17:41.727
animals are trotted out for display to pretend
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the gaps are not nearly as damaging as they are.
17:45.330 --> 17:47.433
For instance, you will see
theoretical
17:47.499 --> 17:51.670
sequences for whale, horse, and
human evolution.
17:51.737 --> 17:54.673
Yet, not only are these
sequences themselves
17:54.740 --> 17:58.477
deceptive and not proven
lines of descent at all,
17:58.544 --> 17:59.745
the fact remains that
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if evolution is true,
these sorts of sequences
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should be the norm,
not the rare exception.
18:07.486 --> 18:10.823
Ironically, evolutionists
often accuse believers of
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having faith in a “God of
the Gaps” who magically
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does all the things
they cannot explain.
18:17.596 --> 18:21.099
Such a misunderstanding
aside, the unexplainable
18:21.166 --> 18:24.970
gaps in the fossil record--a
thorn in Darwin’s side
18:25.037 --> 18:28.474
that remains just as
thorny more than 150 years
18:28.540 --> 18:32.544
later--turn the tables and
put evolutionists in the
18:32.611 --> 18:35.781
place of wielding blind
faith and believing in a
18:35.848 --> 18:40.452
“Darwin of the Gaps.” For
our next dirty secret, all
18:40.519 --> 18:42.754
you need to do is look
in the mirror at your
18:42.821 --> 18:46.892
remarkable,
evolution-defying eyes.
18:46.959 --> 18:49.561
Because evolution
continues to offer no good
18:49.628 --> 18:53.065
explanation for how
new organs can form.
18:53.131 --> 18:57.202
In the Psalms King David
praises God and proclaims
18:57.269 --> 19:03.041
to His creator, “...I am
fearfully and wonderfully made”.
19:03.108 --> 19:06.378
And we see part of that
wonder in the organs of
19:06.445 --> 19:08.647
the body,
such as the eye.
19:08.714 --> 19:10.516
After all, organs
represent not just
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specialized “tissues,” but
interwoven systems, often
19:14.753 --> 19:18.156
systems upon systems,
finely tuned and
19:18.223 --> 19:20.959
exquisitely structured
to work together.
19:21.026 --> 19:24.396
And if one part is missing,
the whole can fail.
19:24.463 --> 19:27.199
And improving the entire
organ would often involve
19:27.266 --> 19:31.570
each piece or part
evolving in conjunction
19:31.637 --> 19:35.841
with all the other pieces
in a coordinated way--a
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coordination that evolution
does not allow.
19:39.645 --> 19:41.914
The problem was summarized
not long ago in an article
19:41.980 --> 19:43.282
in The Guardian.
19:43.348 --> 19:45.984
First, the paper gives the
traditional explanation
19:46.051 --> 19:48.787
for the supposed evolution
of the eye--given by
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thousands of teachers over
the decades to tens of
19:52.190 --> 19:54.159
thousands of students.
19:54.226 --> 19:56.128
Animals that have
light-sensitive cells for
19:56.194 --> 19:59.998
some reason experience a
series of slight mutations
20:00.065 --> 20:03.101
that increasingly give
them survival advantages,
20:03.168 --> 20:05.871
such as the slight cupping
of the flesh around the
20:05.938 --> 20:09.541
cells that helps to
focus the light, a clear
20:09.608 --> 20:12.511
covering of some sort
eventually, to seal the
20:12.578 --> 20:15.314
space, which slowly
becomes a lens.
20:15.380 --> 20:18.550
Then, muscles arrive to
shape and focus the lens
20:18.617 --> 20:20.452
better, etc.
20:20.519 --> 20:24.189
The Guardian continues: “This is the basic story
20:24.256 --> 20:26.692
of evolution,
as recounted in countless
20:26.758 --> 20:29.628
textbooks and
pop-science bestsellers.
20:29.695 --> 20:32.164
The problem, according
to a growing number of
20:32.230 --> 20:35.767
scientists, is that it
is absurdly crude and
20:35.834 --> 20:37.069
misleading.
20:37.135 --> 20:39.838
For one thing, it starts
midway through the story,
20:39.905 --> 20:41.640
taking for granted
the existence of
20:41.707 --> 20:45.143
light-sensitive cells,
lenses and irises, without
20:45.210 --> 20:47.779
explaining where they came
from in the first place.
20:47.846 --> 20:51.183
Nor does it adequately
explain how such delicate
20:51.249 --> 20:54.620
and easily disrupted
components meshed together
20:54.686 --> 20:56.722
to form a single organ.
20:56.788 --> 20:58.924
And it isn't just eyes
that the traditional
20:58.991 --> 21:00.626
theory struggles with.
21:00.692 --> 21:03.795
‘The first eye, the first
wing, the first placenta.
21:03.862 --> 21:05.364
How they emerge.
21:05.430 --> 21:08.900
Explaining these is the
foundational motivation of
21:08.967 --> 21:12.204
evolutionary biology,’
says Armin Moczek, a
21:12.270 --> 21:14.806
biologist at
Indiana University.
21:14.873 --> 21:19.311
In short, evolution promises
us it can explain the
21:19.378 --> 21:22.848
organs of our bodies and how they supposedly formed
21:22.914 --> 21:26.785
gradually over millennia,
but, in reality, it hasn't
21:26.852 --> 21:28.253
a clue.
21:28.320 --> 21:31.256
Our fourth dirty little
secret, the fact that
21:31.323 --> 21:34.760
evolution continues to
offer no good explanation
21:34.826 --> 21:39.331
for how new organs can
form is devastating to a
21:39.398 --> 21:43.301
theory that was developed
more than 150 years ago to
21:43.368 --> 21:45.671
explain that very fact.
21:45.737 --> 21:48.240
Our free offer today,
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21:51.576 --> 21:55.881
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21:55.947 --> 21:58.917
crushing blow to the
theory of evolution,
21:58.984 --> 22:01.553
despite the best efforts
of those who have sought
22:01.620 --> 22:02.954
to explain it.
22:03.021 --> 22:06.124
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22:26.178 --> 22:29.481
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22:29.548 --> 22:32.684
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You know, let me
confess something.
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I know it’s considered a
cinema classic, but I've
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personally never been a big fan
of the Wizard of Oz.
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Frankly, when I first saw
it, I was a little kid,
24:12.617 --> 24:15.620
and the flying monkeys
were pretty spooky.
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But as I've grown older,
one scene has remained
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with me and has become
a real favorite.
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It’s close to the end of
the movie, as Dorothy and
24:23.695 --> 24:26.698
her band are confronting
the terrifying Wizard for
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the fact that he is
failing to keep his
24:28.567 --> 24:29.734
promises.
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As they do so, flames
shoot out, thunder
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crashes, and the Wizard
speaks to them as a giant,
24:35.373 --> 24:38.376
green, monstrous head
hovering in the air in
24:38.443 --> 24:41.213
front of them, shouting,
“Do not arouse the wrath
24:41.279 --> 24:43.949
of the great and
powerful Oz!”
24:44.015 --> 24:47.619
Meanwhile, Dorothy’s dog
Toto makes his way to a
24:47.686 --> 24:51.523
green curtain off to the
left and pulls it aside to
24:51.590 --> 24:54.759
reveal a small,
white-haired old man,
24:54.826 --> 24:57.395
using a machine to create
the illusion they're all
24:57.462 --> 25:00.298
looking at and speaking
into a microphone to
25:00.365 --> 25:04.803
amplify his voice and
make it sound terrifying.
25:04.870 --> 25:07.305
My favorite part in that
scene is when the old man
25:07.372 --> 25:10.742
turns around, notices
they can see him, and
25:10.809 --> 25:13.478
turns back to the
microphone to demand, “Pay
25:13.545 --> 25:16.548
no attention to that
man behind the curtain!”
25:16.615 --> 25:19.918
Well, the forces arrayed
to convince people not to
25:19.985 --> 25:22.854
question the theory
of evolution are very
25:22.921 --> 25:23.922
similar.
25:23.989 --> 25:26.491
There's a lot of thunder
and flame-- impressive
25:26.558 --> 25:29.527
proclamations about
“proof” and “evidence” and
25:29.594 --> 25:32.631
a lot of theater designed
to make you think that there's
25:32.697 --> 25:34.299
nothing to doubt.
25:34.366 --> 25:37.469
But like the Wizard,
evolution has not kept its
25:37.535 --> 25:38.870
promises.
25:38.937 --> 25:41.640
The theory promises
an explanation of your
25:41.706 --> 25:44.776
origins--an explanation
that needs no God, no
25:44.843 --> 25:46.211
intelligence at all...
25:46.278 --> 25:49.481
just an initial microbe;
careless natural
25:49.547 --> 25:52.951
processes; and a
few billion years.
25:53.018 --> 25:56.521
We need to be willing to
pull back the curtain--to
25:56.588 --> 25:59.557
not be so impressed by
the theater that we don't
25:59.624 --> 26:02.460
question what we're
shown, and to not be so
26:02.527 --> 26:05.897
intimidated that we aren't
willing to stand up and
26:05.964 --> 26:10.835
call evolution out for
not keeping its promises.
26:10.902 --> 26:13.505
Or to borrow from another
fiction, it might have
26:13.571 --> 26:16.174
been a hard day when you
first learned Santa Claus
26:16.241 --> 26:17.809
wasn't real.
26:17.876 --> 26:20.211
But that realization
brought you that much
26:20.278 --> 26:24.149
deeper into the real world
and much further from
26:24.215 --> 26:26.184
a world of make-believe.
26:26.251 --> 26:28.520
Recognizing the dirty
little secrets of
26:28.586 --> 26:31.856
evolution can help you
step away from the world
26:31.923 --> 26:33.792
of make-believe as well.
26:33.858 --> 26:35.894
Yet, the questions
evolutionists seek to
26:35.961 --> 26:39.864
answer remain: Where
do we come from?
26:39.931 --> 26:42.434
How did life come to be?
26:42.500 --> 26:44.736
Is there any
purpose to it all?
26:44.803 --> 26:48.640
And if so, what might
that purpose be?
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Unclouded by the
evolutionary theater, you
26:52.177 --> 26:55.246
can seek the real answers
to those questions.
26:55.313 --> 26:58.650
And if you really seek
with an open mind and an
26:58.717 --> 27:01.920
open heart, with God’s
help you will find your
27:01.987 --> 27:05.390
way to the only possible
starting place in the
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search for those answers:
The very first sentence of
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the Bible,
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“In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.”
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I hope you will find the
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courage to look behind
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Ames, Rod McNair, and myself waiting for you, ready to
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of Jesus Christ, the
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prophecy, and the Good
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