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In the deep, God created the heaven and

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the earth.

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Now the earth was fullness of energy.

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Darkness was over the surface of the deep,

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and the Spirit of God was hovering over

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the waters.

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And God said, Let there be light.

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And there was light.

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God saw that the light was good, and

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he separated the light from darkness.

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God called the light day, and the darkness

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he called night.

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And there was evening, and there was morning,

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the first day.

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And God said, Let there be an expanse

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between the waters to separate water from water.

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So God made the expanse, and separated the

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water under the expanse from the water above

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it.

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And it was so.

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God called the expanse sky, and there was

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evening, and there was morning, the second day.

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And God said, Let the water under the

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sky be gathered to one place, and let

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dry ground appear.

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And it was so.

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God called the dry ground land, and gathered

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waters he called seas.

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And God saw that it was good.

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Then God said, Let the land produce vegetation,

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seed-bearing plants and trees, on the land

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that bear fruit with seed in it, according

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to their various kinds.

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And it was so.

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The land produced vegetation, plants bearing seed according

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to their kinds, and trees bearing fruit with

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seed in it, according to their kinds.

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And God saw that it was good, and

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there was evening, and there was morning, the

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third day.

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And God said, Let there be lights in

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the expanse of the sky to separate the

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day from night, and let them serve as

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signs to mark seasons and days and years.

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And let there be lights in the expanse

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of sky to give light on the earth.

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And it was so.

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God made two great lights, the greater light

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to govern the day, and the lesser light

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to govern the night.

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He also made the stars.

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God set them in the expanse of the

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sky to give light on the earth, to

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govern the day and the night, and to

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separate light from darkness.

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And God saw that it was good, and

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there was evening, and there was morning, the

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fourth day.

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And God said, Let the water teem with

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living creatures, and let birds fly above the

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earth across the expanse of the sky.

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So God created the great creatures of the

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sea, and every living and moving thing with

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which the water teems, according to their kinds,

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and every winged bird according to its kind.

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And God saw that it was good.

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God blessed them and said, Be fruitful and

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increase in number, and fill the water in

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the seas, and let the birds increase on

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the earth.

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And there was evening, and there was morning,

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the fifth day.

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And God said, Let the land produce living

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creatures according to their kinds, livestock, creatures that

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move along the ground, and wild animals, each

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according to its kind.

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God made the wild animals according to their

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kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and

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all the creatures that move along the ground

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according to their kinds.

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And God saw that it was good.

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Then God said, Let us make man in

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our image, in our likeness, and let them

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rule over the fish of the sea and

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the birds of the air, over the livestock,

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over all the earth, and over all the

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creatures that move along the ground.

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So God created man in his own image,

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in the image of God created him.

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Male and female, he created them.

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God blessed them and said to them, Be

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fruitful and increase in number, fill the earth

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and subdue it, rule over the fish of

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the sea and the birds of the air,

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and over every living creature that moves on

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the ground.

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Then God said, I give you every seed

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-bearing plant on the face of the whole

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earth, and every tree that has fruit with

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seed in it.

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They will be yours for food.

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And to all the beasts of the earth

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and all the birds of the air and

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all the creatures that move on the ground,

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everything that has breath of life in it,

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I give every green plant for food.

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And it was so.

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God saw all that he had made and

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it was very good.

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And there was evening, and there was morning,

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the sixth day.

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Thank you, Anne, for that dignified reading of

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that beautiful passage.

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Thank you, Tony, too.

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You can tell he used to be a

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teacher, can't you?

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Just imagine him standing up before the class.

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Now, class, hands up if you haven't done

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your homework.

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There we are.

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Now, I would urge you to stay if

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you haven't been around.

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It is a wonderful demonstration of creativity.

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Now, you've got to put up with me

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for a few minutes before the other Tim

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comes.

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I wanted us to think about a creation

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theme this evening.

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It just seems so appropriate when we've got

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so many visual aids all around us.

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You may remember back at the beginning of

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the year, there was a 17-year-old

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who was sent on a safari.

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He was in a detention center for young

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offenders somewhere near Gloucester and created a bit

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of a fuss earlier on.

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And this is a report of the safari

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that he was given as part of his

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punishment.

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He said, Cairo was totally disgusting rubbish.

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I hope I'm not letting the tab in

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for any liability claims here from the Egyptian

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Tourist Board.

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But this is what he said, not me.

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The pyramids were just bits of rock.

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I would rather see God's creations than man's

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creations.

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The cruise down the Nile, that's very nice

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and good.

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I watched the sun rise over the mountaintops.

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That was Mount Sinai.

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The wildlife was very excellent.

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Victoria Falls was excellent.

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God's creation.

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Man hadn't touched it.

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Well, he obviously enjoyed himself and wanted to

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go again very quickly because he was back

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re-offending as soon as he was let

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out.

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But I rather took to that young lad.

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I thought he had a point, really.

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It is true that whatever God makes is

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very wonderful and beautiful, isn't it?

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Until man gets his hands on it.

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But if you were David Attenborough at this

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time, you'd say, hang on, hang on a

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bit.

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This isn't really God's creations.

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This is just part of nature.

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Okay, it's the miracle of nature.

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But don't go rushing on too quickly about

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God and him making things.

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I actually think that the wildlife programs on

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television are some of the most harmful that

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we have, quite honestly, because they are deliberately

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anti-God.

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So where did it all come from?

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Are we here as a result of personal

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choice or just impersonal chance?

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Do we come from fate or father?

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You see, when we went to school, and

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those of us who are still there, we

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were probably taught in our biology lessons that

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Genesis is rubbish and God is redundant.

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So who do we believe?

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Well, I'm not terribly phased by science.

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It wasn't that long ago that I went

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to school, but I know that a lot

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of what they taught me when I went

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to school is now right out of the

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window because science is always changing.

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Science is fallible.

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Very, very few scientists today believe in evolution

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the way Darwin taught it.

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That's why they took his portrait off the

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50-pound note at the back of last

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year, because they thought his work wasn't really

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worth it anymore.

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It had been discredited.

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You see, when I was at school, I

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was taught that there were a lot of

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things called vestigial organs, some of which I

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still had and some of which I left

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behind when I was an embryo.

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And I was taught that these were just

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a load of evolutionary hangovers when my ancestors

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were just fish or reptiles, like gill slits,

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for example, which apparently I used to have

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in my mother's womb, and you did too.

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But these vestigial organs, there used to be

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180 of them, have got whittled down to

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about two or three now because they keep

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finding uses for these things that they thought

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were completely useless.

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And indeed, the evolutionary assumptions about our vestigial

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organs severely held back the progress of medical

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science because people said, oh, they're useless, and

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they weren't trying to look for use for

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them when they did have a lot of

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use.

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Indeed, those gill slits developed into the thymus

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gland and the middle ear canals, both very

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essential for our well-being today.

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And another thing they taught me when I

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went to school was that as an embryo,

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I and you went through a number of

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stages.

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How many of you were taught this?

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Perhaps you'd like to put your hands up.

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I'll try not to be the schoolmaster, but

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I was taught we went through an amoeba

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stage and then a fish stage and then

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a bird stage.

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How many of you were taught this?

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Any of you remember this?

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Perhaps you can't remember back that far.

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Well, that's absolute garbage now.

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It used to be summed up by a

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very highfalutin phrase.

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I don't think I can recite it, so

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I'll have to read it.

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Ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny.

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That was the language scientists used.

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They said, oh, yes, of course, ontogeny replicates

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phylogeny.

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And if you say that, you can sound

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very, very intelligent indeed.

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And, I mean, who can argue with that?

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You can't argue with ontogeny replicates phylogeny, can

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you?

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Nobody can.

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But it's scientific gibberish, and actually it's being

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completely discredited now.

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So science is always changing, and if I

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have to make a choice between science and

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Scripture, I'll take Scripture any day because God

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was actually there when it all happened, unlike

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any scientists that you might happen to know.

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Having said that, we also have to realize

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that our interpretation of Scripture, our interpretation of

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Scripture, is also fallible.

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And we mustn't give ourselves too many unnecessary

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problems by holding to things that the Bible

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doesn't necessarily teach.

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You know, Galileo got into serious trouble for

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holding that the world is round, and people

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said to him, ah, but the Bible talks

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about the four corners of the earth.

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There we are.

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A circle doesn't have corners, does it?

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Therefore, the word must be square.

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But, I mean, we talk about the stars

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coming out at night, but we don't sort

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of think, well, where do they shoot off

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to during the day, do we?

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It's just the way we speak.

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And the Bible has to be read on

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God's terms, not on our terms.

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And the trouble is that today some scientists

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think, oh, well, I'm a scientist, so the

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Bible must be written for me, for scientists.

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But, of course, it's not.

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It's written for everybody all over.

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And if you look at Genesis 1, in

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the very highest sense of this phrase, it

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is sheer poetry.

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It's not the way that I was taught

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to write up a laboratory experiment in my

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first year, where you had to have method

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and then observations and then conclusion.

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I was taught this, and it's obviously stuck

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with me.

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But Genesis 1 is not like that.

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Indeed, it's all based around three numbers, the

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three perfect numbers, 3, 7, and 10.

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If you look at the first three days,

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you'll find that there are three separations, light

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from darkness, the water above and below the

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sky or the expanse, and the sea and

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the dry land.

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And here, God is making space in which

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to work.

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And then in the next three days, there

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are three acts of creation, the sun, moon,

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and stars, the fish and the birds, and

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then animals and man.

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First, God makes the habitat, and then he

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makes the inhabitants.

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And you'll see that on days three and

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six, he actually performs two creative acts.

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It's very carefully worked out.

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There are a number of sevens here.

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There are seven days, obviously.

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There are seven God saw that it was

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goods, and there are seven and it was

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so's.

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And there are a number of tens here.

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God said comes ten times.

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God made comes ten times.

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And according to their kind comes ten times.

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And there are a number of threes here,

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three let there be's, three blessings, three types

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of vegetation, three types of animal.

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This really is a literary masterpiece.

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It is inspired literature, as I believe, God

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directly to Moses.

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And it has to be read on its

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own terms.

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And I believe that is literally rather than

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literalistically.

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And there's quite a difference there.

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If you look at chapter two, verse five,

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I think you will see that you cannot

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take chapter one literalistically because it just won't

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work out.

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But it is a masterpiece.

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If you read the ancient myths, the Gilgamesh

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epics and so on, after having read Genesis

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one, you really will go from the sublime

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to the ridiculous.

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Because on this page, God is telling us

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so very, very much.

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He's telling us so much about himself.

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He's telling us that he is powerful.

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Obviously, he can create things with just a

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word.

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No sinner said than done.

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That he is personal.

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That he is plural.

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Let us make man in our own image.

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That he is loving.

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That he is feeling.

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That he is good.

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That he blesses his creation.

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That he is orderly because he makes everything

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according to their own kinds.

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That he is eternal because he is there

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from the beginning.

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That he is supreme.

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He is God over all.

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He is not caught up with his creation.

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He is independent and above his creation.

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And, of course, that he is highly creative.

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He's telling us all these things about himself.

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But, you know, the most fantastic thing about

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this God we read of in Genesis chapter

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one is this.

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That he made you to have a relationship

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with him.

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Just think about that.

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The reason he made you was to have

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a relationship with him.

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You may have seen the cartoon about the

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two monkeys in the zoo talking to one

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another.

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One was saying to the other in the

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cage, Am I my keeper's brother?

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Well, think about it.

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But it's a very important question, isn't it?

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Are you related to the apes?

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Now, I thought I had to tackle this

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subject sometime.

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And it turned out to be convenient this

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evening.

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Because, for a start, I know some of

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you have to think about these things in

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biology lessons.

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You do get up against it, really.

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And you wonder whether there are any answers

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to what you hear.

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You only hear one side of the story.

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And I remember when I was back in

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my own class, although you're taught rather differently

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than I was, the basic stuff is still

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the same.

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That's partly because they actually take a long

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time before the truth actually, even in scientific

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circles, filters down to the classroom.

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It has to go through the professors, first

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of all, and then the normal, ordinary graduates.

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And then they become teachers.

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And eventually, a long time afterwards, you get

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something a bit straighter nearer to what is

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perceived to be the truth.

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The other reason, I think, is because I

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believe there's somebody here who's still sheltering behind

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the old thing that science has disproved Christianity.

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And that's just not so.

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It's a very convenient refuge point, but it's

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just not true.

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Sometimes we Christians do get accused of being

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naive and gullible.

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Admittedly, our faith works best on a simple

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level.

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That's undoubtedly true.

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But having said that, we are not unthinking.

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We don't take our brains out when we

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become Christians.

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And we have thought about this.

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At least I have and a number of

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us have.

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And although we haven't got all the answers,

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neither have the scientists.

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Quite honestly, they have not.

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We have at least as many answers as

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they do.

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So I want us to think about concentrating,

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sort of using Genesis 1 verse 31 as

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a frame, on, first of all, everything that

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God made.

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The Lord God made them all.

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God saw all that he had made.

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And then secondly, that it was exceedingly good.

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Who has made all things well.

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As the same hymn puts it, it was

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very good, it was very beautiful.

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And that's the framework.

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Now in Hebrew there's a special word for

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the word create.

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It's the word bara.

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And it means to create something out of

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nothing.

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And this is something that only God can

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do.

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This word bara is only ever used of

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God and it's never used of human beings

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because the best that human beings do is

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to manufacture something out of something that's already

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given.

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Whereas God can make things out of nothing.

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He can truly create.

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And in this chapter, this word bara, create,

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comes, surprise, surprise, at three points during the

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narrative and the third time it comes three

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times.

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So number one, we read that God created

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the heavens and the earth.

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He created matter.

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Secondly, in verse 21, we read that God

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created the birds and the great creatures of

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the sea and everything with which the water

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teems.

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He created life, the first creation of life.

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And then the third point in verse 27,

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we read this three times here just to

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underline it and put it in bold and

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capitals and everything else that you can put

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it in to reinforce this.

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God created man in his own image.

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In the image of God he created him.

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Male and female he created them.

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So let's have a look at these three.

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Created matter.

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Now of course if you get hold of

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a physics textbook, what it will say is

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in effect this.

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First of all there was absolutely nothing and

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then there was a big bang and then

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there was something.

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Now obviously that contradicts the first law of

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thermodynamics which states that matter can neither be

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created nor destroyed.

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But it doesn't really seem to bother the

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physicists because they say well there was an

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exception at the start of time for some

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reason.

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And then they say that from this massive

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explosion, the fallout of all of this was

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the most complex and ordered universe that you

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could possibly wish to imagine.

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Now that's also rather strange because if you

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had an explosion in a print factory you

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would not expect to end up with a

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complete set of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

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And indeed you wouldn't expect to end up

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with anything sensible at all.

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And indeed that contradicts the second law of

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thermodynamics which states that systems always run down.

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They always become more and more chaotic.

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They never become more and more ordered.

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Well the first and the second laws of

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thermodynamics are scientifically proved and demonstrated principles but

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the account that scientists give for the origin

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of matter are certainly not and they contradict

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all of the observed scientific principles that we

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have.

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Professor Paul Davis, he's a British astronomer, talks

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about the miracle of the big bang for

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this reason.

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You see if you're an evolutionist you have

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to believe in miracles only you have to

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have rather more faith than we do because

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these miracles happen out of complete chance rather

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than by design of someone who is behind

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them.

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Now what about animate life after we've looked

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at matter?

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Well again we have the same story.

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People used to believe in the spontaneous generation

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of life.

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They used to believe that if you had

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a really smelly, sweaty shirt and they used

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to know about this in the Middle Ages

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because they never had a bath, they only

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had one pair of clothes and if you

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left it out and put a bit of

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grain on it after 30 days you would

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produce a mouse.

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That was how mice were supposed to be

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made by these theories.

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Now there was a guy called Louis Pasteur.

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He was quite a bright French scientist and

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he established that living things never arise from

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non-living matter.

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That was his principle and that was how

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the matter rested until the evolutionists got going

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and they turned the clock right back.

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And you may have heard of the experiment,

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you may not know the name of the

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guy who performed it but he was a

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guy called Stanley Miller in 1953 who put

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an electric charge, he zapped this current through

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a mixture of ammonium, hydrogen and water vapor

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and hey presto what did he get?

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Amino acids.

549
00:23:00,690 --> 00:23:04,050
And everybody said life created in a test

550
00:23:04,050 --> 00:23:04,390
tube.

551
00:23:05,570 --> 00:23:10,310
Well as Time Magazine last year reported it

552
00:23:10,310 --> 00:23:14,390
was a beautiful picture but unfortunately probably wrong.

553
00:23:15,290 --> 00:23:16,790
Now you've all heard of that experiment.

554
00:23:16,990 --> 00:23:19,470
It's all given proof as evidence as to

555
00:23:19,470 --> 00:23:20,530
how life could come about.

556
00:23:20,670 --> 00:23:22,250
It's probably wrong.

557
00:23:22,490 --> 00:23:25,250
It's widely denied in the scientific community now.

558
00:23:26,570 --> 00:23:29,450
You see even if you could do that

559
00:23:29,450 --> 00:23:35,350
with no intelligent person doing it then that

560
00:23:35,350 --> 00:23:37,490
experiment would never actually form the base of

561
00:23:37,490 --> 00:23:41,330
life because the amino acids which were formed

562
00:23:41,330 --> 00:23:44,410
in this experiment and are always formed when

563
00:23:44,410 --> 00:23:46,610
it's done in laboratory conditions are always a

564
00:23:46,610 --> 00:23:48,890
mixture of left-handed amino acids and right

565
00:23:48,890 --> 00:23:50,090
-handed amino acids.

566
00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:53,970
Whereas for life to form you can only

567
00:23:53,970 --> 00:23:56,370
possibly have left-handed amino acids.

568
00:23:56,470 --> 00:23:58,390
Once you get one right-handed amino acid

569
00:23:58,390 --> 00:23:59,050
that's it.

570
00:23:59,050 --> 00:24:01,070
It just blows the whole thing.

571
00:24:01,210 --> 00:24:02,970
It just falls down the system.

572
00:24:03,850 --> 00:24:05,870
And there are other snags as well about

573
00:24:05,870 --> 00:24:08,070
this commonly given origin of life.

574
00:24:08,850 --> 00:24:12,990
For example if you have oxygen in the

575
00:24:12,990 --> 00:24:15,230
primeval soup I don't know what you think

576
00:24:15,230 --> 00:24:16,950
of when you hear that phrase primeval soup.

577
00:24:17,030 --> 00:24:18,650
I always think about my school ham and

578
00:24:18,650 --> 00:24:20,610
pea soup that they used to dish up.

579
00:24:20,690 --> 00:24:21,850
I always used to imagine it was something

580
00:24:21,850 --> 00:24:22,470
a bit like that.

581
00:24:22,710 --> 00:24:25,090
Not that anybody's ever seen any primeval soup

582
00:24:25,090 --> 00:24:27,130
and there's not any evidence that it ever

583
00:24:27,130 --> 00:24:28,070
existed actually.

584
00:24:29,070 --> 00:24:31,690
But if you had oxygen around at the

585
00:24:31,690 --> 00:24:34,310
time then as soon as life would start

586
00:24:34,310 --> 00:24:37,670
to emerge these amino acids somehow forming into

587
00:24:37,670 --> 00:24:39,590
DNA although they couldn't do it it would

588
00:24:39,590 --> 00:24:41,350
be immediately oxidized and that would be the

589
00:24:41,350 --> 00:24:42,090
end of the story.

590
00:24:42,950 --> 00:24:44,410
But having said that if you have no

591
00:24:44,410 --> 00:24:46,010
oxygen you have no ozone.

592
00:24:46,530 --> 00:24:47,770
And if you have no ozone you just

593
00:24:47,770 --> 00:24:50,290
get a lethal dose of ultraviolet as we

594
00:24:50,290 --> 00:24:50,970
know today.

595
00:24:51,130 --> 00:24:52,550
So you've got no life that way either.

596
00:24:53,210 --> 00:24:55,110
So whether you've got oxygen or not you've

597
00:24:55,110 --> 00:24:55,830
got no life.

598
00:24:55,830 --> 00:24:56,990
It's catch 22.

599
00:25:00,820 --> 00:25:04,700
Indeed somebody has calculated the probability even if

600
00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:06,940
these amino acids could be formed in this

601
00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:09,960
way of them combining in a way which

602
00:25:09,960 --> 00:25:13,820
allows for reproduction is 1 over 10 to

603
00:25:13,820 --> 00:25:15,200
the power 87.

604
00:25:16,420 --> 00:25:18,780
Now I believe that there are only 10

605
00:25:18,780 --> 00:25:21,720
to the power 30 atoms in the whole

606
00:25:21,720 --> 00:25:22,360
of the universe.

607
00:25:22,980 --> 00:25:24,360
So you can see that the probability of

608
00:25:24,360 --> 00:25:26,240
1 over 10 to the power 87 is

609
00:25:26,240 --> 00:25:28,140
just a little bit unlikely.

610
00:25:29,040 --> 00:25:31,660
But what's really bad news for the evolutionists

611
00:25:31,660 --> 00:25:36,180
is other calculations that Professor Freight Hoyle some

612
00:25:36,180 --> 00:25:37,980
of you will have heard of him and

613
00:25:37,980 --> 00:25:42,720
his sidekick or partner Chandra Wickramsinger have made.

614
00:25:43,680 --> 00:25:45,900
Because they've said but life you see isn't

615
00:25:45,900 --> 00:25:46,740
just life.

616
00:25:47,260 --> 00:25:50,240
We have an incredible number of enzymes which

617
00:25:50,240 --> 00:25:52,620
are extraordinary protein molecules.

618
00:25:52,740 --> 00:25:54,780
We have about 2,000 of them and

619
00:25:54,780 --> 00:25:57,820
they're all very, very improbable compounds but we

620
00:25:57,820 --> 00:25:59,780
need them to sustain life as we know

621
00:25:59,780 --> 00:26:00,100
it.

622
00:26:00,740 --> 00:26:02,420
And the probability that these have all come

623
00:26:02,420 --> 00:26:05,460
about by chance is 1 over 10 to

624
00:26:05,460 --> 00:26:07,680
the power 40,000.

625
00:26:08,120 --> 00:26:11,600
That's 10 with 40,000 noughts on the

626
00:26:11,600 --> 00:26:11,860
end.

627
00:26:11,980 --> 00:26:13,560
It's just unbelievable.

628
00:26:14,700 --> 00:26:16,780
It's even less than the chances of two

629
00:26:16,780 --> 00:26:19,480
all British singles finals at Wimbledon.

630
00:26:19,880 --> 00:26:21,620
It's just not ever going to happen.

631
00:26:23,500 --> 00:26:27,620
So Professor Hoyle and Wickramsinger have come to

632
00:26:27,620 --> 00:26:30,320
the amazing conclusion that life must have been

633
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,600
seeded here from outer space.

634
00:26:33,000 --> 00:26:34,340
It didn't start here at all.

635
00:26:34,400 --> 00:26:36,120
It couldn't have done so it must have

636
00:26:36,120 --> 00:26:38,020
come from somewhere else.

637
00:26:38,560 --> 00:26:40,160
And indeed in that they've been joined by

638
00:26:40,160 --> 00:26:43,980
a number of scientists including the Nobel Prize

639
00:26:43,980 --> 00:26:46,280
winner Professor Francis Crick.

640
00:26:46,740 --> 00:26:49,700
And he says that life is such a

641
00:26:49,700 --> 00:26:52,880
complicated system it's the most complex system of

642
00:26:52,880 --> 00:26:55,340
all that it could not possibly have come

643
00:26:55,340 --> 00:26:58,400
about by gradual evolutionary development.

644
00:26:58,900 --> 00:27:01,260
It seems that that must be the final

645
00:27:01,260 --> 00:27:03,660
nail in the coffin of evolution.

646
00:27:04,820 --> 00:27:07,640
Well that's everything that God made.

647
00:27:08,180 --> 00:27:11,320
The third special creation that he made was

648
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:15,540
man and woman together in the image of

649
00:27:15,540 --> 00:27:16,040
God.

650
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:18,960
And of course it's when that is denied

651
00:27:18,960 --> 00:27:20,680
that our problems really begin.

652
00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:23,840
It's when we're told that we've just climbed

653
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:25,560
out of the jungle, crawled out of the

654
00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:28,640
pond in some way and we treat ourselves

655
00:27:28,640 --> 00:27:33,540
as animals that life begins to disintegrate.

656
00:27:33,660 --> 00:27:34,880
More of that a little bit later.

657
00:27:36,340 --> 00:27:37,940
Certainly let's have a look at the phrase

658
00:27:37,940 --> 00:27:39,780
very good, very beautiful.

659
00:27:40,640 --> 00:27:43,380
He has made all things well.

660
00:27:43,560 --> 00:27:45,100
We'd have to say that, wouldn't we?

661
00:27:45,100 --> 00:27:49,100
I mean you can't have eyes and look

662
00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:51,380
around you here this evening and not say

663
00:27:51,380 --> 00:27:52,980
that God has made all things well.

664
00:27:53,960 --> 00:27:56,080
I was up on the downs on Monday.

665
00:27:56,200 --> 00:27:57,220
I was on an orchid hunt.

666
00:27:58,580 --> 00:28:01,220
I thought I stood a good chance.

667
00:28:01,540 --> 00:28:03,060
I knew where to go and I wasn't

668
00:28:03,060 --> 00:28:03,500
disappointed.

669
00:28:04,220 --> 00:28:07,500
I found my bee orchids I was looking

670
00:28:07,500 --> 00:28:07,800
for.

671
00:28:07,900 --> 00:28:09,400
I haven't got the pictures back yet but

672
00:28:09,400 --> 00:28:12,580
if any of you want me to show

673
00:28:12,580 --> 00:28:14,340
you them later on you can see them.

674
00:28:14,340 --> 00:28:18,980
These incredible flowers which look just like a

675
00:28:18,980 --> 00:28:20,900
bumblebee has landed inside.

676
00:28:24,220 --> 00:28:27,180
How could they possibly come into being?

677
00:28:27,640 --> 00:28:30,480
You see if they evolved gradually, slowly then

678
00:28:30,480 --> 00:28:32,160
there must have been a time when the

679
00:28:32,160 --> 00:28:34,560
thing inside looked absolutely nothing like a bee

680
00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:35,220
at all.

681
00:28:35,620 --> 00:28:37,560
Therefore it would have no competitive advantage over

682
00:28:37,560 --> 00:28:38,560
any other orchid.

683
00:28:38,900 --> 00:28:40,700
Therefore it would never have turned into a

684
00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:42,040
bee shape in the middle, would it?

685
00:28:42,040 --> 00:28:46,460
It must be there by somebody's deliberate design.

686
00:28:46,940 --> 00:28:48,320
Somebody perhaps who has a little bit of

687
00:28:48,320 --> 00:28:49,760
a sense of humour.

688
00:28:50,180 --> 00:28:51,420
I think it must be said.

689
00:28:51,900 --> 00:28:55,560
Somebody who likes making things beautiful because they

690
00:28:55,560 --> 00:28:56,800
are beautiful flowers.

691
00:28:57,700 --> 00:28:59,060
God, Father God.

692
00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:03,320
The Bible of course does allow for what

693
00:29:03,320 --> 00:29:05,560
we might call micro evolution.

694
00:29:06,940 --> 00:29:08,720
If you believe the Bible you have to

695
00:29:08,720 --> 00:29:10,920
believe in some what we might loosely define

696
00:29:10,920 --> 00:29:14,360
as evolution because obviously you have to believe

697
00:29:14,360 --> 00:29:17,160
that everybody all over the world all mankind

698
00:29:17,160 --> 00:29:20,640
are descended from one single pair of human

699
00:29:20,640 --> 00:29:21,600
beings.

700
00:29:22,160 --> 00:29:25,620
Our knowledge of genetics now allows us this

701
00:29:26,140 --> 00:29:29,020
that we could have all come, whatever our

702
00:29:29,020 --> 00:29:32,760
skin colour whatever our face shape whether we've

703
00:29:32,760 --> 00:29:37,460
got slit eyes or eyes as we have

704
00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:39,880
in the West we could all have come

705
00:29:39,880 --> 00:29:42,620
from two human parents just a matter of

706
00:29:42,620 --> 00:29:45,300
a few thousand years ago.

707
00:29:46,020 --> 00:29:48,640
But the Bible does not allow for macro

708
00:29:48,640 --> 00:29:51,900
evolution between families.

709
00:29:52,840 --> 00:29:56,420
There is no evolution inter-genus as the

710
00:29:56,420 --> 00:29:59,780
biologists would put it because we have been

711
00:29:59,780 --> 00:30:03,480
made after our own kind.

712
00:30:04,100 --> 00:30:05,940
That is how God made us.

713
00:30:05,940 --> 00:30:08,840
And the fossil record bears this out.

714
00:30:09,880 --> 00:30:14,900
You see when mollusks, clams, oysters, snails and

715
00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:19,400
slugs suddenly burst onto the fossil record they

716
00:30:19,400 --> 00:30:23,140
do so all complete and all very different

717
00:30:23,140 --> 00:30:23,980
from one another.

718
00:30:24,760 --> 00:30:27,220
So that any sort of mollusk that you

719
00:30:27,220 --> 00:30:31,160
might know today resembles almost exactly the first

720
00:30:31,160 --> 00:30:34,900
mollusk that ever appeared in the fossil record.

721
00:30:34,900 --> 00:30:38,360
There was never an in-between stage and

722
00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,140
that is true of all families.

723
00:30:41,560 --> 00:30:45,860
The missing links are precisely that as a

724
00:30:45,860 --> 00:30:48,860
Guardian writer put it last year missing, believed,

725
00:30:49,040 --> 00:30:50,100
non-existent.

726
00:30:50,640 --> 00:30:52,340
And that is the conclusion that more and

727
00:30:52,340 --> 00:30:54,800
more evolutionists are coming to that these missing

728
00:30:54,800 --> 00:30:57,180
links just don't exist.

729
00:30:57,440 --> 00:30:59,440
Darwin thought they would be found but they

730
00:30:59,440 --> 00:31:00,340
never have been.

731
00:31:00,340 --> 00:31:04,080
Even though many, many living species, a good

732
00:31:04,080 --> 00:31:06,540
proportion of our living species have been found

733
00:31:06,540 --> 00:31:10,440
in fossilised form those species which were supposed

734
00:31:10,440 --> 00:31:12,120
to have been found to bridge the gaps

735
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,000
just haven't.

736
00:31:14,240 --> 00:31:18,520
Now in 1938 a fisherman of Cape Province,

737
00:31:18,600 --> 00:31:20,740
South Africa netted a colocanth.

738
00:31:21,240 --> 00:31:22,940
This was a bit of a shock to

739
00:31:22,940 --> 00:31:26,760
him, not to mention the colocanth because these

740
00:31:26,760 --> 00:31:29,000
fish were believed to have been extinct for

741
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:32,680
100 million years and one suddenly then turns

742
00:31:32,680 --> 00:31:34,780
up in a net and a number of

743
00:31:34,780 --> 00:31:36,380
others have been caught since then.

744
00:31:37,300 --> 00:31:39,940
Now biologists got very excited about this because

745
00:31:39,940 --> 00:31:43,300
the colocanth is very closely related to a

746
00:31:43,300 --> 00:31:46,020
group of fish called the ripidistia and they

747
00:31:46,020 --> 00:31:49,100
were supposedly one of the few classic evolutionary

748
00:31:49,100 --> 00:31:53,180
missing links between fish and amphibia.

749
00:31:53,180 --> 00:31:59,440
And indeed they do have certain skeletal similarities

750
00:31:59,440 --> 00:32:02,940
to these land creatures on four legs.

751
00:32:03,980 --> 00:32:08,660
Unfortunately when they dissected it because this colocanth

752
00:32:08,660 --> 00:32:12,100
wasn't eaten for somebody's dinner that night they

753
00:32:12,100 --> 00:32:14,620
found that the heart and lungs of this

754
00:32:14,620 --> 00:32:17,660
fish are exactly like the heart and lungs

755
00:32:17,660 --> 00:32:19,560
of, well, a fish.

756
00:32:20,080 --> 00:32:22,700
They had nothing to do with amphibia at

757
00:32:22,700 --> 00:32:22,980
all.

758
00:32:22,980 --> 00:32:26,080
There was no resemblance when you actually cut

759
00:32:26,080 --> 00:32:29,080
them open and saw their soft tissue inside.

760
00:32:30,200 --> 00:32:34,040
So again and again evolutionary predictions have not

761
00:32:34,040 --> 00:32:38,120
been borne out and that's why evolutionists now

762
00:32:38,120 --> 00:32:41,280
are divided pretty much evenly between those who

763
00:32:41,280 --> 00:32:43,540
maintain with Darwin that evolution is a gradual

764
00:32:43,540 --> 00:32:46,300
process as its name and those who say

765
00:32:46,300 --> 00:32:48,360
no, it's taken place in a series of

766
00:32:48,360 --> 00:32:48,940
jumps.

767
00:32:48,940 --> 00:32:51,540
This is called saltational evolution.

768
00:32:52,980 --> 00:32:55,280
And those who hold to this believe that

769
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:58,060
every so often there is a lucky break

770
00:32:58,060 --> 00:32:58,420
as it were.

771
00:32:58,500 --> 00:33:01,700
All the mutations suddenly come right together and

772
00:33:01,700 --> 00:33:04,300
you suddenly develop something else which is different,

773
00:33:04,620 --> 00:33:06,320
a different family.

774
00:33:07,640 --> 00:33:11,540
However, the trouble is that the chance of,

775
00:33:11,800 --> 00:33:13,760
say, throwing up a feather with all of

776
00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,920
its intricate complex design to be so specialized

777
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,200
in order to help a bird to fly

778
00:33:20,200 --> 00:33:23,880
from a scale is absolutely nil.

779
00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:27,900
Again, it's as unlikely as some of those

780
00:33:27,900 --> 00:33:30,680
probabilities we were talking about earlier.

781
00:33:31,180 --> 00:33:32,700
But of course if all you get is

782
00:33:32,700 --> 00:33:35,320
a frayed scale that's not going to help

783
00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,300
the poor amphibian to fly at all, is

784
00:33:38,300 --> 00:33:38,440
it?

785
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:40,020
The poor lizard or whatever it was.

786
00:33:40,540 --> 00:33:43,280
It's just going to obviously plummet straight to

787
00:33:43,280 --> 00:33:45,320
the ground and get eaten by a prehistoric

788
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:46,500
cat of some kind.

789
00:33:47,040 --> 00:33:49,480
It's got to be formed fully if it's

790
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:50,500
really going to work.

791
00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:53,720
And again, the chances are just not on.

792
00:33:54,360 --> 00:33:57,560
Indeed, one of the opponents of saltational evolution,

793
00:33:57,700 --> 00:34:00,720
Professor Mary, says that it is the equivalent

794
00:34:00,720 --> 00:34:02,520
of believing in miracles.

795
00:34:03,020 --> 00:34:03,980
So there you are again.

796
00:34:04,040 --> 00:34:05,780
If you're an evolutionist, you have to believe

797
00:34:05,780 --> 00:34:07,360
in miracles.

798
00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:10,800
A microbiologist I've been reading recently, I don't

799
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:11,880
know whether you've been able to tell I've

800
00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:15,600
been reading microbiology recently, but Michael Denton, he's

801
00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:16,800
an Australian, he says this.

802
00:34:16,860 --> 00:34:17,620
He's not a religious man.

803
00:34:17,719 --> 00:34:20,580
He said, it appears absurd that chance should

804
00:34:20,580 --> 00:34:23,380
have thrown together devices of such complexity and

805
00:34:23,380 --> 00:34:26,780
ingenuity that they appear to represent the very

806
00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:28,880
epitome of perfection.

807
00:34:29,800 --> 00:34:30,880
And that's just true.

808
00:34:31,000 --> 00:34:34,400
You see, you are absolutely amazing.

809
00:34:34,639 --> 00:34:36,880
I don't know whether you've thought that recently

810
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:38,520
or looked in a mirror and said, boy,

811
00:34:38,600 --> 00:34:39,600
you're just amazing.

812
00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:41,120
But you are.

813
00:34:42,139 --> 00:34:45,360
Take just one cell of your body, for

814
00:34:45,360 --> 00:34:45,840
example.

815
00:34:46,380 --> 00:34:48,420
And again, this is sort of recent knowledge

816
00:34:48,420 --> 00:34:51,480
from breakthroughs in molecular biology.

817
00:34:52,520 --> 00:34:55,040
To appreciate a cell, you have to magnify

818
00:34:55,040 --> 00:34:57,420
it a thousand million times so that you

819
00:34:57,420 --> 00:34:58,360
could see it properly.

820
00:34:58,780 --> 00:35:00,280
And then it would be like a giant

821
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:02,500
balloon shape sort of which would fit over

822
00:35:02,500 --> 00:35:02,960
London.

823
00:35:03,820 --> 00:35:06,640
And in this cell, you would see millions

824
00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:10,160
and millions of openings, all opening and closing,

825
00:35:10,820 --> 00:35:13,060
and streams of materials going in and out.

826
00:35:13,760 --> 00:35:15,100
And if you entered in through one of

827
00:35:15,100 --> 00:35:16,840
these openings, you would get into a most

828
00:35:16,840 --> 00:35:20,000
amazing labyrinth of corridors and conduits.

829
00:35:20,460 --> 00:35:21,920
And they would take you all over the

830
00:35:21,920 --> 00:35:25,440
cell to various assembly plants and processing units.

831
00:35:25,960 --> 00:35:28,860
There would be a central memory bank in

832
00:35:28,860 --> 00:35:31,060
the nucleus of the cell, but other memory

833
00:35:31,060 --> 00:35:34,100
banks as well in the outlying areas.

834
00:35:34,100 --> 00:35:37,480
All around, you would recognize sort of robotic

835
00:35:37,480 --> 00:35:41,020
-type machines, all organized in a very, very

836
00:35:41,020 --> 00:35:42,120
efficient way.

837
00:35:42,620 --> 00:35:45,360
All kinds of products being processed all over

838
00:35:45,360 --> 00:35:46,380
the place and made.

839
00:35:47,280 --> 00:35:49,260
And you would also, if you knew what

840
00:35:49,260 --> 00:35:53,240
they were, recognize artificial languages and decoding systems,

841
00:35:54,040 --> 00:35:58,500
quality control units and fail-safe devices within

842
00:35:58,500 --> 00:36:02,160
this one tiny little cell in your body

843
00:36:02,160 --> 00:36:04,560
that you couldn't see without a microscope at

844
00:36:04,560 --> 00:36:05,120
all.

845
00:36:06,400 --> 00:36:09,140
But one of the most amazing things about

846
00:36:09,140 --> 00:36:12,580
this cell, with all of its complex ingenuity,

847
00:36:13,420 --> 00:36:16,160
is this, that it can reproduce itself in

848
00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:17,540
just two or three hours.

849
00:36:18,140 --> 00:36:21,540
All that amazing functional design.

850
00:36:22,560 --> 00:36:24,720
And wherever you look, you just see perfection.

851
00:36:25,340 --> 00:36:27,480
Perfection everywhere, whether it's in the eye of

852
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:30,340
a hawk or the human brain or the

853
00:36:30,340 --> 00:36:31,420
feathers of a bird.

854
00:36:31,420 --> 00:36:33,020
It's just everywhere.

855
00:36:33,880 --> 00:36:35,600
And beauty as well.

856
00:36:36,120 --> 00:36:38,340
Beauty that doesn't just seem to be functional.

857
00:36:39,220 --> 00:36:40,940
When we make things, we like to make

858
00:36:40,940 --> 00:36:42,960
them beautiful, even if they don't serve any

859
00:36:42,960 --> 00:36:44,080
useful purpose.

860
00:36:44,800 --> 00:36:46,680
And when God makes things, he loves to

861
00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:48,840
make them beautiful, beautiful.

862
00:36:50,040 --> 00:36:52,780
No wonder, at the end of his week's

863
00:36:52,780 --> 00:36:56,000
work, God sat back and admired what he'd

864
00:36:56,000 --> 00:36:56,260
done.

865
00:36:56,360 --> 00:36:59,840
He said, my, that's very, very good.

866
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:03,300
That's excellent, excellent.

867
00:37:05,800 --> 00:37:08,900
So, it's just not true that science has

868
00:37:08,900 --> 00:37:10,400
disproved Christianity.

869
00:37:11,140 --> 00:37:13,400
No matter how often you hear a phrase

870
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:15,180
like that, it's just not true.

871
00:37:15,300 --> 00:37:16,840
I've heard it over and over again.

872
00:37:17,920 --> 00:37:21,260
Actually, it's the theory of evolution which rests

873
00:37:21,260 --> 00:37:24,880
on missing fossils and unobserved genetics.

874
00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:29,200
In other words, it's not really very scientific

875
00:37:29,200 --> 00:37:30,020
at all.

876
00:37:30,020 --> 00:37:33,180
Michael Denton, who I was referring to earlier,

877
00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,960
describes evolution as the great cosmogenic myth of

878
00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:38,020
the 20th century.

879
00:37:38,960 --> 00:37:41,220
He says that a myth is a way

880
00:37:41,220 --> 00:37:45,160
of going back to the beginning to explain

881
00:37:45,160 --> 00:37:46,560
your present beliefs.

882
00:37:47,740 --> 00:37:49,680
And he says, and he's not a religious

883
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:52,640
man, don't forget, that the thing is that

884
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,100
20th century man wants to be independent.

885
00:37:56,010 --> 00:37:57,980
And therefore, he has to have a theory

886
00:37:57,980 --> 00:37:59,740
which makes him independent.

887
00:38:00,720 --> 00:38:04,480
You see, if you are accidental, then you

888
00:38:04,480 --> 00:38:05,820
are not accountable.

889
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,220
If you're here by design, if somebody made

890
00:38:12,220 --> 00:38:17,280
you, your maker is to be your master.

891
00:38:18,020 --> 00:38:19,700
You can't escape from that.

892
00:38:19,800 --> 00:38:21,880
You belong to the one who made you.

893
00:38:23,220 --> 00:38:24,780
That was Darwin's problem.

894
00:38:25,800 --> 00:38:27,960
The latest biography of Darwin is a fascinating

895
00:38:27,960 --> 00:38:28,500
book.

896
00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:31,160
It shows you how his whole life he's

897
00:38:31,160 --> 00:38:33,620
on the run from God, that he was

898
00:38:33,620 --> 00:38:35,280
brought up in a Christian family and had

899
00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:37,440
Christian friends at various stages.

900
00:38:39,060 --> 00:38:42,340
And you see, if you can knock out

901
00:38:42,340 --> 00:38:46,560
the creator, then you can run from God.

902
00:38:47,480 --> 00:38:49,200
But to knock out the creator, you've got

903
00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:50,380
to come up with evolution.

904
00:38:52,900 --> 00:38:55,500
Evolution furthermore sanctions selfishness.

905
00:38:55,880 --> 00:38:58,100
It's a very, very destructive theory.

906
00:38:59,640 --> 00:39:02,900
Richard Dawkins, who makes the national press quite

907
00:39:02,900 --> 00:39:05,620
a lot, he's a great skeptic, again a

908
00:39:05,620 --> 00:39:08,540
biologist, he's written a book called The Selfish

909
00:39:08,540 --> 00:39:09,260
Gene.

910
00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:12,740
Because evolution, of course, teaches as a key

911
00:39:12,740 --> 00:39:15,140
principle the survival of the fittest.

912
00:39:16,200 --> 00:39:19,760
Therefore, of course, we can have abortion for

913
00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,420
those who don't quite measure up.

914
00:39:21,420 --> 00:39:25,020
Of course, we can have euthanasia for the

915
00:39:25,020 --> 00:39:27,200
weak and elderly and infirm.

916
00:39:27,920 --> 00:39:30,760
Of course, you can treat granny like the

917
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:32,940
cat and put her down if she's no

918
00:39:32,940 --> 00:39:34,240
different from the cat.

919
00:39:35,820 --> 00:39:39,860
Evolution was the theory that Hitler worked on.

920
00:39:40,540 --> 00:39:42,640
He said, yes, the Aryan race are the

921
00:39:42,640 --> 00:39:44,280
most highly evolved people.

922
00:39:44,740 --> 00:39:46,620
Therefore, we can knock out some of the

923
00:39:46,620 --> 00:39:50,480
others, Jews, Romanists, Gypsies, and we will be

924
00:39:50,480 --> 00:39:52,740
doing a service to mankind because we will

925
00:39:52,740 --> 00:39:54,880
be enhancing the cause of evolution.

926
00:39:55,880 --> 00:39:58,160
Do you see why it's so dangerous?

927
00:39:59,060 --> 00:40:01,660
It has done so much damage in this

928
00:40:01,660 --> 00:40:02,540
20th century.

929
00:40:04,690 --> 00:40:06,550
There was a fellow called Cedric who was

930
00:40:06,550 --> 00:40:08,410
a geologist who lived at the time of

931
00:40:08,410 --> 00:40:10,970
Darwin and he reviewed Darwin's book.

932
00:40:12,010 --> 00:40:15,590
Cedric was a Christian believer and he made

933
00:40:15,590 --> 00:40:17,550
this prophetic statement at the time.

934
00:40:17,550 --> 00:40:22,350
He said, if Darwin is accepted, humanity will

935
00:40:22,350 --> 00:40:25,370
suffer damage that will brutalize the human race

936
00:40:25,370 --> 00:40:29,490
and sink it into a lower degradation than

937
00:40:29,490 --> 00:40:31,850
it has ever fallen in the course of

938
00:40:31,850 --> 00:40:32,610
human history.

939
00:40:33,970 --> 00:40:37,890
That describes very eloquently in one tragic, awful

940
00:40:37,890 --> 00:40:40,330
sentence what has happened in the 20th century

941
00:40:40,330 --> 00:40:44,690
as evolution has been accepted widely and humanity

942
00:40:44,690 --> 00:40:47,390
has just sunk down and down and down

943
00:40:47,390 --> 00:40:50,350
into depths of degradation we could hardly have

944
00:40:50,350 --> 00:40:53,410
imagined or foretold, certainly not at the start

945
00:40:53,410 --> 00:40:54,150
of the century.

946
00:40:57,290 --> 00:40:58,390
So what about you?

947
00:40:59,350 --> 00:41:01,870
You can do a Charles Darwin and you

948
00:41:01,870 --> 00:41:04,030
can run from God, your maker, too.

949
00:41:06,450 --> 00:41:09,390
But although it does seem sometimes rather threatening

950
00:41:09,390 --> 00:41:10,690
that you have a maker to whom you

951
00:41:10,690 --> 00:41:13,470
are accountable, let me tell you this.

952
00:41:14,290 --> 00:41:18,510
It's quite wonderful, absolutely wonderful to be loved

953
00:41:18,510 --> 00:41:19,730
by the God who made you.

954
00:41:20,210 --> 00:41:22,370
I can't tell you how brilliant it is.

955
00:41:22,490 --> 00:41:25,370
I can't tell you what a wonderful thing

956
00:41:25,370 --> 00:41:26,990
it is to wake up every morning and

957
00:41:26,990 --> 00:41:29,330
know that the God who made me is

958
00:41:29,330 --> 00:41:31,270
with me and I can know Him as

959
00:41:31,270 --> 00:41:34,370
my Father who loves me, who has made

960
00:41:34,370 --> 00:41:35,550
me as I am, who has a plan

961
00:41:35,550 --> 00:41:37,410
for my life and who is totally committed

962
00:41:37,410 --> 00:41:38,530
to me.

963
00:41:39,490 --> 00:41:41,310
Of course I am accountable to Him.

964
00:41:41,310 --> 00:41:43,230
Of course it means I can't just go

965
00:41:43,230 --> 00:41:47,270
and do my own thing as I could

966
00:41:47,270 --> 00:41:48,650
if I were here just by accident.

967
00:41:49,590 --> 00:41:52,530
But it's a wonderful thing to be loved

968
00:41:52,530 --> 00:41:55,010
by the God who made you.

969
00:41:57,050 --> 00:41:58,510
And this God who made you is so

970
00:41:58,510 --> 00:42:01,570
committed to you that even though His perfect

971
00:42:01,570 --> 00:42:06,130
creation was spoiled badly because corruption followed His

972
00:42:06,130 --> 00:42:09,230
creation, He made all things well and then

973
00:42:09,230 --> 00:42:13,090
things went wrong, very badly wrong because mankind,

974
00:42:13,610 --> 00:42:16,090
the crown of His creation, rebelled against Him,

975
00:42:16,490 --> 00:42:18,050
put two fingers up to Him as it

976
00:42:18,050 --> 00:42:20,630
were, went their own way and you and

977
00:42:20,630 --> 00:42:21,690
I are part of that.

978
00:42:23,350 --> 00:42:25,670
But because of His love for each of

979
00:42:25,670 --> 00:42:28,470
us, because of His love for men and

980
00:42:28,470 --> 00:42:32,150
women, God sent His Son in order that

981
00:42:32,150 --> 00:42:36,670
the corruption should be undone, in order that

982
00:42:36,670 --> 00:42:38,930
the creation should be restored.

983
00:42:40,550 --> 00:42:44,650
There is creation, there is corruption, but there

984
00:42:44,650 --> 00:42:48,610
is Christ and by turning to Him you

985
00:42:48,610 --> 00:42:52,150
too can come back into the relationship with

986
00:42:52,150 --> 00:42:53,290
the God who made you.

987
00:42:54,230 --> 00:42:57,030
Let me say this, if you want to

988
00:42:57,030 --> 00:42:59,850
become a Christian and some of you really

989
00:42:59,850 --> 00:43:01,950
need to do that and you know that

990
00:43:01,950 --> 00:43:04,370
this evening, you haven't really got a leg

991
00:43:04,370 --> 00:43:07,430
to stand on and Christianity, let's face it,

992
00:43:07,450 --> 00:43:09,630
you know this really, is a good life.

993
00:43:10,050 --> 00:43:12,570
It is the best life and it is

994
00:43:12,570 --> 00:43:13,430
the true life.

995
00:43:14,750 --> 00:43:15,870
And I just say you've got to be

996
00:43:15,870 --> 00:43:17,230
willing to do three things.

997
00:43:18,010 --> 00:43:19,590
Just hear me out as I finish.

998
00:43:20,470 --> 00:43:22,070
Number one, you've got to be willing to

999
00:43:22,070 --> 00:43:26,790
give up everything that you do that you

1000
00:43:26,790 --> 00:43:28,450
know is wrong.

1001
00:43:29,270 --> 00:43:31,170
That's the first thing that you must be

1002
00:43:31,170 --> 00:43:32,970
willing to do if you are to become

1003
00:43:32,970 --> 00:43:33,470
a Christian.

1004
00:43:34,890 --> 00:43:37,530
Secondly, you must be willing to be known

1005
00:43:37,530 --> 00:43:38,250
as a Christian.

1006
00:43:38,890 --> 00:43:42,410
You can't be a Christian on the quiet.

1007
00:43:42,970 --> 00:43:45,410
You have got to declare it to your

1008
00:43:45,410 --> 00:43:47,890
friends, to your schoolmates, to your workmates, to

1009
00:43:47,890 --> 00:43:48,530
your family.

1010
00:43:49,230 --> 00:43:51,830
You've got to let anybody and everybody know.

1011
00:43:52,990 --> 00:43:55,370
And thirdly, you've got to hand over the

1012
00:43:55,370 --> 00:43:58,210
keys of your life to Jesus Christ to

1013
00:43:58,210 --> 00:44:00,670
put Him in the driving seat so that

1014
00:44:00,670 --> 00:44:03,130
He can be in control and make of

1015
00:44:03,130 --> 00:44:06,770
your life the very best to fulfil your

1016
00:44:06,770 --> 00:44:09,570
true potential, all that He has given to

1017
00:44:09,570 --> 00:44:11,130
you, all that He has locked up within

1018
00:44:11,130 --> 00:44:11,570
you.

1019
00:44:12,410 --> 00:44:13,870
Those three things.

1020
00:44:14,850 --> 00:44:18,630
And then, by the fabulous mercy of God,

1021
00:44:19,350 --> 00:44:22,330
you are able to become a Christian at

1022
00:44:22,330 --> 00:44:25,570
His own invitation and offer and know that

1023
00:44:25,570 --> 00:44:30,430
He is your God, your Creator, your Saviour,

1024
00:44:31,310 --> 00:44:34,090
the One with whom you will spend the

1025
00:44:34,090 --> 00:44:36,270
whole of the rest of eternity.

1026
00:45:03,180 --> 00:45:13,500
Praise and worship and adore Worthy,

1027
00:45:14,440 --> 00:45:23,680
oh worthy are you Worthy to be thanked

1028
00:45:23,680 --> 00:45:33,200
and praised And worshipped and adored Singing

1029
00:45:33,200 --> 00:45:44,220
Hallelujah Lamb of God, Lord We

1030
00:45:44,220 --> 00:45:53,620
worship and adore you With major glories blown

1031
00:45:54,620 --> 00:46:04,220
Hallelujah Glory to the healing

1032
00:46:04,220 --> 00:46:13,500
You're more than a conqueror You're Lord of

1033
00:46:13,500 --> 00:46:23,680
everything Worthy, oh

1034
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:32,480
worthy are you Worthy to be thanked and

1035
00:46:32,480 --> 00:46:43,100
praised And worshipped and adored Worthy,

1036
00:46:43,680 --> 00:46:52,540
oh worthy are you Worthy to be thanked

1037
00:46:52,540 --> 00:47:01,620
and praised And worshipped and adored Singing

1038
00:47:01,620 --> 00:47:11,360
Hallelujah Lamb of God, Lord

1039
00:47:11,360 --> 00:47:20,160
We worship and adore you With major glories

1040
00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:29,760
blown Hallelujah Glory to

1041
00:47:29,760 --> 00:47:38,350
the healing You're more than a conqueror You're

1042
00:47:38,350 --> 00:47:43,010
Lord of everything