Questioning Darwin

1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch Online Movies and Series for FREE www.osdb.link/lm 2 00:00:12,978 --> 00:00:15,479 {\an8}There was one place on this earth 3 00:00:15,548 --> 00:00:17,315 {\an8}that was absolutely perfect, 4 00:00:17,384 --> 00:00:18,849 and it was a garden. 5 00:00:18,918 --> 00:00:20,951 The Garden of Eden. 6 00:00:21,020 --> 00:00:23,153 - Very good. - The Garden of Eden. 7 00:00:23,222 --> 00:00:26,390 And the story that we're gonna hear about on the Garden of Eden, 8 00:00:26,459 --> 00:00:29,593 comes from the book of Genesis... 9 00:00:29,662 --> 00:00:31,129 in the what? 10 00:00:31,198 --> 00:00:32,198 The Bible. 11 00:00:32,265 --> 00:00:33,297 - The Bible. - Very good. 12 00:00:33,367 --> 00:00:34,698 In the Bible. 13 00:00:34,767 --> 00:00:37,201 <i>For those Christians who believe their Bible</i> 14 00:00:37,270 --> 00:00:40,037 <i>is the word of God, the literal truth,</i> 15 00:00:40,106 --> 00:00:43,274 <i>one man is held up as the Antichrist...</i> 16 00:00:43,343 --> 00:00:45,375 <i>Charles Darwin...</i> 17 00:00:45,444 --> 00:00:47,611 <i>for leading millions of Christians astray</i> 18 00:00:47,680 --> 00:00:50,146 <i>with a very different account of Creation:</i> 19 00:00:50,215 --> 00:00:52,850 <i>evolution by natural selection.</i> 20 00:00:55,788 --> 00:00:59,323 <i>It seems outrageous to them that Darwin was laid to rest</i> 21 00:00:59,392 --> 00:01:01,691 <i>here in Westminster Abbey...</i> 22 00:01:01,760 --> 00:01:04,665 <i>the highest honor the Church of England could offer.</i> 23 00:01:40,366 --> 00:01:43,166 We believe in creation because of our faith 24 00:01:43,235 --> 00:01:46,537 {\an8}in the Lord Jesus Christ and God's word, the Holy Bible. 25 00:01:46,606 --> 00:01:47,504 {\an8}Amen? 26 00:01:47,573 --> 00:01:49,106 Amen. Evolution, I believe, 27 00:01:49,175 --> 00:01:52,176 was a way for the atheist to devise a method 28 00:01:52,245 --> 00:01:53,476 of how we got here. 29 00:01:53,545 --> 00:01:57,615 And it wasn't by God, and it was all by accident. 30 00:01:57,684 --> 00:02:00,584 If the theory of evolution is a fact, 31 00:02:00,653 --> 00:02:03,421 this Bible must be false, so we're all 32 00:02:03,490 --> 00:02:06,456 stupid ignoramuses. 33 00:02:06,525 --> 00:02:09,060 My friend, it takes more faith to believe in a theory, 34 00:02:09,129 --> 00:02:11,061 an unproven theory, than to believe 35 00:02:11,130 --> 00:02:14,432 in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. 36 00:02:14,501 --> 00:02:16,066 Amen. 37 00:02:16,135 --> 00:02:20,371 {\an8}I think one of the major questions we run into today is, 38 00:02:20,440 --> 00:02:23,507 {\an8}is evolution really compatible 39 00:02:23,576 --> 00:02:26,476 with biblical Christianity? 40 00:02:26,545 --> 00:02:30,447 And I believe the answer is just unquestionably no. 41 00:02:30,516 --> 00:02:34,318 {\an8}There's no dispute. God has determined what is true. 42 00:02:34,387 --> 00:02:36,286 {\an8}And he's told us what he did in Genesis, 43 00:02:36,355 --> 00:02:37,888 {\an8}the order in which he did it. 44 00:02:37,957 --> 00:02:39,990 And he expects us to believe it. 45 00:02:40,059 --> 00:02:41,992 {\an8}<i>In the beginning,</i> 46 00:02:42,061 --> 00:02:45,496 {\an8}<i>God created the heaven and the earth.</i> 47 00:02:45,565 --> 00:02:49,933 <i>And God said, "Let there be light."</i> 48 00:02:50,002 --> 00:02:53,904 <i>And God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass,</i> 49 00:02:53,973 --> 00:02:55,672 <i>the herb yielding seed</i> 50 00:02:55,741 --> 00:02:58,241 <i>and the fruit tree yielding fruit."</i> 51 00:02:58,310 --> 00:03:01,845 <i>And God said, "Let the waters bring forth</i> 52 00:03:01,914 --> 00:03:04,749 <i>abundantly the moving creature that has life."</i> 53 00:03:04,818 --> 00:03:07,050 <i>And God said,</i> 54 00:03:07,119 --> 00:03:10,020 <i>"Let us make man in our image."</i> 55 00:03:10,089 --> 00:03:12,326 <i>Male and female he created them.</i> 56 00:03:13,926 --> 00:03:15,993 <i>And God said to them,</i> 57 00:03:16,062 --> 00:03:18,296 <i>"Be fruitful and multiply,</i> 58 00:03:18,365 --> 00:03:21,101 <i>and fill the earth and subdue it.</i> 59 00:03:22,135 --> 00:03:23,200 <i>And have dominion over</i> 60 00:03:23,269 --> 00:03:24,301 <i>the fish of the sea</i> 61 00:03:24,370 --> 00:03:25,836 <i>and over the birds of the air</i> 62 00:03:25,905 --> 00:03:29,810 <i>and over every living thing that moves upon the earth."</i> 63 00:03:31,577 --> 00:03:33,611 <i>And the evening and the morning</i> 64 00:03:33,680 --> 00:03:35,816 <i>were the sixth day.</i> 65 00:03:38,550 --> 00:03:40,918 <i>According to the latest Gallup Poll,</i> 66 00:03:40,987 --> 00:03:43,019 <i>46% of Americans</i> 67 00:03:43,088 --> 00:03:45,622 <i>believe the Genesis account of creation.</i> 68 00:03:45,691 --> 00:03:50,093 All right, now look right out here at me and smile. 69 00:03:50,162 --> 00:03:52,897 Smile. Smile. 70 00:03:52,966 --> 00:03:54,732 Smile. 71 00:03:54,801 --> 00:03:58,302 Now look up at the dinosaurs in that window. 72 00:04:01,208 --> 00:04:02,807 Look afraid! 73 00:04:02,876 --> 00:04:04,175 Look very afraid! 74 00:04:06,211 --> 00:04:10,647 {\an8}<i>The Lord God planted a garden in Eden.</i> 75 00:04:10,716 --> 00:04:13,417 <i>At no time in the past 300 years</i> 76 00:04:13,486 --> 00:04:15,952 <i>has there been such a concerted effort in support</i> 77 00:04:16,021 --> 00:04:18,989 <i>of a literal interpretation of the Bible</i> 78 00:04:19,058 --> 00:04:22,593 <i>and especially the Genesis account of Adam and Eve</i> 79 00:04:22,662 --> 00:04:23,827 <i>and a six-day creation.</i> 80 00:04:23,896 --> 00:04:26,130 <i>The Lord God said,</i> 81 00:04:26,199 --> 00:04:29,333 {\an8}<i>"It is not good that the man should be alone.</i> 82 00:04:29,402 --> 00:04:32,469 {\an8}<i>I will make a helper fit for him."</i> 83 00:04:32,538 --> 00:04:37,274 <i>And he took one of his ribs and made it into a woman.</i> 84 00:04:37,343 --> 00:04:39,810 <i>Creationism is the fastest-growing branch</i> 85 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:42,579 <i>of Christianity.</i> 86 00:04:42,648 --> 00:04:44,983 <i>Not just here in the United States,</i> 87 00:04:45,052 --> 00:04:47,184 <i>but worldwide.</i> 88 00:04:47,253 --> 00:04:49,687 {\an8}I choose to believe that the Bible 89 00:04:49,756 --> 00:04:52,022 {\an8}is the word of God, and it contains 90 00:04:52,091 --> 00:04:54,691 first and secondhand witnesses of these events, 91 00:04:54,760 --> 00:04:58,161 so I can believe it so much more than I can believe 92 00:04:58,230 --> 00:05:00,898 the secular scientists who weren't there to see these things. 93 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:02,767 {\an8}If somewhere within the Bible 94 00:05:02,836 --> 00:05:06,304 {\an8}I were to find a passage that said "two-plus-two 95 00:05:06,373 --> 00:05:08,272 equals five," 96 00:05:08,341 --> 00:05:11,375 I wouldn't question what I'm reading in the Bible. 97 00:05:11,444 --> 00:05:14,711 I would believe it, accept it is true 98 00:05:14,780 --> 00:05:17,415 and then do my best to work it out and to understand it. 99 00:05:17,484 --> 00:05:20,550 {\an8}I can't even fathom 100 00:05:20,619 --> 00:05:23,954 {\an8}coming from this little thing that crawled on the ground... 101 00:05:24,023 --> 00:05:27,858 to apes to being human. 102 00:05:27,927 --> 00:05:31,428 It just doesn't... It sounds crazy to me. 103 00:05:31,497 --> 00:05:34,197 {\an8}When you have generations of people being taught 104 00:05:34,266 --> 00:05:37,768 {\an8}that evolution's fact, and therefore Genesis is not true, 105 00:05:37,837 --> 00:05:39,537 and you have to reinterpret the Bible, 106 00:05:39,606 --> 00:05:41,272 why shouldn't we do what we want to do? 107 00:05:41,341 --> 00:05:43,407 There's no absolutes, therefore we determine 108 00:05:43,476 --> 00:05:44,775 what is right and what is wrong. 109 00:05:48,414 --> 00:05:49,513 {\an8}<i>In the Creation Museum,</i> 110 00:05:49,582 --> 00:05:51,748 {\an8}<i>when we walk into Graffiti Alley,</i> 111 00:05:51,817 --> 00:05:53,984 {\an8}<i>it's to represent a culture</i> 112 00:05:54,053 --> 00:05:57,187 <i>where one has taken away a foundation of absolutes.</i> 113 00:05:57,256 --> 00:05:59,590 <i>So why not abort a human being?</i> 114 00:05:59,659 --> 00:06:01,058 <i>After all, get rid of spare cats,</i> 115 00:06:01,127 --> 00:06:02,059 <i>get rid of spare kids.</i> 116 00:06:02,128 --> 00:06:03,827 <i>What is the difference?</i> 117 00:06:03,896 --> 00:06:05,996 <i>Why shouldn't marriage be two men, two women</i> 118 00:06:06,065 --> 00:06:07,898 <i>or whatever you wanna make it to be?</i> 119 00:06:10,136 --> 00:06:13,237 I think that Darwin knew. I think he knew... 120 00:06:13,306 --> 00:06:15,372 "What I'm teaching is going to have 121 00:06:15,441 --> 00:06:18,108 a profound effect on mankind." 122 00:06:18,177 --> 00:06:21,411 And it's the kind of effect that moves people away 123 00:06:21,480 --> 00:06:24,582 from trusting God, trusting the God of the Bible 124 00:06:24,651 --> 00:06:27,551 into trusting man and the words of man. 125 00:06:27,620 --> 00:06:30,621 And he made a decision... "I'm going on with this." 126 00:06:35,927 --> 00:06:39,229 <i>- Considering how fiercely - I've been attacked,</i> 127 00:06:39,298 --> 00:06:43,768 <i>it seems ludicrous that I once intended to be a clergyman.</i> 128 00:06:45,238 --> 00:06:47,971 <i>I did not then in the least doubt</i> 129 00:06:48,040 --> 00:06:51,741 <i>the strict and literal truth of every word in the Bible,</i> 130 00:06:51,810 --> 00:06:55,813 <i>and soon persuaded myself that our creed must be fully accepted.</i> 131 00:06:55,882 --> 00:06:57,618 The blood of Christ. 132 00:06:59,151 --> 00:07:00,962 <i>I don't believe he did believe all of the Bible.</i> 133 00:07:00,986 --> 00:07:05,088 <i>He didn't really believe in six literal days of creation.</i> 134 00:07:05,157 --> 00:07:07,657 <i>If you assume those days of creation are ordinary days</i> 135 00:07:07,726 --> 00:07:10,194 and you take those genealogies in the Bible, 136 00:07:10,263 --> 00:07:12,563 you can only get approximately 6,000 years. 137 00:07:12,632 --> 00:07:14,098 You can't get millions of years. 138 00:07:14,167 --> 00:07:17,200 If the idea of millions of years hadn't have been popularized 139 00:07:17,269 --> 00:07:19,035 in the late 18th, early 19th century, 140 00:07:19,104 --> 00:07:23,040 Darwin could never have popularized his ideas of evolution. 141 00:07:23,109 --> 00:07:25,676 {\an8}No person of the first rank 142 00:07:25,745 --> 00:07:28,412 {\an8}in professional geological circles 143 00:07:28,481 --> 00:07:30,880 {\an8}in Darwin's day to whom he was exposed, 144 00:07:30,949 --> 00:07:34,384 believed that the earth was very, very recently created 145 00:07:34,453 --> 00:07:37,721 with life on Earth in six 24-hour days. 146 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:39,802 {\an8}You have to think about the 19th century as a period 147 00:07:39,826 --> 00:07:41,258 {\an8}of enormous digging. 148 00:07:42,962 --> 00:07:44,373 <i>If you think about the canal systems,</i> 149 00:07:44,397 --> 00:07:47,164 <i>if you think about the building work,</i> 150 00:07:47,233 --> 00:07:50,667 <i>the laying of gas, the building of railways...</i> 151 00:07:50,736 --> 00:07:52,973 <i>this is a landscape that was being dug up.</i> 152 00:07:54,874 --> 00:07:57,908 <i>Everywhere fossils were coming up.</i> 153 00:07:57,977 --> 00:08:00,110 <i>Really extraordinary things like mammoths</i> 154 00:08:00,179 --> 00:08:02,349 <i>and plesiosaurs.</i> 155 00:08:03,483 --> 00:08:05,915 <i>That gave evidence of</i> 156 00:08:05,984 --> 00:08:09,419 <i>very, very early life forms in the very lowest rock strata,</i> 157 00:08:09,488 --> 00:08:11,856 <i>which people were now beginning to understand</i> 158 00:08:11,925 --> 00:08:14,258 as being deep time... 159 00:08:14,327 --> 00:08:17,628 but also an enormous diversity of species 160 00:08:17,697 --> 00:08:20,865 that was no longer represented on the earth at all. 161 00:08:20,933 --> 00:08:25,435 So enormous numbers of extinct species, 162 00:08:25,504 --> 00:08:27,003 and people had to make sense of that. 163 00:08:27,072 --> 00:08:29,218 And you couldn't make sense of it within the time frame 164 00:08:29,242 --> 00:08:30,841 that the church was promoting. 165 00:08:30,910 --> 00:08:33,644 Darwin didn't work 166 00:08:33,713 --> 00:08:35,879 with any geologist who doubted 167 00:08:35,948 --> 00:08:38,582 <i>that the earth was unimaginably old</i> 168 00:08:38,651 --> 00:08:41,252 <i>and full of the relics of extinct animals.</i> 169 00:08:42,989 --> 00:08:44,922 <i>At Cambridge, his role models</i> 170 00:08:44,991 --> 00:08:48,592 <i>were clerical naturalists.</i> 171 00:08:48,661 --> 00:08:52,897 <i>These men were devout, they were ethically upright,</i> 172 00:08:52,966 --> 00:08:55,565 they were professionally ambitious 173 00:08:55,634 --> 00:08:58,435 and they did science for the glory of God. 174 00:08:58,504 --> 00:09:01,405 And it was from them Darwin learned 175 00:09:01,474 --> 00:09:04,775 his ambition in science, and then came his chance 176 00:09:04,844 --> 00:09:07,912 to sail around the world on HMS Beagle. 177 00:09:13,185 --> 00:09:15,152 {\an8}It took five years, started just three months 178 00:09:15,221 --> 00:09:17,453 {\an8}after he graduated from Cambridge, 179 00:09:17,522 --> 00:09:21,195 {\an8}when he really was rather idly wondering what to do with his life. 180 00:09:22,795 --> 00:09:25,429 <i>He was invited onboard not as a naturalist,</i> 181 00:09:25,498 --> 00:09:28,536 <i>but as the gentleman companion to the captain.</i> 182 00:09:30,002 --> 00:09:32,704 <i>The voyage of the Beagle was the most important voyage</i> 183 00:09:32,772 --> 00:09:34,805 <i>ever taken.</i> 184 00:09:34,874 --> 00:09:37,975 What I find reading Darwin's own accounts 185 00:09:38,044 --> 00:09:41,645 {\an8}is his excitement, his delight, 186 00:09:41,714 --> 00:09:44,215 {\an8}his love in the natural world. 187 00:09:44,284 --> 00:09:46,984 <i>He was in a kind of paradise.</i> 188 00:09:49,121 --> 00:09:52,857 <i>Among the scenes which have deeply impressed on my mind,</i> 189 00:09:52,926 --> 00:09:55,326 <i>none exceeded in sublimity</i> 190 00:09:55,395 --> 00:09:59,596 <i>the primeval forests un-defaced by the hand of man,</i> 191 00:09:59,665 --> 00:10:04,067 <i>temples filled with the varied productions of the God of nature.</i> 192 00:10:04,136 --> 00:10:07,905 <i>No one can stand in these solitudes unmoved</i> 193 00:10:07,974 --> 00:10:10,240 <i>and not feel there is more to man</i> 194 00:10:10,309 --> 00:10:12,546 <i>than the mere breath of his body.</i> 195 00:10:14,247 --> 00:10:16,747 In this voyage, which was nearly five years, 196 00:10:16,816 --> 00:10:20,218 the longest stretch of time Darwin spent onboard 197 00:10:20,287 --> 00:10:22,253 was, I think, 48 days. 198 00:10:22,322 --> 00:10:25,089 And he never wasted an opportunity. 199 00:10:25,158 --> 00:10:26,924 As soon as the ship came into port, 200 00:10:26,993 --> 00:10:29,092 he'd buy a horse, rent a horse, 201 00:10:29,161 --> 00:10:31,261 sometimes with companions, sometimes on his own, 202 00:10:31,330 --> 00:10:34,064 and go up high into the foothills of the Andes 203 00:10:34,133 --> 00:10:38,102 <i>or around the coast looking at coastal formations,</i> 204 00:10:38,171 --> 00:10:39,403 <i>into deserts...</i> 205 00:10:39,472 --> 00:10:43,007 <i>all the time, describing, describing, describing,</i> 206 00:10:43,076 --> 00:10:44,809 <i>noting it down.</i> 207 00:10:44,878 --> 00:10:47,979 He regarded it as his duty to do this. 208 00:10:48,048 --> 00:10:49,780 This was why he was there, 209 00:10:49,849 --> 00:10:52,516 and he wasn't going to waste an hour of his time 210 00:10:52,585 --> 00:10:54,151 idling around. 211 00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:56,820 He must go and explore that rock face 212 00:10:56,889 --> 00:10:58,321 and see what he could find there. 213 00:10:58,390 --> 00:11:02,493 Darwin wasn't just interested in the crust of the earth 214 00:11:02,562 --> 00:11:05,028 and the formation of its features, 215 00:11:05,097 --> 00:11:08,398 he was interested in the remains of life 216 00:11:08,467 --> 00:11:11,034 within that crust... extinct animals. 217 00:11:11,103 --> 00:11:12,937 <i>Every new landscape that he saw,</i> 218 00:11:13,006 --> 00:11:14,572 <i>every new bit of scenery,</i> 219 00:11:14,641 --> 00:11:17,942 <i>every new diversity of species group</i> 220 00:11:18,011 --> 00:11:20,310 <i>gave him more and more evidence that,</i> 221 00:11:20,379 --> 00:11:24,348 no, this didn't happen in one great snap of creation. 222 00:11:24,417 --> 00:11:27,051 <i>These extraordinary mountains and lakes</i> 223 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:30,387 <i>and coastal landscapes had all shifted imperceptibly</i> 224 00:11:30,456 --> 00:11:32,626 <i>over millions and millions of years.</i> 225 00:11:33,959 --> 00:11:35,892 <i>But while all this was happening,</i> 226 00:11:35,961 --> 00:11:40,134 <i>Darwin was experiencing profound changes within himself.</i> 227 00:11:42,368 --> 00:11:47,337 Darwin had left the comforts of his upper-class English existence, 228 00:11:47,406 --> 00:11:49,340 and for the first time in his life, 229 00:11:49,409 --> 00:11:53,511 he was faced with extraordinary violence and cruelty. 230 00:11:53,580 --> 00:11:56,146 <i>When he was in Chile,</i> 231 00:11:56,215 --> 00:11:58,682 <i>there was a major earthquake,</i> 232 00:11:58,751 --> 00:12:03,791 <i>and his whole comprehension of the world changed.</i> 233 00:12:05,124 --> 00:12:06,724 The solid earth, 234 00:12:06,793 --> 00:12:08,626 our foundation of our life, 235 00:12:08,695 --> 00:12:10,894 is shattering. 236 00:12:10,963 --> 00:12:15,399 And as he later discovers a day or so later in Concepción, 237 00:12:15,468 --> 00:12:17,667 <i>there's been huge suffering.</i> 238 00:12:17,736 --> 00:12:20,671 <i>The cathedral at Concepción has collapsed,</i> 239 00:12:20,740 --> 00:12:25,009 <i>burying in its rubble many devout worshippers.</i> 240 00:12:25,078 --> 00:12:26,810 He must have began to think, 241 00:12:26,879 --> 00:12:29,146 "There's something arbitrary here. 242 00:12:29,215 --> 00:12:32,917 This is not a... a... a loving God." 243 00:12:35,187 --> 00:12:38,356 <i>Probably the most shattering episode during the voyage</i> 244 00:12:38,425 --> 00:12:42,459 <i>was his encounter with slavery.</i> 245 00:12:42,528 --> 00:12:46,864 He had read all about slavery... Darwin had... 246 00:12:46,933 --> 00:12:49,633 and then on the Beagle voyage, 247 00:12:49,702 --> 00:12:53,137 <i>he set foot in Brazil and he saw it</i> 248 00:12:53,206 --> 00:12:55,206 <i>in the raw, torn flesh.</i> 249 00:12:55,275 --> 00:12:58,642 <i>He encountered instruments of torture.</i> 250 00:12:58,710 --> 00:13:02,479 <i>He saw grown men cowering in fear.</i> 251 00:13:02,548 --> 00:13:05,783 He saw children abused by their masters. 252 00:13:05,852 --> 00:13:09,153 <i>He was profoundly affected</i> 253 00:13:09,222 --> 00:13:12,456 <i>by what some humans</i> 254 00:13:12,525 --> 00:13:14,592 <i>were capable of doing to other humans</i> 255 00:13:14,661 --> 00:13:17,594 whom they regarded as animals. 256 00:13:17,663 --> 00:13:20,230 <i>It makes one's blood boil,</i> 257 00:13:20,299 --> 00:13:23,333 <i>yet heart tremble, to think that we Englishmen</i> 258 00:13:23,402 --> 00:13:27,237 <i>and our American descendants, with their boastful cry of liberty,</i> 259 00:13:27,306 --> 00:13:30,708 <i>have been and are so guilty.</i> 260 00:13:35,480 --> 00:13:39,420 <i>Darwin's empathy was for all suffering creatures.</i> 261 00:13:40,887 --> 00:13:42,520 <i>I cannot see,</i> 262 00:13:42,589 --> 00:13:44,121 <i>as plainly as others do,</i> 263 00:13:44,190 --> 00:13:46,356 <i>and as I should wish to do,</i> 264 00:13:46,425 --> 00:13:48,959 <i>evidence of design and beneficence</i> 265 00:13:49,028 --> 00:13:50,861 <i>on all sides of us.</i> 266 00:13:50,930 --> 00:13:53,834 <i>There seems to be too much misery in the world.</i> 267 00:13:56,202 --> 00:13:58,036 <i>I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent</i> 268 00:13:58,105 --> 00:13:59,769 <i>and omnipotent God</i> 269 00:13:59,838 --> 00:14:03,407 <i>would have designedly created the ichneumonidae</i> 270 00:14:03,476 --> 00:14:05,742 <i>with the express intention of their feeding within</i> 271 00:14:05,811 --> 00:14:09,580 <i>the living bodies of caterpillars</i> 272 00:14:09,648 --> 00:14:12,016 <i>or that a cat should play with mice...</i> 273 00:14:18,058 --> 00:14:20,391 {\an8}Now if his professors had told him 274 00:14:20,459 --> 00:14:22,560 {\an8}that this world is not the way it used to be, 275 00:14:22,629 --> 00:14:23,961 {\an8}that it changed because of sin, 276 00:14:24,030 --> 00:14:26,197 maybe if he had been taught the truth 277 00:14:26,266 --> 00:14:28,665 about the history in Genesis, he would have responded 278 00:14:28,734 --> 00:14:31,035 differently to the death and suffering issue. 279 00:14:31,104 --> 00:14:34,738 {\an8}We are bearing the brunt of Adam's sin, 280 00:14:34,807 --> 00:14:39,010 {\an8}and it's very difficult. 281 00:14:39,079 --> 00:14:41,779 And the Lord tells us to love each other 282 00:14:41,848 --> 00:14:43,314 and bear each other's burdens, 283 00:14:43,383 --> 00:14:45,983 and that's what we try to do at Haven of Rest. 284 00:14:46,052 --> 00:14:50,121 God cares for us. 285 00:14:50,190 --> 00:14:52,156 Give your cares. 286 00:14:52,225 --> 00:14:55,696 Let God deal with those cares. 287 00:14:57,030 --> 00:14:59,230 Jesus says, "I am the resurrection and life. 288 00:14:59,299 --> 00:15:01,098 He who believes in me, 289 00:15:01,167 --> 00:15:05,470 yet though he die, he shall live." 290 00:15:05,539 --> 00:15:06,874 Do you believe that? 291 00:15:08,608 --> 00:15:10,941 He will save you. 292 00:15:12,511 --> 00:15:15,513 <i>We have about 170 people</i> 293 00:15:15,582 --> 00:15:17,080 <i>come in here for dinner.</i> 294 00:15:17,149 --> 00:15:21,986 <i>A large percentage of those ask for shelter as well.</i> 295 00:15:22,055 --> 00:15:26,924 <i>Those are the ones that are truly homeless.</i> 296 00:15:26,993 --> 00:15:30,260 So many of them have been through sexual abuse, 297 00:15:30,329 --> 00:15:34,832 neglect, um, have turned to alcohol and drugs 298 00:15:34,901 --> 00:15:37,468 for who knows what reason. 299 00:15:37,537 --> 00:15:40,605 <i>Some of them have even shared with us</i> 300 00:15:40,674 --> 00:15:43,941 <i>that this is a last resort.</i> 301 00:15:44,010 --> 00:15:46,944 <i>A lot of people ask "How a loving God</i> 302 00:15:47,013 --> 00:15:50,081 <i>can allow so many evil</i> 303 00:15:50,150 --> 00:15:53,150 <i>and painful things to happen?"</i> 304 00:15:53,219 --> 00:15:56,687 I don't believe there is any clear-cut answer, 305 00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:59,824 because we don't understand the mind of God, for one thing. 306 00:15:59,892 --> 00:16:03,728 <i>However, the Lord does not do things</i> 307 00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:05,563 <i>without a purpose.</i> 308 00:16:05,632 --> 00:16:08,532 <i>Some of the trials we go through</i> 309 00:16:08,601 --> 00:16:11,505 <i>will strengthen us and give us wisdom.</i> 310 00:16:13,973 --> 00:16:16,373 <i>We don't usually learn strength and wisdom</i> 311 00:16:16,442 --> 00:16:18,475 <i>and faith through having it easy.</i> 312 00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:22,446 <i>We learn the most through trials.</i> 313 00:16:22,514 --> 00:16:25,883 <i>But also, we live in a fallen world.</i> 314 00:16:25,952 --> 00:16:27,784 <i>Back in Genesis,</i> 315 00:16:27,853 --> 00:16:31,422 <i>it talks about how it didn't start out that way.</i> 316 00:16:31,490 --> 00:16:35,126 But because of the decision that man made, 317 00:16:35,195 --> 00:16:38,228 because the Angel of Light, 318 00:16:38,297 --> 00:16:40,898 Lucifer, was there and tempted him, 319 00:16:40,967 --> 00:16:42,733 we live in a fallen world now, 320 00:16:42,802 --> 00:16:45,236 and so these awful things do happen. 321 00:16:57,717 --> 00:16:58,717 <i>All the death</i> 322 00:16:58,752 --> 00:16:59,950 <i>and the suffering we see here</i> 323 00:17:00,019 --> 00:17:02,419 <i>isn't the result of a Creator God.</i> 324 00:17:02,488 --> 00:17:05,589 <i>It's sin that's the cause of what we see here.</i> 325 00:17:05,658 --> 00:17:07,458 So the whole point of this room 326 00:17:07,527 --> 00:17:09,661 is to get across to Christians and non-Christians 327 00:17:09,730 --> 00:17:11,095 it's not God's fault 328 00:17:11,164 --> 00:17:13,130 there's death and suffering in the world, 329 00:17:13,199 --> 00:17:15,599 it's our fault because we sinned in Adam. 330 00:17:17,002 --> 00:17:19,069 <i>After all that he had experienced,</i> 331 00:17:19,138 --> 00:17:21,538 <i>Darwin could no longer accept the simple,</i> 332 00:17:21,607 --> 00:17:25,109 <i>biblical explanation for cruelty and suffering.</i> 333 00:17:25,178 --> 00:17:29,012 <i>But by now, something else was taking shape in his mind,</i> 334 00:17:29,081 --> 00:17:31,649 <i>something much more dangerous.</i> 335 00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:34,385 <i>In September 1835,</i> 336 00:17:34,454 --> 00:17:37,087 <i>four years after leaving England,</i> 337 00:17:37,156 --> 00:17:40,658 <i>the Beagle dropped anchor off some little-known islands...</i> 338 00:17:40,727 --> 00:17:43,030 <i>the Galapagos.</i> ♪ ♪ 339 00:17:49,735 --> 00:17:50,801 <i>Here we seem to be brought</i> 340 00:17:50,870 --> 00:17:53,337 <i>somewhere near to that great fact,</i> 341 00:17:53,406 --> 00:17:54,905 <i>the mystery of mysteries,</i> 342 00:17:54,974 --> 00:17:59,280 <i>the first appearance of new beings on this earth.</i> 343 00:18:00,446 --> 00:18:02,245 <i>What Darwin noticed most of all</i> 344 00:18:02,314 --> 00:18:03,993 <i>was that the animals and plants on the Galapagos</i> 345 00:18:04,017 --> 00:18:06,783 {\an8}were rather like the animals and plants 346 00:18:06,852 --> 00:18:08,919 {\an8}on the mainland of South America, 347 00:18:08,988 --> 00:18:10,858 {\an8}but they were slightly different from them. 348 00:18:13,126 --> 00:18:14,557 <i>Now if it was just being on islands</i> 349 00:18:14,626 --> 00:18:17,394 <i>that made them different, Cape Verdes and Galapagos</i> 350 00:18:17,463 --> 00:18:19,263 <i>should have looked the same, but they didn't.</i> 351 00:18:19,332 --> 00:18:22,000 <i>They looked more like their neighbors.</i> 352 00:18:22,069 --> 00:18:23,534 <i>Why was that?</i> 353 00:18:23,603 --> 00:18:25,836 <i>Darwin realized that what must have happened</i> 354 00:18:25,905 --> 00:18:28,072 <i>is that a small sample of creatures,</i> 355 00:18:28,141 --> 00:18:30,073 <i>including many birds and the like,</i> 356 00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:33,978 <i>reached these new conditions and changed slowly over time.</i> 357 00:18:34,047 --> 00:18:36,247 In other words, they'd evolved. 358 00:18:36,316 --> 00:18:39,153 At that time, he had no idea how or why. 359 00:18:45,357 --> 00:18:48,092 {\an8}As he catalogued his species on the journey home, 360 00:18:48,161 --> 00:18:51,262 <i>he scribbled the first tentative notes</i> 361 00:18:51,331 --> 00:18:53,534 <i>on the possibility of evolution.</i> 362 00:18:56,002 --> 00:18:59,335 <i>If there's the slightest foundation for these remarks,</i> 363 00:18:59,404 --> 00:19:03,173 <i>the zoology of the archipelagos would be well worth examining,</i> 364 00:19:03,242 --> 00:19:06,380 <i>for such facts would undermine the stability of the species.</i> 365 00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:12,317 <i>Evolution was a dangerous idea.</i> 366 00:19:12,386 --> 00:19:14,552 {\an8}And only bad people, 367 00:19:14,621 --> 00:19:19,490 {\an8}such as French atheists, materialists, free thinkers, 368 00:19:19,559 --> 00:19:22,192 would dare to speculate 369 00:19:22,261 --> 00:19:26,901 that species had naturally arisen in the course of time. 370 00:19:28,634 --> 00:19:31,702 <i>He knew that he had to confine his thoughts</i> 371 00:19:31,771 --> 00:19:33,707 <i>to private notebooks.</i> 372 00:19:36,442 --> 00:19:38,442 <i>And it would take seven years</i> 373 00:19:38,511 --> 00:19:40,444 <i>of intensive research</i> 374 00:19:40,513 --> 00:19:43,914 <i>before he felt ready to write to a trusted friend.</i> 375 00:19:43,983 --> 00:19:47,818 <i>At last, gleams of light have come,</i> 376 00:19:47,887 --> 00:19:49,320 <i>and I'm almost convinced...</i> 377 00:19:49,389 --> 00:19:52,056 <i>quite contrary to the opinion I started with...</i> 378 00:19:52,125 --> 00:19:55,359 <i>that species are not immutable.</i> 379 00:19:55,428 --> 00:19:57,698 <i>It is like confessing a murder.</i> 380 00:19:59,598 --> 00:20:01,932 <i>What he has done is worse than murder.</i> 381 00:20:02,001 --> 00:20:04,101 <i>I am saddened for Charles Darwin.</i> 382 00:20:04,170 --> 00:20:06,436 {\an8}Being led astray from the real truth 383 00:20:06,505 --> 00:20:09,673 {\an8}and leading so many others astray with his philosophies 384 00:20:09,742 --> 00:20:11,341 and doctrines and theology. 385 00:20:11,410 --> 00:20:14,511 {\an8}I think one of the saddest byproducts, if you will, 386 00:20:14,580 --> 00:20:18,716 {\an8}of the theory of evolution is that it reduces our status 387 00:20:18,785 --> 00:20:21,251 as human beings to that of an animal. 388 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:24,488 We did not evolve out of something that is less important. 389 00:20:24,557 --> 00:20:28,192 God created man on the sixth day, 390 00:20:28,261 --> 00:20:30,961 created us separately, created us distinctly. 391 00:20:35,902 --> 00:20:38,169 ♪ I go where God ♪ 392 00:20:38,238 --> 00:20:40,404 ♪ And glory shines ♪ 393 00:20:40,473 --> 00:20:46,143 ♪ To one eternal day ♪ 394 00:20:46,212 --> 00:20:49,013 ♪ This failing body ♪ 395 00:20:49,082 --> 00:20:51,615 ♪ I now resign ♪ 396 00:20:51,684 --> 00:20:56,420 ♪ For the angels point my way ♪ 397 00:20:56,489 --> 00:21:01,391 ♪ For the angels point my way... ♪ 398 00:21:01,460 --> 00:21:04,061 <i>Man may be excused to feeling some pride</i> 399 00:21:04,130 --> 00:21:07,798 <i>at having risen, though not through his own exertions,</i> 400 00:21:07,867 --> 00:21:10,434 <i>to the very summit of the organic scale.</i> 401 00:21:10,503 --> 00:21:13,670 <i>And the fact of his having thus risen</i> 402 00:21:13,739 --> 00:21:15,640 <i>may give him hopes for a still higher destiny</i> 403 00:21:15,709 --> 00:21:18,776 <i>in the distant future.</i> 404 00:21:18,845 --> 00:21:23,346 ♪ Where feet nor wings could climb... ♪ 405 00:21:23,415 --> 00:21:25,916 <i>The Bible says we're created a little lower than angels,</i> 406 00:21:25,985 --> 00:21:30,253 <i>which is much more noble and majestic</i> 407 00:21:30,322 --> 00:21:32,456 <i>than the explanation that evolution gives</i> 408 00:21:32,525 --> 00:21:34,692 <i>for who we are and what we are.</i> 409 00:21:34,761 --> 00:21:37,495 ♪ Well, I go where God ♪ 410 00:21:37,564 --> 00:21:40,231 ♪ And glory shine ♪ 411 00:21:40,300 --> 00:21:45,636 ♪ To one eternal day... ♪ 412 00:21:45,705 --> 00:21:48,872 <i>We can create songs, we can write books.</i> 413 00:21:48,941 --> 00:21:51,308 <i>We can do these things to the glory of God.</i> 414 00:21:51,377 --> 00:21:55,112 <i>The Bible even says the angels can't have the same relationship</i> 415 00:21:55,181 --> 00:21:56,580 <i>that we can have with God.</i> 416 00:21:56,649 --> 00:22:01,719 ♪ I go where God and glory shine... ♪ 417 00:22:01,788 --> 00:22:03,020 <i>I do not believe that we are</i> 418 00:22:03,089 --> 00:22:07,224 <i>some sort of a highly-evolved primate.</i> 419 00:22:07,293 --> 00:22:10,194 <i>I don't know how someone could observe humans</i> 420 00:22:10,263 --> 00:22:12,596 <i>and miss the dignity</i> 421 00:22:12,665 --> 00:22:14,869 <i>that's put there by God alone.</i> 422 00:22:17,837 --> 00:22:22,406 ♪ For the angels point my way... ♪ 423 00:22:22,475 --> 00:22:25,909 <i>Man in his arrogance thinks himself a great work,</i> 424 00:22:25,978 --> 00:22:29,280 <i>worthy of the interposition of a deity.</i> 425 00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:31,949 <i>More humble, and I believe truer,</i> 426 00:22:32,018 --> 00:22:35,222 <i>to consider him created from animals.</i> 427 00:22:47,866 --> 00:22:49,967 <i>The main conclusion that man is descended</i> 428 00:22:50,036 --> 00:22:52,469 <i>from some lowly organized form will,</i> 429 00:22:52,538 --> 00:22:56,377 <i>I regret, be highly distasteful to many.</i> 430 00:22:59,111 --> 00:23:01,646 <i>It has been asserted that man alone is capable of</i> 431 00:23:01,715 --> 00:23:03,547 <i>progressive improvement,</i> 432 00:23:03,616 --> 00:23:05,917 <i>that he alone makes use of tools,</i> 433 00:23:05,986 --> 00:23:07,266 <i>that no animal employs language,</i> 434 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:10,387 <i>has a sense of beauty,</i> 435 00:23:10,456 --> 00:23:12,656 <i>the feeling of gratitude.</i> 436 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:16,827 <i>But they are endowed with well-marked social instincts,</i> 437 00:23:16,896 --> 00:23:19,863 <i>parental and filial affections</i> 438 00:23:19,932 --> 00:23:23,067 <i>and would inevitably acquire a moral sense or conscience,</i> 439 00:23:23,136 --> 00:23:26,203 <i>as soon as intellectual powers had become</i> 440 00:23:26,272 --> 00:23:29,840 <i>nearly as well-developed as in man.</i> 441 00:23:29,909 --> 00:23:33,544 {\an8}To put man down as just an animal, 442 00:23:33,613 --> 00:23:36,146 {\an8}that we're no different than a dog, a horse, 443 00:23:36,215 --> 00:23:39,216 an elephant or a cat or anything else 444 00:23:39,285 --> 00:23:41,352 is totally preposterous. 445 00:23:41,421 --> 00:23:45,156 God made us in his image. 446 00:23:45,225 --> 00:23:49,326 And so to say that man is an animal 447 00:23:49,395 --> 00:23:51,995 and God created man in his own image... 448 00:23:52,064 --> 00:23:54,031 so does one come back and say, "Are you saying... 449 00:23:54,100 --> 00:23:57,071 ♪ ♪...God is nothing more than an animal?" 450 00:23:59,105 --> 00:24:02,239 {\an8}In the seven years that it took Darwin 451 00:24:02,308 --> 00:24:04,608 {\an8}to reach his murderous conclusion, 452 00:24:04,677 --> 00:24:07,110 his life changed completely. 453 00:24:07,179 --> 00:24:11,615 <i>In 1839, he married his cousin Emma Wedgwood.</i> 454 00:24:11,684 --> 00:24:14,118 <i>They had a marriage of 43 years,</i> 455 00:24:14,187 --> 00:24:18,121 <i>of great mutual respect, great tenderness,</i> 456 00:24:18,190 --> 00:24:20,791 and that stayed the same even though Darwin moved 457 00:24:20,860 --> 00:24:24,061 further and further away from Emma's beliefs 458 00:24:24,130 --> 00:24:26,263 and her Christian certainties. 459 00:24:26,332 --> 00:24:30,501 <i>Eventually, they would have 10 children,</i> 460 00:24:30,570 --> 00:24:33,638 <i>seven of whom survived into adulthood.</i> 461 00:24:33,707 --> 00:24:35,806 <i>Two years into their marriage,</i> 462 00:24:35,875 --> 00:24:38,943 <i>Charles and Emma moved here, to Down House,</i> 463 00:24:39,012 --> 00:24:40,844 <i>18 miles from London,</i> 464 00:24:40,913 --> 00:24:43,914 <i>where they would spend the rest of their lives together.</i> 465 00:24:43,983 --> 00:24:47,284 {\an8}Down House was far more important 466 00:24:47,353 --> 00:24:49,653 {\an8}to Darwin as a scientific arena 467 00:24:49,722 --> 00:24:53,257 {\an8}than the Galapagos or even the whole of South America had been. 468 00:24:53,326 --> 00:24:57,894 Because there he could settle down and get to work. 469 00:24:57,963 --> 00:25:02,099 In order to be a great scientist, you have to devote your entire life 470 00:25:02,168 --> 00:25:03,168 to science. 471 00:25:03,235 --> 00:25:05,469 24 hours a day, seven days a week. 472 00:25:07,206 --> 00:25:10,174 <i>And Darwin did that. He worked manically.</i> 473 00:25:10,243 --> 00:25:12,777 It was a constant pulse. 474 00:25:12,846 --> 00:25:16,180 Work hard, collapse, work hard, collapse. 475 00:25:16,249 --> 00:25:19,353 Tick tock through the years. 476 00:25:25,157 --> 00:25:28,659 His house became a menagerie full of not just noisy 477 00:25:28,728 --> 00:25:32,196 <i>growing children, but of growing plants</i> 478 00:25:32,265 --> 00:25:34,665 <i>all over the place and noisy animals...</i> 479 00:25:34,734 --> 00:25:36,367 <i>...dead and alive,</i> 480 00:25:36,436 --> 00:25:38,368 and boxes of things coming in the post 481 00:25:38,437 --> 00:25:41,071 and letters pouring through, into the letter box. 482 00:25:41,140 --> 00:25:45,576 Um, and all being presided over at home by the domestic goddess, 483 00:25:45,645 --> 00:25:47,011 <i>which was Emma...</i> 484 00:25:47,080 --> 00:25:49,779 <i>freeing him to work hard in his study.</i> 485 00:25:49,848 --> 00:25:54,785 She made an environment in which he could work obsessively 486 00:25:54,854 --> 00:25:58,422 on his big project for 20 years and more. 487 00:25:58,491 --> 00:26:02,092 <i>He had greenhouses in which his gardener</i> 488 00:26:02,161 --> 00:26:05,495 <i>was cooperating with him, breeding programs on plants.</i> 489 00:26:05,564 --> 00:26:09,766 <i>He was collecting stuff coming in from all over the world.</i> 490 00:26:09,835 --> 00:26:13,837 He was asking people to send him specimens which he would look at. 491 00:26:13,906 --> 00:26:18,876 <i>His correspondence with other scientists across the world is gigantic.</i> 492 00:26:18,945 --> 00:26:20,544 It's flabbergasting, 493 00:26:20,613 --> 00:26:24,381 {\an8}his letter-writing and the letters he was getting back 494 00:26:24,450 --> 00:26:25,850 {\an8}with people giving him... 495 00:26:25,919 --> 00:26:28,552 he's writing to Muller in Brazil, 496 00:26:28,621 --> 00:26:31,956 <i>"Can you give me evidence on these crabs,</i> 497 00:26:32,025 --> 00:26:34,158 <i>which I believe exist on your shore?"</i> 498 00:26:34,227 --> 00:26:35,892 It's extraordinary. 499 00:26:35,961 --> 00:26:38,095 And he's collecting all this together, 500 00:26:38,164 --> 00:26:42,466 well aware that he will be attacked by religious people 501 00:26:42,535 --> 00:26:46,403 and by other scientists who think that this is fanciful. 502 00:26:46,472 --> 00:26:49,739 <i>I determine to collect every sort of fact</i> 503 00:26:49,808 --> 00:26:53,410 <i>that could bear in any way on what are species...</i> 504 00:26:53,479 --> 00:26:56,480 <i>and have never ceased collecting facts.</i> 505 00:26:56,549 --> 00:26:58,383 <i>When he was working he was not doing</i> 506 00:26:58,452 --> 00:26:59,550 just one thing at a time. 507 00:26:59,619 --> 00:27:01,151 He was doing his species. 508 00:27:01,220 --> 00:27:03,955 He was dissecting all the barnacles in the world. 509 00:27:04,024 --> 00:27:05,822 <i>He was keeping animal carcasses.</i> 510 00:27:05,891 --> 00:27:08,760 <i>He was doing experiments with flowers in the kitchen garden.</i> 511 00:27:08,829 --> 00:27:10,628 <i>He was raising pigeons.</i> 512 00:27:10,697 --> 00:27:12,800 <i>And on and on it went.</i> 513 00:27:16,169 --> 00:27:19,704 <i>He decided to make a collection</i> 514 00:27:19,773 --> 00:27:22,740 <i>of fancy pigeons because they showed</i> 515 00:27:22,809 --> 00:27:25,643 <i>the most extraordinary varieties created,</i> 516 00:27:25,712 --> 00:27:29,016 <i>just in a few generations.</i> 517 00:27:33,086 --> 00:27:35,353 <i>He then compared them</i> 518 00:27:35,422 --> 00:27:36,654 and crossbred them, 519 00:27:36,723 --> 00:27:39,556 {\an8}and all to explore 520 00:27:39,625 --> 00:27:43,427 {\an8}how man can change organisms 521 00:27:43,496 --> 00:27:46,433 <i>by selective breeding.</i> 522 00:27:49,101 --> 00:27:52,403 <i>If feeble man can achieve all these variations</i> 523 00:27:52,472 --> 00:27:56,574 <i>in so short a time by artificial selection,</i> 524 00:27:56,643 --> 00:27:58,943 <i>I can see no limit to the amount of change,</i> 525 00:27:59,012 --> 00:28:01,478 <i>to the beauty and infinite complexity</i> 526 00:28:01,547 --> 00:28:05,149 <i>which may be affected in the long course of time</i> 527 00:28:05,218 --> 00:28:07,421 <i>by nature's power of selection.</i> 528 00:28:09,222 --> 00:28:11,188 He needed to gather the evidence, 529 00:28:11,257 --> 00:28:15,125 think through everything and work it up into a theory 530 00:28:15,194 --> 00:28:19,729 that he could present for serious attention by fellow scientists. 531 00:28:19,798 --> 00:28:24,667 <i>I have steadily endeavored to keep my mind free,</i> 532 00:28:24,736 --> 00:28:28,939 <i>so as to give up any hypothesis, however much beloved,</i> 533 00:28:29,008 --> 00:28:32,713 <i>as soon as the facts are shown to be opposed to it.</i> 534 00:28:34,180 --> 00:28:36,614 <i>I feel within me...</i> 535 00:28:36,683 --> 00:28:39,450 <i>an instinct for truth.</i> 536 00:28:39,519 --> 00:28:40,717 There is only one truth, 537 00:28:40,786 --> 00:28:44,188 and truth is not an assimilation of information. 538 00:28:44,257 --> 00:28:46,757 But there is one truth, and that's found in the Bible. 539 00:28:46,826 --> 00:28:49,060 Jesus said, "I am the way, the truth and the life. 540 00:28:49,129 --> 00:28:52,030 No man cometh to the Father but by me." 541 00:28:52,099 --> 00:28:55,132 {\an8}If all we are is a product 542 00:28:55,201 --> 00:28:58,469 {\an8}of this random mutation process, 543 00:28:58,538 --> 00:29:01,372 then where does morality come from, 544 00:29:01,441 --> 00:29:02,506 where does hope come from, 545 00:29:02,575 --> 00:29:04,341 where does love come from, 546 00:29:04,410 --> 00:29:06,744 where does anything that makes us a human being 547 00:29:06,813 --> 00:29:07,912 really come from? 548 00:29:07,981 --> 00:29:11,181 I think Darwin was the first to understand 549 00:29:11,250 --> 00:29:13,350 where his ideas were leading him. 550 00:29:13,419 --> 00:29:18,021 He had no illusions about how dangerous this work was 551 00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:20,694 or what conclusions it might lead to. 552 00:29:22,895 --> 00:29:26,864 <i>Once grant that species may pass into each other...</i> 553 00:29:26,933 --> 00:29:29,837 <i>and the whole fabric totters and falls.</i> 554 00:29:31,337 --> 00:29:34,305 <i>We allow planets, suns, whole systems of the universe</i> 555 00:29:34,374 --> 00:29:36,373 <i>to be governed by laws,</i> 556 00:29:36,442 --> 00:29:40,010 <i>but the smallest insect we wish to be created at once</i> 557 00:29:40,079 --> 00:29:44,548 <i>by a special act with its instincts in place.</i> 558 00:29:44,617 --> 00:29:47,785 Darwin says, "No, we do not believe 559 00:29:47,854 --> 00:29:49,920 that God individually causes 560 00:29:49,989 --> 00:29:51,821 the planets to go in orbits, 561 00:29:51,890 --> 00:29:56,159 we should not believe that he individually creates animals and plants." 562 00:29:56,228 --> 00:30:00,230 These things take place by laws, ordained to govern the creation. 563 00:30:00,299 --> 00:30:04,435 <i>An innocent and good man stands under a tree</i> 564 00:30:04,504 --> 00:30:06,937 <i>and is killed by a flash of lighting.</i> 565 00:30:07,006 --> 00:30:10,441 <i>Do you believe that God designedly killed this man?</i> 566 00:30:10,510 --> 00:30:13,211 <i>Or when a swallow snaps up a gnat...</i> 567 00:30:13,280 --> 00:30:16,214 <i>that God designed that?</i> 568 00:30:16,283 --> 00:30:18,648 <i>I can't and don't.</i> 569 00:30:18,717 --> 00:30:22,921 {\an8}Darwin's view is that God isn't really needed in the here and now. 570 00:30:22,990 --> 00:30:24,154 {\an8}He may exist. 571 00:30:24,223 --> 00:30:26,757 He may well have designed and ordered creation, 572 00:30:26,826 --> 00:30:29,396 but he basically lets it go on its way. 573 00:30:34,834 --> 00:30:37,435 What that does, it puts God so remote... 574 00:30:37,504 --> 00:30:41,505 {\an8}that we can safely ignore him. 575 00:30:41,574 --> 00:30:43,407 He's way back at the Big Bang, 576 00:30:43,476 --> 00:30:46,710 and he really hasn't done much since. 577 00:30:46,779 --> 00:30:50,247 And here's another issue we need to think about... 578 00:30:50,316 --> 00:30:53,917 What's more basic to Christianity than prayer? 579 00:30:53,986 --> 00:30:56,787 Prayer is a case where we actually have an opportunity 580 00:30:56,856 --> 00:31:01,492 and are invited to do so by our Father to speak to God. 581 00:31:01,561 --> 00:31:04,895 {\an8}Why bother pursuing a relationship with God 582 00:31:04,964 --> 00:31:07,798 {\an8}if he's closed the door on us 583 00:31:07,867 --> 00:31:10,835 and doesn't care about us anymore? 584 00:31:10,904 --> 00:31:13,237 To think that I had no communication with God 585 00:31:13,306 --> 00:31:14,839 would be so devastating. 586 00:31:14,908 --> 00:31:17,842 I can't even imagine adopting such a view 587 00:31:17,911 --> 00:31:20,611 just to make peace with Darwin. 588 00:31:20,680 --> 00:31:22,413 If that's the way the world works, 589 00:31:22,482 --> 00:31:24,448 if it is just this mechanical thing 590 00:31:24,517 --> 00:31:26,316 that God set spinning in place, 591 00:31:26,385 --> 00:31:29,586 then you believe in a God that doesn't intervene in nature. 592 00:31:29,655 --> 00:31:33,491 That takes away any possibility of miracles, any possibility of answered prayer, 593 00:31:33,560 --> 00:31:35,826 any possibility of the resurrection. 594 00:31:35,895 --> 00:31:39,496 And in reality, you take away the possibility 595 00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:41,966 of Christianity to be true at all. 596 00:31:43,370 --> 00:31:44,935 ♪ I sing... ♪ 597 00:31:46,072 --> 00:31:50,073 ♪ Because I'm happy... ♪ 598 00:31:50,142 --> 00:31:52,776 {\an8}<i>Christ Community Chapel started about 30 years ago,</i> 599 00:31:52,845 --> 00:31:54,945 {\an8}<i>with about 30 people gathering in a living room.</i> 600 00:31:55,014 --> 00:31:58,783 {\an8}<i>And from that, we have grown to five different campuses</i> 601 00:31:58,852 --> 00:32:01,285 <i>that all operate as one church.</i> 602 00:32:01,354 --> 00:32:03,153 <i>We average a weekend attendance</i> 603 00:32:03,222 --> 00:32:06,623 <i>of probably around 4,000 to 4,500 people.</i> 604 00:32:06,692 --> 00:32:10,527 <i>Since the 1990s, the number of megachurches</i> 605 00:32:10,596 --> 00:32:13,931 <i>in the United States has increased fourfold.</i> 606 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,766 <i>We have a lot of outreach going on.</i> 607 00:32:16,835 --> 00:32:20,404 Overseas, I think we are probably involved in 30 different countries. 608 00:32:20,473 --> 00:32:23,341 ♪ Oh, I sing, oh, I sing ♪ 609 00:32:23,410 --> 00:32:24,875 ♪ And I sing... ♪ 610 00:32:24,944 --> 00:32:26,444 <i>In the Middle East, in the Far East,</i> 611 00:32:26,513 --> 00:32:28,613 <i>across the world in South America,</i> 612 00:32:28,682 --> 00:32:31,315 <i>in Africa, here in the States.</i> 613 00:32:31,384 --> 00:32:34,652 The only growing branch of Christianity, I think, 614 00:32:34,721 --> 00:32:37,622 is evangelical biblical Christianity 615 00:32:37,691 --> 00:32:39,890 that is faithful to the scriptures. 616 00:32:49,702 --> 00:32:52,270 ♪ He watches you and me ♪ 617 00:32:52,339 --> 00:32:56,007 ♪ Me... ♪ 618 00:32:56,076 --> 00:32:59,142 ♪ His eye is on the sparrow... ♪ 619 00:32:59,211 --> 00:33:01,178 <i>I think people are longing for truth,</i> 620 00:33:01,247 --> 00:33:03,513 <i>for something that they can sink their teeth into</i> 621 00:33:03,582 --> 00:33:06,383 <i>and that answers the deep questions of their souls.</i> 622 00:33:06,452 --> 00:33:10,822 <i>And that's what biblical Christianity is offering now.</i> 623 00:33:13,026 --> 00:33:15,993 Everybody has to come up with a reason for the world 624 00:33:16,062 --> 00:33:18,662 being in the mess that it's in right now. 625 00:33:18,731 --> 00:33:23,034 That explanation for Christians happens in Genesis... 626 00:33:23,103 --> 00:33:24,134 the flood. 627 00:33:24,203 --> 00:33:26,636 Everything in Genesis plays itself out 628 00:33:26,705 --> 00:33:28,384 throughout the entire rest of the Scripture. 629 00:33:28,408 --> 00:33:31,642 So if you take out or change Genesis to mean something else, 630 00:33:31,711 --> 00:33:36,047 to do something else, you begin to eviscerate, 631 00:33:36,116 --> 00:33:38,582 to gut the Gospel message 632 00:33:38,651 --> 00:33:41,185 and the whole of Christianity. 633 00:33:41,254 --> 00:33:44,288 There is only one being that really 634 00:33:44,357 --> 00:33:46,791 knows you from cover to cover, 635 00:33:46,860 --> 00:33:48,960 knows everything you have ever done 636 00:33:49,029 --> 00:33:52,062 and every motive you have ever had, 637 00:33:52,131 --> 00:33:55,600 and then can deliver a verdict 638 00:33:55,669 --> 00:33:59,971 of whether you are okay or not okay, 639 00:34:00,040 --> 00:34:01,805 and that's God. 640 00:34:01,874 --> 00:34:04,441 {\an8}God knows us intimately well, inside and out, 641 00:34:04,510 --> 00:34:06,910 {\an8}from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet, 642 00:34:06,979 --> 00:34:09,446 the number of hairs on my head. 643 00:34:09,515 --> 00:34:12,749 And that's the privilege of having a relationship with him, 644 00:34:12,818 --> 00:34:16,988 that he is in every aspect, every part of our movement, 645 00:34:17,057 --> 00:34:18,088 day in and day out, 646 00:34:18,157 --> 00:34:20,725 and we have this living relationship with him. 647 00:34:20,794 --> 00:34:22,693 {\an8}I can't imagine life 648 00:34:22,762 --> 00:34:25,829 {\an8}without knowing that God has a plan, 649 00:34:25,898 --> 00:34:30,668 {\an8}and that plan is not just for the here and now, 650 00:34:30,737 --> 00:34:33,904 but that plan includes a hope and a future, 651 00:34:33,973 --> 00:34:37,541 and a future way beyond whatever we'll face here on Earth, 652 00:34:37,610 --> 00:34:40,210 but a future of him in Heaven. 653 00:34:40,279 --> 00:34:45,048 When my boys were 10 and seven and two, 654 00:34:45,117 --> 00:34:48,886 I found out, after having a series of lumps and bumps 655 00:34:48,955 --> 00:34:50,921 in my body that I had ignored, 656 00:34:50,990 --> 00:34:52,957 that I had non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. 657 00:34:53,026 --> 00:34:56,460 And I remember the dread in that doctor's eyes 658 00:34:56,529 --> 00:34:59,731 when he told me that it was stage III 659 00:34:59,800 --> 00:35:01,632 and possibly stage IV. 660 00:35:01,701 --> 00:35:05,135 If I only had a few days to live, 661 00:35:05,204 --> 00:35:07,405 it would be hard. 662 00:35:07,474 --> 00:35:08,673 It would be difficult. 663 00:35:08,742 --> 00:35:09,974 There would be tears, 664 00:35:10,043 --> 00:35:13,544 but I would know, without a shadow of a doubt, 665 00:35:13,613 --> 00:35:15,679 that I have a faithful God 666 00:35:15,748 --> 00:35:19,015 who loves me and had a plan for me. 667 00:35:19,084 --> 00:35:22,987 We even shared with our boys that Mommy could get sicker. 668 00:35:23,056 --> 00:35:27,892 And we tried to help them to know that if I did die, 669 00:35:27,961 --> 00:35:29,827 that God would still be God 670 00:35:29,896 --> 00:35:32,029 and that He would still be faithful. 671 00:35:32,098 --> 00:35:35,299 That was hard, but we did it 672 00:35:35,368 --> 00:35:36,967 in His strength. 673 00:35:37,036 --> 00:35:42,173 {\an8}I was prostituting in every single street here in Akron, ♪ ♪ 674 00:35:42,242 --> 00:35:44,608 {\an8}alleys, abandoned houses, 675 00:35:44,677 --> 00:35:48,779 {\an8}jumping in and out of cars with complete strangers, 676 00:35:48,848 --> 00:35:53,483 doing unthinkable sexual acts for money, 677 00:35:53,552 --> 00:35:57,021 so that I was able to pay for crack. 678 00:35:57,090 --> 00:35:59,823 I smoked away every dream and hope 679 00:35:59,892 --> 00:36:03,728 to a point where I thought that I was just worthless. 680 00:36:03,797 --> 00:36:06,696 {\an8}I started to use marijuana. 681 00:36:06,765 --> 00:36:11,034 {\an8}In Vietnam I started with that, and then I started to use 682 00:36:11,103 --> 00:36:13,503 opiates back when I got home... morphine. 683 00:36:13,572 --> 00:36:15,739 And then that turned into heroin, 684 00:36:15,808 --> 00:36:19,510 and I soon find myself with a habit. 685 00:36:19,579 --> 00:36:23,713 And that habit then became the lord of my life. 686 00:36:23,782 --> 00:36:26,550 And I remember one night being on Broad Street, 687 00:36:26,619 --> 00:36:31,388 and I was screaming out to God to kill me 688 00:36:31,457 --> 00:36:35,429 or save me, but don't let me live like this anymore. 689 00:36:37,964 --> 00:36:40,397 It was a horrible place. 690 00:36:40,466 --> 00:36:43,133 And so, I just very sincerely one night said, 691 00:36:43,202 --> 00:36:46,703 "God, there's got to be more to life than this. 692 00:36:46,772 --> 00:36:50,975 And if you're real, would you make yourself real to me?" 693 00:36:51,044 --> 00:36:55,013 He removed my addiction on the spot. 694 00:36:55,082 --> 00:36:56,913 He healed me. 695 00:36:56,982 --> 00:37:01,319 That's exactly what started bringing me up out of that darkness. 696 00:37:01,388 --> 00:37:04,455 It was the love that he has for me. 697 00:37:04,524 --> 00:37:07,061 It's amazing, and I felt... 698 00:37:08,395 --> 00:37:11,728 I felt like a new creature. 699 00:37:11,797 --> 00:37:15,099 I know he's real. I know he lives within me, 700 00:37:15,168 --> 00:37:19,103 and I know he's the best thing that ever happened to me 701 00:37:19,172 --> 00:37:20,937 and ever happened to this world. 702 00:37:21,006 --> 00:37:24,575 And now it's my privilege to share that and proclaim that 703 00:37:24,644 --> 00:37:26,243 to every man, woman, boy and girl. 704 00:37:26,312 --> 00:37:29,447 There's good news and there's hope. 705 00:37:29,516 --> 00:37:33,251 I would love to encourage Mr. Darwin 706 00:37:33,320 --> 00:37:36,320 and others that feel just like him 707 00:37:36,389 --> 00:37:38,826 to try God. 708 00:37:41,594 --> 00:37:44,161 And see the transformation for themselves. 709 00:37:44,230 --> 00:37:47,832 {\an8}If I were asked what is the primary reason 710 00:37:47,901 --> 00:37:50,801 {\an8}I believe evolution 711 00:37:50,870 --> 00:37:53,904 is incompatible with biblical Christianity, 712 00:37:53,973 --> 00:37:58,976 I could sum it up in one word for you... death. 713 00:37:59,045 --> 00:38:03,113 If you want, add pain, suffering and death. 714 00:38:03,182 --> 00:38:06,450 I know a little about this. I lost my first wife to cancer. 715 00:38:06,519 --> 00:38:09,253 Now my second wife has cancer and so do I. 716 00:38:09,322 --> 00:38:13,858 Whether we're young or old, death is inevitable. 717 00:38:13,927 --> 00:38:16,360 And how do we deal with death? 718 00:38:16,429 --> 00:38:19,462 How does evolution deal with death? 719 00:38:19,531 --> 00:38:22,967 <i>It was a question Darwin would have to face himself</i> 720 00:38:23,036 --> 00:38:24,535 <i>in his early 40s.</i> 721 00:38:24,604 --> 00:38:27,104 <i>He and Emma loved all their children,</i> 722 00:38:27,173 --> 00:38:30,307 <i>but there was one who was specially precious to them,</i> 723 00:38:30,376 --> 00:38:34,145 <i>their eldest daughter Annie.</i> 724 00:38:34,214 --> 00:38:36,480 <i>Annie was a delightful child...</i> 725 00:38:36,549 --> 00:38:39,416 <i>pliable, amenable, loving.</i> 726 00:38:39,485 --> 00:38:43,220 She loved to touch her parents, to be caressed, to be held, 727 00:38:43,289 --> 00:38:46,890 to plait their hair, to touch their arms. 728 00:38:46,959 --> 00:38:49,530 She was sensitive to their feelings. 729 00:38:51,731 --> 00:38:53,898 <i>Just before her 10th birthday,</i> 730 00:38:53,967 --> 00:38:57,635 <i>Annie fell seriously ill.</i> 731 00:38:57,704 --> 00:39:00,304 <i>Darwin took her to the spa town of Malvern,</i> 732 00:39:00,373 --> 00:39:03,140 <i>and the doctor he credited with saving his own life</i> 733 00:39:03,209 --> 00:39:06,447 <i>when he was in a critical condition two years earlier.</i> 734 00:39:08,914 --> 00:39:12,248 <i>He left her there in the care of Dr. Gully,</i> 735 00:39:12,317 --> 00:39:17,187 <i>and hurried back to Emma, who was heavily pregnant with their eighth child</i> 736 00:39:17,256 --> 00:39:20,457 <i>and in no condition to take the 150-mile journey</i> 737 00:39:20,526 --> 00:39:23,393 <i>from Down House to Malvern.</i> 738 00:39:23,462 --> 00:39:26,663 <i>Two weeks later, Darwin was summoned back</i> 739 00:39:26,732 --> 00:39:29,966 <i>to face an agonizing crisis.</i> 740 00:39:30,035 --> 00:39:32,402 <i>It is now from hour to hour,</i> 741 00:39:32,471 --> 00:39:35,006 <i>a struggle between life and death.</i> 742 00:39:35,075 --> 00:39:36,841 <i>Oh, my own,</i> 743 00:39:36,910 --> 00:39:39,276 <i>it is very bitter indeed.</i> 744 00:39:39,345 --> 00:39:43,814 <i>Annie died at Easter, 1851.</i> 745 00:39:43,883 --> 00:39:46,950 This was a watershed, because Darwin no longer 746 00:39:47,019 --> 00:39:49,119 felt it possible afterwards to believe 747 00:39:49,188 --> 00:39:52,990 in a good, loving Christian God. 748 00:39:53,059 --> 00:39:55,225 {\an8}This is, for him, 749 00:39:55,294 --> 00:39:59,964 {\an8}the final nail in his Christian coffin. 750 00:40:00,033 --> 00:40:01,599 Here's the conflict: 751 00:40:01,668 --> 00:40:04,672 God is good... 752 00:40:05,872 --> 00:40:08,639 God is all-powerful, 753 00:40:08,708 --> 00:40:13,611 <i>horrific, catastrophic tragedy takes place.</i> 754 00:40:13,680 --> 00:40:16,383 <i>So how can all of these things be true?</i> 755 00:40:20,018 --> 00:40:24,121 <i>Abby's 17 years old, and she was in an automobile accident,</i> 756 00:40:24,190 --> 00:40:28,759 <i>and has since been unable to regain the use of her legs.</i> 757 00:40:28,828 --> 00:40:32,897 <i>She's not able to breathe on her own or eat.</i> 758 00:40:32,966 --> 00:40:35,632 {\an8}I'm no doctor... 759 00:40:35,701 --> 00:40:40,504 {\an8}but I think God would have to move for Abby to walk again. 760 00:40:40,573 --> 00:40:44,007 "Streams of mercy never ceasing, 761 00:40:44,076 --> 00:40:47,377 call for songs of loudest praise. 762 00:40:47,446 --> 00:40:50,014 Teach me some melodious sonnet 763 00:40:50,083 --> 00:40:52,683 sung by flaming tongues above. 764 00:40:52,752 --> 00:40:56,286 I'll praise the mount I'm fixed upon... 765 00:40:56,355 --> 00:40:59,189 mount of thy redeeming love." 766 00:40:59,258 --> 00:41:02,460 I wish that one of us could sing. 767 00:41:02,529 --> 00:41:03,529 It would have been... 768 00:41:05,164 --> 00:41:07,498 We can all sing, we just can't sing good. 769 00:41:07,567 --> 00:41:08,666 - Yeah, I can't. - I can. 770 00:41:08,735 --> 00:41:10,367 - You can. - Yeah, go ahead. 771 00:41:10,436 --> 00:41:12,803 Abby was singing. She's like, "What are you talking about?" 772 00:41:12,872 --> 00:41:15,372 If we had any music, we could harmonize. 773 00:41:15,441 --> 00:41:16,873 She's singing solo. 774 00:41:16,942 --> 00:41:18,976 <i>We don't make any sense of this.</i> 775 00:41:19,045 --> 00:41:21,144 <i>I don't know how we could.</i> 776 00:41:21,213 --> 00:41:24,881 <i>We couldn't agree that she's done anything to deserve this.</i> 777 00:41:24,950 --> 00:41:26,817 <i>It's a horrible thing we're going through...</i> 778 00:41:26,886 --> 00:41:30,388 {\an8}but there is no way we could do it without God's presence. 779 00:41:30,457 --> 00:41:31,688 {\an8}There is absolutely no way. 780 00:41:31,757 --> 00:41:34,926 <i>We are so weak, but he is strong,</i> 781 00:41:34,995 --> 00:41:38,095 <i>and he is holding us up every day.</i> 782 00:41:38,164 --> 00:41:40,798 <i>We don't understand the timing,</i> 783 00:41:40,867 --> 00:41:44,535 <i>but we do understand his presence.</i> 784 00:41:44,604 --> 00:41:49,340 We know that all things will come to good. 785 00:41:49,409 --> 00:41:50,911 We don't know how. 786 00:41:52,179 --> 00:41:54,211 I can't understand 787 00:41:54,280 --> 00:41:58,282 how this could be for Abby's good. 788 00:41:58,351 --> 00:42:01,618 I trust that somehow it is. 789 00:42:01,687 --> 00:42:05,590 <i>- We have no doubt - God is a good God,</i> 790 00:42:05,659 --> 00:42:06,857 <i>a loving God.</i> 791 00:42:06,926 --> 00:42:09,859 <i>He will never leave us or forsake us.</i> 792 00:42:09,928 --> 00:42:13,798 And he has a plan for her, and I firmly believe he is going to use her life 793 00:42:13,867 --> 00:42:15,198 as a testimony. 794 00:42:15,267 --> 00:42:19,136 There already have been a lot of people touched by her. 795 00:42:19,205 --> 00:42:21,105 <i>Heather, my wife,</i> 796 00:42:21,174 --> 00:42:25,376 <i>said I'm praying and praying and praying for Abby,</i> 797 00:42:25,445 --> 00:42:28,679 and nothing's happening... 798 00:42:28,748 --> 00:42:31,616 And nothing's changing. Why would I pray... 799 00:42:31,685 --> 00:42:33,821 <i>to God?</i> 800 00:42:36,956 --> 00:42:40,424 <i>Who knows? The Lord may choose to be merciful.</i> 801 00:42:40,493 --> 00:42:44,061 <i>He might hear our cry and relent,</i> 802 00:42:44,130 --> 00:42:47,631 <i>but if he doesn't, no matter what happens,</i> 803 00:42:47,700 --> 00:42:52,039 <i>I still believe that God wants the best for his people.</i> 804 00:42:56,809 --> 00:42:58,809 <i>I don't know how people without God</i> 805 00:42:58,878 --> 00:43:00,510 <i>can survive things like this.</i> 806 00:43:00,579 --> 00:43:03,013 I... I don't know how they could. 807 00:43:03,082 --> 00:43:05,249 I couldn't, I couldn't do it. 808 00:43:05,318 --> 00:43:08,218 {\an8}For Darwin there was no such consolation. 809 00:43:08,287 --> 00:43:12,256 {\an8}There was no comfort to be had in a God who would reconcile him 810 00:43:12,325 --> 00:43:15,926 to his daughter in another life, 811 00:43:15,995 --> 00:43:20,998 or in the notion that there was a purpose to her death. 812 00:43:21,067 --> 00:43:23,571 And he was inconsolable. 813 00:43:25,437 --> 00:43:27,738 <i>He tried to avoid the pain of Annie's death</i> 814 00:43:27,807 --> 00:43:29,873 <i>by concentrating on his species theory.</i> 815 00:43:29,942 --> 00:43:33,810 But there was a darkness that started to permeate his writing. 816 00:43:33,879 --> 00:43:36,980 <i>Darwin was not a well man,</i> 817 00:43:37,049 --> 00:43:41,418 <i>ever since he'd begun working on evolution.</i> 818 00:43:41,487 --> 00:43:44,821 Because he knew what a disreputable thing he was doing, 819 00:43:44,890 --> 00:43:47,057 and yet he didn't intend to be disreputable. 820 00:43:47,126 --> 00:43:48,726 He was afraid of being misunderstood. 821 00:43:48,795 --> 00:43:50,161 It tore him apart. 822 00:43:50,230 --> 00:43:52,162 <i>Emma was his protector.</i> 823 00:43:52,231 --> 00:43:56,967 <i>Emma made it possible for him to get on with what he cared most about,</i> 824 00:43:57,036 --> 00:44:01,038 <i>which was this enormous burden, this vision of nature,</i> 825 00:44:01,107 --> 00:44:02,740 <i>this vision of God's creation,</i> 826 00:44:02,809 --> 00:44:07,778 which he was determined to put to the Victorian world 827 00:44:07,847 --> 00:44:09,783 and hope they would accept. 828 00:44:10,984 --> 00:44:12,683 <i>"On the Origin of Species"</i> 829 00:44:12,752 --> 00:44:17,188 <i>was first published on November 24th, 1859.</i> 830 00:44:17,257 --> 00:44:19,656 <i>It's never been out of print since.</i> 831 00:44:19,725 --> 00:44:24,395 People realized that when "The Origin" came out in November 1859, 832 00:44:24,464 --> 00:44:27,598 this was serious, substantial 833 00:44:27,667 --> 00:44:29,000 and something to be reckoned with. 834 00:44:29,069 --> 00:44:30,400 And it sold out instantly. 835 00:44:30,469 --> 00:44:33,070 {\an8}I think the most striking thing about the book, in fact, 836 00:44:33,139 --> 00:44:35,472 {\an8}is that the reaction is much more muted 837 00:44:35,541 --> 00:44:38,943 {\an8}and appreciative than, I think, legend would have it. 838 00:44:39,012 --> 00:44:41,912 This was not an idea that you could ignore, 839 00:44:41,981 --> 00:44:44,414 because Darwin had presented it so well 840 00:44:44,483 --> 00:44:48,385 and with so much evidence, that it demanded a verdict. 841 00:44:48,454 --> 00:44:52,356 And certainly within about five to 10 years, 842 00:44:52,425 --> 00:44:55,626 most educated people in Britain, 843 00:44:55,695 --> 00:44:58,161 including those of a religious persuasion, 844 00:44:58,230 --> 00:45:01,232 and quite often those of an orthodox religious persuasion, 845 00:45:01,301 --> 00:45:04,134 are convinced that species have evolved. 846 00:45:04,203 --> 00:45:06,670 {\an8}In the United States, the book was published 847 00:45:06,739 --> 00:45:09,740 {\an8}on the eve of the great Civil War, 848 00:45:09,809 --> 00:45:12,442 and by the turn of the 20th century, 849 00:45:12,511 --> 00:45:16,779 evolution and its experts were well established in American higher education. 850 00:45:16,848 --> 00:45:19,762 It was one thing when scientists were just debating it among themselves... 851 00:45:19,786 --> 00:45:22,197 {\an8}well, you know, scientists are always theorizing about things... 852 00:45:22,221 --> 00:45:23,521 {\an8}but when it was thrust upon you, 853 00:45:23,590 --> 00:45:24,866 {\an8}when it was taught to school kids 854 00:45:24,890 --> 00:45:27,858 as the cutting edge of science, 855 00:45:27,927 --> 00:45:30,393 that it really became a public flash point. 856 00:45:30,462 --> 00:45:35,199 Evolution came under attack by a distinguished American politician, 857 00:45:35,268 --> 00:45:37,101 <i>named William Jennings Bryan.</i> 858 00:45:37,170 --> 00:45:39,736 <i>He believed evolution was un-American.</i> 859 00:45:39,805 --> 00:45:41,772 <i>He believed it was immoral, it was corrupting</i> 860 00:45:41,841 --> 00:45:45,642 <i>and must not be taught to American school students.</i> 861 00:45:45,711 --> 00:45:49,713 And Bryan's crusade... it was called a crusade... 862 00:45:49,782 --> 00:45:52,717 really reached a climax in the summer of 1925 863 00:45:52,786 --> 00:45:55,185 <i>in a small town of Dayton, Tennessee,</i> 864 00:45:55,254 --> 00:45:58,856 <i>where a local school teacher was put up</i> 865 00:45:58,925 --> 00:46:03,260 <i>to admit that he had taught evolution</i> 866 00:46:03,329 --> 00:46:05,729 in violation of a state statute. 867 00:46:05,798 --> 00:46:09,600 <i>And so it happened... William Jennings Bryan to prosecute</i> 868 00:46:09,669 --> 00:46:11,902 <i>John Thomas Scopes for teaching evolution.</i> 869 00:46:11,971 --> 00:46:14,271 <i>Clarence Darrow, the great defense attorney</i> 870 00:46:14,340 --> 00:46:16,440 <i>for the American Civil Liberties Union,</i> 871 00:46:16,509 --> 00:46:20,244 <i>to defend Scopes from fundamentalism.</i> 872 00:46:20,313 --> 00:46:23,081 So suddenly you had this clash of these two brilliant 873 00:46:23,150 --> 00:46:24,782 and famous orators, 874 00:46:24,851 --> 00:46:26,316 <i>Darrow and Bryan,</i> 875 00:46:26,385 --> 00:46:29,423 <i>and that was when it exploded into this huge media sensation.</i> 876 00:46:33,159 --> 00:46:35,292 <i>The Scopes trial was a circus.</i> 877 00:46:35,361 --> 00:46:38,162 <i>Circus performers came and brought their chimpanzees.</i> 878 00:46:38,231 --> 00:46:40,297 <i>Film crews showed up</i> ♪ ♪ 879 00:46:40,366 --> 00:46:43,567 <i>A radio station had a live outside broadcast</i> 880 00:46:43,636 --> 00:46:45,270 <i>from the courtroom.</i> 881 00:46:45,339 --> 00:46:46,870 <i>And the issue was</i> 882 00:46:46,939 --> 00:46:51,175 <i>whether Bryan and his popular constituency</i> 883 00:46:51,244 --> 00:46:54,515 <i>were to have jurisdiction over professional scientists.</i> 884 00:46:55,848 --> 00:46:58,548 <i>♪ I am inclined to believe... ♪</i> 885 00:46:58,617 --> 00:47:03,353 <i>The jury were mostly illiterate local gentleman.</i> 886 00:47:03,422 --> 00:47:06,723 <i>♪ There's no chimpanzee in my pedigree ♪</i> 887 00:47:06,792 --> 00:47:12,462 <i>♪ And you can't make a monkey of me. ♪</i> 888 00:47:12,531 --> 00:47:15,766 <i>The result of the Scopes trial was that Scopes was convicted,</i> 889 00:47:15,835 --> 00:47:18,202 <i>and he was fined $100.</i> 890 00:47:18,271 --> 00:47:20,871 But the real effect of the Scopes trial 891 00:47:20,940 --> 00:47:23,608 was simply that evolution largely disappeared 892 00:47:23,677 --> 00:47:25,709 from public school science classes. 893 00:47:25,778 --> 00:47:29,947 That's why the anti-evolution sentiment itself largely died down over the next few decades. 894 00:47:31,817 --> 00:47:34,218 <i>If there was a single event that brought Darwin's theory</i> 895 00:47:34,287 --> 00:47:36,686 <i>back into the spotlight,</i> 896 00:47:36,755 --> 00:47:41,495 <i>it was the launch of Sputnik on the fourth of November 1957.</i> 897 00:47:49,669 --> 00:47:52,603 <i>The cultural impact of Sputnik is hard to exaggerate.</i> 898 00:47:52,672 --> 00:47:56,473 At that time, of course, the Cold War was just getting going, 899 00:47:56,542 --> 00:47:58,854 and people were very worried about this in the United States. 900 00:47:58,878 --> 00:48:02,179 "My God, the Russians beat us into space." 901 00:48:02,248 --> 00:48:04,448 And this was considered a serious indictment 902 00:48:04,517 --> 00:48:06,817 <i>of the American educational system.</i> 903 00:48:06,886 --> 00:48:09,319 <i>We were falling behind in science.</i> 904 00:48:09,388 --> 00:48:12,690 There was a renewed interest in science education as a result of this, 905 00:48:12,759 --> 00:48:14,958 and one effect of that renewed interest 906 00:48:15,027 --> 00:48:18,962 was redesigning curricula to be used in high school science classes. 907 00:48:19,031 --> 00:48:22,299 And this involved teaching advanced physics 908 00:48:22,368 --> 00:48:25,669 and it involved teaching evolution as the framework 909 00:48:25,738 --> 00:48:27,071 for understanding life sciences. 910 00:48:27,140 --> 00:48:29,640 When the Russians launched their Sputnik, 911 00:48:29,709 --> 00:48:32,343 {\an8}it was a challenge to the scientific community, 912 00:48:32,412 --> 00:48:33,945 {\an8}to the government of the United States. 913 00:48:34,014 --> 00:48:37,881 <i>There was a panic</i> 914 00:48:37,950 --> 00:48:40,317 <i>in the scientific community of America.</i> 915 00:48:40,386 --> 00:48:43,086 <i>"Hey, we're supposed to be leading edge here.</i> 916 00:48:43,155 --> 00:48:45,990 <i>We gotta to catch up. We gotta get ahead."</i> 917 00:48:46,059 --> 00:48:50,694 <i>Science almost became God in our country.</i> 918 00:48:50,763 --> 00:48:53,097 <i>And so they started shoveling all kinds of money</i> 919 00:48:53,166 --> 00:48:55,970 <i>into scientific endeavors.</i> 920 00:49:02,876 --> 00:49:04,942 But behind that all 921 00:49:05,011 --> 00:49:08,445 was this idea that Darwinism is correct also. 922 00:49:08,514 --> 00:49:12,449 The huge programs to bring biology teaching 923 00:49:12,518 --> 00:49:14,618 into the American school system awoke, 924 00:49:14,687 --> 00:49:16,854 effectively, something of a sleeping tiger. 925 00:49:16,923 --> 00:49:19,823 <i>For the first time in history,</i> 926 00:49:19,892 --> 00:49:23,995 <i>Creationists fought back, using an entirely new tactic.</i> 927 00:49:24,064 --> 00:49:27,298 <i>They would fight science with science...</i> 928 00:49:27,367 --> 00:49:30,401 <i>orthodox science with creation science.</i> 929 00:49:37,409 --> 00:49:39,810 {\an8}<i>The Bible reveals that God created...</i> 930 00:49:39,879 --> 00:49:43,179 {\an8}<i>all the animal and plant kinds in the beginning</i> 931 00:49:43,248 --> 00:49:46,784 {\an8}<i>and we're now learning that God placed a huge amount of information</i> 932 00:49:46,853 --> 00:49:48,685 {\an8}<i>within each created kind,</i> 933 00:49:48,754 --> 00:49:53,791 {\an8}<i>allowing them to diversify into the myriad of plants and animals we see today.</i> 934 00:49:53,860 --> 00:49:55,125 {\an8}<i>This is not evolution.</i> 935 00:49:55,194 --> 00:49:59,230 {\an8}<i>It's creation by an all-knowing, all-powerful,</i> 936 00:49:59,299 --> 00:50:01,435 {\an8}<i>infinitely wise Creator.</i> 937 00:50:10,476 --> 00:50:13,244 {\an8}<i>Further up we see a massive grouping of galaxies</i> 938 00:50:13,313 --> 00:50:15,613 {\an8}<i>called the Virgo Cluster.</i> 939 00:50:15,682 --> 00:50:18,515 {\an8}<i>It contains over 2,000 galaxies,</i> 940 00:50:18,584 --> 00:50:22,353 {\an8}<i>and is 50 million light years away from Earth.</i> 941 00:50:22,422 --> 00:50:24,355 {\an8}<i>Critics of the Bible have suggested</i> 942 00:50:24,424 --> 00:50:27,023 {\an8}<i>that it is impossible for the light from these galaxies</i> 943 00:50:27,092 --> 00:50:30,193 {\an8}<i>to reach Earth in only six thousand years,</i> 944 00:50:30,262 --> 00:50:33,496 {\an8}<i>but in fact, there are several different ways to get light</i> 945 00:50:33,565 --> 00:50:37,367 {\an8}<i>to travel these distances in a short period of time.</i> 946 00:50:37,436 --> 00:50:40,871 {\an8}<i>These include gravitational time dilation,</i> 947 00:50:40,940 --> 00:50:44,645 {\an8}<i>alternate synchrony conventions and others.</i> 948 00:50:51,717 --> 00:50:54,417 {\an8}<i>Many scientists contend that dinosaurs died off</i> 949 00:50:54,486 --> 00:50:56,887 {\an8}<i>over 60 million years before humans came to be.</i> 950 00:50:56,956 --> 00:51:01,959 {\an8}<i>The possibility that humans and dinosaurs ever co-existed</i> 951 00:51:02,028 --> 00:51:03,961 {\an8}<i>is unthinkable to them,</i> 952 00:51:04,030 --> 00:51:06,096 {\an8}<i>but what does the Bible say?</i> 953 00:51:06,165 --> 00:51:11,268 {\an8}The Bible makes it very clear that God created land animals on day six. 954 00:51:11,337 --> 00:51:13,070 Dinosaurs were land animals. 955 00:51:13,139 --> 00:51:15,606 Therefore Adam and Eve and dinosaurs 956 00:51:15,675 --> 00:51:17,341 lived hand in hand. They lived together. 957 00:51:17,410 --> 00:51:21,044 <i>From just reading Genesis you get the idea</i> 958 00:51:21,113 --> 00:51:24,515 <i>of a perfect world... no death, no disease,</i> 959 00:51:24,584 --> 00:51:27,451 <i>animals, man, the dinosaurs</i> 960 00:51:27,520 --> 00:51:29,820 <i>were all vegetarian.</i> 961 00:51:29,889 --> 00:51:32,456 Now, the fossil record... it's a record of death. 962 00:51:32,525 --> 00:51:34,892 <i>It's a record of animals eating each other.</i> 963 00:51:34,961 --> 00:51:36,793 <i>It's a record of disease,</i> 964 00:51:36,862 --> 00:51:41,199 <i>because there are dinosaur bones with brain tumors.</i> 965 00:51:44,604 --> 00:51:47,738 But you can't have dinosaurs with brain tumors 966 00:51:47,807 --> 00:51:51,275 and dinosaurs eating each other until after sin. 967 00:51:51,344 --> 00:51:54,544 {\an8}<i>So if dinosaurs lived alongside humans,</i> 968 00:51:54,613 --> 00:51:58,882 {\an8}<i>and Noah even brought pairs of young dinosaurs with him on the ark,</i> 969 00:51:58,951 --> 00:52:01,519 {\an8}<i>what happened to them? Where did they all go?</i> 970 00:52:01,588 --> 00:52:03,453 {\an8}<i>Well, dragon legends are found</i> 971 00:52:03,522 --> 00:52:06,657 {\an8}<i>in many cultures and traditions all around the world.</i> 972 00:52:06,726 --> 00:52:09,426 {\an8}<i>So it is hardly surprising</i> 973 00:52:09,495 --> 00:52:12,363 {\an8}<i>that the world would be filled with legends of heroes,</i> 974 00:52:12,432 --> 00:52:13,497 {\an8}<i>like St. George,</i> 975 00:52:13,566 --> 00:52:17,671 {\an8}<i>and their encounters with mighty beasts.</i> 976 00:52:22,274 --> 00:52:25,275 {\an8}If the only way you can make your belief persist 977 00:52:25,344 --> 00:52:28,679 {\an8}is to lie to children, which is what Creationists do, 978 00:52:28,748 --> 00:52:30,881 about the age of the earth and things of that nature, 979 00:52:30,950 --> 00:52:33,618 if that's the only way this thing can persist, it's not worth it. 980 00:52:33,687 --> 00:52:35,485 It should disappear. 981 00:52:35,554 --> 00:52:38,055 {\an8}There is so much evidence to show 982 00:52:38,124 --> 00:52:41,825 {\an8}that what Darwin saw in outline to be true 983 00:52:41,894 --> 00:52:45,762 <i>is infinitely true on every single level.</i> 984 00:52:45,831 --> 00:52:49,466 <i>How miraculous it is that this man in the middle of the 19th century</i> 985 00:52:49,535 --> 00:52:51,635 <i>was able to see in broad outline</i> 986 00:52:51,704 --> 00:52:55,139 <i>what we can now see in infinite complexity.</i> 987 00:52:55,208 --> 00:52:57,575 <i>There's been so much advancement in science...</i> 988 00:52:57,644 --> 00:53:01,178 <i>you know, our understanding of DNA, the genome,</i> 989 00:53:01,247 --> 00:53:03,647 <i>our kinship with animals.</i> 990 00:53:03,716 --> 00:53:06,617 If you are going to throw evolution away, 991 00:53:06,686 --> 00:53:09,053 you have to throw all of that away. 992 00:53:09,122 --> 00:53:10,788 {\an8}We have eyes. We have years. 993 00:53:10,857 --> 00:53:13,891 {\an8}We were given those by God, potentially. 994 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:15,859 {\an8}Why would we have been misled? 995 00:53:15,928 --> 00:53:17,627 And not only us as individuals, 996 00:53:17,696 --> 00:53:21,364 but why would hundreds of thousands, millions of people 997 00:53:21,433 --> 00:53:23,967 that have taken these questions very seriously, 998 00:53:24,036 --> 00:53:25,869 why would they all have been misled as well? 999 00:53:25,938 --> 00:53:29,940 {\an8}We're very aware of how much evolution is taught 1000 00:53:30,009 --> 00:53:31,169 {\an8}in the public school setting. 1001 00:53:31,210 --> 00:53:34,378 <i>So, that's why we like to homeschool.</i> 1002 00:53:34,447 --> 00:53:39,183 Can you show me on the timeline where he is? 1003 00:53:39,252 --> 00:53:41,952 He's right here on the timeline. Okay. 1004 00:53:42,021 --> 00:53:45,522 Okay. And what word 1005 00:53:45,591 --> 00:53:48,492 that we use today came from his name? 1006 00:53:48,561 --> 00:53:51,629 In modern English, "martyr" means somebody 1007 00:53:51,698 --> 00:53:54,031 who's killed for the sake of Christ. 1008 00:53:54,100 --> 00:53:57,167 We do need to shield our kids from what's going on in the world, 1009 00:53:57,236 --> 00:53:59,769 and help them to be able to defend their faith. 1010 00:53:59,838 --> 00:54:04,475 Gladiator fights, traumas and there's a slaughtering house 1011 00:54:04,544 --> 00:54:07,411 for Christians who would not deny Jesus. 1012 00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,748 So all of these people were witnessing the slaughter 1013 00:54:10,817 --> 00:54:13,918 of multiple Christians and watching gruesome things, 1014 00:54:13,987 --> 00:54:17,254 such as gladiators fighting each other to the death. 1015 00:54:17,323 --> 00:54:21,091 I'm sure that they will be attacked when they go out into the world 1016 00:54:21,160 --> 00:54:23,460 when they're older and they're in the workforce. 1017 00:54:23,529 --> 00:54:26,330 One of our children is very interested in science. 1018 00:54:26,399 --> 00:54:29,133 Nero was the first emperor 1019 00:54:29,202 --> 00:54:32,836 to start the major persecution 1020 00:54:32,905 --> 00:54:34,104 of the Christians. 1021 00:54:34,173 --> 00:54:38,909 We warn our son that there are going to be 1022 00:54:38,978 --> 00:54:41,512 <i>many people who are not going to agree</i> 1023 00:54:41,581 --> 00:54:45,416 <i>that God created this world in six literal days.</i> 1024 00:54:45,485 --> 00:54:47,817 <i>They're gonna tell him it's a fairy tale.</i> 1025 00:54:47,886 --> 00:54:52,089 He needs to have strong faith and believe God's word 1026 00:54:52,158 --> 00:54:54,024 to be able to defend that later. 1027 00:54:54,093 --> 00:54:58,195 {\an8}It used to be that there was a three-legged stool. 1028 00:54:58,264 --> 00:55:02,965 {\an8}The family taught what the schools taught what the church taught. 1029 00:55:03,034 --> 00:55:07,938 {\an8}Now you have, in our church, you have families and church teaching one thing, 1030 00:55:08,007 --> 00:55:09,807 {\an8}and you have schools teaching another thing. 1031 00:55:09,876 --> 00:55:11,808 {\an8}Often times, when I'm dealing with young people, 1032 00:55:11,877 --> 00:55:14,411 {\an8}especially people who are about to graduate out of high school, 1033 00:55:14,480 --> 00:55:15,812 {\an8}go off to college, 1034 00:55:15,881 --> 00:55:19,583 I tell them that they're going to face 1035 00:55:19,652 --> 00:55:21,985 significant opposition to what they believe, 1036 00:55:22,054 --> 00:55:25,456 as far as their understanding and love for the word of God. 1037 00:55:25,525 --> 00:55:28,159 {\an8}You read headlines and you watch television, 1038 00:55:28,228 --> 00:55:31,162 {\an8}and the overwhelming current 1039 00:55:31,231 --> 00:55:33,197 is belief in evolution. 1040 00:55:33,266 --> 00:55:37,000 Are you threatened by it or do those... 1041 00:55:37,069 --> 00:55:41,137 do those arrows kinda... do they wear you down? 1042 00:55:41,206 --> 00:55:44,775 I absolutely believe that God had a controlling hand 1043 00:55:44,844 --> 00:55:46,844 over my creation and over the creation of the earth 1044 00:55:46,913 --> 00:55:48,778 and creation of all things. 1045 00:55:48,847 --> 00:55:52,316 Um, and there's nothing that the secular world can say to shake that. 1046 00:55:52,385 --> 00:55:55,018 I was raised and I believe that the Bible is fact, 1047 00:55:55,087 --> 00:55:57,288 so if something's gonna collide with it, 1048 00:55:57,357 --> 00:56:00,791 then it's obviously incorrect and false. 1049 00:56:00,860 --> 00:56:05,696 I think sometimes our culture has like a overly-heavy reliance 1050 00:56:05,765 --> 00:56:07,030 on, like, science. 1051 00:56:07,099 --> 00:56:11,002 Christianity is more than science 1052 00:56:11,071 --> 00:56:12,302 and scientific proof. 1053 00:56:12,371 --> 00:56:15,272 Have you guys ever been in a situation where 1054 00:56:15,341 --> 00:56:18,676 you've been articulating your faith, 1055 00:56:18,745 --> 00:56:21,244 and it was met with mockery? 1056 00:56:21,313 --> 00:56:24,481 It should never surprise us that we're mocked or hated by the world. 1057 00:56:24,550 --> 00:56:26,550 I mean, Christ said that this would happen, 1058 00:56:26,619 --> 00:56:27,784 and it's happening, so... 1059 00:56:27,853 --> 00:56:30,921 I have to say and I'm willing to say 1060 00:56:30,990 --> 00:56:33,157 that the first 11 chapters of Genesis 1061 00:56:33,226 --> 00:56:35,492 are true and correct, 1062 00:56:35,561 --> 00:56:37,328 because it's God's word. 1063 00:56:37,397 --> 00:56:38,862 You know... 1064 00:56:38,931 --> 00:56:40,542 ...if one could imagine Darwin sitting down 1065 00:56:40,566 --> 00:56:43,901 in that lovely, sunny garden with those young people, 1066 00:56:43,970 --> 00:56:46,870 I think he would quite quickly engage them in 1067 00:56:46,939 --> 00:56:50,408 a much more interesting series of conversations... 1068 00:56:50,477 --> 00:56:54,344 about the world and about being 1069 00:56:54,413 --> 00:56:57,414 and the nature of creation and evolution and so on, 1070 00:56:57,483 --> 00:56:59,228 which I'm sure they would find absolutely fascinating. 1071 00:56:59,252 --> 00:57:01,385 But he wouldn't be giving them the answers; 1072 00:57:01,454 --> 00:57:03,354 he would be asking them questions. 1073 00:57:06,158 --> 00:57:09,193 <i>Darwin himself never stopped asking questions</i> 1074 00:57:09,262 --> 00:57:12,329 <i>about his science and about God.</i> 1075 00:57:17,670 --> 00:57:21,939 <i>...in the sense of denying the existence of God.</i> 1076 00:57:22,008 --> 00:57:24,545 <i>I feel most deeply that the whole subject is...</i> 1077 00:57:33,085 --> 00:57:35,553 <i>It was the final, humble admission</i> 1078 00:57:35,622 --> 00:57:37,855 <i>from one of the greatest minds of all time.</i> 1079 00:57:40,092 --> 00:57:43,660 <i>On April 26th, 1882,</i> 1080 00:57:43,729 --> 00:57:46,663 <i>thousands gathered here at Westminster Abbey</i> 1081 00:57:46,732 --> 00:57:49,533 <i>for the funeral of Charles Darwin.</i> 1082 00:57:49,602 --> 00:57:52,069 <i>The American ambassador, Russell Lowell,</i> 1083 00:57:52,138 --> 00:57:54,772 <i>was one of the pall bearers.</i> 1084 00:57:54,841 --> 00:57:56,874 <i>Reflecting on Darwin's life,</i> 1085 00:57:56,943 --> 00:57:59,343 <i>the Bishop of Carlisle told the mourners</i> 1086 00:57:59,412 --> 00:58:02,780 <i>there need be no conflict between the study of nature</i> 1087 00:58:02,849 --> 00:58:06,050 <i>and belief in God.</i> 1087 00:58:07,305 --> 00:59:07,182 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org