WEBVTT 00:08.890 --> 00:14.170 I'm going to start the lecture by reading something that Chuck Colson sent out a 00:14.170 --> 00:14.530 while back. 00:14.630 --> 00:18.990 Every once in a while I read something and it just catches my attention because the 00:18.990 --> 00:22.710 implications are huge and they're not necessarily immediately apparent. 00:23.590 --> 00:28.570 But this is a story, it was written by Prison Fellowship President Mark Early. 00:29.810 --> 00:34.090 And he says he has a friend named Julie that went away to college and she made a 00:34.090 --> 00:36.430 point of sharing Christ with her roommates. 00:36.430 --> 00:38.650 As Christians should do. 00:39.370 --> 00:42.070 And they listened politely and seemed very supportive. 00:43.090 --> 00:47.390 Julie was excited because all of her roommates seemed very open to the gospel 00:47.390 --> 00:47.950 message. 00:48.410 --> 00:54.510 But to her surprise, they responded just as warmly when Sally said she was into the 00:54.510 --> 00:57.310 new age and believed that God was within all of us. 00:57.790 --> 01:02.250 And then Amy said she believed that God was a force, the kind she had seen on Star 01:02.250 --> 01:03.250 Wars and other movies. 01:03.250 --> 01:08.290 And Ruth followed up by saying she was a very spiritual person but didn't believe 01:08.290 --> 01:09.530 there was any God at all. 01:10.050 --> 01:15.410 But most baffling at all to Julie was that the others agreed that everyone was really 01:15.410 --> 01:16.770 saying the same thing. 01:17.750 --> 01:20.270 Now see, that's where our culture is at. 01:21.730 --> 01:24.310 Totally opposite spiritual ideas. 01:24.610 --> 01:27.230 Completely conflicting spiritual ideas. 01:27.730 --> 01:31.430 And yet these young people have been trained to believe that they're basically 01:31.430 --> 01:32.370 all the same thing. 01:32.370 --> 01:38.250 Now Alan Bloom wrote a very, very famous and influential book clear back in 1987. 01:38.250 --> 01:40.490 It was called Closing of the American Mind. 01:41.170 --> 01:44.310 And this was one of the statements he made in the introduction to that book. 01:44.890 --> 01:48.930 There is one thing that a professor can be absolutely certain of. 01:49.730 --> 01:55.090 Almost every student entering university believes or says that he believes that 01:55.090 --> 01:56.510 truth is relative. 01:57.240 --> 02:03.270 In other words, in our culture today, truth is considered very fluid. 02:03.630 --> 02:06.290 It's a philosophical concept. 02:06.990 --> 02:11.930 And if two people have completely opposite truths about things, then well, 02:12.030 --> 02:12.890 that's good for them. 02:12.910 --> 02:15.370 As long as they believe something, that's all that matters. 02:16.450 --> 02:20.390 These same students would never have that viewpoint about gravity. 02:20.390 --> 02:25.450 They wouldn't believe that if I believe gravity doesn't exist, and I believe it's 02:25.450 --> 02:27.990 strong enough, then that's all that matters. 02:28.650 --> 02:35.630 You see, they have come to think there's a complete separation of the physical world, 02:35.950 --> 02:41.350 and physical stuff, and scientific stuff, and religious, philosophic stuff. 02:41.830 --> 02:43.490 They've seen it as a complete separation. 02:43.630 --> 02:45.170 And that's the culture we live in. 02:45.450 --> 02:48.530 And that's the people that you all are surrounded with. 02:48.530 --> 02:55.550 Because for the most part, if not everyone here, they believe in all or some part of 02:55.550 --> 02:57.270 Christian concepts of absolutes. 02:57.470 --> 02:59.310 But it is not what our culture believes. 03:00.610 --> 03:05.210 You see, there's a consequence to what's going on here, as we separate the physical 03:05.210 --> 03:07.010 world from the spiritual world. 03:07.450 --> 03:08.610 And this is the consequence. 03:09.410 --> 03:13.130 This is a Barna poll, it's been done many times, as late as the year 2000. 03:13.910 --> 03:19.850 He has went out, done polls, done studies, tracked what's going on in our churches, 03:20.610 --> 03:26.430 and found out that up to 70 or more percent of youth in evangelical, 03:26.850 --> 03:31.230 Bible-believing colleges, when they leave for secular college, within a year they 03:31.230 --> 03:34.470 consider their religious beliefs fluid or irrelevant. 03:35.270 --> 03:37.390 They no longer believe in what the Bible has to say. 03:37.730 --> 03:39.070 What in the world's going on? 03:39.910 --> 03:42.090 How could we get to that point as a culture? 03:42.090 --> 03:46.030 You see, America has more churches. 03:46.530 --> 03:50.490 America is a country that has more churches, it has more denominations, 03:50.610 --> 03:54.170 it has more Christian colleges, more seminaries, Christian radio, 03:54.330 --> 03:58.210 Christian bookstore, para-church ministries, Dobson and Swindoll, 03:58.410 --> 04:00.290 and all these ministries, Larry Burkett. 04:00.970 --> 04:06.410 And yet, as we look over the last two decades, three decades, we see a nation 04:06.410 --> 04:09.990 that with every passing year is becoming less Christian, not more Christian. 04:09.990 --> 04:12.450 Now, God built me in a certain way. 04:12.530 --> 04:14.090 I've always loved to take things apart. 04:14.230 --> 04:15.990 I've loved to try to figure out how things work. 04:16.570 --> 04:20.350 As a kid, I would tear stuff apart and try to put it back together, usually 04:20.350 --> 04:21.250 unsuccessfully. 04:21.830 --> 04:28.150 And as I look at this, I see a church that it's not like it's not doing what it ought 04:28.150 --> 04:28.630 to be doing. 04:28.990 --> 04:31.930 It's out there preaching about Jesus Christ. 04:32.390 --> 04:37.630 We had Promise Keepers, huge movement among men over the last ten years ago, 04:37.630 --> 04:43.510 and yet, in the wake of Promise Keepers, do we see a nation that is more moving 04:43.510 --> 04:46.930 toward Christian principles or more moving away from Christian principles? 04:47.510 --> 04:51.270 And most people, if they're really honest, would have to agree we're moving away. 04:52.150 --> 04:57.450 What's going on, the church is very busy doing what God put the church here on 04:57.450 --> 05:02.470 earth to do, which is to speak on spiritual matters, to speak on truth and 05:02.470 --> 05:07.170 reality, but they're not tying reality to the physical world for the most part. 05:07.170 --> 05:12.610 And the ground on which this gospel message is being spread is becoming more 05:12.610 --> 05:16.430 and more rocky and more thorny and more hard-packed, and people are less 05:16.430 --> 05:16.930 receptive. 05:17.070 --> 05:19.430 It's like the girls I talked about at the very beginning. 05:19.770 --> 05:24.150 They just throw that into, well, that's nice, you believe it, but I have my 05:24.150 --> 05:24.910 own reality. 05:26.410 --> 05:26.890 Why? 05:27.770 --> 05:34.970 Jesus, starting with Jesus, really put his finger right on the bullseye of what is 05:34.970 --> 05:39.690 going on and why we're losing our culture and why the European nations are 05:39.690 --> 05:41.110 essentially pagan nations. 05:41.490 --> 05:45.830 Two, three percent church-attending, Bible-believing Christians in the whole 05:45.830 --> 05:50.790 continent of Europe, France, Spain, Germany, Holland, they all went from 05:50.790 --> 05:54.730 Christian evangelizing nations to the point where there's essentially no 05:54.730 --> 05:55.550 Christians there. 05:56.230 --> 06:01.590 Jesus said, in the most memorized, most famous verse in the Bible, 06:01.730 --> 06:07.530 John 3, 16, for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that 06:07.530 --> 06:11.230 whosoever believed in him should not perish but have eternal life. 06:12.110 --> 06:17.190 Just back up four verses, and you had Nicodemus coming to see Jesus in the 06:17.190 --> 06:19.530 middle of the night looking for answers in life. 06:19.610 --> 06:21.430 I think he was asking those kind of questions. 06:21.430 --> 06:23.250 What is truth? 06:23.410 --> 06:24.370 What's life all about? 06:24.490 --> 06:25.910 What's really important in life? 06:27.670 --> 06:32.110 And in the midst of asking these kind of questions, Jesus looked Nicodemus right in 06:32.110 --> 06:32.610 the eye. 06:33.150 --> 06:36.350 This was the wisest, most revered teacher in Israel. 06:36.490 --> 06:39.250 This was the man that people came to for answers. 06:40.030 --> 06:43.830 And he went to see Jesus at night because he really didn't know who Jesus was at 06:43.830 --> 06:44.350 that point. 06:45.450 --> 06:50.530 And Jesus looks him in the eye and he says, Nicodemus, if you don't believe me 06:50.530 --> 06:55.030 when I tell you of earthly things, how are you going to believe me when I 06:55.030 --> 06:56.470 tell you of spiritual things? 06:56.990 --> 06:58.490 You see, it's an if-then statement. 06:59.110 --> 07:03.670 If you reject the earthly stuff, how are you going to believe the spiritual 07:03.670 --> 07:04.090 stuff? 07:04.330 --> 07:05.450 See, there's the disconnect. 07:05.770 --> 07:08.090 Spiritual, earthly, you can't disconnect them. 07:08.970 --> 07:10.490 The second if-then statement. 07:11.750 --> 07:13.370 Jesus made this statement also. 07:13.830 --> 07:19.150 Jesus said, if you do not believe Moses and the prophets, neither will you be 07:19.150 --> 07:20.930 persuaded, though one rise from the dead. 07:21.610 --> 07:23.010 And you see, that's what's going on. 07:23.430 --> 07:28.710 What Moses, in the first five books, the Pentateuch of the Bible, talked about 07:28.710 --> 07:30.690 were earthly things. 07:30.970 --> 07:32.230 Where did everything come from? 07:32.370 --> 07:33.630 Why does it look the way it is? 07:33.770 --> 07:35.590 Why does the world operate the way it does? 07:36.350 --> 07:41.150 If that's all rejected, if it doesn't mean what it says, then neither will you be 07:41.150 --> 07:42.750 persuaded, though one rise from the dead. 07:42.750 --> 07:45.750 And Jesus is becoming more and more relevant in our culture. 07:46.730 --> 07:48.850 And lastly, another if-then statement. 07:49.030 --> 07:51.850 If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do? 07:52.810 --> 07:57.250 And the foundations of every Christian doctrine are found back there in Genesis. 07:57.590 --> 07:58.610 Why do we wear clothes? 07:58.650 --> 08:00.290 Because of the sinful nature of man. 08:01.010 --> 08:03.090 Where did sin and death come from? 08:03.530 --> 08:06.290 All of the basic foundations are right back in Genesis. 08:07.110 --> 08:12.710 So how did we get to this point where there's a separation of the physical from 08:12.710 --> 08:13.310 the spiritual? 08:14.210 --> 08:17.850 Well, what's been going on for the last hundred years, starting in Europe and 08:17.850 --> 08:21.870 moving across the ocean, the Atlantic Ocean into America, and really 08:21.870 --> 08:28.430 accelerating from the 1960s on, is an educational system where we, 08:28.650 --> 08:36.070 as Christians, have allowed our children and those around us to be run through a 08:36.070 --> 08:41.670 system where they hear absolutely nothing about any of the basic biblical statements 08:41.670 --> 08:47.950 of where we came from, why the world looks the way it does, the connection of 08:47.950 --> 08:51.130 biology, geology, physics, with the Bible. 08:51.390 --> 08:54.530 It's all ignored as if the Bible really doesn't say what it says. 08:55.070 --> 08:58.110 And we're trying to find some explanation for things that leave the Bible out. 08:59.630 --> 09:03.150 Meanwhile, the church is fighting the social issues. 09:03.150 --> 09:07.430 We're worried about euthanasia and abortion and homosexual behavior, 09:07.810 --> 09:09.030 and they're all symptoms. 09:10.550 --> 09:16.370 Underlying those symptoms are the philosophical mindset of where we came 09:16.370 --> 09:16.750 from. 09:17.750 --> 09:22.970 Christianity is built on a basis of creation, which ties reality of where we 09:22.970 --> 09:26.290 came from, the physical world, to the moral, spiritual concepts. 09:27.170 --> 09:32.150 The worldview that supports all of these symptoms basically tries to explain 09:32.150 --> 09:37.050 everything without God, and coming out of that explanation that leaves God out are 09:37.050 --> 09:37.790 all of the symptoms. 09:38.470 --> 09:43.190 It's like going to a doctor with lots of problems. 09:43.990 --> 09:44.970 You have cancer. 09:45.250 --> 09:46.650 It's eating away at your insides. 09:46.810 --> 09:48.090 You walk into the doctor's office. 09:48.490 --> 09:49.410 You tell him your symptoms. 09:49.610 --> 09:52.750 He runs some tests, and he discovers that you have cancer. 09:53.390 --> 09:57.090 But he says, I found out you have cancer, but I'm not going to treat the cancer. 09:57.590 --> 09:59.510 But you've got all these nasty symptoms. 09:59.650 --> 10:02.250 We're going to concentrate all of our effort on treating the symptoms. 10:02.950 --> 10:04.790 You would immediately go to another doctor. 10:04.910 --> 10:05.810 The doctor's a fool. 10:06.290 --> 10:08.670 He's acting as if the cause isn't there. 10:09.050 --> 10:10.730 And that's what's been going on in the Christian church. 10:11.050 --> 10:15.870 They give lip service to Genesis and creation, and they say they believe it, 10:16.110 --> 10:20.470 but then they never connect it to the physical world and what that implications 10:20.470 --> 10:21.670 are with the physical world. 10:21.670 --> 10:27.170 So this is how everybody around you is being trained is reality. 10:27.830 --> 10:30.250 Now you've heard this, but I've got to repeat it to lay the groundwork. 10:31.590 --> 10:35.110 Reality, according to the world around us, according to the museums, according to the 10:35.110 --> 10:38.850 newspapers, according to the magazines, according to the textbooks, according to 10:38.850 --> 10:44.690 the television shows, says that there was a big bang about 15 billion years ago. 10:45.150 --> 10:47.650 That was a fact, and that's what brought everything about. 10:47.650 --> 10:51.270 And in the order of 5 billion years ago, the earth forms. 10:51.570 --> 10:54.810 And in the order of 3 billion years ago, chemicals came alive. 10:55.770 --> 10:59.910 And about a billion years ago, these simple forms of life diversified and 10:59.910 --> 11:03.170 started to crawl out onto land and become all the other forms of life we see. 11:03.610 --> 11:05.910 And about a million years ago, mankind appeared. 11:06.390 --> 11:07.530 And this is taught as a fact. 11:07.630 --> 11:08.810 It's not taught as a theory. 11:08.910 --> 11:13.530 It's accepted as a fact by the scientific community, and it's taught as a fact in 11:13.530 --> 11:18.150 the textbooks, and by most people, the majority of our country, they think 11:18.150 --> 11:19.590 some or all of that's a fact. 11:20.050 --> 11:26.790 And you see how closely tied the huge time periods are with the evolutionary model. 11:27.150 --> 11:30.090 The model has to have huge periods of time. 11:31.950 --> 11:36.450 Well, there are implications, enormous implications of that to Christianity. 11:37.570 --> 11:41.190 And for the most part, the Christian church, starting in the mid-1800s, 11:41.890 --> 11:45.110 looked at what the scientists had to say. 11:45.570 --> 11:47.250 Hey, there's a huge layer of rock. 11:47.390 --> 11:49.090 That must have taken a huge period of time. 11:49.810 --> 11:53.730 Large periods of time were there, so the Bible can't mean what it says. 11:53.850 --> 11:57.130 We've got to reinterpret it to fit the facts of science. 11:57.890 --> 12:03.330 Well, the implication, if there have been millions and billions of years, 12:03.890 --> 12:09.330 and life has developed in some way, and you want to twist the Bible to fit it 12:09.330 --> 12:13.810 into that time frame, then there has to have been suffering and death and disease 12:13.810 --> 12:14.470 and extinction. 12:14.790 --> 12:16.350 You've got to explain all those bones. 12:16.710 --> 12:18.970 You've got to explain all those things in the rock layers. 12:19.570 --> 12:23.670 Somehow, if there's been huge periods of time, then that's the explanation. 12:24.330 --> 12:27.150 That means God must have been responsible for all that. 12:27.330 --> 12:30.770 He must have made things that way in order to develop us. 12:32.950 --> 12:35.070 I'll talk a little bit more about that in a little bit. 12:35.510 --> 12:37.150 But that's not what the Bible says. 12:37.890 --> 12:39.690 The Bible is just real straightforward. 12:42.070 --> 12:43.870 Read it like you would any other book. 12:44.570 --> 12:49.170 It talks about the rapid formation of the entire universe, fully formed and 12:49.170 --> 12:51.470 functional approximately 6,000 years ago. 12:51.770 --> 12:54.830 I'm going to go into detail in a moment where that comes from. 12:55.390 --> 13:00.590 It talks about the sudden appearance of every basic form or kind of different life 13:00.590 --> 13:00.930 forms. 13:01.670 --> 13:05.910 It talks about the degeneration of life as a direct consequence of man's sin. 13:06.770 --> 13:11.530 And it talks about a mountain-covering flood, global in extent, and it's very 13:11.530 --> 13:15.190 clear what the language means, global in extent, that destroyed and 13:15.190 --> 13:18.630 buried almost all life approximately 5,000 years ago. 13:18.910 --> 13:19.750 Ballpark figure. 13:20.370 --> 13:22.210 So there's the two models, very, very different. 13:23.290 --> 13:26.250 And when people try to get them to agree, guess which one gets modified? 13:27.550 --> 13:33.610 Sadly, it's God's Word that gets modified and marked out and disagreed and 13:33.610 --> 13:35.490 reinterpreted and analogized. 13:37.030 --> 13:39.790 And this is where I get into the main part of this lecture. 13:40.310 --> 13:44.610 If you really understand what science does, you find out that's totally 13:44.610 --> 13:45.150 unnecessary. 13:45.490 --> 13:50.670 And all you're really doing is discrediting the record God gave us about 13:50.670 --> 13:51.530 where we came from. 13:52.150 --> 13:54.110 And I want to mention one more thing before I go on. 13:54.730 --> 13:58.550 I've probably heard this a hundred times if I've heard it once. 13:59.150 --> 14:05.330 And from pastors, from other people, their explanation of how to somehow 14:05.330 --> 14:10.410 justify that when God talks about, in six days I made the heavens and the 14:10.410 --> 14:13.570 earth and all that's in them and rested on the seventh, therefore you do go and do 14:13.570 --> 14:14.070 likewise. 14:14.610 --> 14:20.950 They jump over to 2 Peter and they pull out a verse that says, yeah, but a day is 14:20.950 --> 14:21.990 like a thousand years. 14:22.470 --> 14:23.470 But read the verse. 14:23.770 --> 14:27.330 2 Peter says, but beloved, do not be ignorant of one thing. 14:27.330 --> 14:32.450 One day with the Lord is as a thousand years. 14:33.750 --> 14:35.070 But don't stop there. 14:35.810 --> 14:38.670 The verse says, and a thousand years is as one day. 14:39.230 --> 14:42.770 You see, there's no definition of a day being a thousand years there. 14:43.270 --> 14:47.170 It's just a timelessness of God's statement. 14:47.470 --> 14:50.610 It has nothing to do with a day not being a day. 14:51.390 --> 14:54.850 You're totally taking Scripture out of context when you try to do those sort of 14:54.850 --> 14:55.670 twisted things. 14:57.410 --> 15:00.690 What does the Bible say about the age of the earth? 15:02.030 --> 15:07.550 This is the first statement that is basically ignored by those who want to 15:07.550 --> 15:11.690 believe there have been millions and billions of years and the Bible supports 15:11.690 --> 15:12.510 that concept. 15:13.670 --> 15:19.130 In Genesis 1.31, you're reading through the narrative that I believe God gave to 15:19.130 --> 15:22.510 Adam and Adam passed on and ended up in the hands of Moses and he wrote it down 15:22.510 --> 15:24.630 and eventually we have it in our hands. 15:25.470 --> 15:30.210 Scripture says, and God saw that everything he made and behold it was very 15:30.210 --> 15:33.710 good and there was evening and there was morning a sixth day. 15:34.110 --> 15:37.330 And by the way, every time a number is used with the word day in Scripture, 15:37.450 --> 15:38.930 it means a literal day. 15:39.130 --> 15:40.230 There are no exceptions. 15:41.210 --> 15:46.230 Day can mean the day of Abraham Lincoln, but when you say this happened six days 15:46.230 --> 15:49.390 ago, it means six literal days and it's the same in Scripture. 15:49.970 --> 15:51.830 But God said it was very good. 15:52.530 --> 16:00.510 Well, if that doesn't mean that, and God really used huge periods of time 16:00.510 --> 16:04.950 and some sort of an evolutionary process to bring us about, then in essence, 16:05.190 --> 16:10.250 mankind is sitting on a huge fossil graveyard as one type of animal slowly 16:10.250 --> 16:12.930 turned into another, slowly turned into another, slowly turned into another, 16:13.250 --> 16:17.690 and eventually ended with people and it was diseases and mutations and death and 16:17.690 --> 16:19.770 dead ends that eventually led to us. 16:19.770 --> 16:25.270 And that makes absolutely no sense that God would call that process very good. 16:25.570 --> 16:29.110 So you've got to throw this Scripture out because it doesn't mean what it says. 16:31.970 --> 16:36.990 This is the biggest problem that those who want to believe there have been millions 16:36.990 --> 16:42.750 and billions of years before creation or led to creation, don't deal with. 16:42.830 --> 16:44.050 They simply ignore it. 16:44.590 --> 16:47.050 And it's the longest of the Ten Commandments. 16:47.050 --> 16:50.770 God took time to explain this commandment. 16:51.250 --> 16:52.290 The other ones He just gave us. 16:52.330 --> 16:54.050 He said, do it this way. 16:54.790 --> 16:57.950 But this one He took time to explain why we're to do it this way. 16:58.510 --> 17:03.090 And at the end of this commandment, God said, In six days the Lord made the 17:03.090 --> 17:05.830 heaven, the earth, the sea, and all that's in them, and rested on the seventh. 17:06.530 --> 17:08.690 Now, that can only mean a day. 17:09.590 --> 17:13.090 And if that doesn't mean what it says, why should we obey the commandment? 17:13.230 --> 17:16.150 And if that commandment doesn't mean what it says, why should we obey any of the 17:16.150 --> 17:16.510 commandments? 17:16.510 --> 17:22.070 You see, once you start doing that, you start separating philosophical 17:22.070 --> 17:25.630 concepts from the reality of the physical world. 17:26.190 --> 17:28.590 And you become schizophrenic in your faith. 17:29.210 --> 17:34.190 And after a generation or two generations, faith becomes irrelevant and Christianity 17:34.190 --> 17:35.070 becomes irrelevant. 17:35.750 --> 17:38.350 See, that's the cancer that's eating away at our society. 17:38.930 --> 17:42.710 We've picked and choosed and allowed those around us to not believe the clear 17:42.710 --> 17:47.370 statements of Scripture because we haven't shared the kind of concepts and the kind 17:47.370 --> 17:49.430 of facts that I'm about to show you here tonight. 17:50.350 --> 17:54.890 And lastly, the words of Jesus himself, people were asking about marriage, 17:55.010 --> 17:59.370 he answered, and he said unto them, Have you not read, He that made them at 17:59.370 --> 18:01.210 the beginning made them male and female? 18:01.770 --> 18:06.430 See, Jesus said, male and female were made at the beginning. 18:06.690 --> 18:07.730 At the beginning of what? 18:07.810 --> 18:09.850 He obviously meant at the beginning of creation. 18:10.350 --> 18:11.830 And you go back to that doctrine again. 18:11.830 --> 18:15.770 You see, a big battle in our culture is this whole homosexual marriage. 18:15.870 --> 18:16.230 Is it right? 18:16.290 --> 18:16.770 Is it wrong? 18:16.850 --> 18:17.610 Should we allow it? 18:17.630 --> 18:18.690 We're being awful intolerant. 18:18.730 --> 18:21.690 How dare we say what people can and can't do in their bedrooms? 18:22.610 --> 18:28.470 Well, if we are arguing from a basis of what the Bible says, the Bible's just 18:28.470 --> 18:30.310 another book of opinions in our culture. 18:30.610 --> 18:33.090 And it just becomes another talk show debate. 18:33.550 --> 18:35.510 There's no basis in reality. 18:35.970 --> 18:41.270 But if a man and a woman were really, in reality, made as two separate entities 18:41.270 --> 18:46.030 meant to fulfill each other, and it really did happen in time and space and not that 18:46.030 --> 18:53.450 long ago, now you've tied a philosophical debate to a real event that really did 18:53.450 --> 18:53.890 happen. 18:54.390 --> 18:57.370 See, that debate needs to happen on the creation level. 18:57.890 --> 19:00.530 And then the whole issue of homosexuality disappears. 19:00.930 --> 19:02.290 It's a perversion of design. 19:03.170 --> 19:07.150 But the Christian church, instead, is arguing it on the level of what the 19:07.150 --> 19:09.930 Bible says, your opinion versus my opinion, and we're made to look 19:09.930 --> 19:10.470 intolerant. 19:10.570 --> 19:13.710 And we're going to lose because we're not fighting it on the right level. 19:14.270 --> 19:18.830 The basic doctrine goes back to whether you believe the Bible from the very 19:18.830 --> 19:19.230 beginning. 19:21.310 --> 19:24.310 And so, what does the Bible really say about the age of the earth? 19:24.390 --> 19:25.470 Once again, it's straightforward. 19:26.130 --> 19:29.030 Scripture is just straightforward in how it states things. 19:31.450 --> 19:33.390 This is the book of the generation of Adam. 19:33.390 --> 19:37.270 Adam, in the day that God created man, in the likeness of God, he made them. 19:37.330 --> 19:38.410 Male and female, he made them. 19:38.750 --> 19:42.230 God repeats things because it's important and because it's going to be messed up 19:42.230 --> 19:42.550 someday. 19:42.650 --> 19:43.570 We're going to get it wrong. 19:44.030 --> 19:47.050 Because of that, he emphasizes things over and over in Scripture. 19:47.210 --> 19:49.570 Here, once again, he made them male and female. 19:50.410 --> 19:52.810 And then Adam lived 130 years and begot a son. 19:53.690 --> 19:56.590 And Seth lived so long and begot a son, and so on. 19:56.790 --> 19:58.130 And you just go right down through the list. 19:58.250 --> 20:01.570 You find out, by the time you get to Abraham, about 2,000 years have passed. 20:01.570 --> 20:04.670 There was about 2,000 years from Abraham to Jesus. 20:04.810 --> 20:06.450 About 2,000 years from Jesus to us. 20:06.670 --> 20:09.470 You come up with the range of approximately 6,000 years. 20:09.910 --> 20:11.430 Now, there's some debate and some argument. 20:11.810 --> 20:14.550 And I don't get into the real nitty-picky details. 20:15.150 --> 20:20.430 But the book, just taken at face value to mean what it says, and God doesn't try to 20:20.430 --> 20:24.110 make things complicated and hide things from us, would indicate that the earth is 20:24.110 --> 20:25.610 about 6,000 years old. 20:25.910 --> 20:29.950 That is an absolutely incredible concept in this day and age. 20:29.950 --> 20:33.730 People shut down when they hear someone say something like that. 20:34.630 --> 20:34.990 Why? 20:36.550 --> 20:38.350 Let me back up again, though, and repeat. 20:38.610 --> 20:41.490 This is just in a straightforward way what the Bible has to say. 20:41.930 --> 20:42.810 There was a creation. 20:43.230 --> 20:44.870 There was the fall of mankind. 20:45.170 --> 20:48.990 As we sinned, spit in God's face, said, We don't want to obey your rules. 20:49.070 --> 20:50.310 We want to make the rules. 20:51.290 --> 20:54.590 God changed the entire creation at that point. 20:54.750 --> 20:56.170 It started its downward spiral. 20:56.710 --> 20:57.970 That's where death came from. 20:58.030 --> 20:59.170 That's where mutation started. 20:59.170 --> 21:01.530 That's where the problems and diseases started. 21:01.950 --> 21:05.810 Because of our actions, not because God chose to just use that kind of method to 21:05.810 --> 21:06.290 make us. 21:07.030 --> 21:08.130 Then there was the flood. 21:08.390 --> 21:11.950 That's what explained, as we heard just a little bit ago, this huge fossil record 21:11.950 --> 21:12.650 around the world. 21:13.230 --> 21:15.610 And then you get to the various dialogues of the Bible. 21:16.270 --> 21:19.630 But it lays out those basic, huge interventions of God first. 21:19.870 --> 21:24.830 Then it starts to fine-tune in on God's solution to why the world is the way it 21:24.830 --> 21:25.070 is. 21:27.150 --> 21:32.630 This is a statement by a theologian who doesn't want to believe what the Bible has 21:32.630 --> 21:33.070 to say. 21:33.810 --> 21:38.890 But he says, It is apparent that the most straightforward understanding of the 21:38.890 --> 21:43.950 Genesis record, without regard to all of the other considerations suggested by 21:43.950 --> 21:47.510 science, is that God created the heaven and earth in six solar days. 21:47.590 --> 21:49.370 In other words, that is what the Bible says. 21:49.370 --> 21:55.090 And anybody who really treats the text of the Bible fairly has to come to that 21:55.090 --> 21:55.590 conclusion. 21:57.670 --> 22:00.530 Well, what does science say about the age of the earth? 22:01.690 --> 22:07.570 Well, science can't prove how old anything is. 22:08.590 --> 22:09.310 It can't. 22:09.450 --> 22:13.890 It merely makes some assumptions and tries to figure it out. 22:14.190 --> 22:16.430 And this is how all dating methods work. 22:17.010 --> 22:22.030 If you go away with nothing but this tonight, this will really clear a lot of 22:22.030 --> 22:23.130 clouds in your mind. 22:23.790 --> 22:28.010 You see, essentially every dating method uses the equation at the top. 22:28.830 --> 22:33.870 It says that time, some amount of time that's passed, is equal to some amount 22:33.870 --> 22:38.170 that you started with divided by the rate, or some amount you presently have. 22:38.790 --> 22:40.150 Now, let me explain it this way. 22:41.330 --> 22:46.050 Suppose Peter is sitting under the tree early one morning, at 6 a.m. 22:46.110 --> 22:50.030 in the morning, because he likes to go out, read his Bible, pray, and just 22:50.030 --> 22:53.090 meditate on the Word early in the morning before his day gets started. 22:53.850 --> 22:57.110 And as Peter is sitting there under the tree, he happens to see George, 22:57.390 --> 23:00.270 a friend he knows from a nearby town, come walking along. 23:01.190 --> 23:05.010 Well, Peter's been in high school and he has just went through his physics class 23:05.010 --> 23:06.610 and he knows how dating methods work. 23:07.030 --> 23:08.570 And he thinks, well, this is interesting. 23:10.210 --> 23:12.910 George lives in a town 21 miles away. 23:14.170 --> 23:16.310 That's... whoops, let me back that back up. 23:17.170 --> 23:19.910 Okay, 21 miles away, that's the amount. 23:21.450 --> 23:24.990 And he's walking along, and most people walk along at about 3 miles an hour. 23:25.210 --> 23:25.870 That's the rate. 23:26.790 --> 23:33.250 So, 21 miles divided by 3 miles an hour means that he has been on the road 7 23:33.250 --> 23:33.690 hours. 23:33.870 --> 23:34.630 That's the time. 23:34.810 --> 23:36.310 See, he's just done a dating method. 23:36.410 --> 23:37.710 How long has he been on the road? 23:37.890 --> 23:39.130 How long ago did he leave? 23:39.290 --> 23:40.270 7 hours ago. 23:41.150 --> 23:42.770 Except it's 6 in the morning. 23:43.790 --> 23:49.310 Why would George have gotten up at 11 o 'clock and walked all night to get to that 23:49.310 --> 23:49.630 point? 23:50.450 --> 23:56.350 In order to get the right time, you have to have the correct measured 23:56.350 --> 24:00.890 amount, you have to have the right initial amount, and you have to make sure there 24:00.890 --> 24:01.990 was never any contamination. 24:03.070 --> 24:07.710 In other words, suppose George's car just broke down right around the corner, 24:07.830 --> 24:11.890 which is only 3 miles away, and he's only been on the road for 3 miles. 24:12.550 --> 24:14.530 He's only left 1 hour ago. 24:15.050 --> 24:19.230 You were off by almost an order of magnitude because you didn't get the 24:19.230 --> 24:21.470 measured amount right, or the initial amount right. 24:22.350 --> 24:27.190 Or suppose there's a shortcut you didn't know about that cuts it to 6 miles. 24:27.990 --> 24:32.990 You get a totally wrong amount because there was a contamination of the rate, 24:33.450 --> 24:34.370 of the route. 24:34.630 --> 24:35.810 It wasn't the right route. 24:35.810 --> 24:41.690 Or suppose he took up jogging or marathon running since you've known him last, 24:42.010 --> 24:46.010 so he was really traveling at 10 miles an hour instead of 3 miles an hour, 24:46.250 --> 24:47.730 so he's only been on the road for 2 hours. 24:48.050 --> 24:51.610 You see, you get the totally wrong answer unless you know everything. 24:57.500 --> 25:01.240 Now, keep that in mind. 25:01.380 --> 25:07.160 I'm going to switch to something just to kind of set in your minds what's going on 25:07.160 --> 25:08.940 in our society and what we're up against. 25:09.440 --> 25:14.520 Remember, science cannot prove how old something is. 25:14.960 --> 25:17.040 It's based on assumptions. 25:18.620 --> 25:21.180 And yet, this in our culture... 25:21.180 --> 25:23.280 I'm going to show you a short video clip. 25:27.460 --> 25:29.300 This is a contrast... 25:30.130 --> 25:33.000 Evolution is a fact, not a theory. 25:33.500 --> 25:34.660 It really happens. 25:37.630 --> 25:40.590 We wish to pursue the truth no matter where it leads. 25:41.230 --> 25:45.130 But to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. 25:45.890 --> 25:49.990 We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish 25:49.990 --> 25:52.190 speculation from fact. 25:53.690 --> 25:58.310 The Big Bang is at upper left on the 1st 2nd of January 1st. 25:58.310 --> 26:05.750 15 billion years later is our present time, the last 2nd of December 31st. 26:07.050 --> 26:11.770 These guys, for example, the trilobites, appeared 600 million years ago. 26:12.170 --> 26:14.590 They were around for 300 million years. 26:14.990 --> 26:15.730 They're all gone. 26:16.630 --> 26:17.370 There's none left. 26:18.430 --> 26:22.490 But in those old rocks, there are no fossils of people or cattle. 26:23.350 --> 26:24.770 We've evolved only recently. 26:24.770 --> 26:31.110 A DNA strand like me is a blueprint for building a living thing. 26:31.710 --> 26:36.750 And sometimes animals that went extinct millions of years ago, like dinosaurs, 26:37.170 --> 26:39.490 left their blueprints behind for us to find. 26:40.110 --> 26:44.410 We just had to know where to look a hundred million years ago. 26:46.030 --> 26:46.630 Okay... 26:47.310 --> 26:49.390 We're just not having a lot of luck tonight. 26:51.350 --> 26:53.290 Or meeting some opposition. 26:54.870 --> 26:56.390 I've got to restart things. 26:56.490 --> 26:56.950 I apologize. 27:01.350 --> 27:08.250 As this film clip goes along, and it runs about 6 minutes, it goes through... 27:08.250 --> 27:10.010 and you've seen this. 27:10.050 --> 27:15.070 It goes through Star Trek and Jurassic Park and National Geographic specials and 27:15.070 --> 27:17.170 Discover specials. 27:17.550 --> 27:25.090 And the 2000 biology textbook that my kids are using where page after page after page 27:25.830 --> 27:30.510 dozens and dozens of times it talks about this appeared 200 million years ago. 27:30.630 --> 27:31.990 This appeared a billion years ago. 27:32.110 --> 27:34.990 This appeared 50 million years ago. 27:35.090 --> 27:37.990 Dinosaurs disappeared 65 million years ago. 27:38.150 --> 27:39.610 It's always presented as fact. 27:40.830 --> 27:45.210 And almost all of those are based on radiometric dating methods. 27:45.970 --> 27:47.270 Okay, I'm going to start over again right here. 27:47.310 --> 27:49.830 We've lost so much time, I'm going to skip past the video clips. 27:51.210 --> 27:56.670 The fact is, and this is a fact, the vast majority of dating methods 27:56.670 --> 27:59.210 indicate a relatively young Earth. 27:59.310 --> 28:02.910 And many, many dating methods indicate the Earth is only 6,000 years old. 28:03.530 --> 28:06.070 This is a quote by Dr. Russell Humphreys. 28:06.150 --> 28:11.050 He's just retired recently from PhD from Los Alamos Laboratories. 28:11.890 --> 28:14.410 He's been studying the age of the Earth all his life. 28:15.370 --> 28:20.430 He has discovered that for every dating method to indicate there have been 28:20.430 --> 28:23.470 billions of years of Earth history, there are ten methods that indicate the 28:23.470 --> 28:25.890 Earth is far too young for evolution to have ever happened. 28:27.530 --> 28:32.730 And as you go and speak on dating methods, you can just present dozens of methods 28:32.730 --> 28:34.490 that indicate a young Earth. 28:35.030 --> 28:36.250 But remember what I just said. 28:36.510 --> 28:39.750 Science can't prove the age of things because it all depends on assumptions. 28:40.670 --> 28:47.750 You see, the only way to ever absolutely for sure know how long ago something 28:47.750 --> 28:53.390 happened that was beyond historic times is for someone who was there and saw it 28:53.390 --> 28:58.370 happen and who would never lie to you to tell you when and how it happened. 28:59.210 --> 29:00.890 There is no scientific way. 29:01.150 --> 29:01.990 That's the only way. 29:04.150 --> 29:05.630 And that's what this is. 29:06.570 --> 29:14.990 This is a document given to man by someone who was there to see things formed and who 29:14.990 --> 29:19.470 would never lie to us tell us when and how everything happened. 29:20.290 --> 29:26.390 But I'm going to go through a few of these because it is very useful to realize the 29:26.390 --> 29:30.590 majority of the data agrees with what God has given us. 29:30.710 --> 29:32.930 You see, Christianity is not a blind faith. 29:33.410 --> 29:39.570 Christianity ties the physical world, the earthly things, to philosophical, 29:39.870 --> 29:40.630 spiritual concepts. 29:41.070 --> 29:43.430 That's what makes Christianity so strong. 29:43.430 --> 29:46.270 And that's why the church is losing our culture. 29:46.510 --> 29:47.730 It's because they quit doing that. 29:48.430 --> 29:53.610 They decided to relegate the physical, scientific stuff to the world and 29:53.610 --> 29:55.390 concentrate on the spiritual stuff. 29:55.830 --> 30:00.890 And until we stop doing that, until we as Christians share with others and as church 30:00.890 --> 30:06.170 leaders and as potential pastors realize how important this issue is, we will 30:06.170 --> 30:07.490 continue to lose our culture. 30:08.850 --> 30:12.390 Well, so what does science say about the age of the earth? 30:12.390 --> 30:17.250 If radiometric dating methods supposedly prove that the earth is billions of years 30:17.250 --> 30:22.410 old, well, I'm going to start with that because it's the biggest hole. 30:22.870 --> 30:28.270 I just about a year ago taught a four-week class at a state college. 30:28.470 --> 30:33.470 It was a senior citizen's in the evening at Saginaw State University in Michigan. 30:34.010 --> 30:37.070 Went through all the biology evidence, went through all the geology evidence, 30:37.230 --> 30:41.590 went through the anthropology and the ape man and spent time talking about dating 30:41.590 --> 30:41.970 methods. 30:42.450 --> 30:45.370 And at the end, there was a high school science teacher who raised his hand after 30:45.370 --> 30:49.070 I was all done, had heard an enormous amount of evidence, and he said, 30:49.950 --> 30:57.790 yeah, but, how do you explain that every single short-life radioactive element is 30:57.790 --> 31:03.930 totally decayed, totally gone, things that would take tens of thousands 31:03.930 --> 31:09.650 or hundreds of thousands or even millions of years to decay, and yet many of these 31:09.650 --> 31:11.630 elements are totally decayed already. 31:12.050 --> 31:14.910 How can that be if there haven't been millions of years past? 31:15.610 --> 31:18.030 And to be honest, I didn't have a good answer for him. 31:18.670 --> 31:24.370 But about three months later, I attended the Creation Conference, the International 31:24.370 --> 31:29.270 Conference for Creationism, happens every four years, and Dr. Russ Humphreys and 31:29.270 --> 31:33.190 others who have been studying this issue discovered something that I never knew and 31:33.190 --> 31:35.170 ties into my specialty at Dow Chemical. 31:35.170 --> 31:37.110 And it has to do with helium. 31:37.910 --> 31:41.970 You see, helium results from most radioactive decay processes. 31:42.470 --> 31:47.330 When uranium and some other radioactive elements decay, they give off a burst of 31:47.330 --> 31:52.310 energy, and they also spit out a helium nuclei, which grabs an electron and turns 31:52.310 --> 31:53.270 into a helium atom. 31:53.910 --> 31:55.250 Whoops, let's move forward again. 31:56.630 --> 31:56.850 Okay? 31:57.710 --> 32:03.210 And since this decay happens in solid rock, the helium gets trapped inside of 32:03.210 --> 32:04.130 that solid rock. 32:05.790 --> 32:10.110 The time that it takes for that helium to permeate out of the rock and disappear 32:10.110 --> 32:16.330 into the air is a very, very dependable measurement of how long ago that decay 32:16.330 --> 32:16.850 happened. 32:17.570 --> 32:20.330 The older the rock is, the less helium should be present. 32:20.470 --> 32:21.790 Let me just demonstrate that. 32:23.610 --> 32:24.050 Suppose... 32:25.330 --> 32:28.950 So where that helium is, if it's still in the rock or is it out of the rock, 32:29.050 --> 32:30.270 tells the true age of the rock. 32:30.930 --> 32:34.450 One of the places you find these are in little crystals called zircon crystals. 32:34.870 --> 32:38.010 Granite is chucked full of these zircon crystals. 32:38.490 --> 32:42.990 And inside of these zircon crystals, magnified thousands and thousands of time, 32:43.390 --> 32:46.130 you find these little radio... 32:48.010 --> 32:51.010 discolorations that happen when the radioactive decay happened. 32:52.210 --> 32:57.090 The high energy decayed the crystal, so you know, you can actually count those 32:57.090 --> 33:01.150 and know how much uranium, or you can do an assay of the rock and find out how much 33:01.150 --> 33:02.850 radioactive element was there. 33:03.570 --> 33:08.330 From that, you can figure out exactly how much helium had to have been formed inside 33:08.330 --> 33:08.950 that rock. 33:09.490 --> 33:12.950 And it had to have formed when the rock was hard and cooled, or else those 33:12.950 --> 33:14.290 discolorations wouldn't have been there. 33:14.850 --> 33:20.110 So if this is a zircon crystal, and right after the granite forms and 33:20.110 --> 33:26.810 cools, the radioactive decay happens, bang, let's say that's the uranium. 33:26.970 --> 33:28.210 It's just decayed. 33:28.210 --> 33:32.950 So now, inside of that zircon crystal is locked a bunch of helium. 33:33.090 --> 33:35.890 The discolored water is representative of helium. 33:37.370 --> 33:42.930 Well, suppose that every hundred years, helium is a very energetic little 33:42.930 --> 33:43.310 molecule. 33:43.490 --> 33:44.350 It bounces around. 33:45.190 --> 33:46.870 Some of that helium disappears. 33:46.990 --> 33:49.850 In another hundred years, some of the helium disappears. 33:49.990 --> 33:54.190 Another hundred years, some of the helium works its way out of the rock. 33:54.270 --> 33:57.270 Another hundred years, some of the helium works its way out of the rock. 33:57.890 --> 34:02.630 Well, you don't know when that decay happened, but you can measure all of the 34:02.630 --> 34:05.030 radioactive elements that used to be in the rock. 34:05.910 --> 34:09.690 So if you measure that every hundred years, because you know how fast it 34:09.690 --> 34:15.050 permeates out, we can also measure that, you find out that a fourth of it is gone. 34:15.950 --> 34:21.310 And if each scoop took a hundred years, then you know that it's 400 years ago that 34:21.310 --> 34:21.990 decay happened. 34:21.990 --> 34:24.990 You see, helium... 34:27.630 --> 34:34.350 in a balloon like this, you've all seen these kind of balloons, it will stay for a 34:34.350 --> 34:35.050 long time. 34:35.750 --> 34:39.970 You put it in a rubber balloon, and it will disappear very, very rapidly. 34:40.190 --> 34:41.010 These balloons were... 34:41.010 --> 34:42.610 I started out with a balloon like that. 34:42.670 --> 34:44.030 It was filled up at the same time. 34:44.390 --> 34:47.910 Within a day, the helium, it all permeated through the skin and was gone. 34:48.490 --> 34:50.670 This one will take weeks, but it will still happen. 34:50.670 --> 34:51.890 The helium will permeate out. 34:52.370 --> 34:56.650 Well, in a rock, it's not a matter of days or weeks, it's a matter of hundreds of 34:56.650 --> 34:57.070 years. 34:57.850 --> 34:58.950 But it still happens. 34:59.730 --> 35:01.670 Well, no one had ever measured this before... 35:04.730 --> 35:08.750 until Russ Humphreys and his team decided, let's just see what is the permeation 35:08.750 --> 35:09.130 rate. 35:09.590 --> 35:13.810 What he found out, he measured the permeation rate from these zircon 35:13.810 --> 35:19.110 crystals, he measured it at different levels so he could account for 35:19.110 --> 35:25.130 temperature, and he found out that approximately half of the original helium 35:25.130 --> 35:26.550 is still in the rock. 35:28.170 --> 35:31.290 And that indicated, based on the permeation rate that he measured, 35:31.450 --> 35:36.110 very accurately, scientifically, that that radioactive decay had to have 35:36.110 --> 35:38.170 happened in the last 6,000 years. 35:38.670 --> 35:43.890 He dated granite around the world at about 6,000 years. 35:44.550 --> 35:50.190 There is absolutely no way that helium should still be there unless that 35:50.190 --> 35:53.970 radioactive decay, there was a burst of radioactive decay either during the 35:53.970 --> 35:59.510 creation period or the flood period, or both, that locked that helium in that 35:59.510 --> 36:01.190 rock because it should be long gone. 36:01.670 --> 36:04.990 If it was 100,000 years old, there would be no helium left in the rocks. 36:05.330 --> 36:08.270 If it was a million years old, there would be absolutely no helium left 36:08.270 --> 36:12.310 in the rocks because it comes out of those crystals so fast, and yet it's still 36:12.310 --> 36:12.590 there. 36:13.330 --> 36:15.410 You see, there is a lack of helium in the atmosphere. 36:15.410 --> 36:19.710 We measure the total amount of helium in the atmosphere, we measure all the helium 36:19.710 --> 36:23.990 that's coming in from all known sources, we find out the maximum age of our 36:23.990 --> 36:25.910 atmosphere is about 10,000 years. 36:27.430 --> 36:32.350 If we look at the amount of helium left in these crystals, we come to the conclusion, 36:32.470 --> 36:36.570 and how fast it moves out of those crystals, we find out that they can only 36:36.570 --> 36:37.990 be about 6,000 years old. 36:40.010 --> 36:47.470 I know of no explanation other than the fact that those rocks formed quite 36:47.470 --> 36:50.010 recently that could put it all there and have it still be there. 36:51.050 --> 36:58.030 So that's kind of a complicated technical discovery, but it's an almost ironclad 36:58.030 --> 36:59.950 indication that the Earth is quite young. 37:00.510 --> 37:03.650 And you won't find this in your textbooks because it doesn't allow for evolution. 37:05.390 --> 37:10.510 Humans are always portrayed as ignorant, stupid idiots as they're older. 37:10.990 --> 37:16.590 By the way, all cultures, all cultural studies, from the Egyptians to the Incas, 37:17.050 --> 37:20.870 wherever there were human beings in the past, they were incredibly intelligent and 37:20.870 --> 37:21.410 inventive. 37:21.970 --> 37:26.010 So it is funny to see them made fun of, but it doesn't match reality. 37:26.970 --> 37:31.930 Now there's a bunch of dating methods that have to do with, you know, where is 37:31.930 --> 37:32.490 everybody? 37:34.070 --> 37:38.170 Suppose early humans were supposed to have emerged about four million years ago. 37:39.230 --> 37:42.710 Let's assume that they only lived for 25 years back then. 37:43.430 --> 37:47.070 Let's assume there's a stable population of only 100,000. 37:47.430 --> 37:50.630 You know, there's about 100,000 or so elephants in Africa and they're on the 37:50.630 --> 37:51.790 endangered species list. 37:52.230 --> 37:53.330 Humans are a lot smarter. 37:53.790 --> 37:58.410 So quite likely, even if we evolved and they were emerging from trees, 37:58.490 --> 37:59.850 there would have been far more of them. 37:59.850 --> 38:05.850 But even with these generous assumptions, if we emerged four million years ago, 38:06.450 --> 38:10.250 only lived 25 years each, there's never been more than 100,000 people on the 38:10.250 --> 38:17.010 planet, there should have been six trillion human beings from apes turning 38:17.010 --> 38:18.310 into human beings that lived. 38:18.670 --> 38:20.770 We found a few false skull fragments. 38:21.290 --> 38:22.830 There's almost nothing out there. 38:23.390 --> 38:24.530 Where are all the bodies? 38:25.190 --> 38:27.450 You see, it fits what the Bible has to say. 38:27.530 --> 38:28.870 You can trust scripture. 38:28.870 --> 38:33.950 But it doesn't fit what the textbooks in the museums and all the nonsense we hear 38:33.950 --> 38:34.950 around us has to say. 38:35.570 --> 38:36.630 Where are all the graves? 38:37.610 --> 38:39.570 Every ancient people buried their dead. 38:39.830 --> 38:44.790 They buried them with valuable artifacts and spears and all sorts of things that 38:44.790 --> 38:45.410 they had in life. 38:45.670 --> 38:51.290 Because all people at all times and all ages know there is something after this 38:51.290 --> 38:51.590 life. 38:51.710 --> 38:53.330 It's been built into us. 38:55.610 --> 38:59.650 Well, let's assume that all of these people that used to live had a longer 38:59.650 --> 39:00.110 lifespan. 39:00.410 --> 39:01.450 So you had 50 of them. 39:02.030 --> 39:07.450 And let's say that there were a million people planet-wide for the last 30,000 39:07.450 --> 39:07.810 years. 39:08.530 --> 39:11.890 So supposedly Neanderthal man was around 30,000 years ago. 39:12.030 --> 39:13.650 You see that date all the time. 39:14.370 --> 39:17.170 And there's only been a million people on the whole planet. 39:17.770 --> 39:20.030 And every one of these people lived 50 years. 39:20.190 --> 39:26.550 If you do the simple math, you find out there should have been 600 million graves 39:26.550 --> 39:27.650 in that period of time. 39:28.290 --> 39:29.250 600 million. 39:29.550 --> 39:30.690 We found a few hundred. 39:31.950 --> 39:33.090 Where are all the graves? 39:33.250 --> 39:34.270 Where are all the bodies? 39:34.450 --> 39:35.410 Where are all the graves? 39:36.610 --> 39:38.050 And where are all the people? 39:39.290 --> 39:44.930 You see, as far back as we go in population studies, we find that 39:44.930 --> 39:49.310 historically, clear back to the time of Christ and beyond, where censuses were 39:49.310 --> 39:54.650 gone and you can estimate population based on anthropology and studies, that the 39:54.650 --> 39:57.590 world population seems to have doubled every 150 years. 39:58.030 --> 40:02.430 And this is despite wars that wiped out massive numbers of people, famine and 40:02.430 --> 40:07.410 disease, the world population continues to double about every 150 years. 40:08.010 --> 40:12.270 Well, if you start with six people coming off the ark, Noah and his wife would have 40:12.270 --> 40:16.610 had no more children, so you have six people, three sons with three daughters, 40:17.150 --> 40:20.990 and you double them, it took them 150 years to be up to 12 people, which is very 40:20.990 --> 40:21.410 generous. 40:21.970 --> 40:24.510 You double it again, you double it again, you double it again, you find out you 40:24.510 --> 40:27.930 would have had to double it 30 times to reach the present world population. 40:28.210 --> 40:29.290 Only 30 times. 40:30.630 --> 40:35.850 30 times 150 years for each doubling means that would take about 4,500 years of world 40:35.850 --> 40:36.190 history. 40:37.050 --> 40:42.370 That's about the time the Bible tells us Noah's flood happened and the people from 40:42.370 --> 40:43.870 the ark spread out across the world. 40:44.450 --> 40:45.650 You can trust the Bible. 40:45.770 --> 40:48.510 You see, when you do the science, you compare it with the world around us, 40:48.890 --> 40:51.110 every time you find out you can trust the Bible. 40:51.110 --> 40:54.570 It's only when you start out with faulty assumptions you come up with faulty 40:54.570 --> 40:55.090 answers. 40:56.170 --> 40:57.970 I'm going to whip through a few of these fast. 40:58.510 --> 41:01.970 The Earth's magnetic field has shown a systematic decrease. 41:02.410 --> 41:05.110 In the last 150 years, it's decreased 15%. 41:05.110 --> 41:09.870 This has never been explained by natural scientific evidence. 41:10.350 --> 41:14.330 All sorts of speculation, all sorts of stories told about it, as we said. 41:14.730 --> 41:19.150 But the fact is, our magnetic field is significantly decreasing. 41:19.150 --> 41:24.410 If you work that backwards, you find out it would have been impossibly strong 41:24.410 --> 41:25.950 10,000 years ago. 41:26.070 --> 41:28.870 It sets the age of the Earth under 10,000 years. 41:29.290 --> 41:30.490 It's very strong evidence. 41:30.610 --> 41:31.630 It's never been refuted. 41:32.330 --> 41:35.310 And there's these rapid reversals that are apparent in the rock records. 41:35.690 --> 41:37.950 That can be explained by a creation model too. 41:38.290 --> 41:40.230 And some wonderful papers have been written on it. 41:40.550 --> 41:42.910 It can't be explained by evolutionary assumptions. 41:44.230 --> 41:48.810 Every culture in the world, this was mentioned earlier, every culture has an 41:48.810 --> 41:50.710 acknowledgement that there's been a worldwide flood. 41:51.170 --> 41:53.550 And here you get into the real crux of the matter. 41:53.990 --> 41:59.270 You see, the Bible talks about a worldwide flood in Genesis. 42:00.270 --> 42:02.510 Extensively and for a large period. 42:03.070 --> 42:06.510 It doesn't spend as much time talking about the creation of everything as it 42:06.510 --> 42:07.870 does about this worldwide flood. 42:08.330 --> 42:09.890 Then it talks about it in Psalms. 42:09.950 --> 42:11.310 It talks about it in Proverbs. 42:11.690 --> 42:13.290 It talks about it in Job. 42:13.810 --> 42:15.490 Jesus Christ mentioned it. 42:15.490 --> 42:21.670 He tied the moral condition of the world to the moral condition before the first 42:21.670 --> 42:22.130 judgment. 42:23.330 --> 42:26.850 And he specifically said, the flood came and took them all away. 42:27.310 --> 42:28.710 But this is the one that gets me. 42:29.550 --> 42:35.670 In 2 Peter, I'm sorry, Peter makes a statement that scoffers will come in the 42:35.670 --> 42:39.850 last days saying, all things have considered since they have from the 42:39.850 --> 42:40.770 beginning of creation. 42:41.210 --> 42:45.950 And they will willfully forget that by the word of God the earth was made out of 42:45.950 --> 42:50.150 water and that the world that then existed perished being flooded by water. 42:51.330 --> 42:52.330 Think of the implications. 42:53.270 --> 42:55.170 Remember all those cultures I just showed you? 42:55.390 --> 42:59.950 Every culture in the world had an acknowledgement of a flood. 43:00.810 --> 43:06.230 For about 5,000 years plus of earth history, there was a universal 43:06.230 --> 43:08.970 acknowledgement that there was a worldwide flood. 43:09.610 --> 43:16.350 It's only been in the last 150 years that the scientific community, and it's really 43:16.350 --> 43:20.170 just the majority, not all of the scientific community, based on faulty 43:20.170 --> 43:23.470 assumptions, has denied that there's been a flood. 43:25.550 --> 43:31.390 5,000 years universal acknowledgement, 150 years of denial, guess what days we're 43:31.390 --> 43:32.390 in according to the Bible? 43:32.990 --> 43:36.710 It's a clear indicator God is getting ready to wrap things up. 43:39.290 --> 43:41.850 See, the flood is that bottom line issue. 43:41.850 --> 43:45.670 If you really want to know how old the earth is, you can't deny some major event 43:45.670 --> 43:46.890 that happened in earth history. 43:48.350 --> 43:52.950 Huge layers of geology would have been laid down incredibly rapidly by water 43:52.950 --> 43:54.970 washing over the whole surface of the earth. 43:56.010 --> 43:59.730 Forests of trees would have been washed up and washed together and buried in sediment 43:59.730 --> 44:00.950 that would have turned to coal seams. 44:01.410 --> 44:07.190 And when huge flood-like events happen, you don't get just a mixture, a mishmash 44:07.190 --> 44:09.010 of everything all blended together. 44:09.010 --> 44:16.510 When Mount St. Helens exploded in 1980, enormous mud flow flowed down the mountain 44:16.510 --> 44:22.910 and you've got fine layers, just fine little layers during this catastrophic 44:22.910 --> 44:24.890 flow event that was flowing down the mountain. 44:25.270 --> 44:30.330 This whole river valley formed in one day as water that was backed up behind a dam 44:30.330 --> 44:33.370 broke through the sediment and carved out this valley. 44:33.770 --> 44:36.450 See, that's the kind of thing that was happening during the worldwide flood. 44:37.430 --> 44:42.650 And our universe is full of what I call smoking guitars, I'm sorry, smoking 44:42.650 --> 44:43.290 cigars. 44:45.670 --> 44:57.280 If you walked into a room and that balloon was on the ceiling and the geology 44:57.280 --> 45:01.560 professor was standing at the door to let you into the room and he said, 45:01.700 --> 45:06.500 there has been no one in this room for 10,000 years. 45:06.500 --> 45:07.980 Now come on in. 45:08.620 --> 45:12.060 You walk in the room and you see this helium balloon sitting on the ceiling. 45:12.800 --> 45:16.920 It's obvious evidence that you haven't been told the truth because the helium 45:16.920 --> 45:20.800 would have permeated out just like the helium in those zircon crystals should 45:20.800 --> 45:22.300 have long ago permeated out. 45:22.520 --> 45:25.020 It shouldn't be there if they're as old as we're told. 45:26.340 --> 45:28.420 And the whole universe is full of these. 45:28.640 --> 45:30.860 Spiral galaxies shouldn't still be spiraled up. 45:31.320 --> 45:34.420 The moon should have receded further from the earth than it is. 45:35.180 --> 45:38.360 Comets should not still be in existence because they lose their material every 45:38.360 --> 45:39.460 time they come around the sun. 45:40.240 --> 45:43.780 Saturn's rings and Jupiter's moon Io should not still be hot and they should 45:43.780 --> 45:45.600 not still be in the patterns that they're in. 45:46.140 --> 45:47.860 Unless they're not as old as we're told. 45:48.440 --> 45:52.520 All around us we see indicators that things are not as old as we're being led 45:52.520 --> 45:52.980 to believe. 45:53.480 --> 45:59.200 The most prolific dating method that you hear about constantly is radiocarbon 45:59.200 --> 45:59.500 dating. 45:59.640 --> 46:01.040 And this is the last one I'll talk about. 46:01.040 --> 46:06.580 See, radiocarbon forms as cosmic rays, high energy rays come into the atmosphere 46:06.580 --> 46:12.060 and they hit a nitrogen molecule, blow it apart. 46:13.080 --> 46:19.140 Some of the particles from the nitrogen particles combine, recombine to form a 46:19.140 --> 46:24.680 carbon-14 particle which combines with oxygen to form radioactive CO2 which the 46:24.680 --> 46:30.140 plants take in and they get radioactive CO carbon in them and the animals eat the 46:30.140 --> 46:34.480 plants and they get radioactive carbon and the radioactive carbon gets uniformly 46:34.480 --> 46:36.880 spread throughout everything that's alive. 46:37.420 --> 46:41.400 And as long as you're alive and you're eating anything, you're taking in 46:41.400 --> 46:44.240 radioactive carbon in the same proportion that's in the atmosphere. 46:44.900 --> 46:49.520 Well, the thing about radioactive carbon is that we've measured it very accurately 46:49.520 --> 46:59.180 and every 5,720 years, if you stop eating, in 5,720 years, all the cells and all the 46:59.180 --> 47:03.680 carbon parts of your body, half of that radioactive carbon will have decayed. 47:04.300 --> 47:09.120 So if you measure how much radioactive carbon is left in your body 5,000 years 47:09.120 --> 47:14.520 from now or some unknown and you have half as much as you have today, you would come 47:14.520 --> 47:18.900 to the conclusion that it was 5,730 years since you died. 47:19.460 --> 47:22.000 It really makes sense, it's a good dating method. 47:22.000 --> 47:24.620 But it makes a huge assumption. 47:26.060 --> 47:27.000 Well, I'm going to go back. 47:27.460 --> 47:33.500 It assumes that there's always been the same amount of biomatter in the world. 47:34.100 --> 47:38.820 You see, God described the world as a paradise before the flood. 47:39.600 --> 47:43.860 Huge amounts of water had to have been trapped underneath the earth before the 47:43.860 --> 47:44.100 flood. 47:44.180 --> 47:46.080 It said the fountains of the great deep broke up. 47:46.740 --> 47:50.480 There could easily have been 10 or 100 times as much vegetation. 47:50.480 --> 47:55.460 There's no ice caps, no deserts, lots more vegetation. 47:55.920 --> 48:01.560 If the same amount of radioactive carbon was forming before the flood and there was 48:01.560 --> 48:08.160 10 times as much vegetation, then the concentration of radioactive carbon in 48:08.160 --> 48:10.540 everything that's alive would have been 10 times less. 48:11.280 --> 48:18.440 So if you dated it right after the flood, you would think that a whole bunch of it 48:18.440 --> 48:20.600 had disappeared if you made the wrong assumptions. 48:21.100 --> 48:26.420 You see, all radiocarbon dating does is assume that there's never been a worldwide 48:26.420 --> 48:26.920 flood. 48:27.660 --> 48:29.840 And therefore, they come up with huge long ages. 48:32.440 --> 48:36.720 I don't have time to go into more detail, but that's the basic reason why it gives 48:36.720 --> 48:37.780 you such a wrong age. 48:38.020 --> 48:39.360 It assumes there's never been a flood. 48:39.700 --> 48:41.620 Wrong assumptions, wrong answer. 48:42.880 --> 48:45.080 But the bigger problem... 48:45.580 --> 48:47.040 I'm going to just go through this. 48:47.040 --> 48:51.920 The bigger problem is that radiocarbon does disappear. 48:52.560 --> 48:56.920 You see, that radioactive carbon, in 5,000 years, you have a fourth of it. 48:57.340 --> 48:59.020 10,000 years, there's an eighth of it. 48:59.180 --> 49:02.320 15,000 years later, there's a 16th of the original amount. 49:03.020 --> 49:07.260 20,000 years later, there's a 32nd of the original amount. 49:07.920 --> 49:11.320 25,000 years ago, there's a 64th of the original amount. 49:11.940 --> 49:18.960 The fact is, every single atom of radioactive carbon should be gone within 49:18.960 --> 49:20.340 250,000 years. 49:20.400 --> 49:21.720 There shouldn't be an atom of it left. 49:22.080 --> 49:28.800 If something that used to be alive 250,000 years ago died, by today, if that amount 49:28.800 --> 49:32.400 of time had passed, there should be no radioactive carbon left. 49:32.500 --> 49:33.240 It should be gone. 49:33.420 --> 49:33.760 Zero. 49:34.100 --> 49:34.360 Zip. 49:35.520 --> 49:43.480 Modern equipment can measure levels down to .001% of the modern amount that's in 49:43.480 --> 49:44.520 things that are alive today. 49:44.520 --> 49:49.680 There's only one part, and I believe this is correct, per trillion radioactive 49:49.680 --> 49:52.920 carbon for every normal carbon atom. 49:53.160 --> 49:55.660 And yet, we can measure .001%. 49:57.460 --> 50:05.700 This is absolutely astounding fact of science that's just ignored. 50:06.920 --> 50:16.020 Every single molecule on this planet of organic origin contains .1 to .5% of the 50:16.020 --> 50:18.740 modern level of radioactive carbon. 50:19.200 --> 50:24.640 Dinosaur bones have .3 parts of radioactive carbon. 50:24.840 --> 50:31.660 Coal seams from every level in every area of the world have .1 to .5% of modern 50:31.660 --> 50:32.640 radioactive carbon. 50:33.480 --> 50:38.780 Fossilized wood, shells, graphite, even things that were never alive have 50:38.780 --> 50:40.060 radioactive carbon in them. 50:40.060 --> 50:42.260 It shouldn't be there. 50:43.260 --> 50:46.260 You know what this is called by the scientific community? 50:46.580 --> 50:49.440 It's called background levels of radioactive carbon. 50:49.840 --> 50:55.680 They went through an extensive program, a 10-year program, to purify with every 50:55.680 --> 51:00.100 possible way they could to get rid of this background, what they're calling 51:00.100 --> 51:04.760 background level, of radioactive carbon, and they totally failed. 51:05.260 --> 51:09.500 It's always there, no matter how they try to purify it or eliminate contamination. 51:11.360 --> 51:14.800 This is absolutely astounding evidence for a young earth. 51:15.280 --> 51:18.420 The reason it's there is because all this stuff isn't that old. 51:22.760 --> 51:24.540 Abraham Lincoln made this statement. 51:25.360 --> 51:29.300 The Bible contains an immense amount of evidence as to its authenticity. 51:30.400 --> 51:32.140 Let us treat the Bible fairly. 51:32.860 --> 51:37.480 If we had a witness on the stand whose general story was true, we would believe 51:37.480 --> 51:41.060 him even when he asserted the facts of which we had no other evidence. 51:41.460 --> 51:45.640 In other words, we can't, in spite of everything I just showed you, we can't 51:45.640 --> 51:51.220 prove that the earth is 6,000, 10,000, 5,000, 20,000 years old. 51:51.920 --> 51:55.220 But the vast majority of the evidence indicates it is quite young. 51:56.040 --> 52:01.500 Nevertheless, we ought to treat the Bible with equal fairness even if we can't prove 52:01.500 --> 52:02.180 it with evidence. 52:02.780 --> 52:06.940 I decided long ago it was less difficult to believe that the Bible is what it 52:06.940 --> 52:09.100 claimed to be than to disbelieve it. 52:11.420 --> 52:12.660 The three if-then statements. 52:12.840 --> 52:18.640 We are losing our culture because we're disconnecting the physical things from the 52:18.640 --> 52:19.520 heavenly things. 52:20.000 --> 52:23.660 We're denying what the Bible has to say at the beginning so people aren't believing 52:23.660 --> 52:24.860 what it has to say at the end. 52:25.260 --> 52:29.640 And we've allowed the foundations of Scripture to be destroyed and the 52:29.640 --> 52:32.840 righteous are finding themselves ineffective in our culture. 52:33.780 --> 52:39.600 And at the heart of this, at the bullseye of this whole problem is this idea of 52:39.600 --> 52:42.620 billions of years versus what the Bible clearly has to say. 52:43.260 --> 52:48.420 You see, the Bible says God made everything in six days and it says he did 52:48.420 --> 52:49.240 it quite recently. 52:50.760 --> 52:53.440 Millions of years means God didn't do it that quick. 52:53.980 --> 52:57.920 Millions of years means God used a method of death and suffering and killing and 52:57.920 --> 53:00.340 extinction and pain in order to bring us about. 53:00.340 --> 53:05.980 So when someone dies, when something really horrible happens, guess what the 53:05.980 --> 53:08.000 non-Christian, their natural response is? 53:08.960 --> 53:11.480 Well, this is the way things have always been. 53:12.200 --> 53:14.040 God must be responsible for it. 53:14.320 --> 53:15.180 And there's anger. 53:16.140 --> 53:18.380 And there's a rejection of who God is. 53:19.400 --> 53:22.100 The atheists and the agnostics clearly understand this. 53:22.180 --> 53:23.740 This is a statement by Carl Sagan. 53:24.240 --> 53:29.520 If God is omnipotent and omnipotent, why didn't he start the universe out in 53:29.520 --> 53:31.460 the first place so it would come out the way he wants? 53:31.520 --> 53:33.460 Why is he constantly repairing and complaining? 53:34.100 --> 53:35.960 No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear. 53:36.040 --> 53:38.280 The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. 53:38.720 --> 53:39.800 He's not good at design. 53:39.920 --> 53:41.000 He's not good at execution. 53:41.140 --> 53:43.060 He'd be out of business if there was any competition. 53:43.480 --> 53:45.640 That's because he assumes there's never been a fall. 53:46.060 --> 53:49.920 He assumes when the Bible talks about biology, when the Bible talks about 53:49.920 --> 53:52.120 geology and the worldwide flood, it's wrong. 53:53.580 --> 53:55.340 Therefore, this statement is true. 53:56.180 --> 53:59.400 But if there was a flood, there was a creation, and there was a fall, 54:00.380 --> 54:02.700 then that's why we can explain everything. 54:03.520 --> 54:07.200 You see, there was a creation, there was a corruption of creation, 54:07.320 --> 54:08.940 there was a catastrophe, and there was confusion. 54:09.480 --> 54:11.740 And then God sent Christ in the cross. 54:12.060 --> 54:13.540 And those are reality. 54:14.100 --> 54:18.260 And until we start emphasizing that those were reality, we'll continue to lose our 54:18.260 --> 54:18.600 culture. 54:19.400 --> 54:24.260 But if you look at death from a biblical history, you realize that death entered 54:24.260 --> 54:26.600 because of our sin, because of the fall. 54:26.940 --> 54:28.820 And God has given us a solution to that. 54:28.820 --> 54:32.920 And all of a sudden, Jesus Christ becomes extremely relevant in people's lives. 54:34.500 --> 54:38.880 You see, we've got to start fighting the battle at the creation level. 54:39.940 --> 54:44.500 And that's why I love to do this talk, because it really rattles people's 54:44.500 --> 54:46.040 perception of what is reality. 54:46.720 --> 54:51.400 When they see the whole world believing in huge time periods, and they realize that's 54:51.400 --> 54:55.660 all based on faulty assumptions, it brings them back to the reality of 54:55.660 --> 54:55.980 Scripture. 54:56.640 --> 54:58.640 I'm going to end, and I went just a little bit over. 54:58.760 --> 54:59.180 I apologize. 55:01.180 --> 55:05.760 A big part of my goal tonight was to educate, but the other part was to 55:05.760 --> 55:06.140 motivate. 55:06.740 --> 55:08.380 Because this is the core. 55:08.620 --> 55:13.240 I mean, you all, by coming to this meeting, are the core of who's going to 55:13.240 --> 55:15.020 change our culture that we are losing. 55:15.840 --> 55:17.760 But you've got to have tools to do it. 55:18.020 --> 55:20.380 There's lots of good creation stuff out there. 55:20.760 --> 55:24.340 Julie mentioned these books, and it's just, this is what God's put on my heart. 55:24.340 --> 55:26.100 This is a devotional. 55:26.660 --> 55:34.680 365 days, 365 different little evidences that we can trust God's word from every 55:34.680 --> 55:35.700 different area of science. 55:36.160 --> 55:39.420 We've got evolution out there, and this billions and millions of years 55:39.420 --> 55:45.300 idea that just seems like a huge giant that we couldn't possibly tie down or 55:45.300 --> 55:45.760 control. 55:46.480 --> 55:51.740 But if we go at it, just a step at a time, by the time you work through evidences in 55:51.740 --> 55:55.000 geology, and evidences from physics, and evidences from biology, and 55:55.000 --> 55:58.100 biochemistry, and dating methods, and where did language come from, 55:58.160 --> 56:01.900 and how does history fit into it all, and you give someone who doesn't 56:01.900 --> 56:05.840 understand Christianity a book like this, by the time they get to the end, 56:06.020 --> 56:08.600 they realize how deceived they've been all their lives. 56:09.000 --> 56:11.760 And it's just in little short sound bites. 56:12.300 --> 56:14.040 We live in a sound bite society. 56:14.520 --> 56:17.660 And that's why a book like this is such an important gift. 56:17.660 --> 56:19.160 It's a devotional. 56:20.020 --> 56:21.620 Get it into people's hands. 56:23.460 --> 56:24.400 Search for the truth. 56:24.800 --> 56:27.480 These were newspaper articles that were put in a public newspaper. 56:27.880 --> 56:30.040 It caused a firestorm of awareness. 56:30.600 --> 56:32.480 Letters to the editor written back and forth. 56:33.660 --> 56:36.240 The Lord's blessed me to be able to publish all these books. 56:36.540 --> 56:40.600 It's not just this one, but all of them come totally copyright granted for you to 56:40.600 --> 56:42.180 use in any possible way. 56:42.680 --> 56:47.080 I have people making copies, handing them out in a hospital, orderlies as they move 56:47.080 --> 56:50.740 people from room to room, giving them pieces of information so they can 56:50.740 --> 56:53.500 understand the Bible from the foundation up. 56:54.180 --> 56:55.980 Put these things to use. 56:56.140 --> 56:57.720 They're going to make a difference in our culture. 56:58.880 --> 57:04.500 And the last one I'm going to mention, this one deals with the millions of years 57:04.500 --> 57:04.840 issue. 57:04.980 --> 57:07.040 It's called a wake up call to America's churches. 57:07.820 --> 57:12.760 Our churches have forgotten to connect the physical with the spiritual. 57:13.280 --> 57:16.900 And when we get them back to this, we'll start to see people coming to 57:16.900 --> 57:17.220 Christ. 57:17.680 --> 57:21.600 Folks who have read all three of these books, I've given their life to the Lord 57:21.600 --> 57:22.360 after reading them. 57:23.040 --> 57:24.420 So that's where I'm going to end. 57:25.860 --> 57:27.600 You can trust God's word. 57:28.040 --> 57:33.620 In the most controversial, in the eyes of most people, ridiculous issue that this 57:33.620 --> 57:39.340 earth could be 6,000 years old, it perfectly lines up with the scientific 57:39.340 --> 57:40.980 evidence if you make the right assumptions. 57:41.760 --> 57:46.060 The resources are here to put to use and make a difference to your friends and to 57:46.060 --> 57:46.600 our culture. 57:47.120 --> 57:48.620 And I just challenge you to do so.