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We hope to see you soon.

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Good evening, I'm please to welcome you to Legacy Hall

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of the Creation Museum in Northern Kentucky

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in the Metropolitan area of Cincinnati.

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I'm Tom Forman from CNN.

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And I'm please to be tonight's moderator for

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this Evolution vs. Creation debate.

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This is a very old question, where did we come from?

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My answer is from Washington this morning by airplane.

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(Laughter) But there is a much more profound, longer answer,

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That people have sought after for a long time.

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So, tonight's question to be debated is the following:

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Is Creation a viable model of origins in today's modern Scientific era?

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Our welcome extends to hundreds of thousands of people

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who are watching on the internet at debatelive.org.

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We're glad you have joined us.

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Of course, your auditorium here,

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all of the folks who've joined us as well.

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We're joined by 70 media representatives from many

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of the world's great news organizations.

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We're glad to have them here as well.

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And now let's welcome our debaters: Mr. Bill Nye and Mr. Ken Ham.

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(audience applauds)

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We had a coin toss earlier to determine

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who would go first of these two men.

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The only thing missing was Joe Namath in a fur coat.

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But it went very well. Mr. Ham won the coin toss

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and he opted to speak first. But first, let me tell you

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a little bit about both of these gentlemen.

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Mr. Nye's website describes him as a scientist,

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engineer, comedian, author, and inventor.

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Mr Nye, as you may know, produced a number of award-winning TV shows,

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including a program he became so well-known for:

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Bill Nye the Science Guy.

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While working on the Science Guy show, Mr. Nye won

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seven national Emmy awards for writing, performing,

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and producing the show. Won 18 Emmys in five years!

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In between creating the shows, he wrote five kids books about science,

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including his latest title, <i>Bill Nye's Great Big Book of Tiny Germs</i>.

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Billy Nye is the host of three television series:

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his program, "The 100 Greatest Discoveries"--

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airs on the Science Channel. "The Eyes of Nye"--

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airs on PBS stations across the country. He frequenly appears

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on interview programs to discuss a variety of science topics.

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Mr. Nye serves as Executive Director of the Planetary Society,

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the world's largest space interest group.

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He is a graduate of Cornell, with a Bachelors

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of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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Mr. Ken Ham is the president and co-founder of Answers in Genesis,

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a bible-defending organization that upholds the authority

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of the scriptures from the very first verse.

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Mr. Ham is the man behind the popular, high-tech

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Creation Museum, where we're holding this debate.

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The museum has had 2 million visitors in six years

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and has attracted much of the world's media.

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The Answers in Genesis website, as well, trafficked

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with 2 million visitors alone last month. Mr. Ham is also

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a best-selling author, a much in-demand speaker,

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and the host of a daily radio feature carried on 700 plus stations.

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This is his second public debate on Evolution and Creation.

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The first was at Harvard, in the 1990s.

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Mr. Ham is a native of Australia. He earned

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a Bachelors degree in Applied Science, with an emphasis in

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Environmental Biology, from the Queensland's Institute of Technology,

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as well as a Diploma of Education at the University

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of Queensland in Brisbon, Australia.

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And now...Mr. Ham, you opted to go first, so you will

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be first with your five minute opening statement.

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Well, good evening. I know that not everyone watching

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this debate will necessarily agree with what I have to say,

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but I'm an Aussie and live over here in America

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and they tell me I have an accent and so it doesn't matter

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what I say, some people tell me. We just like to hear you saying it.

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(laughter) So...um...I hope you enjoy me saying it anyway.

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Well, the debate topic is this: Is Creation

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a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era?

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You know, when this was first announced on the internet,

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there were lots of statements-- like this one

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from the Richard Dawkins Foundation.

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"Scientists should not debate Creationists. Period."

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And this one from one of the Discovery.com websites.

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"Should Scientists Debate Creationists?"

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You know, right here I believe there's a gross misrepresentation

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in our culture. We're seeing people being indoctrinated

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to believe that Creationists can't be Scientists.

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I believe it's all a part of secularists hi-jacking the word "Science".

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I want you to meet a modern-day scientist who's a Biblical Creationist.

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My name is Stuart Burgess.

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I'm a professor of Engineering Design at Bristol University in the U.K.

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My name is Stuart Burgess.

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I'm a professor of Engineering Design at Bristol University in the U.K.

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I have published over 130 scientific papers on

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the science of design in Engineering and Biological systems.

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From my research work, I have found that the scientific evidence

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fully supports Creationism as the best explanation to origins.

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I've also designed major parts of spacecrafts,

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launched by ESA and NASA.

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So here's a biblical Creationist,

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who's a scientist, who's also an inventor.

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And I want young people to understand that.

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You know, the problem, I believe, is this: we need to define terms correctly.

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We need to define Creation/Evolution in regard to origins

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and we need to define science. And in this opening statement,

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I want to concentrate on dealing with the word "science".

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I believe the word "science" has been hijacked by secularists.

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Now, what is science?

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Well, the origin of the word comes from the Classical Latin "scientia",

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which means know;. And if you look up a dictionary,

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it'll say science means "the state of knowing, knowledge".

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But there's different types of knowledge and I believe

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this is where the confusion lies.

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There's experimental or observational sciences, as we call it.

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That's using the scientific method, observation,

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measurement, experiment, testing. That's what produces

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our technology, computers, spacecraft, jet planes,

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smoke detectors, looking at DNA, antibiotics, medicines and vaccines.

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You see, all scientists, whether Creationists or Evolutionists,

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actually have the same observational or experimental science.

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And it doesn't matter whether you're a Creationist or an Evolutionist,

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you can be a great scientist.

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For instance, here's an atheist, who is a great scientist--

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Craig Venter, one of the first researchers to sequence the human genome.

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Or Dr. Raymond Damadian. He is a man who invented

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the MRI scan and revolutionized medicine. He's a biblical Creationist.

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But I want us to also understand molecules-to-man

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evolution belief has nothing to do with developing technology.

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You see, when we're talking about origins, we're talking about the past.

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We're talking about our origins. We weren't there.

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You can't observe that, whether it's molecules-to-man evolution,

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or whether it's a creation account.

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I mean, you're talking about the past.

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We'd like to call that Origins of Historical Science,

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knowledge concerning the past. Here at the Creation Museum,

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we make no apology about the fact that our Origins or Historical science

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actually is based upon the biblical account of origins.

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Now, when you research science textbooks being used

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in public schools, what we found is this:

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by and large, the Origins of Historical Science

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is based upon man's ideas about the past--for instance, the ideas of Darwin.

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And our research has found that public school textbooks

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are using the same word "science" for Observational Science

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and Historical Science. They arbitrarily define science

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as naturalism and outlaw the supernatural.

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They present molecules-to-man evolution as fact.

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They are imposing, I believe, the religion

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of naturalism or atheism on generations of students.

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You see, I assert that the word "science" has been hijacked

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by secularists in teaching evolution to force the religion

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of naturalism on generations of kids.

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Secular evolutionists teach that all life developed

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by natural processes from some primordial form.

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That man is just an evolved animal, which has great bearing

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on how we view life and death.

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For instance, as Bill states, "It's very hard to accept,

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for many of us, that when you die, it's over.";

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But, you see, the Bible gives a totally different account of origins,

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of who we are, where we came from, the meaning of life, and our future.

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That through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin.

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But that God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son.

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Whoever believes in Him should not perish and have everlasting life.

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So is creation a viable model of origins in today's modern scientific era?

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I say the creation/evolution debate is a conflict

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between two philosophical worldviews based on two different accounts

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of origins or science beliefs and creation

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is the only viable model of historical science confirmed

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by observational science in today's modern scientific era.

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And that is time. I had the unenviable job of being the time-keeper here.

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So I'm like the referee in football that you don't like,

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but I will periodically, if either one of our debaters

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runs over on anything, I will stop them in the name of keeping it fair for all.

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Uh, Mr. Ham, thank you for your comments. Now it's Mr. Nye's

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turn for a five minute opening statement. Mr. Nye.

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Thank you. It's a pleasure to be here.

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I very much appreciate you including me in your, uh, facility here.

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Now, looking around the room I think I see just one bow tie.

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Is that right? Just one. And I'm telling you, once you try it--

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oh, there's yes, two! That's great. I started wearing bow ties

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when I was young, in high school.

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My father showed me how. His father showed him.

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And there's a story associated with this, which I find remarkable.

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My grandfather was in the rotary, and he attended

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a convention in Philadelphia, and even in those days,

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at the turn of the last century, people rented tuxedos.

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And the tuxedo came with a bow tie--untied bow tie.

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So he didn't know how to tie it.

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So...wasn't sure what to do, but he just took a chance.

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He went to the hotel room next door, knocked on the door,

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"Excuse me? Can you help me tie my tie?"

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And the guy said, "Sure. Lie down on the bed."

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So...my grandfather wanted to have the tie on,

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wasn't sure what he was getting into, so he's said

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to have lain on the bed and the guy tied a perfect bow tie knot and,

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quite reasonably, my grandfather said,

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"Thank you. Why'd I have to lie down on the bed?"

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The guy said, "I'm an undertaker."

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(audience laughs)

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"It's the only way I know how to do it."

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Now that story was presented to me as a true story.

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It may or may not be. But it gives you something to think about.

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And it's certainly something to remember.

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So, here tonight, we're gonna have two stories

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and we can compare Mr. Ham's story to the story

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from what I will call the outside, from mainstream science.

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The question tonight is: Does Ken Ham's Creation Model hold up?

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Is it "viable"?

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So let me ask you all: what would you be doing if you weren't here tonight?

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That's right, you'd be home watching CSI.

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CSI Petersburg. Is that coming--I think it's coming.

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And on CSI, there is no distinction made between

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historical science and observational science.

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These are constructs unique to Mr. Ham.

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We don't normally have these anywhere in the world except here.

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Natural laws that applied in the past apply now.

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That's why they're natural laws. That's why we embrace them.

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That's how we made all these discoveries

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that enabled all this remarkable technology.

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So CSI is a fictional show, but it's based absolutely

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on real people doing real work.

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When you go to a crime scene and find evidence,

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you have clues about the past. And you trust those clues

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and you embrace them and you move forward to convict somebody.

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Mr. Ham and his followers have this remarkable view

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of a worldwide flood that somehow influenced everything that we observe in nature.

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A 500 foot wooden boat, eight zookeepers for 14,000 individual animals,

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every land plant in the world underwater for a full year?

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I ask us all: is that really reasonable?

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You'll hear a lot about the Grand Canyon, I imagine, also,

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which is a remarkable place and it has fossils.

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And the fossils in the Grand Canyon are found in layers.

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There's not a single place in the Grand Canyon

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where the fossils of one type of animal cross over

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into the fossils of another. In other words,

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when there was a big flood on the earth, you would expect

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drowning animals to swim up to a higher level.

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Not any one of them did. Not a single one.

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If you could find evidence of that, my friends, you could change the world.

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Now, I just wanna remind us all:

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there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious,

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who get enriched, who have a wonderful sense of community from their religion.

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They worship together, they eat together, they live

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in their communities and enjoy each others company. Billions of people.

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But these same people do not embrace the extraordinary view

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that the earth is somehow only 6,000 years old. That is unique.

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And here's my concern: what keeps the United States ahead,

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what makes the United States a world leader, is our technology,

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our new ideas, our innovations. If we continue to eschew science,

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eschew the process and try to divide science

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into observational science and historic science,

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we are not gonna move forward. We will not embrace natural laws.

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We will not make discoveries. We will not invent and innovate and stay ahead.

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So if you ask me if Ken Ham's Creation model is viable, I say no.

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It is absolutely not viable. So stay with us over the next period

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and you can compare my evidence to his. Thank you all very much.

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(audience applauds) (moderator) All right.

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Very nice start by both of our debaters here.

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And now each of one will offer a thirty minute,

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illustrated presentation to fully offer their case for us to consider.

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Mr. Ham, you're up.

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Well, the debate topic was "Is creation a viable model

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of origins in today's modern scientific era?"

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And I made the statement at the end of my opening statement:

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creation is the only viable model of historical science

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confirmed by observational science in today's modern scientific era.

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And I said what we need to be doing is actually defining

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our terms and, particularly three terms: science, creation, and evolution.

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Now, I discussed the meaning of the word "science"

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and what is meant by experimental and observational science briefly.

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And that both Creationists and Evolutionists

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can be great scientists, for instance. I mentioned Craig Venter, a biologist.

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He's an atheist and he's a great scientist.

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He was one of the first researchers to sequence the human genome.

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I also mentioned Dr. Raymond Damadian, who actually invented the MRI scanner.

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I want you to meet a biblical creationist who is a scientist and an inventor.

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Hi, my name is Dr. Raymond Damadian.

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I am a Young Earth Creation Scientist and believe that God

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created the world in six 24 hour days,

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just as recorded in the book of Genesis.

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By God's grace and the devoted prayers of my Godly mother-in-law,

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I invented the MRI scanner in 1969.

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The idea that scientists who believe the earth

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is 6,000 years old cannot do real science is simply wrong.

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Well, he's most adamant about that.

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And, actually, he revolutionized medicine! He's a biblical Creationist.

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And I encourage children to follow people like that, make them their heroes.

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Let me introduce you to another biblical Creation Scientist.

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My name is Danny Faulkner.

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I received my PhD in astronomy from Indiana University.

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For 26 and a half years, I was a professor

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at the University of South Carolina, Lancaster,

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where I hold the rank of distinguished professor emeritus.

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Upon my retirement from the university in January of 2013,

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I joined the research staff at Answers in Genesis. I'm a stellar astronomer.

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That means my primary interests is stars, but I'm particularly

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interested in the study of eclipsing binary stars.

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And I've published many articles in the astronomy literature,

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places such as the the Astrophysical Journal,

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the Astronomical Journal, and the Observatory.

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There is nothing in observational astronomy that contradicts a recent creation.

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I also mentioned Dr. Stuart Burgess,

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professor of Engineering Design at Bristol University in England.

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Now he invented and designed a double-action worm gear set

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for the three hinges of the robotic arm on a very expensive satellite.

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And if that had not worked, if that gear set had not worked,

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that whole satellite would've been useless.

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Yet, Dr. Burgess is a biblical Creationist. He believes, just as I believe.

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Now, think about this for a moment.

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A scientist like Dr. Burgess,

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who believe in Creation, just as I do,

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a small minority in this scientific world.

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But let's see what he says about scientists believing in Creation.

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I find that many of my colleagues in academia are sympathetic

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to the creationist viewpoint, including biologists.

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However, there are often afraid to speak out because of the criticisms

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they would get from the media and atheists lobby.

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I agree. That's a real problem today.

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We need to have freedom to be able to speak on these topics.

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You know, I just want to say, by the way, that Creationists,

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non-Christian scientists, I should say,

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non-Christian scientists are really borrowing

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from the Christian worldview anyway to carry out their experimental,

00:31:27.134 --> 00:31:30.203
observational science. Think about it. When they're doing

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observational science, using the scientific method,

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they have to assume the laws of logic,

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they have to assume the laws of nature,

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they have to assume the uniformity of nature.

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I mean, think about it. If the universe came about by natural processes,

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where'd the laws of logic come from? Did they just pop into existence?

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Are we in a stage now where we only have half-logic?

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So, you see, I have a question for Bill Nye.

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How do you account for the laws of logic and the laws of nature

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from a naturalistic worldview that excludes the existence of God?

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Now, in my opening statement I also discussed

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a different type of science or knowledge, origins or historical science.

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See again, there's a confusion here. There's a misunderstanding here.

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People, by and large, have not been taught to look at

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what you believe about the past as different to what you're observing in the present.

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You don't observe the past directly.

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Even when you think about the creation account.

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I mean, we can't observe God creating.

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We can't observe the creation of Adam and Eve. We admit that.

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We're willing to admit our beliefs about the past.

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But, see, what you see in the present is very different.

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Even some public school textbooks actually sort of acknowledge

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the difference between historical and observational science.

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Here is an Earth Science textbook that's used in public schools.

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And we read this. In contrast to physical geology,

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the aim of historical geology is to understand Earth's long history.

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Then they make this statement.

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Historical geology--so we're talking historical science--

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tries to establish a timeline of the vast number of physical

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and biological changes that have occurred in the past.

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We study physical geology before historical geology

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because we first must understand how Earth works before we try to unravel its past.

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In other words, we observe things in the present and then,

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okay, we're assuming that that's always happened in the past

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and we're gonna try and figure out how this happened.

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See, there is a difference between what you observe

00:33:22.234 --> 00:33:26.513
and what happened in the past. Let me illustrate it this way:

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If Bill Nye and I went to the Grand Canyon,

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we could agree that that's a Coconino sandstone in the Hermit shale.

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There's the boundary. They're sitting one on top of the other.

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We could agree on that. But you know what we would disagree on?

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I mean, we could even analyse the minerals and agree on that.

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But we would disagree on how long it took to get there.

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But see, none of us saw the sandstone or the shale being laid down.

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There's a supposed 10 million year gap there.

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But I don't see a gap.

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But that might be different to what Bill Nye would see.

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But there's a difference between what you actually observe

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directly and then your interpretation regarding the past.

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When I was at the Goddard Space Center a number of years ago

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I met Creationists and Evolutionists who were

00:34:06.606 --> 00:34:08.313
both working on the Hubble telescope.

00:34:08.313 --> 00:34:10.603
They agreed on how to build the Hubble telescope.

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You know what they disagreed on? Well, they disagreed on

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how to interpret the data the telescope obtained

00:34:16.170 --> 00:34:18.455
in regard to the age of the universe.

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And, you know, we could on and talk about lots

00:34:21.297 --> 00:34:23.139
of other similar sorts of things. For instance,

00:34:23.139 --> 00:34:26.547
I've heard Bill Nye talk about how a smoke detector works,

00:34:26.547 --> 00:34:30.793
using the radioactive element Americium. And, you know what?

00:34:30.793 --> 00:34:32.933
I totally agree with him on that. We agree how it works.

00:34:32.933 --> 00:34:35.933
We agree how radioactivity enables that to work.

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But if you're then gonna use radioactive elements

00:34:37.696 --> 00:34:39.599
and talk about the age of the Earth,

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you've got a problem cause you weren't there.

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We gotta understand parent elements, daughter elements and so on.

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We could agree whether you're Creationist or Evolutionist

00:34:47.764 --> 00:34:50.366
on the technology to put the rover on Mars, but we're gonna

00:34:50.366 --> 00:34:54.282
disagree on how to interpret the origin of Mars.

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I mean, there are some people that believed it

00:34:56.112 --> 00:34:59.130
was even a global flood on Mars, and there's no liquid water on Mars.

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We're gonna disagree maybe on our interpretation of origins

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and you can't prove either way because, not from

00:35:06.962 --> 00:35:11.102
an observational science perspective, because we've only got the present.

00:35:11.102 --> 00:35:16.707
Creationists and Evolutionists both work on medicines and vaccines.

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You see? It doesn't matter whether you're a Creationist or an Evolutionist,

00:35:19.365 --> 00:35:23.170
all scientists have the same experimental observational science.

00:35:23.170 --> 00:35:26.101
So I have a question for Bill Nye: Can you name one piece

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of technology that could only have been developed

00:35:28.764 --> 00:35:32.929
starting with the belief in molecules-to-man evolution?

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Now, here's another important fact.

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Creationists and Evolutionists all have the same evidence.

00:35:38.898 --> 00:35:42.933
Bill Nye and I have the same Grand Canyon. We don't disagree on that.

00:35:42.933 --> 00:35:46.333
We all have the same fish fossils. This is one from the Creation Museum.

00:35:46.333 --> 00:35:50.299
The same dinosaur skeleton, the same animals, the same humans,

00:35:50.299 --> 00:35:54.671
the same DNA, the same radioactive decay elements that we see.

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We have the same universe...actually, we all have the same evidences.

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It's not the evidences that are different.

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It's a battle over the same evidence in regard to how we interpret the past.

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And you know why that is?

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Cause it's really a battle over worldviews and starting points.

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It's a battle over philosophical worldviews

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and starting points, but the same evidence. Now, I admit,

00:36:14.862 --> 00:36:17.798
my starting point is that God is the ultimate authority.

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But if someone doesn't accept that, then man has to be the ultimate authority.

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And that's really the difference when it comes down to it.

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You see, I've been emphasizing the difference

00:36:26.733 --> 00:36:29.537
between historical origin science, knowledge about

00:36:29.537 --> 00:36:30.927
the past when you weren't there,

00:36:30.927 --> 00:36:33.362
and we need to understand that we weren't there.

00:36:33.362 --> 00:36:36.299
Or experimental observational science, using

00:36:36.299 --> 00:36:38.501
your five senses in the present, the scientific method,

00:36:38.501 --> 00:36:41.133
what you can directly observe, test, repeat.

00:36:42.953 --> 00:36:44.328
There's a big difference between those two.

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And that's not what's being taught in our public schools

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and that's why kids aren't being taught to think

00:36:48.600 --> 00:36:52.137
critically and correctly about the origins issue.

00:36:52.137 --> 00:36:54.031
But you know, it's also important to understand,

00:36:54.031 --> 00:36:56.366
when talking about Creation and Evolution, both involve

00:36:56.366 --> 00:36:59.705
historical science and observational science.

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You see, the role of observational science is this:

00:37:02.365 --> 00:37:04.481
it can be used to confirm or otherwise

00:37:04.481 --> 00:37:08.232
one's historical science based on one's starting point.

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Now, when you think about the debate topic and what I have

00:37:11.000 --> 00:37:14.399
learned concerning creation, if our origins

00:37:14.399 --> 00:37:17.999
or historical science based on the bible, the bible's account

00:37:17.999 --> 00:37:21.451
of origins is true, then there should be predictions

00:37:21.451 --> 00:37:24.443
from this that we can test, using observational science.

00:37:24.443 --> 00:37:27.176
And there are. For instance, based on the bible,

00:37:27.176 --> 00:37:30.100
we'd expect to find evidence concerning an intelligence,

00:37:30.100 --> 00:37:32.534
confirming an intelligence produced life.

00:37:32.534 --> 00:37:35.137
We'd expect to find evidence confirming after their kind.

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The bible says God made kinds of animals and plants

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after their kind, implying each kind produces it's own,

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not that one kind changes into another.

00:37:43.500 --> 00:37:47.533
You'd expect to find evidence confirming a global flood of Noah's day.

00:37:47.533 --> 00:37:50.830
Evidence confirming one race of humans because we

00:37:50.830 --> 00:37:53.833
all go back to Adam and Eve, biologically, that would mean there's one race.

00:37:53.833 --> 00:37:58.078
Evidence confirming the Tower of Babel, that God gave different languages.

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Evidence confirming a young universe.

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Now, I can't go through all of those, but a couple of them we'll look at briefly.

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After their kind, evidence confirming that--

00:38:07.668 --> 00:38:12.865
in the Creation Museum, we have a display featuring replicas,

00:38:12.865 --> 00:38:15.931
actually, of Darwin's finches. They're called Darwin's finches.

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Darwin collected finches from the Galapagos

00:38:18.833 --> 00:38:21.863
and took them back to England and we see the different species,

00:38:21.863 --> 00:38:24.133
the different beak sizes here. And, you know,

00:38:24.133 --> 00:38:27.171
from the specimens Darwin obtained in the Galapagos,

00:38:27.171 --> 00:38:31.295
he actually pondered these things and how do you explain this.

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And in his notes, actually, he came up with this diagram here, a tree.

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And he actually said, "I think." So he was talking about

00:38:42.298 --> 00:38:46.566
different species and maybe those species came from some common ancestor,

00:38:46.566 --> 00:38:49.434
but, actually, when it comes to finches, we actually would agree,

00:38:49.434 --> 00:38:54.332
as Creationists, that different finch species came from a common ancestor, but a finch.

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That's what they would have to come from.

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And see, Darwin wasn't just thinking about species.

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Darwin had a much bigger picture in mind.

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When you look at the Origins of Species and read that book,

00:39:07.586 --> 00:39:10.904
you'll find he made this statement: from such low and intermediate form,

00:39:10.904 --> 00:39:13.065
both animals and plants may have been developed;

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and, if we admit this, we must likewise admit that

00:39:15.965 --> 00:39:18.965
all organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth

00:39:18.965 --> 00:39:22.285
may be descended from some one primordial form.

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So he had in mind what we today know as an evolutionary tree of life,

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that all life has arisen from some primordial form.

00:39:31.852 --> 00:39:35.287
Now, when you consider the classifications system,

00:39:35.287 --> 00:39:37.867
kingdom phylum class or the family genus species,

00:39:37.867 --> 00:39:41.698
we would say, as Creationists, we have many creation scientists

00:39:41.698 --> 00:39:43.598
that research this and, for lots of reasons,

00:39:43.598 --> 00:39:47.103
I would say, the kind in Genesis 1 is really more at

00:39:47.103 --> 00:39:50.767
the family level of classification. For instance, there's one dog kind.

00:39:50.767 --> 00:39:53.402
There's one cat kind. Even though you have different

00:39:53.402 --> 00:39:55.686
generative species, that would mean, by the way,

00:39:55.686 --> 00:39:57.800
you didn't need anywhere near the number of animals

00:39:57.800 --> 00:39:59.218
on the ark as people think.

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You wouldn't need all the species of dogs, just two.

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Not all the species of cats--just two.

00:40:02.898 --> 00:40:06.599
And, you see, based on the biblical account there in Genesis One,

00:40:06.599 --> 00:40:10.352
Creationists have drawn up what they believe is a creation origin.

00:40:10.352 --> 00:40:13.218
In other words, they're saying, "Look. There's great variation

00:40:13.218 --> 00:40:16.252
in the genetics of dogs and finches and so on."

00:40:16.252 --> 00:40:19.367
And so, over time, particularly after Noah's flood,

00:40:19.367 --> 00:40:21.598
you'd expect if there were two dogs, for instance,

00:40:21.598 --> 00:40:23.766
you could end up with different species of dogs because

00:40:23.766 --> 00:40:28.949
there's an incredible amount of variability in the genes of any creature.

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And so you'd expect these different species up here, but there's limits.

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Dogs will always be dogs, finches will always be finches.

00:40:36.433 --> 00:40:42.067
Now, as a Creationist, I maintain that observational science

00:40:42.067 --> 00:40:45.983
actually confirms this model, based on the bible.

00:40:45.983 --> 00:40:49.530
For instance, take dogs. Okay?

00:40:49.530 --> 00:40:53.833
In a scientific paper dated January 2014--that's this year--

00:40:53.833 --> 00:40:58.067
scientists working at the University of California stated this:

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We provide several lines of evidence supporting

00:41:00.564 --> 00:41:04.503
a single origin for dogs, and disfavoring alternative models

00:41:04.503 --> 00:41:06.833
in which dog lineages arise separately

00:41:06.833 --> 00:41:09.598
from geographically distinct wolf populations.

00:41:09.598 --> 00:41:11.883
And they put this diagram in the paper.

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By the way, that diagram is very, very similar

00:41:14.300 --> 00:41:17.598
to this diagram that Creationists proposed based upon

00:41:17.598 --> 00:41:20.832
the creation account in Genesis. In other words,

00:41:20.832 --> 00:41:22.465
you have a common dog ancestor that gives rise

00:41:22.465 --> 00:41:25.364
to the different species of dogs, and that's exactly

00:41:25.364 --> 00:41:28.129
what we're saying here. Now, in the Creation Museum,

00:41:28.129 --> 00:41:31.300
we actually show the finches here and you see the finches

00:41:31.300 --> 00:41:34.767
with their different beaks, beside dogs skulls, different species of dogs.

00:41:34.767 --> 00:41:37.884
By the way, there's more variation in the dog skeleton

00:41:37.884 --> 00:41:41.063
here than there are in these finches. Yet, the dogs,

00:41:41.063 --> 00:41:42.931
wow, that's never used as an example of evolution,

00:41:42.931 --> 00:41:45.800
but the finches are, particularly in the public school textbooks.

00:41:45.800 --> 00:41:49.099
Students are taught, "Ah! See the changes that are occurring here?"

00:41:49.099 --> 00:41:51.299
And here's another problem that we've got.

00:41:51.299 --> 00:41:55.906
Not only has the word "science" been hijacked by secularists,

00:41:55.906 --> 00:41:59.851
I believe the word "evolution" has been hijacked by secularists.

00:41:59.851 --> 00:42:03.963
The word "evolution" has been hijacked using what I call a bait and switch.

00:42:03.963 --> 00:42:05.950
Let me explain to you.

00:42:05.950 --> 00:42:09.830
The word "evolution" is being used in public school textbooks,

00:42:09.830 --> 00:42:11.833
and we often see it in documentaries and so on,

00:42:11.833 --> 00:42:15.100
is used for observable changes that we would agree with,

00:42:15.100 --> 00:42:19.791
and then used for unobservable changes, such as molecules-to-man.

00:42:19.791 --> 00:42:21.757
Let me explain to you what's really going on because

00:42:21.757 --> 00:42:23.565
I was a science teacher in the public schools

00:42:23.565 --> 00:42:25.965
and I know what the students were taught and I checked

00:42:25.965 --> 00:42:28.600
the public school textbooks anyway to know what they're taught.

00:42:28.600 --> 00:42:31.030
See, students are taught today, look, there's all

00:42:31.030 --> 00:42:34.032
these different animals, plants, but they're all part

00:42:34.032 --> 00:42:37.297
of this great, big tree of life that goes back to some primordial form.

00:42:37.297 --> 00:42:39.470
And, look, we see changes. Changes in finches,

00:42:39.470 --> 00:42:42.655
changes in dogs and so on. Now, we don't deny the changes.

00:42:42.655 --> 00:42:45.499
You see that. You see different species of finches, different species of dogs.

00:42:45.499 --> 00:42:48.200
But then they put it all together in this evolutionary tree--

00:42:48.200 --> 00:42:50.387
but that's what you don't observe. You don't observe that.

00:42:50.387 --> 00:42:53.653
That's belief there. That's the historical science

00:42:53.653 --> 00:42:57.833
that I would say is wrong. But, you know, what you do observe,

00:42:57.833 --> 00:43:03.033
you do observe different species of dogs, different species of finches,

00:43:03.033 --> 00:43:06.563
but then there are limits. You don't see one kind changing into another.

00:43:06.563 --> 00:43:12.050
Actually, we're told that if you teach creation

00:43:12.050 --> 00:43:14.367
in the public schools as teaching religion,

00:43:14.367 --> 00:43:17.281
if you teach evolution as science, I'm gonna say, "Wait a minute!"

00:43:17.281 --> 00:43:21.332
Actually, the creation model here, based upon the Bible,

00:43:21.332 --> 00:43:24.277
observational science confirms this. This is what you're observe!

00:43:24.277 --> 00:43:25.982
You don't observe this tree.

00:43:25.982 --> 00:43:29.430
Actually, it's the public school textbooks that are teaching a belief,

00:43:29.430 --> 00:43:32.284
imposing it on students, and they need to be teaching them

00:43:32.284 --> 00:43:36.466
observational science to understand the reality of what's happening.

00:43:36.466 --> 00:43:40.559
Now, what we found is that public school textbooks present

00:43:40.559 --> 00:43:44.630
the evolutionary tree as science, but reject the creation orchard as religion.

00:43:44.928 --> 00:43:47.760
But observational science confirms the creation orchard--

00:43:47.760 --> 00:43:50.996
so public school textbooks are rejecting observational science

00:43:50.996 --> 00:43:53.893
and imposing a naturalistic religion on students.

00:43:53.893 --> 00:43:57.289
The word "evolution" has been hijacked using a bait and switch

00:43:57.289 --> 00:44:00.496
to indoctrinate students to accept evolutionary belief

00:44:00.496 --> 00:44:01.937
as observational science.

00:44:02.373 --> 00:44:05.968
Let me introduce you to another scientist, Richard Lenski,

00:44:05.968 --> 00:44:08.831
from Michigan State University. He's a great scientist,

00:44:08.831 --> 00:44:11.723
he's known for culturing e-coli in the lab...

00:44:11.723 --> 00:44:15.585
and he found there was some e-coli that actually seemed

00:44:15.585 --> 00:44:19.033
to develop the ability to grow on cistrate on substrate.

00:44:23.382 --> 00:44:27.909
But Richard Lenski is here, mentioned in this book,

00:44:28.259 --> 00:44:31.027
and it's called "Evolution in the Lab".

00:44:31.411 --> 00:44:35.787
So the ability to grow on citrate is said to be evolution.

00:44:35.787 --> 00:44:39.802
And there are those that say, "Hey! This is against the Creationist."

00:44:39.802 --> 00:44:42.988
For instance, Jerry Coin from University of Chicago says,

00:44:42.988 --> 00:44:45.750
"Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye

00:44:45.750 --> 00:44:47.312
for anti-evolutionists."

00:44:47.312 --> 00:44:50.823
He says, "The thing I like most is it says you can get

00:44:50.823 --> 00:44:54.475
these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events."

00:44:54.475 --> 00:44:57.940
But is it a poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists?

00:44:57.940 --> 00:45:01.366
Is it really seeing complex traits evolving?

00:45:01.599 --> 00:45:06.412
What does it mean that some of these bacteria are able to grow on citrate?

00:45:06.412 --> 00:45:10.566
Let me introduce you to another biblical Creationist, who is a scientist.

00:45:10.566 --> 00:45:12.785
Hi, my name's Dr. Andrew Fabich.

00:45:12.785 --> 00:45:16.246
I got my PhD from University of Oklahoma in Microbiology.

00:45:16.246 --> 00:45:20.133
I teach at Liberty University and I do research on e-coli in the intestine.

00:45:20.563 --> 00:45:25.565
I've published it in secular journals from the American Society for Microbiology,

00:45:26.163 --> 00:45:30.808
including infection and immunity and applied environmental microbiology

00:45:30.808 --> 00:45:32.019
as well as several others.

00:45:32.019 --> 00:45:35.400
My work has been cited even in the past year in the journals Nature,

00:45:35.410 --> 00:45:38.044
Science Translational Medicine, Public Library of Science,

00:45:38.044 --> 00:45:41.677
Public Library of Science Genetics. It's cited regularly

00:45:41.677 --> 00:45:46.462
in those journals and while I was taught nothing but evolution,

00:45:46.462 --> 00:45:48.089
I don't accept that position.

00:45:48.089 --> 00:45:50.333
I do my research from a creation perspective.

00:45:50.797 --> 00:45:54.267
When I look at the evidence that people cite as e-coli,

00:45:54.267 --> 00:46:01.030
supposedly, evolving over 30 years, over 30,000 generations in the lab,

00:46:01.032 --> 00:46:04.066
and people say that it is now able to grow on citrate,

00:46:04.066 --> 00:46:06.080
I don't deny that it grows on citrate,

00:46:06.080 --> 00:46:08.511
but it's not any kind of new information.

00:46:08.511 --> 00:46:11.920
The information's already there and it's just a switch

00:46:11.920 --> 00:46:15.762
that gets turned on and off and that's what they reported in there.

00:46:15.762 --> 00:46:17.377
There's nothing new.

00:46:17.377 --> 00:46:20.170
See, students need to be told what's really going on here.

00:46:20.170 --> 00:46:24.831
Certainly there's change, but it's not change necessary for molecules-to-man.

00:46:25.105 --> 00:46:26.954
Now, we could look at other predictions.

00:46:26.954 --> 00:46:29.209
What about evidence confirming one race?

00:46:29.209 --> 00:46:32.865
Well, when we look at the human population we see lots of differences.

00:46:32.865 --> 00:46:35.170
But based on Darwin's ideas of human evolution,

00:46:35.170 --> 00:46:37.457
as presented in The Descent of Man, I mean,

00:46:37.457 --> 00:46:39.340
Darwin did teach in The Descent of Man there were

00:46:39.340 --> 00:46:41.072
lower races and higher races.

00:46:41.072 --> 00:46:44.419
Would you believe, that back in the 1900s, one of the most

00:46:44.419 --> 00:46:49.555
popular biology textbooks used in the public schools in America taught this:

00:46:49.555 --> 00:46:51.966
At the present time there exists upon Earth

00:46:51.966 --> 00:46:54.897
five races or varieties of man...and finally,

00:46:54.899 --> 00:46:58.299
the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented

00:46:58.299 --> 00:47:00.863
by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.

00:47:00.863 --> 00:47:03.277
Can you imagine if that was in the public schools today?

00:47:03.277 --> 00:47:06.380
And, yet, that's what was taught, but it was based on

00:47:06.380 --> 00:47:10.963
Darwin's ideas that are wrong. You have a wrong foundation.

00:47:10.963 --> 00:47:12.440
You're gonna have a wrong worldview.

00:47:12.440 --> 00:47:15.712
Now, had they started from the Bible, and from

00:47:15.712 --> 00:47:18.329
the creation account in the Bible, what does it teach?

00:47:18.330 --> 00:47:20.528
Well, we're all descendants of Adam and Eve.

00:47:20.528 --> 00:47:22.753
We go through the Tower of Babel, different languages,

00:47:22.753 --> 00:47:25.366
so different people groups formed distinct characteristics.

00:47:25.366 --> 00:47:27.520
But we'd expect, we'd say, you know what,

00:47:27.520 --> 00:47:30.484
that means there's biologically only one race of humans.

00:47:30.484 --> 00:47:33.030
Well, I mentioned Dr. Venter before.

00:47:33.030 --> 00:47:36.105
And he was a researcher with the human genome project.

00:47:36.105 --> 00:47:39.245
And you'll remember, in the year 2000, this was headline news,

00:47:39.245 --> 00:47:41.924
and what we read was this: they had put together

00:47:41.924 --> 00:47:44.502
a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome

00:47:44.502 --> 00:47:48.423
and unanimously declared, there is only one race - the human race.

00:47:48.423 --> 00:47:49.929
Wow! Who would have guessed?

00:47:49.929 --> 00:47:52.414
But you see there we have observational science

00:47:52.414 --> 00:47:54.737
confirming the Creation account,

00:47:54.737 --> 00:47:58.362
not confirming at all Darwin's ideas.

00:47:58.362 --> 00:48:00.096
Now, there's much more that can be said

00:48:00.096 --> 00:48:01.499
on each of these topics.

00:48:01.499 --> 00:48:04.690
Obviously, you can't do that in a short time like this.

00:48:04.690 --> 00:48:06.369
And you could do a lot more research.

00:48:06.369 --> 00:48:09.458
I suggest you visit our website at Answers in Genesis

00:48:09.458 --> 00:48:11.183
for a lot more information.

00:48:11.183 --> 00:48:14.612
So, the debate topic: Is creation a viable model

00:48:14.612 --> 00:48:17.226
of origins in today's scientific era?

00:48:17.226 --> 00:48:19.713
I said, we need to define the terms,

00:48:19.713 --> 00:48:21.294
and particularly, the term science

00:48:21.294 --> 00:48:23.766
and the term evolution. And I believe we need

00:48:23.770 --> 00:48:25.585
to understand how they are being used to impose

00:48:25.585 --> 00:48:29.376
an anti-God religion on generations of unsuspecting students.

00:48:29.856 --> 00:48:32.041
You see, I keep emphasizing we do need to

00:48:32.041 --> 00:48:33.980
understand the difference between experimental or

00:48:33.980 --> 00:48:37.047
observational science and historical science.

00:48:37.047 --> 00:48:38.663
And you know what?

00:48:38.663 --> 00:48:40.070
The secularists don't like me doing this

00:48:40.070 --> 00:48:41.746
because they don't want to admit

00:48:41.746 --> 00:48:43.943
that there's a belief aspect to what they're saying.

00:48:43.943 --> 00:48:46.137
And there is. And they can't get away from it.

00:48:46.276 --> 00:48:48.958
Let me illustrate this with a statement from Bill Nye.

00:48:48.958 --> 00:48:50.892
"You can show the Earth is not flat.

00:48:50.892 --> 00:48:53.265
You can show the Earth is not 10,000 years old."

00:48:53.269 --> 00:48:55.647
By the way, I agree. You can show the Earth is not flat.

00:48:55.647 --> 00:48:58.503
There's a video from the Galileo spacecraft showing

00:48:58.503 --> 00:49:00.907
the Earth, and speeded up of course, but spinning.

00:49:00.907 --> 00:49:03.394
You can see it's a sphere. You can observe that.

00:49:03.398 --> 00:49:05.895
You can't observe the age of the Earth.

00:49:05.900 --> 00:49:08.208
You don't see that. You see again, I emphasize,

00:49:08.208 --> 00:49:10.433
there's a big difference between historical science,

00:49:10.433 --> 00:49:13.523
talking about the past, and observational science,

00:49:13.523 --> 00:49:15.299
talking about the present.

00:49:15.565 --> 00:49:18.323
And I believe what's happening is this, that students are being

00:49:18.323 --> 00:49:20.849
indoctrinated by the confusion of terms:

00:49:20.849 --> 00:49:22.833
the hijacking of the word science and the hijacking

00:49:22.833 --> 00:49:26.267
of the word evolution in a bait-and-switch.

00:49:26.404 --> 00:49:28.667
Let me illustrate further with this video clip.

00:49:29.152 --> 00:49:31.893
Because here I assert that Bill Nye is equating

00:49:31.893 --> 00:49:34.534
observational science with historical science.

00:49:34.800 --> 00:49:38.500
And I also say it's not a mystery when you understand the difference.

00:49:38.515 --> 00:49:42.185
Howie, people with these deeply held religious beliefs,

00:49:42.185 --> 00:49:45.744
they embrace that whole literal interpretation

00:49:45.744 --> 00:49:49.732
of the Bible as written in English, as a worldview.

00:49:50.032 --> 00:49:54.234
And, at the same time, they accept aspirin,

00:49:54.533 --> 00:49:58.838
antibiotic drugs, airplanes, but they're able

00:49:58.838 --> 00:50:01.567
to hold these two worldviews. And this is a mystery.

00:50:02.384 --> 00:50:04.564
Actually, I suggest to you it's not a mystery.

00:50:04.838 --> 00:50:06.617
You see, when I'm talking about antibiotics,

00:50:06.617 --> 00:50:09.376
aspirin, smoke detectors, jet planes,

00:50:09.376 --> 00:50:12.560
that's Ken Ham the Observational Science Bloke.

00:50:12.560 --> 00:50:15.497
I'm an Australian. We call guy's "blokes", okay?

00:50:15.967 --> 00:50:18.237
But when you're talking about creation and thousands of years

00:50:18.237 --> 00:50:19.265
of the age of the Earth,

00:50:19.265 --> 00:50:20.808
that's Ken Ham the Historical Science Bloke.

00:50:20.808 --> 00:50:22.224
I'm willing to admit that.

00:50:22.224 --> 00:50:24.260
Now, when Bill Nye's talking about aspirin,

00:50:24.260 --> 00:50:26.320
antibiotics, jet planes, smoke detectors,

00:50:26.320 --> 00:50:27.668
he does a great job at that.

00:50:27.668 --> 00:50:29.798
I used to enjoy watching him on TV too.

00:50:30.645 --> 00:50:32.777
That's Bill Nye the Observational Science Guy.

00:50:32.789 --> 00:50:35.071
But when he's talking about evolution and millions of years,

00:50:35.071 --> 00:50:38.898
I'm challenging him that that's Bill Nye the Historical Science Guy.

00:50:39.294 --> 00:50:42.439
And I challenge the evolutionist to admit the belief

00:50:42.439 --> 00:50:46.075
aspects of their particular worldview.

00:50:46.706 --> 00:50:49.330
Now, at the Creation Museum, we're only too willing

00:50:49.330 --> 00:50:51.510
to admit our beliefs based upon the Bible,

00:50:51.510 --> 00:50:53.554
but we also teach people the difference between

00:50:53.554 --> 00:50:55.746
beliefs and what one can actually observe

00:50:55.746 --> 00:50:57.070
and experiment with in the present.

00:50:57.070 --> 00:50:59.595
I believe we're teaching people to think critically

00:50:59.595 --> 00:51:02.695
and to think in the right terms about science.

00:51:03.157 --> 00:51:04.889
I believe it's the creationists that should be

00:51:04.889 --> 00:51:08.204
educating the kids out there because we're teaching

00:51:08.204 --> 00:51:10.915
them the right way to think. You know, we admit it.

00:51:10.915 --> 00:51:13.809
Our origins of historical science is based upon the Bible,

00:51:13.809 --> 00:51:15.896
but I'm just challenging evolutionists to admit

00:51:15.896 --> 00:51:17.529
the belief aspects of evolution

00:51:17.529 --> 00:51:19.931
and be upfront about the difference here.

00:51:20.209 --> 00:51:22.119
As I said, I'm only too willing to admit

00:51:22.119 --> 00:51:24.530
my historical science based on the Bible.

00:51:25.192 --> 00:51:30.047
And let me further go on to define the term "creation" as we use it.

00:51:30.937 --> 00:51:34.012
By creation, we mean, here at Answers in Genesis

00:51:34.012 --> 00:51:37.634
and the Creation Museum, we mean the account based on the Bible.

00:51:37.634 --> 00:51:41.299
Yes, I take Genesis as literal history, as Jesus did.

00:51:41.299 --> 00:51:44.951
And, here at the Creation Museum, we walk people through that history.

00:51:44.963 --> 00:51:47.595
We walk them through creation, the perfect creation.

00:51:47.595 --> 00:51:51.961
That God made Adam and Eve, land animal kinds, sea-creatures and so on.

00:51:51.961 --> 00:51:54.342
And then sin and death entered the world.

00:51:54.342 --> 00:51:56.667
There was no death before sin.

00:51:56.983 --> 00:52:01.013
That means how can you have billions of dead things before man sinned?

00:52:01.013 --> 00:52:05.651
And then, the catastrophe of Noah's flood. If there was a global flood,

00:52:05.651 --> 00:52:09.795
you'd expect to find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

00:52:09.795 --> 00:52:13.487
Had to say that because a lot of our supporters would want me to.

00:52:13.487 --> 00:52:18.001
And what do you find?--Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

00:52:18.002 --> 00:52:22.695
Confusion, the tower of Babel. God gave different languages so you get different people groups.

00:52:22.695 --> 00:52:28.417
So this is the geological, astronomical, anthropological, biological history as recorded in the Bible.

00:52:28.417 --> 00:52:31.829
So this is concerning what happened in the past that explains the present.

00:52:31.829 --> 00:52:36.485
And then, of course, that God's Son stepped into history to be Jesus Christ, the God-Man

00:52:36.485 --> 00:52:39.389
to die on the cross, be raised from the dead. And one day there's going to be

00:52:39.389 --> 00:52:43.132
a new heavens and a new earth to come. And, you know, not only

00:52:44.046 --> 00:52:47.606
is this an understanding of history to explain the

00:52:47.606 --> 00:52:51.712
geology, biology, astronomy, and so on to connect the present to the past.

00:52:51.712 --> 00:52:54.293
But it's also a foundation for our whole world view.

00:52:54.293 --> 00:52:58.524
For instance, in Matthew 19, when Jesus was asked about marriage, he said,

00:52:58.524 --> 00:53:02.434
"Have you not read He who made them at the beginning made them male and female?"

00:53:02.436 --> 00:53:06.856
And said, "For this cause shall a man leave his mother and father and be joined to his wife. And they'll be one flesh"

00:53:06.856 --> 00:53:12.388
He quoted from Genesis as literal history--Genesis 1 and 2. God invented marriage, by the way.

00:53:12.388 --> 00:53:15.600
That's where marriage comes from. And it's to be a man and a woman.

00:53:15.600 --> 00:53:20.140
And not only marriage. Ultimately, every single Biblical doctrine of theology

00:53:20.140 --> 00:53:22.517
directly or indirectly, is founded in Genesis.

00:53:22.517 --> 00:53:24.665
Why is there sin in the world? Genesis.

00:53:24.998 --> 00:53:26.533
Why is there death? Genesis.

00:53:26.837 --> 00:53:28.334
Why do we wear clothes? Genesis.

00:53:28.334 --> 00:53:29.556
Why did Jesus die on the cross? Genesis.

00:53:29.556 --> 00:53:33.124
It's a very important book. It's foundational to all Christian doctrine.

00:53:33.126 --> 00:53:36.700
And you see, when we look at that, what I call the seven C's of History

00:53:36.704 --> 00:53:38.666
that we walk people through here at the museum,

00:53:38.666 --> 00:53:41.476
think about how it all connects together--a perfect creation.

00:53:41.476 --> 00:53:43.713
It'll be perfect again in the future.

00:53:43.722 --> 00:53:47.293
Sin and death--end of the world. That's why God's son died on the cross

00:53:47.599 --> 00:53:50.194
to conquer death and offer a free gift of salvation.

00:53:50.465 --> 00:53:53.672
The flood of Noah's day, a reminder that the flood was a

00:53:53.672 --> 00:53:56.316
judgement because of man's wickedness but at the same time

00:53:56.316 --> 00:53:58.564
a message of God's grace and salvation.

00:53:58.564 --> 00:54:01.119
As Noah and his family had to go through a door to be saved,

00:54:01.119 --> 00:54:03.268
so we need to go through a door to be saved.

00:54:03.276 --> 00:54:05.460
Jesus Christ said, "I am the door. By me, if any man

00:54:05.460 --> 00:54:08.820
enter in, he'll be saved. And we make no apology

00:54:08.820 --> 00:54:11.302
about the fact that what we're on about is this:

00:54:11.302 --> 00:54:13.534
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and

00:54:13.534 --> 00:54:15.446
believe in your heart God has raised him from the dead,

00:54:15.446 --> 00:54:17.835
you'll be saved. Now, as soon as I said that,

00:54:17.835 --> 00:54:20.324
see if people say, "See, if you allow creation in schools,

00:54:20.324 --> 00:54:22.519
for instance, if you'll ask students to even hear about it,

00:54:22.519 --> 00:54:24.298
ah, this is religion."

00:54:24.652 --> 00:54:26.382
You know, let me illustrate this,

00:54:26.382 --> 00:54:30.945
talking about a recent battle in Texas over textbooks

00:54:30.945 --> 00:54:35.232
in the public school. A newspaper report said this:

00:54:35.237 --> 00:54:37.251
"Textbook and classroom curriculum battles have long

00:54:37.251 --> 00:54:39.910
raged in Texas pitting creationists - those who see

00:54:39.910 --> 00:54:41.506
God's hand in the creation of the universe-

00:54:41.506 --> 00:54:42.881
against academics..."

00:54:42.881 --> 00:54:45.792
Stop right there. Notice creationists... academics.

00:54:45.792 --> 00:54:48.764
Creationists can't be academics. Creationists can't be scientists.

00:54:48.998 --> 00:54:51.633
See, it's the way things are worded out there.

00:54:52.030 --> 00:54:53.880
It's an indoctrination that's going on.

00:54:53.880 --> 00:54:56.130
We worry about religious and political ideology

00:54:56.133 --> 00:54:57.864
trumping scientific fact. Wait a minute.

00:54:57.864 --> 00:54:59.130
What do I mean by science? You're talking about

00:54:59.130 --> 00:55:02.167
what you observe, or are you talking about your beliefs about the past?

00:55:03.124 --> 00:55:07.055
Now, Kathy Miller is the president of the Texas Freedom Network and

00:55:07.055 --> 00:55:16.677
she has vocally spoken out. She's spoken out about this textbook battle there in Texas.

00:55:17.261 --> 00:55:21.662
And the mission statement of the organization she's president of says, "The Texas Freedom Network

00:55:21.662 --> 00:55:24.865
advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties

00:55:24.865 --> 00:55:29.969
to counter the religious right." Religious freedom... individual liberties. Hmm.

00:55:29.969 --> 00:55:34.292
And then she makes this statement: "Science education..." What does she mean by science?

00:55:34.292 --> 00:55:38.560
"should be based on mainstream science education, not on personal idealogical beliefs

00:55:38.560 --> 00:55:43.263
of unqualified reviewers." Wait a minute. They want religious liberty and not personal

00:55:43.263 --> 00:55:48.834
ideological beliefs? I assert this: public school textbooks are using the same word "science"

00:55:48.834 --> 00:55:53.366
for observational and historical science. They arbitrarily define science as naturalism

00:55:53.369 --> 00:55:57.042
and outlaw the supernatural. They present molecules-to-man evolution as as fact.

00:55:57.042 --> 00:56:00.353
And they are imposing the religion of naturalism on generations of students.

00:56:00.353 --> 00:56:02.830
They're imposing their ideology on the students

00:56:02.830 --> 00:56:04.853
and everything's explained by natural processes.

00:56:04.853 --> 00:56:07.592
That is a religion. What do you mean by religious liberty?

00:56:07.592 --> 00:56:09.597
They tolerate their religion.

00:56:10.399 --> 00:56:12.553
See, the battle is really about authority.

00:56:12.553 --> 00:56:14.983
It's more than just science or evolution or creation.

00:56:14.983 --> 00:56:18.363
It's about who is the authority in this world, man or God?

00:56:18.667 --> 00:56:22.726
If you start with naturalism, then what about morals?

00:56:22.726 --> 00:56:24.814
Who decides right and wrong? Well, it's subjective.

00:56:24.814 --> 00:56:27.289
Marriage? Well, whatever you want it to be.

00:56:27.289 --> 00:56:29.636
Get rid of old people. I mean, why not?

00:56:29.636 --> 00:56:31.757
They're just animals, they're costing us a lot of money.

00:56:31.757 --> 00:56:35.189
Abortion. Get rid of spare cats, get rid of spare kids. We're all animals.

00:56:35.189 --> 00:56:38.282
But if you start from God's word, there are moral absolutes.

00:56:38.282 --> 00:56:40.970
God decides right and wrong. Marriage--one man and one woman.

00:56:40.970 --> 00:56:44.224
Sanctity of life--we care for old people. They're made in the image of God.

00:56:44.228 --> 00:56:47.898
Life begins at fertilization, so abortion is killing a human being.

00:56:48.260 --> 00:56:50.471
We do see the collapse of Christian morality

00:56:50.471 --> 00:56:53.163
in our culture and increasing moral relativism

00:56:53.163 --> 00:56:56.068
because generations of kids are being taught the religion

00:56:56.068 --> 00:56:59.242
of naturalism and that the Bible can't be trusted.

00:56:59.251 --> 00:57:03.067
And so, again, I say creation is the only viable model

00:57:03.067 --> 00:57:05.849
of historical science confirmed by observational science

00:57:05.849 --> 00:57:08.275
in today's modern scientific era. You know what?

00:57:08.283 --> 00:57:10.897
I'm a science teacher. I want to see kids taught science.

00:57:10.903 --> 00:57:14.299
I love science. I want to see more (inaudible) in the world.

00:57:14.467 --> 00:57:16.317
You know, if we teach them the whole universe

00:57:16.317 --> 00:57:19.390
is a result of natural processes and not designed

00:57:19.390 --> 00:57:22.389
by a creative God, they might be looking in the wrong places

00:57:22.389 --> 00:57:24.329
or have the wrong idea when they're looking

00:57:24.339 --> 00:57:27.593
at the creation in regard to how you develop technology

00:57:27.593 --> 00:57:30.698
because if they look at it as just random processes,

00:57:30.698 --> 00:57:33.433
that could totally influence the way they think.

00:57:33.440 --> 00:57:36.106
If they understand it was a perfect world marred by sin,

00:57:36.106 --> 00:57:38.957
that could have a great affect on how they then look

00:57:38.957 --> 00:57:41.966
for overcoming diseases and problems in the world.

00:57:42.200 --> 00:57:45.622
I want children to be taught the right foundation,

00:57:45.622 --> 00:57:47.863
that there's a God who created them, who loves them,

00:57:47.863 --> 00:57:52.130
who died on the cross for them and that they're special.

00:57:52.130 --> 00:57:53.798
They're made in the image of God.

00:57:55.069 --> 00:57:56.581
(moderator) There you go. Thank you, Mr. Ham.

00:57:56.581 --> 00:58:11.823
-We can applaud Mr. Ham's presentation.
-(audience applauds)

00:58:11.823 --> 00:58:14.076
And, you know, it did occur to me when you had

00:58:14.076 --> 00:58:16.875
my old friend Larry King up there, you could've just asked him.

00:58:17.276 --> 00:58:20.499
He's been around a long time. And he's a smart guy!

00:58:20.499 --> 00:58:25.086
He could probably answer for all of us. Now, let's all be

00:58:25.086 --> 00:58:28.434
attentive to Mr. Nye as he gives us his 30 minute presentation.

00:58:28.668 --> 00:58:31.872
Thank you very much and, Mr. Ham, I learned something.

00:58:31.875 --> 00:58:37.266
Thank you. But let's take it back around to question at hand:

00:58:37.477 --> 00:58:41.462
does Ken Ham's creation model hold up? Is it viable?

00:58:42.590 --> 00:58:46.699
So, for me, of course...well...take a look.

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We're here in Kentucky on layer upon layer upon layer of limestone.

00:58:53.493 --> 00:58:56.401
I stopped at the side of the road today and picked up

00:58:56.401 --> 00:59:00.267
just a piece of limestone. It has a fossil right there.

00:59:00.513 --> 00:59:05.133
Now, in these many, many layers, in this vicinity of Kentucky,

00:59:05.467 --> 00:59:10.263
there are coral animal--fossils, Zooxanthella--

00:59:10.263 --> 00:59:11.913
and when you look at it closely,

00:59:11.913 --> 00:59:14.450
you can see that they lived their entire lives.

00:59:14.450 --> 00:59:18.199
They lived typically 20 years, sometimes more than that

00:59:18.567 --> 00:59:20.500
when the water conditions are correct.

00:59:20.820 --> 00:59:26.034
And so we are standing on millions of layers of ancient life.

00:59:27.225 --> 00:59:30.172
How could those animals have lived their entire life,

00:59:30.519 --> 00:59:33.833
and formed these layers, in just 4,000 years?

00:59:34.220 --> 00:59:38.567
There isn't enough time since Mr. Ham's flood

00:59:38.735 --> 00:59:43.466
for this limestone that we're standing on to come into existence.

00:59:46.097 --> 00:59:49.103
My scientific colleagues go to places like Greenland,

00:59:49.103 --> 00:59:52.307
the Arctic, they go to Antarctica, and they drill

00:59:52.307 --> 00:59:57.211
into the ice with hollow drill bits. It's not that extraordinary.

00:59:57.211 --> 00:59:59.816
Many of you have probably done it yourselves, drilling other things.

00:59:59.816 --> 01:00:02.999
Hole saws to put locks in doors, for example.

01:00:03.421 --> 01:00:09.433
And we pull out long cylinders of ice, long ice rods.

01:00:09.570 --> 01:00:14.298
And these are made of snow and it's called "snow ice".

01:00:14.875 --> 01:00:19.695
And snow ice forms over the winter as snowflakes fall

01:00:19.695 --> 01:00:23.024
and are crushed down by subsequent layers. They're crushed together,

01:00:23.024 --> 01:00:26.513
entrapping the little bubbles and the little bubbles must

01:00:26.513 --> 01:00:30.288
needs be ancient atmosphere. There's nobody running around

01:00:30.288 --> 01:00:34.196
with a hypodermic needle, squirting ancient atmosphere into the bubbles.

01:00:34.599 --> 01:00:41.187
And we find certain of these cylinders to have 680,000 layers.

01:00:41.187 --> 01:00:46.533
680,000 snow/winter/summer cycles.

01:00:47.329 --> 01:00:53.433
How could it be that just 4,000 years ago all of this ice formed?

01:00:53.801 --> 01:00:56.332
Let's just run some numbers.

01:00:57.184 --> 01:01:00.899
This is some scenes from the lovely Antarctic.

01:01:01.518 --> 01:01:05.399
Let's say we have 680,000 layers of snow ice

01:01:05.488 --> 01:01:08.033
and 4,000 years since the Great Flood.

01:01:08.452 --> 01:01:13.610
That would mean we'd need 170 winter-summer cycles

01:01:13.610 --> 01:01:17.173
every year, for the last 4,000 years.

01:01:17.173 --> 01:01:21.113
I mean, wouldn't someone have noticed that? Wow!

01:01:21.113 --> 01:01:22.909
Wouldn't someone have noticed that there's been

01:01:22.909 --> 01:01:25.832
winter-summer-winter-summer 170 times one year?

01:01:26.694 --> 01:01:33.889
If we go to California, we find enormous stands of bristlecone pines.

01:01:33.889 --> 01:01:38.348
Some of them are over 6,000 years old. 6,800 years old.

01:01:38.348 --> 01:01:45.009
There's a famous tree in Sweden, Old Tjikko, is 9,550 years old.

01:01:45.380 --> 01:01:53.200
How could these trees be there if there was an enormous flood just 4,000 years ago?

01:01:53.380 --> 01:01:55.915
You can try this yourself, everybody.

01:01:55.915 --> 01:01:58.453
Get, I mean, I don't mean to be mean to trees,

01:01:58.453 --> 01:02:02.863
but get a sapling and put it under water for a year.

01:02:02.871 --> 01:02:06.832
It will not survive in general. Nor will its seeds.

01:02:06.832 --> 01:02:10.646
They just won't make it. So how could these trees

01:02:10.646 --> 01:02:15.201
be that old if the Earth is only 4,000 years old?

01:02:15.283 --> 01:02:18.407
Now, when we go to the Grand Canyon--which is an astonishing place

01:02:18.407 --> 01:02:22.623
and I recommend to everybody in the world to someday visit the Grand Canyon--

01:02:22.623 --> 01:02:25.965
you find layer upon layer of ancient rocks.

01:02:26.446 --> 01:02:31.200
And if there was this enormous flood that you speak of,

01:02:31.663 --> 01:02:35.299
wouldn't there have been churning and bubbling and roiling?

01:02:35.553 --> 01:02:38.186
How would these things have settled out?

01:02:38.186 --> 01:02:42.700
Your claim that they settled out in an extraordinary short amount of time

01:02:43.200 --> 01:02:47.818
is for me, not satisfactory. You can look at these rocks. You can look at rocks that are younger.

01:02:47.818 --> 01:02:53.564
You can go to seashores where there's sand. This is what geologists on the outside do,

01:02:53.725 --> 01:02:58.598
study the rate at which soil is deposited at the end of rivers and deltas.

01:02:58.866 --> 01:03:06.066
And we can see that it takes a long, long time for sediments to turn to stone.

01:03:06.211 --> 01:03:11.881
Also, in this picture you can see where one type of sediment has intruded on another type.

01:03:11.881 --> 01:03:18.113
Now, if that was uniform, wouldn't we expect it all to be even, without intrusion?

01:03:18.113 --> 01:03:23.223
Furthermore, you can find places in the Grand Canyon where you see an ancient riverbed on that side

01:03:23.223 --> 01:03:28.146
going to an ancient riverbed on that side and the Colorado River has cut through it.

01:03:28.146 --> 01:03:34.656
And by the way, if this great flood drained through the Grand Canyon,

01:03:34.656 --> 01:03:38.065
wouldn't there have been a Grand Canyon on every continent?

01:03:38.065 --> 01:03:43.313
How could we not have Grand Canyons everywhere if this water drained away in this extraordinary

01:03:43.313 --> 01:03:49.667
short amount of time? Four thousand years? Now when you look at these layers carefully,

01:03:50.250 --> 01:03:56.668
you find these beautiful fossils. And when I say beautiful, I am inspired by them. They are remarkable

01:03:56.668 --> 01:04:03.389
because we are looking at the past. You find down low. You'll find what you might consider

01:04:03.389 --> 01:04:09.296
is, uh, rudimentary sea animals. Up above you'll find the famous trilobytes.

01:04:09.358 --> 01:04:15.030
Above that you might find some clams, some oysters. And above that you find some mammals.

01:04:15.324 --> 01:04:22.518
You never, ever find a higher animal mixed in with a lower one. You never find a lower one

01:04:22.518 --> 01:04:28.371
trying to swim its way to a higher one. If it all happened in such an extraordinary short amount of time,

01:04:28.373 --> 01:04:33.668
if this water drained away just like that, wouldn't we expect to see some turbulence?

01:04:33.668 --> 01:04:41.395
And by the way, anyone here, really, if you can find one example of that, one example of that

01:04:41.395 --> 01:04:47.726
anywhere in the world, the scientists of the world challenge you. They would embrace you. You would be a hero.

01:04:47.726 --> 01:04:52.066
You would change the world if you could find one example of that anywhere.

01:04:52.066 --> 01:04:57.100
People have looked, and looked and looked. They have not found a single one.

01:04:58.804 --> 01:05:07.005
Now here's an interesting thing. These are fossil skulls that people have found all around the world.

01:05:07.005 --> 01:05:13.468
It's by no means representative of all the fossil skulls that have been found, but these are all over the place.

01:05:14.011 --> 01:05:24.331
Now, if you were to look at these, I can assure you, not any of them is a gorilla. Right?

01:05:24.847 --> 01:05:33.513
If as Mr. Ham and his associates claim, there was just man and then everybody else, there were just

01:05:33.513 --> 01:05:39.633
humans and all other species, where would you put modern humans among these skulls?

01:05:40.404 --> 01:05:46.757
How did all these skulls get all over the earth in these extraordinary fashion? Where would you put us?

01:05:47.457 --> 01:05:52.566
I can tell you we are on there and I encourage you, when you go home, to look it up.

01:05:54.478 --> 01:06:04.529
Now, one of the extraordinary claims associated with Mr. Ham's worldview is that this giant boat

01:06:04.837 --> 01:06:11.850
a very large wooden ship, went aground safely on a mountain in the Middle, what we now call the Middle East.

01:06:11.850 --> 01:06:19.930
And so places like Australia are populated then by animals who somehow managed to get

01:06:20.460 --> 01:06:25.420
from the Middle East all the way to Australia in the last 4,000 years.

01:06:26.147 --> 01:06:32.324
Now that, to me, is an extraordinary claim. We would expect then, somewhere between the Middle East

01:06:32.324 --> 01:06:37.382
and Australia, we would expect to find evidence of kangaroos. We would expect to find

01:06:37.992 --> 01:06:43.134
some fossils, some bones in the last 4,000 years. Somebody would have been hopping along there

01:06:43.134 --> 01:06:46.627
and died along the way, and we'd find them. And furthermore, there's a claim

01:06:46.627 --> 01:06:52.258
that there was a land bridge that allowed these animals to get from Asia all the way

01:06:52.258 --> 01:06:57.860
to the continent of Australia. And that land bridge has disappeared, has disappeared in the last

01:06:57.860 --> 01:07:05.690
4,000 years. No navigator, no diver, no U.S. Navy submarine, no one has ever detected any evidence

01:07:05.690 --> 01:07:12.144
of this, let alone any evidence of fossils of kangaroos. So, your expectation is not met.

01:07:12.144 --> 01:07:20.910
It doesn't seem to hold up. So, let's see. If there are 4,000 years since Ken Ham's flood

01:07:20.910 --> 01:07:27.532
and let's say, as he said many times, there are 7,000 kinds,

01:07:27.953 --> 01:07:35.313
today the very, very lowest estimate is that there are about 8.7 million species.

01:07:35.313 --> 01:07:39.829
But a much more reasonable estimate is it's 50 million, or even 100 million,

01:07:39.829 --> 01:07:45.283
when you start counting the viruses and the bacteria and all the beetles that must be extant

01:07:45.283 --> 01:07:51.740
in the tropical rain forests that we haven't found. So we'll take a number which I think is pretty reasonable,

01:07:51.740 --> 01:07:59.859
16 million species today. If these came from 7,000 kinds,

01:07:59.859 --> 01:08:03.502
let's say we have 7,000 subtracted from 15 million,

01:08:03.502 --> 01:08:09.895
that's 15,993. If 4,000 years, we have 365.25 days a year,

01:08:10.305 --> 01:08:16.024
we would expect to find 11 new species every day.

01:08:16.024 --> 01:08:22.265
So you'd go out into your yard, you wouldn't just find a different bird, a new bird

01:08:22.291 --> 01:08:26.760
you'd find a different kind of bird, a whole new species, a bird!

01:08:26.760 --> 01:08:31.727
Every day, a new species of fish, a new species of organisms you can't see, and so on.

01:08:31.727 --> 01:08:38.633
I mean, this would be enormous news. The last 4,000 years people would have seen these changes among us.

01:08:38.633 --> 01:08:43.509
So the Cincinnati Enquirer, I imagine, would carry a column right next to the weather report:

01:08:43.509 --> 01:08:50.251
Today's New Species, and it would list these 11 every day, but we see no evidence of that.

01:08:50.251 --> 01:08:54.265
There's no evidence of these species. There simply isn't enough time.

01:08:54.332 --> 01:08:58.731
Now as you may know, I was graduated from engineering school and I was,

01:08:58.733 --> 01:09:07.298
I got a job at Boeing. I worked on 747s. I, okay everybody relax, I was very well supervised.

01:09:08.000 --> 01:09:12.916
Everything's fine. There's a tube in the 747 I kind of think of that's my tube.

01:09:12.916 --> 01:09:17.926
But that aside, I travelled the highways of Washington state quite a bit.

01:09:17.926 --> 01:09:23.631
I was a young guy. I had a motorcycle. I used to go mountain climbing in Washington state... Oregon.

01:09:24.071 --> 01:09:32.265
And you can drive along and find these enormous boulders on top of the ground, enormous rocks,

01:09:32.314 --> 01:09:40.965
huge, sitting on top of the ground. Now, out there, in regular academic pursuits, regular geology,

01:09:41.573 --> 01:09:46.892
people have discovered that there was, used to be a lake in what is now Montana

01:09:46.892 --> 01:09:50.475
which we charmingly refer to as Lake Missoula.

01:09:50.475 --> 01:09:54.698
It's not there now but the evidence for it, of course, if I may, overwhelming.

01:09:54.992 --> 01:10:01.309
And so, an ice dam would form at Lake Missoula and once in a while it would break.

01:10:01.309 --> 01:10:06.514
It would build up and break. And there were multiple floods in my old state of Washington state.

01:10:06.514 --> 01:10:12.869
And, just, before we go on, let me just say, go Seahawks! That was very gratifying, very gratifying for me.

01:10:13.367 --> 01:10:20.728
Anyway you drive along the road and there are these rocks. So, if as is asserted here at this facility,

01:10:20.728 --> 01:10:25.233
that the heavier rocks would sink to the bottom during a flood event,

01:10:25.246 --> 01:10:29.246
the big rocks, and especially their shape, instead of aerodynamic,

01:10:29.246 --> 01:10:34.240
the hydrodynamic, the water changing shape, as water flows past,

01:10:34.240 --> 01:10:38.919
you'd expect them to sink to the bottom. But here are these enormous rocks right on the surface.

01:10:38.919 --> 01:10:42.857
And there's no shortage of them. If you go driving in Washington state or Oregon

01:10:42.857 --> 01:10:49.803
they're readily available. So how could those be there if the Earth is just 4,000 years old.

01:10:49.803 --> 01:10:53.432
How could they be there if this one flood caused that?

01:10:53.973 --> 01:11:01.620
Another remarkable thing I'd like everybody to consider, alone inherent in this worldview,

01:11:01.620 --> 01:11:11.056
is that somehow Noah and his family were able to build a wooden ship that would house

01:11:11.056 --> 01:11:17.967
14,000 individuals. There were 7,000 kinds and then, there's a boy and a girl for each one of those,

01:11:17.967 --> 01:11:22.893
so there's about 14,000... 8 people. And these people were unskilled.

01:11:23.205 --> 01:11:27.246
As far as anybody knows they had never built a wooden ship before.

01:11:27.246 --> 01:11:31.366
Furthermore, they had to get all these animals on there. And they had to feed them.

01:11:31.366 --> 01:11:37.703
And I understand that Mr. Ham has some explanations for that, which I frankly find extraordinary but

01:11:38.873 --> 01:11:45.966
this is the premise of the bit. And we can then run a test, a scientific test.

01:11:46.075 --> 01:11:52.423
People in the early 1900s built an extraordinary, large wooden ship, the Wyoming.

01:11:52.423 --> 01:12:00.056
It was a six-masted schooner, the largest one ever built. It had a motor on it for winching cables and stuff.

01:12:00.056 --> 01:12:07.781
But this boat had a great difficulty. It was not as big as the Titanic, but it was a very long ship.

01:12:07.781 --> 01:12:16.186
It would twist in the sea. It would twist this way, this way, and this way.

01:12:16.186 --> 01:12:22.784
And in all that twisting, it leaked. It leaked like crazy. The crew could not keep the ship dry.

01:12:22.784 --> 01:12:30.767
And indeed, it eventually foundered and sank, a loss of all 14 hands. So there were 14 crewmen

01:12:31.366 --> 01:12:35.503
aboard a ship built by very, very skilled shipwrights in New England.

01:12:35.503 --> 01:12:39.903
These guys were the best in the world at wooden shipbuilding. And they couldn't build

01:12:39.903 --> 01:12:45.079
a boat as big as the Ark is claimed to have been.

01:12:45.079 --> 01:12:51.186
Is that reasonable? Is that possible that the best shipbuilders in the world couldn't do

01:12:51.186 --> 01:12:57.863
what eight unskilled people, men and their wives, were able to do?

01:12:57.863 --> 01:13:06.377
If you visit the National Zoo, in Washington D.C., it's 163 acres. And they have 400 species.

01:13:06.377 --> 01:13:12.336
By the way, this picture that you're seeing was taken by spacecraft in space, orbiting the Earth.

01:13:12.336 --> 01:13:17.344
If you told my grandfather, let alone my father, that we had that capability,

01:13:17.344 --> 01:13:21.941
they would have been amazed. That capability comes from our fundamental understanding

01:13:21.941 --> 01:13:29.380
of gravity, of material science, of physics, and life science, where you go looking.

01:13:29.380 --> 01:13:35.657
This place is often, as any zoo, is often deeply concerned and criticized for how it treats its animals.

01:13:36.330 --> 01:13:44.791
They have 400 species on 163 acres, 66 hectares. Is it reasonable that Noah and his colleagues,

01:13:44.791 --> 01:13:51.240
his family, were able to maintain 14,000 animals and themselves, and feed them, aboard a ship

01:13:51.240 --> 01:13:54.366
that was bigger than anyone's ever been able to build?

01:13:54.805 --> 01:14:02.479
Now, here's the thing, what we want in science, science as practiced on the outside,

01:14:03.260 --> 01:14:11.010
is an ability to predict. We want to have a natural law that is so obvious and clear,

01:14:11.010 --> 01:14:15.072
so well understood that we can make predictions about what will happen.

01:14:15.072 --> 01:14:20.367
We can predict that we can put a spacecraft in orbit and take a picture of Washington D.C.

01:14:20.729 --> 01:14:25.312
We can predict that if we provide this much room for an elephant, it will live healthily

01:14:25.312 --> 01:14:30.743
for a certain amount of time. I'll give you an example.

01:14:32.808 --> 01:14:38.765
In the explanation provided by traditional science, of how we came to be,

01:14:38.875 --> 01:14:44.284
we find as Mr. Ham alluded to many times in his recent remarks,

01:14:44.284 --> 01:14:49.369
we find a sequence of animals in what, generally, is called "the fossil record."

01:14:49.369 --> 01:14:53.268
This would be to say when we look at the layers, that you would find in Kentucky,

01:14:53.268 --> 01:14:58.267
you look at them carefully, you find a sequence of animals, a succession.

01:14:58.568 --> 01:15:01.710
And as one might expect, when you are looking at old records

01:15:01.710 --> 01:15:05.198
there's some pieces seem to be missing, a gap.

01:15:05.776 --> 01:15:09.150
So scientists got to thinking about this.

01:15:09.150 --> 01:15:13.976
There are lungfish that jump from pond to pond in Florida

01:15:13.976 --> 01:15:15.958
and end up in people's swimming pools.

01:15:15.958 --> 01:15:19.957
And there are amphibians, frogs and toads, croaking and carrying on.

01:15:19.957 --> 01:15:25.668
And so people wondered if there wasn't a fossil or an organism,

01:15:25.668 --> 01:15:29.165
an animal, that had lived, that had characteristics of both.

01:15:29.718 --> 01:15:33.690
People over the years had found that in Canada,

01:15:33.690 --> 01:15:36.716
there was clearly a fossil marsh--

01:15:36.716 --> 01:15:39.685
a place that used to be a swamp that had dried out.

01:15:40.122 --> 01:15:44.213
And they found all kinds of happy swamp fossils there:

01:15:44.213 --> 01:15:49.316
ferns, organisms, animals, fish that were recognized.

01:15:49.316 --> 01:15:52.889
And people realized that if this, with the age of the rocks there,

01:15:52.889 --> 01:15:58.261
as computed by traditional scientists, with the age of the rocks there,

01:15:58.261 --> 01:16:01.860
this would be a reasonable place to look for an animal,

01:16:01.860 --> 01:16:07.672
a fossil of an animal that lived there. And, indeed, scientists found it.

01:16:07.672 --> 01:16:10.864
Tiktaalik, this fish-lizard guy.

01:16:11.478 --> 01:16:16.618
And they found several specimens, it wasn't one individual.

01:16:16.618 --> 01:16:19.248
In other words, they made a prediction, that this animal

01:16:19.248 --> 01:16:26.037
would be found and it was found. So far, Mr. Ham and his worldview,

01:16:26.037 --> 01:16:30.006
the Ken Ham creation model, does not have this capability.

01:16:30.006 --> 01:16:34.000
It cannot make predictions and show results.

01:16:34.094 --> 01:16:38.497
Here's an extraordinary one that I find remarkable.

01:16:39.695 --> 01:16:45.685
There are certain fish, the Topminnows, that have

01:16:45.685 --> 01:16:51.328
the remarkable ability to have sex with other fish,

01:16:51.678 --> 01:16:55.873
traditional fish sex, and they can have sex with themselves.

01:16:55.873 --> 01:16:59.913
Now, one of the old questions in life science, everybody,

01:16:59.913 --> 01:17:04.601
one of the old chin strokers is why does any organism,

01:17:04.800 --> 01:17:12.691
whether you're an ash tree, a sea jelly, a squid, a marmot,

01:17:12.691 --> 01:17:17.909
why does anybody have sex? I mean, there are more bacteria

01:17:17.909 --> 01:17:21.735
in your tummy right now then there are humans on Earth.

01:17:21.735 --> 01:17:23.444
And bacteria, they don't bother with that, man.

01:17:23.444 --> 01:17:26.141
They split themselves in half, they get new bacteria!

01:17:26.141 --> 01:17:29.816
Like, let's get her done! Let's go. But why does any--

01:17:29.816 --> 01:17:34.528
think of all the trouble a rose bush goes to make a flower and the thorns

01:17:34.528 --> 01:17:41.199
and the bees flying around, interacting--why does anybody bother with all that?

01:17:41.520 --> 01:17:45.707
And the answer seems to be...your enemies.

01:17:45.707 --> 01:17:51.764
And your enemies are not lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

01:17:51.764 --> 01:17:55.909
No, your enemies are germs and parasites.

01:17:55.909 --> 01:17:59.630
That's what's gonna get you. Germs and parasites.

01:17:59.630 --> 01:18:05.723
My first cousin's son died tragically from essentially the flu.

01:18:05.723 --> 01:18:09.039
This is not some story I heard about. This is my first cousin, once removed.

01:18:09.039 --> 01:18:13.219
Because, apparently, the virus had the right genes to attack his genes.

01:18:13.219 --> 01:18:16.476
So when you have sex you have a new set of genes.

01:18:16.476 --> 01:18:20.904
You have a new mixture. So people studied these Topminnows.

01:18:20.904 --> 01:18:24.830
And they found that the ones who reproduced sexually

01:18:25.097 --> 01:18:29.981
had fewer parasites that the ones who reproduced on their own.

01:18:29.981 --> 01:18:33.583
This Black Spot disease--wait, wait, there's more.

01:18:33.583 --> 01:18:37.921
In these populations, with flooding and so on, when river ponds get isolated,

01:18:37.921 --> 01:18:40.532
then they dry up, then the river flows again.

01:18:41.135 --> 01:18:44.995
In between, some of the fish will have sex with other fish,

01:18:44.995 --> 01:18:49.299
sometimes, and they'll have sex on their own, what's called asexually.

01:18:50.070 --> 01:18:52.825
And those fish, the ones that are in between, sometimes this,

01:18:52.825 --> 01:18:57.196
sometimes that, they have an intermediate number of infections.

01:18:57.683 --> 01:19:02.799
In other words, the explanation provided by evolution made a prediction.

01:19:03.425 --> 01:19:06.629
And the prediction's extraordinary and subtle, but there it is.

01:19:07.017 --> 01:19:09.255
How else would you explain it?

01:19:09.255 --> 01:19:14.412
And to Mr. Ham and his followers I say this is something we in science want.

01:19:14.412 --> 01:19:18.190
We want the ability to predict. And your assertion

01:19:18.190 --> 01:19:21.491
that there's some difference between the natural laws

01:19:21.491 --> 01:19:24.746
that I use to observe the world today and the natural laws

01:19:24.746 --> 01:19:30.062
that existed 4,000 years ago is extraordinary and unsettling.

01:19:31.433 --> 01:19:35.056
I travel around. I have a great many family members

01:19:35.056 --> 01:19:39.516
in Danville, Virginia, one of the U.S's most livable cities.

01:19:39.516 --> 01:19:46.768
It's lovely. And I was driving along and there was a sign in front of a church:

01:19:46.768 --> 01:19:50.415
"Big Bang theory? You got to be kidding me. God."

01:19:51.037 --> 01:19:56.073
Now, everybody, why would someone at the church, a pastor for example,

01:19:56.353 --> 01:20:03.179
put that sign up unless he or she didn't believe

01:20:03.179 --> 01:20:06.963
that the big bang was a real thing? I just want to review,

01:20:06.963 --> 01:20:09.860
briefly, with everybody why we accept,

01:20:10.286 --> 01:20:13.931
in the outside world, why we accept the Big Bang.

01:20:16.127 --> 01:20:23.169
Edwin Hubble, sorry, there you go, you gotta be kidding me God.

01:20:23.250 --> 01:20:28.499
Edwin Hubble was sitting at Mount Wilson, which is up from Pasadena, California.

01:20:28.850 --> 01:20:32.864
On a clear day you can look down and see where the Rose Parade goes.

01:20:32.864 --> 01:20:35.020
It's that close to civilization.

01:20:35.020 --> 01:20:40.329
But even in the early 1900's, the people who selected this site for astronomy

01:20:40.329 --> 01:20:45.493
picked an excellent site. The clouds and smog are below you.

01:20:45.493 --> 01:20:51.349
And Edwin Hubble sat there at this very big telescope night after night studying the heavens.

01:20:51.819 --> 01:20:58.365
And he found that the stars are moving apart. The stars are moving apart.

01:20:58.790 --> 01:21:07.210
And he wasn't sure why. But it was clear that the stars are moving farther and farther apart all the time.

01:21:07.661 --> 01:21:11.166
So people talked about it for a couple decades.

01:21:11.166 --> 01:21:15.562
And then eventually another astronomer, almost a couple decades, another astronomer

01:21:15.562 --> 01:21:20.595
Fred Hoyle just remarked, "Well, it was like there was a big bang.

01:21:20.595 --> 01:21:24.774
There was an explosion. This is to say; since everything's moving apart,

01:21:24.774 --> 01:21:28.363
it's very reasonable that at one time they were all together.

01:21:28.363 --> 01:21:32.691
And there's a place from whence, or rather whence, these things expanded."

01:21:32.691 --> 01:21:35.063
And it was a remarkable insight.

01:21:35.063 --> 01:21:38.433
But people went still questioning it for decades.

01:21:38.433 --> 01:21:43.429
Scientists, conventional scientists, questioning it for decades.

01:21:44.736 --> 01:21:51.294
These two researchers wanted to listen for radio signals from space--radio astronomy.

01:21:51.294 --> 01:21:57.596
And this is while we have visible light for our eyes, there is a whole other bunch of waves of light

01:21:57.596 --> 01:22:01.614
that are much longer. The microwaves in your oven are about that long.

01:22:01.614 --> 01:22:07.761
The radar at the airport is about that long. Your FM radio signals about like this.

01:22:08.411 --> 01:22:13.776
AM radio signals are a kilometer--they're a couple, several soccer fields.

01:22:14.136 --> 01:22:21.201
They went out listening. And there was this hiss, this hisssssss, all the time

01:22:21.201 --> 01:22:24.993
that wouldn't go away. And they thought "Oh! Doggone it. There's some loose

01:22:24.993 --> 01:22:29.782
connector." They plugged in the connector. They rescrewed it. They made it tight.

01:22:29.782 --> 01:22:31.957
They turned it this way. The hiss was still there.

01:22:31.957 --> 01:22:33.539
They turned it that way. It was still there.

01:22:33.539 --> 01:22:38.659
They thought it was pigeon droppings that had affected the reception of this "horn" it's called.

01:22:38.659 --> 01:22:42.427
This thing is still there. It's in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

01:22:42.427 --> 01:22:49.419
It's a national historic site. And Arno Pinzius and Robert Wilson had found

01:22:49.419 --> 01:22:55.283
this cosmic background sound that was predicted by astronomers.

01:22:55.283 --> 01:22:58.873
Astronomers running the numbers, doing math, predicted

01:22:58.873 --> 01:23:02.315
that in the cosmos would be left over this echo,

01:23:02.315 --> 01:23:06.539
this energy, from the Big Bang that would be detectable.

01:23:06.539 --> 01:23:13.629
And they detected it. We built the Cosmic Observatory for Background Emissions, the COBE spacecraft,

01:23:13.629 --> 01:23:17.984
and it matched exactly, exactly the astronomers predictions.

01:23:18.572 --> 01:23:22.011
You gotta respect that. It's a wonderful thing.

01:23:22.426 --> 01:23:29.383
Now, along that line is some interest in the age of the earth.

01:23:29.383 --> 01:23:34.650
Right now, it's generally agreed that the Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago.

01:23:35.540 --> 01:23:41.026
What we can do on earth. These elements that we all know on the Periodic Table of Chemicals,

01:23:41.026 --> 01:23:46.270
even ones we don't know, were created when stars explode.

01:23:46.270 --> 01:23:51.202
And I look like nobody. But I attended a lecture by Hans Betta who won a Nobel

01:23:51.202 --> 01:23:55.732
Prize for discovering the process by which stars create all these elements.

01:23:56.073 --> 01:24:02.333
The one that interests me especially is our good friends Rubidium and Strontium.

01:24:02.333 --> 01:24:06.383
Rubidium becomes Strontium spontaneously. It's an interesting thing to me.

01:24:06.383 --> 01:24:11.513
A neutron becomes a proton. And it goes up the Periodic Table.

01:24:11.757 --> 01:24:14.847
When lava comes out of the ground, molten lava,

01:24:14.847 --> 01:24:18.521
and it freezes, turns to rock, when the melt solidifies,

01:24:18.521 --> 01:24:23.041
or crystalizes, it locks the Rubidium and Strontium in place.

01:24:23.564 --> 01:24:30.527
And so by careful assay, by careful, by being diligent, you can tell when the rock froze.

01:24:30.527 --> 01:24:36.036
You can tell how old the Rubidium and Strontium are. And you can get an age for the earth.

01:24:36.036 --> 01:24:41.993
When that stuff falls on fossils, you can get a very good idea of how old the fossils are.

01:24:41.993 --> 01:24:46.661
I encourage you all to go to Nebraska, go to Ashfall State Park

01:24:46.661 --> 01:24:51.332
and see the astonishing fossils. It looks like a Hollywood movie.

01:24:51.332 --> 01:24:56.586
There are rhinoceroses. There are three-toed horses in Nebraska.

01:24:56.586 --> 01:25:01.865
None of those animals are extant today. And they are buried, catastrophically, by a

01:25:01.865 --> 01:25:05.307
volcano in what is now Idaho. Is now Yellowstone National Park.

01:25:05.307 --> 01:25:08.490
What is called the hot spot. People call it the super-volcano.

01:25:08.490 --> 01:25:12.500
And it's the remarkable thing. Apparently, as I can tell you, as a Northwesterner around

01:25:12.500 --> 01:25:16.976
for Mount St. Helen's. For full disclosure I'm on the Mount St. Helen's Board.

01:25:16.976 --> 01:25:20.302
When it (explosive sound), when it goes off it gives out a great deal of gas

01:25:20.302 --> 01:25:24.686
that's toxic and knock these animals out. Looking for relief, they go to a watering

01:25:24.686 --> 01:25:29.396
hole. And then when the ash comes they were all buried. It's an extraordinary place.

01:25:29.591 --> 01:25:36.196
Now if in the bad old days, you had heart problems, they would right away cut you open.

01:25:36.779 --> 01:25:43.167
Now, we use a drug based on Rubidium to look at the inside of your heart without cutting you open.

01:25:43.977 --> 01:25:51.963
Now, my Kentucky friends, I want you to consider this. Right now, there is no place

01:25:51.963 --> 01:25:57.093
in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to get a degree in this kind of nuclear medicine--

01:25:57.093 --> 01:25:59.553
this kind of drugs associated with that.

01:25:59.799 --> 01:26:04.333
I hope you find that troubling. I hope you're concerned about that.

01:26:04.333 --> 01:26:11.078
You want scientifically literate students in your commonwealth for a better tomorrow for everybody.

01:26:11.186 --> 01:26:15.465
You can, you can't get this here. You have to go out of state.

01:26:16.120 --> 01:26:22.060
Now as far as the distance to stars. Understand this is very well understood.

01:26:22.060 --> 01:26:26.811
We, it's February. We look at a star in February. We measure an angle to it.

01:26:26.811 --> 01:26:31.301
We wait six months. We look at that same star again and we measure that angle.

01:26:31.301 --> 01:26:37.117
It's the same way carpenters built this building. It's the same way surveyors surveyed the land that we're standing on.

01:26:37.117 --> 01:26:42.042
And so by measuring the distance to a star, you can figure out how far away it is, that star,

01:26:42.042 --> 01:26:46.290
and the stars beyond it, and the stars beyond that. There are billions of stars.

01:26:46.290 --> 01:26:50.397
Billions of stars more than six thousand light years from here.

01:26:50.397 --> 01:26:54.713
A light year is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.

01:26:54.713 --> 01:27:00.804
There are billions of stars. Mr. Ham, how could there be billions of stars more distant

01:27:00.804 --> 01:27:05.033
than six thousand years, if the world's only six thousand years old?

01:27:05.033 --> 01:27:12.239
It's an extraordinary claim. There's another astronomer, Adolphe Quetele, who remarked first

01:27:13.709 --> 01:27:23.723
about the reasonable man. Is it reasonable that we have ice older by a factor of a hundred than you claim the earth is?

01:27:23.723 --> 01:27:26.990
We have trees that have more tree rings than the earth is old.

01:27:26.990 --> 01:27:32.910
We have rocks with Rubidium and Strontium, and Uranium-Uranium, and Potassium-Argon dating

01:27:32.910 --> 01:27:36.713
that are far, far, far older than you claim the earth is.

01:27:36.713 --> 01:27:44.082
Could anybody have built an ark that would sustain the better than any ark anybody was able to build on the earth?

01:27:44.082 --> 01:27:48.960
So, if you're asking me, and I got the impression you were,

01:27:48.960 --> 01:27:55.622
is Ken Ham's creation model viable? I say "No! Absolutely not!"

01:27:55.622 --> 01:28:01.961
Now, one last thing. You may not know that in the US Constitution, from the founding fathers,

01:28:02.311 --> 01:28:06.383
is the sentence "to promote the progress of science and useful arts..."

01:28:08.162 --> 01:28:11.939
Kentucky voters, voters who might be watching online,

01:28:11.939 --> 01:28:16.733
in places like Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas, please

01:28:16.733 --> 01:28:19.914
you don't want to raise a generation of science students

01:28:19.914 --> 01:28:23.494
who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos,

01:28:23.494 --> 01:28:26.487
our place in space, who don't understand natural law.

01:28:26.487 --> 01:28:30.560
We need to innovate to keep the United States where it is in the world.

01:28:30.560 --> 01:28:32.007
Thank you very much.

01:28:32.007 --> 01:28:47.807
(applause)

01:28:48.297 --> 01:28:51.467
Moderator: That's a lot to take in. I hope everybody's holding up well.

01:28:51.467 --> 01:28:55.240
That's a lot of information. What we're going to have now is a five minute

01:28:55.240 --> 01:28:58.962
rebuttal time for each gentleman to address the other one's comments.

01:28:58.962 --> 01:29:03.929
And then there will be a five minute counter rebuttal after that.

01:29:03.929 --> 01:29:06.192
Things are going to start moving a little more quickly now.

01:29:06.192 --> 01:29:10.967
So at this point in particular, I want to make sure we don't have applauding or anything else going on that slows it down.

01:29:10.967 --> 01:29:15.497
So, Mr. Hamm, if you'd like to begin with your five minute rebuttal first.

01:29:24.860 --> 01:29:30.090
Mr. Hamm: First of all, Bill, if I was to answer all the points that you brought up,

01:29:30.090 --> 01:29:33.898
the moderator would think that I was going on for millions of years. (laughter)

01:29:33.898 --> 01:29:35.735
So I can only deal with some of them.

01:29:35.735 --> 01:29:39.696
And you mentioned the age of the earth a couple of times, so let me deal with that.

01:29:39.696 --> 01:29:44.702
As I said in my presentation, you can't observe the age of the earth.

01:29:44.702 --> 01:29:48.882
I would say that comes under what we call historical origin science.

01:29:48.882 --> 01:29:52.230
Now, just so you understand where I'm coming from.

01:29:52.230 --> 01:29:57.098
Yes, we admit we build our origins from historical science on the Bible.

01:29:57.098 --> 01:30:02.140
The Bible says God created in six days. A Hebrew word "yon" as it's used in Genesis 1

01:30:02.140 --> 01:30:06.123
with evening/morning number means an ordinary day. Adam was made on day six.

01:30:06.123 --> 01:30:09.969
And so, when you add up all those geneologies specifically given in the Bible

01:30:09.969 --> 01:30:19.720
from Adam to Abraham you've got 2,000 years; from Abraham to Christ 2,000 years; from Christ to the present 2,000 years.

01:30:19.720 --> 01:30:23.954
That's how we get 6,000 years. So that's where it comes from. Just so you know.

01:30:23.954 --> 01:30:29.997
Now a lot of people say. Now, by the way, the earth's age is 4.5 billion years old.

01:30:29.997 --> 01:30:35.227
And we have radioactive decay dating methods that found that.

01:30:35.227 --> 01:30:38.391
But you see, we certainly observe radioactive decay

01:30:38.391 --> 01:30:42.549
whether it's rubidium-strontium, whether it's uranium-lead, potassium-argon

01:30:42.549 --> 01:30:46.199
But when you're talking about the past, we have a problem.

01:30:46.199 --> 01:30:49.584
I'll give you a practical example. In Australia, there were engineers

01:30:49.584 --> 01:30:53.165
that were trying to search out about a coal mine.

01:30:53.165 --> 01:30:57.758
And so they drilled down and they found a basalt layer, a lava flow that had woody material in it--

01:30:57.758 --> 01:31:04.272
branches and twigs and so on. And when Dr. Andrew Snelling, our PhD geologist,

01:31:04.272 --> 01:31:08.346
sent that to a lab in Massachusetts in 1994, they used potassium-argon

01:31:08.346 --> 01:31:10.990
dating and dated it at 45 million years old.

01:31:10.990 --> 01:31:15.539
Well, he also sent the wood to the radio-carbon section of the same lab

01:31:15.539 --> 01:31:20.172
and that dated at 45,000 years old. 45,000 year old wood in 45 million year old rock.

01:31:20.172 --> 01:31:22.296
The point is there's a problem.

01:31:22.296 --> 01:31:25.190
Let me give you another example of a problem.

01:31:25.190 --> 01:31:30.302
There was a lava dome that started to form in the 80's after Mt. St. Helen's erupted.

01:31:30.302 --> 01:31:36.883
And in 1994 Dr. Steve Austin, another PhD geologist, actually sampled the rock there.

01:31:36.883 --> 01:31:45.076
He took whole rock, crushed it, sent it to the same lab actually, I believe, and got a date of .35 million years.

01:31:45.076 --> 01:31:50.256
When he separated out the minerals amphibole and pyroxene and used potassium-argon dating,

01:31:50.256 --> 01:31:56.594
he got .9 million and 2.8 million. My point is all these dating methods actually give all sorts of different dates.

01:31:56.594 --> 01:32:01.962
In fact, different dating methods on the same rock, we can show, give all sorts of different dates.

01:32:01.962 --> 01:32:04.769
See there's lots of assumptions in regard to radioactive dating.

01:32:04.769 --> 01:32:09.426
Number one, for instance, the amounts of the parent and daughter isotopes at the beginning when the rock formed.

01:32:09.426 --> 01:32:12.695
You have to know them. But you weren't there. See that's historical science.

01:32:12.695 --> 01:32:15.716
Assumption 2: that all daughter atoms measured today

01:32:15.716 --> 01:32:20.376
must have only been derived in situ radioactive decay of parent atoms.

01:32:20.376 --> 01:32:21.643
In other words it's a closed system.

01:32:21.643 --> 01:32:25.533
But you don't know that. And there's a lot of evidence that that's not so.

01:32:25.533 --> 01:32:28.807
Assumption Number 3: that the decay rates have remained a constant.

01:32:28.807 --> 01:32:30.713
Now they're just some of them. There's others as well.

01:32:30.713 --> 01:32:33.616
The point is there's lots of assumptions in regard to the dating methods.

01:32:33.616 --> 01:32:38.990
So there's no dating method you can use that you can absolutely age date a rock.

01:32:38.990 --> 01:32:42.142
There's all sorts of differences out there.

01:32:42.142 --> 01:32:45.902
And I do want to address the bit you brought up about Christians believing in millions of years.

01:32:45.902 --> 01:32:48.340
Yeah, there's a lot of Christians out there that believe in millions of years,

01:32:48.340 --> 01:32:52.100
but I'd say they have a problem. I'm not saying they're not Christians, but

01:32:52.100 --> 01:32:55.768
because salvation is conditioned upon faith in Christ, not the age of the earth.

01:32:55.768 --> 01:32:58.639
But there's an inconsistency with what the Bible teaches.

01:32:58.639 --> 01:33:04.043
If you believe in millions of years, you've got death and bloodshed, suffering, and disease

01:33:04.043 --> 01:33:07.934
over millions of years leading to man, because that's what you see in the fossil record.

01:33:07.934 --> 01:33:11.263
The Bible makes it very clear death is a result of man's sin.

01:33:11.263 --> 01:33:15.999
In fact, the first death was in the garden when God killed an animal, clothed Adam and Eve,

01:33:15.999 --> 01:33:20.366
first blood sacrifice pointing towards what would happen with Jesus Christ.

01:33:20.366 --> 01:33:23.772
He would be the one who would die once and for all.

01:33:23.772 --> 01:33:27.246
Now if you believe in millions of years as a Christian, in the fossil record

01:33:27.246 --> 01:33:30.863
there's evidence of animals eating each other, Bible says originally all the animals

01:33:30.863 --> 01:33:35.366
and man were vegetarian. We weren't told we could eat meat until after the flood.

01:33:35.366 --> 01:33:40.067
There's diseases represented in the fossil record like brain tumors, but the Bible

01:33:40.067 --> 01:33:42.300
says when God made everything it was very good.

01:33:42.300 --> 01:33:44.234
God doesn't call brain tumors very good.

01:33:44.234 --> 01:33:48.143
There's fossilized thorns in the fossil record said to be hundreds of millions of years old,

01:33:48.143 --> 01:33:50.972
the Bible says thorns came after the curse.

01:33:50.972 --> 01:33:53.763
So these two things can't be true at the same time.

01:33:53.763 --> 01:33:57.231
You know what? There's hundreds of dating methods out there, hundreds of them.

01:33:57.231 --> 01:34:03.695
Actually, 90% of them contradict billions of years. And the point is, all such dating methods are fallible.

01:34:03.695 --> 01:34:08.177
And I claim, there's only one infallible dating method, it's a witness who was there,

01:34:08.177 --> 01:34:11.533
who knows everything, who told us. And that's from the word of God.

01:34:11.533 --> 01:34:16.500
And that's why I would say that the earth is only 6,000 years. And, as Dr. Faulkner said,

01:34:16.500 --> 01:34:20.429
there's nothing in astronomy, and certainly Dr. Snelling would say, there's nothing in geology

01:34:20.429 --> 01:34:25.264
to contradict a belief in a young age for the earth and the universe.

01:34:25.873 --> 01:34:29.065
Moderator: Thank you Mr. Ham. Mr. Nye, your five-minute rebuttal please.

01:34:29.366 --> 01:34:32.200
Mr. Nye: Thank you very much. Let me start with the beginning.

01:34:32.663 --> 01:34:37.233
If you find 45 million year old rock on top of 45 thousand year old trees,

01:34:37.233 --> 01:34:42.467
maybe the rock slid on top. Maybe that's it. That seems much more reasonable explanation

01:34:42.467 --> 01:34:49.332
than, "It's impossible." Then as far as dating goes, actually the methods are

01:34:49.332 --> 01:34:55.033
very reliable. One of the mysteries, or interesting things that people in my business,

01:34:55.033 --> 01:35:00.363
especially at the Planetary Society, are interested in is why all the asteroids seem to be

01:35:00.363 --> 01:35:06.900
so close to the same date in age. It's 4.5, 4.6 billion years.

01:35:06.900 --> 01:35:11.367
It's a remarkable thing. People at first expected a little more of a spread.

01:35:11.367 --> 01:35:19.618
So, I understand that you take the Bible as written in English, translated countless,

01:35:19.618 --> 01:35:26.100
not countless, but many, many times over the last three millenia as to be a more accurate,

01:35:26.100 --> 01:35:29.033
more reasonable assessment of the natural laws we see around us

01:35:29.033 --> 01:35:37.732
than what I and everybody in here can observe. That to me is unsettling, troubling.

01:35:37.732 --> 01:35:47.535
And then about the disease thing, are the fish sinners? Have they done something wrong to get diseases?

01:35:47.535 --> 01:35:55.133
That's sort of an extraordinary claim that takes me just a little past what I'm comfortable with.

01:35:55.133 --> 01:36:00.863
And then, as far as you can't observe the past, I have to stop you right there.

01:36:00.863 --> 01:36:02.702
That's what we do in astronomy.

01:36:02.702 --> 01:36:06.131
All we can do in astronomy is look at the past.

01:36:06.131 --> 01:36:13.600
By the way, you're looking at the past right now. Because the speed of light bounces off of me

01:36:13.600 --> 01:36:18.764
and then gets to your eyes. And I'm delighted to see that the people in the back of the room

01:36:18.764 --> 01:36:23.532
appear just that much younger than the people in the front.

01:36:23.532 --> 01:36:32.099
So this idea that you can separate the natural laws of the past from the natural laws that we have now,

01:36:32.099 --> 01:36:37.732
I think is at the heart of our disagreement. 
I don't see how we're ever going to agree with that

01:36:37.732 --> 01:36:44.167
if you insist that natural laws have changed. It's, for lack of a better word, it's magical.

01:36:45.063 --> 01:36:50.500
And I have appreciated magic since I was a kid, but it's not really what we want

01:36:50.500 --> 01:37:02.266
in conventional, mainstream science. So, your assertion that all the animals were vegetarians

01:37:03.100 --> 01:37:10.568
before they got on the ark. That's really remarkable. I have not spent a lot of time with lions,

01:37:10.568 --> 01:37:14.733
but I can tell they've got teeth that really aren't set up for broccoli.

01:37:14.733 --> 01:37:22.194
That these animals were vegetarians til this flood is something that I would ask you

01:37:22.194 --> 01:37:28.961
to provide a little more proof for. I give you the lion's teeth, you give me verses

01:37:28.961 --> 01:37:34.499
as translated into English over, what, 30 centuries?

01:37:34.499 --> 01:37:39.722
So, that's not enough evidence for me. If you've ever played telephone, I did, I remember very well

01:37:39.722 --> 01:37:43.163
in kindergarten where you have a secret and you whisper it to the next person, to the next person,

01:37:43.163 --> 01:37:51.300
to the next person. Things often go wrong. So it's very reasonable to me that instead of lions being vegetarians on the ark,

01:37:51.300 --> 01:38:01.797
lions are lions, and the information that you used to create your world view is not consistent with

01:38:01.797 --> 01:38:11.399
what I, as a reasonable man, would expect. So, I want everybody to consider the implications of this.

01:38:12.441 --> 01:38:23.667
If we accept Mr. Ham's point of view, that the Bible as translated into American English,

01:38:23.667 --> 01:38:32.200
serves as a science text, and that he and his followers will interpret that for you,

01:38:32.200 --> 01:38:39.635
Just, I want you to consider what that means. It means that Mr. Ham's word or his interpretation

01:38:39.635 --> 01:38:46.407
of these other words, is somehow to be more respected than what you can observe in nature.

01:38:46.407 --> 01:38:50.600
Than what you can find literally in your backyard, in Kentucky.

01:38:50.937 --> 01:38:58.497
It's a troubling and unsettling point of view, and it's one I very much like you to address when you come back.

01:38:59.002 --> 01:39:04.262
As far as the five races that you mentioned, it's kind of the same thing.

01:39:04.262 --> 01:39:08.174
The five races were claimed by people who were of European descent,

01:39:08.174 --> 01:39:12.301
and said, "Hey, we're the best! Check us out!" And that turns out to be,

01:39:12.301 --> 01:39:17.130
if you've ever traveled anywhere or done anything, not to be that way.

01:39:17.130 --> 01:39:20.297
People are much more alike than they are different.

01:39:20.297 --> 01:39:26.067
So, are we supposed to take your word for English words translated over the last 30 centuries,

01:39:26.067 --> 01:39:29.897
instead of what we can observe in the universe around us?

01:39:30.999 --> 01:39:33.735
Moderator: Very good. And Mr. Ham, would you like to offer your five minute counter rebuttal?

01:39:37.968 --> 01:39:41.534
Ken Ham: Uh, first of all, Bill, just so, I just don't want a misunderstanding here,

01:39:41.534 --> 01:39:47.767
and that is, the 45,000-year-old wood, or supposedly 45,000 was inside the basalt.

01:39:47.767 --> 01:39:54.300
Um, so, it was encased in the basalt. Uh, and that's why I was making that particular point.

01:39:54.300 --> 01:39:59.367
And I would also say that natural law hasn't changed. As I talked about, you know,

01:39:59.367 --> 01:40:03.728
I said we had the laws of logic, the uniformity of nature. And that only makes sense

01:40:03.728 --> 01:40:07.668
within a biblical worldview anyway, of a creator God, who set up those laws,

01:40:07.668 --> 01:40:11.200
and that's why we can do good experimental science, because we assume those laws are true,

01:40:11.200 --> 01:40:20.764
and they'll be true tomorrow. I do want to say this, that you said a few times, you know,

01:40:20.764 --> 01:40:26.034
Ken Ham's view or model. It's not just Ken Ham's model. We have a number of PhD scientists

01:40:26.034 --> 01:40:31.433
on our own staff. I quoted, had video quotes, from some scientists.

01:40:31.433 --> 01:40:40.301
It's Dr. Damadian's model. It's Dr. Fabich's model. It's Dr. Faulkner's model. It's Dr. Snelling's model.

01:40:40.301 --> 01:40:44.658
It's Dr. Purdom's model. And so it goes on, in other words. And you go on our website,

01:40:44.658 --> 01:40:50.861
and there are lots of creation scientists who agree with exactly what we're saying concerning

01:40:50.861 --> 01:40:57.201
the Bible's account of creation. So it's not just "my model" in that sense.

01:40:57.201 --> 01:41:05.168
There is so much that I can say, but, as I listen to you, I believe you're confusing terms

01:41:05.168 --> 01:41:11.134
in regard to species and kinds. Because we're not saying that God created all those species.

01:41:11.134 --> 01:41:16.100
We're saying God created kinds. And we're not saying species got on the ark, we're saying kinds.

01:41:16.100 --> 01:41:19.799
In fact, we've had researchers working on what is a kind. For instance, there's a number of papers,

01:41:19.799 --> 01:41:24.066
published on our website, where, for instance, they look at dogs. And they say, well, this one

01:41:24.066 --> 01:41:28.600
breeds with this one, with this one, with this one. And you can look at all the papers around the world

01:41:28.600 --> 01:41:31.835
and you can connect them all together and say that obviously represents one kind.

01:41:31.835 --> 01:41:36.433
In fact, as they have been doing that research, they have predicted probably less than actually a thousand

01:41:36.433 --> 01:41:41.966
kinds were on Noah's ark, which means just over 2,000 animals. And the average size of a land animal

01:41:41.966 --> 01:41:48.367
is not that big so, you know, there was plenty of room on the ark. I also believe that

01:41:48.367 --> 01:41:52.932
a lot of what you were saying was really illustrating my point. Uh, you were talking about tree rings

01:41:52.932 --> 01:41:58.333
and ice layers and, just talking about kangaroos getting to Australia, and all sorts of things like that.

01:41:58.333 --> 01:42:03.497
But see, we're talking about the past, when we weren't there. We didn't see those tree rings actually forming.

01:42:03.497 --> 01:42:10.156
We didn't see those layers being laid down. You know, in 1942, for instance, there were some planes

01:42:10.156 --> 01:42:15.033
that landed on the ice in Greenland. They found them, what, 46 years later, I think it was,

01:42:15.033 --> 01:42:20.233
three miles away from the original location with 250 feet of ice buried on top of them.

01:42:20.233 --> 01:42:24.496
So, ice can build up catastrophically. If you assume one layer a year, or something like that,

01:42:24.496 --> 01:42:30.000
it's like the dating methods. You are assuming things in regard to the past that aren't necessarily true.

01:42:30.000 --> 01:42:39.100
In regard to lions and teeth, bears, most bears have teeth very much like a lion or tiger, and yet, most bears

01:42:39.100 --> 01:42:42.967
are primarily vegetarian. The panda, if you look at its teeth, you'd say, maybe it should be a

01:42:42.967 --> 01:42:48.468
savage carnivore. It eats mainly bamboo. The little fruit bat in Australia has really sharp teeth,

01:42:48.468 --> 01:42:51.900
looks like a savage little creature, and it rips into fruit.

01:42:51.900 --> 01:42:56.600
Uh, so, just cause an animal has sharp teeth doesn't mean it's a meat eater. It means it has sharp teeth.

01:42:56.600 --> 01:43:03.333
Uh, so again, it really comes down to our interpretation of these things.

01:43:03.333 --> 01:43:07.443
I think too, in regard to the Missoula, uh, example that you gave, you know,

01:43:07.443 --> 01:43:10.505
creationists do believe there's been post-flood catastrophism.

01:43:10.505 --> 01:43:17.772
Noah's flood, certainly, was a catastrophic event. But then there's been post-flood catastrophism since that time as well.

01:43:17.772 --> 01:43:22.134
And again, in regard to historical science, why would you say Noah was unskilled?

01:43:22.134 --> 01:43:28.833
I mean, I didn't meet Noah, and neither did you. And you know, really, it's an evolutionary view of origins I believe

01:43:28.833 --> 01:43:32.200
cause you're thinking in terms people before us aren't as good as us.

01:43:32.200 --> 01:43:36.867
Hey, there are civilizations that existed in the past, and we look at their technology,

01:43:36.867 --> 01:43:41.400
and we can't even understand today how they did some of the things that they did.

01:43:41.400 --> 01:43:44.936
Who says Noah couldn't build a big boat? By the way, the Chinese and the Egyptians built boats.

01:43:44.936 --> 01:43:49.134
In fact, some of our research indicates that some of the wooden boats that were built

01:43:49.134 --> 01:43:52.739
had three layers interlocking so they wouldn't twist like that and leak, which is why,

01:43:52.739 --> 01:43:58.866
here at the Creation Museum, we have an exhibit on the ark, where we've rebuilt 1% of the ark to scale

01:43:58.866 --> 01:44:03.868
and shown three interlocking layers like that. And one last thing, concerning the speed of light,

01:44:03.868 --> 01:44:09.667
and that is, I'm sure you're aware of the horizon problem. And that is, from a Big Bang perspective,

01:44:09.667 --> 01:44:15.532
even the secularists have a problem of getting light and radiation out to the universe

01:44:15.532 --> 01:44:20.700
to be able to exchange with the rest of the universe, to get that even microwave background radiation.

01:44:20.700 --> 01:44:27.133
On their model, 15 billion years or so, they can only get it about halfway.

01:44:27.133 --> 01:44:32.134
And that's why they have inflation theories, which means, everyone has a problem concerning the light issue.

01:44:32.134 --> 01:44:35.770
There's things people don't understand. And we have some models on our website

01:44:35.770 --> 01:44:38.923
by some of our scientists to help explain those sorts of things.

01:44:40.463 --> 01:44:42.037
Moderator: Mr. Nye, your counter rebuttal.

01:44:42.967 --> 01:44:46.010
Bill Nye: Thank you Mr. Ham, but I'm completely unsatisfied.

01:44:46.010 --> 01:44:53.600
You did not, in my view, address this fundamental question. 680,000 years of snow ice layers

01:44:53.600 --> 01:44:59.748
which require winter summer cycle. Let's say you have 2,000 kinds instead of seven.

01:44:59.748 --> 01:45:05.734
That makes the problem even more extraordinary, multiplying eleven by what's, three and a half?

01:45:05.734 --> 01:45:14.265
We get to 35... 40 species every day that we don't see, they're not extant.

01:45:14.265 --> 01:45:20.166
In fact, you probably know we're losing species due to mostly human activity and the loss of habitat.

01:45:20.366 --> 01:45:25.263
Then, as far as Noah being an extraordinary shipwright, I'm very skeptical.

01:45:25.697 --> 01:45:33.165
The shipwrights, my ancestors, the Nye family in New England, took, spent their whole life learning to make ships.

01:45:33.632 --> 01:45:38.399
I mean, it's very reasonable, perhaps, to you that Noah had superpowers

01:45:38.604 --> 01:45:45.667
and was able to build this extraordinary craft with seven family members, but to me, it's just not reasonable.

01:45:45.867 --> 01:45:53.100
Then, uh, by the way, the fundamental thing we disagree on, Mr. Ham,

01:45:53.304 --> 01:46:00.431
is this nature of what you can prove to yourself. This is to say, when people make assumptions

01:46:01.633 --> 01:46:06.631
based on radiometric data, when they make assumptions about the expanding universe,

01:46:06.765 --> 01:46:12.762
when they make assumptions about the rate at which genes change in populations of bacteria

01:46:12.963 --> 01:46:20.100
in laboratory growth media, they are making assumptions based on previous experience.

01:46:20.288 --> 01:46:25.863
They're not coming out of whole cloth. So, next time you have a chance to speak,

01:46:25.997 --> 01:46:34.532
I encourage you to explain to us why... why we should accept your word for it that natural law changed

01:46:36.718 --> 01:46:43.467
just 4,000 years ago, completely. And there's no record of it. You know, there are pyramids that are older than that.

01:46:43.866 --> 01:46:51.231
There are human populations that are far older than that, with traditions that go back farther than that.

01:46:51.563 --> 01:46:56.264
And it's just not reasonable to me that everything changed 4,000 years ago.

01:46:56.432 --> 01:47:01.962
By everything, I mean the species, the surface of the Earth, the stars in the sky,

01:47:02.464 --> 01:47:07.067
and the relationship of all the other living things on Earth to humans.

01:47:07.263 --> 01:47:10.300
It's just not reasonable to me that everything changed like that. (Snaps fingers.)

01:47:11.697 --> 01:47:15.598
And another thing I would very much appreciate you addressing:

01:47:15.699 --> 01:47:21.233
there are billions of people in the world who are deeply religious. And I respect that.

01:47:22.167 --> 01:47:27.698
People get tremendous community and comfort and nurture and support from their religious fellows

01:47:27.900 --> 01:47:31.633
in their communities, in their faiths, in their churches.

01:47:32.465 --> 01:47:34.965
And yet, they don't accept your point of view.

01:47:35.832 --> 01:47:42.262
There are Christians who don't accept that the Earth could somehow be this extraordinary young age

01:47:42.732 --> 01:47:48.565
because of all the evidence around them. And so, what is to become of them, in your view?

01:47:48.930 --> 01:47:56.232
And by the way, this thing started, as I understand it, Ken Ham's creation model is based on the Old Testament.

01:47:56.832 --> 01:48:01.528
So when you bring in, I'm not a theologian, when you bring in the New Testament,

01:48:01.697 --> 01:48:08.597
isn't that little, uh, out of the box? I'm looking for explanations of the creation of the world

01:48:08.999 --> 01:48:17.166
as we know it, uh, based on what I'm gonna call science. Not historical science, not observational science.

01:48:17.166 --> 01:48:22.966
Science: things that each of us can do akin to what we do, we're trying to outguess the characters

01:48:23.363 --> 01:48:30.400
on murder mystery shows, on crime scene investigation, especially.

01:48:30.933 --> 01:48:35.200
What is to become of all those people, who don't see it your way?

01:48:35.702 --> 01:48:41.697
For us, in the scientific community, I remind you, that when we find an idea that's not tenable,

01:48:42.032 --> 01:48:49.658
that doesn't work, that doesn't fly, doesn't hold water, whatever idiom you'd like to embrace, we throw it away.

01:48:49.658 --> 01:48:54.896
We are delighted. That's why I say, if you can find a fossil that has swum between the layers, bring it on!

01:48:55.364 --> 01:49:00.364
You would change the world. If you could show that somehow the microwave background radiation

01:49:00.709 --> 01:49:06.200
is not a result of the Big Bang, come on! Write your paper. Tear it up!

01:49:06.661 --> 01:49:14.163
So, your view, that we're supposed to take your word for this book written centuries ago,

01:49:14.468 --> 01:49:20.798
translated into American English, is somehow more important that what I can see with my own eyes,

01:49:21.030 --> 01:49:27.464
is an extraordinary claim. And, for those watching online, especially, I want to remind you

01:49:27.600 --> 01:49:31.252
that we need scientists, and especially engineers for the future.

01:49:31.900 --> 01:49:36.733
Engineers use science to solve problems and make things. We need these people

01:49:36.897 --> 01:49:40.632
so that the United States can continue to innovate and continue to be a world leader.

01:49:41.267 --> 01:49:45.534
We need innovation, and that needs science education. Thank you.

01:49:46.100 --> 01:49:51.265
Moderator: All right. Thank you both. Uh, now we're going to get to the things moving a little bit faster.

01:49:51.432 --> 01:49:55.263
I think they might be quite interesting here. It's 40 to 45 minutes, maybe a little bit more, actually.

01:49:55.531 --> 01:50:00.330
We'll have a little more. For questions and answers submitted by our audience here in the Creation Museum.

01:50:00.500 --> 01:50:04.993
Beforehand, we handed out these cards to everyone. I shuffled them here in the back,

01:50:04.993 --> 01:50:07.732
and in fact, I dropped a lot of them, and then I scooped them up again.

01:50:07.967 --> 01:50:13.864
And if you saw me sorting through them here, it was to get a pile for Mr. Nye and a pile for Mr. Ham,

01:50:14.200 --> 01:50:18.866
so that we can alternate reasonably between them. Other than that, the only reason I will skip over one

01:50:19.066 --> 01:50:23.631
is if I can't read it, or if it's a question that I don't know how to read because it doesn't seem to make any sense,

01:50:23.833 --> 01:50:27.333
which sometimes happens just because of the way people write. (Audience laughs.)

01:50:27.497 --> 01:50:31.493
What's going to happen is we're gonna go back and forth between Mr. Nye and Mr. Ham.

01:50:31.704 --> 01:50:36.600
Each debater will have two minutes to answer the question addressed to him,

01:50:36.729 --> 01:50:41.895
and then the other will have one minute to also answer the question, even though it was addressed to the other man.

01:50:41.981 --> 01:50:44.725
And I did pull one card aside here, because I noticed it was to both men.

01:50:44.725 --> 01:50:49.567
So we may be able to get to that at some point. Mr. Ham, you've been up first, if you'll hop up first this time.

01:50:49.634 --> 01:50:52.733
And Mr. Nye, you can stand by for your responses. Two minutes.

01:50:52.834 --> 01:51:00.297
How does creationism account for the celestial bodies: planets, stars, moons moving further and further apart?

01:51:00.399 --> 01:51:03.632
And what function does that serve in the grand design?

01:51:04.265 --> 01:51:09.966
Ken Ham: Well, when it comes to looking at the universe, of course, we believe, that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

01:51:10.164 --> 01:51:15.235
And I believe our creationist astronomers would say, "Yeah, you can observe the universe expanding."

01:51:15.700 --> 01:51:20.430
Why God is doing that? In fact, in Bible it even says He stretches out the heavens.

01:51:20.996 --> 01:51:24.630
And seems to indicate that there is an expansion of the universe.

01:51:25.030 --> 01:51:30.801
And so, we would say, yeah, you can observe that. That fits with what we call observational science.

01:51:30.965 --> 01:51:34.833
Exactly why God did it that way? I can't answer that question, of course,

01:51:35.097 --> 01:51:40.143
because, you know, the Bible says that God made the heavens for his glory.

01:51:40.397 --> 01:51:47.302
And that's why he made the stars that we see out there. And it's to tell us how great He is and how big He is.

01:51:47.467 --> 01:51:53.453
And in fact, I think that's the thing about the universe. The universe is so large, so big out there.

01:51:53.453 --> 01:51:58.832
One of our planetarium programs looks at this. We go in and show you how large the universe is.

01:51:58.965 --> 01:52:05.365
And I think it shows us how great God is, how big He is, that He's an all-powerful God,

01:52:05.365 --> 01:52:11.931
He's an infinite God, an infinite, all-knowing God who created the universe to show us his power.

01:52:12.021 --> 01:52:16.031
I mean, can you imagine that, and the thing that's really remarkable in the Bible.

01:52:16.102 --> 01:52:21.332
For instance, it says on the fourth day of creation, and oh, he made the stars also.

01:52:21.427 --> 01:52:26.864
It's almost like, "Oh, by the way, I made the stars." Um, and just to show us He's an all-powerful God.

01:52:26.938 --> 01:52:31.398
He's an infinite God. So, "I made the stars." And he made them to show us how great He is.

01:52:31.500 --> 01:52:35.566
And He is. He's an infinite creator God. And the more that you understand what that means,

01:52:35.671 --> 01:52:41.304
that God is all-powerful, infinite, you stand back in awe. You realize how small we are.

01:52:41.371 --> 01:52:48.200
You realize, wow, that God would consider this planet, is so significant that he created human beings here,

01:52:48.238 --> 01:52:52.899
knowing they would sin, and yet stepped into history to die for us and be raised from the dead.

01:52:53.023 --> 01:52:57.400
Our verse, the free gift of salvation. Wow! What a God!

01:52:57.464 --> 01:53:00.699
And that's what I would say when I see the universe as it is.

01:53:00.768 --> 01:53:04.028
Moderator: Mr. Nye, one minute. And your response?

01:53:04.100 --> 01:53:10.865
Bill Nye: There's a question that troubles us all from the time when we are absolutely youngest and first able to think.

01:53:10.865 --> 01:53:15.033
And that is, where did we come from? Where did I come from?

01:53:15.033 --> 01:53:21.098
And this question is so compelling that we've invented the science of astronomy.

01:53:21.180 --> 01:53:24.598
We've invented life science. We've invented physics.

01:53:24.731 --> 01:53:31.066
We've discovered these natural laws so that we can learn more about our origin and where we came from.

01:53:31.182 --> 01:53:38.267
To you, when it says, He invented the stars also, that's satisfying. You're done.

01:53:38.631 --> 01:53:43.477
Oh, good. Okay. To me, when I look at the night sky, I want to know what's out there.

01:53:43.477 --> 01:53:49.598
I'm driven. I want to know if what's out there is any part of me, and indeed, it is.

01:53:50.737 --> 01:53:55.180
The "oh, by the way" I find compelling you are satisfied.

01:53:55.180 --> 01:54:00.401
And the big thing I want from you, Mr. Ham, is can you come up with something that you can predict?

01:54:00.451 --> 01:54:04.863
Do you have a creation model that predicts something that will happen in nature?

01:54:04.863 --> 01:54:08.063
Moderator: And that's time. Mr. Nye, the next question is for you.

01:54:08.143 --> 01:54:11.566
How did the atoms that created the Big Bang get there?

01:54:11.601 --> 01:54:20.232
Bill Nye: This is the great mystery. You've hit the nail on the head. No, this is so, where did, what was before the Big Bang?

01:54:20.335 --> 01:54:25.767
This is what drives us. This is what we want to know. Let's keep looking. Let's keep searching.

01:54:25.767 --> 01:54:31.699
Uh, when I was young, it was presumed that the universe was slowing down.

01:54:31.699 --> 01:54:37.431
It's a big bang, phrooo! Except it's in outer space, there's no air, so (quietly) it goes out like that.

01:54:37.431 --> 01:54:44.786
And so people presumed that it would slow down, that the universe, the gravity, especially,

01:54:44.786 --> 01:54:48.814
would hold everything together and maybe it's going to come back and explode again.

01:54:48.814 --> 01:54:52.400
And people went out. And the mathematical expression is: is the universe flat?

01:54:52.449 --> 01:54:58.431
It's a mathematical expression. Will the universe slow down, slow down, slow down asymptotically without ever stopping?

01:54:58.431 --> 01:55:06.465
Well, in 2004, Saul Perlmutter and his colleagues went looking for the rate at which the universe was slowing down.

01:55:07.844 --> 01:55:11.965
Let's go out and measure it. And we're doing it with this extraordinary system of telescopes around the world,

01:55:12.062 --> 01:55:19.235
looking at the night sky, looking for supernovae. These are a standard brightness that you can infer distances with.

01:55:19.313 --> 01:55:25.400
And the universe isn't slowing down. It's accelerating! The universe is accelerating in its expansion.

01:55:25.400 --> 01:55:31.166
And do you know why? Nobody knows why! (audience laughs) Nobody knows why.

01:55:31.214 --> 01:55:37.962
And you'll hear the expression nowadays, dark energy, dark matter, which are mathematical ideas that seem

01:55:37.962 --> 01:55:45.235
to reckon well with what seems to be the gravitational attraction of clusters of stars, galaxies, and their expansion.

01:55:45.335 --> 01:55:52.196
And then, isn't it reasonable that whatever's out there, causing the universe to expand, is here also?

01:55:52.281 --> 01:55:55.030
And we just haven't figured out how to detect it.

01:55:55.102 --> 01:56:01.396
My friends, suppose a science student from the commonwealth of Kentucky pursues a career in science

01:56:01.396 --> 01:56:08.860
and finds out the answer to that deep question? Where did we come from? What was before the Big Bang?

01:56:08.860 --> 01:56:14.096
To us, this is wonderful and charming and compelling. This is what makes us get up and go to work everyday,

01:56:14.147 --> 01:56:16.334
is to try to solve the mysteries of the universe.

01:56:16.334 --> 01:56:18.933
Moderator: And that's time. Mr. Ham, a response?

01:56:19.013 --> 01:56:22.463
Ken Ham: Uh, Bill, I just want to let you know that there actually is

01:56:22.476 --> 01:56:27.831
a book out there that actually tells us where matter came from. (Audience laughs.)

01:56:27.831 --> 01:56:33.531
And, the very first sentence in that book says, "In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

01:56:33.649 --> 01:56:39.199
And really, that's the only thing that makes sense. That's the only thing that makes sense of why, not just matter is here,

01:56:39.246 --> 01:56:49.002
where it came from, but why matter, when you look at it, we have information and language systems that build life.

01:56:49.033 --> 01:56:53.833
We're not just matter. And where did that come from? Because matter can never produce information.

01:56:53.901 --> 01:56:57.761
Matter can never produce a language system. Languages only come from intelligence.

01:56:57.842 --> 01:57:03.768
Information only comes from information. The Bible tells us that the things we see, like in the book of Hebrews,

01:57:03.768 --> 01:57:09.733
are made from things that are unseen. An infinite creator God who created the universe,

01:57:09.733 --> 01:57:14.596
created matter, the energy, space, mass, time universe, and created the information for life.

01:57:14.642 --> 01:57:16.933
It's the only thing that makes logical sense.

01:57:16.984 --> 01:57:21.123
Moderator: Alright, Mr. Ham, a new question here. The overwhelming majority of people in the

01:57:21.123 --> 01:57:25.657
scientific community have presented valid, physical evidence, such as carbon dating and fossils,

01:57:25.657 --> 01:57:32.965
to support evolutionary theory. What evidence besides the literal word of the Bible supports creationism?

01:57:33.050 --> 01:57:37.199
Ken Ham: Well, first of all, you know, I often hear people talking about "the majority".

01:57:37.199 --> 01:57:41.967
I would agree that the majority of scientists would believe

01:57:41.967 --> 01:57:45.215
in millions of years and the majority would believe in evolution,

01:57:45.215 --> 01:57:48.533
but there's a large group out there that certainly don't.

01:57:48.666 --> 01:57:56.934
But, first thing I want to say is, it's not the majority that's the judge of truth.

01:57:57.003 --> 01:58:01.032
There have been many times in the past when the majority have got it wrong.

01:58:01.126 --> 01:58:04.497
The majority of doctors in England once thought after you cut up bodies,

01:58:04.497 --> 01:58:06.005
you could go and deliver babies and wondered why

01:58:06.005 --> 01:58:08.063
the death rate was high in hospitals,

01:58:08.063 --> 01:58:13.300
till they found out about diseases caused by bacteria and so on.

01:58:13.362 --> 01:58:17.651
The majority once thought the appendix was a leftover organ

01:58:17.651 --> 01:58:20.531
from evolutionary ancestry, so, you know, when it's okay,

01:58:20.531 --> 01:58:23.731
rip it out. When it's diseased, rip it out. Rip it out anyway.

01:58:23.781 --> 01:58:28.268
But these days we know that it's for the immune system

01:58:28.355 --> 01:58:29.733
and it's very, very important.

01:58:29.733 --> 01:58:33.633
So, you know, it's important to understand that just because

01:58:33.650 --> 01:58:36.630
the majority believe something doesn't mean that it's true.

01:58:36.710 --> 01:58:40.162
And then, I'm sorry, I missed the last part of the question there.

01:58:40.199 --> 01:58:43.766
Moderator: What was the--let me make sure I have the right question here--

01:58:43.814 --> 01:58:47.329
So what evidence besides the literal word of the bible--

01:58:47.405 --> 01:58:50.872
Ken Ham: Okay, one of the things I was doing was making predictions.

01:58:50.872 --> 01:58:53.166
I made some predictions. There's a whole list of predictions.

01:58:53.166 --> 01:58:56.536
And I was saying, if the Bible's right and we're all descendants

01:58:56.536 --> 01:58:59.652
of Adam and Eve, there's one race. And I went through and talked about that.

01:58:59.652 --> 01:59:02.386
If the Bible's right and God made kinds, I went through

01:59:02.386 --> 01:59:06.492
and talked about that. And, so, really that question comes down

01:59:06.492 --> 01:59:09.483
to the fact that we're again dealing with the fact that there's aspects

01:59:09.483 --> 01:59:12.197
about the past that you can't scientifically prove because

01:59:12.201 --> 01:59:14.695
you weren't there, but observational science in the present.

01:59:14.695 --> 01:59:18.230
Bill and I all have the same observational science. We're here in the present.

01:59:18.230 --> 01:59:21.765
We can see radioactivity, but when it comes to then talking about the past,

01:59:21.765 --> 01:59:24.067
you're not going to be scientifically able to prove that.

01:59:24.067 --> 01:59:28.127
And that's what we need to admit. We can be great scientists in the present,

01:59:28.127 --> 01:59:32.700
as the examples I gave you of Dr. Damadian or Dr. Stuart Burgess

01:59:32.700 --> 01:59:36.193
or Dr. Fabich and we can be investigating the present.

01:59:36.193 --> 01:59:38.855
Understanding the past is a whole different matter.

01:59:39.225 --> 01:59:40.698
Moderator: Mr. Nye, one minute response.

01:59:40.698 --> 01:59:45.700
Thank you, Mr. Ham. I have to disabuse you of a fundamental idea.

01:59:46.682 --> 01:59:51.390
If a scientist, if anybody, makes a discovery that changes

01:59:51.390 --> 01:59:56.374
the way people view natural law, scientists embrace him or her!

01:59:56.374 --> 02:00:00.823
This person's fantastic. Louis Pasteur--you made reference to germs.

02:00:00.823 --> 02:00:06.832
Now, if you find something that changes, that disagrees with common thought,

02:00:06.832 --> 02:00:08.900
that's the greatest thing going in science.

02:00:08.900 --> 02:00:11.982
We look forward to that change. We challenge you--

02:00:11.982 --> 02:00:14.957
tell us why the universe is accelerating.

02:00:14.957 --> 02:00:18.243
Tell us why these mothers were getting sick.

02:00:18.243 --> 02:00:24.114
And we found an explanation for it. And the idea that the majority

02:00:24.114 --> 02:00:28.274
has sway in science is true only up a point.

02:00:28.274 --> 02:00:30.511
And then, the other thing I just want to point out, what you may

02:00:30.511 --> 02:00:34.316
have missed in evolutionary explanations of life

02:00:34.316 --> 02:00:38.032
is it's the mechanism by which we add complexity.

02:00:38.040 --> 02:00:41.165
The earth is getting energy from the sun all the time.

02:00:41.165 --> 02:00:44.780
And that energy is used to make lifeforms somewhat more complex.

02:00:44.780 --> 02:00:46.127
Moderator: And that's time.

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New question for you, Mr. Nye.

02:00:48.081 --> 02:00:51.011
How did consciousness come from matter?

02:00:51.300 --> 02:00:55.300
Bill Nye: Don't know. This is a great mystery.

02:00:55.426 --> 02:01:02.565
A dear friend of mine is a neurologist. She studies the nature of consciousness.

02:01:02.661 --> 02:01:09.366
Now I will say I used to embrace a joke about dogs.

02:01:09.480 --> 02:01:11.600
I love dogs. I mean, who doesn't?

02:01:11.603 --> 02:01:15.117
And you can say, this guy remarked,

02:01:15.117 --> 02:01:20.371
"I've never seen a dog paralyzed by self-doubt." Actually, I have.

02:01:20.371 --> 02:01:27.527
Furthermore, the thing that we celebrate, there are three sundials

02:01:27.527 --> 02:01:30.450
on the planet Mars that bare an inscription to the future:

02:01:30.450 --> 02:01:34.925
"To those who visit here, we wish you a safe journey and the joy of discovery."

02:01:34.925 --> 02:01:38.300
It's inherently optimistic about the future of humankind,

02:01:38.300 --> 02:01:41.807
that we will one day walk on Mars. But the joy of discovery...

02:01:41.807 --> 02:01:46.392
that's what drives us. The joy of finding out what's going on.

02:01:46.392 --> 02:01:50.030
So we don't know where consciousness comes from. But we want to find out.

02:01:50.030 --> 02:01:54.431
Furthermore, I'll tell you it's deep within us. I claim that I

02:01:54.431 --> 02:01:58.433
have spent time with dogs that have had the joy of discovery!

02:01:58.433 --> 02:02:03.022
It's way inside us! We have one ancestor, as near as we can figure.

02:02:03.022 --> 02:02:07.994
And, by the way, if you can find what we in science call "a second genesis",

02:02:07.994 --> 02:02:11.654
this is to say, "Did life start another way on the earth?"

02:02:11.654 --> 02:02:15.266
There are researchers at Astrobiology Institute,

02:02:15.266 --> 02:02:17.174
researchers supported by NASA, your tax dollars,

02:02:17.174 --> 02:02:19.707
that are looking for answers to that very question.

02:02:19.707 --> 02:02:21.536
Is it possible that life could start another way?

02:02:22.359 --> 02:02:25.878
Is there some sort of life form akin to science fiction

02:02:25.878 --> 02:02:29.603
that's crystal instead of membranous. This would be a fantastic

02:02:29.613 --> 02:02:32.320
discovery that would change the world!

02:02:32.320 --> 02:02:34.951
The nature of consciousness is a mystery.

02:02:34.951 --> 02:02:39.727
I challenge the young people here to investigate that very question.

02:02:39.729 --> 02:02:43.655
And I remind you--taxpayers and voters that might be watching--

02:02:43.655 --> 02:02:46.991
if we do not embrace the process of science,

02:02:46.991 --> 02:02:50.375
and I mean in the mainstream, we will fall behind economically.

02:02:50.375 --> 02:02:52.366
This is a point I can't say enough.

02:02:52.484 --> 02:02:54.565
Moderator: Mr. Ham, a one minute response.

02:02:54.766 --> 02:03:00.769
Ken Ham: Bill, I do want to say that there is a book out there... (audience laughs)

02:03:00.769 --> 02:03:03.676
that does document where consciousness came from.

02:03:03.676 --> 02:03:09.297
And in that book, the one who created us said that he made man in His image,

02:03:09.297 --> 02:03:12.792
and He breathed into man, and he became a living being.

02:03:12.792 --> 02:03:18.443
And so, the Bible does document that. That's where consciousness came from,

02:03:18.443 --> 02:03:21.578
that God gave it to us. And, you know, the other thing I want to say is,

02:03:21.578 --> 02:03:27.596
I'm sorta of a little, I have a mystery. That is, you talk about the joy of discovery

02:03:27.596 --> 02:03:31.567
but you also say that when you die, it's over, and that's the end of you.

02:03:31.567 --> 02:03:37.169
And if when you die, it's over, and you don't even remember you were here, what's the point of the joy of discovery anyway?

02:03:37.169 --> 02:03:42.591
I mean, in an ultimate sense? I mean, you know, you won't ever know you were ever here,

02:03:42.591 --> 02:03:47.191
and no one who knew you will know they were ever here, ultimately, so what's the point anyway?

02:03:47.191 --> 02:03:52.100
I love the joy of discovery because this is God's creation,

02:03:52.100 --> 02:03:58.306
and I'm finding more out about that to take dominion for man's good and for God's glory.

02:03:58.306 --> 02:04:00.296
Moderator: And that's time. Mr. Ham, a new question.

02:04:00.367 --> 02:04:06.299
This is a simple question, I suppose, but one that actually is fairly profound for all of us, in our lives.

02:04:06.374 --> 02:04:10.674
What, if anything, would ever change your mind?

02:04:11.256 --> 02:04:18.995
Ken Ham: Hmm. Well, the answer to that question is,

02:04:19.892 --> 02:04:26.465
I'm a Christian, and as a Christian, I can't prove it to you,

02:04:26.925 --> 02:04:32.781
but God has definitely, shown me very clearly

02:04:32.781 --> 02:04:39.351
through His Word, and shown Himself in the person of Jesus Christ.

02:04:39.731 --> 02:04:43.501
The Bible is the Word of God. I admit that that's where I start from.

02:04:43.914 --> 02:04:46.834
I can challenge people that you can go and test that.

02:04:47.145 --> 02:04:51.155
You can make predictions based on that. You can check the prophecies in the Bible.

02:04:51.155 --> 02:04:55.303
You can check the statements in Genesis. You can check that.

02:04:55.303 --> 02:05:00.130
I did a little bit of that tonight. And I can't ultimately prove that to you.

02:05:00.130 --> 02:05:05.331
All I can do is to say to someone, "Look, if the Bible really is what it claims to be,

02:05:05.333 --> 02:05:09.632
if it really is the Word of God, and that's what it claims, then check it out."

02:05:09.632 --> 02:05:13.498
And the Bible says, "If you come to God believing that He is, He'll reveal Himself to you."

02:05:13.498 --> 02:05:17.192
And you will know. As Christians, we can say we know.

02:05:17.192 --> 02:05:23.102
And so, as far as the Word of God is concerned, no, no one's ever going to convince me

02:05:23.102 --> 02:05:29.564
that the Word of God is not true. But I do want to make a distinction here.

02:05:29.564 --> 02:05:33.080
And for Bill's sake. We build models based upon the Bible.

02:05:33.080 --> 02:05:35.091
And those models are always subject to change.

02:05:35.091 --> 02:05:38.046
The fact of Noah's flood is not subject to change.

02:05:38.046 --> 02:05:41.192
The model of how the flood occurred is subject to change

02:05:41.192 --> 02:05:45.193
because we observe in the current world,

02:05:45.193 --> 02:05:50.206
and we're able to come up with different ways this could have happened or that could have happened.

02:05:50.206 --> 02:05:53.900
And that's part of that scientific discovery. That's part of what it's all about.

02:05:54.489 --> 02:06:00.006
So, the bottom line is that as a Christian, I have a foundation.

02:06:00.006 --> 02:06:04.400
That as a Christian, I would ask Bill a question. What would change your mind?

02:06:04.400 --> 02:06:09.054
I mean, you said, even if you came to faith, you'd never give up believing in billions of years.

02:06:09.054 --> 02:06:13.301
I think I quoted you correctly. You said something like that recently.

02:06:13.301 --> 02:06:15.865
So that would be also my question to Bill.

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Moderator: Time. Mr. Nye?

02:06:18.032 --> 02:06:20.365
Bill Nye: We would just need one piece of evidence.

02:06:20.507 --> 02:06:23.766
We would need the fossil that swam from one layer to another.

02:06:23.934 --> 02:06:26.165
We would need evidence that the universe is not expanding.

02:06:26.334 --> 02:06:30.188
We would need evidence that the stars appear to be far away, but in fact, they're not.

02:06:30.188 --> 02:06:34.827
We would need evidence that rock layers can somehow form

02:06:34.827 --> 02:06:37.953
in just 4,000 years instead of the extraordinary amount.

02:06:37.953 --> 02:06:43.496
We would need evidence that somehow you can reset atomic clocks and keep neutrons from becoming protons.

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You bring on any of those things and you would change me immediately.

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The question I have for you though, fundamentally,

02:06:51.598 --> 02:06:55.833
and for everybody watching. Mr. Ham, what can you prove?

02:06:56.465 --> 02:07:00.367
What you have done tonight is spent most of the, all of the time

02:07:00.666 --> 02:07:05.857
coming up with explanations about the past. What can you really predict?

02:07:05.857 --> 02:07:09.913
What can you really prove in a conventional scientific,

02:07:09.913 --> 02:07:15.131
or a conventional, "I have an idea that makes a prediction and it comes out the way I see it?"

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This is very troubling to me.

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Moderator: Mr. Nye, a new question. Outside of radiometric methods,

02:07:22.897 --> 02:07:26.866
what scientific evidence supports your view of the age of the Earth?

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Bill Nye: The age of the earth.. Well, the age of stars.

02:07:32.062 --> 02:07:37.164
The... let's see... radiometric evidence is pretty compelling.

02:07:37.533 --> 02:07:45.969
Also, the deposition rates. It was, it was, Lillel, a geologist,

02:07:46.264 --> 02:07:52.347
who realized, my recollection, he came up with the first use of the term "deep time,"

02:07:52.347 --> 02:07:57.184
when people realized that the Earth had to be much, much older.

02:07:57.184 --> 02:08:05.621
In a related story, there was a mystery as to how the Earth could be old enough to allow evolution to have taken place.

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How could the Earth possibly be three billion years old?

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Lord Kelvin did a calculation, if the sun were made of coal, and burning,

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it couldn't be more than 100,000 or so years old.

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But radioactivity was discovered. Radioactivity is why the Earth is still as warm as it is.

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It's why the Earth has been able to sustain its internal heat all these millenia.

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And this discovery, it's something like, this question, without radiometric dating,

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how would you view the age of the Earth,

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to me, it's akin to the expression, "Well, if things were any other way, things would be different."

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This is to say, that's not how the world is. Radiometric dating DOES exist. Neutrons DO become protons.

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And that's our level of understanding today. The universe is accelerating.

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These are all provable facts. That there was a flood 4.000 years ago, is not provable.

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In fact, the evidence for me, at least, as a reasonable man, is overwhelming that it couldn't possibly have happened.

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There's no evidence for it. Furthermore, Mr. Ham, you never quite addressed this issue of the skulls.

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There are many, many steps in what appears to be the creation, or the coming into being of you and me.

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And those steps, are consistent with evolutionary theory.

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Moderator: And that is time. Mr. Ham, your response.

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Ken Ham: By the way, I just want people to understand, too,

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in regard to the age of the Earth being about four and a half billion years,

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no Earth rock was dated to get that date. They dated meteorites,

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and because they assumed meteorites were the same age as the Earth,

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leftover from the formation of the solar system, that's where that comes from.

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People think they dated rocks on the Earth to get the four and a half billion years. That's just not true.

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And the other point that I was making, and I just put this slide back up,

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cause I happened to just have it here. And that is,

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I said at the end of my first rebuttal time, that there are hundreds of physical processes

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that set limits on the age of the Earth. Here's the point.

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Every dating method involves a change with time. And there are hundreds of them.

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And, if you assume what was there to start with, and you assume something about the rate,

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and you know about the rate, you make lots of those assumptions. Every dating method has those assumptions.

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Most of the dating methods, 90% of them, contradict the billions of years.

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There's no absolute age dating method from scientific method because you can't prove scientifically, young or old.

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Moderator: And, here is a new question.

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It starts with you, Mr. Ham. Can you reconcile the change in the rate continents are now drifting,

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versus how quickly they must have traveled at creation, 6,000 years ago?

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Ken Ham: Uh, the rate. Sorry I missed that word.

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Moderator: Can you reconcile the speed at which continents are now drifting, today, to the rate

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they would have had to have travelled 6,000 years ago, to reach where we are now? I think that's the question.

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Ken Ham: Okay, I think I understand the question. Um, actually, this again,

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illustrates exactly what I'm talking about in regard to historical science and observational science.

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We can look at continents today. And we have scientists who have written papers about this on our website.

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I am definitely not an expert in this area and don't claim to be.

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Uh, but there are scientists, even Dr. Andrew Snelling, our Ph.D. geologist,

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has done a lot of research here, too, as well. There are others out there into plate tectonics and continental drift.

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And certainly, we can see movements of plates today. And if you look at those movements,

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and if you assume the way it's moving today, the rate it's moving, that it's always been that way in the past,

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see that's an assumption. That's the problem when it comes to understanding these things.

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You can observe movement, but then to assume that it's always been like that in the past,

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that's historical science. And in fact, we would believe basically in catastrophic plate tectonics,

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that as a result of the flood, at the time of the flood, there was catastrophic breakup of the Earth's surface.

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And what we're seeing now is sort of, if you like, a remnant of that movement.

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And so, we do not deny the movement. We do not deny the plates.

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What we would deny is that you can use what you see today as a basis for just extrapolating into the past.

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It's the same with the flood. You can say layers today only get laid down slowly in places,

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but if there was a global flood, that would have changed all of that.

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Again, it's this emphasis on historical science and observational science.

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And I would encourage people to go to our website at Answers in Genesis

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because we do have a number of papers, in fact, very technical papers.

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Dr. John Baumgardner is one who's written some very extensive work dealing with this very issue.

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On the basis of the Bible, of course, we believe there's one continent to start with,

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cause the waters were gathered here there into one place. So we do believe that the continent has split up.

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But particularly, the flood had a lot to do with that.

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Moderator: And time on that. Mr. Nye, a response.

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Bill Nye: It must have been easier for you to explain this a century ago

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before the existence of tectonic plates was proven.

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If you go into a clock store and there's a bunch of clocks, they're not all gonna say exactly the same thing.

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Do you think that they're all wrong?

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The reason that we acknowledge the rate at which continents are drifting apart,

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one of the reasons, is we see what's called sea floor spreading in the Mid-Atlantic.

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The earth's magnetic field has reversed over the millennia

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and as it does it leaves a signature in the rocks

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as the continental plates drift apart.

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So you can measure how fast the continents were spreading.

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That's how we do it on the outside.

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As I said, I lived in Washington state when Mount St. Helen's exploded.

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That's a result of a continental plate going under another continental plate

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and cracking. And this water-laden rock led to a steam explosion.

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That's how we do it on the outside.

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Moderator: Time. And this is a question for you Mr. Nye. But I guess I could put it to both of you.

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One word answer, please. Favorite color? (laughter)

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Mr. Nye: I will go along with most people and say green. And it's an irony that green plants reflect green light.

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Moderator: Did I not say one word answer? (laughter) I said one word answer.

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Mr. Nye: Most of the light from the sun is green. Yet they reflect it. It's a mystery.

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Mr. Hamm: Well, can I have three words seeing as he had three hundred?

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Moderator: You can have three.

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Mr. Hamm: OK. Observational science. Blue. (laughter)

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Moderator: All right. We're back to you, Mr. Nye.

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How do you balance the theory of evolution with the second law of thermodynamics? And I'd like to add a question here.

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What is the second law of thermodynamics?

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Mr. Nye: Oh, the second law of thermodynamics is fantastic. And I call the words of Eddington who said,

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"If you have a theory that disagrees with Isaac Newton, that's a great theory.

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If you have a theory that disagrees with relativity, wow, you've changed the world. That's great.

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But if your theory disagrees with the second law of thermodynamics, I can offer you no hope. I can't help you."

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The second law of thermodynamics basically is where you lose energy to heat.

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This is why car engines are about 30% efficient. That's it, thermodynamically. That's why you want the hottest explosion

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you can get in the coldest outside environment. You have to have a difference between hot and cold.

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And that difference can be assessed scientifically or mathematically with this word entropy, this disorder of molecules.

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But the fundamental thing that this questioner has missed is the earth is not a closed system.

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So there's energy pouring in here from the sun. If I may, day and night. Ha, Ha.

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'Cause the night, it's pouring in on the other side.

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And so that energy is what drives living things on earth especially for, in our case, plants.

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By the way, if you're here in Kentucky, about a third and maybe a half of the oxygen you breathe is made in the ocean by phytoplankton.

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And they get their energy from the sun. So the second law of thermodynamics is a wonderful thing.

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It has allowed us to have every thing you see in this room because our power generation depends on the

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robust and extremely precise computation of how much energy is in burning fuel,

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whether it's nuclear fuel, or fossil fuel, or some extraordinary fuel to be discovered in the future.

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The second law of thermodynamics will govern any turbine that makes electricity

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that we all depend on; and allowed all these shapes to exist.

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Moderator: Any response, Mr. Hamm?

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Mr. Hamm: Let me just say two things if I can. If a minute goes that fast along.

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One is, you know what, here's a point we need to understand.

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You can have all the energy that you want, but energy or matter will never produce life.

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God imposed information, language system. And that's how we have life.

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Matter by itself could never produce life, no matter what energy you have.

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And, you know, even if you've got a dead stick, you can have all the energy in the world in that dead stick,

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it's going to decay, and it's not going to produce life.

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From a creationist perspective, we certainly agree. I mean, before man sinned, you know,

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there was digestion, and so on, but because of the Fall, now things are running down.

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God doesn't hold everything together as He did back then.

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So now we see, in regard to the second law of thermodynamics, we would say it's sort of,

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in a sense, a bit out-of-control now, compared to what it was originally, which is why we have a running-down universe.

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Moderator: And that's time. A new question for you, Mr. Ham.

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Hypothetically, if evidence existed that caused you to have to admit that the Earth was older than 10,000 years,

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and creation did not occur over six days, would you still believe in God and the historical Jesus of Nazareth

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and that Jesus was the Son of God?

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Ken Ham: Well, I've been emphasizing all night. You cannot ever prove using, you know,

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the scientific method in the present, you can't prove the age of the Earth.

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So you can never prove it's old. So there is no hypothetical. (Mr. Nye quietly chuckles.)

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Because you can't do that. Now, we can certainly use methods in the present and making assumptions,

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I mean, creationists use methods that change over time. As I said, there's hundreds of

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physical processes that you can use, but they set limits on the age of the universe,

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but you can't ultimately prove the age of the Earth, not using the scientific method.

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You can't ultimately prove the age of the universe.

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Now, you can look at methods, and you can see that there are many methods that contradict billions of years,

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many methods that seem to support thousands of years.

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As Dr. Faulkner said in the little video clip I showed, there is nothing in observational astronomy

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that contradicts a young universe. Now, I've said to you before, and I admit again,

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that the reason I believe in a young universe is because of the Bible's account of origins.

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I believe that God, who has always been there, the infinite creator God, revealed in His Word what He did for us.

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And, when we add up those dates, we get thousands of years.

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But there's nothing in observational science that contradicts that.

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As far as the age of the Earth, the age of the universe, even when it comes to the fossil record.

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That's why I really challenge Christians, if you're gonna believe in millions of years for the fossil record,

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you've got a problem with the Bible. And that is, then, that you've got to have death and disease and suffering before sin.

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So, there is no hypothetical in regard to that. You can't prove scientifically, the age of the Earth or the universe, bottom line.

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Moderator: Mr. Nye.

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Mr. Nye: Well, of course this is where we disagree.

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You can prove the age of the earth with great robustness by observing the universe around us.

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And I get the feeling, Mr. Hamm, that you want us to take your word for it.

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This is to say your interpretation of a book written thousands of years ago,

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as translated into American English, is more compelling for you than everything that I can observe in the world around me.

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This is where you and I, I think, are not going to see eye to eye.

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You said you asserted that life cannot come from something that's not alive. Are you sure?

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Are you sure enough to say that we should not continue to look for signs of water and life on Mars?

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That that's a waste. You're sure enough to claim that.

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That is an extraordinary claim that we want to investigate.

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Once again, what is it you can predict? What do you provide us that can tell us something about the future; not just about your vision of the past?

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Moderator: A new question, Mr. Nye.

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Is there room for God in science?

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Mr. Nye: Well, we remind us. There are billions of people around the world who are religious and who accept science

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and embrace it, and especially all the technology that it brings us.

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Is there anyone here who doesn't have a mobile phone that has a camera?

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Is there anyone here whose family members have not benefited from modern medicine?

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Is there anyone here who doesn't use e-mail? Is there anybody here who doesn't eat?

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Because we use information sent from satellites in space to plant seeds on our farms.

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That's how we're able to feed 7.1 billion people where we used to be barely able to feed a billion.

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So that's what I see. That's what we have used science for the process.

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Science for me is two things. It's the body of knowledge--the atomic number of rubidium.

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And it's the process--the means by which we make these discoveries.

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So for me that's not really that connected with your belief in a spiritual being or a higher power.

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If you reconcile those two. Scientists, the head of the National Institutes of Health is a devout Christian.

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There are billions of people in the world who are devoutly religious.

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They have to be compatible because those same people embrace science.

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The exception is you, Mr. Ham. That's the problem for me.

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You want us to take your word for what's written in this ancient text to be more compelling than what we see around us.

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The evidence for a higher power and spirituality is, for me, separate.

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I encourage you to take the next minute and address this problem of the fossils, this problem of the ice layers,

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this problem of the ancient trees, this problem of the ark. I mean really address it.

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And so then we could move forward. But right now, I see no incompatibility between religions and science.

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Moderator: That's time. Mr. Ham, response?

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Mr. Ham: Yeah, I actually want to take a minute to address the question.

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Let me just say this, my answer would be God is necessary for science.

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In fact, you know you talked about cell phones. Yeah, I have a cell phone. I love technology.

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We love technology here at Answers in Genesis. And, I have e-mail, probably had millions of them

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while I've been speaking up here. And, satellites and what you said about the information we get,

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I agree with all that. See, they're the things that can be done in the present.

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And that's just like I showed you. Dr. Stuart Burgess who invented that gear set for the satellite, creationists can be great scientists.

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But, see, I say God is necessary because you have to assume the laws of logic. You have to assume the laws of nature.

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You have to assume the uniformity in nature. And that is the question I had for you.

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Where does that come from if the universe is here by natural processes.

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And, Christianity and science, the Bible and science, go hand in hand.

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We love science. But again, you've got to understand. Inventing things, that's very different

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than talking about our origins. Two very different things.

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Moderator: Mr. Ham, a new question. Do you believe the entire Bible is to be taken literally?

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For example, should people who touch pigs' skin, I think it says here, be stoned?

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Can men marry multiple women?

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Mr. Ham: Do I believe the entire Bible should be taken literally? Remember in my opening address

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I said we have to define our terms. So, when people ask that question, say literally, I have to know

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what that person meant by literally. Now, I would say this.

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If you say "naturally" and that's what you mean by "literally", I would say, yes, I take the Bible "naturally".

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What do I mean by that? Well, if it's history, as Genesis is,

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it's written as typical historical narrative, you take it as history.

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If it's poetry, as we find in the Psalms, then you take it as poetry.

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It doesn't mean it doesn't teach truth, but it's not a cosmological account in the sense that Genesis is.

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There's prophecy in the Bible and there's literature in the Bible concerning future events and so on.

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So, if you take it as written, naturally, according to typal literature, and you let it speak to you

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in that way, that's how I take the Bible. It's God's revelation to man. He used different people.

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The Bible says that all scripture's inspired by God. So God moved people by his spirit

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to write his words. And, also, there's a lot of misunderstanding in regard to scripture

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and in regard to the Israelites. I mean we have laws in our civil government here in America

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that the government sets. Well there were certain laws for Israel. And, you know, some people

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take all that out of context. And then they try to impose it on us today as Christians

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and say, you should be obeying those laws. It's a misunderstanding of the Old Testament.

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It's a misunderstanding of the New Testament.

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And, you know, again, it's important to take the Bible as a whole. Interpreting scripture as scripture.

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If it really is the word of God, there's not going to be any contradiction. Which there's not.

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And by the way, when men were married to multiple women, there were lots of problems.

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(Laughter) ...and the Bible condemns that for what it is, and the Bible is very clear.

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You know the Bible is a real book. There were people who did things that were not in accord with scripture,

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and it records this for us. It helps you understand it's a real book. But marriage was one man for

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one woman. Jesus reiterated that in Matthew 19, as I had in my talk.

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And so those that did marry multiple women were wrong.

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Moderator: Time there. Mr. Nye, a response?

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Mr. Nye: So it sounds to me, just listening to you over the last two minutes,

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that there's certain parts of this document of the Bible that you embrace literally

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and other parts you consider poetry. So it sounds to me, in those last two minutes,

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like you're going to take what you like, interpret literally, and other passages you're gonna interpret as poetic or descriptions of human events.

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All that aside, I'll just say scientifically, or as a reasonable man, it doesn't seem possible that

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all these things that contradict your literal interpretation of those first few passages,

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all those things that contradict that, I find unsettling, when you want me to embrace the rest of it

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as literal. Now, I, as I say, am not a theologian. But we started this debate,

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Is Ken Ham's creation model viable? Does it hold water? Can it fly? Does it describe anything?

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And I'm still looking for an answer.

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Moderator: And time on that. Mr. Nye, here's a new question.

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I believe this was miswritten here because they've repeated a word. But I think I know what they were

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trying to ask. Have you ever believed that evolution was accomplished through way of a higher power?

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I think that's what they're trying to ask here. This is the intelligent design question, I think.

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If so, why or why not? Why could not the evolutionary process be accomplished in this way?

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Mr. Nye: I think you may have changed the question just a little but, no, it's all good.

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Moderator: The word for word question is, have you ever believed that evolution partook through way of evolution?

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(talking at the same time) Mr. Nye: Let me introduce these ideas for Mr. Ham to comment.

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The idea that there's a higher power that has driven the course of the events in the universe

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and our own existence, is one that you can not prove or disprove. And this gets into this expression, "agnostic."

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You can't know. I'll grant you that.

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When it comes to intelligent design, which is, if I understand your interpretation of the question,

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intelligent design has a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of nature.

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This is to say, the old expression is if you were to find a watch in the field,

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and you pick it up, you would realize that it was created by somebody who was thinking ahead,

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somebody with an organization chart, somebody at the top. And you'd order screws from screw manufacturers

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and springs from spring manufacturers and glass crystals from crystal manufacturers.

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But that's not how nature works.

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This is the fundamental insight in the explanation for living things that is provided by evolution.

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Evolution is a process that adds complexity through natural selection, this is to say,

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nature has its mediocre designs eaten by its good designs.

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And so, the perception that there is a designer that created all this, is not necessarily true,

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because we have an explanation that is far more compelling and provides predictions, and things are repeatable.

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I'm sure, Mr. Ham here, at the facility, you have an organization chart.

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I imagine you're at the top, and it's a top-down structure.

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Nature is not that way. Nature is bottom-up.

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This is the discovery. Things merge up. Whatever makes it, keeps going. Whatever doesn't make it, falls away.

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And this is compelling and wonderful and fills me with joy and is inconsistent with a top-down view.

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Moderator: And that's time. Mr. Ham.

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Ken Ham: What Bill Nye needs to do for me is to show me an example of something, some new function

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that arose that was not previously possible from the genetic information that was there.

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And I would claim, and challenge you, that there is no such example that you can give.

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That's why I brought up the example in my presentation of Lensky's experiments in regard to e coli.

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And there were some that seemed to develop the ability to exist on citrate,

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but as Dr. Fabich said, from looking at his research,

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he's found that that information was already there.

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It's just a gene that switched on and off. And so, there is no example, because information that's there,

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and the genetic information of different animals, plants and so on, there's no new function that can be added.

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Certainly, great variation within a kind, and that's what we look at.

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But you'd have to show an example of brand-new function that never previously was possible.

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There is no such example that you can give anywhere in the world.

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Moderator: Uh, fresh question here. Mr. Ham, name one institution, business, or organization,

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other than a church, amusement park, or the Creation Museum

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that is using any aspect of creationism to produce its product.

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Ken Ham: Any scientist out there, Christian or non-Christian, that is involved in

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inventing things, involved in scientific method, is using creation.

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They are, because they are borrowing from a Christian worldview.

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They are using the laws of logic. I keep emphasizing that.

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I want Bill to tell me, in a view of the universe, as a result of natural processes,

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explain where the laws of logic came from. Why should we trust the laws of nature?

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I mean, are they going to be the same tomorrow as they were yesterday?

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In fact, some of the greatest scientists that ever lived: Isaac Newton, James Clerk Maxwell, Michael Faraday were creationists.

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And as one of them said, you know, he's thinking God's thoughts after Him.

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And that's really, modern science came out of that thinking, that we can do experiments today,

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and we can do the same tomorrow. And we can trust the laws of logic. We can trust the laws of nature.

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And if we don't teach our children correctly about this, they're NOT going to be innovative.

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And they're not going to be able to come up with inventions to advance in our culture.

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And so, I think the person was trying to get out that, see, you know,

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there are lots of secularists out there doing work. And they don't believe in creation.

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And they come up with great inventions, yeah. But my point is, they are borrowing from the Christian worldview to do so.

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And as you saw from the video quotes I gave, people like Andrew Fabich

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and also Dr. Faulkner have published in the secular journals.

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There's lots of creationists out there who publish.

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People mightn't know that they're creationists because the topic doesn't specifically pertain to creation vs. evolution.

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But there's lots of them out there. In fact, go to our website.

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There's a whole list there of scientists who are creationists,

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who are out there doing great work in this world and helping to advance technology.

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Moderator: Mr. Nye

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Bill Nye: There's a reason that I don't accept your Ken Ham model of creation.

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Is that it has no predictive quality as you had touched on,

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and something that I've always found troubling.

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It sounds as though and next time around you can correct me.

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It sounds as though you believe your world view, which is a literal interpretation of most parts of the Bible, is correct.

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Well, what became of all those people who never heard of it?

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Never heard of you? What became of all those people in Asia?

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What became of all those first nations people in North America?

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Were they condemned and doomed? I mean, I don't know how much time you've spent talking to strangers,

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but they're not sanguine about that. To have you tell them that they are inherently lost or misguided.

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It's very troubling. And you say there are no examples in nature.

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There are countless examples of how the process of science makes predictions.

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Moderator: Mr. Nye, since evolution teaches that man is evolving and growing smarter over time,

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how can you explain the numerous evidences of man's high intelligence in the past?

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Bill Nye: Hang on, there's no evidence that man or humans are getting smarter.

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No, especially if you ever met my old boss. Heh, heh, heh. (laughter)

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No, it's that what happens in evolution. And there's, it's a British word that was used in the middle 1800's.

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It's survival of the fittest. And this usage, it doesn't mean the most push-ups or the highest scores on standardized tests.

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It means that those that "fit in" the best. Our intellect, such as it is, has enabled us to dominate the world.

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I mean, the evidence of humans is everywhere.

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James Cameron just made another trip to the bottom of the ocean, in the deepest part of the ocean,

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the first time since 1960. And when they made the first trip, they found a beer can.

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Humans are everywhere. And so, it is our capacity to reason that has taken us to where we are now.

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If a germ shows up, as it did, for example, in World War I, where more people were killed by the flu

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than were killed by the combatants in World War I.

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That is a troubling and remarkable fact. If the right germ shows up, we'll be taken out.

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We'll be eliminated. Being smarter is not a necessary consequence of evolution.

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So far, it seems to be the way things are going because of the remarkable advantage it gives to us.

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We can control our environment and even change it, as we are doing today, apparently by accident.

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So, everybody, just take a little while and grasp this fundamental idea.

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It's how you "fit in" with nature around you. So, as the world changed, as it did, for example, the ancient dinosaurs,

02:36:28.827 --> 02:36:34.832
they were "taken out" by a worldwide fireball, apparently caused by an impacter.

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That's the best theory we have. And we are the result of people, of organisms that lived through that catastrophe.

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It's not necessarily smarter. It's how you "fit in" with your environment.

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Moderator: Mr. Ham, a response?

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Ken Ham: I remember at university, one of my professors was very excited to give us some evidence for evolution.

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He said, "Look at this. Here's an example. These fish have evolved the ability not to see."

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And, he was going to give an example of blind cave fish.

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And he said, "See, in this cave, they're evolving, because now the ones that are living there, their ancestors had eyes.

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Now these ones are blind." And I remember, I was talking to my professor, "But wait a minute!

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Now they can't do something that they could do before." Yeah, they might have an advantage in this sense.

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In a situation that's dark like that, those with eyes might have got diseases and died out.

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Those that had mutations for no eyes are the ones that survived.

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It's not survival of the fittest. It's survival of those who survive.

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And it's survival of those that have the information in their circumstance to survive,

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but you're not getting new information. You're not getting new function.

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There's no example of that at all. So, we need to correctly understand these things.

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Moderator: Alright. Um, we're down to our final question here, which I'll give to both of you.

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And in the interest of fairness here, because it is a question to the both of you,

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let's give each man two minutes on this if we can, please.

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And also, in the interest of you having started first, Mr. Ham, I will have you start first here.

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You'll have the first word. Mr. Nye will have the last word.

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The question is: what is the one thing, more than anything else, upon which you base your belief?

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Mr. Ham: What is the one thing upon anything else which I base my belief?

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Well, again, to summarize the things that I've been saying, there is a book called the Bible.

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It's a very unique book. It's very different to any other book out there.

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In fact, I don't know of any other religion that has a book that starts off by

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telling you that there's an infinite God, and talks about the origin of the universe,

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and the origin of matter, and the origin of light, and the origin of darkness,

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and the origin of day and night, and the origin of the earth, and the origin of dry land,

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and the origin of plants, and the origin of the sun, moon and stars, the origin of sea creatures,

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the origin of flying creatures, the origin of land creatures, the origin of man,

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the origin of woman, the origin of death, the origin of sin, the origin of marriage,

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the origin of different languages, the origin of clothing, the origin of nations,

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I mean it's a very, very specific book.

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And it gives us an account of a global flood and the history and the tower of Babel,

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and if that history is true, then what about the rest of the book?

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Well, that history also says man is a sinner and it says that man is separated from God.

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And it gives us a message, that we call the gospel, the message of salvation, that God's

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son stepped in history to die on the cross, to be raised from the dead,

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and offers a free gift of salvation.

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Because the history is true, that's why the message based on history is true.

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I actually went through some predictions and listed others, and there's a lot more that you can look at,

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and you can go and test it for yourself. If this book really is true,

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it is so specific, it should explain the world, it should make sense of what we see.

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The flood. Yeah, we have fossils all over the world.

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The tower of Babel, yeah, different people groups, different languages,

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they have flood legends very similar to the Bible. Creation legends similar to the Bible.

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There's so much you can look at, and prophesy and so on.

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Most of all, as I said to you, the Bible says, if you come to God, believing that he is,

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he'll reveal himself to you. You will know. If you search after truth,

02:40:00.053 --> 02:40:03.793
you really want God to show you, as you would search after silver and gold,

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he will show you. He will reveal himself to you.

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Moderator: Mr. Nye?

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Mr. Nye: Would you repeat the question?

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Moderator: The question is: What is the one thing, more than anything else, upon which you base your belief?

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Mr. Nye: As my old professor Carl Sagan said so often,

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when you're in love, you want to tell the world. And I base my beliefs on the information

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and the process that we call science.

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It fills me with joy to make discoveries every day of things I'd never seen before.

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It fills me with joy to know that we can pursue these answers.

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It is a wonderful and astonishing thing to me, that we are, you and I,

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are somehow, at least one of the ways that the universe knows itself.

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You and I are a product of the universe. It's astonishing. I admit, I see your faces.

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That we have come to be because of the universe's existence.

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And we are driven to pursue that. To find out where we came from.

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And the second question we all want to know:

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Are we alone? Are we alone in the universe? And these questions are deep within us,

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and they drive us. So the process of science, the way we know nature is the most compelling thing to me.

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And I just want to close by reminding everybody what's at stake here.

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If we abandon all that we've learned, our ancestors, what they've learned about nature and our place in it,

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if we abandon the process by which we know it,

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if we eschew, if we let go of everything that people have learned before us,

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if we stop driving forward, stop looking for the next answer to the next question,

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we, in the United States, will be outcompeted by other countries, other economies.

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Now, that would be okay, I guess, but I was born here. I'm a patriot.

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So we have to embrace science education. To the voters and taxpayers that are watching,

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please keep that in mind. We have to keep science education in science and science classes. Thank you.

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Moderator: One tiny bit of important housekeeping for everyone here, the county is now under a level two snow emergency.

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Drive home carefully. You'll have a lot to talk about, but drive carefully.

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This debate will be archived at debatelive.org. That's debatelive.org, one word.

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It will be found at that site for several days. You can encourage friends and family to watch and take it over.

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Thanks so much to Mr. Nye and to Mr. Ham (Loud applause) for an excellent discussion.

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I'm Tom Foreman, thank you, good night from Petersburg, Kentucky and the Creation Museum.

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