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Do an Internet search and ask, "How did life begin on earth?"
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and you'll find articles and videos pointing to some kind
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of evolutionary explanation.
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One honest NASA scientist
in a video on the subject
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begins and ends with,
"We just don't know."
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Yet, he is clearly looking
for a naturalistic or
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evolutionary explanation.
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Consider that there are
only three fundamental
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hypotheses for life
existing on planet Earth:
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1) Life was transported to
Earth from someplace else--
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something called "Panspermia."
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2) All life evolved
from non-living matter.
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And 3) An intelligent being--
who we might think of as God--
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created life.
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Which is correct?
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Can you know?
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While there is much about
life that we do not know,
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the answer of how life
began, can be known.
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On this Tomorrow's World program, I'll be answering
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that question, and I'll also
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Warm greetings to all of
you from all of us here at
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Tomorrow's World, where today I'm asking and answering
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the question: How did life
begin on planet Earth?
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And later in the program I'll address an additional question,
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"If God is the cause of
life, how did He do it?"
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First, let's notice the
three fundamental hypotheses
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for the origin of life
on planet Earth:
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1) Life was transported
to Earth--something
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called "Panspermia."
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2) All life evolved
from non-living matter.
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And 3) An intelligent being--
or God--created life.
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Setting aside the huge problems of even bacterial life traveling
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through vast distances of space, over immense times, and in
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an environment that is hostile to life, the idea that life
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was transported to Earth from somewhere else in the universe--
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merely postpones
the central question.
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If life was transported to planet earth by a meteor
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or some other unknown means,
how did it begin at that
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original source?
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Was it by chance?
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Or was it by an infinitely great mind with unlimited power?
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Since the time when
Charles Darwin's thesis,
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On the Origin of Species,
was published more than
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165 years ago, the need
for God in people's minds
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has been diminished.
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After all, if we're no more
than the product of blind
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evolutionary chance, what need is there for a Divine Creator?
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However, in the last half century, insurmountable
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cracks have appeared
in Darwin's thesis.
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Let's note three of them.
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Crack #1: The fossil record argues against evolution.
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But this may surprise you since evolutionists often point to
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the fossil record as proof.
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However, they personally
know better.
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The lack of fossil evidence was a problem from the beginning
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and Darwin admitted this,
but it was hoped that with
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greater fossil finds, the intermediates, the so-called
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missing links, would be found.
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But sadly, for evolutionists,
that has not happened.
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Every few years we hear "the missing link has been found,"
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but is that true?
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The answer is no it is not.
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Part of the problem is that
it is not a single link,
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but tens of thousands of
links that are required--
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not only for man, but for
every living creature.
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Scientist Michael Denton
pulls back the curtain
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on the geologic record,
in his insightful book,
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"Evolution: A Theory in Crisis."
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"The overall picture of life on Earth today is so discontinuous,
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the gaps between the different types so obvious, that, as
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Steven Stanley reminds us in
his recent book Macroevolution,
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if our knowledge of biology was restricted to those species
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presently existing on earth,
"we might wonder whether the
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doctrine of evolution would qualify as anything more than
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an outrageous hypothesis."
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And as Denton points out,
and evolutionary scientists
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must admit, missing transitions--that is,
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intermediate forms--plagued Darwin from the beginning.
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"The absence of intermediates, although damaging, was not
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fatal in 1860, for it was
reasonable to hope that
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many would eventually
be found as geological
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activities increased."
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However, time and new
discoveries have not been
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allies of evolution.
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Denton suggests that "probably 99.9%" of our current knowledge
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of the fossil record has been discovered since 1860, and:
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"Only a small fraction of
the hundred thousand or so
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fossil species known today
were known to Darwin.
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But virtually all the new
fossil species discovered
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since Darwin's time have
either been closely related
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to known forms or,
like the Poganophoras,
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strange unique types
of unknown affinity."
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Transitional forms simply
are not there, and Denton
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states the obvious to any
honest person who looks
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at the fossil record
with an open mind:
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"Without intermediates or transitional forms to bridge
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the enormous gaps which
separate existing species
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and groups of organisms,
the concept of evolution
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could never be taken seriously
as a scientific hypothesis."
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So, crack number one in the evolutionary hypothesis is:
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The fossil record argues
against evolution.
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Now for crack number two:
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It is mathematically impossible for life to rise from dead
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matter by chance.
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Science writer and evolutionist Bill Bryson explains:
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"No one really knows, but
there may be as many as a
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million [different] types of protein in the human body, and
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each one is a little miracle."
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One of those million or so miracles that you have likely
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heard of is collagen.
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And regarding the odds of
it self-assembling, Bryson
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states what all rational
scientists must admit:
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"The chances of a 1,055 sequence molecule like collagen
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spontaneously self-assembling are, frankly, nil.
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It just isn't going to happen."
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He then went on to describe
the mathematical odds against
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a much smaller 200 string protein self-assembling,
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as greater than all the
atoms in the universe.
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The larger collagen protein happening by chance is of a
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magnitude incomprehensibly greater, but collagen
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is not even close to
the largest protein.
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Titin gives elasticity to
our muscles and much more,
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and it contains somewhere
in the neighborhood of more
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than 33,000 amino acids.
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That's like throwing letters
of the alphabet together and
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by accident forming a coherent sentence made up of some
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33,000 or more letters.
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No wonder evolutionist
Bill Bryson makes this
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remarkable admission.
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"By all the laws of probability proteins shouldn't exist."
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Nature programs and books generally portray evolution
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as fact rather than theory.
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However, this theory is in
crisis, as Michael Denton
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explains in Evolution:
A Theory in Crisis.
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So far, I've given you two cracks in the theory.
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Crack #1: The fossil record argues against evolution.
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And, Crack #2: It is
mathematically impossible
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for life to rise from
dead matter by chance.
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I want to share with you
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another giant chasm--
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Evolution is considered a proven fact in the minds of many.
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So much so that few biology teachers, scientists, and
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journalists, who want
to retain their jobs,
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are willing to openly profess believing otherwise.
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But has it been proven?
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Life is either the result of cosmic accidents or the result
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of great intelligence
with unlimited power.
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There's no other choice.
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In the previous portion of this program, I gave you two cracks
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in the theory of evolution.
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Now here is a third crack:
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Life is complex beyond
our comprehension.
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When Charles Darwin formulated his theory and published it
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in 1859, he had no concept about the complexity of the cell.
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But with the advent of modern technologies that allow us to
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see inside the cell, we now
know that the complexity of
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cells staggers the mind.
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As Michael Denton explains:
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"Between a living cell
and the most highly ordered
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non-biological system,
such as a crystal or a
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snowflake, there is a chasm
as vast and absolute as it
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is possible to conceive....
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Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small...
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each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory
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containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of
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intricate molecular machinery... far more complicated than any
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machine built by man and absolutely without parallel
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in the non-living world."
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Denton goes on to explain:
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"The complexity of the simplest known type of cell is so great
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that it is impossible to accept
that such an object could have
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been thrown together suddenly
by some kind of freakish,
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vastly improbable, event.
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Such an occurrence would
be indistinguishable
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from a miracle."
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In his 2019 book on the
subject of the human body,
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Bill Bryson makes this
thought-provoking admission:
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"You could call together all
the brainiest people who are
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alive now or have ever lived
and endow them with the complete
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sum of human knowledge, and they
could not between them make
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a single living cell..."
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Yet, evolutionists want us
to believe that something so
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complex happened by chance.
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The truth is that scientists cannot give a rational
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explanation how such a
grand accident could occur.
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Oh, they give just-so stories that sound good on the surface:
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this might have happened,
then this may have come about,
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and is it not hard to imagine this change taking place,
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etc., etc., and etc.?
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All this leads us to
the obvious conclusion:
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What is the most reasonable explanation for life?
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Many scientists and
philosophers are coming
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to the realization that
evolution is found wanting
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and that the only rational
explanation is that there
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is an intelligent
Creator behind life.
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Perhaps the most striking example is that of
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the late Antony Flew,
considered by many to be
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"the world's most influential
philosophical atheist."
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"But early in 2004, at
the age of eighty-one,
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he changed his mind.
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Flew announced his conversion
to deism, launching seismic
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waves throughout the
philosophic community....
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He had become convinced that life would not be possible
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without the extreme fine
tuning of the universe,
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and this was only possible
with a designer.
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In addition, he concluded
that new discoveries about
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DNA made it impossible that
life could be an accident.
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As he put it:
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"It now seems to me that
the findings of more than
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fifty years of DNA research
have provided materials for a
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new and enormously powerful argument to design."
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When we consider how complex life truly is on every level,
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it brings us to
another question:
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How could God do it?
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It should be obvious to anyone who knows even a little bit
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about the structure and operation of cells,
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that they cannot
happen by chance.
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As Michael Denton
rightfully stated:
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"The complexity of the simplest
known type of cell is so great
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that it is impossible to accept that such an object could have
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been thrown together suddenly
by some kind of freakish,
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vastly improbable, event.
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Such an occurrence would
be indistinguishable
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from a miracle."
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Yes, we are left breathless regarding life's complexity,
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so much so that we must ask:
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How could even God do it?
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I'll answer that question in the next portion of this program,
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A 1961 hit song tells us
that God made a woman out of
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a hundred pounds of clay,
an obvious reference to the
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biblical account of man being made of the dust of the ground.
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But much is left
out of this picture.
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My guess is that many people envision God taking clay
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and molding it in the form
of a man, then breathing into
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his nostrils, and the clay suddenly became a living man.
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But was it that simple?
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Was it magic?
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How did the circulatory system, the digestive system, the
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respiratory system come to be?
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How were all the organs--
heart, liver, spleen,
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and pancreas--formed?
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And let us not
forget our brain.
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As Bryson says:
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"The most extraordinary
thing in the universe
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is inside your head.
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You could travel through
every inch of outer space
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and very possibly nowhere
find anything as marvelous
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and complex and high
functioning as the three
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pounds of spongy mass
between your ears."
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How did something so
marvelous and complex
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as the brain come to be?
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How did the cells that make up the organs and systems, with
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all their amazing organelles
and protein machines,
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suddenly appear?
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The human body, and all
living creatures,
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whether great or small,
are designed from the
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microscopic to cause the
body to function as a whole.
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As explained in the previous portion of this program,
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the complexity of life is so great that scientists readily
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admit it is mathematically impossible to happen by chance,
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yet they refuse to entertain
any alternative in their
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materialistic religion.
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But if there is no other
alternative than God,
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how did He do it?
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How did he construct the
cells, the organs, and all
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the intricate details, all
at once before it began
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decomposition--something that begins almost immediately?
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Think about it dear friends.
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This is no small thing.
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How could God do it?
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Well, Psalm 33:6 tells us...
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"By the word of the LORD
the heavens were made,
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And all the host of them by
the breath of His mouth."
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Yes, "by the word of the LORD" and "the breath of His mouth."
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One could argue that this is poetic and not to be taken
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literally, but the idea that
it was by God's command that
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the universe and life on
this planet came to be,
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is found throughout the Bible.
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Notice that this is
confirmed in the very
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first chapter of Genesis.
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I won't read it all, but let's begin with verse 24...
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"Then God said, "Let the
earth bring forth the living
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creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing
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and beast of the earth,
each according to its kind";
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and it was so....
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Then God said, "Let Us
make man in Our image,
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according to Our likeness"....
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So God created man in His
own image; in the image of
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God He created him; male
and female He created them."
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This account is severely
abbreviated and leaves much
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out, but another passage confirms that it was the
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voice of God by which
creation took place.
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Breaking into a thought in Psalm 148, we read the following...
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"Praise Him, you
heavens of heavens,
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And you waters
above the heavens!
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Let them praise the
name of the LORD,
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For He commanded and
they were created."
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And then there's
Hebrews 1:2-3...
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"[God] has in these last days spoken to us by His Son,
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whom He has appointed
heir of all things,
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through whom also He made
the worlds; who being the
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brightness of His glory and the express image of His person,
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and [notice this] upholding
all things by the word
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of His power...."
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But what exactly
does this mean?
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How could He do
it by commanding?
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I'll explore one possibility
in the last portion of this
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20:41.773 --> 20:46.244
The debate over how life
began has huge implications.
20:46.311 --> 20:49.848
The late William Provine,
a professor of biology at
20:49.915 --> 20:54.786
Cornell University, explains
the evolutionist's perspective:
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"Let me summarize my
views on what modern
20:57.589 --> 21:01.360
evolutionary biology tells
us loud and clear.
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There is no life after death.
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When I die, I am absolutely certain that I am going
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to be dead.
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That's the end of me.
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There is no ultimate foundation for ethics, no ultimate meaning
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in life, and no free will
for humans, either."
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What a dark, hopeless, and
purposeless state of mind,
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but it is one thing to
believe something--
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quite another to prove it.
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Welcome back.
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On this Tomorrow's World
program, I'm discussing
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the origins of life, briefly surveying what scientists
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and philosophers tell us about the complexity of life and
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how it simply could not come about by blind chance--
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Richard Dawkins notwithstanding.
22:22.774 --> 22:25.777
But in this last portion of
our program, I want to explore
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one possibility of how God could bring about life on this planet.
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As we saw in the
previous segment...
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God spoke and it was done.
22:36.154 --> 22:37.155
And...
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"By the word of the LORD
the heavens were made,
22:39.458 --> 22:42.527
And all the host of them by
the breath of His mouth."
22:42.594 --> 22:43.662
And...
22:43.729 --> 22:46.531
"He upholds all things by
the word of His power."
22:46.598 --> 22:49.334
But exactly how did God do it?
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Did kidneys and lungs,
spleens and hearts,
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magically appear without God consciously designing them?
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We have a technology that
may at least help us imagine
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what this may have been like.
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While it has been in the
background for several years,
23:05.984 --> 23:08.420
it's only in recent times
that we, the public,
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have become aware of the power of Artificial Intelligence.
23:12.491 --> 23:16.862
And while it is a terribly weak analogy, it may help us begin
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to have a sense of what it was like for God to create life.
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Today's A.I. platforms seem
very powerful and creative.
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Ask an A.I. program for a picture of diving cats,
23:29.775 --> 23:32.611
and it will generate one
on your computer screen--
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you see different species
of cats doing somersaults
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off a diving board
into the water.
23:38.750 --> 23:41.620
The cats are not real,
of course.
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Computer programmers can describe new applications, and
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A.I. writes the code for them.
23:47.959 --> 23:51.129
Students use A.I. to
write term papers.
23:51.196 --> 23:53.999
They type in guidelines
regarding the subject,
23:54.065 --> 23:58.537
the style to be written in,
the word count, etc. and
23:58.603 --> 24:02.340
A.I. generates the thesis--
not always accurately,
24:02.407 --> 24:05.677
and sometimes not without bias.
24:05.744 --> 24:09.347
Yet, these A.I. platforms
cannot truly create anything
24:09.414 --> 24:10.782
on their own.
24:10.849 --> 24:14.152
Instead, they have been trained using vast collections of
24:14.219 --> 24:19.024
mankind's knowledge: art, literature, scientific
24:19.090 --> 24:21.726
publications and much more.
24:21.793 --> 24:26.331
A.I. is doing the work, but
A.I. is powered by the sum of
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human knowledge and creativity.
24:29.201 --> 24:33.371
Yet the mind of God is far greater than all of mankind's
24:33.438 --> 24:35.140
combined knowledge.
24:35.207 --> 24:38.243
Let me remind you of the
Bill Bryson quote given
24:38.310 --> 24:39.845
earlier in this program:
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"You could call together all
the brainiest people who are
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alive now or have ever lived
and endow them with the complete
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sum of human knowledge, and
they could not between them
24:52.290 --> 24:55.227
make a single living cell..."
24:55.293 --> 25:00.799
In our analogy--as imperfect
as it is--the mind of God is
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a reservoir of knowledge far greater than man can amass.
25:05.437 --> 25:09.941
God could have thought through, planned, and designed every
25:10.008 --> 25:13.378
detail of life, from the intricacies of cellular
25:13.445 --> 25:18.016
structures to the complexities of life's chemical processes.
25:18.083 --> 25:22.687
He had to design, as it were-- write the code of life--
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that we call DNA.
25:24.522 --> 25:27.993
With all that planned out,
He could then simply speak the
25:28.059 --> 25:31.663
instructions, and instead of
an image on a computer screen
25:31.730 --> 25:35.867
appearing, real life forms appeared at His command,
25:35.934 --> 25:39.371
according to the very
designs He had planned.
25:39.437 --> 25:42.807
The point is, that while A.I. may be a terribly flawed
25:42.874 --> 25:47.145
analogy, it can help us to see how every detail of life could
25:47.212 --> 25:52.450
be planned out in the mind of God prior to speaking the word.
25:52.517 --> 25:55.787
And when He did speak, the
elements of the universe He
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created obeyed His instructions.
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God's mind and power are
vastly superior to ours.
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Life did not happen by chance--
it's far too complicated for
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that, and scientists know it.
26:10.802 --> 26:14.539
Only the mind of God, along
with His endless power,
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could create life.
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One of my favorite quotes
comes from Michael Behe
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in the context of modern discoveries revealing the
26:23.748 --> 26:26.751
incredible complexity
of cellular life.
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He writes:
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"The result of these cumulative
efforts to investigate the
26:31.656 --> 26:35.427
cell--to investigate life
at the molecular level--
26:35.493 --> 26:39.998
is a loud, clear, piercing
cry of "design!"
26:40.065 --> 26:44.703
The result is so unambiguous
and so significant that it
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must be ranked as one of the greatest achievements in
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the history of science....
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This triumph of science should evoke cries of "Eureka!"
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from ten thousand throats,
should occasion much
26:57.315 --> 27:01.086
hand-slapping and high-fiving, and perhaps even be an
27:01.152 --> 27:03.555
excuse to take a day off.
27:03.621 --> 27:08.560
But no bottles have been uncorked, no hands slapped.
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Instead, a curious, embarrassed silence surrounds the stark
27:12.564 --> 27:14.799
complexity of the cell.
27:14.866 --> 27:18.470
When the subject comes up in public, feet start to shuffle,
27:18.536 --> 27:21.239
and breathing gets
a bit labored.
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In private people are
a bit more relaxed;
27:24.576 --> 27:29.080
many explicitly admit the
obvious but then stare at the
27:29.147 --> 27:33.284
ground, shake their heads,
and let it go at that.
27:33.351 --> 27:37.122
Why does the scientific
community not greedily embrace
27:37.188 --> 27:39.124
its startling discovery?
27:39.190 --> 27:42.060
Why is the observation
of design handled with
27:42.127 --> 27:43.895
intellectual gloves?
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The dilemma is that while
one side of the elephant is
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labeled intelligent design,
the other side might be
27:51.536 --> 27:53.838
labeled God."
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Thank you for watching.
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And be sure to come back next week when Wallace Smith,
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Rod McNair, and I will be right here ready to share with you
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the incredible wonders of God, the teachings of Jesus Christ
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and His coming Kingdom,
and end-time Bible prophecies.
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See you next time.
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