Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to talk
tonight about the role of design and logos
in biology.
The role of design and logos in biology.
Your worthy pastor and our worthy pastor, even
though we live in Switzerland, we regard him
as that, said on Sunday night here something
which struck me very, very deeply.
You'll be surprised when you know what it
was.
He said that he couldn't understand how it
was that any educated person wouldn't be struck
by the design shown by all biology.
And design demands a designer.
Now, anybody whose circuitry is wired upright, up
top, will think that.
And I think so myself.
But you see, biology doesn't.
Biology is convinced that the appearance of design
in biology is an illusion and a delusion,
and that only imbeciles like me and others
could see it otherwise.
They're perfectly convinced that we are uneducated fools
when we say that the design of an
eye shows that God knew something about optics.
The design of an ear, that he understood
something about hearing.
The idea of a brain, that he knew
something about computing.
They don't, they don't follow that at all.
Now, they're convinced that we're fools.
They really are, and it's genuine, and you
mustn't get ratty or annoyed about it, because
they've got their reasons.
You see, if you don't understand them, you'll
never communicate with them.
I don't believe them, but I think I
do understand them, because I've debated them often
enough.
Now, what I'm going to do is read
out, first of all, what the holy scripture
says, and then we'll talk about what they
say, and we'll add it up afterwards, and
we may come to two plus two equals
five, as I've said before, but we'll analyze
it.
It is what the scripture says, for what
can be known about God is plain to
men, because God has shown it to them.
Ever since the creation of the world, God's
invisible nature, namely his eternal power and deity,
has been clearly perceived in the things that
have been made.
That is, the creation, inorganic and organic, biological
and astronomic, shows the deity and power of
God.
That is, the design shows the designer.
That's the position of the apostle Paul, and
it's our position too, isn't it?
But we must understand how men have got
away from that position, and can still think
themselves educated, because they're the people that teach
in our schools, and they're going to close
down the schools which teach that which I've
just read out.
They didn't close it down, they've already started.
Now, you must understand them in order to
get on the same wavelength, and then you
can combat them.
But if you don't understand them, you won't
be able to combat them.
If you want to fight an enemy, the
best thing is to study him very, very
carefully to see what he does.
And if you can see what he does,
you can nip him in the bud.
But if you don't know what he's going
to do, he'll get you.
So it's very important that we do a
bit of thinking tonight.
Do you mind that we do a little
bit of thinking tonight?
I know it's hard after a day's work,
but let's try it.
Clearly perceived and things have made, so that
men are without excuse.
Then he says, for although they knew God
in the creation, showing the designer, although they
knew God, they did not honor him as
God or give thanks to him.
So what we've done tonight, giving thanks to
him, is absolutely right.
God expects that, and there's great blessing in
doing it.
Right, that'll be enough to be getting on
with tonight.
Now, let's have a look at the rock
bottom of this idea that all design, or
a large amount of design, such as we
see in biology round about us, that it's
all a delusion and doesn't show a designer.
Because that's what the children are taught at
school.
I attended a church service in Thun, in
Switzerland, just before we came here, and there
was a dear old preacher.
He was a dear old man.
He radiated, you know, the love of God,
like some preachers do.
And he had some beautiful flowers all around
his pulpit, and he exuded over these flowers
how beautiful they were, how they showed the
glory and artistic delight of the Creator.
But you know, there were, oh, two or
three hundred youngsters there, and they were absolutely
cold.
Didn't touch them at all.
Why?
Because the old man had never learned it
at school, but they had that all design
was a fake.
It was a delusion.
And you see, they thought that the design
had come about itself, and so they weren't
particularly touched when he exuded over the beautiful
flowers around his pulpit.
The dear old man didn't notice it for
an hour.
They were all asleep after an hour, but
so they didn't gain or lose anything by
the whole process.
Now, David Hume is, was a Scottish philosopher
and an atheist who lived from 1711 to
1776.
And the expression of his belief is exactly
that of the belief of the Greek philosophers
before him.
The Greek philosophers and materialists, Socrates and Epicurus
and people like that, all believe the following.
Now, if you don't go to sleep for
the next two minutes, you'll understand me.
But it's hard.
Never mind.
Hard things should keep you awake.
He, and all the philosophers before him, said
this, that there's no need for the Greek
gods.
And the reason is that we've got nothing
that points to them.
The other Greeks, they pointed to biology, they
pointed to man, they pointed to the universe,
the stars, and they said that the gods
made things.
Now, the Greek philosophers said he didn't, they
didn't.
They taught this.
Listen ever so carefully, because you may need
this when you come to do a little
bit of quantum theory.
Quantum theory is a lovely subject for the
elite, but not for others.
It's hard.
I don't know whether I understand it fully.
They said this, that there is a continuity,
get this, there is a continuity in all
nature.
That is, you go continually without any breaks
or any hiatus from the inorganic world the
dead world, to the living world.
There's chemical evolution without any breaks between that
which is dead and that which is alive.
That is, there's no, there's no discontinuity in
nature at all.
Science, you know, don't believe that today, and
science there is right.
But that's what they taught.
Now, they also said that there's no break
between the primeval slime and the first primitive
cells, if there are any primitive cells, I'm
very doubtful myself, and us human beings.
There's no break.
One gradually moves over into the other.
That's the first point they had.
And of course, it isn't true.
People who know the quantum theory today know
that one thing changes into another by leaps,
and what they call quantum leaps today.
But this is what biology is, to a
large extent, teaching our kids, so that when
they get a bit older, they've learned this
false theory, which says in effect that two
plus two equals five, and then they have
to unlearn it when they come to do
quantum theory.
Namely, that things go in leaps and jumps.
They don't go continually.
That's the first point I wanted to make
to you.
The second point, I'll make it more interesting
when I've got the theory off my chest.
But I've got to get the theory off
my chest first, and I sometimes burst until
I've got it off, because I can see
by the expressions on the face, on your
faces, whether you understood me or not.
And sometimes I get very, very disheartened indeed.
Listen, they then said that this continuity of
all matter, living and dead and dead and
living right up to man, goes so far
in that all matter, listen to this ever
so carefully, because your kids know it at
school.
They're not told it like I'm going to
tell it you now, but they'll learn it.
They said that all matter consists of particles
which continually combine and then decompose.
Continually combine and then decompose all the time.
So that in the course of time you
get everything produced by matter which can be
produced by matter.
You see, we're made of matter, aren't we?
You may not think so, but you're made
of eggs and bacon and things like that.
So am I.
And they say that the molecules of which
we're made combine and then decombine and decompose,
and that only the useful things, think of
that what we're saying, only the useful things
remain and don't decompose and disappear.
Now, why ever they said that?
I can't, can't, can't, I can't rumble at
all, because I find all the useful things
break down ever so quickly, and the useless
things you can't get rid of.
I find, but that's what they thought.
Anyway, their excuse was that matter will produce
any thing at all which is capable of
being built up of matter in the course
of time.
Now that was the argument, precisely that argument,
with which T.
H.
Huxley beat, in a debate at the University
of Oxford, Bishop Wilberforce, who was present as
a professor there to defend the Christian faith
against Huxley and Darwin.
And on that point, using his typewriters, which
I'm going to do another evening here, but
not now, he said that everything that consists
of matter will be produced by matter if
you leave it long enough, every mortal thing.
So that if you left matter long enough,
it would produce an amoeba.
And if you left an amoeba with some
more matter long enough, it'll produce a frog.
And if you left a frog long enough,
it'll go up to a cow, and lastly
will come up to us, you see.
That is that matter is continuous and is
not discrete, and will produce, I mean E
.T.E., not E.E.T., in case
there's any difficulties about that word, matter itself
will produce everything.
Now if matter itself will produce everything, you
think what that means?
Lots of things made of matter look as
though they're designed, don't they?
I mean, if you look at our eye,
it's certainly made of matter.
But when you take a good look at
it, and its optics, and the means by
which it focuses, and how the photons are
registered on the retina, and all the rest
of it, it sure does look as though
it's designed, doesn't it?
And you take a good close look at
it.
But you see, if the theory that these
gentry put forward 500 years before Christ was
born, that matter is continually combining and decombining
until, in the course of time, it's produced
everything there is capable of being produced, then
obviously some of the things which it produces
are going to look as though they were
designed.
And if you can fix those things, that
look as though they're designed, make them useful,
you see, in their theory, then they'll stay.
So that when you look at these things
that have been produced by designlessness, they will,
if they're useful and stand, look as though
they were designed.
Now if you've got that sort of argument
in your mind, you see, you can look
at anything in the world, the most beautiful
orchid, and it looks designed, doesn't it?
But you see, the materialists say, oh no,
there's no need for gods or anything outside
time and matter, because matter itself will do
that, and will produce the illusion, or delusion,
of design.
Now this is taught in all seriousness.
It's the basis of Darwinism.
Darwin said that out of a little pond,
a little warm pond with some phosphate salts
in it, and some ammonium salts in it,
kept at the right temperature, what is to
prevent?
The first simple amoeba—he only knew what he
was talking about.
If you look at an amoeba, it's the
last thing but simple—will be produced by itself,
and because it is a machine, it'll look
like a machine, and therefore look as though
it's designed.
But it's all an illusion.
There's no need for any theory of God
behind this.
And if you look at, then, say, an
amoeba, and see how it, they say, evolves
itself up to higher animals, to higher plants,
and to man, that looks too.
You've got design upon design upon design beyond
design, but in reality, it's merely the workings
of matter which combines with itself to produce
everything that matter can produce, including those things
that look as though they're designed.
So there you are, that's the argument.
So there's no argument from design.
This argument was had out, you know, by
William Paley, Archbishop William, Archdeacon William Paley, years
ago, the argument from design.
But William Paley was a brilliant old man.
He didn't say anything looking like design is
made by a designer, because he knew the
argument of the materialists in those days.
You see, he knew what other people thought,
and therefore he was very careful.
He said, any machine, ah, ah, he'd reduced
it.
Any machine will show design, and will show
the capabilities of the designer.
So we've got now, down now, from any
aggregate of matter that does anything, to a
machine that does something, because a machine is
teleonomic.
That is, it has a purpose.
So William Paley said, anything that has a
purpose in it has a purposeful designer behind
it.
And the argument stands today.
I've seen a lot of textbooks recently who
have revived the idea of Archdeacon William Paley,
and said the old man was absolutely right,
because the teleonomy, that is the purpose, comes
from telos, meaning purpose.
The teleonomy has to be a surprise effect,
because matter doesn't have any set teleonomy or
purpose in it.
So if William Paley was speaking today, what
he would have said is what I put
up on the board there, if you can
read it.
M, the big M at the front means
matter, plus E means energy, plus T means
tempus, or time.
And that, said Darwin, will produce the cell,
or the machine, or other aggregates of matter.
Now, okay, have we any proof of that?
The answer is, we've got proof that it
isn't the case.
The formula is deficient.
The formula has an infinity in it, and
the infinity is the lack of information, there's
none at all in it, to give it
any teleonomy for a cell or machine.
Now, that was the position of the old
materialists, and some of the younger ones too,
was the position of Huxley and people like
that.
Its position of the evolutionists today were trying
to close down your creation in schools.
They say that formula is science and is
truth.
Believe me, ladies and gentlemen, it isn't.
It's a deficient formula.
If you add, as I've done on the
second line there, if you add information, or
telos, or surprise effect to it, then the
formula is perfect, and you can work with
it.
But you see, Darwin was out to reduce
or cut out the influence of anything supernatural
in science.
He wanted all science to be concerned only
with matter, and with nothing else.
Well, with matter alone, you can't produce any
machine.
Do you know of any machine that isn't
an expression of thought in matter?
Take a sewing machine.
It's an expression of the idea of sewing
two bits of cloth together, with a needle
popping in and out through the cloth.
But it's a thought combined with matter, making
the machine teleonomic, that is, make it so.
And you can't make any machine without adding
thought to it.
That's the difference.
You can make lots of things out of
matter, and time, and energy, but not machines.
So the error in the formula of the
materialists is this.
They didn't specify that anything could be made
in matter by chance.
They didn't specify that if the aggregate of
matter you were making was a machine, you'd
have to put in thought.
That is information.
That is bits and bytes of information.
That's what they forgot.
And our evolutionists today have forgotten just that
point.
And you can't expect, you know, a boy
or a girl of 12 years to think
that far on their own.
You've got to help them with these things,
because after all, we've been thinking about these
things quite a number of years, you know.
And it's easy now that when you start
from scratch, from the evolutionary point of view,
it's difficult to say that matter will make
anything non-teleonomic if you leave it long
enough to make the conditions right, which is
the first formula.
But it won't make a machine that way.
And as the cell, the biological cell is
a machine, it's a metabolic machine, as I've
said once before, I believe you were the
elite of Los Angeles.
I've said that I'm a machine for converting
potatoes into thought, aren't I?
If I forget to produce the thought, then
my girth increases, and I'm misusing the energy
of the potatoes.
But if I put the potatoes in and
convert them into thought, then I remain reasonably,
you know, fit and not too overweight.
Yeah, think of that and keep this perfectly
straight.
These are things that have to be thought
about, and we can apply them in just
a minute in a way I hope you
won't so easily forget.
Okay, the fact is that there is no
development of aggregates of matter up to cells
continuously.
But if you add to matter, thought, information,
a blueprint, then you can get machines out.
But that's where the discontinuity comes in, where
you add surprise effect of thought to matter
and produce a machine.
Now, you see, the Bible teaches just that.
The Bible says, in the beginning was the
word.
And the word is the logos, that is
the thought or the concept.
And God added the thought or the concept,
the I, to matter.
And lo and behold, the first man, the
machine for converting potatoes into thought, among other
things, appeared.
A living soul turned up.
But you've got to think about these things.
Otherwise, you will, by half-correct thought, get
an awful mess for children.
In the end, they'll see no reason to
believe in God at all, because they don't
see what logos and information means.
Now, let's take that one a little bit
further.
I'm going to tell you a little story,
because I've bored you long enough with dry
-as-dust theory.
I must tell you this, that I don't
verify for the factuality of this little story
that I'm going to tell you.
But if you get the moral of it,
and take it with you all the days
of your life, then I'll be very happy.
But the actual substance of it is allegorical,
and it's parable.
Now, the substance is this.
I don't know whether you know a man
called Erich von Däniken.
He wrote The Chariots of the Gods, remember?
Well, he's a neighbor of ours.
He lives not very far from us in
Switzerland.
And he was an atheist.
But he didn't believe in evolution.
He'd read some of my books, and he
thought they were right.
He only said, there's only one thing wrong
about them, and that is you bring in
the name of Jesus.
I'd make you a millionaire, he told me,
if you cut out the name of Jesus
in them.
So I said, well, you've cut out the
main purpose, then.
There's no purpose in writing the books.
Oh, he said, if it is bad as
that, then I'll leave them alone.
So he once turned up to me when
I was holding a lecture in the ETH
in Zurich, which is the MIT of Switzerland.
And we had a lecture hall there for
250 people, and about 500 people were reading
it.
And he came up, dressed up like an
American tourist, you know, with cameras and videotapes
and everything that an American tourist has with
him, you see.
So he came like that into my little
office where I was waiting to hold the
lecture.
And he said, can I come in and
videotape your lecture?
So I said, well, Mr. Von Däniken, if
you'd like to, if you can physically get
into that room without knocking too many people
over the head with all your apparatus, welcome.
Well, when I got into the lecture hall,
there was cramped right to the very bursting
point.
And right in front of them all was
Erich Von Däniken with his little, you know,
how they refresh their memories, with these cameras.
So when I finished, he said he wanted
to talk to me.
So I said, well, very nice.
When would you like to talk to me?
Oh, as soon as I can.
So I said, okay, it's Friday today.
I've got a lot of speaking engagements.
If you come in on Sunday morning to
my hotel at seven o'clock punctually, I'll
have time for you.
So at seven, he swore an awful oath,
I'm afraid.
He said he'd never been asked by anybody,
not even the king of any country, to
turn up at seven o'clock in the
morning on a Sunday morning.
So I said, well, okay, I've got no
other time.
If you really do want to come, come.
So he came, and I had a good
talk to him.
Now, it's about his gods that I want
to talk to you tonight.
I mustn't waste too much time on the
details of this, because there's an awful lot
that would interest you, but I want to
get to my point.
So the thing is this.
He believed, you know, that his astronaut gods
came to the earth and seeded it with
genes, and that these genes, then developed by
Darwin, Darwinian process, to produce us.
So he didn't have much use for Darwinian
evolution, because he said, you've got to have
the gods in it, you see.
You have the gods in it, you're okay.
Well, I mean, there's a grain of truth
in it, but not very much.
Now, they, Sondinian's gods, are alleged to have
gone back to the galaxies, you see, after
they finished doing their work here.
And the story that I'm going to tell
you is this.
One of the gods, I forget his name,
had a birthday party, and they wanted to
have a little outing on the birthday party.
So they thought that a nice place to
go would be planet Earth.
Now, they have plenty of space machines about
that fly around at the speed of light,
so they didn't have much trouble.
So they decided they'd take the old god
who got his birthday with them on a
little jaunt to the blue planet Earth.
Had a fascination for the gods.
Now, when they were speeding straight towards us,
their Geiger counters started to tick.
Now, you know how Geiger counters tick, don't
you?
And even gods don't like Geiger counters that
tick.
Because, so they said, look, there's something gone
wrong.
And then they looked out of the little
portholes, and they saw that the Earth in
their eyes, right in front of them, they
were heading straight for it, was changing from
blue to brown.
So as they got nearer and nearer and
nearer, the intensity of the radioactivity got worse.
So they said, even gods can't stand that.
It doesn't take me too seriously, will you?
I see your pastor looking at me with
a very, yeah.
They said, we'll have to get off.
Where can we go to observe the Earth,
but not get too near, because it's highly
radioactive.
Somebody's blown it up.
So they found the moon quite near them.
So they veered off and got into orbit
around the moon.
And then they put on the brakes, you
see, and descended to the surface of the
moon.
And they said, now we get out our
telescopes and have a look at what's happening
on that formerly blue planet.
So while they were rummaging around and unloading
their spaceship, they said, we'll have to fix
our telescopes and instruments down very firmly onto
moon rock.
So they all got to work, took off
their jackets, you see, and were knocking in—listen
very carefully to what I say—tent pegs to
anchor their apparatuses with, you see.
Now one of the gods had a big
tent peg, and another god was there with
a big whacking hammer to knock in the
tent pegs.
There's not much gravity on the moon, so
you have to use a lot of force,
you know, to get these tent pegs in.
So they were hammering away at these tent
pegs, and one of them stood up and
he said, well, I've never seen anything like
this before.
We've got on the moon—are you listening?—elastic
rocks.
Because my tent peg is bouncing.
I knock it in and it comes out
again.
I didn't know that granite could be like
rubber, he said.
So the other one said, let me have
a go at it, and he hammered it
in, you see, and the more he hammered,
the more it bounced back.
So they said, well now, we didn't know
that you could make granite into an elastomer
like rubber is.
We shall have to have a look.
This is something new for us gods.
So they started to get some shovels out
from the spacecraft and dig down to see
what this rock was that was made of
elastic.
When they got down, they found something black
and round.
So they dug and dug and dug until
they got right under it, and then they
pulled it out.
Do you know what it was on it?
Goodyear.
Now, so they thought, well, boys, let's have
a look.
So they dug a little bit to the
other side and they found another one with
Goodyear on it.
Black and white Goodyear, you know, all around
it.
And then they dug a little bit further
back and they found another two Goodyears, black
and white lettering on it.
Well, they were really perplexed at this.
So they thought, well, let's dig the whole
bag of tricks out.
So they dug the whole bag of tricks
out, and do you know what they found?
They found the Jeep that the Yanks had
left behind up on the moon.
And it was all covered up with moon
sand, you see.
But they got it out and cleaned it
up, and it was in perfect working condition.
And they were rummaging around on the dashboard
with the steering wheel, you see, and they
found a book in there.
It was a manual, you know, like you
have on your new Cadillac.
A manual there on how to use the
thing.
Well, they didn't know how to read English,
because it was in English.
So they got their computers to work, you
see.
These gods had everything you could wish for.
They got their computers to work on decoding
this wretched manual.
And after a day, they knew how to
charge the batteries.
They knew how to drive it.
They knew what it was for.
So they said, this is absolutely fine.
We came here for a birthday party, and
a birthday party it shall be.
We're going to have a picnic on the
Jeep.
So they put everything that they wanted on
the Jeep, and with hooray and, you know,
singing and all the rest of it, they
set off for the mountains of the moon
to have a birthday party on the Jeep.
Now, when they'd had a good day's outing,
they got serious like people do.
And one of them said, where did that
come from?
Where did this machine come from?
So the other said, well, according to best
evolutionary theory, the molecules of the rock combined
with one another and produced all the possible
shapes produced, and produced this machine.
Well, some of them didn't like that idea.
They said, that's all very well for the
machine itself, but you don't mean to tell
us that the manual in the dashboard was
produced by the paper of which it's made,
do you?
You don't think that all those instructions with
all that information, the millions and millions of
bytes of information there, came that way, do
you?
Well, they said, we could at a pinch
believe that the machine arose that way, because
after all, all biology arose that way, didn't
it?
And that would be a bit more complicated
than the machine.
Here, it's complicated enough.
Charging the batteries from the sun's a real
fine idea, isn't it?
But the manual, we can't believe that English,
the code that we've decoded with our machines,
we don't believe that that arose by the
Darwinian process.
I can't believe that a code, said one
of the chief gods there, arose that way.
I can't believe you can write books that
way, just by letting everything be formed and
then wiping it out, and that which is
useful, staying behind.
Don't believe it.
Well, after they'd argued about this on the
way back for a long, long time, one
of them said, we have to go and
fetch the real expert on this subject, but
he's up in the galaxies where we live.
His name was Albertus Zweisteinus.
I don't know whether you know that, gentlemen.
You know that zwei means two, don't you?
That ein means one, so einstein means one
stone, and zweisteinus means two stones.
So he was a bit better, you see,
than the one we had down here.
And so they went and fetched him.
Well, now, he came along with his baggy
old trousers and his tired eyes, you know,
and couldn't speak English very well.
And they said, where do you think he
came from, this machine?
So they showed him it.
He said, well, if cells, biological cells, and
we know how they're made, were made by
the chance processes of Darwinism, perhaps this jeep
could have been made too.
But he said, I'll draw the line at
the manual.
I can't believe that that was made by
that process at all.
So he said, well, how do you think
it was made?
He said, I wouldn't dare tell you people,
because you'd kill me if I told you.
But he said, you've got absolute proof where
that manual was made.
That was made by people with the properties
of the gods, who were creative.
That was made with the same sort of
properties as the creator himself who made the
whole bag of tricks had.
He said, you don't say so.
Do you think that there are such beings
around?
Because that's against all the principles of science,
if you do.
Because all our science is to get rid
of the necessity of us—you know that everybody,
nobody believes in the gods anymore—because of what
we've had them teach about matter making everything.
So he made them sign an agreement they
wouldn't do anything to him if he told
them the truth.
You know, he wouldn't take away his professorship
from him, or block his banking account, or
anything like that.
And when they'd signed, he said, well, I've
got absolute proof that that was made in
USA on Earth, because it says so on
some of the component parts of that machine.
Well, they let him go and didn't do
anything to him, because he seemed harmless enough.
But they got into their machine and went
back quickly as they could in the hope
that those people that had apparently blown up
the Earth wouldn't intercept them on the way
and blow them up as they went back.
But they went home after celebrating their birthday
and had come to the conclusion that when
you find a code hiding information, non-random
sequences which hide a code, that that is
proof positive of design behind the code and
behind the contents.
Absolute definite proof.
Even your Carl Sagan says that, you know.
He says if you find a non-random
sequence hiding a code which stores information, that
is proof absolute of intelligence being behind that
design.
So, let's have a look at it another
way around, and then I'll finish.
There are other things that you can say
about that.
I'm going to ask you one or two
questions, besonders, especially the men amongst you.
Do you really believe, these are questions, do
you really believe that matter combines with itself
to produce all the possible aggregates that are
possible?
Or do you think there are exceptions?
Well, I'm of the opinion that matter will
combine with itself to perform, to produce a
lot of aggregates, but there are exceptions.
Now, I don't know whether I try it,
because there are a number of ladies here
who probably think that I'm just pulling wool
over their eyes, and I should hate to
think that, that you'd be, think that I
would risk doing that to you.
If you were making, say, a car engine,
by the method of Darwin, that is random
processes producing everything that is possible, everything that
is possible, if you were doing that, now,
hand on your heart, do you think that
those processes could produce a round cylinder?
Ask yourself.
Of course, they wouldn't.
Random processes would never produce a round cylinder.
Now, that's the first thing.
So, you've got an exception to the general
rule of all the materialists who say everything
will produce, including those things which look designed,
so design is always the appearance of design.
Now, what about getting a piston to fit
into that cylinder, to fit absolutely gas-tight,
with the reams and the grooves round it,
which are gas-tight too, by random processes?
Do you think you'd ever get them?
No possibility.
Do you think you'd ever get a valve
to sit in the seat, and with its
stem on it, to fit perfectly into the
hole made for the stem, by random processes?
The only process that'll make those—cylinders, pistons, valves,
stems of valves, the seating, which is perfectly
round—the only thing that'll make that is directed
energy.
That is the energy on a lathe.
You can do it on a lathe quite
nicely.
Now, if you've got directed energy there, then
of course that cuts out the whole basis
of Darwinism, which is randomness does a whole
bag of tricks.
It won't work that way.
So, if you're going to have a machine
made by Darwin's process, the energy that's—the second
word in my formula—the energy mustn't be random.
It must be directed.
Now, if your energy is directed, it isn't
random.
So, the formula is wrong in respect to
that.
Now, if it's directed energy, then you've got
to add the I, information, to make it
directional, and then you can do it.
So, the formula, which is being taught in
all your schools, to justify the lack of
anything supernatural having anything to do with our
creation, the formula is deficient, and it's deficient
in direction.
And that's what Logos means, and that's what
information means.
Now, you can go right through that into
chemistry.
You say, oh, well, chemistry is not made
like a car engine.
Your chemistry could make a cell, couldn't it?
Now, ladies and gentlemen, the answer is no,
because all the cells of our body contain
thousands and thousands of what are called enzymes.
And the enzymes function like a hand fitting
into a glove.
And the hand goes into the molecules of
the glove in a perfect fit, so you
get very close fit between the outside of
the cell and the inside of the cell
chemically, just like a piston fits into a
cylinder.
So, you've got the close analogy there between
the production of an engine, an internal combustion
engine, and the production of a cell.
Both are absolutely dependent on an absolute fit.
Now, if you're going to get an absolute
fit in an engine, you've got to have
your direction in it.
You've got to have good leads to do
it.
And in the chemistry of the cell, you've
got to have exactly the same.
You've got to have the fit of the
hand into the glove.
In thousands of cases, in the simplest cell,
there are 2,000 hand-glove fits to
make the cell capable of getting energy from
its environment.
And when you see that, ladies and gentlemen,
we can see it today, and we can
make such systems to work.
Arthur Kornberg and Sol Spiegelman both made a
virus.
One of them made it out of RNA,
and the other one made it out of
DNA.
And they spent two to three years doing
it to make sure that, by directional energy,
they got the fit.
And the fit of the hand into the
glove, the enzyme systems which are necessary, just
like a piston is necessary to fit this
into a cylinder perfectly, otherwise the thing won't
run.
It's exactly the same in making a machine
as it is in making a cell.
There's no difference at all in principle.
And if you don't have the external direction
put into matter to guide it, in the
right paths, so that the fit does occur,
then you don't get any cell which will
live and work, the same as you wouldn't
get any motor which will live and work
by that means.
So I'm of the old-fashioned opinion, and
a lot of people are coming around to
it today, that you can't get design without
a designer.
This idea of design being an artifact produced
by matter reacting spontaneously, and higgledy-piggledy, all
the thousands of thousands of thousands and thousands
and thousands of aggregates of matter, some of
which function and some don't, that idea is
absolutely wrong, because nothing will function unless you
get the perfect fit produced by direction.
And the direction is of course stored on
the DNA molecule.
But where did that direction come from in
the first place?
Well the scripture is perfectly plain about that
one, and says that the direction came from
the logos.
The logos put his concept, which is directive
thought, into matter, and the result was the
metabolic machine known as man, and the animals
and the plants appeared.
Now ladies and gentlemen, the important thing about
this, is not only that we have the
knowledge of this, but that it reaches our
hearts.
It's very very interesting from a purely scientific
point of view to go into all these
things, but you can remain as cold as
ice doing it, unless you see where it's
going to lead you to.
Now I don't know what you think, but
I think this, that if you put direction,
information, onto a very small space, that's known
as miniaturization.
And when you think that the billions of
bits of direction which are in us, and
that all that direction with billions and billions
of bits of information, was combined on one
sperm of my father, and one egg from
my mother, that that unbelievable concentration of high
technology is on one sperm and one egg.
Now we look at machines which are high
-tech, and we wonder, wonder.
They go up to Edwards Air Base, don't
they?
And they see all the little secrets, big
secrets that you've got up there.
And most of them, you know, are very
high technology.
And you say, oh where's man getting to?
He really is going too far, because he
used it for destructive purposes.
When you think how God did that, when
we see then, nature as it is, as
Paul said in the first chapter of Romans,
we see his deity and his Godhead writ
large, right throughout biology.
And if he did that, the God that
I worship, you know, is omniscient.
He knows everything.
And if you look at the blueprint for
a man, takes billions and billions of pages
just to write the sequences down of his
genetic code, just to read it, let alone
make it and compose it.
When you think that we're of infinite value
as God's work, beyond that scientifically, of infinite
value, when you think that we're that, and
rather than let us be perished, let us
perish, he came and offered himself to save
us from that death.
Now why is that necessary?
I think this, that if you're going to
get matter to develop itself up to life,
you've got to put in from outside telos
or information, logos if you like, you've got
to do that.
That left to ourselves as human beings, if
we don't have the direction put in from
the Lord Jesus Christ from outside us, we
go to pieces.
No matter how well you've been brought up,
any of us can go to pieces, except
that the logos comes into us every day
to give us the direction we need.
That means we've got to take time every
day to do it.
Especially if you're married and have a family,
just to run the family right in the
fear of God takes the quiet time every
day with the family, reading the word, praying,
and loving him who gives us this direction.
But that's optional for us, we've got to
seek for it.
And if we do that, then we'll be
quite sure about the design of biology, which
is to make us in the likeness of
his son.
So we'll pray together.
Just remain seated where you are.
We ask thee, Lord Jesus, that we may
see these things and see thine omnipotence, and
thine omniscience in all matters that we look
at in science round about us, and give
us wisdom to pass on this knowledge to
others, that others may profit from it.
So make us new by giving us new
direction this evening to serve thee as we
ought.
We thank thee for thy kindness and goodness
to us this day.
Amen.