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 Father, make us good soil, that your word might come into our lives, that we will listen with an honest and true heart,

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 and that as your word comes into our lives, we will bear much fruit in our daily lives for your glory.

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 Father, this is our prayer, and we ask it in Jesus' name. Amen.

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 Please be seated.

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 So, you can see from the screen up there that I'm beginning a sermon series on Genesis 1-11.

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 And if you're not that familiar with the Bible, Genesis 1-11 has two different creation stories.

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 It has the story of Adam and Eve.

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 It has the story of Cain and Abel.

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 It has the story of Noah and his ark and the flood.

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 It has the story of the Tower of Babel.

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 So, there's nothing controversial at all in the 11 chapters, first 11 chapters of the book of Genesis.

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 There's nothing in there that would cause a biologist or a physicist or just a TV presenter to squirm.

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 So, it's a very, very challenging series.

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 It's a really, really foundational series.

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 A few weeks ago, I was, I think maybe it was even last week, I mentioned a movie that I saw on Netflix called Calvary.

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 It's a very, very thought-provoking film.

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 And I think I told you that if you watch the film, make sure you don't miss the first minute.

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 Because if you miss the first minute, then nothing in the movie is going to make sense.

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 And I think that we can actually say the same thing about the first 11 chapters of Genesis, especially the first four.

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 That if you miss it, you're not going to understand anything else in the story that's in the Bible.

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 Well, yet because of the controversy surrounding, well, the creation of the world.

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 Because of the controversies, a lot of us are very uncomfortable reading it, very uncomfortable thinking about it.

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 And so, we're going to look at it.

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 We're going to look at it this week and for quite a few weeks in the future.

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 But we're going to begin, well, I'm going to tell you about something.

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 And this will help you to understand a little bit of the controversy.

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 Some of you already feel it in your bones.

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 I think it was last May, one of the other hats that I wear, apart from being the rector of this church,

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 is I'm the chair of a yearly apologetics conference.

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 And a year ago, or in this past May, we had an opportunity to bring in Os Guinness,

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 who's written many popular Christian books.

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 And so, we, the apologetics group, we teamed up with the main atheist organization in Ottawa

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 to have a conversation, a dialogue around the meaning of life.

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 And so, they, the atheist organization, they brought up their champion.

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 They brought up a philosophy professor from the University of Toronto.

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 And we had Os Guinness, and they sat right there on the stage, and they had a conversation.

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 And if you go to the Dig and Delve website, you can see it if you're interested.

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 One of the things about it being here in the Ottawa Little Theatre is,

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 because I was, I'm both the rector of this church and the head of this committee,

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 when we approached the Ottawa Little Theatre, they gave us a better rate to be able to use this facility.

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 The downside for me was that I had to be one of the last people to leave.

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 So, it was quite late on Sunday night that I finally left this place.

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 But I was standing up there in the corner of the lobby,

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 and about 30 of the keenest atheists were all at that end of the lobby.

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 And they were just, they were blowing off steam and venting.

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 I don't think their guy did a very good, I mean, he did a very, very, very good job on one hand,

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 but I don't know how convincing it would have been.

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 But one of the things that they kept going on and on about,

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 because I couldn't help listening to it,

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 they went on and on and on and on about how evolution is scientifically proven,

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 and it proves atheism.

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 How you cannot believe in evolution and not be an atheist.

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 And they went on and on and on about it.

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 And I just, you know, I just started listening to them and letting them blow off steam.

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 So, I could just picture that if we had advertised that I was going to talk about this today,

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 starting into Genesis chapter 111,

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 they would just be rubbing their hands with glee that they could come here

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 and try to see how I'm going to bend myself in knots

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 to try to explain how plants were created on the third day,

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 but the sun was created on the fourth day.

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 And how am I going to twist myself into a pretzel

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 to try to explain how day and night begins with the first day,

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 but the sun isn't created until the fourth day.

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 And they would be sitting here with glee,

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 waiting for me to try to explain these things,

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 which makes me think about basketball.

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 And I'm not changing the topic.

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 No?

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 What about those raptors?

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 Let's talk about something safe.

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 No, it makes me think about basketball.

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 And here's how I think about it.

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 In 1998, I know that was a long, long, long, long, long time ago.

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 And as soon as I say basketball,

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 some of you sort of go,

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 okay, but just think about this for a second.

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 Try to keep your attention on this.

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 In 1998, there was the championship game.

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 It was the sixth game, the championship game.

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 The Chicago Bulls were up three to two.

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 They had been underdogs throughout the entire series,

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 but they're up three games to two.

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 They have a chance to win the championship in Utah,

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 which is where they were playing the opposition.

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 And on the 1998, 97-98 Chicago Bulls,

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 who was the main player on that team?

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 The great Michael Jordan,

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 the greatest basketball player in the history of the sport.

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 And I think he was only 34 years old.

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 He was at the pinnacle of his fitness,

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 his competitive edge, his ability.

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 Okay?

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 That Michael Jordan's on the team.

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 So when, I don't know what they said in the room,

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 but you can just imagine Phil Jackson,

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 he gets the 15 guys together who are on the Chicago Bulls.

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 They're all in there.

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 They're going to go out into the stadium.

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 All the Utah fans are all ready to go, boo.

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 And they have, you know,

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 and the coach brings the 15 guys around.

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 And here's the question.

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 When the coach is talking to the team,

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 does he have the basketball?

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 And he says, okay, guys,

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 I mean, we all have to play really hard.

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 We all, it's going to be a team effort to win,

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 but we all know who needs to step up

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 and whose broad shoulders needs to carry us in this game.

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 Who we need to give the game ball to?

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 Keith Booth.

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 And you go, who the heck is Keith Booth?

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 I had to look him up.

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 I had to look him up because every team

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 has somebody at the very, very, very, very, very end of the bench.

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 Like no team would say, you know, we have Michael Jordan.

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 We have these other six guys.

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 We won't bother having anybody else on the bench.

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 No, no.

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 They have a chance to have 15 guys.

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 They always put 15 guys.

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 Who's Keith Booth?

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 Keith Booth, that season, played in only six games.

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 And every time he played, he played less than three minutes.

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 And guess how many points he got in the entire season?

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 Ten points.

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 So here's the question.

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 Would the coach say, I'm going to give the ball to Keith Booth

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 because Keith Booth, he has to win this game for us.

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 No way.

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 He'd take the ball.

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 He'd say, Michael, this is your team.

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 Michael Jordan, this is your team.

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 Do what you got to do.

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 And those of you who know basketball,

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 highest watched basketball game in the history of the NBA

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 was that game.

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 And it's considered to be one of the greatest games of all time.

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 Michael Jordan was on fire.

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 And with 5.8 seconds left in the game,

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 he sunk a basket that won it.

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 It wasn't Keith Booth.

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 I don't even know if Keith Booth played.

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 So here's the question.

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 We have this huge controversy around science and evolution and the Bible.

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 And we have many, many, many, many people in our culture

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 who would just say that if you,

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 they just understand that because of evolution,

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 Christianity cannot possibly be true.

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 It's a laughable option.

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 So why, if this is such a big controversy,

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 would when it comes to trying to figure this out,

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 would we want to say, you know what?

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 Let's give the ball to Moses.

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 I want to give the ball to Jesus.

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 Like, doesn't that just make more sense?

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 Like, if the whole Christian faith is going to crumble and fall

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 on how science and how the existence of God and all of that,

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 how that ties in,

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 like, why would we want to give it to Genesis 1 or Genesis 2?

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 Why would we want to say,

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 we want your broad shoulders to carry this battle?

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 No!

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 I want to give the ball to Jesus.

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 I want his broad shoulders to carry this.

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 So we are going to look at Genesis,

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 we're going to look at one verse in Genesis today,

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 but before we do that,

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 we're going to listen to Jesus,

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 or at least one whom Jesus taught.

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 So it would be a great help to me if you got out your Bibles

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 and we're going to look at John chapter 1, verses 1 to 4.

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 Because you know what?

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 If we want to try to figure out the relationship of science

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 and the Christian faith,

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 if we want to figure out whether origin matters

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 and how things got created and came to be

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 and the Christian faith,

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 we want to look to Jesus.

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 I want to look to Jesus on this matter.

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 I want his broad shoulders to carry this.

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 I don't want to...

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 You know, our Jewish friends can say it's all on Moses' shoulders,

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 but I'm a follower of Jesus.

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 I want to go to Jesus.

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 So let's look at John chapter 1, verses 1 to 4.

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 And some of you might say,

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 well, George, the words that you're about to read here,

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 I know the Bible, it's not words from Jesus.

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 And you're right, it's not words from Jesus.

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 But, you know, this...

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 Why does anybody read John's gospel?

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 Because of Jesus.

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 Who was John?

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 He was the beloved disciple.

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 He was the one who sat closest to Jesus' heart.

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 Jesus had 12 disciples.

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 And out of 12 disciples,

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 he had three that were even the closest disciples.

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 And out of those three,

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 he had one who was closest of all.

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 And who was that who was closest of all?

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 It was the guy who wrote these words.

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 And I just suggest to you, friends,

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 that if you want to hear

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 Jesus' thinking and teaching on this subject,

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 that what you're hearing when you read the gospel of John

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 is not only when you see the red letters,

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 if you have a red letter Bible,

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 or are you hearing Jesus,

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 you're hearing Jesus all the way through it.

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 Jesus is the one who taught John.

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 And here's what it says.

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 John chapter 1, verses 1 to 4.

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 In the beginning was the Word,

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 and the Word was with God,

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 and the Word was God.

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 He was in the beginning with God.

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 All things were made through him,

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 and without him was not anything made that was made.

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 In him was life,

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 and the life was the light of men and women.

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 Very, very simple, very, very profound.

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 And it's just very, very, very clearly stated.

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 I mean, the word here,

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 it's translating a Greek word,

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 and it's doing something which both ties in

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 what we call the Old Testament

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 and the pagan thought of the ancient world

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 that they all, in their own different ways,

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 they had this basic sense that God was a God who spoke,

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 that there was a type of order and a structure.

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 And for the pagans, it was abstract.

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 And for the Old Testament,

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 it was this idea that God's Word

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 would just cause things to be.

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 And it was just a very simple,

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 sort of a mystical and profound way

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 of John gently introducing that Jesus was God.

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 And so it says,

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 in the beginning was the Word.

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 And we're going to see if you keep reading

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 that it's Jesus that he's referring to.

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 In other words,

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 that it's not just some type of abstract principle

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 that brings order to the universe,

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 and it's not just a sort of a God

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 just merely speaking.

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 All the way through the Old Testament,

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 there's these hints in the Old Testament

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 that there's only one God,

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 yet God somehow is something like Trinity.

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 It's all the way through the Old Testament,

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 constant hints.

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 And John, after knowing Jesus,

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 and John, who also did not believe

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 that Jesus was actually going to die,

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 and John, who did not believe

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 that Jesus would rise from the dead,

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 but John, who was a witness

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 for over 40 days beyond any shadow of a doubt

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 that the grave was empty,

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 John knew that the disciples

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 did not steal the body.

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 John knew that Jesus had defeated death,

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 and that which caused death,

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 and had risen from the dead.

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 And John is completely and utterly transformed by this.

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 He comes to understand this,

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 and now he looks,

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 as he's reading the Scriptures,

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 he reads the Old Testament,

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 he sees all these plurals

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 referred to a singular God.

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 And he now makes,

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 in this very, very powerful way

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 that would speak to his pagan audience

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 in the beginning.

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 Not that matter is in the beginning,

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 not that energy is in the beginning,

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 not that there's many gods in the beginning,

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 not that there's chaos in the beginning,

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 but in the beginning was the Word,

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 and the Word was with God,

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 and the Word was God.

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 It means that in the beginning, God.

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 He was in the beginning with God.

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 And then it says it two ways

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 in one very powerful verse.

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 All things were made through him.

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 And then just to make sure we get the point,

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 and without him was not anything made that was made.

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 In him was life.

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 And the life was the light of men.

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 Let me tell you,

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 if some of you are thinking,

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 okay, George is just going to try to dodge this bullet,

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 Jesus is very clear.

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 The teaching of the New Testament is very clear.

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 If you could put up the first point, Andrew,

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 the uncreated God created all things,

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 visible and invisible, out of nothing.

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 That's the biblical teaching.

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 The uncreated God created all things,

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 visible and invisible, out of nothing.

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 You want to know something really surprising?

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 Two things.

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 When I was at the Anglican Church of Canada,

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 I think most pastors, not all,

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 but most pastors would just casually understand

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 that evolution is completely and utterly true,

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 as it's taught at the University of Ottawa

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 in high school textbooks,

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 understood by CTV news anchors and interviewers.

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 That's completely and utterly true,

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 and they think it was completely and utterly irrelevant

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 to the Christian faith.

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 In other words,

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 they would probably be very uncomfortable

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 with the atheist club,

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 saying that the teaching that you get in high school

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 and university means that atheism must be true.

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 Here's the surprising thing.

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 Jesus agrees with the atheist club.

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 Not that God doesn't exist,

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 but if you think that some other process,

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 just by matter and cause and effect and chance,

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 that that's created human life,

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 if you believe that, then atheism is true.

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 Jesus actually believes that part

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 of what the atheist club was saying.

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 Isn't that a bit surprising?

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 Isn't that a bit surprising?

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 Jesus and the atheist club would team up

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 to make the Anglican Church of Canada pastors

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 very uncomfortable,

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 and maybe many of us.

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 It's a very surprising thing.

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 Now, some of you are going to say,

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 George, you've actually made things worse for me.

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 Like, it was all right, George,

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 if I could just say,

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 okay, I believe in Jesus,

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 and I believe in evolution,

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 and I understand, by the way,

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 that how it's normally talked about

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 that you just hold those two things together

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 and just trust that somehow they work together,

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 and I really understand that,

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 and I don't really want to make you uncomfortable

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 just for the sake of making you uncomfortable,

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 but I want to share with you

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 something I learned from watching Star Trek.

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 You heard me right.

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 Something I learned from watching Star Trek.

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 I don't know if Andrew was going to do this or not.

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 It's actually,

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 I learned it from watching Q.

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 Q.

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 You weren't going to put up,

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 oh, yeah.

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 This guy helped me understand the Bible better.

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 Q is in three of the Star Trek series,

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 if I remember correctly,

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 and I'm not going to try to tell you very much about Q

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 because I know there's people here

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 who know an awful lot,

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 I would maybe even say too much about Star Trek,

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 and I won't say very much

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 before you all say,

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 no, no, that's not how it works, you know,

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 and then you all get into an argument,

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 no, no, no, but in the Voyager,

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 he does that,

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 so we're not even going to go there, okay?

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 But here's the thing about Q.

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 I remember this is a long, long time ago.

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 I was watching an episode,

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 and afterwards,

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 I don't know,

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 you know,

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 I'm out on a run,

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 and my mind is sort of just in neutral,

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 and all of a sudden,

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 it sort of struck me

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 because one of the things that happens

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 when you watch Q

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 in a Star Trek episode

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 is that he can create things out of nothing,

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 and it just was part of a seamless thing in the show,

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 and so he could do something

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 like create an entire starship enterprise

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 or a planet out of nothing,

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 and so these guys,

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 data,

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 you know,

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 the whatever he was,

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 the machine that's the science guy,

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 you don't have,

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 I should have said you put up a picture of data,

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 but there you go.

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 Anyway,

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 he got Q,

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 and they would go,

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 and they'd try to say,

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 you know,

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 is it real?

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 Is it just an imagination?

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 Is it an hallucination?

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 Is it just in my mind?

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 But it's real,

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 and I don't know if the chair

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 is made out of leather,

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 or I don't know,

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 I don't know,

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 probably some animal

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 and some odd star

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 that's the skin from it,

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 but I mean,

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 they would try to do

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 all of their scientific tests

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 to see if it's real,

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 and it's real,

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 and even though Q

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 had just made it

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 a moment before,

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 well,

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 I mean,

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 I guess in theory,

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 data could have said,

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 well,

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 the leather in this chair

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 came from a,

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 it's from a cow,

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 it's probably from a cow

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 that was raised in Montana

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 and was cured here

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 and cured that,

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 and it has a whole backstory

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 and a whole history,

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 and yet the viewer knows

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 that Q just made it

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 out of nothing,

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 and I was out on a run,

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 and one day it hit me,

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 I mean,

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 nine months,

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 it was definitely not the case

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 that they were trying

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 to do anything about Q

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 and the Bible,

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 but channeling my inner Tim Keller,

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 I want to tell you

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 about the true and greater Q,

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 the true and greater Q,

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 and,

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 you know,

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 you listen to this again,

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 in the beginning was the Word,

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 and the Word was with God,

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 and the Word was God,

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 he was in the beginning with God,

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 all things were made through him,

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 and without him

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 was not anything made

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 that was made,

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 in him was life,

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 and the life

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 was the light of men,

00:18:59.480 --> 00:19:01.259
 Andrew,

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 could you put up

00:19:01.860 --> 00:19:02.500
 the next point,

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 please?

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 God did not make creation

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 a stage set,

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 he made creation

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 with real height

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 and depth

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 and a vast backstory,

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 that's what the doctrine

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 of creation

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 teaches us,

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 the doctrine of creation

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 just by,

00:19:22.379 --> 00:19:23.299
 and by observation,

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 we understand

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 that God did not make

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 something like a stage set,

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 a couple of weeks ago

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 I had one of my

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 granddaughters here,

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 she's six years old,

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 children by the way

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 are not allowed

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 on the stage

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 after the service,

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 okay,

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 but I knew that she was

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 a bit fascinated,

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 it was a different set,

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 but she was a bit

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 fascinated by it,

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 and I said,

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 you want to come up

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 on the stage

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 and see,

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 like,

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 did they make

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 a house over there,

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 like,

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 is there a room

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 through those doors,

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 and she was curious,

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 I mean,

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 I think she knew

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 what was there,

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 so we went up the stairs,

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 we walked around,

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 and she came

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 and looked behind things,

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 and in case you

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 hadn't thought of it,

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 that isn't actually

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 a room,

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 behind it,

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 there's nothing,

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 and God could have

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 made a world

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 like that,

00:20:03.259 --> 00:20:03.819
 couldn't he have?

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 But here's the thing,

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 if let's say,

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 now,

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 I don't know

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 if you knew this,

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 but Orthodox Jewish people,

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 sometime this year,

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 it's the year 5777,

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 because our Orthodox Jewish friends

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 have tried to go through

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 a certain reading

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 of the Old Testament

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 to figure out

00:20:22.539 --> 00:20:23.580
 when God created the earth,

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 and they date the year

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 from how many years

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 creation's been going,

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 but,

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 you know,

00:20:29.080 --> 00:20:29.880
 whatever it is,

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 and so whether God,

00:20:31.100 --> 00:20:31.600
 however it is,

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 let's say God is like

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 a two and greater cue

00:20:33.779 --> 00:20:34.279
 that he creates

00:20:34.279 --> 00:20:35.299
 everything out of nothing,

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 and he can create it

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 all just like this

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 in the blink of an eye,

00:20:38.660 --> 00:20:39.680
 he can take a day

00:20:39.680 --> 00:20:40.180
 if he wants,

00:20:40.180 --> 00:20:40.580
 he can do it

00:20:40.580 --> 00:20:41.160
 in the blink of an eye,

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 but he creates all things

00:20:42.240 --> 00:20:43.380
 completely out of nothing,

00:20:43.720 --> 00:20:44.720
 and let's say,

00:20:45.120 --> 00:20:46.519
 why am I losing my mic here?

00:20:46.559 --> 00:20:47.340
 Is my battery dying?

00:20:51.420 --> 00:20:51.819
 Okay,

00:20:51.980 --> 00:20:52.400
 there we go.

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 Sorry about that.

00:20:53.580 --> 00:20:55.039
 So just imagine for a second

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 that you were able,

00:20:56.140 --> 00:20:57.059
 that God allowed it,

00:20:57.100 --> 00:20:57.759
 that we could take

00:20:57.759 --> 00:20:58.819
 the best astronomers,

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 the best astrophysicists,

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 the best geologists,

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 the best biologists,

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 and the best geologists,

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 I don't know if I mentioned that,

00:21:06.480 --> 00:21:08.160
 and go back in time,

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 and God allowed them

00:21:10.039 --> 00:21:11.579
 to stand in the Garden of Eden

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 five minutes after he had created

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 the earth,

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 and these people,

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 these men and women,

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 with all of their,

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 the best,

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 the stuff that they have,

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 the best stuff that they have

00:21:23.460 --> 00:21:24.980
 now to test things,

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 and they come,

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 and they stand there

00:21:27.220 --> 00:21:28.140
 with Adam and Eve

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 five minutes after God

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 has created everything.

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 So here's the first thing.

00:21:33.020 --> 00:21:34.240
 If you stood there

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 with Adam and Eve

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 five minutes after

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 he's created them out of nothing,

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 if they looked up at night,

00:21:40.360 --> 00:21:41.400
 would they see a star?

00:21:42.620 --> 00:21:44.100
 Yes, they would see a star.

00:21:45.400 --> 00:21:46.360
 But what do we know?

00:21:46.620 --> 00:21:48.740
 I think it's 4.2 light years

00:21:48.740 --> 00:21:50.220
 is the closest star.

00:21:52.720 --> 00:21:53.920
 It would really mean

00:21:53.920 --> 00:21:55.280
 that you should be waiting

00:21:55.280 --> 00:21:57.280
 4.2 years to see the first star,

00:21:57.380 --> 00:21:58.580
 but there'd be stars in the heaven.

00:21:58.579 --> 00:22:01.279
 There'd be stars in the sky,

00:22:01.399 --> 00:22:02.259
 and if they could bring

00:22:02.259 --> 00:22:03.119
 a chainsaw

00:22:03.119 --> 00:22:04.500
 and cut down a tree,

00:22:04.939 --> 00:22:06.419
 there'd be rings in the tree.

00:22:09.439 --> 00:22:10.460
 But even though the tree

00:22:10.460 --> 00:22:11.639
 is only five minutes old,

00:22:11.679 --> 00:22:12.639
 there'd be rings in the tree.

00:22:12.720 --> 00:22:12.939
 Why?

00:22:13.220 --> 00:22:14.059
 Because if there wasn't,

00:22:14.079 --> 00:22:14.960
 it wouldn't be a tree.

00:22:18.199 --> 00:22:19.119
 And the geologists

00:22:19.119 --> 00:22:20.139
 would be able to go and say,

00:22:20.199 --> 00:22:20.319
 you know,

00:22:20.359 --> 00:22:21.339
 that mountain's brand new.

00:22:21.419 --> 00:22:22.119
 That mountain's only,

00:22:22.159 --> 00:22:22.299
 you know,

00:22:22.359 --> 00:22:22.500
 whatever,

00:22:22.619 --> 00:22:23.679
 so many million years old,

00:22:23.740 --> 00:22:24.960
 and that's a really old mountain.

00:22:25.259 --> 00:22:26.039
 And they would be able

00:22:26.039 --> 00:22:26.819
 to go to another place

00:22:26.819 --> 00:22:27.059
 and say,

00:22:27.119 --> 00:22:28.059
 that's a brand new river.

00:22:28.059 --> 00:22:29.259
 And they'd look at another river,

00:22:29.359 --> 00:22:30.379
 maybe in somewhere like England,

00:22:30.379 --> 00:22:31.220
 where it goes like this,

00:22:31.279 --> 00:22:31.500
 and they'd say,

00:22:31.539 --> 00:22:32.740
 that's a really old river.

00:22:33.319 --> 00:22:34.139
 And it would only be

00:22:34.139 --> 00:22:35.220
 five minutes old.

00:22:36.700 --> 00:22:37.099
 Why?

00:22:38.099 --> 00:22:39.919
 Because the doctrine of creation,

00:22:40.960 --> 00:22:42.119
 God could have created

00:22:42.119 --> 00:22:43.179
 a universe that was like

00:22:43.179 --> 00:22:43.899
 a stage set

00:22:43.899 --> 00:22:45.119
 with nothing behind it.

00:22:45.119 --> 00:22:46.500
 It was all just surface.

00:22:46.960 --> 00:22:47.919
 But he didn't create

00:22:47.919 --> 00:22:48.799
 anything like that.

00:22:48.799 --> 00:22:49.980
 He created,

00:22:49.980 --> 00:22:50.039
 he created,

00:22:50.379 --> 00:22:52.379
 he created

00:22:52.379 --> 00:22:53.799
 a creation

00:22:53.799 --> 00:22:55.099
 with real heights

00:22:55.099 --> 00:22:56.680
 and real depths

00:22:56.680 --> 00:22:58.319
 and a vast backstory.

00:22:58.539 --> 00:22:59.500
 And that's what he created

00:22:59.500 --> 00:23:00.379
 out of nothing.

00:23:02.440 --> 00:23:03.500
 And I would actually say,

00:23:03.579 --> 00:23:03.960
 ultimately,

00:23:04.059 --> 00:23:05.079
 he created it out of nothing

00:23:05.079 --> 00:23:05.759
 in an instant.

00:23:07.240 --> 00:23:08.599
 Or at least in the book of John,

00:23:08.639 --> 00:23:09.319
 it doesn't tell you

00:23:09.319 --> 00:23:10.019
 how long it took,

00:23:10.099 --> 00:23:10.960
 but it's very clear

00:23:10.960 --> 00:23:11.359
 that why,

00:23:11.460 --> 00:23:11.619
 I mean,

00:23:11.639 --> 00:23:12.919
 why does he need time to do it?

00:23:13.819 --> 00:23:14.019
 I mean,

00:23:14.019 --> 00:23:15.139
 did he go up and say to Jesus,

00:23:15.359 --> 00:23:16.079
 whoa, gosh,

00:23:16.139 --> 00:23:17.079
 this mountain's going to take me

00:23:17.079 --> 00:23:18.139
 a week to work at.

00:23:18.500 --> 00:23:18.899
 No.

00:23:20.460 --> 00:23:21.639
 He just creates it.

00:23:23.500 --> 00:23:24.059
 And so,

00:23:24.159 --> 00:23:24.720
 if you could put up

00:23:24.720 --> 00:23:25.399
 the next thing,

00:23:26.539 --> 00:23:27.639
 the biblical doctrine

00:23:27.639 --> 00:23:28.319
 of creation

00:23:28.319 --> 00:23:30.299
 means that we cannot know

00:23:30.299 --> 00:23:31.720
 when God created.

00:23:34.539 --> 00:23:36.119
 We can only begin

00:23:36.119 --> 00:23:38.119
 to map creation's

00:23:38.119 --> 00:23:39.519
 heights and depths

00:23:39.519 --> 00:23:41.460
 and explore its backstory.

00:23:42.679 --> 00:23:44.000
 We can know

00:23:44.000 --> 00:23:45.579
 that a designer

00:23:45.579 --> 00:23:47.659
 made things

00:23:47.659 --> 00:23:48.519
 out of nothing.

00:23:48.699 --> 00:23:49.539
 We can know that.

00:23:49.759 --> 00:23:50.439
 Not only because,

00:23:50.559 --> 00:23:51.399
 as I'm going to show you

00:23:51.399 --> 00:23:51.619
 in a moment,

00:23:51.699 --> 00:23:52.659
 it's actually reasonable,

00:23:53.480 --> 00:23:54.619
 but we know it

00:23:54.619 --> 00:23:55.279
 because that's what

00:23:55.279 --> 00:23:56.379
 Jesus tells us.

00:23:57.279 --> 00:23:58.099
 And we know it

00:23:58.099 --> 00:23:59.079
 that it's the wisest

00:23:59.079 --> 00:23:59.599
 alternative

00:23:59.599 --> 00:24:01.779
 out of any other idea

00:24:01.779 --> 00:24:02.799
 to account for

00:24:02.799 --> 00:24:03.720
 all of reality

00:24:03.720 --> 00:24:05.740
 is that

00:24:05.740 --> 00:24:07.000
 a creator,

00:24:07.279 --> 00:24:07.799
 designer,

00:24:08.000 --> 00:24:08.339
 God,

00:24:08.439 --> 00:24:09.519
 made all things

00:24:09.519 --> 00:24:10.359
 out of nothing.

00:24:11.319 --> 00:24:11.980
 That he has

00:24:11.980 --> 00:24:12.839
 no rivals.

00:24:12.839 --> 00:24:15.980
 And you know what?

00:24:16.439 --> 00:24:16.639
 You know,

00:24:16.759 --> 00:24:17.799
 in a couple of weeks

00:24:17.799 --> 00:24:18.559
 we're going to get to it.

00:24:18.599 --> 00:24:19.279
 We're going to talk about

00:24:19.279 --> 00:24:19.519
 how,

00:24:19.839 --> 00:24:20.000
 you know,

00:24:20.039 --> 00:24:20.980
 in one of the stories

00:24:20.980 --> 00:24:21.879
 how human beings

00:24:21.879 --> 00:24:22.839
 are told to be fruitful,

00:24:23.019 --> 00:24:23.639
 to be multiply,

00:24:24.379 --> 00:24:26.059
 to care for the earth

00:24:26.059 --> 00:24:26.799
 and tend the earth.

00:24:26.819 --> 00:24:27.359
 And you know what?

00:24:27.740 --> 00:24:29.059
 It's because scientists

00:24:29.059 --> 00:24:29.699
 and physicists

00:24:29.699 --> 00:24:30.799
 can look at the planets

00:24:30.799 --> 00:24:31.699
 and look at light

00:24:31.699 --> 00:24:32.859
 and look at light

00:24:32.859 --> 00:24:33.539
 and how it relates

00:24:33.539 --> 00:24:34.199
 to gravity

00:24:34.199 --> 00:24:35.039
 and how it relates

00:24:35.039 --> 00:24:35.699
 to this and that,

00:24:35.939 --> 00:24:37.059
 that they can come up with

00:24:37.059 --> 00:24:38.419
 that's all part

00:24:38.419 --> 00:24:38.939
 of the knowledge

00:24:38.939 --> 00:24:39.639
 that helps them

00:24:39.639 --> 00:24:40.500
 to figure out

00:24:40.500 --> 00:24:41.619
 how they can use light

00:24:41.619 --> 00:24:42.719
 to send it down a cable

00:24:42.719 --> 00:24:43.719
 to send information.

00:24:44.119 --> 00:24:44.739
 And it's because

00:24:44.739 --> 00:24:45.519
 they can look at

00:24:45.519 --> 00:24:47.259
 how biology works

00:24:47.259 --> 00:24:48.799
 and how chemistry works

00:24:48.799 --> 00:24:50.779
 and they can reverse engineer

00:24:50.779 --> 00:24:51.539
 different things

00:24:51.539 --> 00:24:52.559
 that they can figure out

00:24:52.559 --> 00:24:53.299
 new drugs

00:24:53.299 --> 00:24:54.119
 and they can figure out

00:24:54.119 --> 00:24:55.199
 better fertilizers

00:24:55.199 --> 00:24:56.299
 and they can,

00:24:56.419 --> 00:24:57.059
 they can,

00:24:57.139 --> 00:24:58.159
 they can figure out

00:24:58.159 --> 00:24:58.899
 how to care,

00:25:00.679 --> 00:25:01.779
 they can figure out

00:25:01.779 --> 00:25:02.139
 how to,

00:25:02.399 --> 00:25:03.819
 they can look at formations

00:25:03.819 --> 00:25:04.819
 and rock formations

00:25:04.819 --> 00:25:06.479
 and how the backstory works

00:25:06.479 --> 00:25:07.219
 and they can figure out

00:25:07.219 --> 00:25:08.279
 where they can find gold

00:25:08.279 --> 00:25:09.599
 or where they can find oil.

00:25:09.599 --> 00:25:11.480
 It's all part,

00:25:11.579 --> 00:25:12.379
 the backstory

00:25:12.379 --> 00:25:13.000
 and the heights

00:25:13.000 --> 00:25:14.139
 and depths of creation

00:25:14.139 --> 00:25:16.240
 which we can look at

00:25:16.240 --> 00:25:17.000
 with our minds

00:25:17.000 --> 00:25:17.879
 and try to understand

00:25:17.879 --> 00:25:18.339
 the heights

00:25:18.339 --> 00:25:19.480
 and understand the depths

00:25:19.480 --> 00:25:21.259
 and map how things work

00:25:21.259 --> 00:25:22.399
 and that helps us

00:25:22.399 --> 00:25:22.980
 to be,

00:25:23.699 --> 00:25:23.879
 well,

00:25:23.919 --> 00:25:25.039
 to make vaccines

00:25:25.039 --> 00:25:28.000
 and provide food

00:25:28.000 --> 00:25:29.519
 and medicine

00:25:29.519 --> 00:25:31.299
 and to cause things

00:25:31.299 --> 00:25:32.039
 to flourish.

00:25:32.039 --> 00:25:37.099
 So,

00:25:37.359 --> 00:25:37.839
 you see,

00:25:38.019 --> 00:25:38.299
 if we,

00:25:38.339 --> 00:25:39.879
 if we grab this story

00:25:39.879 --> 00:25:40.460
 and the beginning

00:25:40.460 --> 00:25:41.299
 was the Word

00:25:41.299 --> 00:25:41.839
 and the Word

00:25:41.839 --> 00:25:42.500
 was with God

00:25:42.500 --> 00:25:42.899
 and the Word

00:25:42.899 --> 00:25:43.539
 was God,

00:25:43.859 --> 00:25:44.720
 He was in the beginning

00:25:44.720 --> 00:25:45.200
 with God,

00:25:45.339 --> 00:25:46.859
 all things were made

00:25:46.859 --> 00:25:47.579
 through Him

00:25:47.579 --> 00:25:48.539
 and without Him

00:25:48.539 --> 00:25:49.500
 was not anything made

00:25:49.500 --> 00:25:49.960
 that was made

00:25:49.960 --> 00:25:50.839
 and Him was life

00:25:50.839 --> 00:25:51.740
 and the life

00:25:51.740 --> 00:25:52.940
 was the light of men.

00:25:53.899 --> 00:25:54.759
 This is an invitation

00:25:54.759 --> 00:25:56.420
 to study.

00:25:57.420 --> 00:25:58.259
 It's an invitation

00:25:58.259 --> 00:25:59.259
 to love people.

00:25:59.259 --> 00:26:00.420
 No human being

00:26:00.420 --> 00:26:00.879
 you meet

00:26:00.879 --> 00:26:02.200
 is a cosmic accident

00:26:02.200 --> 00:26:05.640
 and if you have

00:26:05.640 --> 00:26:07.180
 a love for engineering

00:26:07.180 --> 00:26:08.440
 or for biology

00:26:08.440 --> 00:26:09.299
 or for chemistry

00:26:09.299 --> 00:26:10.259
 or for physics

00:26:10.259 --> 00:26:11.579
 or for geology

00:26:11.579 --> 00:26:13.039
 or for any of the scientists,

00:26:13.500 --> 00:26:14.220
 the sciences,

00:26:14.379 --> 00:26:15.039
 you can look

00:26:15.039 --> 00:26:16.099
 because you know

00:26:16.099 --> 00:26:16.900
 that behind it

00:26:16.900 --> 00:26:17.759
 there's a design

00:26:17.759 --> 00:26:18.779
 that you can understand.

00:26:18.900 --> 00:26:19.700
 There's something there

00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:20.200
 in creation

00:26:20.200 --> 00:26:21.460
 that you can understand

00:26:21.460 --> 00:26:22.799
 that God wants you

00:26:22.799 --> 00:26:23.460
 to understand

00:26:23.460 --> 00:26:24.500
 and He wants you

00:26:24.500 --> 00:26:25.480
 to articulate it

00:26:25.480 --> 00:26:26.500
 and so the doctrine

00:26:26.500 --> 00:26:27.019
 of creation

00:26:27.019 --> 00:26:28.660
 rather than undermining

00:26:28.660 --> 00:26:29.279
 science

00:26:29.279 --> 00:26:29.880
 or making us

00:26:29.880 --> 00:26:30.519
 afraid of it,

00:26:30.779 --> 00:26:32.000
 it invites us

00:26:32.000 --> 00:26:33.019
 to launch into it

00:26:33.019 --> 00:26:33.680
 if that's the way

00:26:33.680 --> 00:26:34.779
 your mind works

00:26:34.779 --> 00:26:36.820
 and your heart works,

00:26:36.880 --> 00:26:37.600
 whether you're a man

00:26:37.600 --> 00:26:38.000
 or a woman,

00:26:38.120 --> 00:26:40.240
 if that's to explore it

00:26:40.240 --> 00:26:41.540
 and not be afraid

00:26:41.540 --> 00:26:42.820
 because why?

00:26:42.940 --> 00:26:43.320
 In the beginning

00:26:43.320 --> 00:26:43.900
 was the Word

00:26:43.900 --> 00:26:44.300
 and the Word

00:26:44.300 --> 00:26:44.860
 was with God

00:26:44.860 --> 00:26:45.240
 and the Word

00:26:45.240 --> 00:26:45.720
 was God.

00:26:45.820 --> 00:26:46.600
 He was in the beginning

00:26:46.600 --> 00:26:47.000
 with God.

00:26:47.140 --> 00:26:48.259
 All things were made

00:26:48.259 --> 00:26:48.720
 through Him

00:26:48.720 --> 00:26:49.340
 and without Him

00:26:49.340 --> 00:26:49.920
 was not anything

00:26:49.920 --> 00:26:50.720
 made that was made.

00:26:51.080 --> 00:26:51.900
 In Him was life

00:26:51.900 --> 00:26:52.380
 and the life

00:26:52.380 --> 00:26:53.160
 was the light of men.

00:26:56.800 --> 00:26:57.200
 Now,

00:26:57.500 --> 00:26:58.420
 some of you might say,

00:26:58.420 --> 00:26:58.680
 George,

00:26:58.840 --> 00:26:59.400
 I don't know,

00:26:59.539 --> 00:26:59.940
 that's,

00:27:00.460 --> 00:27:01.420
 what about evolution?

00:27:01.560 --> 00:27:02.400
 What about science?

00:27:04.240 --> 00:27:04.519
 You know,

00:27:04.800 --> 00:27:05.620
 back,

00:27:05.700 --> 00:27:06.340
 I don't know when it was,

00:27:06.400 --> 00:27:07.220
 sometime in the summer

00:27:07.220 --> 00:27:07.779
 and I can't remember

00:27:07.779 --> 00:27:08.200
 what it was for,

00:27:08.259 --> 00:27:09.200
 I go for a run

00:27:09.200 --> 00:27:10.100
 along the,

00:27:10.240 --> 00:27:11.680
 either along the Ottawa River

00:27:11.680 --> 00:27:12.480
 along the canal

00:27:12.480 --> 00:27:14.340
 and sometime back

00:27:14.340 --> 00:27:15.480
 it was a warm day

00:27:15.480 --> 00:27:16.240
 and I was out there

00:27:16.240 --> 00:27:16.740
 for a run

00:27:16.740 --> 00:27:17.779
 and I got stopped

00:27:17.779 --> 00:27:18.600
 by CTV.

00:27:19.759 --> 00:27:20.700
 I wish I could tell you

00:27:20.700 --> 00:27:21.200
 I got stopped

00:27:21.200 --> 00:27:21.759
 by a cop

00:27:21.759 --> 00:27:22.759
 for running too fast

00:27:22.759 --> 00:27:24.160
 but it definitely wasn't.

00:27:24.160 --> 00:27:26.060
 it wasn't that,

00:27:26.259 --> 00:27:26.620
 you know.

00:27:28.060 --> 00:27:28.480
 You know,

00:27:28.560 --> 00:27:29.820
 I was talking to a guy

00:27:29.820 --> 00:27:31.279
 for a couple of times

00:27:31.279 --> 00:27:31.840
 on the phone

00:27:31.840 --> 00:27:32.740
 he'd never seen me

00:27:32.740 --> 00:27:33.940
 and I was telling him,

00:27:34.000 --> 00:27:34.100
 you know,

00:27:34.120 --> 00:27:34.779
 I don't know if you want

00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:35.920
 me for this

00:27:35.920 --> 00:27:36.980
 because I'm not hip

00:27:36.980 --> 00:27:38.519
 and I sort of,

00:27:38.660 --> 00:27:39.140
 because I think

00:27:39.140 --> 00:27:39.700
 his organization

00:27:39.700 --> 00:27:41.019
 is a bit of a hip organization

00:27:41.019 --> 00:27:41.320
 I said,

00:27:41.380 --> 00:27:41.800
 I'm not hip.

00:27:41.880 --> 00:27:42.660
 When people look at me

00:27:42.660 --> 00:27:44.100
 they think hip replacement

00:27:44.100 --> 00:27:45.220
 not hip.

00:27:46.480 --> 00:27:47.100
 But anyway,

00:27:47.480 --> 00:27:47.840
 so anyway,

00:27:47.900 --> 00:27:49.060
 I went for a slog,

00:27:49.220 --> 00:27:49.680
 a run

00:27:49.680 --> 00:27:51.019
 and the CTV stops me

00:27:51.019 --> 00:27:51.120
 and he said,

00:27:51.119 --> 00:27:51.899
 do you have a moment sir?

00:27:51.939 --> 00:27:52.279
 And I said,

00:27:52.339 --> 00:27:52.559
 sure.

00:27:52.939 --> 00:27:53.559
 And he said,

00:27:53.599 --> 00:27:54.139
 have you heard,

00:27:54.279 --> 00:27:54.879
 I can't remember

00:27:54.879 --> 00:27:56.439
 if it's cancer or Alzheimer's

00:27:56.439 --> 00:27:56.819
 but anyway,

00:27:56.939 --> 00:27:57.659
 there's some study

00:27:57.659 --> 00:27:58.879
 that people who run a lot

00:27:58.879 --> 00:27:59.879
 for a long time

00:27:59.879 --> 00:28:01.019
 they're less susceptible,

00:28:01.179 --> 00:28:01.579
 I can't remember

00:28:01.579 --> 00:28:02.179
 which one it was.

00:28:02.239 --> 00:28:02.979
 Have you read the study?

00:28:03.539 --> 00:28:04.059
 Or heard the study?

00:28:04.099 --> 00:28:04.239
 I said,

00:28:04.259 --> 00:28:04.359
 no,

00:28:04.379 --> 00:28:04.939
 I haven't heard that.

00:28:04.979 --> 00:28:05.159
 He said,

00:28:05.179 --> 00:28:05.279
 well,

00:28:05.279 --> 00:28:06.139
 what do you think about it?

00:28:06.439 --> 00:28:06.739
 And I,

00:28:06.859 --> 00:28:07.699
 without even thinking,

00:28:07.819 --> 00:28:08.479
 just being me,

00:28:08.539 --> 00:28:08.859
 I said,

00:28:08.919 --> 00:28:09.039
 well,

00:28:09.079 --> 00:28:09.419
 you know,

00:28:10.379 --> 00:28:11.979
 God created us

00:28:11.979 --> 00:28:13.239
 and,

00:28:13.339 --> 00:28:13.899
 you know,

00:28:13.979 --> 00:28:15.239
 he created us to run.

00:28:15.459 --> 00:28:16.619
 It's a natural thing

00:28:16.619 --> 00:28:17.699
 so it sort of makes sense

00:28:17.699 --> 00:28:18.879
 that if God created us

00:28:18.880 --> 00:28:20.580
 to do a natural thing

00:28:20.580 --> 00:28:21.200
 that it would be

00:28:21.200 --> 00:28:22.100
 naturally healthy.

00:28:22.660 --> 00:28:22.980
 Well,

00:28:23.060 --> 00:28:24.700
 I wish I'd had a cameraman

00:28:24.700 --> 00:28:26.480
 there to film

00:28:26.480 --> 00:28:28.600
 the interviewer

00:28:28.600 --> 00:28:29.400
 from CTV.

00:28:29.960 --> 00:28:31.040
 He literally went

00:28:31.040 --> 00:28:32.480
 like this

00:28:32.480 --> 00:28:35.180
 and we talked

00:28:35.180 --> 00:28:35.800
 for another three

00:28:35.800 --> 00:28:36.380
 or four minutes

00:28:36.380 --> 00:28:36.800
 because,

00:28:36.960 --> 00:28:37.340
 and I'm sure

00:28:37.340 --> 00:28:38.080
 I wasn't on TV,

00:28:38.200 --> 00:28:39.280
 he definitely didn't want

00:28:39.280 --> 00:28:40.780
 anybody to say on TV

00:28:40.780 --> 00:28:42.140
 that God created us.

00:28:42.780 --> 00:28:43.220
 He said,

00:28:43.280 --> 00:28:43.420
 well,

00:28:43.420 --> 00:28:44.260
 I guess you can look

00:28:44.260 --> 00:28:45.040
 at it evolutionary

00:28:45.040 --> 00:28:46.060
 and I guess there's

00:28:46.060 --> 00:28:46.480
 some evolution

00:28:46.480 --> 00:28:47.280
 and I think

00:28:47.280 --> 00:28:47.920
 God created us.

00:28:47.920 --> 00:28:48.200
 Well,

00:28:48.240 --> 00:28:48.779
 I think there's some,

00:28:48.880 --> 00:28:49.160
 you know,

00:28:49.740 --> 00:28:50.700
 it was like,

00:28:52.100 --> 00:28:52.360
 why,

00:28:52.519 --> 00:28:52.940
 does this guy

00:28:52.940 --> 00:28:53.920
 have three heads?

00:28:54.039 --> 00:28:54.200
 Like,

00:28:54.220 --> 00:28:54.920
 is he an alien?

00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:55.320
 Like,

00:28:55.360 --> 00:28:55.960
 did he crawl out

00:28:55.960 --> 00:28:56.740
 from a rock?

00:28:57.519 --> 00:28:57.880
 Anyway,

00:28:58.380 --> 00:28:58.700
 I mean,

00:28:58.720 --> 00:28:59.279
 that's the world

00:28:59.279 --> 00:28:59.820
 we live in,

00:28:59.840 --> 00:29:00.039
 right?

00:29:00.680 --> 00:29:01.500
 So here's where

00:29:01.500 --> 00:29:02.820
 atheist helps us again.

00:29:03.740 --> 00:29:04.539
 If you could put it up.

00:29:05.960 --> 00:29:07.100
 And there's a,

00:29:07.220 --> 00:29:08.279
 he really is

00:29:08.279 --> 00:29:09.120
 a famous atheist.

00:29:09.240 --> 00:29:10.039
 He's not one of those

00:29:10.039 --> 00:29:11.860
 atheists who gets

00:29:11.860 --> 00:29:12.560
 all the press

00:29:12.560 --> 00:29:13.039
 like hot,

00:29:13.140 --> 00:29:13.300
 you know,

00:29:13.360 --> 00:29:14.200
 like Dawkins

00:29:14.200 --> 00:29:14.700
 and all that,

00:29:14.779 --> 00:29:15.940
 but he's been

00:29:15.940 --> 00:29:16.380
 a professor

00:29:16.380 --> 00:29:17.340
 at New York University

00:29:17.339 --> 00:29:18.319
 since 1980.

00:29:18.459 --> 00:29:19.179
 He's an emeritus

00:29:19.179 --> 00:29:19.720
 professor.

00:29:19.879 --> 00:29:20.699
 He's written all sorts

00:29:20.699 --> 00:29:21.539
 of important books

00:29:21.539 --> 00:29:22.079
 and articles.

00:29:22.679 --> 00:29:23.959
 A well-known atheist.

00:29:24.559 --> 00:29:25.539
 Wouldn't agree with me

00:29:25.539 --> 00:29:26.539
 on probably just about

00:29:26.539 --> 00:29:27.359
 anything at all.

00:29:27.879 --> 00:29:29.220
 And he wrote this book

00:29:29.220 --> 00:29:30.240
 in 2012,

00:29:30.240 --> 00:29:31.299
 which got published

00:29:31.299 --> 00:29:33.699
 by the Oxford University Press,

00:29:33.839 --> 00:29:34.419
 which some of you

00:29:34.419 --> 00:29:34.759
 might know

00:29:34.759 --> 00:29:35.720
 as sort of a significant

00:29:35.720 --> 00:29:36.659
 publishing press,

00:29:37.019 --> 00:29:37.779
 highly academic

00:29:37.779 --> 00:29:38.379
 and intellectual.

00:29:38.500 --> 00:29:39.240
 The book was called

00:29:39.240 --> 00:29:40.319
 Mind and Cosmos,

00:29:40.319 --> 00:29:41.919
 Why the Materialist,

00:29:42.279 --> 00:29:43.159
 Neo-Darwinian

00:29:43.159 --> 00:29:44.240
 conception of nature

00:29:44.240 --> 00:29:45.879
 is almost certainly false.

00:29:47.319 --> 00:29:48.480
 Here's two quotes.

00:29:49.059 --> 00:29:49.799
 First one.

00:29:51.159 --> 00:29:52.059
 I don't know if you can see it,

00:29:52.119 --> 00:29:52.619
 small print.

00:29:53.299 --> 00:29:54.480
 Whatever one may think

00:29:54.480 --> 00:29:55.439
 about the possibility

00:29:55.439 --> 00:29:56.399
 of a designer,

00:29:57.279 --> 00:29:57.619
 remember,

00:29:57.720 --> 00:29:59.159
 he's a committed atheist,

00:30:00.480 --> 00:30:00.899
 complete,

00:30:01.019 --> 00:30:01.200
 in fact,

00:30:01.240 --> 00:30:01.740
 he has a very,

00:30:01.859 --> 00:30:02.859
 very famous quote

00:30:02.859 --> 00:30:03.879
 that Tim Keller

00:30:03.879 --> 00:30:04.500
 likes to quote

00:30:04.500 --> 00:30:05.019
 all the time

00:30:05.019 --> 00:30:05.619
 about how

00:30:05.619 --> 00:30:06.700
 it's not just

00:30:06.700 --> 00:30:07.240
 that I believe

00:30:07.240 --> 00:30:07.819
 intellectually

00:30:07.819 --> 00:30:08.419
 that God

00:30:08.419 --> 00:30:09.879
 does not exist.

00:30:10.059 --> 00:30:10.740
 I don't want

00:30:10.740 --> 00:30:11.720
 God to exist.

00:30:12.919 --> 00:30:13.779
 I'll do whatever

00:30:13.779 --> 00:30:14.700
 I can to come up

00:30:14.700 --> 00:30:15.279
 with an argument

00:30:15.279 --> 00:30:16.039
 to make sure

00:30:16.039 --> 00:30:17.399
 that I'm right

00:30:17.399 --> 00:30:18.579
 that God doesn't exist.

00:30:19.500 --> 00:30:19.679
 Okay?

00:30:19.740 --> 00:30:20.639
 This is the same guy.

00:30:20.960 --> 00:30:21.899
 Keller uses his quote

00:30:21.899 --> 00:30:22.419
 all the time,

00:30:22.519 --> 00:30:23.220
 but he also said

00:30:23.220 --> 00:30:23.779
 this in this book.

00:30:24.139 --> 00:30:25.059
 Whatever one may think

00:30:25.059 --> 00:30:25.859
 about the possibility

00:30:25.859 --> 00:30:26.579
 of a designer,

00:30:27.259 --> 00:30:28.539
 the prevailing doctrine,

00:30:29.379 --> 00:30:30.039
 that is what

00:30:30.039 --> 00:30:31.399
 CTV news anchors

00:30:31.399 --> 00:30:32.220
 and interviewers

00:30:32.220 --> 00:30:33.279
 and all would say,

00:30:33.339 --> 00:30:34.059
 that the appearance

00:30:34.059 --> 00:30:34.720
 of life

00:30:34.720 --> 00:30:36.579
 from dead matter

00:30:36.579 --> 00:30:38.579
 and its evolution

00:30:38.579 --> 00:30:39.759
 through accidental

00:30:39.759 --> 00:30:40.439
 mutation

00:30:40.439 --> 00:30:41.599
 and natural selection

00:30:41.599 --> 00:30:42.879
 to its present forms

00:30:42.879 --> 00:30:43.980
 has involved

00:30:43.980 --> 00:30:45.939
 nothing but the operation

00:30:45.939 --> 00:30:46.779
 of physical law.

00:30:46.879 --> 00:30:47.720
 That's what basically

00:30:47.720 --> 00:30:48.379
 you get taught

00:30:48.379 --> 00:30:49.039
 in your chemistry,

00:30:49.199 --> 00:30:50.240
 your biology books.

00:30:51.000 --> 00:30:51.659
 Here's what he says.

00:30:51.740 --> 00:30:53.019
 Cannot be regarded

00:30:53.019 --> 00:30:54.059
 as unassailable.

00:30:55.559 --> 00:30:56.480
 Here's the big thing.

00:30:56.939 --> 00:30:58.639
 It is an assumption

00:30:58.639 --> 00:31:02.839
 governing the scientific project

00:31:02.839 --> 00:31:05.139
 rather than a well-confirmed

00:31:05.139 --> 00:31:06.519
 scientific hypothesis.

00:31:06.579 --> 00:31:09.639
 This is from an emeritus

00:31:09.639 --> 00:31:11.559
 professor of philosophy

00:31:11.559 --> 00:31:12.679
 at New York University

00:31:12.679 --> 00:31:15.539
 who's had a 40-some-odd year

00:31:15.539 --> 00:31:18.720
 career as a serious scholar

00:31:18.720 --> 00:31:20.359
 and a serious atheist.

00:31:20.960 --> 00:31:21.980
 Here's another quote.

00:31:22.579 --> 00:31:23.980
 But for a long time,

00:31:24.099 --> 00:31:26.019
 I have found the materialist

00:31:26.019 --> 00:31:27.980
 account of how we

00:31:27.980 --> 00:31:29.299
 and our fellow organisms

00:31:29.299 --> 00:31:30.519
 came to exist

00:31:30.519 --> 00:31:32.039
 hard to believe,

00:31:33.539 --> 00:31:35.359
 including the standard version

00:31:35.359 --> 00:31:37.539
 of how the evolutionary process works.

00:31:38.419 --> 00:31:39.899
 Here's this really big thing

00:31:39.899 --> 00:31:40.399
 he says.

00:31:40.399 --> 00:31:42.740
 The more details we learn

00:31:42.740 --> 00:31:44.699
 about the chemical basis of life

00:31:44.699 --> 00:31:46.740
 and the intricacy

00:31:46.740 --> 00:31:47.859
 of the genetic code,

00:31:48.299 --> 00:31:49.399
 the more unbelievable

00:31:50.019 --> 00:31:52.899
 the standard historical account becomes.

00:31:52.900 --> 00:31:56.400
 If you could put up the point,

00:31:57.620 --> 00:31:58.500
 the choice

00:31:58.500 --> 00:32:00.259
 that we face

00:32:00.259 --> 00:32:02.380
 is not between science and faith.

00:32:02.920 --> 00:32:03.800
 The choice

00:32:03.800 --> 00:32:05.400
 is between two beliefs.

00:32:05.400 --> 00:32:10.100
 The choice

00:32:10.100 --> 00:32:11.340
 is not between

00:32:11.340 --> 00:32:13.220
 science and faith.

00:32:13.340 --> 00:32:14.100
 The choice

00:32:14.100 --> 00:32:16.500
 is between two beliefs.

00:32:18.640 --> 00:32:19.160
 You know,

00:32:19.200 --> 00:32:20.360
 why is it that an atheist,

00:32:20.680 --> 00:32:20.820
 you know,

00:32:20.860 --> 00:32:21.200
 and in fact,

00:32:21.259 --> 00:32:22.019
 one of the things that

00:32:22.019 --> 00:32:22.780
 Nagel said

00:32:22.780 --> 00:32:23.960
 in interviews around this

00:32:23.960 --> 00:32:24.920
 book,

00:32:25.000 --> 00:32:26.080
 which caused a lot of,

00:32:26.140 --> 00:32:26.320
 in fact,

00:32:26.340 --> 00:32:27.700
 he had to turn his phone off,

00:32:27.740 --> 00:32:29.060
 he turned off his answer machine,

00:32:29.259 --> 00:32:30.120
 stopped looking at email

00:32:30.120 --> 00:32:31.240
 because of all the hate mail

00:32:31.240 --> 00:32:31.740
 he got,

00:32:31.740 --> 00:32:33.759
 because people said

00:32:33.759 --> 00:32:34.420
 he was playing into

00:32:34.420 --> 00:32:35.180
 the hand of theists

00:32:35.180 --> 00:32:36.599
 and his response was

00:32:36.599 --> 00:32:38.500
 the current understanding

00:32:38.500 --> 00:32:39.680
 of how evolution works

00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:41.460
 cannot possibly be true

00:32:41.460 --> 00:32:43.200
 and the longer

00:32:43.200 --> 00:32:45.099
 we keep holding to this,

00:32:45.740 --> 00:32:46.319
 the more

00:32:46.319 --> 00:32:48.059
 that the intelligent design

00:32:48.059 --> 00:32:48.859
 and theist crowds

00:32:48.859 --> 00:32:49.880
 are going to gain followers.

00:32:50.039 --> 00:32:50.859
 So if we want to win

00:32:50.859 --> 00:32:52.099
 the world for atheism,

00:32:52.400 --> 00:32:53.240
 let's stop

00:32:53.240 --> 00:32:54.819
 flogging a dead horse

00:32:54.819 --> 00:32:55.720
 and find the right

00:32:55.720 --> 00:32:56.920
 scientific explanation.

00:32:59.480 --> 00:33:00.500
 Why does he do this?

00:33:00.519 --> 00:33:01.599
 He understands several things.

00:33:01.599 --> 00:33:02.359
 He understands

00:33:02.359 --> 00:33:03.339
 that this materialist

00:33:03.339 --> 00:33:04.059
 understanding

00:33:04.059 --> 00:33:05.899
 of how things came to be

00:33:05.899 --> 00:33:06.980
 cannot account

00:33:06.980 --> 00:33:08.740
 for how the human mind works.

00:33:09.179 --> 00:33:09.959
 It cannot account

00:33:09.959 --> 00:33:10.819
 for human freedom.

00:33:11.279 --> 00:33:12.139
 It cannot account

00:33:12.139 --> 00:33:13.439
 for creativity.

00:33:13.759 --> 00:33:14.519
 It cannot account

00:33:14.519 --> 00:33:15.379
 for human dignity.

00:33:15.799 --> 00:33:16.619
 It cannot account

00:33:16.619 --> 00:33:17.240
 for morals.

00:33:17.379 --> 00:33:18.159
 It cannot account

00:33:18.159 --> 00:33:18.859
 for love.

00:33:20.379 --> 00:33:21.399
 And as he also

00:33:21.399 --> 00:33:22.319
 makes a point here

00:33:22.319 --> 00:33:23.139
 as he shows in this book,

00:33:23.199 --> 00:33:24.359
 it can't even account

00:33:24.359 --> 00:33:25.439
 for the growing knowledge

00:33:25.439 --> 00:33:26.179
 of science

00:33:26.179 --> 00:33:27.539
 about all of the basic

00:33:27.539 --> 00:33:28.339
 intricacy

00:33:28.339 --> 00:33:29.159
 of things

00:33:29.159 --> 00:33:30.179
 that cannot possibly

00:33:30.179 --> 00:33:31.240
 be accounted for

00:33:31.240 --> 00:33:32.420
 by natural selection.

00:33:33.779 --> 00:33:34.039
 You see,

00:33:34.120 --> 00:33:34.920
 he understands

00:33:34.920 --> 00:33:35.779
 that if the choices

00:33:35.779 --> 00:33:37.359
 between these two ideas,

00:33:37.880 --> 00:33:38.359
 and if this is,

00:33:38.440 --> 00:33:39.099
 which I'm going to show you,

00:33:39.099 --> 00:33:39.299
 Andrew,

00:33:39.380 --> 00:33:39.920
 could you put it up?

00:33:39.920 --> 00:33:40.980
 If this is the choice,

00:33:41.019 --> 00:33:42.000
 if the choices

00:33:42.000 --> 00:33:43.779
 between two ideas,

00:33:43.779 --> 00:33:46.579
 then at some point in time,

00:33:46.639 --> 00:33:47.639
 as it's made clearer

00:33:47.639 --> 00:33:48.559
 and clearer to people,

00:33:48.660 --> 00:33:49.440
 people will realize

00:33:49.440 --> 00:33:50.099
 that one idea

00:33:50.099 --> 00:33:51.579
 cannot possibly be true.

00:33:52.379 --> 00:33:53.160
 And this is what

00:33:53.160 --> 00:33:54.059
 the choice is

00:33:54.059 --> 00:33:54.879
 that we face.

00:33:59.539 --> 00:34:00.019
 Matter,

00:34:00.740 --> 00:34:01.859
 pure chance,

00:34:02.420 --> 00:34:03.619
 and cause and effect

00:34:03.619 --> 00:34:05.139
 account for life

00:34:05.139 --> 00:34:07.200
 and the intricate,

00:34:07.519 --> 00:34:09.000
 fine-tuned universe.

00:34:09.000 --> 00:34:09.119
 universe.

00:34:10.320 --> 00:34:10.760
 Or,

00:34:11.719 --> 00:34:12.760
 God designed

00:34:12.760 --> 00:34:13.860
 and created life

00:34:13.860 --> 00:34:15.000
 and the intricate,

00:34:15.699 --> 00:34:17.659
 fine-tuned universe.

00:34:18.380 --> 00:34:18.900
 I'm going to read it

00:34:18.900 --> 00:34:19.480
 again in a moment.

00:34:19.880 --> 00:34:20.699
 Let me just tell you,

00:34:21.019 --> 00:34:21.280
 you know,

00:34:21.579 --> 00:34:23.179
 as science has developed

00:34:23.179 --> 00:34:25.159
 in the last 159 years

00:34:25.159 --> 00:34:25.880
 since the origin

00:34:25.880 --> 00:34:26.420
 of the species

00:34:26.420 --> 00:34:26.860
 was written

00:34:26.860 --> 00:34:27.800
 by Charles Darwin,

00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:29.800
 as science has progressed

00:34:29.800 --> 00:34:31.380
 in the last 159 years,

00:34:31.719 --> 00:34:32.599
 as you understand

00:34:32.599 --> 00:34:33.559
 increasingly,

00:34:34.400 --> 00:34:35.679
 the intricacies

00:34:35.679 --> 00:34:36.639
 of everything,

00:34:36.639 --> 00:34:37.199
 I mean,

00:34:37.259 --> 00:34:38.019
 every time they look

00:34:38.019 --> 00:34:38.359
 at something,

00:34:38.420 --> 00:34:39.159
 it becomes more

00:34:39.159 --> 00:34:40.000
 and more intricate.

00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:41.440
 When you look at DNA

00:34:41.440 --> 00:34:42.719
 and the genetic code,

00:34:43.179 --> 00:34:44.759
 to think that these things

00:34:44.759 --> 00:34:46.039
 could happen completely

00:34:46.039 --> 00:34:47.359
 and utterly by chance,

00:34:47.440 --> 00:34:48.879
 the more that science grows,

00:34:49.000 --> 00:34:50.480
 the more impossible it is

00:34:50.480 --> 00:34:51.619
 to believe that it can happen

00:34:51.619 --> 00:34:52.519
 by chance.

00:34:52.879 --> 00:34:53.940
 Because the thing is,

00:34:53.980 --> 00:34:55.059
 this first statement

00:34:55.059 --> 00:34:56.239
 that matter,

00:34:56.379 --> 00:34:56.940
 pure chance,

00:34:57.000 --> 00:34:57.779
 and cause and effect

00:34:57.779 --> 00:34:58.659
 account for life

00:34:58.659 --> 00:34:59.279
 in the intricate,

00:34:59.500 --> 00:35:00.179
 fine-tuned universe,

00:35:00.539 --> 00:35:01.799
 that's what it has to do.

00:35:03.699 --> 00:35:04.259
 You know,

00:35:04.359 --> 00:35:05.359
 it's not just a matter

00:35:05.359 --> 00:35:05.920
 that maybe,

00:35:05.920 --> 00:35:06.180
 you know,

00:35:06.200 --> 00:35:07.460
 something like natural selection

00:35:07.460 --> 00:35:08.260
 can account for,

00:35:08.340 --> 00:35:08.480
 you know,

00:35:08.539 --> 00:35:09.300
 how a bat,

00:35:09.440 --> 00:35:09.579
 you know,

00:35:09.619 --> 00:35:10.099
 or a moth

00:35:10.099 --> 00:35:11.099
 changes its colors

00:35:11.099 --> 00:35:12.780
 or certain types of changes

00:35:12.780 --> 00:35:13.820
 in terms of the size

00:35:13.820 --> 00:35:14.740
 of horses and stuff.

00:35:14.940 --> 00:35:15.940
 But this project,

00:35:16.079 --> 00:35:16.519
 this idea,

00:35:16.800 --> 00:35:17.860
 it has to account

00:35:17.860 --> 00:35:20.200
 for how big the sun is

00:35:20.200 --> 00:35:22.740
 and how fast the sun

00:35:22.740 --> 00:35:24.079
 is hurtling through space

00:35:24.079 --> 00:35:25.680
 and how fast

00:35:25.680 --> 00:35:28.180
 that the planets

00:35:28.180 --> 00:35:30.200
 around the sun

00:35:30.200 --> 00:35:31.260
 are spinning

00:35:31.260 --> 00:35:34.139
 and how far

00:35:34.139 --> 00:35:34.820
 the earth is

00:35:34.820 --> 00:35:35.619
 from the sun.

00:35:35.920 --> 00:35:37.079
 compared to the size

00:35:37.079 --> 00:35:37.340
 of it

00:35:37.340 --> 00:35:38.519
 and the angle

00:35:38.519 --> 00:35:39.079
 of the earth

00:35:39.079 --> 00:35:39.820
 and how fast

00:35:39.820 --> 00:35:40.680
 the earth spins

00:35:40.680 --> 00:35:41.420
 and how fast

00:35:41.420 --> 00:35:42.300
 the earth is moving

00:35:42.300 --> 00:35:42.980
 and the distance

00:35:42.980 --> 00:35:43.519
 of the earth

00:35:43.519 --> 00:35:44.000
 to the moon

00:35:44.000 --> 00:35:44.940
 and countless

00:35:44.940 --> 00:35:45.539
 other things.

00:35:45.840 --> 00:35:46.320
 And that all

00:35:46.320 --> 00:35:47.139
 has to be accounted

00:35:47.139 --> 00:35:47.860
 for completely

00:35:47.860 --> 00:35:48.200
 and utterly

00:35:48.200 --> 00:35:49.180
 by chance.

00:35:52.280 --> 00:35:53.059
 And that doesn't

00:35:53.059 --> 00:35:53.680
 even count on

00:35:53.680 --> 00:35:54.460
 trying to understand

00:35:54.460 --> 00:35:55.480
 how the chemical

00:35:55.480 --> 00:35:56.539
 makeup of something

00:35:56.539 --> 00:35:57.220
 like DNA

00:35:57.220 --> 00:35:58.280
 could purely

00:35:58.280 --> 00:35:59.440
 happen by chance.

00:35:59.559 --> 00:36:00.460
 Because here's

00:36:00.460 --> 00:36:00.940
 the thing,

00:36:00.940 --> 00:36:03.440
 if we were out

00:36:03.440 --> 00:36:03.880
 and let's say

00:36:03.880 --> 00:36:04.539
 we had a chance

00:36:04.539 --> 00:36:05.159
 to go somewhere,

00:36:05.220 --> 00:36:05.559
 I don't know,

00:36:05.559 --> 00:36:10.500
 off of the Atlantic

00:36:10.500 --> 00:36:11.740
 or in the Gulf Coast

00:36:11.740 --> 00:36:13.720
 or off of an island

00:36:13.720 --> 00:36:14.519
 in the Caribbean

00:36:14.519 --> 00:36:15.480
 and we had a,

00:36:15.599 --> 00:36:16.539
 just because we're

00:36:16.539 --> 00:36:17.320
 an ordinary guy,

00:36:17.460 --> 00:36:17.920
 but we haven't had,

00:36:18.500 --> 00:36:19.460
 we're an ordinary

00:36:19.460 --> 00:36:20.200
 middle class guy

00:36:20.200 --> 00:36:20.700
 who just happens

00:36:20.700 --> 00:36:21.260
 to know a billionaire

00:36:21.260 --> 00:36:22.039
 who can get flown

00:36:22.039 --> 00:36:22.740
 by a helicopter

00:36:22.740 --> 00:36:23.740
 to a private island.

00:36:23.940 --> 00:36:24.280
 Sorry,

00:36:24.400 --> 00:36:25.659
 a little bit of a jab.

00:36:26.359 --> 00:36:27.339
 And we go to this place

00:36:27.339 --> 00:36:28.019
 and then we go

00:36:28.019 --> 00:36:28.960
 to an island

00:36:28.960 --> 00:36:29.719
 that's just a little bit

00:36:29.719 --> 00:36:30.239
 of a thing

00:36:30.239 --> 00:36:31.179
 in the middle of nowhere

00:36:31.179 --> 00:36:32.319
 and we're wandering around

00:36:32.319 --> 00:36:33.099
 and we're looking

00:36:33.099 --> 00:36:33.699
 and we're marveling

00:36:33.699 --> 00:36:34.399
 at the driftwood

00:36:34.399 --> 00:36:35.619
 and we're marveling

00:36:35.619 --> 00:36:36.119
 at how,

00:36:36.519 --> 00:36:36.739
 you know,

00:36:36.779 --> 00:36:37.639
 the waves have drawn

00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:38.119
 things up

00:36:38.119 --> 00:36:38.719
 and maybe if some

00:36:38.719 --> 00:36:39.539
 of you are photographers

00:36:39.539 --> 00:36:40.359
 you're just taking

00:36:40.359 --> 00:36:41.379
 some of the pictures

00:36:41.379 --> 00:36:42.179
 of some of the beautiful

00:36:42.179 --> 00:36:43.299
 things that you can see

00:36:43.299 --> 00:36:45.119
 when just things

00:36:45.119 --> 00:36:45.960
 get thrown together

00:36:45.960 --> 00:36:46.920
 higgledy-piggledy.

00:36:47.559 --> 00:36:47.699
 You know,

00:36:47.819 --> 00:36:48.859
 many of us maybe

00:36:48.859 --> 00:36:49.960
 have pieces of driftwood

00:36:49.960 --> 00:36:50.759
 that just look really

00:36:50.759 --> 00:36:52.199
 beautiful after they've

00:36:52.199 --> 00:36:52.960
 just been banged up

00:36:52.960 --> 00:36:53.980
 but if we were walking

00:36:53.980 --> 00:36:54.579
 around the island

00:36:54.579 --> 00:36:55.920
 and we found stones

00:36:55.920 --> 00:36:56.880
 that said,

00:36:57.119 --> 00:36:57.880
 I love Joe,

00:36:58.719 --> 00:36:59.960
 nobody would say

00:36:59.960 --> 00:37:01.219
 that that came by chance.

00:37:02.319 --> 00:37:02.480
 In fact,

00:37:02.519 --> 00:37:03.159
 if you had somebody

00:37:03.159 --> 00:37:03.739
 in your party

00:37:03.739 --> 00:37:04.139
 who said,

00:37:04.619 --> 00:37:05.059
 whoa,

00:37:05.360 --> 00:37:06.519
 I love Joe,

00:37:07.000 --> 00:37:07.860
 that must have been

00:37:07.860 --> 00:37:08.840
 a rogue wave

00:37:08.840 --> 00:37:09.559
 that came up

00:37:09.559 --> 00:37:10.480
 with big stones

00:37:10.480 --> 00:37:11.179
 from the bottom

00:37:11.179 --> 00:37:12.360
 and when the wave

00:37:12.360 --> 00:37:13.000
 came back

00:37:13.000 --> 00:37:13.519
 it spelled,

00:37:13.719 --> 00:37:14.599
 I love Joe.

00:37:14.840 --> 00:37:15.619
 You'd think he was

00:37:15.619 --> 00:37:16.000
 an idiot.

00:37:18.380 --> 00:37:19.179
 And everybody

00:37:19.179 --> 00:37:19.639
 would think

00:37:19.639 --> 00:37:20.219
 he was an idiot.

00:37:20.920 --> 00:37:21.199
 Right?

00:37:21.679 --> 00:37:22.279
 Like if it was

00:37:22.279 --> 00:37:22.920
 in a movie,

00:37:24.000 --> 00:37:24.360
 who's that?

00:37:24.579 --> 00:37:25.199
 actor,

00:37:25.299 --> 00:37:25.819
 the Greek Isaac.

00:37:27.219 --> 00:37:27.559
 Yeah,

00:37:27.619 --> 00:37:28.719
 that would be

00:37:28.719 --> 00:37:29.239
 the guy

00:37:29.239 --> 00:37:29.980
 in the movie,

00:37:30.659 --> 00:37:31.719
 probably stoned

00:37:31.719 --> 00:37:32.159
 or drunk

00:37:32.159 --> 00:37:32.739
 in the movie

00:37:32.739 --> 00:37:33.279
 who would say,

00:37:33.360 --> 00:37:33.639
 whoa,

00:37:33.719 --> 00:37:34.659
 it came from a wave.

00:37:35.039 --> 00:37:35.239
 You know,

00:37:35.319 --> 00:37:37.440
 he's just being a goof.

00:37:39.000 --> 00:37:40.119
 The genetic code

00:37:40.119 --> 00:37:40.579
 of DNA

00:37:40.579 --> 00:37:44.199
 is exponentially

00:37:44.199 --> 00:37:46.319
 billions times

00:37:46.319 --> 00:37:47.299
 more complicated

00:37:47.299 --> 00:37:47.779
 and that's just

00:37:47.779 --> 00:37:48.900
 one tiny little thing

00:37:48.900 --> 00:37:49.639
 in an intricately

00:37:49.639 --> 00:37:50.699
 fine-tuned universe

00:37:50.699 --> 00:37:52.199
 than having stones

00:37:52.199 --> 00:37:53.199
 be washed up

00:37:53.199 --> 00:37:53.759
 from a wave

00:37:53.759 --> 00:37:54.139
 that said,

00:37:54.279 --> 00:37:55.179
 I love Joe.

00:37:56.559 --> 00:37:57.359
 And that's what

00:37:57.359 --> 00:37:58.159
 Thomas Nagel

00:37:58.159 --> 00:37:58.939
 understands.

00:38:00.259 --> 00:38:01.419
 That the evolutionary

00:38:01.419 --> 00:38:02.319
 project

00:38:02.319 --> 00:38:03.480
 has to

00:38:03.480 --> 00:38:05.119
 from purely

00:38:05.119 --> 00:38:06.480
 from matter,

00:38:06.599 --> 00:38:07.139
 pure chance

00:38:07.139 --> 00:38:07.859
 and cause and effect

00:38:07.859 --> 00:38:09.339
 count for not just life

00:38:09.339 --> 00:38:10.619
 but for everything.

00:38:11.219 --> 00:38:12.219
 And as science grows

00:38:12.219 --> 00:38:13.239
 it becomes more and more

00:38:13.239 --> 00:38:14.159
 completely and utterly

00:38:14.159 --> 00:38:14.699
 impossible

00:38:14.699 --> 00:38:15.379
 to believe

00:38:15.379 --> 00:38:16.599
 that matter

00:38:16.599 --> 00:38:17.239
 and chance

00:38:17.239 --> 00:38:18.000
 and cause and effect

00:38:18.000 --> 00:38:18.980
 could cause that.

00:38:18.980 --> 00:38:22.019
 That's the direction

00:38:22.019 --> 00:38:22.719
 of knowledge.

00:38:22.820 --> 00:38:24.099
 The more science grows

00:38:24.099 --> 00:38:25.820
 the more it shows

00:38:25.820 --> 00:38:26.719
 that in the beginning

00:38:26.719 --> 00:38:28.019
 was the Word

00:38:28.019 --> 00:38:28.860
 and the Word

00:38:28.860 --> 00:38:29.740
 was with God

00:38:29.740 --> 00:38:30.240
 and the Word

00:38:30.240 --> 00:38:30.980
 was God.

00:38:31.099 --> 00:38:31.920
 He was in the beginning

00:38:31.920 --> 00:38:32.500
 with God.

00:38:32.619 --> 00:38:33.559
 All things were made

00:38:33.559 --> 00:38:34.099
 through Him

00:38:34.099 --> 00:38:34.760
 and without Him

00:38:34.760 --> 00:38:35.559
 nothing was made

00:38:35.559 --> 00:38:36.119
 that was made.

00:38:36.519 --> 00:38:37.380
 And now is a good time

00:38:37.380 --> 00:38:38.199
 to turn to Genesis

00:38:38.199 --> 00:38:39.019
 chapter 1.

00:38:39.019 --> 00:38:44.980
 And if you look

00:38:44.980 --> 00:38:46.059
 at Genesis chapter 1

00:38:46.059 --> 00:38:46.739
 verse 1

00:38:46.739 --> 00:38:47.880
 you'll see that

00:38:47.880 --> 00:38:48.920
 this isn't just something

00:38:48.920 --> 00:38:49.759
 that the New Testament

00:38:49.759 --> 00:38:50.219
 teaches.

00:38:50.340 --> 00:38:50.980
 You look at the very

00:38:50.980 --> 00:38:52.400
 very very first verse

00:38:52.400 --> 00:38:53.179
 and you see that

00:38:53.179 --> 00:38:54.900
 God opens

00:38:54.900 --> 00:38:55.599
 the book

00:38:55.599 --> 00:38:57.059
 and the story

00:38:57.059 --> 00:38:59.039
 by nailing it

00:38:59.039 --> 00:38:59.840
 to the mast.

00:39:01.659 --> 00:39:02.679
 In the beginning

00:39:02.679 --> 00:39:04.340
 God created

00:39:04.340 --> 00:39:05.420
 the heavens

00:39:05.420 --> 00:39:06.000
 and the earth.

00:39:06.000 --> 00:39:09.539
 In the beginning

00:39:09.539 --> 00:39:12.079
 one word

00:39:12.079 --> 00:39:12.679
 it means

00:39:12.679 --> 00:39:13.179
 there's nothing

00:39:13.179 --> 00:39:13.639
 before

00:39:13.639 --> 00:39:15.320
 God created

00:39:15.320 --> 00:39:15.719
 the heavens

00:39:15.719 --> 00:39:16.059
 and the earth.

00:39:16.119 --> 00:39:16.360
 You want to know

00:39:16.360 --> 00:39:16.940
 something which is

00:39:16.940 --> 00:39:17.659
 really cool?

00:39:18.519 --> 00:39:19.199
 In Hebrew

00:39:19.199 --> 00:39:20.199
 the word for God

00:39:20.199 --> 00:39:20.760
 is plural

00:39:20.760 --> 00:39:23.739
 and the word

00:39:23.739 --> 00:39:24.420
 that they choose

00:39:24.420 --> 00:39:25.159
 is the sort of

00:39:25.159 --> 00:39:25.480
 in a sense

00:39:25.480 --> 00:39:25.800
 what we would

00:39:25.800 --> 00:39:26.420
 just say God.

00:39:26.519 --> 00:39:26.960
 It's not like

00:39:26.960 --> 00:39:27.840
 our Heavenly Father

00:39:27.840 --> 00:39:28.760
 or the Lord Jesus Christ

00:39:28.760 --> 00:39:29.400
 it's just the word

00:39:29.400 --> 00:39:29.920
 for God

00:39:29.920 --> 00:39:30.659
 the way our culture

00:39:30.659 --> 00:39:31.380
 just generically

00:39:31.380 --> 00:39:32.380
 wants to refer to God

00:39:32.380 --> 00:39:33.260
 but in the Hebrew

00:39:33.260 --> 00:39:33.860
 it's plural

00:39:33.860 --> 00:39:36.079
 and there's a singular

00:39:36.079 --> 00:39:36.620
 verb

00:39:36.620 --> 00:39:39.120
 which is why

00:39:39.120 --> 00:39:39.700
 it's translated

00:39:39.700 --> 00:39:40.940
 not as God's created

00:39:40.940 --> 00:39:41.820
 but God created

00:39:41.820 --> 00:39:42.559
 because the verb

00:39:42.559 --> 00:39:43.120
 is singular.

00:39:43.599 --> 00:39:44.180
 Isn't that cool?

00:39:45.579 --> 00:39:45.920
 In the beginning

00:39:45.920 --> 00:39:46.559
 was the word

00:39:46.559 --> 00:39:46.980
 and the word

00:39:46.980 --> 00:39:47.680
 was with God

00:39:47.680 --> 00:39:48.039
 and the word

00:39:48.039 --> 00:39:48.620
 was God

00:39:48.620 --> 00:39:49.380
 he was in the beginning

00:39:49.380 --> 00:39:49.920
 with God

00:39:49.920 --> 00:39:50.920
 all things were made

00:39:50.920 --> 00:39:51.440
 through him

00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:52.079
 and without him

00:39:52.079 --> 00:39:52.840
 nothing was made

00:39:52.840 --> 00:39:53.460
 that was made.

00:39:54.840 --> 00:39:55.900
 In him was life

00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:57.120
 and the life

00:39:57.120 --> 00:39:57.980
 was the light of men.

00:39:59.260 --> 00:40:00.140
 And Genesis 1

00:40:00.140 --> 00:40:01.640
 1 says

00:40:01.640 --> 00:40:02.400
 in the beginning

00:40:02.400 --> 00:40:04.000
 God created

00:40:04.000 --> 00:40:05.519
 the heavens

00:40:05.519 --> 00:40:06.400
 and the earth

00:40:06.400 --> 00:40:08.019
 which is called

00:40:08.019 --> 00:40:08.900
 in grammar

00:40:08.900 --> 00:40:09.900
 a merism

00:40:09.900 --> 00:40:11.360
 it means

00:40:11.360 --> 00:40:12.240
 how you describe

00:40:12.240 --> 00:40:13.119
 a totality

00:40:13.119 --> 00:40:13.740
 by using

00:40:13.740 --> 00:40:14.800
 its two extremes

00:40:14.800 --> 00:40:15.980
 I had to look that up

00:40:15.980 --> 00:40:18.720
 I didn't know

00:40:18.720 --> 00:40:19.400
 what it was before

00:40:19.400 --> 00:40:20.840
 it was in one

00:40:20.840 --> 00:40:21.559
 of the commentaries

00:40:21.559 --> 00:40:22.079
 I had to look it up

00:40:22.079 --> 00:40:22.500
 in the dictionary

00:40:22.500 --> 00:40:22.900
 what on earth

00:40:22.900 --> 00:40:23.579
 is a merism

00:40:23.579 --> 00:40:24.139
 I don't even know

00:40:24.139 --> 00:40:25.180
 I'm pronouncing it correctly

00:40:25.180 --> 00:40:26.599
 I never heard the word

00:40:26.599 --> 00:40:28.000
 spoken in speech before

00:40:28.000 --> 00:40:29.619
 but it means

00:40:29.619 --> 00:40:30.160
 in the beginning

00:40:30.160 --> 00:40:31.240
 God created

00:40:31.239 --> 00:40:32.359
 without him

00:40:32.359 --> 00:40:33.279
 nothing was made

00:40:33.279 --> 00:40:34.679
 all things were made

00:40:34.679 --> 00:40:35.139
 through him

00:40:35.139 --> 00:40:35.779
 and without him

00:40:35.779 --> 00:40:36.539
 nothing was made

00:40:36.539 --> 00:40:37.179
 that was made.

00:40:44.619 --> 00:40:45.500
 Okay we have just

00:40:45.500 --> 00:40:46.719
 a few more minutes

00:40:46.719 --> 00:40:47.919
 I have a couple of things

00:40:47.919 --> 00:40:48.819
 you know there's a

00:40:48.819 --> 00:40:50.019
 you know the story

00:40:50.019 --> 00:40:50.379
 of the emperor

00:40:50.379 --> 00:40:51.199
 in his new clothes

00:40:51.199 --> 00:40:53.059
 it's a really cool story

00:40:53.059 --> 00:40:53.279
 eh

00:40:53.279 --> 00:40:54.319
 and you know

00:40:54.319 --> 00:40:55.259
 in the original version

00:40:55.259 --> 00:40:55.659
 of the story

00:40:55.659 --> 00:40:56.599
 well the original story

00:40:56.599 --> 00:40:57.719
 was written by

00:40:57.719 --> 00:40:58.879
 Hans Christian Andersen

00:40:58.880 --> 00:40:59.720
 I think 18

00:40:59.720 --> 00:41:02.280
 first part of the 1800s

00:41:02.280 --> 00:41:03.200
 and if you remember

00:41:03.200 --> 00:41:03.800
 the story

00:41:03.800 --> 00:41:06.539
 a couple of tailors

00:41:06.539 --> 00:41:07.500
 wanted to rip off

00:41:07.500 --> 00:41:08.059
 the emperor

00:41:08.059 --> 00:41:09.900
 and so they said

00:41:09.900 --> 00:41:10.500
 oh emperor

00:41:10.500 --> 00:41:11.340
 we found this

00:41:11.340 --> 00:41:12.340
 new type of fabric

00:41:12.340 --> 00:41:14.720
 and they went like this

00:41:14.720 --> 00:41:16.000
 new type of fabric

00:41:16.000 --> 00:41:16.640
 and you know what's

00:41:16.640 --> 00:41:17.440
 so unique about this

00:41:17.440 --> 00:41:18.680
 you need this fabric

00:41:18.680 --> 00:41:19.119
 emperor

00:41:19.119 --> 00:41:20.920
 because only people

00:41:20.920 --> 00:41:21.860
 who are unfit

00:41:21.860 --> 00:41:22.720
 for their position

00:41:22.720 --> 00:41:25.880
 or unbelievably stupid

00:41:25.880 --> 00:41:28.160
 can't see it

00:41:28.160 --> 00:41:31.240
 the emperor

00:41:31.240 --> 00:41:32.019
 doesn't want to admit

00:41:32.019 --> 00:41:32.760
 that he's unfit

00:41:32.760 --> 00:41:33.539
 for his position

00:41:33.539 --> 00:41:34.700
 or that he's

00:41:34.700 --> 00:41:35.800
 unbelievably stupid

00:41:35.800 --> 00:41:37.160
 so he says

00:41:37.160 --> 00:41:37.599
 whoa

00:41:37.599 --> 00:41:38.440
 I would love you

00:41:38.440 --> 00:41:39.099
 to make something

00:41:39.099 --> 00:41:39.980
 for me out of that

00:41:39.980 --> 00:41:40.940
 they said

00:41:40.940 --> 00:41:41.280
 oh yeah

00:41:41.280 --> 00:41:41.680
 you know

00:41:41.680 --> 00:41:42.840
 you can walk

00:41:42.840 --> 00:41:43.579
 around with this

00:41:43.579 --> 00:41:44.640
 and you'll find out

00:41:44.640 --> 00:41:45.220
 who's unfit

00:41:45.220 --> 00:41:45.920
 for their position

00:41:45.920 --> 00:41:47.039
 or unbelievably stupid

00:41:47.039 --> 00:41:48.700
 so they pretend

00:41:48.700 --> 00:41:49.519
 to sew

00:41:49.519 --> 00:41:50.900
 clothes

00:41:50.900 --> 00:41:51.700
 on the emperor

00:41:51.700 --> 00:41:54.059
 and he goes out

00:41:54.059 --> 00:41:54.740
 for a walk

00:41:54.739 --> 00:41:56.899
 in his new clothes

00:41:56.899 --> 00:42:00.159
 and nobody wants

00:42:00.159 --> 00:42:01.000
 to say to the emperor

00:42:01.000 --> 00:42:02.199
 you don't have

00:42:02.199 --> 00:42:02.839
 anything on

00:42:02.839 --> 00:42:04.599
 because it's

00:42:04.599 --> 00:42:05.539
 an invisible fabric

00:42:05.539 --> 00:42:07.299
 and to not see it

00:42:07.299 --> 00:42:08.019
 shows that you are

00:42:08.019 --> 00:42:09.379
 what unbelievably stupid

00:42:09.379 --> 00:42:10.299
 or unfit

00:42:10.299 --> 00:42:11.000
 for your position

00:42:11.000 --> 00:42:13.859
 and so people

00:42:13.859 --> 00:42:14.500
 don't want to say

00:42:14.500 --> 00:42:15.259
 in our culture

00:42:15.259 --> 00:42:15.979
 that maybe

00:42:15.979 --> 00:42:17.099
 that if you go

00:42:17.099 --> 00:42:17.519
 and you see

00:42:17.519 --> 00:42:18.319
 I love Joe

00:42:18.319 --> 00:42:18.659
 and you know

00:42:18.659 --> 00:42:19.059
 that it wasn't

00:42:19.059 --> 00:42:19.599
 by a rock

00:42:19.599 --> 00:42:20.199
 but somehow

00:42:20.199 --> 00:42:20.699
 or another

00:42:20.699 --> 00:42:23.419
 the genetic code

00:42:23.419 --> 00:42:23.939
 and DNA

00:42:23.940 --> 00:42:24.519
 could happen

00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:25.360
 by chance

00:42:25.360 --> 00:42:28.039
 maybe the emperor

00:42:28.039 --> 00:42:29.059
 has no clothes

00:42:29.059 --> 00:42:35.220
 just a couple

00:42:35.220 --> 00:42:35.619
 of things

00:42:35.619 --> 00:42:36.280
 in closing

00:42:36.280 --> 00:42:42.260
 this is how

00:42:42.260 --> 00:42:43.119
 the whole story

00:42:43.119 --> 00:42:43.720
 begins

00:42:43.720 --> 00:42:45.139
 and what I'm

00:42:45.139 --> 00:42:45.619
 going to show

00:42:45.619 --> 00:42:46.240
 over the next

00:42:46.240 --> 00:42:46.900
 couple of weeks

00:42:46.900 --> 00:42:47.860
 is this is

00:42:47.860 --> 00:42:48.539
 what carries

00:42:48.539 --> 00:42:49.360
 we've given

00:42:49.360 --> 00:42:49.740
 the ball

00:42:49.740 --> 00:42:50.519
 to Jesus

00:42:50.519 --> 00:42:52.019
 it's on his

00:42:52.019 --> 00:42:52.960
 broad shoulders

00:42:52.960 --> 00:42:54.460
 and now

00:42:54.460 --> 00:42:55.059
 we understand

00:42:55.059 --> 00:42:55.659
 that in the

00:42:55.659 --> 00:42:56.480
 very very first

00:42:56.480 --> 00:42:56.780
 words

00:42:56.780 --> 00:42:57.260
 in the beginning

00:42:57.260 --> 00:42:57.840
 God created

00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:58.119
 the heaven

00:42:58.119 --> 00:42:58.420
 and earth

00:42:58.420 --> 00:42:58.860
 that's how

00:42:58.860 --> 00:42:59.800
 God is introduced

00:42:59.800 --> 00:43:00.260
 it's how

00:43:00.260 --> 00:43:00.699
 the story

00:43:00.699 --> 00:43:01.240
 begins

00:43:01.240 --> 00:43:03.400
 and what's

00:43:03.400 --> 00:43:03.679
 going to be

00:43:03.679 --> 00:43:04.159
 described

00:43:04.159 --> 00:43:04.699
 in the two

00:43:04.699 --> 00:43:05.460
 next things

00:43:05.460 --> 00:43:06.260
 of chaos

00:43:06.260 --> 00:43:07.300
 and days

00:43:07.300 --> 00:43:08.300
 and garden

00:43:08.300 --> 00:43:08.720
 of Eden

00:43:08.720 --> 00:43:09.260
 they're all

00:43:09.260 --> 00:43:09.559
 going to be

00:43:09.559 --> 00:43:09.780
 true

00:43:09.780 --> 00:43:10.059
 we're going

00:43:10.059 --> 00:43:10.420
 to talk

00:43:10.420 --> 00:43:11.059
 about that

00:43:11.059 --> 00:43:11.920
 and I'm

00:43:11.920 --> 00:43:12.179
 not going

00:43:12.179 --> 00:43:12.460
 to deny

00:43:12.460 --> 00:43:12.880
 that there's

00:43:12.880 --> 00:43:13.320
 problems

00:43:13.320 --> 00:43:14.079
 with understanding

00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:14.300
 it

00:43:14.300 --> 00:43:14.539
 but

00:43:14.539 --> 00:43:17.179
 the seven

00:43:17.179 --> 00:43:17.639
 days of

00:43:17.639 --> 00:43:17.980
 creation

00:43:17.980 --> 00:43:18.519
 don't have

00:43:18.519 --> 00:43:18.940
 to carry

00:43:18.940 --> 00:43:19.280
 the big

00:43:19.280 --> 00:43:19.599
 weight

00:43:19.599 --> 00:43:21.460
 we can

00:43:21.460 --> 00:43:21.880
 understand

00:43:21.880 --> 00:43:22.420
 that God

00:43:22.420 --> 00:43:22.799
 has made

00:43:22.799 --> 00:43:23.279
 his big

00:43:23.279 --> 00:43:23.659
 point

00:43:23.659 --> 00:43:23.980
 in his

00:43:23.980 --> 00:43:24.319
 first

00:43:24.319 --> 00:43:24.719
 verse

00:43:24.719 --> 00:43:26.599
 and he's

00:43:26.599 --> 00:43:26.819
 going to

00:43:26.819 --> 00:43:27.219
 communicate

00:43:27.219 --> 00:43:28.099
 other types

00:43:28.099 --> 00:43:28.619
 of true

00:43:28.619 --> 00:43:29.259
 truths

00:43:29.259 --> 00:43:30.460
 in Genesis

00:43:30.460 --> 00:43:30.860
 1 and

00:43:30.860 --> 00:43:31.139
 Genesis

00:43:31.139 --> 00:43:31.339
 2

00:43:31.339 --> 00:43:31.539
 and we'll

00:43:31.539 --> 00:43:31.960
 talk about

00:43:31.960 --> 00:43:32.179
 that in

00:43:32.179 --> 00:43:32.460
 the weeks

00:43:32.460 --> 00:43:32.860
 to come

00:43:32.860 --> 00:43:34.900
 it's how

00:43:34.900 --> 00:43:35.319
 the story

00:43:35.319 --> 00:43:35.839
 begins

00:43:35.839 --> 00:43:36.539
 so what I

00:43:36.539 --> 00:43:36.739
 want to

00:43:36.739 --> 00:43:37.059
 say is

00:43:37.059 --> 00:43:37.319
 if you're

00:43:37.319 --> 00:43:37.960
 in science

00:43:37.960 --> 00:43:38.799
 stay in

00:43:38.799 --> 00:43:39.380
 science

00:43:39.380 --> 00:43:40.139
 if you're

00:43:40.139 --> 00:43:40.579
 in physics

00:43:40.579 --> 00:43:41.059
 stay in

00:43:41.059 --> 00:43:41.339
 physics

00:43:41.339 --> 00:43:41.779
 if you're

00:43:41.779 --> 00:43:42.339
 in biology

00:43:42.339 --> 00:43:42.839
 stay in

00:43:42.839 --> 00:43:43.460
 biology

00:43:43.460 --> 00:43:44.360
 like study

00:43:44.360 --> 00:43:46.700
 there is

00:43:46.700 --> 00:43:47.200
 truth

00:43:47.200 --> 00:43:47.599
 to be

00:43:47.599 --> 00:43:48.079
 found

00:43:48.079 --> 00:43:49.000
 things

00:43:49.000 --> 00:43:49.460
 can be

00:43:49.460 --> 00:43:49.900
 reverse

00:43:49.900 --> 00:43:50.360
 engineered

00:43:50.360 --> 00:43:50.820
 they were

00:43:50.820 --> 00:43:51.400
 designed

00:43:51.400 --> 00:43:52.340
 like study

00:43:52.340 --> 00:43:52.559
 them

00:43:52.559 --> 00:43:52.920
 and don't

00:43:52.920 --> 00:43:53.440
 be afraid

00:43:53.440 --> 00:43:53.860
 it's not

00:43:53.860 --> 00:43:54.400
 in conflict

00:43:54.400 --> 00:43:55.260
 with science

00:43:55.260 --> 00:43:58.000
 God made

00:43:58.000 --> 00:43:58.440
 the created

00:43:58.440 --> 00:43:59.180
 order with a

00:43:59.180 --> 00:43:59.860
 back story

00:43:59.860 --> 00:44:00.220
 and with

00:44:00.220 --> 00:44:00.760
 heights and

00:44:00.760 --> 00:44:01.099
 depths

00:44:01.099 --> 00:44:01.900
 you're just

00:44:01.900 --> 00:44:02.500
 discovering

00:44:02.500 --> 00:44:04.780
 in the

00:44:04.780 --> 00:44:05.059
 beginning

00:44:05.059 --> 00:44:05.920
 God created

00:44:05.920 --> 00:44:06.400
 the heavens

00:44:06.400 --> 00:44:06.720
 and the

00:44:06.720 --> 00:44:06.980
 earth

00:44:06.980 --> 00:44:10.160
 and for

00:44:10.160 --> 00:44:10.559
 all of

00:44:10.559 --> 00:44:10.880
 us

00:44:10.880 --> 00:44:11.940
 all the

00:44:11.940 --> 00:44:12.140
 way

00:44:12.140 --> 00:44:12.420
 through

00:44:12.420 --> 00:44:12.760
 life

00:44:12.760 --> 00:44:12.980
 you know

00:44:12.980 --> 00:44:13.280
 here's

00:44:13.280 --> 00:44:13.760
 this very

00:44:13.760 --> 00:44:14.100
 fundamental

00:44:14.100 --> 00:44:14.540
 thing

00:44:14.540 --> 00:44:15.860
 you know

00:44:15.860 --> 00:44:20.340
 Christians

00:44:20.340 --> 00:44:20.920
 have a

00:44:20.920 --> 00:44:21.120
 very

00:44:21.120 --> 00:44:21.520
 different

00:44:21.520 --> 00:44:22.100
 direction

00:44:22.100 --> 00:44:22.400
 than

00:44:22.400 --> 00:44:22.860
 secular

00:44:22.860 --> 00:44:23.260
 people

00:44:23.260 --> 00:44:23.540
 I don't

00:44:23.540 --> 00:44:23.860
 mean to

00:44:23.860 --> 00:44:24.160
 offend

00:44:24.160 --> 00:44:24.460
 you if

00:44:24.460 --> 00:44:24.600
 you're

00:44:24.600 --> 00:44:24.860
 here as

00:44:24.860 --> 00:44:25.300
 a secular

00:44:25.300 --> 00:44:25.820
 person

00:44:25.820 --> 00:44:27.380
 but secular

00:44:27.380 --> 00:44:27.920
 people

00:44:27.920 --> 00:44:28.860
 don't want

00:44:28.860 --> 00:44:29.220
 to keep

00:44:29.220 --> 00:44:29.920
 going back

00:44:29.920 --> 00:44:30.280
 to this

00:44:30.280 --> 00:44:30.840
 fundamental

00:44:30.840 --> 00:44:31.600
 idea that

00:44:31.600 --> 00:44:32.020
 everything

00:44:32.020 --> 00:44:32.780
 exists as

00:44:32.780 --> 00:44:33.200
 a result

00:44:33.200 --> 00:44:33.940
 of chance

00:44:33.940 --> 00:44:35.440
 and only

00:44:35.440 --> 00:44:35.940
 matter

00:44:35.940 --> 00:44:37.440
 because once

00:44:37.440 --> 00:44:37.800
 you start

00:44:37.800 --> 00:44:38.080
 to do

00:44:38.080 --> 00:44:38.380
 that

00:44:38.380 --> 00:44:39.260
 let me

00:44:39.260 --> 00:44:39.580
 tell you

00:44:39.580 --> 00:44:39.860
 if you

00:44:39.860 --> 00:44:40.200
 start to

00:44:40.200 --> 00:44:40.440
 try to

00:44:40.440 --> 00:44:40.760
 do that

00:44:40.760 --> 00:44:41.220
 not just

00:44:41.220 --> 00:44:41.640
 me but

00:44:41.640 --> 00:44:42.060
 atheist

00:44:42.060 --> 00:44:42.540
 philosophers

00:44:42.540 --> 00:44:43.160
 like Thomas

00:44:43.160 --> 00:44:43.440
 Nagel

00:44:43.440 --> 00:44:43.639
 they'll

00:44:43.639 --> 00:44:43.980
 tie you

00:44:43.980 --> 00:44:44.240
 up in

00:44:44.240 --> 00:44:44.500
 knots

00:44:44.500 --> 00:44:45.000
 you can't

00:44:45.000 --> 00:44:45.420
 account for

00:44:45.420 --> 00:44:45.940
 how minds

00:44:45.940 --> 00:44:46.260
 work

00:44:46.260 --> 00:44:47.179
 one of the

00:44:47.179 --> 00:44:47.559
 things which

00:44:47.559 --> 00:44:47.940
 was so

00:44:47.940 --> 00:44:48.619
 interesting if

00:44:48.619 --> 00:44:49.059
 you go back

00:44:49.059 --> 00:44:49.460
 and watch

00:44:49.460 --> 00:44:50.159
 that dialogue

00:44:50.159 --> 00:44:50.539
 between

00:44:50.539 --> 00:44:51.220
 Osginis and

00:44:51.220 --> 00:44:51.599
 the atheist

00:44:51.599 --> 00:44:52.179
 philosopher

00:44:52.179 --> 00:44:53.200
 he had a

00:44:53.200 --> 00:44:53.860
 hard time

00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:54.539
 affirming that

00:44:54.539 --> 00:44:55.179
 human beings

00:44:55.179 --> 00:44:55.619
 could know

00:44:55.619 --> 00:44:56.139
 things or

00:44:56.139 --> 00:44:56.820
 had freedom

00:44:56.820 --> 00:45:00.800
 in fact he

00:45:00.800 --> 00:45:01.320
 actually says

00:45:01.320 --> 00:45:01.840
 he's not sure

00:45:01.840 --> 00:45:02.440
 if human beings

00:45:02.440 --> 00:45:02.820
 have any

00:45:02.820 --> 00:45:03.240
 freedom at

00:45:03.240 --> 00:45:03.559
 all

00:45:03.559 --> 00:45:06.039
 and I just

00:45:06.039 --> 00:45:06.500
 want to have

00:45:06.500 --> 00:45:06.920
 you you know

00:45:06.920 --> 00:45:07.380
 hear that so

00:45:07.380 --> 00:45:08.280
 the whole force

00:45:08.280 --> 00:45:09.300
 of secularism is

00:45:09.300 --> 00:45:10.159
 to have us not

00:45:10.159 --> 00:45:11.099
 think about these

00:45:11.099 --> 00:45:12.039
 fundamental ideas

00:45:12.039 --> 00:45:12.960
 but what is it

00:45:12.960 --> 00:45:13.339
 that we do

00:45:13.339 --> 00:45:14.019
 every week here

00:45:14.019 --> 00:45:14.440
 at Church of

00:45:14.440 --> 00:45:14.759
 the Messiah

00:45:14.759 --> 00:45:15.360
 most churches

00:45:15.360 --> 00:45:16.679
 do think on

00:45:16.679 --> 00:45:17.400
 these things

00:45:17.400 --> 00:45:18.219
 be gripped by

00:45:18.219 --> 00:45:18.799
 them remember

00:45:18.799 --> 00:45:19.480
 the gospel

00:45:19.480 --> 00:45:20.219
 remember that

00:45:20.219 --> 00:45:20.880
 God exists

00:45:20.880 --> 00:45:21.759
 remember that

00:45:21.759 --> 00:45:22.259
 in the real

00:45:22.259 --> 00:45:22.940
 world God

00:45:22.940 --> 00:45:23.480
 exists and

00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:24.119
 that's why in

00:45:24.119 --> 00:45:24.860
 the real world

00:45:24.860 --> 00:45:25.559
 you pray

00:45:25.559 --> 00:45:27.279
 that's not a

00:45:27.279 --> 00:45:27.819
 flight from

00:45:27.819 --> 00:45:28.699
 reality it's

00:45:28.699 --> 00:45:29.380
 entering the

00:45:29.380 --> 00:45:29.860
 real world

00:45:29.860 --> 00:45:30.579
 it's living in

00:45:30.579 --> 00:45:31.440
 the real world

00:45:31.440 --> 00:45:34.159
 so read

00:45:34.159 --> 00:45:34.659
 Genesis

00:45:34.659 --> 00:45:35.960
 begin the

00:45:35.960 --> 00:45:36.519
 story

00:45:36.519 --> 00:45:37.739
 remember that

00:45:37.739 --> 00:45:38.199
 you're not a

00:45:38.199 --> 00:45:39.019
 result of chance

00:45:39.019 --> 00:45:39.579
 that God

00:45:39.579 --> 00:45:40.320
 created you

00:45:40.320 --> 00:45:41.500
 think about

00:45:41.500 --> 00:45:42.239
 these things

00:45:42.239 --> 00:45:43.619
 study science

00:45:43.619 --> 00:45:45.019
 think about

00:45:45.019 --> 00:45:45.880
 the fundamentals

00:45:45.880 --> 00:45:47.559
 and here's the

00:45:47.559 --> 00:45:47.920
 other thing

00:45:47.920 --> 00:45:48.380
 you know it's

00:45:48.380 --> 00:45:49.139
 also really

00:45:49.139 --> 00:45:49.800
 matters to the

00:45:49.800 --> 00:45:50.360
 gospel

00:45:50.360 --> 00:45:51.519
 Andrew if you

00:45:51.519 --> 00:45:51.940
 could put it

00:45:51.940 --> 00:45:52.199
 up

00:45:52.199 --> 00:45:53.599
 here's why it

00:45:53.599 --> 00:45:54.259
 matters to the

00:45:54.259 --> 00:45:54.719
 gospel

00:45:54.719 --> 00:45:56.440
 if this story

00:45:56.440 --> 00:45:57.300
 is true and I

00:45:57.300 --> 00:45:58.039
 believe it is

00:45:58.039 --> 00:45:58.699
 and if it's

00:45:58.699 --> 00:45:59.259
 going to show

00:45:59.259 --> 00:45:59.840
 that God

00:45:59.840 --> 00:46:00.659
 created all

00:46:00.659 --> 00:46:01.219
 things

00:46:01.219 --> 00:46:02.099
 some people

00:46:02.099 --> 00:46:03.019
 wonder how

00:46:03.019 --> 00:46:03.559
 is it that

00:46:03.559 --> 00:46:04.300
 one man

00:46:04.300 --> 00:46:04.820
 could die

00:46:04.820 --> 00:46:05.340
 upon the

00:46:05.340 --> 00:46:05.800
 cross

00:46:05.800 --> 00:46:06.460
 and that

00:46:06.460 --> 00:46:07.059
 that one

00:46:07.059 --> 00:46:07.739
 man dying

00:46:07.739 --> 00:46:08.199
 upon the

00:46:08.199 --> 00:46:08.500
 cross

00:46:08.500 --> 00:46:09.119
 that somehow

00:46:09.119 --> 00:46:09.639
 or another

00:46:09.639 --> 00:46:10.900
 his death

00:46:10.900 --> 00:46:11.920
 could be in

00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:12.679
 my place

00:46:12.679 --> 00:46:13.039
 in your

00:46:13.039 --> 00:46:13.400
 place

00:46:13.400 --> 00:46:13.739
 in your

00:46:13.739 --> 00:46:14.059
 place

00:46:14.059 --> 00:46:14.380
 in your

00:46:14.380 --> 00:46:14.699
 place

00:46:14.699 --> 00:46:15.019
 in your

00:46:15.019 --> 00:46:15.340
 place

00:46:15.340 --> 00:46:15.820
 and the

00:46:15.820 --> 00:46:16.239
 people we're

00:46:16.239 --> 00:46:16.579
 still going

00:46:16.579 --> 00:46:16.820
 to meet

00:46:16.820 --> 00:46:17.400
 and how

00:46:17.400 --> 00:46:17.780
 could that

00:46:17.780 --> 00:46:18.539
 possibly be

00:46:18.539 --> 00:46:19.280
 that one

00:46:19.280 --> 00:46:20.000
 person's

00:46:20.000 --> 00:46:20.360
 death

00:46:20.360 --> 00:46:21.719
 could stand

00:46:21.719 --> 00:46:22.280
 somehow

00:46:22.280 --> 00:46:23.119
 for all

00:46:23.119 --> 00:46:28.300
 but what

00:46:28.300 --> 00:46:28.900
 if

00:46:28.900 --> 00:46:31.579
 the creator

00:46:31.579 --> 00:46:32.460
 and sustainer

00:46:32.460 --> 00:46:32.900
 of all

00:46:32.900 --> 00:46:33.599
 things

00:46:33.599 --> 00:46:36.219
 could

00:46:36.219 --> 00:46:36.980
 could he

00:46:36.980 --> 00:46:38.539
 be a

00:46:38.539 --> 00:46:39.099
 substitute

00:46:39.099 --> 00:46:40.460
 for each

00:46:40.460 --> 00:46:42.639
 I

00:46:42.639 --> 00:46:43.239
 couldn't

00:46:43.239 --> 00:46:44.179
 nothing

00:46:44.179 --> 00:46:44.659
 personal

00:46:44.659 --> 00:46:45.079
 but you

00:46:45.079 --> 00:46:45.719
 couldn't

00:46:45.719 --> 00:46:47.159
 but if

00:46:47.159 --> 00:46:47.599
 this is

00:46:47.599 --> 00:46:48.059
 true

00:46:48.059 --> 00:46:48.579
 and if

00:46:48.579 --> 00:46:48.900
 as we

00:46:48.900 --> 00:46:49.380
 see

00:46:49.380 --> 00:46:50.400
 that human

00:46:50.400 --> 00:46:50.920
 beings are

00:46:50.920 --> 00:46:51.259
 made in

00:46:51.259 --> 00:46:51.719
 his image

00:46:51.719 --> 00:46:52.039
 and that

00:46:52.039 --> 00:46:53.019
 couldn't the

00:46:53.019 --> 00:46:54.139
 creator come

00:46:54.139 --> 00:46:54.759
 and rescue

00:46:54.759 --> 00:46:55.599
 his creation

00:46:55.599 --> 00:46:56.579
 couldn't he

00:46:56.579 --> 00:46:57.159
 in some

00:46:57.159 --> 00:46:57.880
 way stand

00:46:57.880 --> 00:46:58.440
 for every

00:46:58.440 --> 00:46:58.980
 person

00:46:58.980 --> 00:47:02.320
 and here's

00:47:02.320 --> 00:47:02.800
 another thing

00:47:02.800 --> 00:47:03.159
 if you could

00:47:03.159 --> 00:47:03.679
 put it up

00:47:03.679 --> 00:47:04.880
 in the

00:47:04.880 --> 00:47:05.380
 gospel

00:47:05.380 --> 00:47:06.059
 salvation

00:47:06.059 --> 00:47:06.940
 is also

00:47:06.940 --> 00:47:08.119
 a restoration

00:47:08.119 --> 00:47:09.639
 a being

00:47:09.639 --> 00:47:10.679
 brought back

00:47:10.679 --> 00:47:11.420
 to our

00:47:11.420 --> 00:47:12.139
 true home

00:47:12.139 --> 00:47:13.019
 it's going to

00:47:13.019 --> 00:47:13.400
 be a couple

00:47:13.400 --> 00:47:13.599
 weeks

00:47:13.599 --> 00:47:13.740
 it's going to

00:47:13.740 --> 00:47:14.159
 be six

00:47:14.159 --> 00:47:14.460
 weeks

00:47:14.460 --> 00:47:14.800
 in fact

00:47:14.800 --> 00:47:15.219
 before we

00:47:15.219 --> 00:47:15.480
 get to

00:47:15.480 --> 00:47:15.800
 the fall

00:47:15.800 --> 00:47:16.059
 we're going

00:47:16.059 --> 00:47:16.360
 to spend

00:47:16.360 --> 00:47:17.119
 five weeks

00:47:17.119 --> 00:47:17.719
 four more

00:47:17.719 --> 00:47:17.960
 weeks

00:47:17.960 --> 00:47:18.619
 on creation

00:47:18.619 --> 00:47:19.440
 before we

00:47:19.440 --> 00:47:19.740
 get to

00:47:19.740 --> 00:47:20.139
 the fall

00:47:20.139 --> 00:47:21.159
 and why

00:47:21.159 --> 00:47:21.460
 it is

00:47:21.460 --> 00:47:21.699
 that the

00:47:21.699 --> 00:47:21.940
 world

00:47:21.940 --> 00:47:22.240
 is the

00:47:22.240 --> 00:47:22.380
 way

00:47:22.380 --> 00:47:22.599
 it is

00:47:22.599 --> 00:47:22.860
 and why

00:47:22.860 --> 00:47:23.139
 we need

00:47:23.139 --> 00:47:23.579
 a savior

00:47:23.579 --> 00:47:25.099
 but what

00:47:25.099 --> 00:47:25.460
 we can

00:47:25.460 --> 00:47:25.960
 see right

00:47:25.960 --> 00:47:26.440
 here from

00:47:26.440 --> 00:47:27.000
 the beginning

00:47:27.000 --> 00:47:29.019
 is that

00:47:29.019 --> 00:47:29.739
 when Jesus

00:47:29.739 --> 00:47:30.480
 dies for us

00:47:30.480 --> 00:47:31.179
 on the cross

00:47:31.179 --> 00:47:32.239
 and when God

00:47:32.239 --> 00:47:33.260
 through the cross

00:47:33.260 --> 00:47:33.780
 and the message

00:47:33.780 --> 00:47:34.360
 of the cross

00:47:34.360 --> 00:47:35.000
 a power

00:47:35.000 --> 00:47:35.719
 comes to us

00:47:35.719 --> 00:47:36.239
 that we only

00:47:36.239 --> 00:47:36.699
 receive

00:47:36.699 --> 00:47:37.179
 that makes

00:47:37.179 --> 00:47:37.579
 us right

00:47:37.579 --> 00:47:38.019
 with him

00:47:38.019 --> 00:47:39.059
 and when we

00:47:39.059 --> 00:47:39.420
 put our

00:47:39.420 --> 00:47:39.880
 faith and

00:47:39.880 --> 00:47:40.219
 trust

00:47:40.219 --> 00:47:41.059
 we are

00:47:41.059 --> 00:47:42.320
 being reunited

00:47:42.320 --> 00:47:42.940
 we are

00:47:42.940 --> 00:47:43.860
 being restored

00:47:43.860 --> 00:47:45.480
 to the creator

00:47:45.480 --> 00:47:46.199
 who has made

00:47:46.199 --> 00:47:46.739
 our created

00:47:46.739 --> 00:47:47.239
 order

00:47:47.239 --> 00:47:49.099
 it's not

00:47:49.099 --> 00:47:49.639
 just

00:47:49.639 --> 00:47:50.460
 salvation

00:47:50.460 --> 00:47:52.579
 he

00:47:52.579 --> 00:47:53.619
 brings

00:47:53.619 --> 00:47:54.400
 me

00:47:54.400 --> 00:47:56.119
 to my

00:47:56.119 --> 00:47:56.539
 true

00:47:56.539 --> 00:47:56.940
 home

00:47:56.940 --> 00:48:00.000
 to live

00:48:00.000 --> 00:48:00.840
 in the

00:48:00.840 --> 00:48:01.240
 words of

00:48:01.240 --> 00:48:01.579
 the old

00:48:01.579 --> 00:48:01.860
 hymn

00:48:01.860 --> 00:48:02.800
 this is

00:48:02.800 --> 00:48:03.619
 my father's

00:48:03.619 --> 00:48:03.960
 world

00:48:03.960 --> 00:48:06.460
 this is

00:48:06.460 --> 00:48:07.240
 my father's

00:48:07.240 --> 00:48:07.559
 world

00:48:07.559 --> 00:48:11.059
 and this

00:48:11.059 --> 00:48:11.579
 message of

00:48:11.579 --> 00:48:12.019
 the cross

00:48:12.019 --> 00:48:12.360
 is for

00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:12.800
 everyone

00:48:12.800 --> 00:48:13.240
 who is

00:48:13.240 --> 00:48:13.519
 here

00:48:13.519 --> 00:48:16.200
 come back

00:48:16.200 --> 00:48:16.559
 to your

00:48:16.559 --> 00:48:16.960
 creator

00:48:16.960 --> 00:48:18.679
 only the

00:48:18.679 --> 00:48:19.200
 creator

00:48:19.200 --> 00:48:20.240
 can stand

00:48:20.240 --> 00:48:20.700
 for you

00:48:20.700 --> 00:48:21.179
 and save

00:48:21.179 --> 00:48:21.619
 you as a

00:48:21.619 --> 00:48:22.039
 substitute

00:48:22.039 --> 00:48:24.760
 come home

00:48:24.760 --> 00:48:26.200
 by putting

00:48:26.199 --> 00:48:26.639
 your faith

00:48:26.639 --> 00:48:27.239
 and trust

00:48:27.239 --> 00:48:28.859
 God

00:48:28.859 --> 00:48:29.219
 the son

00:48:29.219 --> 00:48:29.559
 of God

00:48:29.559 --> 00:48:29.779
 in the

00:48:29.779 --> 00:48:30.000
 beginning

00:48:30.000 --> 00:48:30.419
 was the

00:48:30.419 --> 00:48:30.779
 word

00:48:30.779 --> 00:48:31.579
 and the

00:48:31.579 --> 00:48:31.779
 word

00:48:31.779 --> 00:48:32.239
 was with

00:48:32.239 --> 00:48:32.639
 God

00:48:32.639 --> 00:48:33.419
 and the

00:48:33.419 --> 00:48:33.599
 word

00:48:33.599 --> 00:48:34.279
 was God

00:48:34.279 --> 00:48:35.379
 he was in

00:48:35.379 --> 00:48:35.799
 the beginning

00:48:35.799 --> 00:48:36.759
 with God

00:48:36.759 --> 00:48:37.980
 all things

00:48:37.980 --> 00:48:38.519
 were made

00:48:38.519 --> 00:48:39.259
 through him

00:48:39.259 --> 00:48:40.259
 and without

00:48:40.259 --> 00:48:41.159
 him was not

00:48:41.159 --> 00:48:42.000
 anything made

00:48:42.000 --> 00:48:42.659
 who were made

00:48:42.659 --> 00:48:44.420
 he came to

00:48:44.420 --> 00:48:44.759
 his own

00:48:44.759 --> 00:48:45.139
 people

00:48:45.139 --> 00:48:45.420
 and his

00:48:45.420 --> 00:48:45.579
 own

00:48:45.579 --> 00:48:45.899
 people

00:48:45.899 --> 00:48:46.299
 did not

00:48:46.299 --> 00:48:46.739
 receive

00:48:46.739 --> 00:48:46.920
 him

00:48:46.920 --> 00:48:47.259
 but to

00:48:47.259 --> 00:48:47.500
 all

00:48:47.500 --> 00:48:47.879
 who did

00:48:47.879 --> 00:48:48.299
 receive

00:48:48.299 --> 00:48:48.460
 him

00:48:48.460 --> 00:48:48.940
 who believed

00:48:48.940 --> 00:48:49.239
 in his

00:48:49.239 --> 00:48:49.500
 name

00:48:49.500 --> 00:48:49.899
 he gave

00:48:49.899 --> 00:48:50.279
 the right

00:48:50.279 --> 00:48:50.739
 to become

00:48:50.739 --> 00:48:51.139
 children

00:48:51.139 --> 00:48:51.619
 of God

00:48:51.619 --> 00:48:51.879
 who were

00:48:51.879 --> 00:48:52.119
 born

00:48:52.119 --> 00:48:52.480
 not of

00:48:52.480 --> 00:48:52.759
 blood

00:48:52.759 --> 00:48:53.059
 nor of

00:48:53.059 --> 00:48:53.279
 the will

00:48:53.279 --> 00:48:53.519
 of the

00:48:53.519 --> 00:48:53.879
 flesh

00:48:53.879 --> 00:48:55.079
 nor of the

00:48:55.079 --> 00:48:55.559
 will of man

00:48:55.559 --> 00:48:56.179
 but of God

00:48:56.179 --> 00:48:57.139
 and the

00:48:57.139 --> 00:48:57.359
 word

00:48:57.359 --> 00:48:57.739
 became

00:48:57.739 --> 00:48:58.139
 flesh

00:48:58.139 --> 00:48:58.599
 and dwelt

00:48:58.599 --> 00:48:59.119
 among us

00:48:59.119 --> 00:48:59.359
 and we

00:48:59.359 --> 00:48:59.759
 have seen

00:48:59.759 --> 00:49:00.359
 his glory

00:49:00.359 --> 00:49:00.819
 glory

00:49:00.819 --> 00:49:01.319
 as of the

00:49:01.319 --> 00:49:01.940
 only son

00:49:01.940 --> 00:49:02.319
 from the

00:49:02.319 --> 00:49:02.639
 father

00:49:02.639 --> 00:49:03.179
 full

00:49:03.179 --> 00:49:04.319
 of grace

00:49:04.319 --> 00:49:05.259
 and truth

00:49:05.259 --> 00:49:07.440
 come to

00:49:07.440 --> 00:49:07.879
 Jesus

00:49:07.879 --> 00:49:09.579
 remember

00:49:09.579 --> 00:49:10.639
 that in the

00:49:10.639 --> 00:49:10.899
 beginning

00:49:10.899 --> 00:49:11.399
 God

00:49:11.399 --> 00:49:12.079
 created

00:49:12.079 --> 00:49:12.519
 heaven

00:49:12.519 --> 00:49:12.759
 and the

00:49:12.759 --> 00:49:12.980
 earth

00:49:12.980 --> 00:49:13.659
 come home

00:49:13.659 --> 00:49:14.619
 please

00:49:14.619 --> 00:49:15.059
 stand

00:49:15.059 --> 00:49:22.899
 if there's

00:49:22.899 --> 00:49:23.440
 any here

00:49:23.440 --> 00:49:23.759
 and you

00:49:23.759 --> 00:49:24.339
 feel a

00:49:24.339 --> 00:49:25.539
 bit of a

00:49:25.539 --> 00:49:26.079
 pressure

00:49:26.079 --> 00:49:27.500
 within you

00:49:27.500 --> 00:49:29.279
 to come

00:49:29.279 --> 00:49:29.960
 to Jesus

00:49:29.960 --> 00:49:31.179
 all I can

00:49:31.179 --> 00:49:31.539
 tell you

00:49:31.539 --> 00:49:31.900
 is just

00:49:31.900 --> 00:49:33.199
 don't fight

00:49:33.199 --> 00:49:33.599
 it but

00:49:33.599 --> 00:49:34.059
 just say

00:49:34.059 --> 00:49:35.759
 Jesus

00:49:35.759 --> 00:49:39.300
 you're

00:49:39.300 --> 00:49:39.759
 knocking at

00:49:39.759 --> 00:49:40.039
 the door

00:49:40.039 --> 00:49:40.340
 of my

00:49:40.340 --> 00:49:40.779
 heart

00:49:40.779 --> 00:49:43.019
 Jesus

00:49:43.019 --> 00:49:43.500
 please

00:49:43.500 --> 00:49:44.019
 come into

00:49:44.019 --> 00:49:44.519
 my life

00:49:44.519 --> 00:49:44.779
 and be

00:49:44.779 --> 00:49:45.440
 my savior

00:49:45.440 --> 00:49:45.779
 and my

00:49:45.779 --> 00:49:46.179
 lord

00:49:46.179 --> 00:49:48.099
 and thank

00:49:48.099 --> 00:49:48.400
 you that

00:49:48.400 --> 00:49:48.719
 you bring

00:49:48.719 --> 00:49:49.039
 me home

00:49:49.039 --> 00:49:49.739
 just open

00:49:49.739 --> 00:49:50.039
 the door

00:49:50.039 --> 00:49:50.320
 to your

00:49:50.320 --> 00:49:50.679
 heart

00:49:50.679 --> 00:49:51.679
 and let

00:49:51.679 --> 00:49:52.019
 Jesus

00:49:52.019 --> 00:49:52.559
 come in

00:49:52.559 --> 00:49:53.099
 there's no

00:49:53.099 --> 00:49:53.579
 better time

00:49:53.579 --> 00:49:54.000
 than today

00:49:54.000 --> 00:49:55.340
 for those

00:49:55.340 --> 00:49:55.659
 of us

00:49:55.659 --> 00:49:55.880
 who have

00:49:55.880 --> 00:49:56.320
 been far

00:49:56.320 --> 00:49:56.860
 from him

00:49:56.860 --> 00:49:57.079
 who are

00:49:57.079 --> 00:49:57.440
 struggling

00:49:57.440 --> 00:49:58.159
 with issues

00:49:58.159 --> 00:50:00.199
 Jesus is

00:50:00.199 --> 00:50:00.639
 already in

00:50:00.639 --> 00:50:00.940
 the door

00:50:00.940 --> 00:50:01.219
 of your

00:50:01.219 --> 00:50:01.440
 heart

00:50:01.440 --> 00:50:01.739
 if you've

00:50:01.739 --> 00:50:01.980
 let him

00:50:01.980 --> 00:50:02.420
 in before

00:50:02.420 --> 00:50:02.880
 even if

00:50:02.880 --> 00:50:03.039
 you've

00:50:03.039 --> 00:50:03.340
 been sort

00:50:03.340 --> 00:50:03.800
 of ignoring

00:50:03.800 --> 00:50:04.079
 him

00:50:04.079 --> 00:50:04.460
 but just

00:50:04.460 --> 00:50:04.980
 there's no

00:50:04.980 --> 00:50:05.460
 better time

00:50:05.460 --> 00:50:05.800
 than right

00:50:05.800 --> 00:50:06.280
 now just

00:50:06.280 --> 00:50:06.659
 to turn

00:50:06.659 --> 00:50:07.199
 to Jesus

00:50:07.199 --> 00:50:07.760
 and say

00:50:07.760 --> 00:50:08.320
 Jesus

00:50:08.320 --> 00:50:10.199
 forgive me

00:50:10.199 --> 00:50:10.519
 from

00:50:10.519 --> 00:50:11.980
 pretending

00:50:11.980 --> 00:50:12.320
 that you're

00:50:12.320 --> 00:50:12.840
 not there

00:50:12.840 --> 00:50:13.119
 that you

00:50:13.119 --> 00:50:13.679
 don't matter

00:50:13.679 --> 00:50:14.320
 forgive me

00:50:14.320 --> 00:50:14.800
 for running

00:50:14.800 --> 00:50:15.239
 from you

00:50:15.239 --> 00:50:15.559
 even though

00:50:15.559 --> 00:50:15.840
 you're right

00:50:15.840 --> 00:50:16.659
 beside me

00:50:16.659 --> 00:50:17.820
 Jesus

00:50:17.820 --> 00:50:18.219
 I want

00:50:18.219 --> 00:50:18.440
 to be

00:50:18.440 --> 00:50:18.760
 yours

00:50:18.760 --> 00:50:19.219
 I want

00:50:19.219 --> 00:50:19.420
 you to

00:50:19.420 --> 00:50:19.800
 have me

00:50:19.800 --> 00:50:19.960
 as

00:50:19.960 --> 00:50:21.039
 I want

00:50:21.039 --> 00:50:21.239
 you to

00:50:21.239 --> 00:50:21.519
 be the

00:50:21.519 --> 00:50:21.760
 savior

00:50:21.760 --> 00:50:22.080
 lord

00:50:22.080 --> 00:50:22.320
 there's

00:50:22.320 --> 00:50:22.460
 no

00:50:22.460 --> 00:50:22.600
 better

00:50:22.600 --> 00:50:22.920
 time

00:50:22.920 --> 00:50:23.240
 than today

00:50:23.240 --> 00:50:23.600
 just to

00:50:23.600 --> 00:50:23.900
 do that

00:50:23.900 --> 00:50:24.240
 business

00:50:24.240 --> 00:50:24.500
 with

00:50:24.500 --> 00:50:24.980
 Jesus

00:50:24.980 --> 00:50:26.520
 this is

00:50:26.520 --> 00:50:26.900
 bow our heads

00:50:26.900 --> 00:50:27.320
 in prayer

00:50:27.320 --> 00:50:29.700
 father

00:50:29.700 --> 00:50:32.420
 thank you

00:50:32.420 --> 00:50:33.000
 that you

00:50:33.000 --> 00:50:34.960
 created all

00:50:34.960 --> 00:50:35.560
 things in

00:50:35.560 --> 00:50:36.000
 heaven and

00:50:36.000 --> 00:50:36.240
 earth

00:50:36.240 --> 00:50:37.660
 thank you

00:50:37.660 --> 00:50:37.940
 that there

00:50:37.940 --> 00:50:38.460
 is nothing

00:50:38.460 --> 00:50:39.100
 made that

00:50:39.100 --> 00:50:39.460
 you did

00:50:39.460 --> 00:50:40.100
 not make

00:50:40.099 --> 00:50:41.960
 thank you

00:50:41.960 --> 00:50:42.339
 father

00:50:42.339 --> 00:50:42.719
 that you

00:50:42.719 --> 00:50:43.079
 made a

00:50:43.079 --> 00:50:43.420
 world

00:50:43.420 --> 00:50:43.920
 with this

00:50:43.920 --> 00:50:44.659
 unbelievable

00:50:44.659 --> 00:50:45.319
 heights

00:50:45.319 --> 00:50:45.679
 that our

00:50:45.679 --> 00:50:46.039
 minds

00:50:46.039 --> 00:50:46.799
 haven't begun

00:50:46.799 --> 00:50:47.259
 to even

00:50:47.259 --> 00:50:47.719
 hit the

00:50:47.719 --> 00:50:48.199
 top of

00:50:48.199 --> 00:50:48.900
 and unbelievable

00:50:48.900 --> 00:50:49.719
 depths that

00:50:49.719 --> 00:50:50.239
 have not

00:50:50.239 --> 00:50:50.880
 begun to

00:50:50.880 --> 00:50:51.719
 reach the

00:50:51.719 --> 00:50:52.319
 bottom of

00:50:52.319 --> 00:50:52.839
 and that you

00:50:52.839 --> 00:50:53.480
 have made a

00:50:53.480 --> 00:50:54.739
 created order

00:50:54.739 --> 00:50:55.219
 with an

00:50:55.219 --> 00:50:55.799
 unbelievably

00:50:55.799 --> 00:50:56.739
 thick and

00:50:56.739 --> 00:50:57.599
 marvelous and

00:50:57.599 --> 00:50:58.400
 powerful

00:50:58.400 --> 00:50:59.159
 backstory

00:50:59.159 --> 00:50:59.739
 and father

00:50:59.739 --> 00:51:00.279
 help us

00:51:00.279 --> 00:51:00.880
 to search

00:51:00.880 --> 00:51:01.460
 these things

00:51:01.460 --> 00:51:01.679
 out

00:51:01.679 --> 00:51:02.139
 help us

00:51:02.139 --> 00:51:02.500
 father

00:51:02.500 --> 00:51:03.559
 to trust

00:51:03.559 --> 00:51:03.880
 that you

00:51:03.880 --> 00:51:04.159
 are the

00:51:04.159 --> 00:51:04.539
 creator

00:51:04.539 --> 00:51:04.860
 and to

00:51:04.860 --> 00:51:05.219
 know that

00:51:05.219 --> 00:51:05.519
 we are

00:51:05.519 --> 00:51:06.319
 in your

00:51:06.319 --> 00:51:06.739
 world

00:51:06.739 --> 00:51:07.139
 that you

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 have made

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 us to

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 live in

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 this as

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 your world

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 as your

00:51:10.099 --> 00:51:10.559
 people

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 to care

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 for this

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 world

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 to care

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 for the

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 people of

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 this world

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 to bring

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 you glory

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 to bear

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 witness to

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 Jesus

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 father

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 make us

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 such a

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 people

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 gripped by

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 the gospel

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 living for

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 your glory

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 confident

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 that you

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 are the

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 creator

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 and sustainer

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 of all

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 things

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 and are

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 still

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 sovereign

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 in this

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 we pray

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 in Jesus

00:51:28.079 --> 00:51:28.659
 name

00:51:28.659 --> 00:51:29.699
 amen