WEBVTT 00:00:00.680 --> 00:00:08.720 Every time I'm experiencing this kind of weather, when I'm in the elements, whether it's the typhoon or the heavy rain, I'm reminded how small I am. 00:00:08.720 --> 00:00:13.120 Every time I worship, I'm reminded how small I am. Julian, how small are you? 00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:20.179 About the same. I'm 5'5.7". What are you? 00:00:22.620 --> 00:00:29.980 5'2.5". You see, people like Julian and I, we need to make every little bit count. 5'5.7 rounds up to 6'0". 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:38.820 Of course, I love worship because it just shrinks me back to my real size. 00:00:39.519 --> 00:00:44.899 Because I don't know about you, when we go about our day, when we go about our lives, we just get bigger and bigger. 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:48.920 When we get bigger and bigger, our egos get bigger and bigger, our burdens get heavier and heavier. 00:00:49.379 --> 00:00:54.500 It's when you leave, it's when you go and when you just empty yourself in front of a holy God and then you're like, 00:00:54.500 --> 00:00:58.900 Oh, actually, I am really small. Not as small as Julian, but I'm pretty small. 00:00:58.899 --> 00:01:07.340 And that just fills you with joy. It fills you with joy and then you want to head out and then you want to scatter and go. 00:01:07.519 --> 00:01:11.900 And this summer, we've been going through this series and of course, we've had typhoon and everything kind of disrupts the things. 00:01:12.039 --> 00:01:16.980 But we've been talking about, okay, we gather here and then we scatter and then we go. 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:20.180 And when we go, people have questions for us. 00:01:20.180 --> 00:01:22.560 We've only got two more weeks to go for this. 00:01:23.280 --> 00:01:26.080 And today's one is going to be about science. 00:01:26.900 --> 00:01:31.540 So I was, if you don't know me very well, I was a science teacher for seven years in England. 00:01:31.680 --> 00:01:33.000 More specifically, biology. 00:01:33.240 --> 00:01:36.160 I wasn't great at biology, but I was even worse at physics and chemistry. 00:01:37.260 --> 00:01:38.460 But biology was my thing. 00:01:38.500 --> 00:01:40.000 Who remembers their science lessons? 00:01:40.100 --> 00:01:41.140 Who likes their science lessons? 00:01:41.200 --> 00:01:41.960 Can you raise your hand? 00:01:42.620 --> 00:01:44.880 Wow, I see hands going all over the place. 00:01:44.920 --> 00:01:45.620 All five of you. 00:01:45.700 --> 00:01:46.440 Excellent. That's great. 00:01:46.439 --> 00:01:48.299 Mark was brave first. 00:01:48.379 --> 00:01:50.679 Mark, can you tell me one thing you remember from your science lessons? 00:01:53.079 --> 00:01:53.879 Cell cycle. 00:01:54.179 --> 00:01:54.500 Whoa. 00:01:54.759 --> 00:01:55.519 Cell cycle. 00:01:56.060 --> 00:01:56.679 Smart man. 00:01:56.759 --> 00:01:58.259 Of course, he's in the field of science right now. 00:01:58.719 --> 00:01:59.759 Let's just go around and see. 00:02:00.359 --> 00:02:02.359 Hank, you were in school not too long ago. 00:02:03.200 --> 00:02:04.680 Do you remember anything about science? 00:02:05.379 --> 00:02:06.200 What do you remember? 00:02:06.359 --> 00:02:08.159 What's the subject that you remember sitting in? 00:02:09.579 --> 00:02:09.900 Chemistry. 00:02:10.219 --> 00:02:11.560 Okay, I won't dare ask you any more about that. 00:02:11.659 --> 00:02:12.479 I don't know chemistry. 00:02:13.300 --> 00:02:14.599 Gaps, the British education. 00:02:14.719 --> 00:02:16.259 What do you remember from a science lesson? 00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:17.579 Photosynthesis. 00:02:20.419 --> 00:02:20.419 00:02:22.539 --> 00:02:23.740 Plant biology. 00:02:23.859 --> 00:02:24.719 Do you remember the equation? 00:02:24.819 --> 00:02:25.579 Who remembers the equation? 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:27.680 Okay, if you're a student right now, you're not allowed to answer. 00:02:30.099 --> 00:02:30.379 Photosynthesis. 00:02:30.539 --> 00:02:31.979 What's the equation to photosynthesis? 00:02:32.699 --> 00:02:34.000 Don't avoid eye contact. 00:02:34.300 --> 00:02:35.360 Don't avoid eye contact. 00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:39.079 All right, I'll let you consult your partner. 00:02:39.520 --> 00:02:41.360 What's the equation to photosynthesis? 00:02:41.360 --> 00:02:52.800 I'm talking about the light independent reactions and the light dependent ones so see who remembers 00:02:52.800 --> 00:03:02.740 any of those. All right, we're going to panic. Do you remember? You don't remember? Your science 00:03:02.740 --> 00:03:10.360 teacher, your science teacher is hurting in pain. Come on, brave souls. Sam, Mr. Lugge. 00:03:11.360 --> 00:03:17.740 No? Oh my goodness. No, no, not yet. The students, you guys are still fresh in your memory. Like, 00:03:18.200 --> 00:03:24.780 let's go back to the people who don't. Come on. Any brave adult, remember? Agnes. 00:03:28.740 --> 00:03:36.320 Of course you do. Mark, don't be the teacher's pet. Don't do that. Don't do that. John C., 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:44.400 do you remember anything from school? Did you go to school? Oh dear. Okay, fine. Come on then. 00:03:46.939 --> 00:03:52.340 Carbon dioxide plus water is glucose plus oxygen. There we go. A round of applause. 00:03:52.340 --> 00:03:57.680 Oh my goodness. You guys. You guys. 00:03:59.180 --> 00:04:03.800 Okay. All right. Science. 00:04:06.219 --> 00:04:09.740 This isn't really a conversation I hear too much now, but I'll tell you, I heard it a lot 00:04:09.740 --> 00:04:13.780 maybe 10, 15 years ago. Especially as a science teacher, they're like, oh well, I don't believe 00:04:13.780 --> 00:04:19.360 in God. I believe in science. Have you heard of that one? I don't believe in Jesus. I believe 00:04:19.360 --> 00:04:26.259 in the theory of evolution. And there's always this science versus faith conundrum that we had. 00:04:26.319 --> 00:04:31.060 And actually as a science teacher, I used to love talking about this. Love talking about Charles 00:04:31.060 --> 00:04:35.639 Darwin. Love talking about the theory of natural selection. Love talking about the guy just before 00:04:35.639 --> 00:04:41.840 him, which is Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, who actually had his own theories of what this whole world 00:04:41.840 --> 00:04:47.100 is really about. And often I would say to a lot of people, the students, hey, science and 00:04:47.100 --> 00:04:52.160 faith, they're not our enemies. This isn't the North London derby. This isn't Arsenal versus Spurs. 00:04:52.760 --> 00:05:00.560 This is, this is a compliment, complimentary. Actually, science and faith can work together. 00:05:01.920 --> 00:05:06.000 Well, maybe another way to put it is science tells you how things work, but faith tells you 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:10.879 why they bother to work in the first place. Science tells you why things, how things work, 00:05:10.879 --> 00:05:16.379 sorry. But faith tells you why they bother to work in the first place. And you can't pitch 00:05:16.379 --> 00:05:19.800 these two things against each other because scientists, there are plenty of scientists who 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:25.680 are very famous for being Christians. Galileo, he got into a lot of trouble. He was a devout 00:05:25.680 --> 00:05:30.300 Catholic through the whole of his life, but he got into so much trouble because as a scientist, 00:05:30.379 --> 00:05:34.959 he was looking at the universe. He was like, I don't know if the universe revolves around the 00:05:34.959 --> 00:05:38.719 earth. And then he started talking about this more, writing essays about this more. And the church 00:05:38.720 --> 00:05:42.760 were like, no, we believe that the, everything revolves around us, the earth. He's like, 00:05:42.800 --> 00:05:48.080 oh, I don't know. That's not what the evidence says. And he got into tons of trouble. He even 00:05:48.080 --> 00:05:51.960 got thrown into prison. But actually, a lot of it wasn't even science, it was politics, 00:05:52.060 --> 00:05:58.960 admittedly. But he actually went on this journey. Isaac Newton, the one who sat under a tree and 00:05:58.960 --> 00:06:04.400 then decided to basically talk about gravity and the laws of motion. Did you know that Isaac 00:06:04.399 --> 00:06:12.799 Newton wrote more about theology than he did about quantum physics? Albert Einstein. Albert 00:06:12.799 --> 00:06:17.299 Einstein technically wasn't a Christian. Thank you very much. You're a great. I'm going to 00:06:17.299 --> 00:06:24.120 take you everywhere with me. Okay. Albert Einstein technically wasn't a Christian, but he wrote 00:06:24.120 --> 00:06:30.759 this letter to this little girl in sixth grade, Phyllis, who asked him, do scientists pray? And 00:06:30.759 --> 00:06:37.240 this is what he said. My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit 00:06:37.240 --> 00:06:43.860 who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind. 00:06:45.199 --> 00:06:50.500 So he didn't quite get to the point where he recognized Jesus as Lord, but he recognized 00:06:50.500 --> 00:06:56.719 there's something, there's someone out there that is far more intelligent than I. And he would 00:06:56.720 --> 00:07:05.500 also say science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind. Science and faith. One 00:07:05.500 --> 00:07:10.720 tells you how things work. The other tells you why they bother to work in the first place. If anything, 00:07:10.940 --> 00:07:15.280 science, what I'm going to pitch to you today, as you may hear people talking about this, is 00:07:15.280 --> 00:07:23.140 science really is just a signpost to Jesus. Science is really a way to point us to him. And I'll talk a 00:07:23.139 --> 00:07:27.860 little bit more about those kinds of things. And we're going to use, of course, the Bible to talk 00:07:27.860 --> 00:07:38.680 about this. So can I invite to stand for the word of the Lord? I'm reading from the letter of Paul to 00:07:38.680 --> 00:07:48.219 the Romans in chapter one. For his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine 00:07:48.220 --> 00:07:53.380 nature, have been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world in the things that have 00:07:53.380 --> 00:07:59.220 been made. So they are without excuse. For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give 00:07:59.220 --> 00:08:03.860 thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. 00:08:04.260 --> 00:08:09.080 Claiming to be wise, they became fools. So let me read that again. Romans chapter one. 00:08:10.020 --> 00:08:15.460 Should I'm going to go with verse 19? For what can be known about God is plain to them because God has 00:08:15.459 --> 00:08:20.560 shown it to them for his invisible attributes, namely his eternal power and divine nature have 00:08:20.560 --> 00:08:25.099 been clearly perceived ever since the creation of the world and the things that have been made. So 00:08:25.099 --> 00:08:30.039 they are without excuse. For although they knew God and they did not honor him as God or give thanks 00:08:30.039 --> 00:08:35.220 to him, but they became futile in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be 00:08:35.220 --> 00:08:39.879 wise, they became fools. This is the word of the Lord. Please take a seat. 00:08:39.879 --> 00:08:48.460 So my pitch to you today is that actually science is a signpost to Jesus, that actually creation 00:08:48.460 --> 00:08:53.240 simply points you to the creator. Okay. And so we're going to look at this and you look at this 00:08:53.240 --> 00:08:57.500 passage here in Romans. He's talking about this. He's saying, what can be known about God? First of 00:08:57.500 --> 00:09:02.200 all, what can be known? You can't know everything about God. Never believe anyone who says they know 00:09:02.200 --> 00:09:07.039 exactly who God is and how he's like and everything that he's done and how he did it and how he created the 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:11.799 universe and the world in seven days. If someone tells you, I know exactly how God did it, then that 00:09:11.799 --> 00:09:17.379 can't be God. Surely I would be very skeptical of someone who feels as though they know every, that's, 00:09:17.439 --> 00:09:25.899 that's the whole point. Even Einstein would admit, we can't know everything. Our minds are futile. 00:09:26.360 --> 00:09:32.620 They have limits. And yet it says here, for what can be known about God is plain to them because God 00:09:32.620 --> 00:09:38.639 has shown it to them, shown it through what? Shown it through just creation. Those of you who have 00:09:38.639 --> 00:09:41.820 traveled this summer and we've had the chance to, we've been able to get out of Hong Kong and the 00:09:41.820 --> 00:09:46.700 concrete jungle and just be out and just see green and just see blue. And you look and you're like, 00:09:46.759 --> 00:09:54.539 creation is beautiful. You think about just the history of mankind. If you think about a tribe 00:09:54.539 --> 00:10:01.120 in South America and you think about people all the way on the other side in Asia, 00:10:01.120 --> 00:10:06.220 somehow without even talking everyone since the beginning of time, every tribe has agreed there 00:10:06.220 --> 00:10:12.799 is something out there. And untouched peoples in the middle of a rainforest will still agree 00:10:12.799 --> 00:10:18.399 with someone who is a scientist in Tokyo that there is something out there. We don't truly know what it 00:10:18.399 --> 00:10:24.220 is. We're trying to understand what it is. We have theories about what, who he is or whether he's a 00:10:24.220 --> 00:10:29.399 he or all these things. But everyone, don't you think everyone agrees that there's something out 00:10:29.399 --> 00:10:33.759 there that this world and what we can see isn't all there is. It's like Ecclesiastes 3 when he says 00:10:33.759 --> 00:10:38.620 he plants eternity into the heart of man. It's telling us there's something that's beyond just 00:10:38.620 --> 00:10:44.720 this world. It's in our hearts. We can't explain it. We can't describe it. But yet it's there. We can 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:51.360 see. If you look around creation, you will see this everywhere. You see how creation works. A couple 00:10:51.360 --> 00:10:55.220 of weeks ago at a Young Life camp, Ellen was speaking at the camp and she was sharing and giving 00:10:55.220 --> 00:11:01.660 different examples about how creation is just so beautifully made and how intricate it is. Dolphins 00:11:01.660 --> 00:11:06.399 give each other names. Dolphins actually, when they're young, they're actually allowed to come up with 00:11:06.399 --> 00:11:10.720 their own little whistle. And then the other dolphins will actually learn that whistle. And so when they're 00:11:10.720 --> 00:11:15.300 trying to call them, they will actually call each other by their own name so they can give each other 00:11:15.300 --> 00:11:22.980 their own names. Water buffaloes in Africa, they actually vote. What do they vote about? This is interesting. 00:11:22.980 --> 00:11:28.159 When they're all sat together on the field, just chilling, they will all point. They will all sit 00:11:28.159 --> 00:11:32.360 facing a certain direction to say that this is the direction I think our herd should head. 00:11:32.960 --> 00:11:37.080 And so they would all sit. And of course, they don't do much, so they'll sit there for a long time. 00:11:37.500 --> 00:11:42.820 But eventually, one by one, they'll all start pointing and sitting towards the right direction. 00:11:43.340 --> 00:11:49.080 And when they've all voted and decide, OK, this is the majority vote, we head south. That's what they do. 00:11:49.080 --> 00:11:56.980 Isn't that fascinating? Isn't that fascinating? There's dragonflies who migrate from India to Africa 00:11:56.980 --> 00:12:02.700 every year. And it's very, very important that they migrate from India to Africa, because they will 00:12:02.700 --> 00:12:08.200 then go to Africa. And what do they eat? They eat mosquitoes. And why is that important? Malaria. 00:12:08.700 --> 00:12:13.340 And if they stop flying to Africa, then malaria cases will rise in Africa. 00:12:13.340 --> 00:12:21.420 Trees. Trees, you may think, are just individual trees, but they talk to each other. How do they 00:12:21.420 --> 00:12:26.360 talk to each other? There's a network underground where all of them are connected. We've all heard 00:12:26.360 --> 00:12:31.920 of the aspen tree. And aspen grove is a whole group of trees. Actually, in Utah, there's an aspen 00:12:31.920 --> 00:12:36.780 grove that basically, actually, people know it's called pando, where actually all these separate 00:12:36.780 --> 00:12:41.400 trees within this aspen grove are actually all connected. You could even argue that they are all 00:12:41.399 --> 00:12:50.659 one tree. Isn't it incredible? Birds. Actually, I'm actually terrified of birds. That's one of the 00:12:50.659 --> 00:12:56.279 things that I'm really scared of, especially those bright, sharp colored ones. But when they fly, 00:12:56.360 --> 00:13:03.240 they know how to fly from one part of the world to another and not get lost and keep formation. 00:13:03.240 --> 00:13:08.820 What? I can't even keep my family in formation when I walk through a gift shop. 00:13:11.620 --> 00:13:16.899 How do they even do that? Salmon, as they swim upstream, they actually take nutrients from the 00:13:16.899 --> 00:13:21.399 ocean back into the river forest. And those nutrients will then feed that ecosystem so that 00:13:21.399 --> 00:13:29.460 birds and bears and trees will all get fed. That's why sitting in nature is so important. Because when you 00:13:29.460 --> 00:13:33.940 sit in nature, when you sit by, look, and if it's too far for you and it's too hard for you and you 00:13:33.940 --> 00:13:38.820 don't like hiking, then you just go to Repulse Bay and you just sit and you just look out and you see 00:13:38.820 --> 00:13:43.780 the waves coming in and out and you're like, you know what? This world, this earth will operate fine 00:13:43.780 --> 00:13:49.820 without me doing anything. Because God has already put it all into motion. 00:13:49.820 --> 00:13:58.060 You look inside the human body. You look and see, what's the body temperature that's good for us? 00:13:58.060 --> 00:14:02.140 What's 37.5 is what the UK biology textbooks teach? 00:14:03.260 --> 00:14:08.780 36 and some of us teach slightly different things. But what happens if it goes a little bit above? 00:14:09.500 --> 00:14:14.780 Dr. Arrow hates being pointed out to you. So I want to point it out again. Dr. Arrow, what happens when the 00:14:14.779 --> 00:14:20.139 body, let's say, hits 40 degrees? Why is it so dangerous? Something about enzymes. 00:14:21.659 --> 00:14:26.699 They denature. Does anyone remember the word enzymes? Yes. Enzymes have special shapes. They're 00:14:26.699 --> 00:14:31.019 like jigsaw puzzles. They fit together and they work really well. But as soon as the temperature goes 00:14:31.019 --> 00:14:35.419 high, they start to basically denature and they dismantle. They lose their shape and they don't do 00:14:35.419 --> 00:14:41.819 the reactions anymore. How do you control your blood sugar? You have hormones like insulin and glucagon, 00:14:41.820 --> 00:14:46.620 which are in charge of carrying the blood sugar around and making sure that your body stays in 00:14:46.620 --> 00:14:55.580 balance. Does anyone remember what the word for balance is? There we go. Homeostasis. When everything 00:14:55.580 --> 00:15:05.100 stays in balance. I tell you, it will take a very brave man or woman to look at the human body and go, 00:15:05.100 --> 00:15:11.580 yeah, it happened by accident. Yeah, I don't know. I think I still think over thousands and 00:15:11.580 --> 00:15:17.100 thousands of years, random particles banged together and eventually became who we are now. 00:15:18.620 --> 00:15:21.899 I read a book one time and there was an author who actually had someone come up to him and say, 00:15:21.899 --> 00:15:26.779 hey, I don't believe in any of your stuff, in your Christian stuff, because I believe that actually 00:15:26.779 --> 00:15:32.860 we're all random because we are all products of just random particles banging together. And then the 00:15:32.860 --> 00:15:38.139 author said to him, well, doesn't that mean your thoughts are also random? So how can I take what 00:15:38.139 --> 00:15:45.820 you're saying seriously? Because it's all random. There's got to be something else that explains all 00:15:45.820 --> 00:15:52.060 of this stuff. And honestly, this is the one topic that really, really lifted me. One final biology 00:15:52.060 --> 00:15:57.180 example for maybe the people who are especially muscly. Where's Ude? Ude is a muscle guy. 00:15:57.179 --> 00:16:07.019 How does your body even control itself? You're sat here right now, you know, because you've got muscles 00:16:07.019 --> 00:16:13.659 that actually hold yourself together. And when Ude goes and lifts those weights in the gym and pumps 00:16:13.659 --> 00:16:21.419 the iron and gets his testosterone going to attract a member of the opposite sex, what's happening in his 00:16:21.419 --> 00:16:27.259 body? The actin and the myosin are basically pulling and contracting. And then of course, 00:16:27.259 --> 00:16:33.740 they break when he's in the gym. Why? Why do we want them to break Ude? Because they come back bigger. 00:16:35.579 --> 00:16:47.579 That is why. Can you see, can you see that creation has to point towards a creator? We're sat here and it 00:16:47.580 --> 00:16:55.180 sucks because the water is just ruining all our plans. But the plants need the water because when 00:16:55.180 --> 00:17:03.500 they mix it with carbon dioxide, they then produce glucose that then animals eat. And then we eat 00:17:03.500 --> 00:17:09.100 those animals so we can have life. They take the carbon dioxide and they give us what? 00:17:09.980 --> 00:17:17.420 Oxygen. Can you see there is a whole creation revolving around you to allow you to be where you are 00:17:17.420 --> 00:17:26.300 right now? God is revealing himself to you through that. He's made it very obvious. You can't sit 00:17:26.300 --> 00:17:30.620 here and go, no, I don't believe. Well, why would you even trust in your own thoughts if you don't 00:17:30.620 --> 00:17:37.500 believe that there is a God who gives you meaning, who gives you purpose, who intricately creates you? 00:17:37.500 --> 00:17:43.100 Psalm 19 says, the heavens declare your glory, the skies proclaim your handiwork. You look outside and 00:17:43.099 --> 00:17:48.139 you just see creation and you're like, there's something, something more. If there isn't, 00:17:48.139 --> 00:17:52.139 why do you even admire? Why do people hike all the way up to dragon's back? 00:17:52.139 --> 00:17:55.899 Why do they even admire what there is? Everything's just random anyway. 00:17:57.339 --> 00:18:02.459 You see a baby dying on the street. Well, if it's just all random, then why are you heartbreaking for 00:18:02.459 --> 00:18:07.099 that baby? Because it's all random anyway. It doesn't, it's meaningless. There's other animals eating other 00:18:07.099 --> 00:18:16.859 animals. There's got to be more. Science tells you how things work, but I think faith tells you why 00:18:16.859 --> 00:18:23.819 they bother to work in the first place. You see, if we don't believe that, what happens here? Let's see, 00:18:23.819 --> 00:18:32.379 verse 20. And in the things that have been made, that's what can be seen. So they are without excuse. 00:18:32.380 --> 00:18:36.380 For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile 00:18:36.380 --> 00:18:41.340 in their thinking and their foolish hearts were darkened. Claiming to be wise, they became fools. 00:18:41.660 --> 00:18:47.020 Maybe a few decades ago, that's what happened. Science started to really make jumps. So people 00:18:47.020 --> 00:18:53.340 are like, oh no, no, this is disproven the existence of God. But science would say, hey, don't trust me. 00:18:53.980 --> 00:18:58.620 Don't believe in me because I can't save you. I'm only here to tell you how things work. And by the way, 00:18:58.619 --> 00:19:04.139 I change every few years. That's why they're called theories. That's why they're called 00:19:04.139 --> 00:19:08.539 discoveries. Because we're constantly figuring things out. I don't think Annabelle is here, 00:19:08.539 --> 00:19:11.739 so I'm a little bit less nervous talking about this. But did you know that it was only in the 00:19:11.739 --> 00:19:16.859 late 19th century when actually we discovered that actually germs were a thing? That we had a theory 00:19:16.859 --> 00:19:21.659 of germ theory, because before that we believed that we got sick because simply the air was bad. 00:19:22.619 --> 00:19:28.059 And it was the miasma theory. But it was only when we discovered that actually microorganisms exist, 00:19:28.059 --> 00:19:36.460 that even on our skin, that there are microorganisms that we can't see. Especially lots in teenagers. 00:19:40.299 --> 00:19:48.619 But we only see those things. And then we discover penicillin, antibiotics. How? By accident in 1928. 00:19:49.980 --> 00:19:55.339 Because he leaves and the scientist just sees this, oh, the germs aren't growing here. What's here? 00:19:55.339 --> 00:20:01.740 And you see actually scientists, pioneering scientists will say this. That actually science is simply a 00:20:01.740 --> 00:20:09.099 discovery of creation. It's just a discovery of God. One astronomer says that actually science is 00:20:09.099 --> 00:20:15.819 basically thinking God's thoughts after him. Discovering to seeing what he has actually put in 00:20:15.819 --> 00:20:21.579 place. Science says don't believe in me. Artificial intelligence says do not believe in me. This summer, 00:20:21.579 --> 00:20:28.939 through some of our travels, I've relied extensively, extensively on perplexity, DeepSeq, and ChatGPT. 00:20:29.980 --> 00:20:35.659 Why do I need all three? Because I need to cross-reference. Because they're not always correct. 00:20:35.660 --> 00:20:42.779 And if you look, if you use DeepSeq, and you look, one time DeepSeq was adamant. I said, can I drive to 00:20:42.779 --> 00:20:47.980 Shenzhen Bay and park there so I can go to Shenzhen? And he says, yes, you can go there. There is a car 00:20:47.980 --> 00:20:53.980 park right at Shenzhen Bay checkpoint. Go park there. So what do Christina and I do? We drive towards Shenzhen 00:20:53.980 --> 00:20:57.340 Bay checkpoint. And then there's a forbidden sign that only authorized vehicles are allowed to go. 00:20:58.060 --> 00:21:03.340 And I said, well, the DeepSeq said I could. So then I asked DeepSeq, hey, I thought you said that there was a 00:21:03.339 --> 00:21:09.419 car park that I could. And he's like, oh, the user is questioning my judgment. Let me do a bit more 00:21:09.419 --> 00:21:12.459 research. This is the DeepThink part, which is completely creepy, by the way, but do have a look 00:21:12.459 --> 00:21:21.659 at it. And then I was like, oh, many apologies. There is no car park at Shenzhen Bay. I nearly got arrested. 00:21:26.059 --> 00:21:33.259 But that's the thing. AI is still just growing. It's that's the whole point of science. It's discovering 00:21:33.259 --> 00:21:40.539 what God has already done. Creation is evidence for God's existence. That's what I'm here to say. 00:21:40.539 --> 00:21:46.539 And actually, even if you are adamant that science is the way, you know that science also needs faith. 00:21:47.579 --> 00:21:52.059 You cannot study science without having some faith. If you're saying, okay, I'm going to do this 00:21:52.059 --> 00:21:59.019 experiment tomorrow in India, and it's going to be about physics. You have an assumption. You have a 00:21:59.019 --> 00:22:02.859 moral assumption, a faith that actually there will be gravity existing in India tomorrow. 00:22:03.740 --> 00:22:07.900 You need to have that kind of faith to be able to do those kinds of things. You also need to have 00:22:07.900 --> 00:22:12.139 another assumption, another faith, which is actually what you're thinking is actually rational and not 00:22:12.139 --> 00:22:17.180 random. And you need to decide, okay, well, this is, I'm going to do this, and I'm going to rely on this. 00:22:17.180 --> 00:22:21.259 How do you, how can you prove it? You cannot. You cannot prove that you are thinking rationally. 00:22:21.259 --> 00:22:29.660 Science also requires faith. Science tells us how things work. The Bible tells us why they 00:22:29.660 --> 00:22:35.579 bothered to work in the first place, or rather, the Bible tells us who made it all work. 00:22:36.539 --> 00:22:41.500 The science, this, this Bible is not really a science textbook necessarily, but it's about the 00:22:41.500 --> 00:22:47.900 story of a scientist who went into the lab to save his own creation. Do we believe that? And there's 00:22:47.900 --> 00:22:51.980 a final passage that I want to look into today because I've got a special thing coming up. 00:22:52.780 --> 00:22:57.019 But if anything, I just want you to remember, science tells you how things work, but faith 00:22:57.019 --> 00:23:02.140 tells you why they bother to work in the first place. And if science is a signpost, the real question is, 00:23:02.140 --> 00:23:08.540 what is it pointing us to? And here it is, Colossians chapter one. If you have your Bibles, 00:23:08.540 --> 00:23:13.100 I'm talking about your paper Bibles. If you only have it on your phone, then feel free to carry on 00:23:13.099 --> 00:23:19.899 scrolling on Instagram. Colossians chapter one, verse, let's see, where shall we go today? 00:23:19.899 --> 00:23:24.379 Let's do 15. Let's go for it. Let's be a bit more brave. 15 to 20. 00:23:26.539 --> 00:23:30.219 If science is a signpost, I'm here to tell you that this is what it's pointing us to. 00:23:30.219 --> 00:23:37.259 Okay. He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him, all things 00:23:37.259 --> 00:23:42.059 were created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers 00:23:42.059 --> 00:23:47.659 or authorities, all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things and 00:23:47.659 --> 00:23:53.019 in him, all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, 00:23:53.019 --> 00:23:58.460 the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him, all the fullness 00:23:58.460 --> 00:24:05.099 of God was pleased to dwell and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, 00:24:05.099 --> 00:24:13.259 making peace by the blood of his cross. Jesus. Science is a signpost towards Jesus. Jesus is the 00:24:13.259 --> 00:24:21.339 substance of God's creation. Jesus is the reason why we are here. Jesus is God's pattern for all creation. 00:24:21.339 --> 00:24:29.099 He exemplifies God's faithfulness to mankind. He also exemplifies and displays and models mankind's 00:24:29.099 --> 00:24:33.980 faithfulness back to God. This was how we were supposed to be designed. Jesus came to show us the way and say, 00:24:33.980 --> 00:24:40.700 this is how you live. This is why you live. And this is how you trust God. Even when it leads to suffering. 00:24:41.019 --> 00:24:47.500 Even when it leads to the cross. This is how you do it. And I will show you that this way is the way that leads to life. 00:24:48.140 --> 00:24:53.660 When man makes his own choices, it leads to death. But this is how we do it. 00:24:57.019 --> 00:25:02.140 I mentioned at the beginning, I said, science is a topic that maybe I talked about a lot 10, 15 years ago, 00:25:02.140 --> 00:25:08.700 but it actually has died down a little bit. I think the question is this. A lot of people have stopped 00:25:08.700 --> 00:25:11.740 asking, well, is anyone out there? Because I think everyone agrees there is something out there. 00:25:11.740 --> 00:25:15.660 Because everyone is starting to see the limits of science, seeing the limits of knowledge. Science 00:25:15.660 --> 00:25:20.140 itself, the word just means to know. And we're constantly just growing in our knowledge and our 00:25:20.140 --> 00:25:24.940 discoveries. And actually, the more you find out, the more you realize what you don't know, he's like, 00:25:24.940 --> 00:25:32.620 whoa, this is so much bigger. Our minds cannot comprehend. And we're heading into another phase 00:25:32.620 --> 00:25:37.820 of trusting in something else with AI. It's a huge thing. Tim Cook said recently that actually, 00:25:37.820 --> 00:25:40.700 the dawn of AI is just as big as the dawn of the internet. 00:25:42.380 --> 00:25:47.019 There is so much uncertainty. There are so many things that we don't know yet. For us, 00:25:47.420 --> 00:25:53.420 can we remember that actually, all of this points to Jesus. When you see creation, 00:25:53.420 --> 00:25:59.500 you see that actually, it's not really about is anyone out there. The next question that people 00:25:59.500 --> 00:26:08.220 are asking now is, is anyone out there who cares for me? You've stopped asking, how did this world 00:26:08.220 --> 00:26:15.340 come about? We know it's here. We know that there's someone out there. The question now has become, 00:26:15.340 --> 00:26:19.820 well, does anyone out there actually care for me? So actually, the next generations growing up are less 00:26:19.819 --> 00:26:25.500 about science versus faith. It's simply just about, well, who am I meaning to, who am I supposed to 00:26:25.500 --> 00:26:35.179 connect with? Communion. Who can I have an authentic relationship with? Because I'm starting to see 00:26:35.179 --> 00:26:41.659 that this world is filled with darkness and fake posts. How can I know what is real? And how can I know 00:26:41.660 --> 00:26:51.180 who actually cares for me? Creation, brothers and sisters, points us to the creator. Science is a 00:26:51.180 --> 00:27:00.300 signpost to Jesus. And he cares for you. And he loves you. You see, it was God's original design. 00:27:01.019 --> 00:27:06.940 When he created the garden to walk with Adam and Eve, he was just, just let me be with you. Nothing else. 00:27:06.940 --> 00:27:13.580 You don't need to do stuff for me. I just want you to be with me. Would you just be with me? And I know 00:27:13.580 --> 00:27:19.180 you need this. I know you want this. And yet we just numb ourselves, distract ourselves with all these 00:27:19.180 --> 00:27:24.059 other things, entertain myself with all these other posts and all these other shows. And then you realize 00:27:24.059 --> 00:27:28.299 that actually it still doesn't satisfy us because you were meant for something more. You were meant for 00:27:28.299 --> 00:27:34.779 genuine, deep connection. So drag yourself out into nature. Not today, another day. Drag yourself out into 00:27:34.779 --> 00:27:39.980 nature and sit and humble yourself under the mighty hand of God. Look and cast your anxieties onto him 00:27:39.980 --> 00:27:46.779 and know that he cares for you because he has got a whole system of nature working to feed you, 00:27:47.500 --> 00:27:54.619 to sustain you. And he holds all these things together. In him, all things were held together. He is the 00:27:54.619 --> 00:28:04.220 sustainer of life. We know this. We deep down know this. And how do I know we know this? 00:28:04.220 --> 00:28:10.220 When we end up in the hospital and the doctor says, hey, actually, there's nothing else we can do for you. 00:28:11.019 --> 00:28:19.420 We're just waiting now. Every time we face, at least for just our physical ailments, and we get to the point 00:28:19.420 --> 00:28:24.380 where we're like, even a doctor can't help me, even a scientist can't help me. And then what happens? And then we 00:28:24.380 --> 00:28:30.019 know. And then we turn back to the thing that we have deep down always known, but we have been claiming to be wise. 00:28:30.019 --> 00:28:35.299 But then we've actually been futile in our thinking. And it's that moment when we go, actually, God, 00:28:36.099 --> 00:28:41.139 I realize that I am not in control. I thought I was in control. I thought my doctor was the best 00:28:41.700 --> 00:28:46.740 oncologist I could find in Hong Kong. But yet here I am submitting to you. 00:28:46.740 --> 00:28:58.420 Submitting to you. Letting science point me back to you. Creation is his love letter to us. 00:28:59.859 --> 00:29:04.740 Let us use our telescopes. Let us use our microscopes to look and discover God's fingerprints 00:29:04.740 --> 00:29:14.019 all over. Be filled with just confidence that actually Christianity is question-proof in the 00:29:14.019 --> 00:29:17.059 sense there is no question that's too big. If you're sat there going, I don't know about this 00:29:17.059 --> 00:29:20.500 whole faith thing yet, but I'm worried to ask questions because I grew up in an education system 00:29:20.500 --> 00:29:24.579 and I grew up in a church that doesn't allow me to ask questions. Ask away. Can you imagine there's 00:29:24.579 --> 00:29:28.700 a God that's small enough that just because you have a few questions that it all falls apart, 00:29:28.700 --> 00:29:37.740 then we don't want to have that God. Ask away. But remember this. Christianity is all about 00:29:37.740 --> 00:29:42.380 connection. It's all about connection to a savior. Why? Because it's called Christianity. It's in the 00:29:42.380 --> 00:29:47.819 name. You're here not because you are intellectually satisfied. You're not here because you want to 00:29:48.539 --> 00:29:53.259 prosper here. You're here because you want to be connected to a person. That's why you're a Christian. 00:29:53.259 --> 00:30:00.940 That creation, let everything around you point towards him. And you'll realize this love letter 00:30:00.940 --> 00:30:08.619 that he's been writing for you all along, that he's recruited dolphins and whales and trees and 00:30:08.619 --> 00:30:19.420 dragonflies to revolve around you, to sustain you. He is divine. We are all part of this one tree that 00:30:19.420 --> 00:30:27.019 is held together by him. Can we remember that? C.S. Lewis says this, the more we understand the 00:30:27.019 --> 00:30:35.580 universe, the more meaningless it becomes unless God exists. The more we understand about the universe, 00:30:35.580 --> 00:30:42.539 the more meaningless it becomes unless God exists. I hope that encourages you that all of this is still 00:30:42.539 --> 00:30:50.139 about a creator eager to connect with his creation.