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Answers in Genesis

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has put forth these statistics.

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You may find them interesting.

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I do.

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Fifty-six percent of Papa's 
generation go to church.

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Forty-four percent of my mother's 
generation go to church.

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Thirty-two percent of Jeff's -

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he's in a different one from me.

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He called me a young whippersnapper 
the other day or something -

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but 32% Jeff's age.

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Twenty-seven percent my age -

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I'm right there at the 
beginning of Generation X.

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It starts at 1965 and I just slipped in.

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I think it goes all the way to '80.

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But millennials -

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basically those from 1980.

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Eighteen percent attend church.

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So what you're watching 
is from Papa's age - 56% -

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down to 18%.

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What's happening?

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Scripture talks about there may be

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a great falling away before the end.

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What's happening in America?

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Just listen to this,

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because the statistics go further.

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Notice what they found.

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Of millennials who grew up in the church,

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61% leave the church

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by the time they hit college age.

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Why? The common answer:

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Evolution.

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(incomplete thought)

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This is what they recognize:

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We hear millions of years

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taught in high school -

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elementary school, 
middle school, high school -

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but not only that,

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you know what else they're saying?

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And we heard it taught by many preachers.

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And you know why it's such a battle

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for their faith?

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Because they're being honest.

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The preacher says:

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Well, it's okay to think this took

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millions of years.

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But you know what the problem is?

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These millennials read Genesis 1

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and guess what they think

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they're hearing it say.

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That it was all done in seven days.

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See, that is the problem.

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It sounds like it is saying something

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and anybody that wants 
to take it seriously -

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You know what?

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Richard Dawkins says these 
sophisticated theologians

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who want to try to find evolution in here,

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he says they're deluded.

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He says these creationists 
that are holding

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to what I am going to espouse,

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he said they're right.

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He's saying these other guys

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that are trying to find this there,

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they're deluded.

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Now you see he thinks he's got us then

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because he thinks that there's such

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irrefutable evidence for evolution -

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he calls it - "evil"-lution.

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The Brits say it right.

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But see, he thinks he's got us.

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It's like you can't argue it.

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But he says at least the creationists

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have it right.

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These guys that are trying to 
tow the line between both,

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he says they're deluded. 
You can't do that.

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And he recognizes that.

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And you know what? The 
millennials recognize that too.

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Listen to what else:

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He said of millennials who leave church,

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most heard the preacher teach

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that it's okay to believe 
in billions of years

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which caused them to doubt the Bible.

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Of millennials still in the church

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that haven't left,

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when asked what, if anything,

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causes them to ever 
doubt the Bible the most?

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Answer: the age of the earth

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is by far the biggest issue.

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Same millennials when asked

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if they have had their 
Christianity challenged

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and said yes, they 
were asked at what point.

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Two points were about even:

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The age of the earth

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and why bad things happen.

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I'll tell you these young 
people are being honest.

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And they recognize it.

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And you know what, this is the 
very thing Andy Stanley sees,

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and he's trying to come 
up with an answer for.

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He recognizes people are bailing out

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because scientific evidence -

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so-called science is supposedly 
undermining this account,

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and what happens is -
(incomplete thought).

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See, too many people 
recognize the reality of this.

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You start having the dominoes fall

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and click, click, click -

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they go right down the line

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until you start taking 
out the New Testament.

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See, guys like Andy Stanley who come along

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and say we've got to unhitch this

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so that when those dominoes fall

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they don't take out the New Testament too.

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So we've got to unhitch the Old Testament.

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We've got to basically 
say, okay, it's myth.

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We all recognize that.

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That's not the way you defend it

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because people aren't buying it.

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You want to encourage people's faith?

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What we want to do is we want to

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defend this book in its entirety.

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And that's where the problem is.

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The reality is this,

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if millennials were 
looking at this account

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and saying, oh yeah,

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I see billions of years in here.

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Well, guess what?

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When they go into their college course

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and the professor stands up and he says

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this has all taken billions of years,

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what are they going to say?

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They're going to say, yeah, my faith

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is consistent with what you're teaching.

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We've seen that all 
along right here in Genesis.

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But they don't see it.

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That's why it is such a 
challenge to their faith.