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Many claim that science has
removed the need for a creator.
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After all, they say, "We now
know the universe began in a
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sort of big bang, expanding in
every direction we can see.
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We understand the structure
of matter, why it behaves the
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way it does and the laws
that govern it all."
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Closer to home, we understand
life itself, they say.
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It's simply evolved
from non-living matter,
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with chance combinations of
chemicals enduring over time
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as they were somehow more fit
for survival and duplication.
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Until billions of years
later, you have a world of
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whales, giraffes, bald eagles...
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And yes, even television hosts.
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Yet, when you look more closely,
those claims fall apart
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because in every
aspect of the world,
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if you're willing to seek out
and to accept the evidence,
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you see the fingerprints
of a divine creator.
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Join us for this episode
of Tomorrow's World,
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where we will examine
ways in which science
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reveals God's fingerprints.
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On this program, our goal is to
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through the pages of the Bible.
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And on today's episode,
there's certainly a literal
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quality to that statement,
because our aim is to help
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you understand the world, the
whole world a little bit better
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by following the evidence
left in that world
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where it logically leads,
and where it leads us is
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to the powerful and loving
Creator God of the Bible.
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Too many think believing in God
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When in reality, all the
evidence around us points
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to a divine intelligence.
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Ancient King David of
Israel composed many of
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the Psalms of the Bible,
and in them he makes a
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simple and elegant point.
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Yet there are many
scientists today who would
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call King David the fool.
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They stare into the cosmos
above or examine the variety of
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life in the world and see no
evidence of God anywhere at all.
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They look into nature and
see nothing in it that
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points beyond nature.
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This sentiment was perhaps
most famously expressed by
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biologist, evolutionist, and
staunch atheist Richard Dawkins.
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When he wrote...
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That is the universe
and all that is in it
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look exactly as we
should expect them to
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if there is no God.
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So who's right,
Mr. Dawkins or King David?
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Without a doubt,
King David is correct.
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Too many physicists,
cosmologists, and biologists
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refuse to see the evidence
before their eyes,
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refuse to acknowledge the
fingerprints of God that exist
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all over the very
subjects they study.
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They proclaim a dedication to
following the evidence, but
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when the evidence points
in a direction they find
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undesirable, they look away.
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My friends, we don't have
to repeat their mistakes.
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God's fingerprints are numerous
throughout his creation,
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examines seven different
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categories of evidence
where his fingerprints
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are obvious.
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On today's program, however,
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we only have time to
look at three examples.
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And as we do, we'll
take some of our cues
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from King David himself.
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For instance, in Psalm 19,
David wrote,
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That is, David looked on the
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cosmos around us and saw
God's fingerprints there.
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He recognized the truth
revealed in the very
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first verse of the Bible.
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So without a telescope
or spectral analysis
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or cosmic microwave
measurements, David could
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still look at the universe
above his head and conclude:
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This is a fingerprint of God
who created all of this.
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And science has
backed the Bible up.
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As the evidence does
point to a universe that
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did not always exist,
there really was a
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beginning to everything.
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Today, the Big Bang theory
has taken so much for granted
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that many do not realize
that when evidence for
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it was first discovered,
scientists vigorously opposed
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it because it sounded too much
like the description of God's
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creation in the book of Genesis.
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For instance, when
Georges Lemaître first
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suggested that relativity
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implied that the universe began
at a certain point in time,
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Albert Einstein told him that
it suggests too much the
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theological idea of creation.
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Writing in the esteemed science
journal Nature , astrophysicist
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Sir Arthur Eddington said
of the idea:
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And astronomer and cosmologist
Fred Hoyle mocked the idea of
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a beginning to the universe,
saying that the idea of a Big
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Bang was, "a form of
religious fundamentalism."
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In fact, he coined the term "Big
Bang" to ridicule the idea,
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saying that...
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Why they were all
unnerved is perhaps
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best summed up in a statement
by famous physicist
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Stephen Hawking.
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As New Scientist
magazine reported in 2011,
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he noted...
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While many years have passed
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and the verdict is in, the
scientists who rejected
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a beginning of the universe
because it sounded too
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much like the Bible were
wrong, and a universe that
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came into existence at
some point in time is now
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considered the reigning
theory and cosmology.
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As prominent physicist Alexander
Vilenkin wrote in 2007...
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Why would so many scientists
consider that a problem?
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Well, think about it.
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If the universe had a beginning,
then what caused that beginning.
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After all, science is very much
the study of cause and effect.
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If the universe
itself is the effect,
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then what was the cause?
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And when scientists talk
about the universe,
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that means the entirety
of the natural world,
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all matter, all energy,
all space, and all time.
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So the cause of their beginning
would have to be beyond matter,
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beyond energy, beyond
space, and beyond time.
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That is, if all that is natural
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had a beginning, then it
points to a cause that
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is supernatural.
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That is, the beginning
of the universe is one
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massive fingerprint
that points to God.
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In a world like ours
filled with authoritative
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sounding voices declaring
that there is no God,
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it is vital that we take
the time to prove to
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ourselves that he is real,
he is there, and he does
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make himself known.
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a purpose for your life.
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Welcome back.
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We're examining a few
of the fingerprints
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of God science has
revealed in creation.
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Evidence that points
us in the direction of
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the Creator described
by the Bible.
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In our last segment,
we saw the fingerprint
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of the Almighty God on
the very beginning of the
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universe. Genesis says that
God created the universe,
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and indeed the best
theory in cosmology says
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that the universe did
indeed have a beginning.
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And if all time, space,
matter, and energy was
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brought into existence, the
cause of that existence
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must transcend time,
space, matter, and energy.
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Fingerprint of a
divine Creator indeed.
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But we can go further.
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What makes science
and the study of
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this vast universe possible?
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Not just the fact
that the universe exists,
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but that it is a law-abiding
and orderly universe.
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Calling the
beginning of the universe
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the "Big Bang" gives the wrong
impression that it was
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like an explosion of randomness
and chaos, but nothing could
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be further from the truth.
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Just consider the collection
of mathematical equations and
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laws that ensure all things
in creation run in an orderly
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structured way--the way in which
the universe expands, the matter
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in which energy and matter in
the fundamental forces interact
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is strictly governed by
precise mathematical
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laws such as Newton's
Laws of Motion, Maxwell's
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Equations concerning light and
electromagnetism, the Einstein
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Field Equations, the Heisenberg
Uncertainty Principle, and the
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Schrödinger Wave Equation.
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Many fundamental laws reign over
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our reality, keeping it
ordered and functional.
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And yet, the order and
structure go further.
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While there are still mysteries
we don't fully understand,
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such as theoretical dark
matter and dark energy,
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the standard model of modern
physics tells us that everything
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we see in the universe is built
out of only 17 basic building
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blocks--12 basic particles of
matter, four force carrying
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particles, and one particle
giving the others mass.
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Imagine all the vast
variety we see here on
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Earth, let alone throughout
the cosmos, all built
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from a construction
set of only 17 basic,
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invisible law-abiding
particles, making the
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entire universe possible.
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How can anyone in their
right mind conclude
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that this astonishingly
versatile universe building
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construction set came into
existence randomly and without
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planning and intelligence?
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And yet the order goes
even deeper because the
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universe is more than
ordered and law-abiding,
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the laws exhibit extreme
fine-tuning to make complex
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life like ours possible.
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For instance, the strength of
gravity, the relative strengths
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of charges and the masses of the
particles that make up the atom:
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As Stephen Hawking put it
in his groundbreaking book,
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A Brief History of Time...
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Or as astronomer and cosmologist
Fred Hoyle wrote...
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Again, science points
in the direction
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of a divine God, a God
whose super-intellect and
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planning mind did exist
before the universe.
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The Bible declares about that
God in Isaiah 33:22.
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"The Lord is our Lawgiver."
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And in Jeremiah 33:25, God
declares that He has ordained
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the ordinances of heaven
and earth.
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And the Bible says He
did not just make it
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an orderly law-abiding
creation, but one intended
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to be inhabited by life.
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We see this in
Isaiah 45 and verse 18.
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This discussion of the powerful
laws we see in nature and the
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fine-tuning of the universe is
gone into in much more detail
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in today's free booklet, The
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evidence on multiple fronts,
demonstrating that God's
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existence is the best
and most reasonable
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explanation for the world
we see around us, both the
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world above our heads and
the world right here on
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the ground where we live.
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♪
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Welcome back.
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We've examined God's
fingerprints on our universe
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inspired by King
David's statement
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that the heavens declare
the glory of God.
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Now let's look at another
passage written by King David
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that takes us in a completely
different direction in our
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hunt for God's fingerprints.
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In Psalm 139 and
verse 14, we read...
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Yes, David saw God's
fingerprints on the
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grandest of cosmic scales,
but he also saw them
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in the smallest and most
intimate scales in his own body.
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Frankly, in your
body as well.
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Life itself carries the
fingerprints of God.
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Consider for instance the
smallest unit of life: the cell.
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As biologists have learned
to peer into the microscopic
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world of the living cell,
they have discovered an
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absolutely amazing world,
so intelligently structured
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in its vast array of inner
workings and mechanisms,
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that it puts to shame
every piece of human
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technology ever invented.
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Within that tiny, microscopic,
invisible realm are
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amazing molecular machines,
pumps and gateways and
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transportation systems and
waste management apparatus,
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communication systems,
interactive architecture, and
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chemical recognition mechanisms
and environmental maintenance
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equipment, and in the
center of it all, DNA:
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an information storage
system of vast capabilities.
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Richard Dawkins stated
in his landmark book
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The Blind Watchmaker
that...
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Wow, DNA and proteins and
other molecular apparatus that
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process, duplicate, repair,
and maintain it represent
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nanotechnology of
nearly unimaginable
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complexity and wonder
that for all of our
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efforts, we have yet been
able to create ourselves.
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In a paper published in 2012,
prominent molecular geneticist
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George Church
said plainly...
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Less than a year later,
the journal Nature
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reported that a team of
scientists demonstrated this
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capacity in DNA by encoding
all 154 of Shakespeare's
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sonnets, the original
scientific paper by Francis
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Crick and James Watson
about the structure of DNA,
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a color photograph of the
European Bioinformatics
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Institute in England and an
audio excerpt of Martin Luther
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King's famous "I Have
a Dream" speech--
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all of it in
a tiny bit of DNA.
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Not a hard drive, not a USB
drive--in a tiny bit of DNA.
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Then, they mailed the
DNA in a vial with no
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special packaging from the
United States to Germany,
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where colleagues were able to
successfully decode the contents
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back into their original
text, visual, and audio
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formats, with 100% accuracy.
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The complexity of the cellular
machinery and the information
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bearing capabilities of DNA
should be seen as fingerprints
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pointing to the presence of a
Great Designer behind them.
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Yet most scientists continue
to look away from the obvious
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conclusions of the evidence,
no matter how much work they
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must do to convince themselves
that the obvious isn't obvious.
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For instance, evolutionist
Richard Dawkins
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wrote in his book The
Blind Watchmaker...
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Similarly, Francis Crick,
co-discoverer of the amazing
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structure of the DNA molecule,
has written...
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What fascinating admissions.
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Each man is saying that
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biologists spend their
time steering straight
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at the designer's fingerprints,
yet must, for some reason,
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work to prevent themselves
from concluding that
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there is a designer.
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Mr. Dawkins says that biology
is the study of complicated
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things that appear to have
been purposefully designed.
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Mr. Crick says that the evidence
of design is so strong that
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biologists must force themselves
not to accept the evidence and
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to believe in evolution instead.
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It seems that many
scientists have forgotten
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the Duck Principle.
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If it looks like a duck, quacks
like a duck, and walks like
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a duck, it's probably a duck.
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More seriously, such examples
of willing and intentionally
21:59.151 --> 22:01.920
cultivated ignorance
should remind us of a
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warning from the Apostle Paul.
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In Romans chapter 1,
beginning in verse 18,
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he wrote the following.
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Truly without excuse.
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It is sheer
folly to ignore the
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evidence and choose to believe
that such an intricate and
22:49.601 --> 22:53.839
powerfully intelligent system
as we find in our own cells
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was not designed.
22:55.307 --> 22:58.276
With every cell
reading the programs
22:58.343 --> 23:01.346
encoded in our DNA like
a hundred trillion
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computers reading a hundred
trillion hard drives every
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second of every day of our
lives, then our own lives
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are astonishing evidence to the
existence of our own Creator.
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The fingerprints
of our Creator are there
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all over life, all over
our own lives down to the
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microscopic designs of our
complex cellular machinery.
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Science has shown that King
David's statement was far
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more true than he could
have ever understood.
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We should all praise
God for we are indeed
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fearfully and wonderfully made.
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Welcome back.
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There are, frankly, so many
more fingerprints of God
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that can be found if
we look even beyond
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the realm of science.
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But since our theme was
sort of scientific today,
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let me propose an
experiment to you.
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In the last segment,
we highlighted
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that you, in your body,
your life, have God's
25:11.009 --> 25:12.978
fingerprints on you.
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That is not an accident.
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God did create the cosmos
to enable human life,
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and He did design human
life, including yours
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for a grand and amazing purpose.
25:25.257 --> 25:28.426
And you bear His
fingerprints on you
25:28.493 --> 25:30.962
because He is crafting
something out of you.
25:31.029 --> 25:34.532
He is invested in you, and
He longs to give you a
25:34.599 --> 25:39.104
life and a purpose greater than
any you have ever imagined.
25:39.170 --> 25:41.940
So to set up the
experiment, consider this.
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God didn't just design life.
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He designed a way of life
that will help you accomplish
25:48.179 --> 25:49.714
His goals for you.
25:49.781 --> 25:53.585
And as the Creator of all
life, God knows how life
25:53.652 --> 25:55.153
is to be lived.
25:55.220 --> 25:58.023
Jesus Christ tells us
in the book of John...
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For those who want that life,
who want God near to them,
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guiding their lives and steps,
he explains very clearly how
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to make that happen in the
book of James, chapter 4 and
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verse 8.
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The experiment I have
in mind is this.
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Draw near to God.
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See if He will draw near to you.
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Open His word and
do what it says.
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Seek Him and see
what you will find,
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but you'll have to seek
Him with all your heart.
26:38.463 --> 26:41.866
He tells us this Himself
in His word, saying...
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Frankly, most people don't
have the courage to try.
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Many like to believe in God.
26:57.015 --> 26:59.985
They like to see His
fingerprints everywhere,
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but they won't consider
that those fingerprints
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are there for a reason
and that God wants them
27:06.992 --> 27:08.893
to act on that reason.
27:08.960 --> 27:11.529
If you see the fingerprints
of God around you
27:11.596 --> 27:15.467
and both want to see them
more and want to grab
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hold of the things for
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And wherever that evidence
leads you, we hope it includes
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coming back here next week.
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When you return, Gerald
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will be here waiting for you--
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ready to share with you
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Christ, the hope of the
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