WEBVTT 00:15.500 --> 00:17.260 Implications of the laws of thermodynamics. 00:18.060 --> 00:23.840 First of all, we have to realize that just using proven physical laws of chemistry 00:23.840 --> 00:28.340 and physics, using what science has proven to such an extent that it's actually 00:28.340 --> 00:33.000 merited the position of a law, something that whenever it's tested, 00:33.320 --> 00:36.100 no matter how often, no matter by who, we always get the same result. 00:36.620 --> 00:40.420 When we're using pristine pure science like the laws of thermodynamics, 00:41.000 --> 00:45.680 which Einstein said would never be overthrown by the advance of science. 00:45.860 --> 00:48.200 You would think that it would be an open and shut case. 00:48.660 --> 00:51.720 You would think, well, the evolutionists would just fall over dead in front of 00:51.720 --> 00:55.040 these overwhelming, unassailable scientific facts. 00:55.540 --> 00:57.920 But there is a problem you have to be apprised of. 00:58.220 --> 01:01.720 Whenever you debate, whenever you witness to someone, whenever you just have a 01:01.720 --> 01:06.420 conversation with an evolutionist, you have to really cut through a big smoke 01:06.420 --> 01:06.680 screen. 01:07.020 --> 01:12.480 You have to cut through a big premise they have that is not correct, is not logical, 01:12.480 --> 01:13.380 is not legitimate. 01:13.760 --> 01:18.380 But you have to point that out to them and pray the Holy Spirit will help them to 01:18.380 --> 01:19.060 grasp that. 01:19.320 --> 01:23.920 Because they start with a premise that basically says, no matter of all the 01:23.920 --> 01:26.040 evidence is against evolution. 01:26.440 --> 01:29.840 And all of it appears to support intelligent design. 01:31.200 --> 01:35.800 Creation is religion by definition and evolution is science, therefore we must go 01:35.800 --> 01:36.300 with science. 01:36.960 --> 01:38.080 And evolution wins anyway. 01:42.760 --> 01:45.660 So when we're dealing with origins, we're dealing with an emotional question. 01:46.160 --> 01:48.400 Whenever we deal with a question, who are we? 01:48.620 --> 01:49.340 Why are we here? 01:49.680 --> 01:51.960 What is our purpose and meaning and value in life? 01:52.380 --> 01:54.300 How do we determine what is right and what is wrong? 01:54.760 --> 01:56.860 And what is going to happen to us when we die? 01:57.320 --> 02:00.520 These questions really are tied up in the issue of our origin. 02:01.220 --> 02:05.500 If we're just mechanistic products of a mindless universe, then there really isn't 02:05.500 --> 02:06.280 any right and wrong. 02:06.440 --> 02:08.560 And when we ask the deep questions, who am I? 02:08.640 --> 02:09.180 Why am I here? 02:09.240 --> 02:09.820 Where am I going? 02:09.900 --> 02:12.780 The answer is, well, you're a nothing and a nobody and you're not here for any real 02:12.780 --> 02:13.080 reason. 02:13.160 --> 02:15.060 You happen by chance and when you die, that's it. 02:15.140 --> 02:18.560 You will rot back into plant fertilizer and that'll be the end of you and you'll 02:18.560 --> 02:20.220 never be conscious again. 02:20.940 --> 02:24.880 Because evolution is purely materialistic, purely naturalistic. 02:25.320 --> 02:26.860 So it's an emotional question. 02:27.020 --> 02:32.620 Many people want to believe in God because such a belief, if true, offers a lot. 02:33.400 --> 02:38.420 Meaning, purpose, value, dignity, hope beyond the grave. 02:38.420 --> 02:42.940 The possibility of an eternal love relationship with an infinite being who 02:42.940 --> 02:44.940 loves us with a perfect love. 02:45.400 --> 02:47.960 The best of all possible worlds for eternity. 02:48.440 --> 02:51.160 If the God of the Bible is true and if his gospel is true. 02:51.700 --> 02:55.500 So many people, understandably, would prefer to believe that. 02:56.220 --> 02:58.800 And many evolutionists say, well, it's pie in the sky, you're believing 02:58.800 --> 03:01.240 something because it sounds good and you'd like to believe it. 03:02.000 --> 03:06.620 But there are also people, such as our beloved evolutionists, who when they're 03:06.620 --> 03:09.640 thoroughgoing evolutionists, they really don't want to believe in a God. 03:10.080 --> 03:12.300 That means there's somebody bigger and smarter than they are. 03:12.680 --> 03:14.120 Believe it or not, that bothers some people. 03:14.620 --> 03:16.760 They think they have a corner on all the knowledge. 03:16.880 --> 03:19.080 They think their intellect is the highest in the universe. 03:19.180 --> 03:21.640 They don't want somebody infinitely superior to them. 03:22.280 --> 03:27.140 And they certainly don't want such a powerful being to have the right to judge 03:27.140 --> 03:28.880 them for how they ran their life. 03:29.400 --> 03:30.400 That's a big issue. 03:30.660 --> 03:31.840 To them, that's their worst nightmare. 03:32.460 --> 03:35.440 That's the reality they hope is not true. 03:36.140 --> 03:40.420 And unfortunately, as the scripture tells us in Romans chapter 1, when men knew God, 03:40.500 --> 03:43.340 but they would not honor him as God, God's judgment on them was he turned them 03:43.340 --> 03:44.780 over to a reprobate mind. 03:45.160 --> 03:48.660 And although they profess to be wise, and although they may be wise in the 03:48.660 --> 03:51.840 things of the world, having multiple PhDs, they miss the boat. 03:52.420 --> 03:56.120 Because they miss the most important truth the human heart can embrace. 03:56.500 --> 03:59.520 If there is a God who made us, that is the purpose and meaning and 03:59.520 --> 04:00.860 destiny of our existence. 04:01.380 --> 04:06.280 And if you miss that, what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his 04:06.280 --> 04:06.480 soul? 04:06.840 --> 04:08.200 So it's an emotional question. 04:11.380 --> 04:15.440 Also, it's an unprovable question, because ultimately we cannot repeat 04:15.440 --> 04:16.300 history in the laboratory. 04:16.660 --> 04:19.960 The origin of the universe, the origin of life, the alleged evolution of an ape-like 04:19.960 --> 04:23.560 creature into a man, these make nice stories, but when it comes to scientific 04:23.560 --> 04:26.760 proof, we cannot repeat any history in the laboratory. 04:26.960 --> 04:28.420 It only operates in the present. 04:31.300 --> 04:36.860 Approaching the question properly, and by that I mean, agree to use fair 04:36.860 --> 04:38.720 rules when you get into this discussion. 04:39.560 --> 04:40.520 And what do I mean by that? 04:40.700 --> 04:46.600 Don't allow them to define science in a self-serving way that makes them winners 04:46.600 --> 04:47.360 by definition. 04:47.680 --> 04:50.040 No matter what you're saying, no matter what evidence you present, they can say, 04:50.100 --> 04:52.280 sorry, the rule book says I win and you lose anyway. 04:55.180 --> 05:02.280 Now here we have, well let's see, a quote from Richard Lewontin in his 05:02.280 --> 05:05.880 article, Billions and Billions of Demons, New York Review. 05:06.640 --> 05:14.800 He said that we're forced, not by science, but by our a priori adherence to material 05:14.800 --> 05:17.940 causes to create an apparatus of investigation. 05:18.140 --> 05:21.380 In other words, the rules of the investigation are such, and a set of 05:21.380 --> 05:25.500 concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how 05:25.500 --> 05:31.120 counterintuitive, no matter how apparently illogical or irrational, no matter how 05:31.120 --> 05:32.820 mystifying to the uninitiated. 05:33.480 --> 05:37.980 Moreover, that materialism is an absolute for we cannot allow a divine foot in the 05:37.980 --> 05:38.220 door. 05:39.200 --> 05:39.460 Why? 05:40.620 --> 05:42.420 Because we can prove that there is no God? 05:42.820 --> 05:43.020 No. 05:43.260 --> 05:45.240 No scientist can prove there is no God. 05:45.640 --> 05:48.740 To prove that there is no God, you would have to be everywhere present to 05:48.740 --> 05:52.260 make sure he's not hiding somewhere in the universe, which means you'd have to be 05:52.260 --> 05:56.700 omnipresent and you'd have to be knowledgeable of every fact that exists 05:56.700 --> 05:58.840 everywhere in the entire universe. 05:59.940 --> 06:04.720 Omnipresent and omniscience, those are characteristics of an infinite God. 06:05.160 --> 06:08.380 And you'd have to have those characteristics to prove that there is no 06:08.380 --> 06:08.720 God. 06:09.140 --> 06:12.600 But if you did have them, you would qualify as God, therefore you would be 06:12.600 --> 06:15.440 God, God would exist, and it's a self-repeating logical argument. 06:16.260 --> 06:20.700 You can't prove a universal negative unless you have universal knowledge, 06:20.820 --> 06:22.720 which they do not have, and science does not have. 06:23.200 --> 06:25.600 So why can't they allow a divine foot in the door? 06:26.220 --> 06:28.360 The answer is because they jolly well don't want it. 06:29.160 --> 06:30.720 Philosophically it is unpalatable to them. 06:30.860 --> 06:32.580 Now, we live in a free country. 06:33.340 --> 06:33.920 Under the U.S. 06:34.060 --> 06:36.580 Constitution, First Amendment, you can believe anything you want. 06:37.180 --> 06:39.420 You can even believe things that are stupid, and it's legal. 06:39.880 --> 06:41.400 Isn't that a wonderful thing about the U .S.? 06:41.840 --> 06:45.440 It's legal to believe in stupid things, but that doesn't make them true. 06:45.980 --> 06:47.240 That doesn't make them science. 06:47.740 --> 06:51.840 And if they want to believe this, I will defend their right in our free 06:51.840 --> 06:54.540 country, under our Constitution, to believe that if they want to as their 06:54.540 --> 06:57.660 religion, but they don't have the right to define it as science. 06:58.500 --> 07:02.660 Just because somebody supposedly died, some potentate died and left them the 07:02.660 --> 07:04.100 authority to redefine science. 07:04.260 --> 07:05.600 It doesn't quite work that way. 07:07.880 --> 07:11.440 Now, this definition of religion I love from Random House College Dictionary, 07:11.640 --> 07:16.140 a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe. 07:18.420 --> 07:22.520 Materialism, naturalism is the presupposition without possibility of 07:22.520 --> 07:26.360 proof by the scientific method, that the whole of reality is naturalism. 07:26.480 --> 07:27.780 There is no supernatural dimension. 07:27.940 --> 07:29.560 There certainly is no supernatural creator. 07:30.160 --> 07:33.640 It is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe 07:33.640 --> 07:35.520 that says it's all materialistic. 07:35.980 --> 07:36.880 It's all naturalistic. 07:37.040 --> 07:38.260 That is a religion. 07:39.220 --> 07:42.800 And as Brother Riddle pointed out so well, we already have a religion. 07:42.880 --> 07:43.760 We already have a faith. 07:44.160 --> 07:45.200 We don't need theirs. 07:45.660 --> 07:49.040 And we need to point out to them that what they have really is a faith. 07:49.040 --> 07:53.120 If they want to be honest and say, I have this faith I'd like to share with 07:53.120 --> 07:53.780 you, I'd say, fine. 07:54.300 --> 07:55.260 I can understand that. 07:55.540 --> 07:59.000 But just don't call your faith science if it doesn't qualify as it. 07:59.260 --> 08:03.580 Don't mislabel it and expect me to accept that definition because it's just not 08:03.580 --> 08:04.060 correct. 08:04.140 --> 08:04.640 It's not true. 08:06.780 --> 08:11.260 Now, here I quote this famous quote by Pierre Thierrard de Chardin, often quoted 08:11.260 --> 08:15.080 by the greatest evolutionist of the 20th century, at least arguably so. 08:16.780 --> 08:21.420 Theodosius Dobzhansky, and he was fond of quoting this, and it says, evolution is a 08:21.420 --> 08:27.200 general postulate to which all theories, all hypotheses, all systems must 08:27.200 --> 08:31.540 henceforward bow, and which they must satisfy in order to be thinkable and true. 08:32.820 --> 08:38.440 Evolution is a light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory which all lines of 08:38.440 --> 08:39.580 thought must follow. 08:40.220 --> 08:42.300 That is what evolution is. 08:43.240 --> 08:47.100 Now, this is really one of the most astounding quotes I've ever confronted. 08:47.800 --> 08:51.340 Right at the beginning it admits it's nothing but a general postulate. 08:52.200 --> 08:55.900 That's another word for a hypothesis, not even something that's been proved, 08:56.200 --> 08:59.080 just something that people conjure up in their imagination and say, well, 08:59.100 --> 09:00.960 we can test it, but we don't know if it's true yet. 09:01.540 --> 09:07.060 But somehow this mere postulate or hypothesis has the power to say all world 09:07.060 --> 09:08.500 systems must bow before it. 09:09.340 --> 09:09.880 And you know what? 09:09.940 --> 09:12.980 If you don't stop and say, wait a minute, you don't have the authority to do that, 09:13.460 --> 09:37.360 they'll run right over you and say, hey, Theodosius So I'd like to know what 09:37.360 --> 09:39.200 happened to the classic definition of science. 09:39.300 --> 09:45.060 The classic definition of science is the search for truth whatever that truth may 09:45.060 --> 09:45.380 be. 09:46.080 --> 09:49.060 And the truth just may be that naturalism doesn't work. 09:49.880 --> 09:54.560 That nature by her laws of chemistry and physics did not create us and was not 09:54.560 --> 09:55.820 responsible for our origin. 09:56.040 --> 09:57.160 That may be the truth. 09:58.140 --> 10:02.760 And real science is interested in finding the truth, whatever the truth may be. 10:03.220 --> 10:07.000 It doesn't start by defining well, we're not going to look in this area it 10:07.000 --> 10:09.920 might be true, we can't prove it's not true but we're not going to look in that 10:09.920 --> 10:13.720 area and we're going to define that area as non-scientific by definition. 10:14.220 --> 10:15.840 Namely supernatural creation. 10:16.740 --> 10:17.240 Guess what? 10:17.800 --> 10:21.120 Supernatural creation just might be true and science can't prove it isn't true. 10:21.700 --> 10:25.320 So here we have the Orwellian thought police coming along and saying, 10:25.480 --> 10:28.880 look, you can search for truth, but only how and where we tell you to. 10:29.900 --> 10:33.080 So everybody says, oh, we want to be free, we want freedom of religion freedom of 10:33.080 --> 10:33.420 speech. 10:33.540 --> 10:39.340 And yet, some of the greatest bondage in academia is this false definition of 10:39.340 --> 10:42.840 science that says you can only search for truth where we tell you to search and how 10:42.840 --> 10:43.660 we tell you to search. 10:44.160 --> 10:45.840 We need to call them on the carpet about that. 10:47.720 --> 10:52.800 So science when redefined as materialism says you may search for truth but only 10:52.800 --> 10:57.800 where and how we tell you, only materialistic explanations are allowed. 11:00.240 --> 11:02.380 Now the problem, what is the problem? 11:04.440 --> 11:08.160 When you allow your opponent to define the rules of argument, you lose. 11:08.580 --> 11:11.920 If they get to set the definition, guess what, they're always going to define 11:11.920 --> 11:15.180 the rules in such a way that no matter what happens, they win and you lose. 11:15.240 --> 11:20.220 For example, the first rule, since I get to set the rules, you've conceded me that 11:20.220 --> 11:23.140 right, I set the rules and you don't. 11:23.420 --> 11:24.120 That's the first rule. 11:24.460 --> 11:25.800 Then what's the second rule? 11:27.720 --> 11:29.860 Heads I win, tails you lose. 11:30.880 --> 11:36.140 So when your opponent is allowed and conceded the authority to define science 11:36.140 --> 11:39.860 in a self-serving manner, he controls the rule book. 11:40.560 --> 11:42.940 You're never going to win in that situation. 11:43.300 --> 11:47.340 It doesn't matter if in a football game you score all the touchdowns or in a 11:47.340 --> 11:50.120 basketball game you get all the hoops. 11:51.000 --> 11:55.380 If the rule book says you lose by definition, it doesn't matter. 11:56.200 --> 11:59.120 And that's literally the position the evolutionists have put themselves in. 11:59.500 --> 12:00.300 Well, it doesn't matter. 12:00.380 --> 12:03.060 It doesn't matter what evidence the evolutionists or the creationists have. 12:03.140 --> 12:04.480 It doesn't matter what arguments they have. 12:04.920 --> 12:07.240 We have real science on our side. 12:07.800 --> 12:08.520 Says who? 12:08.960 --> 12:11.020 Their own self-serving definition. 12:11.500 --> 12:12.860 We've got to take that away from them. 12:12.920 --> 12:13.900 They don't have the authority. 12:14.060 --> 12:20.040 Nobody died and bequeathed to them the right to change the classic definition of 12:20.040 --> 12:23.380 science which is the search for truth, whatever that truth may be. 12:26.280 --> 12:29.720 So, the conclusion, the search for truth, for truth's own sake, is unimportant, 12:30.140 --> 12:31.160 according to their definition. 12:31.620 --> 12:34.920 The only thing that matters is that a materialist victory is assured by 12:34.920 --> 12:39.060 controlling the definition of science, quote-unquote, so that no matter what, 12:39.140 --> 12:41.440 they have to win by definition. 12:43.420 --> 12:47.780 Now, it literally doesn't matter if all the evidence supports intelligent design 12:47.780 --> 12:49.320 and contradicts naturalistic evolution. 12:49.420 --> 12:50.720 You say, well, it's not that extreme, is it? 12:50.720 --> 12:51.680 It is. 12:51.940 --> 12:56.560 I quote here Dr. Scott Todd, an immunologist at Kansas State University, 12:57.060 --> 12:58.480 and he wrote this in Nature magazine. 12:58.700 --> 13:06.700 He said, even if all the data, notice, all means all, even if all the 13:06.700 --> 13:12.380 data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from 13:12.380 --> 13:14.980 science because it is not naturalistic. 13:15.640 --> 13:16.080 End of quote. 13:17.400 --> 13:21.680 Now, what would they do if creationist scientists got up and said, even if all 13:21.680 --> 13:27.320 the data point to Darwinian evolution as being true, such an hypothesis is, 13:27.320 --> 13:30.820 you know, not science because it's not supernaturalistic. 13:31.440 --> 13:35.240 Why, they'd scream and cry, and oh my goodness, you'd think the world would end. 13:36.320 --> 13:37.660 But we're supposed to put up with that. 13:37.740 --> 13:39.340 They wouldn't tolerate it for one second. 13:39.860 --> 13:43.180 But we're supposed to be so meek and mild, we'll let them get away with this illogic. 13:43.700 --> 13:46.300 And we have to put our foot down and say, look, we're willing to discuss. 13:46.300 --> 13:47.220 We're willing to talk. 13:47.360 --> 13:48.020 We're willing to debate. 13:48.240 --> 13:49.940 But let's level the playing field. 13:50.500 --> 13:54.460 Let's not start with a definition that guarantees that you win no matter what. 13:55.140 --> 14:00.020 Because you define yourself as a victor by how you define the word science. 14:02.600 --> 14:05.280 So, is it science or just philosophical bias? 14:05.600 --> 14:08.980 I quote here the eminent evolutionist of the early 20th century, D.M.S. 14:09.060 --> 14:09.260 Watson. 14:09.620 --> 14:14.820 He said, evolution is a theory universally accepted, not because it can be proved by 14:14.820 --> 14:19.120 logically coherent evidence to be true, but because the only alternative, 14:19.660 --> 14:22.420 special creation, is clearly incredible. 14:25.360 --> 14:25.800 Huh. 14:26.180 --> 14:30.400 So it's not what we can prove that counts, it's what we don't like that counts. 14:31.240 --> 14:32.500 Why is creation incredible? 14:32.660 --> 14:34.160 Because you can prove it's unscientific? 14:34.240 --> 14:35.340 Because you can prove it didn't happen? 14:36.000 --> 14:36.380 No. 14:36.740 --> 14:37.700 Well, then maybe it did happen. 14:37.780 --> 14:38.620 Oh no, it's incredible. 14:38.760 --> 14:39.300 How do you know? 14:39.400 --> 14:40.700 Well, because we don't like it. 14:41.480 --> 14:45.120 And we'll define what is credible and rational based on what we prefer. 14:46.280 --> 14:46.680 Really? 14:47.480 --> 14:50.660 I thought we lived in a democracy where people can believe what they want and 14:50.660 --> 14:51.940 search for truth the way they want, you see. 14:52.420 --> 14:53.580 And that's the point we have to bring out. 14:53.640 --> 14:54.600 Everybody's for democracy. 14:55.040 --> 14:56.340 Everybody's for freedom of thought. 14:56.900 --> 15:02.840 And we need to point out, Orwell has had his heyday with this type of science, 15:03.020 --> 15:07.400 because they suppress freedom of thought under their definition. 15:07.560 --> 15:10.760 It's incredible by definition, even though they can't prove it's wrong. 15:12.420 --> 15:16.040 I quote here Sir Arthur Keith, another crusading evolutionist of the 15:16.040 --> 15:16.840 early 20th century. 15:17.000 --> 15:20.280 He said, Amen, brother. 15:20.480 --> 15:20.960 I would agree. 15:21.860 --> 15:28.380 We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, which is unthinkable. 15:30.100 --> 15:32.260 In other words, we're not believing in it because we can prove it. 15:32.400 --> 15:32.800 We can't. 15:33.100 --> 15:38.200 It's just because the alternative is so distasteful, so unpalatable, so 15:38.200 --> 15:41.340 reprehensible, that we'd rather believe anything than believe that. 15:42.220 --> 15:43.880 Well, it's a free country. 15:44.420 --> 15:46.180 You can choose what you prefer to believe. 15:46.660 --> 15:50.500 But you don't have the right to say that belief system is science by definition. 15:53.520 --> 15:55.300 Now this quote just about blows me away. 15:55.380 --> 15:58.980 By the way, the full references for these quotes are found in my book out there, 15:59.080 --> 16:01.580 Evolution on Trial, with evolutionists at the witness stand. 16:02.120 --> 16:02.480 But L. 16:02.480 --> 16:02.620 T. 16:02.680 --> 16:06.520 Moore, he brought it to the ultimate, what we call in logic, reductio ad 16:06.520 --> 16:12.440 absurdum, reducing the argument to its ultimate and logical, yet absurd 16:12.440 --> 16:12.980 conclusion. 16:13.740 --> 16:17.900 He said the only alternative to evolution is the doctrine of special creation, 16:18.420 --> 16:22.620 which may be true, but is irrational. 16:26.280 --> 16:29.740 You gotta ask the question, how can the truth be irrational? 16:30.760 --> 16:35.300 If the truth is irrational, how can we have any kind of intelligent or logical 16:35.300 --> 16:36.460 discussion about anything? 16:36.940 --> 16:41.340 Since after all, anything we discuss that might be truth is also irrational. 16:42.120 --> 16:43.440 And why waste the time? 16:46.200 --> 16:51.080 Basically, the truth is that which exists as reality. 16:51.680 --> 16:55.500 That which exists as reality is simply the truth. 16:56.300 --> 16:59.620 How can that which exists as reality somehow be irrational? 17:00.600 --> 17:06.600 The only answer I can find is only a philosophical bias is given more 17:06.600 --> 17:07.580 importance than truth. 17:08.680 --> 17:10.480 But here we're supposed to be dealing with science. 17:10.740 --> 17:12.200 Science is supposed to have the upper hand. 17:12.300 --> 17:15.340 What we can prove by repeated experimentation and observation under 17:15.340 --> 17:19.040 controlled conditions in a laboratory preferably, that's supposed to reign. 17:19.160 --> 17:24.060 But here we have seen over and over again science has little to do with why some of 17:24.060 --> 17:27.640 the most eminent evolutionists in history have rejected creation out of hand. 17:28.300 --> 17:30.060 It doesn't fit their bias. 17:30.340 --> 17:33.440 And if they have to, they'll even say truth is irrational. 17:34.160 --> 17:37.340 Because if that's the real truth, they don't want it. 17:37.820 --> 17:41.020 Much like the Jews said about Jesus, we will not have this man to reign over 17:41.020 --> 17:41.360 us. 17:41.860 --> 17:45.240 We don't care if he can walk on water, change the water to wine, raise the dead. 17:45.980 --> 17:46.860 We don't care. 17:47.140 --> 17:47.820 We don't like him. 17:48.100 --> 17:49.820 He's not the kind of Messiah we want. 17:51.060 --> 17:55.220 And many evolutionists say, well, it may be true, but we don't want it. 17:55.460 --> 17:59.260 We will therefore call it irrational and proclaim ourselves the victors because 17:59.260 --> 18:02.200 we're rational, we're scientific by definition. 18:03.260 --> 18:03.880 What a charade. 18:04.440 --> 18:05.200 What a sad thing. 18:07.780 --> 18:11.040 Now, is there a double standard regarding intelligent design? 18:11.500 --> 18:12.120 I think so. 18:12.840 --> 18:17.240 You know, if an archaeologist dug up clay tablets in the Middle East with the 18:17.240 --> 18:22.260 Gilgamesh epic written down in beautiful cuneiform and he brought this in and said, 18:22.400 --> 18:25.840 oh my goodness, look at this ancient epic story of this great flood. 18:26.420 --> 18:26.840 Wow. 18:27.240 --> 18:31.800 Boy, a society that was really, you know, gifted in literature and writing 18:31.800 --> 18:32.540 produced this. 18:33.160 --> 18:35.560 Well, there'd be no brouhaha about that. 18:36.220 --> 18:39.280 Everybody would accept, yeah, certain types of design like that don't happen by 18:39.280 --> 18:43.120 wind and rain and erosion on clay, doesn't produce the Gilgamesh epic in 18:43.120 --> 18:45.900 cuneiform, doesn't happen, at least not in our scientific experience. 18:46.940 --> 18:49.840 But that same argument is what the creationists use. 18:50.500 --> 18:56.160 The type of design and particularly the linguistic complexity we find in all 18:56.160 --> 18:58.080 living organisms at the molecular level. 18:58.460 --> 19:03.460 Information is the key to information storage and retrieval and actualization 19:03.460 --> 19:04.120 and utilization. 19:04.740 --> 19:09.640 It's all about information systems that interface with one another and cooperate 19:09.640 --> 19:10.380 with one another. 19:11.060 --> 19:15.200 And yet information is based on everything we know in real science something that 19:15.200 --> 19:19.280 only arises as far as scientific observation is concerned by intelligent 19:19.280 --> 19:19.800 authorship. 19:20.560 --> 19:23.340 Never by time, chance, natural laws of chemistry and physics. 19:23.500 --> 19:27.720 All the experiments have failed for more than half a century since the landmark 19:27.720 --> 19:29.760 experiment of Stanley Miller in 1953. 19:30.540 --> 19:36.380 Yet in spite of decades of abject failure, the evolutionists still are there because 19:36.380 --> 19:38.260 in their book they can't lose. 19:38.840 --> 19:42.480 After all, the rule book says they win even if all the evidence is against them. 19:43.040 --> 19:47.920 You have to understand that mindset or you will get very frustrated in trying to 19:47.920 --> 19:48.680 converse with them. 19:49.220 --> 19:54.460 But say we have this idea, well you can't ever invoke intelligent design is by 19:54.460 --> 19:57.500 definition religion, it is by definition not science. 19:57.680 --> 19:59.520 Everything must be explained in terms of naturalism. 20:00.140 --> 20:02.500 So we tell our college students, we are going to go out and look at this 20:02.500 --> 20:03.120 phenomenon. 20:04.240 --> 20:08.000 And before we go, remember the rule book says you can't invoke intelligent design 20:08.000 --> 20:09.680 and control procedures to explain this. 20:10.440 --> 20:12.280 So then they take them out and they look at what? 20:12.860 --> 20:13.400 Mount Rushmore. 20:14.440 --> 20:17.680 Now they look at that and say, well gee, four presidents' heads carved in 20:17.680 --> 20:18.140 granite. 20:18.880 --> 20:19.880 How did that get there? 20:19.880 --> 20:23.820 Based on everything we know in our life experience and in observation and science, 20:24.440 --> 20:28.580 they had to take that information which we knew from eyewitnesses who drew portraits 20:28.580 --> 20:35.180 of Jefferson in Washington and actual photographs of Teddy Roosevelt and Abraham 20:35.180 --> 20:41.240 Lincoln and they used that information to impose a precise facsimile or replica in 20:41.240 --> 20:42.920 granite at Mount Rushmore. 20:43.280 --> 20:47.240 That is the only way we know, based on any science, that that happens. 20:47.240 --> 20:51.160 It doesn't happen by wind and rain and erosion and squirrels burrowing into the 20:51.160 --> 20:51.440 rocks. 20:51.980 --> 20:53.340 At least, not in our observation. 20:54.340 --> 20:56.580 But, they know they want to get an A on the test. 20:57.300 --> 21:01.380 So they go, well, it doesn't seem to make any sense, but I want to get my A so I'm 21:01.380 --> 21:04.540 going to say, isn't it amazing what wind and rain and erosion for millions of years 21:04.540 --> 21:05.940 and squirrels burrowing in the rocks did? 21:07.240 --> 21:09.300 Four presidents' heads in granite. 21:10.400 --> 21:14.080 That's the sad irony of what's going on. 21:14.720 --> 21:17.820 It's like, as one scientist called it, the elephant in the living room. 21:18.300 --> 21:20.220 The name of the elephant is intelligent design. 21:20.780 --> 21:25.260 And he said, you know, to make a living in the field of biochemistry you have to live 21:25.260 --> 21:27.660 with the elephant in the living room but you can never acknowledge it's there. 21:28.340 --> 21:34.700 It takes up space, it stinks, it defecates, it trumpets, it throws hay all 21:34.700 --> 21:37.920 over the place and all the while we have to swear it's not there. 21:38.560 --> 21:40.460 Because if we acknowledge it, we'll lose our job. 21:41.200 --> 21:43.800 The elephant in the living room is all over this universe. 21:44.160 --> 21:45.580 The fingerprints of the creator are there. 21:46.200 --> 21:50.360 But many in the scientific community are intimidated and will never admit it. 21:50.820 --> 21:52.880 They'll go with the standard definition of naturalism. 21:52.980 --> 21:54.220 They want to keep their job. 21:56.340 --> 21:59.860 So we have a two-edged sword of science when it comes to the creation evolution 21:59.860 --> 22:00.360 issue. 22:01.560 --> 22:03.220 And this, I quote Francisco J. 22:03.280 --> 22:07.760 Ayala, very eminent evolutionist geneticist, and he said, a hypothesis is 22:07.760 --> 22:12.100 empirical or scientific only if it can be tested by experience. 22:12.620 --> 22:16.760 A hypothesis or theory which cannot be at least in principle falsified or proven 22:16.760 --> 22:21.400 false by empirical observations and experiments does not belong to the realm 22:21.400 --> 22:22.520 of science. 22:23.360 --> 22:28.540 And with glee they exult and say, well therefore creation doesn't qualify as 22:28.540 --> 22:32.200 a scientific theory because we can't test it, we can't observe it, we can't call 22:32.200 --> 22:34.640 down the creator and ask him to do a miracle of creation for us. 22:34.960 --> 22:38.820 We can't go in the past and observe whether or not he did create the universe 22:38.820 --> 22:39.720 and life and man. 22:40.820 --> 22:41.880 And that's a legitimate criticism. 22:42.500 --> 22:45.580 We ultimately believe the doctrine of creation by faith. 22:46.040 --> 22:47.500 Now that doesn't mean there isn't any evidence. 22:48.100 --> 22:51.520 I think there's a reasonable faith based on the weight of the evidence. 22:51.720 --> 22:53.480 That's how we make decisions in a court of law. 22:54.180 --> 22:57.200 The jury didn't see the crime happen but they look at the weight of the evidence 22:57.200 --> 22:59.640 and they judge that beyond reasonable doubt this is true. 23:00.220 --> 23:01.840 Even though they didn't see it with their own eyes. 23:01.920 --> 23:06.320 The evidence is sufficient that it is a reasonable faith beyond reasonable doubt. 23:06.320 --> 23:08.580 And that's our faith in creation. 23:08.700 --> 23:09.860 We can say it's a reasonable faith. 23:10.220 --> 23:14.640 It fits the facts with the least number of problems and contradictions and it is not 23:14.640 --> 23:17.920 contradicted by any known real facts of science. 23:18.140 --> 23:19.700 I'm not saying theories and philosophies. 23:20.380 --> 23:22.760 Lots of theories and philosophies in the world contradict the Bible. 23:23.240 --> 23:24.920 But they're just theories and philosophies. 23:25.260 --> 23:27.400 Sometimes masquerading as scientific fact. 23:27.920 --> 23:32.900 Real empirical demonstrated facts we don't disagree on at all. 23:33.280 --> 23:36.100 We have all the same evidence, all the same facts as the evolutionists. 23:36.680 --> 23:38.680 The only thing we disagree about is the interpretation. 23:39.420 --> 23:39.920 The history. 23:40.600 --> 23:44.520 How long it took basically is one of the big differences we disagree on. 23:44.580 --> 23:46.900 We look at the same physical evidence in every field of science. 23:47.160 --> 23:49.900 We just disagree on the history of how it came to be. 23:50.840 --> 23:57.020 Now this double-edged sword cuts the other way because although we can't prove 23:57.020 --> 24:02.020 creation by the scientific method, neither can we prove the evolutionary 24:02.020 --> 24:02.320 theory. 24:02.880 --> 24:06.900 Can we go back in a time machine and observe the Big Bang and the evolutionary 24:06.900 --> 24:10.860 origin of the universe or the origin of the first living cell or cell evolving 24:10.860 --> 24:13.800 into marine invertebrates fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, 24:14.080 --> 24:17.100 apes, finally man, over billions of years of time? 24:17.800 --> 24:18.280 No. 24:18.700 --> 24:20.420 We can't observe it. 24:20.720 --> 24:24.500 And by his own definition, if you can't falsify it by observation, and we can't do 24:24.500 --> 24:28.100 that to evolution on the broad scale because we can't repeat history in the 24:28.100 --> 24:32.900 laboratory, then it does not belong to the realm of science by their own definition. 24:33.560 --> 24:36.680 It's not a question of which one is faith and which one is scientific fact. 24:37.180 --> 24:42.660 It's a question of which faith fits the facts the best with the least number of 24:42.660 --> 24:43.480 problems and contradictions. 24:43.640 --> 24:44.520 That's the best we can do. 24:44.640 --> 24:48.520 With any historical question, science is limited in what it can tell us. 24:51.860 --> 24:54.300 Now I quote here L. 24:54.360 --> 24:58.660 Harrison Matthews, eminent British biologist, member of the Royal Society, 24:59.500 --> 25:02.440 a fellow of the Royal Society, actually they call them, and he was so 25:02.440 --> 25:05.460 eminent he was asked to write the introduction to the 1971 edition of 25:05.460 --> 25:07.320 Charles Darwin's famous book, The Origin of Species. 25:07.760 --> 25:11.700 They probably regretted asking him because he was a very honest scientist and he said 25:11.700 --> 25:13.360 some amazing things, which I quote here. 25:13.940 --> 25:18.680 He said, in accepting evolution as a fact, how many biologists pause to reflect that 25:18.680 --> 25:22.600 science is built upon theories that have been proved by experiment to be correct? 25:23.320 --> 25:27.820 Or remember that the theory of animal evolution has never been thus proved? 25:27.820 --> 25:30.720 And in the broad scale, that's absolutely true. 25:31.400 --> 25:35.460 We can't see a family, order, class, phyla change into another. 25:36.000 --> 25:39.360 Limited variation within distinct families, species, genus, yeah, 25:39.820 --> 25:42.260 we've seen that, creation explains that, predicts that. 25:42.760 --> 25:45.900 But the big changes define Darwinian evolution. 25:46.480 --> 25:50.200 And no experiment has ever proved that it ever has or even could happen. 25:54.000 --> 25:58.400 He continues saying, the fact of evolution is the backbone of biology and biology is 25:58.400 --> 26:03.060 thus in the peculiar position of being a science founded on an unproved theory. 26:03.500 --> 26:06.740 Oh, heresies in the halls of biology, but he's being honest about it. 26:06.780 --> 26:07.580 It's an unproved theory. 26:07.880 --> 26:08.700 It's not a fact. 26:09.960 --> 26:13.260 He says, and this is a good question that ought to be asked in our textbooks, 26:13.580 --> 26:17.320 by the way, is it a science or a faith? 26:19.020 --> 26:19.660 Good question. 26:20.380 --> 26:24.160 Belief in the theory of evolution is thus exactly parallel to belief in creation. 26:24.680 --> 26:30.600 Both are concepts which believers know to be true but neither up to the present has 26:30.600 --> 26:31.920 been capable of proof. 26:32.720 --> 26:36.200 And neither will be in the ultimate scientific sense unless we can invent a 26:36.200 --> 26:38.700 time machine and literally go back and observe what really happened. 26:39.400 --> 26:40.500 We can't do that. 26:40.820 --> 26:42.420 Therefore it's circumstantial evidence. 26:43.140 --> 26:43.900 Well, what does that mean? 26:46.200 --> 26:50.460 That means we have to compare the creation and evolution issues as scientific models 26:50.460 --> 26:51.920 rather than scientific theories. 26:52.720 --> 26:56.420 A scientific theory is a theory that can be put to the test and proven true or 26:56.420 --> 26:56.700 false. 26:57.140 --> 26:59.980 You can't do that in the broad scale with either creation or evolution. 27:00.500 --> 27:04.200 It's ultimately a matter of faith but they can be examined as scientific models. 27:07.140 --> 27:11.900 A scientific model is simply a conceptual framework that's used to correlate and 27:11.900 --> 27:17.760 make predictions and correlate the evidence and the model that can correlate 27:17.760 --> 27:20.980 the evidence with the least number of problems and contradictions and make 27:20.980 --> 27:22.940 predictions that fit the real world. 27:23.600 --> 27:26.580 Then that theory is most likely the correct one. 27:27.480 --> 27:28.380 And that's where you have to leave it. 27:28.440 --> 27:29.520 This theory makes more sense. 27:30.060 --> 27:31.180 The weight of the evidence is with it. 27:31.340 --> 27:34.940 We therefore put our faith in that as being the most reasonable faith. 27:35.440 --> 27:37.460 That's the best we can do in this area. 27:37.740 --> 27:44.000 Now when we define the creation evolution controversy in the terms of models 27:45.220 --> 27:48.220 conceptual frameworks creation wins hands down. 27:48.900 --> 27:53.840 Evolution is contradicted by all kinds of known facts of chemistry and physics and 27:53.840 --> 27:54.600 experimental data. 27:55.100 --> 27:56.840 Contradiction upon contradiction upon contradiction. 27:57.580 --> 28:01.040 There aren't any facts that actually contradict the concept of special 28:01.040 --> 28:01.480 creation. 28:02.280 --> 28:03.480 Now notice predictions. 28:04.000 --> 28:08.940 Evolution predicts and Julian Huxley said indeed the whole of reality is the self 28:08.940 --> 28:13.760 transforming power of evolution going to ever and ever greater levels of 28:13.760 --> 28:14.260 complexity. 28:14.960 --> 28:19.740 So from inanimate particles we get complex biochemicals which then organize into a 28:19.740 --> 28:21.080 living reproducing cell. 28:21.640 --> 28:23.520 And that goes all the way up to man. 28:23.780 --> 28:27.320 And then supposedly man is continuing to evolve and it's going up and up and up and 28:27.320 --> 28:27.480 up. 28:28.000 --> 28:31.660 Now if this were true we would predict that we ought to be able to find in nature 28:31.660 --> 28:36.880 some inherent intrinsic property of matter and energy that drives it to ever higher 28:36.880 --> 28:38.400 levels of complexity. 28:39.420 --> 28:42.680 No such intrinsic property of matter has ever been observed or proven. 28:43.420 --> 28:46.980 Thus no law exists to describe this phenomenon. 28:47.600 --> 28:52.060 Exactly the opposite tendency of matter and energy has been observed over and over 28:52.060 --> 28:53.240 again without fail. 28:53.640 --> 28:56.680 So much so that it is embodied in a law. 28:56.980 --> 28:58.480 The second law of thermodynamics. 28:58.640 --> 29:03.320 The law of increasing disorder, increasing entropy, increasing loss of 29:03.320 --> 29:08.480 available free energy, converting into dilute unavailable energy that although 29:08.480 --> 29:10.680 it's there it cannot be harnessed for useful work anymore. 29:11.820 --> 29:17.500 So what we actually see in the real world as defined in the second law is something 29:17.500 --> 29:19.000 you would expect if creation is true. 29:19.440 --> 29:23.980 If creation took place then an omnipotent creator created things perfect and 29:23.980 --> 29:24.500 complete. 29:24.800 --> 29:27.640 They didn't have to go in this upward progress to reach perfection. 29:27.800 --> 29:29.400 It was created with perfection at the beginning. 29:30.240 --> 29:32.300 Therefore it couldn't go any higher than perfect. 29:32.680 --> 29:36.060 You wouldn't expect any higher upward movement like evolution predicts and 29:36.060 --> 29:36.960 indeed we don't see that. 29:37.380 --> 29:40.220 However things can go down from perfection. 29:40.900 --> 29:44.760 Especially if the creator as he has revealed has instituted a bondage of 29:44.760 --> 29:45.540 corruption and decay. 29:46.340 --> 29:50.420 Now I don't think that means that God put the second law there at the time of the 29:50.420 --> 29:50.660 curse. 29:50.780 --> 29:52.840 I think the second law is there for a good reason. 29:53.360 --> 29:56.240 If we didn't have the second law in operation certain chemical processes 29:56.240 --> 29:56.760 wouldn't work. 29:56.860 --> 29:57.960 We couldn't digest our food. 29:58.560 --> 29:59.360 That would be pretty miserable. 29:59.780 --> 30:00.960 Talk about indigestion. 30:02.780 --> 30:06.760 So you also wouldn't be able to walk without slipping and falling on your face 30:06.760 --> 30:10.460 because as you walk you generate heat which dissipates according to the second 30:10.460 --> 30:10.740 law. 30:11.140 --> 30:12.920 You have to have friction without the second law. 30:13.160 --> 30:15.180 You wouldn't even be able to walk without slipping all over the place. 30:15.760 --> 30:19.120 So there's good reasons for that second law to be there but the Bible says a 30:19.120 --> 30:21.120 bondage of corruption and decay. 30:21.820 --> 30:25.480 I believe there was an offsetting principle of God's providence there as 30:25.480 --> 30:26.700 there was with the children of Israel. 30:27.480 --> 30:32.320 Remember as they wandered in the desert 40 years it said during all that time their 30:32.320 --> 30:35.960 clothes didn't wear out, their shoes didn't wear out, and their feet didn't 30:35.960 --> 30:36.300 swell. 30:37.080 --> 30:38.720 Does that mean the second law wasn't there? 30:39.500 --> 30:43.820 No, I think it was there, it was just that God was offsetting its effects with his 30:43.820 --> 30:48.480 law of preservation, with his providence, his miraculous upholding of his sovereign 30:48.480 --> 30:49.660 purpose in that situation. 30:50.240 --> 30:55.080 I think when the curse came God withdrew some of his providential grace and this 30:55.080 --> 30:59.400 natural law was now a bondage because there's no more an offsetting principle as 30:59.400 --> 31:01.400 there was for the children of Israel. 31:01.780 --> 31:07.160 So the law I believe has always been there and the law is necessary but degeneration 31:07.160 --> 31:08.160 is what we see. 31:09.260 --> 31:11.820 And that fits the idea of creation and the curse. 31:12.520 --> 31:17.640 And that is what we observe and we never observe the opposite, which is necessary 31:17.640 --> 31:21.500 for evolution to be true on this broad scale both universally and biologically. 31:23.480 --> 31:27.840 Now, the second law of thermodynamics sounds formidable but it's something we're 31:27.840 --> 31:28.780 all too familiar with. 31:29.180 --> 31:31.640 Basically the law of degeneration over time. 31:31.640 --> 31:35.820 With time things tend to fall apart and go to pot. 31:36.180 --> 31:39.480 Our clothes wear out, our cars wear out, our houses wear out, we wear out. 31:39.760 --> 31:40.480 We get old and die. 31:40.900 --> 31:44.180 It may have a big name but we're all too familiar with the bondage of corruption 31:44.180 --> 31:46.940 and decay formalized in the second law of thermodynamics. 31:47.140 --> 31:51.980 With time things tend to go from a state of high free energy to loss of available 31:51.980 --> 31:57.700 free energy and entropy and from complexity to disorder and simplicity. 32:01.260 --> 32:05.120 Now, the all important thing, the implications of the laws of 32:05.120 --> 32:05.640 thermodynamics. 32:06.180 --> 32:09.820 Now the second law is the law of increasing disorder, increasing loss of 32:09.820 --> 32:11.980 free energy, increasing entropy over time. 32:12.900 --> 32:19.120 Entropy being defined as randomness, disorder in a system, or dilute energy, 32:19.220 --> 32:22.860 the loss of free energy into dilute energy that's there but it cannot be harnessed 32:22.860 --> 32:23.160 anymore. 32:23.800 --> 32:26.700 Now the first law is the law of mass energy conservation. 32:26.900 --> 32:27.320 Thanks, Einstein. 32:27.320 --> 32:31.040 We know that matter is a kind of a form of energy, a kind of a coalesced energy. 32:31.280 --> 32:32.360 So it's all energy out there. 32:32.700 --> 32:37.280 But the first law says that no matter what happens, whether things blow up or burn 32:37.280 --> 32:41.500 down or things get transported, whatever reactions happen in the universe, 32:42.060 --> 32:43.120 the books always balance. 32:43.740 --> 32:47.720 You never have more energy at the end or less at the end of any transformation than 32:47.720 --> 32:48.240 you had before. 32:48.720 --> 32:50.420 There's always this conservation. 32:51.000 --> 32:55.100 The books balance always the same amount of energy that you started with. 32:55.100 --> 32:59.700 That means the first law states that matter cannot be created or destroyed. 33:00.060 --> 33:03.140 Energy cannot be created or destroyed ultimately in that sense. 33:03.260 --> 33:04.980 The matter and energy remains constant. 33:05.440 --> 33:07.800 It can be transformed but the amount remains constant. 33:07.960 --> 33:13.740 So that means that the quantity remains constant, according to the first law. 33:13.840 --> 33:17.940 However, the second law says that the quality does not remain constant. 33:18.140 --> 33:20.320 The quality degrades over time. 33:20.360 --> 33:21.440 And that's what's being shown here. 33:22.540 --> 33:26.160 The universe is running down irreversibly, according to the second law. 33:26.920 --> 33:30.560 That means it will eventually reach the ultimate heat death or total entropy, 33:31.000 --> 33:33.840 where there will be no more free energy available anywhere in the universe. 33:33.980 --> 33:35.240 It will all be dilute entropy. 33:35.360 --> 33:36.420 Everything will be dark and cold. 33:36.600 --> 33:39.540 No life, no useful work can be done anywhere in the universe. 33:40.440 --> 33:43.520 Now, since it's irreversibly running down, what does that mean? 33:44.280 --> 33:46.600 The universe cannot be infinitely old. 33:47.360 --> 33:50.220 The evolutionists would love to have an infinitely old universe that's eternal, 33:51.040 --> 33:53.440 and therefore, that's their eternal god, instead of the eternal creator. 33:54.200 --> 33:57.320 But the second law, proven science, says it can't be. 33:57.980 --> 34:00.100 Because it's running down, it will reach an end. 34:00.160 --> 34:01.180 It hasn't reached the end yet. 34:01.240 --> 34:04.160 It, therefore, cannot be infinitely old, or in the long sense, would have been at 34:04.160 --> 34:04.860 maximum entropy. 34:05.560 --> 34:07.740 And no life, no evolution, no nothing could exist. 34:08.520 --> 34:12.300 So the second law clearly shows the universe must have had a beginning when 34:12.300 --> 34:16.980 something or someone put that free energy there that is now running down 34:17.540 --> 34:17.980 irreversibly. 34:18.880 --> 34:22.280 So the second law says the universe must have had a beginning, but the first law 34:22.280 --> 34:25.360 says it could not have begun itself by natural law. 34:25.540 --> 34:25.600 Why? 34:25.720 --> 34:29.160 Because matter and energy cannot create or destroy themselves. 34:29.280 --> 34:30.340 Not by natural law. 34:31.280 --> 34:36.260 So, we must have a beginning, but the universe can't begin itself by natural 34:36.260 --> 34:36.460 law. 34:36.520 --> 34:36.960 What do we need? 34:37.040 --> 34:38.280 Something supernatural. 34:39.560 --> 34:42.940 Something transcendent to the limitations of space and time and natural laws. 34:43.540 --> 34:47.640 Something like an omniscient, omnipotent creator, who transcends all these 34:47.640 --> 34:51.480 limitations and who is eternal and therefore had no beginning, therefore 34:51.480 --> 34:53.720 needs no cause to explain his origin. 34:54.520 --> 35:00.080 Now this is basically classic scientific cause and effect reasoning. 35:00.580 --> 35:03.640 If ever there was a scientific law, it is the law of cause and effect, 35:03.720 --> 35:08.060 which states that for every effect there must be an adequate cause and that no 35:08.060 --> 35:09.880 effect can be greater than its cause. 35:10.560 --> 35:14.620 An effect may be lesser than its cause, but never can an effect be greater than 35:14.620 --> 35:15.200 its cause. 35:15.200 --> 35:18.560 And for every effect there must be an adequate cause. 35:19.220 --> 35:24.560 All of science is based on that single axiomatic law being true. 35:25.160 --> 35:29.960 If cause and effect relationships and this law is not true, then there is no such 35:29.960 --> 35:30.740 thing as science. 35:31.040 --> 35:33.500 The scientific method would be impossible to employ. 35:33.800 --> 35:37.380 If you don't believe in cause and effect relationships, how could you ever run an 35:37.380 --> 35:37.760 experiment? 35:39.040 --> 35:44.160 It is accepted axiomatically that this is true scientifically, because if it isn't, 35:44.260 --> 35:45.840 there isn't any science to talk about. 35:46.420 --> 35:47.760 It's that fundamental. 35:48.420 --> 35:52.440 So using the scientific law of cause and effect, we can go through a logical 35:52.440 --> 35:53.260 syllogism here. 35:54.020 --> 35:58.600 First point, the universe, including time itself, can be shown to have had a 35:58.600 --> 35:59.100 beginning. 35:59.520 --> 36:01.300 Even the evolutionists agree with that today. 36:01.420 --> 36:02.280 Yep, it had a beginning. 36:05.590 --> 36:11.030 Secondly, it is unreasonable to believe that something could begin to exist 36:11.030 --> 36:13.150 without a cause. 36:15.130 --> 36:18.570 The universe therefore requires a cause. 36:19.250 --> 36:20.650 Nothing illogical so far. 36:22.070 --> 36:22.970 The evolutionists... 36:25.370 --> 36:26.110 There we go. 36:26.250 --> 36:27.810 Cast a demon out of this now and then. 36:28.830 --> 36:31.970 The evolutionists inevitably say, yeah, but where did God come from? 36:32.450 --> 36:34.230 And that, of course, is an illogical question. 36:34.610 --> 36:38.030 It's akin to asking the question, to whom is the bachelor married? 36:42.060 --> 36:43.300 Haven't figured that one out yet. 36:43.940 --> 36:47.600 Well, when somebody asks a question like that, you know right away they don't 36:47.600 --> 36:50.420 understand the definition of the words they're using. 36:51.600 --> 36:57.360 You see, God the creator by definition is an infinite eternal spirit without 36:57.360 --> 37:01.620 beginning, without end, not bound by time, the creator of time, therefore 37:01.620 --> 37:03.820 transcending any need for a beginning. 37:05.080 --> 37:10.520 So, God as creator of time is outside of time, since therefore he has no beginning 37:10.520 --> 37:11.440 in time. 37:11.680 --> 37:16.020 Remember, only something that has a beginning requires a cause to explain its 37:16.020 --> 37:16.520 existence. 37:17.740 --> 37:22.500 God by definition had no beginning will have no end, is eternal. 37:22.740 --> 37:24.720 There's nothing illogical with something being eternal. 37:25.940 --> 37:29.580 It is illogical though for something to have a beginning like the universe and not 37:29.580 --> 37:30.520 have an adequate cause. 37:32.180 --> 37:34.440 They can say, well, something else was eternal that caused it. 37:34.500 --> 37:37.680 We'll see what their other eternal God is that they like to invoke. 37:38.180 --> 37:41.820 But, since he has no beginning in time, he has always existed, so he does not need 37:41.820 --> 37:44.400 a cause to explain his origin. 37:44.780 --> 37:47.200 He had no origin therefore no cause is required. 37:48.120 --> 37:50.860 Now, that doesn't sit well with many evolutionists. 37:51.500 --> 37:53.280 I think we've already figured that out by what we've looked at. 37:54.800 --> 37:58.120 But let's take a look at some classic cause and effect reasoning with what we 37:58.120 --> 37:59.140 actually observe in the universe. 37:59.620 --> 38:02.440 The first cause of limitless space must be infinite. 38:02.880 --> 38:05.140 The first cause of endless time must be eternal. 38:05.140 --> 38:08.500 The first cause of boundless energy must be omnipotent. 38:08.760 --> 38:12.320 The first cause of universal interrelationships must be omnipresent. 38:12.880 --> 38:18.360 The first cause of supreme complexity must be omniscient or all-knowing. 38:18.640 --> 38:21.720 The first cause of moral values must be moral. 38:22.140 --> 38:24.860 The first cause of spiritual values must be spiritual. 38:25.280 --> 38:29.620 The first cause of human responsibility must be volitional, or having free will. 38:29.960 --> 38:33.420 The first cause of human integrity must be truthful. 38:33.880 --> 38:37.500 The first cause of human love must be loving. 38:38.200 --> 38:41.540 And the first cause of life must be living. 38:42.020 --> 38:45.380 Because no effect can be greater than its cause. 38:45.600 --> 38:47.480 And every effect must have an adequate cause. 38:48.040 --> 38:52.580 The conclusion is that the cause of all these phenomena we see in this universe 38:52.580 --> 38:57.040 must be a living, loving, truthful, volitional, spiritual, moral, omniscient, 38:57.180 --> 39:00.560 omnipresent, omnipotent, eternal, infinite being. 39:00.560 --> 39:02.700 Does that sound familiar to anybody? 39:03.980 --> 39:04.580 Yeah. 39:05.120 --> 39:06.640 He's written a book. 39:07.060 --> 39:07.660 It's called the Bible. 39:08.060 --> 39:09.060 His love letter to man. 39:09.800 --> 39:13.680 And science shows us that a God, such as the God revealed in the Bible, 39:13.980 --> 39:16.540 must exist based on real science. 39:16.980 --> 39:18.540 Cause and effect relationships. 39:21.680 --> 39:27.400 Now, unfortunately for those who say we cannot allow a divine foot in the door, 39:28.240 --> 39:29.820 cause and effect goes out the window. 39:30.140 --> 39:36.580 The axiomatic, basic, pillar truth of science is thrown out because by all means 39:36.580 --> 39:38.080 we cannot allow a divine foot in the door. 39:38.720 --> 39:43.440 And so nothing to them is preferable to God. 39:44.220 --> 39:44.700 Nothing. 39:44.940 --> 39:45.520 Now you think I'm kidding? 39:45.920 --> 39:49.100 Again, the full references for these quotes are in my book Evolution on Trial. 39:54.500 --> 39:55.180 Alan H. 39:55.240 --> 39:56.180 Guth and Paul J. 39:56.300 --> 40:00.200 Steinhard, a couple of notable evolutionists in cosmology, they say this, 40:00.680 --> 40:05.840 it is tempting to go one step further and speculate that the entire universe evolved 40:05.840 --> 40:07.700 from literally nothing. 40:09.640 --> 40:12.620 You've got to ask the question, why is that so tempting? 40:14.860 --> 40:16.520 You know, what's tempting about it? 40:17.480 --> 40:22.460 If everything came from nothing, then what does it mean when we ask the 40:22.460 --> 40:24.200 questions, who are we, why are we here, where are we going? 40:24.280 --> 40:26.880 Well we came from nothing, I guess we're worth nothing and we're not going to get 40:26.880 --> 40:30.340 nothing, and nothing is the answer on all the Jeopardy questions. 40:30.700 --> 40:30.940 Nothing. 40:33.840 --> 40:38.520 But it's tempting, not because of science, not because of cause and effect, 40:38.860 --> 40:42.820 law, but because of the philosophical presumption of naturalism. 40:45.240 --> 40:50.100 Edward Tryon, he said, and I quote, that our universe had its physical origin 40:50.520 --> 40:57.100 as a quantum fluctuation of some pre-existing true vacuum or state of 40:57.100 --> 40:57.940 nothingness. 40:59.080 --> 41:00.980 Wow, that almost sounds eloquent. 41:02.480 --> 41:07.560 It's not very logical though, because when you look up the definition of nothing in 41:07.560 --> 41:12.040 the collegiate dictionary, it reads something like this, that which does not 41:12.040 --> 41:12.580 exist. 41:17.970 --> 41:23.270 So all this eloquent elocution has told us that we all came from that which never 41:23.270 --> 41:23.670 existed. 41:24.550 --> 41:27.450 And if you don't believe that, well, you're just stupid and unscientific 41:27.450 --> 41:28.610 by definition. 41:30.370 --> 41:32.670 Nobody would really accept that. 41:33.050 --> 41:37.390 But we have to point it out in the reductio ad absurdum fashion to point out 41:37.390 --> 41:39.510 that their conclusion is logically absurd. 41:40.310 --> 41:41.430 From nothing comes nothing. 41:41.570 --> 41:44.590 From that which does not exist, you can't get everything that does exist. 41:45.070 --> 41:47.430 Talk about an inadequate cause for the effect. 41:48.130 --> 41:51.750 That which doesn't exist creates everything that does exist, because they 41:51.750 --> 41:52.530 want it to be so. 41:53.090 --> 41:55.130 And they define it as science. 41:57.690 --> 42:01.250 Finally, I quote here Paul Davies, a very rabid evolutionist. 42:02.190 --> 42:07.370 He says, and I quote, this quantum cosmology provides a loophole for the 42:07.370 --> 42:12.810 universe to, so to speak, spring into existence from nothing, without violating 42:12.810 --> 42:13.810 any laws of physics. 42:16.310 --> 42:19.330 Well, I guess, you know, I guess that would be the case. 42:20.210 --> 42:23.050 How can nothing violate anything since it doesn't exist? 42:24.010 --> 42:26.310 I wouldn't worry about laws of physics, you know, I mean, I wouldn't worry about 42:26.310 --> 42:27.470 anything if we all came from nothing. 42:27.590 --> 42:28.990 Don't worry, it's not worth it. 42:29.390 --> 42:30.130 It's nothing. 42:30.570 --> 42:30.690 Okay. 42:32.910 --> 42:36.030 Now I quote here again Paul Davies, the man I just quoted. 42:36.190 --> 42:38.550 Notice what he admits, though, when he's pinned to the wall. 42:39.330 --> 42:42.050 He says, no theory can rule out divine creation. 42:43.050 --> 42:47.590 Scientific theories are simply proposals for how the world is to be tested by 42:47.590 --> 42:48.270 observation. 42:49.150 --> 42:54.330 There is no logical impediment, ah, no logic, no science, that is an 42:54.330 --> 42:59.210 impediment to God existing, or in this case, creating the universe five minutes 42:59.210 --> 43:02.010 ago in its present state, complete with human memories. 43:02.470 --> 43:08.630 In the end, a theory stands or falls on whether human beings consider it 43:08.630 --> 43:09.730 reasonable. 43:11.390 --> 43:13.690 Now I hope I pounded this issue home tonight. 43:15.090 --> 43:19.670 Why is there such a battle over the word rational, reasonable, and scientific? 43:20.370 --> 43:24.570 Because ultimately what human beings consider to be rational, reasonable, 43:24.670 --> 43:26.930 and scientific is what's accepted as science. 43:27.650 --> 43:28.750 Isn't that interesting? 43:29.210 --> 43:34.110 If they can control the definition of what is reasonable and rational, they win. 43:34.870 --> 43:38.090 And that's where a lot of the battle has been fought in recent years. 43:42.690 --> 43:49.610 Now what we have here is a problem because we have proven physics which Einstein said 43:49.610 --> 43:52.810 would never be overthrown, which Isaac Asimov said is the most powerful 43:52.810 --> 43:55.530 generalization scientists have ever been able to make about the universe, 43:55.610 --> 43:59.230 the laws of thermodynamics, and it says there's a natural tendency for everything 43:59.230 --> 44:03.710 to go downhill toward greater disorder, greater increase of entropy, greater loss 44:03.710 --> 44:04.570 of free energy. 44:05.090 --> 44:09.110 It's irreversible and every test ever done has confirmed it. 44:09.950 --> 44:13.890 That is going against something that has never been observed in the history of 44:13.890 --> 44:14.250 science. 44:14.250 --> 44:19.430 That these big changes species, order, class, violent kingdom, 44:19.590 --> 44:23.910 could happen from nothing that then turned into something that then evolved. 44:24.930 --> 44:30.490 When we're going to be scientific we ought to, whether it's philosophically likable 44:30.490 --> 44:34.710 or not, we ought to let the scientific facts sit in judgment on the theory. 44:35.450 --> 44:36.230 But they don't. 44:36.670 --> 44:38.850 They let the theory sit in judgment on the facts. 44:39.030 --> 44:40.890 And we gotta point out, hey, are you doing that? 44:41.070 --> 44:42.470 Because that's not legitimate. 44:44.690 --> 44:48.630 Now, of course, they do have an answer to the problem of the second law of 44:48.630 --> 44:48.970 thermodynamics. 44:49.150 --> 44:50.510 How do we get all this great increase in order? 44:51.050 --> 44:52.810 Well, it's because the Earth is an open system. 44:53.530 --> 44:57.090 You see, the second law, they claim, is defined in the terms of an isolated 44:57.090 --> 44:59.510 system without any energy or matter entering it. 44:59.590 --> 45:02.590 And in such an isolated system, yes, the entropy must also always 45:02.590 --> 45:03.030 increase. 45:03.210 --> 45:05.290 The disorganization must always increase over time. 45:05.630 --> 45:09.990 But it so happens that the Earth is an exception because it is open to the energy 45:09.990 --> 45:13.810 from the sun, and this influx of solar energy is more than sufficient to overcome 45:13.810 --> 45:17.110 the degenerative effect of the second law and allow enormous complexity to build up 45:17.110 --> 45:17.930 over billions of years. 45:18.650 --> 45:20.870 Sounds like a good story, but it doesn't really work. 45:34.210 --> 45:34.810 There we go. 45:35.010 --> 45:35.690 It actually worked. 45:38.570 --> 45:41.390 Now, I quote here the Harvard scientist, or at least he was a scientist at Harvard 45:41.390 --> 45:43.890 when he wrote this for Chemical and Engineering News back in the 80s. 45:44.270 --> 45:49.610 He said, ordinarily, the second law is stated for isolated systems, but the 45:49.610 --> 45:53.910 second law applies equally well to open systems. 45:54.850 --> 45:55.610 Now, think about that. 45:55.650 --> 45:56.210 Is that true? 45:57.310 --> 45:58.230 Obviously, it's true. 45:59.250 --> 46:04.270 Obviously, where did we test and prove the physical law known as the second law of 46:04.270 --> 46:04.670 thermodynamics? 46:04.790 --> 46:05.830 Did we test it here on Earth? 46:06.810 --> 46:07.830 Well, then how did we prove it? 46:07.890 --> 46:09.050 After all, it doesn't apply on Earth. 46:09.150 --> 46:10.030 Earth is an open system. 46:11.370 --> 46:15.350 Obviously, just because energy is available doesn't negate the function of 46:15.350 --> 46:15.890 the second law. 46:15.970 --> 46:16.670 We test it here. 46:16.730 --> 46:17.470 We prove it here. 46:18.030 --> 46:21.370 Obviously, things rot, rust, and corrode, and corrupt, and everything is going 46:21.370 --> 46:24.050 downhill in spite of the fact that we live in an open system. 46:24.770 --> 46:26.610 This a child could understand. 46:27.110 --> 46:28.990 It doesn't matter if the system is open. 46:29.410 --> 46:31.090 The question is, what is it open to? 46:31.390 --> 46:34.810 And if it's only open to raw energy, you're still going to get degeneration 46:34.810 --> 46:35.730 over time. 46:39.030 --> 46:44.750 Now, if all we needed was the sun's energy, as they claim, to get a system 46:44.750 --> 46:49.990 more complex than any machine man has ever created, a living, autonomous, 46:50.330 --> 46:53.690 self-reproducing cell, far more complex than any machine we've ever made, 46:54.190 --> 46:56.170 then we ought to be able to do a lot of things a lot easier. 46:56.430 --> 46:57.370 Why expend the energy? 46:58.190 --> 47:02.790 You know, if we want to get water to flow uphill, liquid water to flow uphill, 47:03.110 --> 47:05.950 can we just say, well, the sun's energy is there, and that energy is sufficient to 47:05.950 --> 47:06.450 push it uphill? 47:07.170 --> 47:09.290 The answer to that question is, well, yes and no. 47:09.710 --> 47:14.570 The energy is there, but unless it's harnessed and directed, that water will 47:14.570 --> 47:15.490 still flow downhill. 47:15.890 --> 47:18.270 You can watch it for millions of years if you want, if you can live that long, 47:18.650 --> 47:21.590 it will always flow downhill because the law of gravity dictates it. 47:22.150 --> 47:26.330 But the law can be overcome, not made to disappear, but overcome if you have a 47:26.330 --> 47:31.270 solar-powered pump that converts the solar energy into electrical energy, 47:31.690 --> 47:35.530 which then runs an electric pump, and then with plumbing, it pushes water 47:35.530 --> 47:37.790 uphill against the force of gravity. 47:39.030 --> 47:44.170 Energy is necessary to do that, but it's not sufficient in and of itself. 47:44.370 --> 47:47.710 Big difference between something being necessary and being sufficient. 47:48.010 --> 47:51.670 In its raw state, it is completely inefficient and insufficient because it's 47:51.670 --> 47:55.250 not converted to usable form and it's not specifically directed. 47:56.130 --> 47:58.890 Now, say we want to get a standard three-bedroom house and garage. 47:59.150 --> 48:02.210 We could dump all the building material out in an open field. 48:02.450 --> 48:05.690 We can measure the sun's energy reaching the site. 48:05.990 --> 48:09.970 We measure all this energy and we go, my goodness, after millions of years, 48:10.110 --> 48:12.690 we've not only got enough energy to build this house, we could build all the cities 48:12.690 --> 48:13.170 in the world. 48:13.490 --> 48:14.150 Many times over. 48:14.470 --> 48:15.110 Lots of energy. 48:15.930 --> 48:18.030 But as we sit there for millions of years, you know what's going to happen? 48:18.430 --> 48:21.050 It's going to rot and rust and corrode into dust. 48:21.470 --> 48:21.750 Why? 48:21.990 --> 48:23.070 Because of the second law. 48:23.650 --> 48:25.010 It's not going to build itself a house. 48:25.050 --> 48:28.150 Even though the energy is there, it's useless unless it can be harnessed 48:28.150 --> 48:29.990 and specifically directed. 48:30.810 --> 48:35.510 Now, say we have a solar-powered robot who's got solar cells on his body that 48:35.510 --> 48:37.610 convert solar energy into electrical energy. 48:37.610 --> 48:44.070 He has a complex computer that can read a blueprint and he thus is able to convert 48:44.070 --> 48:46.290 solar energy into useful kinetic energy. 48:46.490 --> 48:50.090 He reads the blueprint, the directing program, and he takes the random building 48:50.090 --> 48:52.890 materials and he builds the house according to the specification of the 48:52.890 --> 48:53.090 blueprint. 48:54.250 --> 48:58.650 Then you can cause these random building materials to become a more complex 48:58.650 --> 48:59.550 structure, a house. 49:00.270 --> 49:05.010 However, in a real sense, you don't have any more complexity there than what you 49:05.010 --> 49:05.690 started with. 49:05.690 --> 49:10.470 Is the house more complex than the blueprint from which it was made? 49:11.650 --> 49:15.850 Arguably not, because all that specification, all that information is in 49:15.850 --> 49:16.170 the blueprint. 49:16.890 --> 49:20.510 All this did was put it in physical form, but it's the same information. 49:21.430 --> 49:24.370 The question is, where does that information come from that allows you to 49:24.370 --> 49:27.910 overcome the second law through a system that can convert energy and specifically 49:27.910 --> 49:29.950 direct it to build up complexity? 49:30.830 --> 49:34.490 Well, on the Earth, living organisms can do this. 49:34.830 --> 49:37.210 Photosynthesis converts solar energy into chemical energy. 49:37.650 --> 49:41.070 Take a little seed, it can grow into a huge redwood tree because it meets the 49:41.070 --> 49:41.510 criteria. 49:42.050 --> 49:45.950 Energy conversion and directing program with the DNA blueprint. 49:48.050 --> 49:52.210 Now here we have a souped up Mustang with over 2,000 horsepower engine, 49:52.350 --> 49:55.870 counter-rotating props, the kind you find in the Reno Air Races. 49:56.130 --> 50:00.770 I'd love to take a ride in one of these, because it's got all the necessary 50:00.770 --> 50:01.270 criteria. 50:01.270 --> 50:06.450 But one thing I wouldn't want to do is take a ride in one of these. 50:08.830 --> 50:14.370 If my friend said, Tom, I've got an airplane and it's on this slope, 50:14.370 --> 50:19.890 and just jump in and we'll push it off the cliff and we'll fly, I'd say, wait a 50:19.890 --> 50:20.030 minute. 50:20.290 --> 50:20.930 We've got five minutes? 50:20.990 --> 50:21.490 Is that what you're saying? 50:23.870 --> 50:24.570 Yes, okay. 50:25.250 --> 50:26.090 We're running out of time here. 50:26.130 --> 50:26.750 We've got to go fast. 50:27.990 --> 50:30.650 I would say no because you don't have all the criteria. 50:30.930 --> 50:34.970 You have a fuselage, you have an engine with 2,000 horsepower that can rev like 50:34.970 --> 50:40.930 crazy, but you can't convert that raw energy into thrust, because you have no 50:40.930 --> 50:42.430 propeller to convert the energy. 50:42.690 --> 50:47.610 You have no wings for aerodynamic lift, allowing you to overcome the law of 50:47.610 --> 50:49.150 gravity through the law of aerodynamics. 50:49.510 --> 50:51.830 You have part of the criteria, but you don't have enough. 50:52.470 --> 50:54.290 And I'm not going to fly in that airplane. 50:54.910 --> 50:58.550 The evolutionists are trying to take us on a ride, saying that we can overcome the 50:58.550 --> 51:00.730 second law without meeting all the criteria. 51:02.770 --> 51:06.270 Now, worse yet, of course, is that on the primitive Earth, ultraviolet light, 51:06.690 --> 51:10.210 as Brother Riddle pointed out, would be destructive not only of single 51:10.210 --> 51:13.970 cells, which you would kill in less than one-third of one second, it breaks the 51:13.970 --> 51:18.390 chemical bonds and destroys DNA, RNA, ribosomes and proteins, the necessary 51:18.390 --> 51:19.550 macromolecules of life. 51:19.890 --> 51:22.550 If you lay out in the sun too long, you'll find out it's not good for you. 51:23.250 --> 51:28.490 Even with filtration by ozone, you get terrible skin sunburns and skin 51:28.490 --> 51:28.810 cancer. 51:29.030 --> 51:30.070 So I tell you, don't do that. 51:30.490 --> 51:32.130 Here, the sun is the savior. 51:32.810 --> 51:35.910 The sun makes the impossible inevitable, and yet on the primitive Earth, 51:36.150 --> 51:36.890 the sun is the villain. 51:37.530 --> 51:41.690 Without ozone, that raw energy like the bull in the china shop would destroy the 51:41.690 --> 51:42.850 chemical building blocks of life. 51:42.970 --> 51:46.890 How can it be that an open system is the answer when actually it would destroy any 51:46.890 --> 51:48.930 possibility for a naturalistic origin of life? 51:56.010 --> 51:59.110 Even George Gaylord Simpson, one of the most rabid evolutionists of the 20th 51:59.110 --> 52:02.050 century, he admitted the simple expenditure of energy is not sufficient to 52:02.050 --> 52:03.330 develop and maintain order. 52:04.190 --> 52:09.990 A bull in a china shop performs work, amen, but he neither creates nor maintains 52:09.990 --> 52:10.690 organization. 52:11.530 --> 52:16.130 The work needed is particular work, not just rampaging and breaking all the 52:16.130 --> 52:16.330 china. 52:16.810 --> 52:19.910 It must follow specifications, ah, information, a blueprint. 52:20.370 --> 52:23.430 It requires information on how to proceed. 52:25.370 --> 52:29.630 So we have four essential criteria that must be met in order to overcome the 52:29.630 --> 52:34.330 second law and produce any significant amount of increase of complexity. 52:34.850 --> 52:35.450 What are they? 52:37.310 --> 52:39.390 Number one, the system must be open to the environment. 52:39.730 --> 52:40.970 We agree with the evolutionists on that. 52:41.990 --> 52:45.230 Number two, an adequate influx of energy must be available. 52:45.550 --> 52:46.290 We agree about that. 52:47.310 --> 52:51.990 Number three, the system must possess an energy conversion mechanism, like 52:51.990 --> 52:56.610 photosynthesis in plant life, or metabolic energy conversion systems and other life 52:56.610 --> 53:00.810 forms, to convert harmful raw energy, in this case solar energy, into a useful 53:00.810 --> 53:01.870 form of chemical energy. 53:03.410 --> 53:08.070 And fourthly, a directing program, a blueprint or genetic code, must exist to 53:08.070 --> 53:11.610 control the conversion machinery and to direct the converted energy into the 53:11.610 --> 53:13.010 creation and maintenance of complexity. 53:14.150 --> 53:18.050 Nowhere in this observed universe have we seen the second law overcome, or 53:18.050 --> 53:21.710 complexity to build up on any significant scale unless all four criteria are met. 53:22.530 --> 53:23.650 But here we have a problem. 53:23.970 --> 53:27.770 With the Big Bang, the primordial egg that popped out of nothing into something and 53:27.770 --> 53:31.890 then exploded, that is the ultimate isolated system. 53:32.370 --> 53:35.730 There isn't any other matter or energy outside of it to come into the system. 53:36.490 --> 53:40.770 Their own definition, they agree, in an isolated system everything must go 53:40.770 --> 53:42.010 in the direction of greater entropy. 53:42.410 --> 53:46.770 How can you have an explosion which increases entropy and then it coalesces 53:46.770 --> 53:50.850 into a very complex, far more complex universe than that little thing you 53:50.850 --> 53:51.370 started with? 53:51.810 --> 53:55.510 You can't have that because it violates the second law, even according to their 53:55.510 --> 53:56.030 own definition. 53:56.450 --> 53:57.830 I've used this in debates for decades. 53:58.130 --> 54:01.770 The evolutionists never have an answer, other than they ignore it, usually ignore 54:01.770 --> 54:03.490 it in the rebuttal period as if it didn't exist. 54:04.330 --> 54:07.750 For the origin of life, the last two criteria are absent. 54:08.050 --> 54:11.930 You do have an open system, you do have an influx of energy, but you don't have an 54:11.930 --> 54:14.870 energy conversion system because you don't have photosynthesis or metabolism, 54:15.230 --> 54:18.030 very complex chemical systems, and you don't have a blueprint, 54:18.490 --> 54:18.810 DNA. 54:19.530 --> 54:23.350 In fact, the sun's energy would destroy any of those things in an open system 54:23.350 --> 54:24.330 under those situations. 54:28.330 --> 54:30.250 So, the evolutionist Charles J. 54:30.330 --> 54:31.590 Smith, he points out this explanation. 54:31.750 --> 54:34.910 An open system, however, is not completely satisfying because it still leaves the 54:34.910 --> 54:39.410 problem of how or why the ordering process has arisen, an apparent lowering of the 54:39.410 --> 54:39.730 entropy. 54:40.410 --> 54:42.230 A number of scientists have wrestled with this issue. 54:42.590 --> 54:45.830 Bertallenfee, clear back in 1968, called the relation between irreversible 54:45.830 --> 54:50.710 thermodynamics and information theory one of the most fundamental unsolved problems 54:50.710 --> 54:51.230 in biology. 54:51.350 --> 54:52.150 Well, I've got news for them. 54:52.310 --> 54:53.190 It's still unsolved. 54:53.610 --> 54:57.450 They have never given an adequate answer to this lethal contradiction. 54:59.590 --> 55:03.930 Now, some claim that Ilya Prigozhin in 1977 got the Nobel Prize for solving this 55:03.930 --> 55:04.230 problem. 55:04.750 --> 55:06.630 That is demonstrably false. 55:06.870 --> 55:08.110 For one thing, he never claimed he did. 55:08.190 --> 55:09.650 He was surprised he got the prize. 55:10.070 --> 55:13.610 He said he'd never worked in a laboratory for years prior to receiving it, 55:13.630 --> 55:15.530 and what you can prove in a laboratory is real science. 55:16.310 --> 55:20.110 But notice Ilya Prigozhin received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for using 55:20.110 --> 55:25.070 thermodynamics in the words of the Nobel Citation Committee to, quote, bridge the 55:25.070 --> 55:30.210 gap that exists between the biological and social scientific fields of inquiry. 55:31.070 --> 55:32.930 Whatever in the Sam Hill that means, I'm not sure. 55:33.670 --> 55:37.850 But, I know this much, it doesn't say he solved the problem for the second law of 55:37.850 --> 55:40.590 thermodynamics, poses for naturalistic origin of the first living cell. 55:41.330 --> 55:42.450 They never said he did. 55:42.450 --> 55:43.650 He never said he did. 55:43.850 --> 55:49.930 In fact, the boldest statement we can find Prigozhin making is this. 55:50.830 --> 55:53.810 What was the role of dissipative structures in evolution? 55:54.470 --> 55:57.110 It is very tempting to speculate. 55:59.170 --> 56:02.870 Alright, that prebiotic evolution corresponds essentially to a succession of 56:02.870 --> 56:05.030 instabilities leading to an increasing level of complexity. 56:05.210 --> 56:05.490 End of quote. 56:06.110 --> 56:09.830 Since when has being tempted to speculate merited the Nobel Prize? 56:10.550 --> 56:12.670 You know, I'm tempted to speculate all the time. 56:12.750 --> 56:13.530 I wish they'd give me one. 56:14.250 --> 56:15.550 I'd like to have it. 56:15.770 --> 56:17.370 In fact, I'm more than tempted, I do speculate. 56:18.650 --> 56:21.590 And I speculate that this speculation is not worth speculating about. 56:22.710 --> 56:22.810 Okay? 56:24.830 --> 56:28.510 But the point is being tempted to speculate doesn't cut it. 56:28.570 --> 56:29.670 He never proved it in the laboratory. 56:29.850 --> 56:34.470 He used incredible, just utterly incredible assumptions in his model. 56:34.950 --> 56:36.310 And he said, well, the math works. 56:36.990 --> 56:40.910 Yeah, but you have to understand it's the assumptions, not the math that determines 56:40.910 --> 56:41.350 whether it's true. 56:41.390 --> 56:45.350 If I assumed that a man could carry a million pounds on his back and I assumed 56:45.350 --> 56:49.550 that with that burden he could run at a speed of one mile per second, my math 56:49.550 --> 56:53.330 would correctly compute such a man could transport a burden of a million pounds 56:53.330 --> 56:55.270 over a distance of ten miles in ten seconds. 56:55.970 --> 56:57.030 Anything wrong with my math? 56:57.930 --> 56:58.250 No. 56:58.490 --> 57:02.530 What's wrong is the assumptions are blatantly unscientific and absurd. 57:03.230 --> 57:05.070 Never have we seen a man able to do that. 57:05.470 --> 57:08.630 And to assume it without scientific proof is just speculation. 57:09.230 --> 57:10.350 It doesn't matter what the math says. 57:13.110 --> 57:15.730 Shattering the crystal illusion, we got to go quick here. 57:16.630 --> 57:20.270 Some say, well, desperate to have some physical example in the real world. 57:20.370 --> 57:23.510 They say, well, crystal formation shows a violation of the second law. 57:23.850 --> 57:24.490 No, it doesn't. 57:25.010 --> 57:30.370 What happens is because the valency or bonding of these atoms as it loses energy, 57:30.650 --> 57:35.150 actually you have less free energy in the crystal than the solution from which it 57:35.150 --> 57:35.590 forms. 57:36.150 --> 57:39.350 It proceeds, crystal growth proceeds with a decrease in free energy. 57:39.930 --> 57:44.470 Thus rather than being a violation of the second law, it's actually an example of 57:44.470 --> 57:45.290 the second law in action. 57:45.670 --> 57:47.130 It proceeds with a loss of free energy. 57:47.650 --> 57:51.270 It produces repeating structures that carry little or no information, 57:51.430 --> 57:51.850 like this. 57:51.950 --> 57:53.610 ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC, ABC. 57:54.370 --> 57:57.150 Well, there's order there, but there's not real information. 57:57.970 --> 57:59.970 Life is characterized by information. 58:01.710 --> 58:02.890 Information like this. 58:03.110 --> 58:07.870 This sequence of alphabet letters carries a message, not just short repeating 58:07.870 --> 58:10.210 sequences like a crystal. 58:12.350 --> 58:16.870 Even the eminent evolutionist scientist and chemist Peter T. 58:16.950 --> 58:20.410 Mora, he said, and I quote, crystallization occurs because it leads to 58:20.410 --> 58:24.650 the lowest energy state and to the most stable arrangement of atoms or molecules 58:24.650 --> 58:26.770 under the given conditions because of valency. 58:27.850 --> 58:32.350 Crystallization leads to simple, very uniform repeating structures which 58:32.350 --> 58:33.290 are inert. 58:34.070 --> 58:38.070 These structures do not function and are not designed by function. 58:38.630 --> 58:41.010 They're about as dead as inanimate matter can be. 58:41.490 --> 58:45.150 They have not the free energy or the information required for biological 58:45.150 --> 58:47.690 macromolecules like DNA, RNA, ribosomes, and proteins. 58:48.290 --> 58:51.750 It's the worst analogy one could use for overcoming the second law. 58:54.890 --> 58:58.330 Even Ilya Prigogine, whom they love to quote, admitted this. 58:58.330 --> 59:00.590 He didn't try to say crystals give an answer. 59:00.710 --> 59:02.610 He said dissipative structures, which he never proved. 59:02.770 --> 59:06.830 But he said, unfortunately, this principle of crystal formation cannot explain the 59:06.830 --> 59:08.350 formation of biological structures. 59:08.890 --> 59:12.010 The probability that in ordinary temperatures, a macroscopic number of 59:12.010 --> 59:15.470 molecules is assembled to give rise to the highly ordered structures and to the 59:15.470 --> 59:18.750 coordinated functions characterizing living organisms is vanishingly small. 59:19.270 --> 59:23.470 Or in other words, less than 10 to the 50th power or 10 to the 100th power, 59:23.610 --> 59:26.090 which is a Google, not the one on the Internet. 59:28.810 --> 59:32.470 Now, in utter desperation, some evolutionists have said, hurricanes and 59:32.470 --> 59:35.750 tornadoes show violation of the second law of thermodynamics. 59:36.130 --> 59:36.370 Why? 59:36.710 --> 59:37.730 Because there's order there. 59:37.810 --> 59:39.430 Look at the beautiful design of the whirlpool. 59:39.950 --> 59:41.630 Look at the beautiful design of the tornado. 59:42.270 --> 59:44.650 Yeah, and look at what it does when it contacts anything. 59:45.330 --> 59:48.910 Ask the people in Florida how much better things are after a hurricane passes 59:48.910 --> 59:49.190 through. 59:50.690 --> 59:53.070 It reminds me of the famous quote by Sir Fred Hoyle. 59:53.350 --> 59:56.110 He said, the idea that evolution would work by these random processes is 59:56.110 --> 01:00:02.610 analogous to a tornado running through a junk yard and assembling a 747 from the 01:00:02.610 --> 01:00:02.950 junk. 01:00:03.490 --> 01:00:05.390 In flight, fully fueled, and going. 01:00:06.010 --> 01:00:08.090 Boy, boy, need to be put out of business if we could do that. 01:00:08.730 --> 01:00:10.030 But, it never happens. 01:00:10.650 --> 01:00:14.710 What has happened here is that raw solar energy interacting with the atmosphere has 01:00:14.710 --> 01:00:19.570 produced another form of raw energy that has order but not complexity, not 01:00:19.570 --> 01:00:23.610 linguistic complexity, and if it tangles with anything it destroys complexity. 01:00:24.030 --> 01:00:26.650 Like the rampaging bull in the china shop. 01:00:27.090 --> 01:00:28.310 It is not a solution. 01:00:29.990 --> 01:00:32.550 So, in conclusion, if you could figure this out, you are brilliant. 01:00:33.510 --> 01:00:37.530 You are more astute and intelligent than many of our physicists today who are 01:00:37.530 --> 01:00:39.990 blinded by their philosophy and cannot see the simple argument. 01:00:40.590 --> 01:00:44.470 If we have a bunch of random automobile parts, and we want to get a Cadillac, 01:00:44.630 --> 01:00:48.430 you put them in front of a factory, you supply the energy, it goes through the 01:00:48.430 --> 01:00:51.330 factory, the workmen read the blueprint, the robots follow the specifications, 01:00:51.330 --> 01:00:53.270 and you get beautiful Cadillacs at the end. 01:00:53.370 --> 01:00:55.490 Increase from random parts to Cadillacs. 01:00:56.070 --> 01:01:01.350 If we have random chemicals, life has the energy conversion systems and blueprint to 01:01:01.350 --> 01:01:05.010 take those random chemicals and make replicas of itself, exceedingly complex 01:01:05.010 --> 01:01:06.510 systems, but it meets the criteria. 01:01:07.090 --> 01:01:09.930 On the primitive earth, you might have some random chemicals, very few, 01:01:10.390 --> 01:01:14.930 never have we produced all the ones that are necessary, but raw solar energy would 01:01:14.930 --> 01:01:17.550 produce greater randomness because it destroys them. 01:01:17.930 --> 01:01:19.190 Like the bull in the china shop. 01:01:19.190 --> 01:01:22.430 You can't convert it to usable form, you can't specifically direct it. 01:01:22.870 --> 01:01:27.650 Without that, without those criteria, a naturalistic origin of life is utterly 01:01:27.650 --> 01:01:30.770 excluded by the proven second law of thermodynamics. 01:01:33.290 --> 01:01:36.350 In conclusion, I quote the famous scientist Sir Arthur Eddington, 01:01:36.930 --> 01:01:40.150 he said if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics, 01:01:40.310 --> 01:01:41.430 I can give you no hope. 01:01:42.090 --> 01:01:45.910 There is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation. 01:01:46.470 --> 01:01:46.910 End of quote. 01:01:47.730 --> 01:01:49.890 That would be my concurrence in that regard. 01:01:51.970 --> 01:01:54.710 Romans 1.20 says For ever since the creation of the world, his invisible 01:01:54.710 --> 01:01:57.770 nature and attributes, that is his eternal power and divinity, have been made 01:01:57.770 --> 01:02:00.410 intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things that have been 01:02:00.410 --> 01:02:04.430 made, his handiwork so men are without excuse, altogether without any defense or 01:02:04.430 --> 01:02:04.790 justification. 01:02:05.030 --> 01:02:06.190 I think that's self-explanatory.