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Oh, hi kids! I have an incredible message for you.

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Hey, can someone take Germa back to the petting zoo?

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Wow! That looks like fun.

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Now, where was I? Oh, yes.

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In 2014, kids 12 and under come free.

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Hey! Shouldn't the comets be in the Planetarium?

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For the entire year, kids 12 and under come free.

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Hey, T-Rex! You'd better get back to the dinosaur den.

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As you can see, it's a very exciting place.

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Now tell your parents!

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Kids 12 and under free in 2014 when accompanied by a paying adult.

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We hope to see you soon!

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Good evening. I'm pleased 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 Foreman from CNN and I'm pleased to be tonight's

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moderator for this Evolution versus 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 from audience)

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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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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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it 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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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. (laughter)

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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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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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which means "to 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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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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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 or 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 or 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)

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(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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Now, 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,

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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

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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

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both working on the Hubble telescope.

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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

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in regard to the age of the universe.

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And, you know, we could on and talk about lots

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of other similar sorts of things. For instance,

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I've heard Bill Nye talk about how a smoke detector works,

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using the radioactive element Americium. And, you know what?

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I totally agree with him on that. We agree how it works.

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We agree how radioactivity enables that to work.

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But if you're then gonna use radioactive elements

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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

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on the technology to put the rover on Mars, but we're gonna

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disagree on how to interpret the origin of Mars.

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I mean, there are some people that believed it

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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

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an observational science perspective, because we've only got the present.

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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,

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all scientists have the same experimental observational science.

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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

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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.

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Bill Nye and I have the same Grand Canyon. We don't disagree on that.

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We all have the same fish fossils. This is one from the Creation Museum.

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The same dinosaur skeleton, the same animals, the same humans,

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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,

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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

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between historical origin science, knowledge about

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the past when you weren't there,

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and we need to understand that we weren't there.

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Or experimental observational science, using

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your five senses in the present, the scientific method,

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what you can directly observe, test, repeat.

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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

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critically and correctly about the origins issue.

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But you know, it's also important to understand,

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when talking about Creation and Evolution, both involve

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historical science and observational science.

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You see, the role of observational science is this:

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it can be used to confirm or otherwise

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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

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learned concerning creation, if our origins

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or historical science based on the bible, the bible's account

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of origins is true, then there should be predictions

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from this that we can test, using observational science.

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And there are. For instance, based on the bible,

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we'd expect to find evidence concerning an intelligence,

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confirming an intelligence produced life.

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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.

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You'd expect to find evidence confirming a global flood of Noah's day.

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Evidence confirming one race of humans because we

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all go back to Adam and Eve, biologically, that would mean there's one race.

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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--

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in the Creation Museum, we have a display featuring replicas,

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actually, of Darwin's finches. They're called Darwin's finches.

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Darwin collected finches from the Galapagos

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and took them back to England and we see the different species,

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the different beak sizes here. And, you know,

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from the specimens Darwin obtained in the Galapagos,

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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

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different species and maybe those species came from some common ancestor,

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but, actually, when it comes to finches, we actually would agree,

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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,

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you'll find he made this statement: from such low and intermediate form,

481
00:39:10,870 --> 00:39:12,970
both animals and plants may have been developed;

482
00:39:12,970 --> 00:39:16,126
and, if we admit this, we must likewise admit that

483
00:39:16,126 --> 00:39:18,966
all organic beings which have ever lived on this Earth

484
00:39:18,966 --> 00:39:22,037
may be descended from some one primordial form.

485
00:39:22,037 --> 00:39:27,534
So he had in mind what we today know as an evolutionary tree of life,

486
00:39:27,534 --> 00:39:31,323
that all life has arisen from some primordial form.

487
00:39:31,323 --> 00:39:34,992
Now, when you consider the classifications system,

488
00:39:34,992 --> 00:39:37,570
kingdom phylum class or the family genus species,

489
00:39:37,570 --> 00:39:41,690
we would say, as Creationists, we have many creation scientists

490
00:39:41,690 --> 00:39:43,464
that research this and, for lots of reasons,

491
00:39:43,464 --> 00:39:47,057
I would say, the kind in Genesis 1 is really more at

492
00:39:47,057 --> 00:39:50,591
the family level of classification. For instance, there's one dog kind.

493
00:39:50,591 --> 00:39:53,405
There's one cat kind. Even though you have different

494
00:39:53,405 --> 00:39:55,567
generative species, that would mean, by the way,

495
00:39:55,567 --> 00:39:57,891
you didn't need anywhere near the number of animals

496
00:39:57,891 --> 00:39:59,236
on the ark as people think.

497
00:39:59,236 --> 00:40:00,826
You wouldn't need all the species of dogs, just two.

498
00:40:00,826 --> 00:40:02,501
Not all the species of cats--just two.

499
00:40:02,501 --> 00:40:06,788
And, you see, based on the biblical account there in Genesis One,

500
00:40:06,788 --> 00:40:10,257
Creationists have drawn up what they believe is a creation origin.

501
00:40:10,257 --> 00:40:13,130
In other words, they're saying, "Look. There's great variation

502
00:40:13,130 --> 00:40:16,212
in the genetics of dogs and finches and so on."

503
00:40:16,212 --> 00:40:19,436
And so, over time, particularly after Noah's flood,

504
00:40:19,436 --> 00:40:21,502
you'd expect if there were two dogs, for instance,

505
00:40:21,502 --> 00:40:24,671
you could end up with different species of dogs because

506
00:40:24,671 --> 00:40:28,714
there's an incredible amount of variability in the genes of any creature.

507
00:40:28,714 --> 00:40:33,170
And so you'd expect these different species up here, but there's limits.

508
00:40:33,170 --> 00:40:36,270
Dogs will always be dogs, finches will always be finches.

509
00:40:36,270 --> 00:40:41,856
Now, as a Creationist, I maintain that observational science

510
00:40:41,856 --> 00:40:45,714
actually confirms this model, based on the bible.

511
00:40:45,714 --> 00:40:49,236
For instance, take dogs. Okay?

512
00:40:49,236 --> 00:40:53,524
In a scientific paper dated January 2014--that's this year--

513
00:40:53,524 --> 00:40:57,658
scientists working at the University of California stated this:

514
00:40:57,658 --> 00:41:00,544
We provide several lines of evidence supporting

515
00:41:00,544 --> 00:41:04,377
a single origin for dogs, and disfavoring alternative models

516
00:41:04,377 --> 00:41:06,836
in which dog lineages arise separately

517
00:41:06,836 --> 00:41:09,324
from geographically distinct wolf populations.

518
00:41:09,324 --> 00:41:11,546
And they put this diagram in the paper.

519
00:41:11,546 --> 00:41:14,203
By the way, that diagram is very, very similar

520
00:41:14,203 --> 00:41:17,827
to this diagram that Creationists proposed based upon

521
00:41:17,827 --> 00:41:20,715
the creation account in Genesis. In other words,

522
00:41:20,715 --> 00:41:22,934
you have a common dog ancestor that gives rise

523
00:41:22,934 --> 00:41:25,325
to the different species of dogs, and that's exactly

524
00:41:25,325 --> 00:41:28,134
what we're saying here. Now, in the Creation Museum,

525
00:41:28,134 --> 00:41:31,259
we actually show the finches here and you see the finches

526
00:41:31,259 --> 00:41:34,792
with their different beaks, beside dogs skulls, different species of dogs.

527
00:41:34,792 --> 00:41:37,547
By the way, there's more variation in the dog skeleton

528
00:41:37,547 --> 00:41:40,427
here than there are in these finches. Yet, the dogs,

529
00:41:40,427 --> 00:41:42,876
wow, that's never used as an example of evolution,

530
00:41:42,876 --> 00:41:45,789
but the finches are, particularly in the public school textbooks.

531
00:41:45,789 --> 00:41:48,963
Students are taught, "Ah! See the changes that are occurring here?"

532
00:41:48,963 --> 00:41:51,093
And here's another problem that we've got.

533
00:41:51,093 --> 00:41:55,624
Not only has the word "science" been hijacked by secularists,

534
00:41:55,624 --> 00:41:59,791
I believe the word "evolution" has been hijacked by secularists.

535
00:41:59,791 --> 00:42:03,860
The word "evolution" has been hijacked using what I call a bait and switch.

536
00:42:03,860 --> 00:42:05,161
Let me explain to you.

537
00:42:06,130 --> 00:42:09,766
The word "evolution" is being used in public school textbooks,

538
00:42:09,766 --> 00:42:11,826
and we often see it in documentaries and so on,

539
00:42:11,826 --> 00:42:15,265
is used for observable changes that we would agree with,

540
00:42:15,265 --> 00:42:19,244
and then used for unobservable changes, such as molecules-to-man.

541
00:42:19,244 --> 00:42:21,724
Let me explain to you what's really going on because

542
00:42:21,724 --> 00:42:23,410
I was a science teacher in the public schools

543
00:42:23,410 --> 00:42:26,125
and I know what the students were taught and I checked

544
00:42:26,125 --> 00:42:28,134
the public school textbooks anyway to know what they're taught.

545
00:42:28,379 --> 00:42:30,790
See, students are taught today, look, there's all

546
00:42:30,790 --> 00:42:33,595
these different animals, plants, but they're all part

547
00:42:33,595 --> 00:42:37,450
of this great, big tree of life that goes back to some primordial form.

548
00:42:37,450 --> 00:42:39,572
And, look, we see changes. Changes in finches,

549
00:42:39,572 --> 00:42:42,572
changes in dogs and so on. Now, we don't deny the changes.

550
00:42:42,572 --> 00:42:45,566
You see that. You see different species of finches, different species of dogs.

551
00:42:45,566 --> 00:42:48,274
But then they put it all together in this evolutionary tree--

552
00:42:48,274 --> 00:42:50,499
but that's what you don't observe. You don't observe that.

553
00:42:50,499 --> 00:42:54,330
That's belief there. That's the historical science

554
00:42:54,330 --> 00:42:57,994
that I would say is wrong. But, you know, what you do observe,

555
00:42:57,994 --> 00:43:02,607
you do observe different species of dogs, different species of finches,

556
00:43:02,607 --> 00:43:06,708
but then there are limits. You don't see one kind changing into another.

557
00:43:06,708 --> 00:43:12,124
Actually, we're told that if you teach creation

558
00:43:12,124 --> 00:43:14,238
in the public schools as teaching religion,

559
00:43:14,238 --> 00:43:17,099
if you teach evolution as science, I'm gonna say, "Wait a minute!"

560
00:43:17,099 --> 00:43:21,283
Actually, the creation model here, based upon the Bible,

561
00:43:21,283 --> 00:43:24,404
observational science confirms this. This is what you're observe!

562
00:43:24,404 --> 00:43:25,787
You don't observe this tree.

563
00:43:25,787 --> 00:43:29,499
Actually, it's the public school textbooks that are teaching a belief,

564
00:43:29,499 --> 00:43:32,213
imposing it on students, and they need to be teaching them

565
00:43:32,213 --> 00:43:36,124
observational science to understand the reality of what's happening.

566
00:43:36,877 --> 00:43:40,660
Now, what we found is that public school textbooks present

567
00:43:40,660 --> 00:43:44,674
the evolutionary "tree" as science, but reject the creation "orchard" as religion.

568
00:43:44,674 --> 00:43:47,459
But observational science confirms the creation orchard--

569
00:43:47,459 --> 00:43:50,796
so public school textbooks are rejecting observational science

570
00:43:50,796 --> 00:43:53,878
and imposing a naturalistic religion on students.

571
00:43:53,878 --> 00:43:56,938
The word "evolution" has been hijacked using a bait and switch

572
00:43:56,938 --> 00:44:00,403
to indoctrinate students to accept evolutionary belief

573
00:44:00,403 --> 00:44:02,341
as observational science.

574
00:44:02,341 --> 00:44:05,918
Let me introduce you to another scientist, Richard Lenski,

575
00:44:05,918 --> 00:44:08,675
from Michigan State University. He's a great scientist,

576
00:44:08,675 --> 00:44:11,161
he's known for culturing e-coli in the lab...

577
00:44:11,161 --> 00:44:15,431
and he found there was some e-coli that actually seemed

578
00:44:15,431 --> 00:44:22,939
to develop the ability to grow on cistrate on substrate.

579
00:44:23,400 --> 00:44:28,241
But Richard Lenski is here, mentioned in this book,

580
00:44:28,241 --> 00:44:30,908
and it's called "Evolution in the Lab".

581
00:44:30,908 --> 00:44:35,500
So the ability to grow on citrate is said to be evolution.

582
00:44:35,500 --> 00:44:39,842
And there are those that say, "Hey! This is against the Creationist."

583
00:44:39,842 --> 00:44:42,895
For instance, Jerry Coin from University of Chicago says,

584
00:44:42,895 --> 00:44:45,587
"Lenski's experiment is also yet another poke in the eye

585
00:44:45,587 --> 00:44:47,228
for anti-evolutionists."

586
00:44:47,228 --> 00:44:50,589
He says, "The thing I like most is it says you can get

587
00:44:50,589 --> 00:44:53,705
these complex traits evolving by a combination of unlikely events."

588
00:44:53,705 --> 00:44:57,167
But is it a poke in the eye for anti-evolutionists?

589
00:44:57,167 --> 00:45:01,371
Is it really seeing complex traits evolving?

590
00:45:01,371 --> 00:45:06,198
What does it mean that some of these bacteria are able to grow on citrate?

591
00:45:06,198 --> 00:45:10,240
Let me introduce you to another biblical Creationist, who is a scientist.

592
00:45:10,240 --> 00:45:12,761
Hi, my name's Dr. Andrew Fabich.

593
00:45:12,761 --> 00:45:16,450
I got my PhD from University of Oklahoma in Microbiology.

594
00:45:16,450 --> 00:45:20,075
I teach at Liberty University and I do research on e-coli in the intestine.

595
00:45:20,075 --> 00:45:25,660
I've published it in secular journals from the American Society for Microbiology,

596
00:45:25,660 --> 00:45:30,971
including infection immunity and applied environmental microbiology

597
00:45:30,971 --> 00:45:32,361
as well as several others.

598
00:45:32,361 --> 00:45:35,320
My work has been cited even in the past year in the journals Nature,

599
00:45:35,320 --> 00:45:38,700
Science Translational Medicine, Public Library of Science,

600
00:45:38,700 --> 00:45:41,660
Public Library of Science Genetics. It's cited regularly

601
00:45:41,660 --> 00:45:45,905
in those journals and while I was taught nothing but evolution,

602
00:45:45,905 --> 00:45:48,142
I don't accept that position.

603
00:45:48,142 --> 00:45:50,263
I do my research from a creation perspective.

604
00:45:50,263 --> 00:45:54,365
When I look at the evidence that people cite as e-coli,

605
00:45:54,365 --> 00:46:00,657
supposedly, evolving over 30 years, over 30,000 generations in the lab,

606
00:46:00,657 --> 00:46:04,410
and people say that it is now able to grow on citrate,

607
00:46:04,410 --> 00:46:06,199
I don't deny that it grows on citrate,

608
00:46:06,199 --> 00:46:08,761
but it's not any kind of new information.

609
00:46:08,761 --> 00:46:12,042
The information's already there and it's just a switch

610
00:46:12,042 --> 00:46:15,578
that gets turned on and off and that's what they reported in there.

611
00:46:15,578 --> 00:46:17,238
There's nothing new.

612
00:46:17,238 --> 00:46:20,341
See, students need to be told what's really going on here.

613
00:46:20,341 --> 00:46:24,372
Certainly there's change, but it's not change necessary for molecules-to-man.

614
00:46:24,372 --> 00:46:27,130
Now, we could look at other predictions.

615
00:46:27,130 --> 00:46:29,264
What about evidence confirming one race?

616
00:46:29,264 --> 00:46:32,394
Well, when we look at the human population we see lots of differences.

617
00:46:32,394 --> 00:46:35,298
But based on Darwin's ideas of human evolution,

618
00:46:35,298 --> 00:46:37,629
as presented in The Descent of Man, I mean,

619
00:46:37,629 --> 00:46:39,588
Darwin did teach in The Descent of Man there were

620
00:46:39,588 --> 00:46:41,461
lower races and higher races.

621
00:46:41,461 --> 00:46:44,542
Would you believe, that back in the 1900s, one of the most

622
00:46:44,542 --> 00:46:49,433
popular biology textbooks used in the public schools in America taught this:

623
00:46:49,433 --> 00:46:51,808
At the present time there exists upon Earth

624
00:46:51,808 --> 00:46:55,060
five races or varieties of man...and finally,

625
00:46:55,060 --> 00:46:58,195
the highest type of all, the Caucasians, represented

626
00:46:58,195 --> 00:47:01,107
by the civilized white inhabitants of Europe and America.

627
00:47:01,107 --> 00:47:03,098
Can you imagine if that was in the public schools today?

628
00:47:03,098 --> 00:47:06,500
And, yet, that's what was taught, but it was based on

629
00:47:06,500 --> 00:47:11,204
Darwin's ideas that are wrong. You have a wrong foundation.

630
00:47:11,204 --> 00:47:12,558
You're gonna have a wrong worldview.

631
00:47:12,558 --> 00:47:15,765
Now, had they started from the Bible, and from

632
00:47:15,765 --> 00:47:18,251
the creation account in the Bible, what does it teach?

633
00:47:19,153 --> 00:47:21,251
Well, we're all descendants of Adam and Eve.

634
00:47:21,251 --> 00:47:24,152
We go through the Tower of Babel, different languages,

635
00:47:24,152 --> 00:47:26,275
so different people groups formed distinct characteristics.

636
00:47:26,275 --> 00:47:29,217
But we'd expect, we'd say, you know what,

637
00:47:29,217 --> 00:47:31,187
that means there's biologically only one race of humans.

638
00:47:31,187 --> 00:47:33,696
Well, I mentioned Dr. Venter before.

639
00:47:33,696 --> 00:47:36,819
And he was a researcher with the human genome project.

640
00:47:36,819 --> 00:47:39,464
And you'll remember, in the year 2000, this was headline news,

641
00:47:39,464 --> 00:47:42,053
and what we read was this: they had put together

642
00:47:42,053 --> 00:47:44,219
a draft of the entire sequence of the human genome

643
00:47:44,219 --> 00:47:48,356
and unanimously declared, there is only one race - the human race.

644
00:47:48,356 --> 00:47:49,700
Wow! Who would have guessed?

645
00:47:49,700 --> 00:47:52,539
But you see there we have observational science

646
00:47:52,539 --> 00:47:54,709
confirming the Creation account,

647
00:47:54,709 --> 00:47:58,028
not confirming at all Darwin's ideas.

648
00:47:58,444 --> 00:48:00,090
Now, there's much more that can be said

649
00:48:00,090 --> 00:48:01,215
on each of these topics.

650
00:48:01,215 --> 00:48:04,446
Obviously, you can't do that in a short time like this.

651
00:48:04,723 --> 00:48:06,286
And you could do a lot more research.

652
00:48:06,286 --> 00:48:09,372
I suggest you visit our website at Answers in Genesis

653
00:48:09,372 --> 00:48:10,853
for a lot more information.

654
00:48:10,853 --> 00:48:14,658
So, the debate topic: Is creation a viable model

655
00:48:14,658 --> 00:48:16,677
of origins in today's scientific era?

656
00:48:17,169 --> 00:48:19,637
I said, we need to define the terms,

657
00:48:19,637 --> 00:48:21,304
and particularly, the term science

658
00:48:21,304 --> 00:48:23,945
and the term evolution. And I believe we need

659
00:48:23,945 --> 00:48:25,932
to understand how they are being used to impose

660
00:48:25,932 --> 00:48:29,565
an anti-God religion on generations of unsuspecting students.

661
00:48:29,934 --> 00:48:32,082
You see, I keep emphasizing we do need to

662
00:48:32,082 --> 00:48:34,166
understand the difference between experimental or

663
00:48:34,166 --> 00:48:36,943
observational science and historical science.

664
00:48:36,943 --> 00:48:37,909
And you know what?

665
00:48:38,185 --> 00:48:39,991
The secularists don't like me doing this

666
00:48:39,991 --> 00:48:41,523
because they don't want to admit

667
00:48:41,523 --> 00:48:43,687
that there's a belief aspect to what they're saying.

668
00:48:43,687 --> 00:48:45,989
And there is. And they can't get away from it.

669
00:48:46,235 --> 00:48:48,750
Let me illustrate this with a statement from Bill Nye.

670
00:48:49,058 --> 00:48:50,741
"You can show the Earth is not flat.

671
00:48:50,741 --> 00:48:52,942
You can show the Earth is not 10,000 years old."

672
00:48:52,942 --> 00:48:55,574
By the way, I agree. You can show the Earth is not flat.

673
00:48:55,574 --> 00:48:58,638
There's a video from the Galileo spacecraft showing

674
00:48:58,638 --> 00:49:00,688
the Earth, and speeded up of course, but spinning.

675
00:49:00,688 --> 00:49:02,784
You can see it's a sphere. You can observe that.

676
00:49:03,076 --> 00:49:05,227
You can't observe the age of the Earth.

677
00:49:05,519 --> 00:49:08,249
You don't see that. You see again, I emphasize,

678
00:49:08,249 --> 00:49:10,358
there's a big difference between historical science,

679
00:49:10,512 --> 00:49:13,558
talking about the past, and observational science,

680
00:49:13,558 --> 00:49:15,308
talking about the present.

681
00:49:15,738 --> 00:49:18,196
And I believe what's happening is this, that students are being

682
00:49:18,196 --> 00:49:20,384
indoctrinated by the confusion of terms:

683
00:49:20,384 --> 00:49:22,884
the hijacking of the word science and the hijacking

684
00:49:22,884 --> 00:49:25,571
of the word evolution in a bait-and-switch.

685
00:49:26,140 --> 00:49:29,267
Let me illustrate further with this video clip.

686
00:49:29,267 --> 00:49:31,945
Because here I assert that Bill Nye is equating

687
00:49:31,945 --> 00:49:34,561
observational science with historical science.

688
00:49:34,561 --> 00:49:37,697
And I also say it's not a mystery when you understand the difference.

689
00:49:37,697 --> 00:49:41,590
Howie, people with these deeply held religious beliefs,

690
00:49:41,590 --> 00:49:45,293
they embrace that whole literal interpretation

691
00:49:45,293 --> 00:49:49,492
of the Bible as written in English, as a worldview.

692
00:49:49,492 --> 00:49:53,945
And, at the same time, they accept aspirin,

693
00:49:53,945 --> 00:49:58,988
antibiotic drugs, airplanes, but they're able

694
00:49:58,988 --> 00:50:01,496
to hold these two worldviews. And this is a mystery.

695
00:50:01,496 --> 00:50:04,496
Actually, I suggest to you it's not a mystery.

696
00:50:04,496 --> 00:50:06,557
You see, when I'm talking about antibiotics,

697
00:50:06,557 --> 00:50:09,230
aspirin, smoke detectors, jet planes,

698
00:50:09,230 --> 00:50:11,858
that's Ken Ham the Observational Science Bloke.

699
00:50:11,858 --> 00:50:15,403
I'm an Australian. We call guy's "blokes", okay?

700
00:50:15,403 --> 00:50:18,394
But when you're talking about creation and thousands of years

701
00:50:18,394 --> 00:50:19,559
of the age of the Earth,

702
00:50:19,559 --> 00:50:21,238
that's Ken Ham the Historical Science Bloke.

703
00:50:21,238 --> 00:50:22,159
I'm willing to admit that.

704
00:50:22,159 --> 00:50:24,523
Now, when Bill Nye's talking about aspirin,

705
00:50:24,523 --> 00:50:26,519
antibiotics, jet planes, smoke detectors,

706
00:50:26,519 --> 00:50:27,811
he does a great job at that.

707
00:50:27,811 --> 00:50:29,695
I used to enjoy watching him on TV too.

708
00:50:29,695 --> 00:50:32,892
That's Bill Nye the Observational Science Guy.

709
00:50:32,892 --> 00:50:34,858
But when he's talking about evolution and millions of years,

710
00:50:34,858 --> 00:50:39,157
I'm challenging him that that's Bill Nye the Historical Science Guy.

711
00:50:39,157 --> 00:50:42,688
And I challenge the evolutionist to admit the belief

712
00:50:42,688 --> 00:50:46,405
aspects of their particular worldview.

713
00:50:46,405 --> 00:50:49,635
Now, at the Creation Museum, we're only too willing

714
00:50:49,635 --> 00:50:51,469
to admit our beliefs based upon the Bible,

715
00:50:51,469 --> 00:50:53,778
but we also teach people the difference between

716
00:50:53,778 --> 00:50:55,932
beliefs and what one can actually observe

717
00:50:55,932 --> 00:50:57,445
and experiment with in the present.

718
00:50:57,445 --> 00:50:59,613
I believe we're teaching people to think critically

719
00:50:59,613 --> 00:51:03,210
and to think in the right terms about science.

720
00:51:03,210 --> 00:51:05,190
I believe it's the creationists that should be

721
00:51:05,190 --> 00:51:08,438
educating the kids out there because we're teaching

722
00:51:08,438 --> 00:51:11,604
them the right way to think. You know, we admit it.

723
00:51:11,604 --> 00:51:13,856
Our origins of historical science is based upon the Bible,

724
00:51:13,856 --> 00:51:16,157
but I'm just challenging evolutionists to admit

725
00:51:16,157 --> 00:51:17,693
the belief aspects of evolution

726
00:51:17,693 --> 00:51:20,188
and be upfront about the difference here.

727
00:51:20,188 --> 00:51:22,405
As I said, I'm only too willing to admit

728
00:51:22,405 --> 00:51:24,827
my historical science based on the Bible.

729
00:51:24,827 --> 00:51:30,027
And let me further go on to define the term "creation" as we use it.

730
00:51:30,027 --> 00:51:34,137
By creation, we mean, here at Answers in Genesis

731
00:51:34,137 --> 00:51:37,780
and the Creation Museum, we mean the account based on the Bible.

732
00:51:37,780 --> 00:51:41,135
Yes, I take Genesis as literal history, as Jesus did.

733
00:51:41,135 --> 00:51:44,775
And, here at the Creation Museum, we walk people through that history.

734
00:51:44,775 --> 00:51:47,635
We walk them through creation, the perfect creation.

735
00:51:47,635 --> 00:51:51,738
That God made Adam and Eve, land animal kinds, sea-creatures and so on.

736
00:51:51,738 --> 00:51:54,436
And then sin and death entered the world.

737
00:51:54,436 --> 00:51:56,499
There was no death before sin.

738
00:51:56,499 --> 00:52:00,590
That means how can you have billions of dead things before man sinned?

739
00:52:04,834 --> 00:52:06,760
And then, the catastrophe of Noah's flood. If there was a global flood,

740
00:52:06,760 --> 00:52:08,918
you'd expect to find billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

741
00:52:08,918 --> 00:52:12,843
Had to say that because a lot of our supporters would want me to.

742
00:52:12,843 --> 00:52:17,925
And what do you find?--Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth.

743
00:52:17,925 --> 00:52:22,338
Confusion, the tower of Babel. God gave different languages so you get different people groups.

744
00:52:22,338 --> 00:52:28,222
So this is the geological, astronomical, anthropological, biological history as recorded in the Bible.

745
00:52:28,222 --> 00:52:31,344
So this is concerning what happened in the past that explains the present.

746
00:52:31,344 --> 00:52:36,865
And then, of course, that God's Son stepped into history to be Jesus Christ, the God-Man

747
00:52:36,865 --> 00:52:39,331
to die on the cross, be raised from the dead. And one day there's going to be

748
00:52:39,331 --> 00:52:42,336
a new heavens and a new earth to come. And, you know, not only

749
00:52:42,336 --> 00:52:47,389
is this an understanding of history to explain the

750
00:52:47,389 --> 00:52:50,251
geology, biology, astronomy, and so on to connect the present to the past.

751
00:52:50,251 --> 00:52:53,901
But it's also a foundation for our whole world view.

752
00:52:53,901 --> 00:52:58,233
For instance, in Matthew 19, when Jesus was asked about marriage, he said,

753
00:52:58,233 --> 00:53:02,660
"Have you not read He who made them at the beginning made them male and female?"

754
00:53:02,660 --> 00:53:06,398
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."

755
00:53:06,398 --> 00:53:12,055
He quoted from Genesis as literal history--Genesis 1 and 2. God invented marriage, by the way.

756
00:53:12,055 --> 00:53:15,467
That's where marriage comes from. And it's to be a man and a woman.

757
00:53:15,467 --> 00:53:19,557
And not only marriage. Ultimately, every single Biblical doctrine of theology

758
00:53:19,557 --> 00:53:22,166
directly or indirectly, is founded in Genesis.

759
00:53:22,166 --> 00:53:25,175
Why is there sin in the world? Genesis.

760
00:53:25,175 --> 00:53:26,844
Why is there death? Genesis.

761
00:53:26,844 --> 00:53:28,802
Why do we wear clothes? Genesis.

762
00:53:28,802 --> 00:53:30,563
Why did Jesus die on the cross? Genesis.

763
00:53:30,563 --> 00:53:33,188
It's a very important book. It's foundational to all Christian doctrine.

764
00:53:33,188 --> 00:53:36,505
And you see, when we look at that, what I call the seven C's of History

765
00:53:36,505 --> 00:53:38,458
that we walk people through here at the museum,

766
00:53:38,458 --> 00:53:40,927
think about how it all connects together--a perfect creation.

767
00:53:40,927 --> 00:53:43,135
It'll be perfect again in the future.

768
00:53:43,135 --> 00:53:46,923
Sin and death--end of the world. That's why God's son died on the cross

769
00:53:46,923 --> 00:53:50,003
to conquer death and offer a free gift of salvation.

770
00:53:50,003 --> 00:53:53,900
The flood of Noah's day, a reminder that the flood was a

771
00:53:53,900 --> 00:53:56,177
judgement because of man's wickedness but at the same time

772
00:53:56,177 --> 00:53:58,238
a message of God's grace and salvation.

773
00:53:58,238 --> 00:54:00,918
As Noah and his family had to go through a door to be saved,

774
00:54:00,918 --> 00:54:03,123
so we need to go through a door to be saved.

775
00:54:03,123 --> 00:54:05,867
Jesus Christ said, "I am the door. By me, if any man

776
00:54:05,867 --> 00:54:08,633
enter in, he'll be saved. And we make no apology

777
00:54:08,633 --> 00:54:11,059
about the fact that what we're on about is this:

778
00:54:11,059 --> 00:54:13,465
"If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and

779
00:54:13,465 --> 00:54:15,584
believe in your heart God has raised him from the dead,

780
00:54:15,584 --> 00:54:17,925
you'll be saved. Now, as soon as I said that,

781
00:54:17,925 --> 00:54:21,003
see if people say, "See, if you allow creation in schools,

782
00:54:21,003 --> 00:54:23,005
for instance, if you'll ask students to even hear about it,

783
00:54:23,005 --> 00:54:24,668
ah, this is religion."

784
00:54:24,668 --> 00:54:27,170
You know, let me illustrate this,

785
00:54:27,170 --> 00:54:30,458
talking about a recent battle in Texas over textbooks

786
00:54:30,458 --> 00:54:35,468
in the public school. A newspaper report said this:

787
00:54:35,468 --> 00:54:37,760
"Textbook and classroom curriculum battles have long

788
00:54:37,760 --> 00:54:40,233
raged in Texas pitting creationists - those who see

789
00:54:40,233 --> 00:54:42,094
God's hand in the creation of the universe-

790
00:54:42,094 --> 00:54:43,927
against academics..."

791
00:54:43,927 --> 00:54:46,258
Stop right there. Notice creationists... academics.

792
00:54:46,258 --> 00:54:48,557
Creationists can't be academics. Creationists can't be scientists.

793
00:54:48,557 --> 00:54:50,420
See, it's the way things are worded out there.

794
00:54:50,420 --> 00:54:53,365
It's an indoctrination that's going on.

795
00:54:53,365 --> 00:54:55,898
We worry about religious and political ideology

796
00:54:55,898 --> 00:54:58,171
trumping scientific fact. Wait a minute.

797
00:54:58,171 --> 00:54:59,958
What do I mean by science? You're talking about

798
00:54:59,958 --> 00:55:03,365
what you observe, or are you talking about your beliefs about the past?

799
00:55:03,365 --> 00:55:07,522
Now, Kathy Miller is the president of the Texas Freedom Network and

800
00:55:07,522 --> 00:55:14,098
she has vocally spoken out. She's spoken out about this textbook battle there in Texas.

801
00:55:14,098 --> 00:55:21,925
And the mission statement of the organization she's president of says, "The Texas Freedom Network

802
00:55:21,925 --> 00:55:24,818
advances a mainstream agenda of religious freedom and individual liberties

803
00:55:24,818 --> 00:55:28,486
to counter the religious right." Religious freedom... individual liberties. Hmm.

804
00:55:28,486 --> 00:55:34,220
And then she makes this statement: "Science education..." What does she mean by science?

805
00:55:34,220 --> 00:55:37,298
"should be based on mainstream science education, not on personal idealogical beliefs

806
00:55:37,298 --> 00:55:43,435
of unqualified reviewers." Wait a minute. They want religious liberty and not personal

807
00:55:43,435 --> 00:55:48,697
ideological beliefs? I assert this: public school textbooks are using the same word "science"

808
00:55:48,697 --> 00:55:53,345
for observational and historical science. They arbitrarily define science as naturalism

809
00:55:53,345 --> 00:55:57,210
and outlaw the supernatural. They present molecules-to-man evolution as as fact.

810
00:55:57,210 --> 00:56:00,276
And they are imposing the religion of naturalism on generations of students.

811
00:56:00,276 --> 00:56:02,934
They're imposing their ideology on the students

812
00:56:02,934 --> 00:56:04,909
and everything's explained by natural processes.

813
00:56:04,909 --> 00:56:07,422
That is a religion. What do you mean by religious liberty?

814
00:56:07,422 --> 00:56:09,245
They tolerate their religion.

815
00:56:10,260 --> 00:56:12,430
See, the battle is really about authority.

816
00:56:12,430 --> 00:56:15,031
It's more than just science or evolution or creation.

817
00:56:15,031 --> 00:56:18,404
It's about who is the authority in this world, man or God?

818
00:56:19,080 --> 00:56:22,488
If you start with naturalism, then what about morals?

819
00:56:22,488 --> 00:56:24,741
Who decides right and wrong? Well, it's subjective.

820
00:56:24,741 --> 00:56:26,528
Marriage? Well, whatever you want it to be.

821
00:56:27,204 --> 00:56:29,547
Get rid of old people. I mean, why not?

822
00:56:29,547 --> 00:56:31,800
They're just animals, they're costing us a lot of money.

823
00:56:31,800 --> 00:56:35,323
Abortion. Get rid of spare cats, get rid of spare kids. We're all animals.

824
00:56:35,323 --> 00:56:38,166
But if you start from God's word, there are moral absolutes.

825
00:56:38,166 --> 00:56:40,927
God decides right and wrong. Marriage--one man and one woman.

826
00:56:40,927 --> 00:56:44,327
Sanctity of life--we care for old people. They're made in the image of God.

827
00:56:44,327 --> 00:56:47,996
Life begins at fertilization, so abortion is killing a human being.

828
00:56:48,319 --> 00:56:50,539
We do see the collapse of Christian morality

829
00:56:50,539 --> 00:56:53,129
in our culture and increasing moral relativism

830
00:56:53,129 --> 00:56:56,273
because generations of kids are being taught the religion

831
00:56:56,273 --> 00:56:59,147
of naturalism and that the Bible can't be trusted.

832
00:56:59,147 --> 00:57:03,042
And so, again, I say creation is the only viable model

833
00:57:03,042 --> 00:57:05,894
of historical science confirmed by observational science

834
00:57:05,894 --> 00:57:08,159
in today's modern scientific era. You know what?

835
00:57:08,159 --> 00:57:10,820
I'm a science teacher. I want to see kids taught science.

836
00:57:10,820 --> 00:57:14,375
I love science. I want to see more (inaudible) in the world.

837
00:57:14,575 --> 00:57:16,387
You know, if we teach them the whole universe

838
00:57:16,387 --> 00:57:19,340
is a result of natural processes and not designed

839
00:57:19,340 --> 00:57:22,455
by a creative God, they might be looking in the wrong places

840
00:57:22,455 --> 00:57:24,436
or have the wrong idea when they're looking

841
00:57:24,436 --> 00:57:27,817
at the creation in regard to how you develop technology

842
00:57:27,817 --> 00:57:30,809
because if they look at it as just random processes,

843
00:57:30,809 --> 00:57:33,426
that could totally influence the way they think.

844
00:57:33,426 --> 00:57:36,077
If they understand it was a perfect world marred by sin,

845
00:57:36,077 --> 00:57:38,964
that could have a great affect on how they then look

846
00:57:38,964 --> 00:57:42,254
for overcoming diseases and problems in the world.

847
00:57:42,254 --> 00:57:45,590
I want children to be taught the right foundation,

848
00:57:45,590 --> 00:57:48,037
that there's a God who created them, who loves them,

849
00:57:48,037 --> 00:57:52,037
who died on the cross for them and that they're special.

850
00:57:52,037 --> 00:57:53,412
They're made in the image of God.

851
00:57:55,012 --> 00:57:56,289
(moderator) There you go. Thank you, Mr. Ham.

852
00:57:56,289 --> 00:57:58,964
-We can applaud Mr. Ham's presentation.
-(audience applauds)

853
00:58:12,147 --> 00:58:14,205
And, you know, it did occur to me when you had

854
00:58:14,205 --> 00:58:17,043
my old friend Larry King up there, you could've just asked him.

855
00:58:17,566 --> 00:58:20,140
He's been around a long time. And he's a smart guy!

856
00:58:20,140 --> 00:58:25,221
He could probably answer for all of us. Now, let's all be

857
00:58:25,221 --> 00:58:28,422
attentive to Mr. Nye as he gives us his 30 minute presentation.

858
00:58:28,422 --> 00:58:31,647
Thank you very much and, Mr. Ham, I learned something.

859
00:58:31,923 --> 00:58:36,883
Thank you. But let's take it back around to question at hand:

860
00:58:37,590 --> 00:58:41,623
does Ken Ham's creation model hold up? Is it viable?

861
00:58:42,638 --> 00:58:46,280
So, for me, of course...well...take a look.

862
00:58:46,987 --> 00:58:53,264
We're here in Kentucky on layer upon layer upon layer of limestone.

863
00:58:53,540 --> 00:58:56,222
I stopped at the side of the road today and picked up

864
00:58:56,222 --> 00:58:59,944
just a piece of limestone. It has a fossil right there.

865
00:59:00,636 --> 00:59:05,294
Now, in these many, many layers, in this vicinity of Kentucky,

866
00:59:05,294 --> 00:59:10,058
there are coral animal--fossils, Zooxanthella--

867
00:59:10,350 --> 00:59:12,041
and when you look at it closely,

868
00:59:12,041 --> 00:59:14,322
you can see that they lived their entire lives.

869
00:59:14,322 --> 00:59:18,173
They lived typically 20 years, sometimes more than that

870
00:59:18,742 --> 00:59:20,551
when the water conditions are correct.

871
00:59:20,874 --> 00:59:26,050
And so we are standing on millions of layers of ancient life.

872
00:59:27,188 --> 00:59:30,312
How could those animals have lived their entire life,

873
00:59:30,312 --> 00:59:33,644
and formed these layers, in just 4,000 years?

874
00:59:34,167 --> 00:59:38,666
There isn't enough time since Mr. Ham's flood

875
00:59:38,912 --> 00:59:43,522
for this limestone that we're standing on to come into existence.

876
00:59:46,075 --> 00:59:48,835
My scientific colleagues go to places like Greenland,

877
00:59:48,835 --> 00:59:52,505
the Arctic, they go to Antarctica, and they drill

878
00:59:52,505 --> 00:59:57,265
into the ice with hollow drill bits. It's not that extraordinary.

879
00:59:57,265 --> 00:59:59,837
Many of you have probably done it yourselves, drilling other things.

880
00:59:59,837 --> 01:00:02,855
Hole saws to put locks in doors, for example.

881
01:00:03,547 --> 01:00:09,359
And we pull out long cylinders of ice, long ice rods.

882
01:00:09,851 --> 01:00:14,437
And these are made of snow and it's called "snow ice".

883
01:00:14,975 --> 01:00:20,019
And snow ice forms over the winter as snowflakes fall

884
01:00:20,019 --> 01:00:23,130
and are crushed down by subsequent layers. They're crushed together,

885
01:00:23,130 --> 01:00:26,564
entrapping the little bubbles and the little bubbles must

886
01:00:26,564 --> 01:00:30,474
needs be ancient atmosphere. There's nobody running around

887
01:00:30,474 --> 01:00:34,339
with a hypodermic needle, squirting ancient atmosphere into the bubbles.

888
01:00:34,754 --> 01:00:40,859
And we find certain of these cylinders to have 680,000 layers.

889
01:00:40,859 --> 01:00:46,714
680,000 snow/winter/summer cycles.

890
01:00:47,606 --> 01:00:53,752
How could it be that just 4,000 years ago all of this ice formed?

891
01:00:54,028 --> 01:00:56,304
Let's just run some numbers.

892
01:00:57,504 --> 01:01:00,701
This is some scenes from the lovely Antarctic.

893
01:01:01,532 --> 01:01:05,371
Let's say we have 680,000 layers of snow ice

894
01:01:05,555 --> 01:01:08,084
and 4,000 years since the Great Flood.

895
01:01:08,484 --> 01:01:13,668
That would mean we'd need 170 winter-summer cycles

896
01:01:13,668 --> 01:01:16,749
every year, for the last 4,000 years.

897
01:01:16,749 --> 01:01:21,073
I mean, wouldn't someone have noticed that? Wow!

898
01:01:21,073 --> 01:01:23,053
Wouldn't someone have noticed that there's been

899
01:01:23,053 --> 01:01:26,032
winter-summer-winter-summer 170 times one year?

900
01:01:26,770 --> 01:01:33,140
If we go to California, we find enormous stands of bristlecone pines.

901
01:01:33,863 --> 01:01:38,375
Some of them are over 6,000 years old. 6,800 years old.

902
01:01:38,375 --> 01:01:44,998
There's a famous tree in Sweden, Old Tjikko, is 9,550 years old.

903
01:01:45,382 --> 01:01:53,051
How could these trees be there if there was an enormous flood just 4,000 years ago?

904
01:01:53,512 --> 01:01:55,539
You can try this yourself, everybody.

905
01:01:56,123 --> 01:01:58,526
Get, I mean, I don't mean to be mean to trees,

906
01:01:58,526 --> 01:02:02,407
but get a sapling and put it under water for a year.

907
01:02:02,853 --> 01:02:06,735
It will not survive in general. Nor will its seeds.

908
01:02:06,735 --> 01:02:10,620
They just won't make it. So how could these trees

909
01:02:10,620 --> 01:02:14,923
be that old if the Earth is only 4,000 years old?

910
01:02:15,276 --> 01:02:18,300
Now, when we go to the Grand Canyon--which is an astonishing place

911
01:02:18,300 --> 01:02:19,734
and I recommend to everybody in the world to someday visit the Grand Canyon--

912
01:02:19,734 --> 01:02:25,932
you find layer upon layer of ancient rocks.

913
01:02:26,362 --> 01:02:27,695
And if there was this enormous flood that you speak of,

914
01:02:27,695 --> 01:02:35,165
wouldn't there have been churning and bubbling and roiling?

915
01:02:35,549 --> 01:02:36,934
How would these things have settled out?

916
01:02:36,934 --> 01:02:40,834
Your claim that they settled out in an extraordinary short amount of time

917
01:02:40,834 --> 01:02:47,796
is for me, not satisfactory. You can look at these rocks. You can look at rocks that are younger.

918
01:02:47,796 --> 01:02:54,784
You can go to seashores where there's sand. This is what geologists on the outside do,

919
01:02:54,784 --> 01:02:58,865
study the rate at which soil is deposited at the end of rivers and deltas.

920
01:02:58,865 --> 01:03:06,001
And we can see that it takes a long, long time for sediments to turn to stone.

921
01:03:06,001 --> 01:03:11,157
Also, in this picture you can see where one type of sediment has intruded on another type.

922
01:03:11,157 --> 01:03:18,282
Now, if that was uniform, wouldn't we expect it all to be even, without intrusion?

923
01:03:18,282 --> 01:03:23,859
Furthermore, you can find places in the Grand Canyon where you see an ancient riverbed on that side

924
01:03:23,859 --> 01:03:27,567
going to an ancient riverbed on that side and the Colorado River has cut through it.

925
01:03:27,567 --> 01:03:33,782
And by the way, if this great flood drained through the Grand Canyon,

926
01:03:33,782 --> 01:03:38,056
wouldn't there have been a Grand Canyon on every continent?

927
01:03:38,056 --> 01:03:43,932
How could we not have Grand Canyons everywhere if this water drained away in this extraordinary

928
01:03:43,932 --> 01:03:49,666
short amount of time? Four thousand years? Now when you look at these layers carefully,

929
01:03:49,666 --> 01:03:57,610
you find these beautiful fossils. And when I say beautiful, I am inspired by them. They are remarkable

930
01:03:57,610 --> 01:04:04,666
because we are looking at the past. You find down low. You'll find what you might consider

931
01:04:04,666 --> 01:04:09,067
is, uh, rudimentary sea animals. Up above you'll find the famous trilobytes.

932
01:04:09,067 --> 01:04:15,363
Above that you might find some clams, some oysters. And above that you find some mammals.

933
01:04:15,363 --> 01:04:23,402
You never, ever find a higher animal mixed in with a lower one. You never find a lower one

934
01:04:23,402 --> 01:04:28,834
trying to swim its way to a higher one. If it all happened in such an extraordinary short amount of time,

935
01:04:28,834 --> 01:04:33,782
if this water drained away just like that, wouldn't we expect to see some turbulence?

936
01:04:33,782 --> 01:04:42,434
And by the way, anyone here, really, if you can find one example of that, one example of that

937
01:04:42,434 --> 01:04:49,452
anywhere in the world, the scientists of the world challenge you. They would embrace you. You would be a hero.

938
01:04:49,452 --> 01:04:52,224
You would change the world if you could find one example of that anywhere.

939
01:04:52,224 --> 01:04:56,400
People have looked, and looked and looked. They have not found a single one.

940
01:04:56,400 --> 01:05:07,698
Now here's an interesting thing. These are fossil skulls that people have found all around the world.

941
01:05:07,698 --> 01:05:13,869
It's by no means representative of all the fossil skulls that have been found, but these are all over the place.

942
01:05:13,869 --> 01:05:22,932
Now, if you were to look at these, I can assure you, not any of them is a gorilla. Right?

943
01:05:22,932 --> 01:05:35,119
If as Mr. Ham and his associates claim, there was just man and then everybody else, there were just

944
01:05:35,119 --> 01:05:39,168
humans and all other species, where would you put modern humans among these skulls?

945
01:05:39,168 --> 01:05:46,952
How did all these skulls get all over the earth in these extraordinary fashion? Where would you put us?

946
01:05:46,952 --> 01:05:52,863
I can tell you we are on there and I encourage you, when you go home, to look it up.

947
01:05:52,863 --> 01:06:04,863
Now, one of the extraordinary claims associated with Mr. Ham's worldview is that this giant boat

948
01:06:04,863 --> 01:06:12,286
a very large wooden ship, went aground safely on a mountain in the Middle, what we now call the Middle East.

949
01:06:12,286 --> 01:06:19,777
And so places like Australia are populated then by animals who somehow managed to get

950
01:06:19,777 --> 01:06:25,822
from the Middle East all the way to Australia in the last 4,000 years.

951
01:06:25,822 --> 01:06:33,613
Now that to me, is an extraordinary claim. We would expect then, somewhere between the Middle East

952
01:06:33,613 --> 01:06:37,865
and Australia, we would expect to find evidence of kangaroos. We would expect to find

953
01:06:37,865 --> 01:06:43,536
some fossils, some bones in the last 4,000 years. Somebody would have been hopping along there

954
01:06:43,536 --> 01:06:47,088
and died along the way, and we'd find them. And furthermore, there's a claim

955
01:06:47,088 --> 01:06:52,610
that there was a land bridge that allowed these animals to get from Asia all the way

956
01:06:52,610 --> 01:06:58,698
to the continent of Australia. And that land bridge has disappeared, has disappeared in the last

957
01:06:58,698 --> 01:07:06,368
4,000 years. No navigator, no diver, no U.S. Navy submarine, no one has ever detected any evidence

958
01:07:06,368 --> 01:07:13,361
of this, let alone any evidence of fossils of kangaroos. So, your expectation is not met.

959
01:07:13,361 --> 01:07:19,158
It doesn't seem to hold up. So, let's see. If there are 4,000 years since Ken Ham's flood

960
01:07:19,158 --> 01:07:25,785
and let's say, as he said many times, there are 7,000 kinds,

961
01:07:25,785 --> 01:07:34,569
today the very, very lowest estimate is that there are about 8.7 million species.

962
01:07:34,569 --> 01:07:40,448
But a much more reasonable estimate is it's 50 million, or even 100 million,

963
01:07:40,448 --> 01:07:45,569
when you start counting the viruses and the bacteria and all the beetles that must be extant

964
01:07:45,569 --> 01:07:50,528
in the tropical rain forests that we haven't found. So we'll take a number which I think is pretty reasonable,

965
01:07:50,528 --> 01:07:53,921
16 million species today. If these came from 7,000 kinds,

966
01:07:53,921 --> 01:08:03,948
let's say we have 7,000 subtracted from 15 million,

967
01:08:03,948 --> 01:08:10,703
that's 15,993. If 4,000 years, we have 365.25 days a year,

968
01:08:10,703 --> 01:08:14,367
we would expect to find 11 new species every day.

969
01:08:14,367 --> 01:08:20,693
So you'd go out into your yard, you wouldn't just find a different bird, a new bird

970
01:08:20,693 --> 01:08:26,220
you'd find a different kind of bird, a whole new species, a bird!

971
01:08:26,220 --> 01:08:32,498
Every day, a new species of fish, a new species of organisms you can't see, and so on.

972
01:08:32,498 --> 01:08:38,613
I mean, this would be enormous news. The last 4,000 years people would have seen these changes among us.

973
01:08:38,613 --> 01:08:44,065
So the Cincinnati Enquirer, I imagine, would carry a column right next to the weather report:

974
01:08:44,065 --> 01:08:51,501
Today's New Species, and it would list these 11 every day, but we see no evidence of that.

975
01:08:51,501 --> 01:08:54,782
There's no evidence of these species. There simply isn't enough time.

976
01:08:54,782 --> 01:08:58,500
Now as you may know, I was graduated from engineering school and I was,

977
01:08:58,500 --> 01:09:07,188
I got a job at Boeing. I worked on 747s. I, okay everybody relax, I was very well supervised.

978
01:09:07,188 --> 01:09:13,610
Everything's fine. There's a tube in the 747 I kind of think of that's my tube.

979
01:09:13,610 --> 01:09:18,860
But that aside, I travelled the highways of Washington state quite a bit.

980
01:09:18,860 --> 01:09:23,115
I was a young guy. I had a motorcycle. I used to go mountain climbing in Washington state... Oregon.

981
01:09:23,115 --> 01:09:32,990
And you can drive along and find these enormous boulders on top of the ground, enormous rocks,

982
01:09:32,990 --> 01:09:41,267
huge, sitting on top of the ground. Now, out there, in regular academic pursuits, regular geology,

983
01:09:41,267 --> 01:09:46,784
people have discovered that there was, used to be a lake in what is now Montana

984
01:09:46,784 --> 01:09:50,202
which we charmingly refer to as Lake Missoula.

985
01:09:50,202 --> 01:09:54,822
It's not there now but the evidence for it, of course, if I may, overwhelming.

986
01:09:54,822 --> 01:10:01,433
And so, an ice dam would form at Lake Missoula and once in a while it would break.

987
01:10:01,433 --> 01:10:06,933
It would build up and break. And there were multiple floods in my old state of Washington state.

988
01:10:06,933 --> 01:10:13,090
And, just, before we go on, let me just say, go Seahawks! That was very gratifying, very gratifying for me.

989
01:10:13,090 --> 01:10:19,888
Anyway you drive along the road and there are these rocks. So, if as is asserted at this facility,

990
01:10:19,888 --> 01:10:24,490
that the heavier rocks would sink to the bottom during a flood event,

991
01:10:24,490 --> 01:10:28,784
the big rocks, and especially their shape, instead of aerodynamic,

992
01:10:28,784 --> 01:10:33,444
the hydrodynamic, the water changing shape, as water flows past,

993
01:10:33,444 --> 01:10:39,114
you'd expect them to sink to the bottom. But here are these enormous rocks right on the surface.

994
01:10:39,114 --> 01:10:42,991
And there's no shortage of them. If you go driving in Washington state or Oregon

995
01:10:42,991 --> 01:10:50,170
they are readily available. So how could those be there if the Earth is just 4,000 years old.

996
01:10:50,170 --> 01:10:53,868
How could they be there if this one flood caused that?

997
01:10:53,868 --> 01:11:01,370
Another remarkable thing I'd like everybody to consider, alone inherent in this worldview,

998
01:11:01,370 --> 01:11:10,324
is that somehow Noah and his family were able to build a wooden ship that would house

999
01:11:10,324 --> 01:11:18,321
14,000 individuals. There were 7,000 kinds and then, there's a boy and a girl for each one of those,

1000
01:11:18,321 --> 01:11:23,167
so there's about 14,000... 8 people. And these people were unskilled.

1001
01:11:23,167 --> 01:11:27,799
As far as anybody knows they had never built a wooden ship before.

1002
01:11:27,799 --> 01:11:32,110
Furthermore, they had to get all these animals on there. And they had to feed them.

1003
01:11:32,110 --> 01:11:37,202
And I understand that Mr. Ham has some explanations for that, which I frankly find extraordinary but

1004
01:11:37,202 --> 01:11:44,443
this is the premise of the bit. And we can then run a test, a scientific test.

1005
01:11:44,443 --> 01:11:51,603
People in the early 1900s built an extraordinary, large wooden ship, the Wyoming.

1006
01:11:51,603 --> 01:11:59,277
It was a six-masted schooner, the largest one ever built. It had a motor on it for winching cables and stuff.

1007
01:11:59,277 --> 01:12:07,599
But this boat had a great difficulty. It was not as big as the Titanic, but it was a very long ship.

1008
01:12:07,599 --> 01:12:15,268
It would twist in the sea. It would twist, this way, this way, and this way.

1009
01:12:16,314 --> 01:12:22,590
And in all that twisting, it leaked. It leaked like crazy. The crew could not keep the ship dry.

1010
01:12:22,590 --> 01:12:30,699
And indeed, it eventually foundered and sank, a loss of all 14 hands. So there were 14 crewmen

1011
01:12:31,360 --> 01:12:35,491
aboard a ship built by very, very skilled shipwrights in New England.

1012
01:12:35,491 --> 01:12:39,919
These guys were the best in the world at wooden shipbuilding. And they couldn't build

1013
01:12:39,919 --> 01:12:44,431
a boat as big as the Ark is claimed to have been.

1014
01:12:45,123 --> 01:12:51,208
Is that reasonable? Is that possible that the best shipbuilders in the world couldn't do

1015
01:12:51,208 --> 01:12:57,309
what eight unskilled people, men and their wives, were able to do?

1016
01:12:57,939 --> 01:13:06,596
If you visit the National Zoo, in Washington D.C., it's 163 acres. And they have 400 species.

1017
01:13:06,596 --> 01:13:12,055
By the way, this picture that you're seeing was taken by spacecraft in space, orbiting the Earth.

1018
01:13:12,655 --> 01:13:17,353
If you told my grandfather, let alone my father, that we were, that we had that capability,

1019
01:13:17,353 --> 01:13:21,569
they would have been amazed. That capability comes from our fundamental understanding

1020
01:13:22,015 --> 01:13:29,187
of gravity, of material science, of physics, and life science, where you go looking.

1021
01:13:29,417 --> 01:13:35,471
This place is often, as any zoo, is often deeply concerned and criticized for how it treats its animals.

1022
01:13:36,317 --> 01:13:44,725
They have 400 species on 163 acres, 66 hectares. Is it reasonable that Noah and his colleagues,

1023
01:13:44,725 --> 01:13:51,199
his family, were able to maintain 14,000 animals and themselves, and feed them, aboard a ship

1024
01:13:51,199 --> 01:13:53,724
that was bigger than anyone's ever been able to build?

1025
01:13:54,832 --> 01:14:02,534
Now, here's the thing, what we want in science, science as practiced on the outside,

1026
01:14:03,457 --> 01:14:10,933
is an ability to predict. We want to have a natural law that is so obvious and clear,

1027
01:14:10,933 --> 01:14:14,618
so well understood that we can make predictions about what will happen.

1028
01:14:15,125 --> 01:14:20,184
We can predict that we can put a spacecraft in orbit and take a picture of Washington D.C.

1029
01:14:20,753 --> 01:14:25,428
We can predict that if we provide this much room for an elephant, it will live healthily

1030
01:14:25,428 --> 01:14:30,454
for a certain amount of time. I'll give you an example.

1031
01:14:32,977 --> 01:14:38,345
In the explanation provided by traditional science, of how we came to be,

1032
01:14:38,898 --> 01:14:43,985
we find as Mr. Ham alluded to many times in his recent remarks,

1033
01:14:43,985 --> 01:14:49,480
we find a sequence of animals in what, generally, is called "the fossil record."

1034
01:14:49,480 --> 01:14:53,203
This would be to say when we look at the layers, that you would find in Kentucky,

1035
01:14:53,203 --> 01:14:58,161
you look at them carefully, you find a sequence of animals, a succession.

1036
01:14:58,791 --> 01:15:01,766
And as one might expect, when you are looking at old records

1037
01:15:01,766 --> 01:15:05,455
there's some pieces seem to be missing, a gap.

1038
01:15:05,455 --> 01:15:09,289
So scientists got to thinking about this.

1039
01:15:09,289 --> 01:15:14,527
There are lungfish that jump from pond to pond in Florida

1040
01:15:14,527 --> 01:15:16,084
and end up in people's swimming pools.

1041
01:15:16,084 --> 01:15:20,114
And there are amphibians, frogs and toads, croaking and carrying on.

1042
01:15:20,114 --> 01:15:26,165
And so people wondered if there wasn't a fossil or an organism,

1043
01:15:26,165 --> 01:15:29,112
an animal, that had lived, that had characteristics of both.

1044
01:15:29,112 --> 01:15:33,070
People over the years had found that in Canada,

1045
01:15:33,070 --> 01:15:36,530
there was clearly a fossil marsh--

1046
01:15:36,530 --> 01:15:39,525
a place that used to be a swamp that had dried out.

1047
01:15:39,525 --> 01:15:44,446
And they found all kinds of happy swamp fossils there:

1048
01:15:44,446 --> 01:15:48,607
ferns, organisms, animals, fish that were recognized.

1049
01:15:48,607 --> 01:15:52,285
And people realized that if this, with the age of the rocks there,

1050
01:15:52,285 --> 01:15:58,766
as computed by traditional scientists, with the age of the rocks there,

1051
01:15:58,766 --> 01:16:01,552
this would be a reasonable place to look for an animal,

1052
01:16:01,552 --> 01:16:06,935
a fossil of an animal that lived there. And, indeed, scientists found it.

1053
01:16:06,935 --> 01:16:10,857
Tiktaalik, this fish-lizard guy.

1054
01:16:10,857 --> 01:16:16,253
And they found several specimens, it wasn't one individual.

1055
01:16:16,253 --> 01:16:19,197
In other words, they made a prediction, that this animal

1056
01:16:19,197 --> 01:16:26,228
would be found and it was found. So far, Mr. Ham and his worldview,

1057
01:16:26,228 --> 01:16:29,893
the Ken Ham creation model, does not have this capability.

1058
01:16:29,893 --> 01:16:33,972
It cannot make predictions and show results.

1059
01:16:33,972 --> 01:16:38,468
Here's an extraordinary one that I find remarkable.

1060
01:16:38,468 --> 01:16:45,477
There are certain fish, the Topminnows, that have

1061
01:16:45,477 --> 01:16:51,023
the remarkable ability to have sex with other fish,

1062
01:16:51,023 --> 01:16:55,990
traditional fish sex, and they can have sex with themselves.

1063
01:16:55,990 --> 01:16:59,500
Now, one of the old questions in life science, everybody,

1064
01:16:59,500 --> 01:17:04,146
one of the old chin strokers is why does any organism,

1065
01:17:04,146 --> 01:17:12,645
whether you're an ash tree, a sea jelly, a squid, a marmot,

1066
01:17:12,645 --> 01:17:17,137
why does anybody have sex? I mean, there are more bacteria

1067
01:17:17,137 --> 01:17:21,396
in your tummy right now then there are humans on Earth.

1068
01:17:21,396 --> 01:17:23,697
And bacteria, they don't bother with that, man.

1069
01:17:23,697 --> 01:17:26,147
They split themselves in half, they get new bacteria!

1070
01:17:26,147 --> 01:17:30,169
Like, let's get her done! Let's go. But why does any--

1071
01:17:30,169 --> 01:17:33,804
think of all the trouble a rose bush goes to make a flower and the thorns

1072
01:17:33,804 --> 01:17:41,527
and the bees flying around, interacting--why does anybody bother with all that?

1073
01:17:41,527 --> 01:17:45,065
And the answer seems to be...your enemies.

1074
01:17:45,065 --> 01:17:52,181
And your enemies are not lions and tigers and bears...oh my!

1075
01:17:52,181 --> 01:17:55,674
No, your enemies are germs and parasites.

1076
01:17:55,674 --> 01:17:59,051
That's what's gonna get you. Germs and parasites.

1077
01:17:59,051 --> 01:18:06,124
My first cousin's son died tragically from essentially the flu.

1078
01:18:06,124 --> 01:18:08,679
This is not some story I heard about. This is my first cousin, once removed.

1079
01:18:08,679 --> 01:18:13,681
Because, apparently, the virus had the right genes to attack his genes.

1080
01:18:13,681 --> 01:18:16,932
So when you have sex you have a new set of genes.

1081
01:18:16,932 --> 01:18:20,621
You have a new mixture. So people studied these Topminnows.

1082
01:18:20,621 --> 01:18:25,049
And they found that the ones who reproduced sexually

1083
01:18:25,049 --> 01:18:29,756
had fewer parasites that the ones who reproduced on their own.

1084
01:18:29,756 --> 01:18:32,718
This Black Spot disease--wait, wait, there's more.

1085
01:18:32,718 --> 01:18:38,134
In these populations, with flooding and so on, when river ponds get isolated,

1086
01:18:38,134 --> 01:18:40,634
then they dry up, then the river flows again.

1087
01:18:40,634 --> 01:18:45,500
In between, some of the fish will have sex with other fish,

1088
01:18:45,500 --> 01:18:49,557
sometimes, and they'll have sex on their own, what's called asexually.

1089
01:18:49,557 --> 01:18:53,258
And those fish, the ones that are in between, sometimes this,

1090
01:18:53,258 --> 01:18:57,029
sometimes that, they have an intermediate number of infections.

1091
01:18:57,029 --> 01:19:02,670
In other words, the explanation provided by evolution made a prediction.

1092
01:19:02,670 --> 01:19:06,524
And the prediction's extraordinary and subtle, but there it is.

1093
01:19:06,524 --> 01:19:08,995
How else would you explain it?

1094
01:19:08,995 --> 01:19:14,498
And to Mr. Ham and his followers I say this is something we in science want.

1095
01:19:14,498 --> 01:19:18,078
We want the ability to predict. And your assertion

1096
01:19:18,078 --> 01:19:21,789
that there's some difference between the natural laws

1097
01:19:21,789 --> 01:19:24,580
that I use to observe the world today and the natural laws

1098
01:19:24,580 --> 01:19:30,083
that existed 4,000 years ago is extraordinary and unsettling.

1099
01:19:31,313 --> 01:19:35,154
I travel around. I have a great many family members

1100
01:19:35,154 --> 01:19:39,984
in Danville, Virginia, one of the U.S's most livable cities.

1101
01:19:39,984 --> 01:19:46,648
It's lovely. And I was driving along and there was a sign in front of a church:

1102
01:19:46,648 --> 01:19:50,923
"Big Bang theory? You got to be kidding me. God."

1103
01:19:50,923 --> 01:19:56,268
Now, everybody, why would someone at the church, a pastor for example,

1104
01:19:56,268 --> 01:20:03,120
put that sign up unless he or she didn't believe

1105
01:20:03,120 --> 01:20:06,761
that the big bang was a real thing? I just want to review,

1106
01:20:06,761 --> 01:20:09,973
briefly, with everybody why we accept,

1107
01:20:09,973 --> 01:20:13,293
in the outside world, why we accept the Big Bang.

1108
01:20:15,162 --> 01:20:23,011
Edwin Hubble, sorry, there you go,you gotta be kidding me God.

1109
01:20:23,026 --> 01:20:28,942
Edwin Hubble was sitting at Mount Wilson, which is up from Pasadena, California.

1110
01:20:28,989 --> 01:20:33,197
On a clear day you can look down and see where the Rose Parade goes.

1111
01:20:33,197 --> 01:20:34,841
It's that close to civilization.

1112
01:20:34,872 --> 01:20:40,532
But even in the early 1900's, the people who selected this site for astronomy

1113
01:20:40,532 --> 01:20:46,077
picked an excellent site. The clouds and smog are below you.

1114
01:20:46,077 --> 01:20:51,664
And Edwin Hubble sat there at this very big telescope night after night studying the heavens.

1115
01:20:51,664 --> 01:20:58,824
And he found that the stars are moving apart. The stars are moving apart.

1116
01:20:58,824 --> 01:21:07,951
And he wasn't sure why. But it was clear that the stars are moving farther and farther apart all the time.

1117
01:21:07,951 --> 01:21:11,935
So people talked about it for a couple decades.

1118
01:21:11,935 --> 01:21:15,506
And then eventually another astronomer, almost a couple decades, another astronomer

1119
01:21:15,521 --> 01:21:20,153
Fred Hoyle just remarked, "Well, it was like there was a big bang.

1120
01:21:20,153 --> 01:21:25,011
There was an explosion. This is to say; since everything's moving apart,

1121
01:21:25,011 --> 01:21:28,221
it's very reasonable that at one time they were all together.

1122
01:21:28,221 --> 01:21:32,863
And there's a place from whence, or rather whence, these things expanded."

1123
01:21:32,863 --> 01:21:35,074
And it was a remarkable insight.

1124
01:21:35,074 --> 01:21:38,302
But people went still questioning it for decades.

1125
01:21:38,302 --> 01:21:44,129
Scientists, conventional scientists, questioning it for decades.

1126
01:21:44,129 --> 01:21:51,189
These two researchers wanted to listen for radio signals from space--radio astronomy.

1127
01:21:51,204 --> 01:21:57,744
And this is while we have visible light for our eyes, there is a whole other bunch of waves of light

1128
01:21:57,805 --> 01:22:01,290
that are much longer. The microwaves in your oven are about that long.

1129
01:22:01,290 --> 01:22:08,659
The radar at the airport is about that long. Your FM radio signals about like this.

1130
01:22:08,659 --> 01:22:14,354
AM radio signals are a kilometer--they're a couple, several soccer fields.

1131
01:22:14,354 --> 01:22:20,812
They went out listening. And there was this hiss, this hisssssss, all the time

1132
01:22:20,812 --> 01:22:25,065
that wouldn't go away. And they thought "Oh! Doggone it. There's some loose

1133
01:22:25,065 --> 01:22:29,624
connector." They plugged in the connector. They rescrewed it. They made it tight.

1134
01:22:29,624 --> 01:22:31,542
They turned it this way. The hiss was still there.

1135
01:22:31,542 --> 01:22:33,596
They turned it that way. It was still there.

1136
01:22:33,627 --> 01:22:38,626
They thought it was pigeon droppings that had affected the reception of this "horn" it's called.

1137
01:22:38,642 --> 01:22:42,200
This thing is still there. It's in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.

1138
01:22:42,200 --> 01:22:48,850
It's a national historic site. And Arno Pinzius and Robert Wilson had found

1139
01:22:48,850 --> 01:22:54,679
this cosmic background sound that was predicted by astronomers.

1140
01:22:54,710 --> 01:22:59,720
Astronomers running the numbers, doing math, predicted

1141
01:22:59,720 --> 01:23:02,799
that in the cosmos would be left over this echo,

1142
01:23:02,815 --> 01:23:07,121
this energy, from the Big Bang that would be detectable.

1143
01:23:07,121 --> 01:23:13,217
And they detected it. We built the Cosmic Observatory for Background Emissions, the COBE spacecraft,

1144
01:23:13,217 --> 01:23:19,510
and it matched exactly, exactly the astronomers predictions.

1145
01:23:19,510 --> 01:23:22,469
You gotta respect that. It's a wonderful thing.

1146
01:23:22,469 --> 01:23:29,789
Now, along that line is some interest in the age of the earth.

1147
01:23:29,789 --> 01:23:35,254
Right now, it's generally agreed that the Big Bang happened 13.7 billion years ago.

1148
01:23:35,254 --> 01:23:42,245
What we can do on earth. These elements that we all know on the Periodic Table of Chemicals,

1149
01:23:42,245 --> 01:23:47,126
even ones we don't know, were created when stars explode.

1150
01:23:47,126 --> 01:23:52,381
And I look like nobody. But I attended a lecture by Hans Betta who won a Nobel

1151
01:23:52,381 --> 01:23:56,323
Prize for discovering the process by which stars create all these elements.

1152
01:23:56,323 --> 01:24:01,985
The one that interests me especially is our good friends Rubidium and Strontium.

1153
01:24:01,985 --> 01:24:07,197
Rubidium becomes Strontium spontaneously. It's an interesting thing to me.

1154
01:24:07,197 --> 01:24:11,949
A neutron becomes a proton. And it goes up the Periodic Table.

1155
01:24:11,949 --> 01:24:15,453
When lava comes out of the ground, molten lava,

1156
01:24:15,453 --> 01:24:18,957
and it freezes, turns to rock, when the melt solidifies,

1157
01:24:18,957 --> 01:24:23,211
or crystalizes, it locks the Rubidium and Strontium in place.

1158
01:24:23,211 --> 01:24:30,781
And so by careful assay, by careful, by being diligent, you can tell when the rock froze.

1159
01:24:30,781 --> 01:24:36,791
You can tell how old the Rubidium and Strontium are. And you can get an age for the earth.

1160
01:24:36,791 --> 01:24:43,314
When that stuff falls on fossils, you can get a very good idea of how old the fossils are.

1161
01:24:43,314 --> 01:24:46,452
I encourage you all to go to Nebraska, go to Ashfall State Park

1162
01:24:46,452 --> 01:24:52,363
and see the astonishing fossils. It looks like a Hollywood movie.

1163
01:24:52,363 --> 01:24:56,996
There are rhinoceroses. There are three-toed horses in Nebraska.

1164
01:24:56,996 --> 01:25:02,782
None of those animals are extant today. And they are buried, catastrophically, by a

1165
01:25:02,782 --> 01:25:06,424
volcano in what is now Idaho. Is now Yellowstone National Park.

1166
01:25:06,424 --> 01:25:08,937
What is called the hot spot. People call it the super-volcano.

1167
01:25:08,937 --> 01:25:13,435
And it's the remarkable thing. Apparently, as I can tell you, as a Northwesterner around

1168
01:25:13,435 --> 01:25:16,989
for Mount St. Helen's. For full disclosure I'm on the Mount St. Helen's Board.

1169
01:25:16,989 --> 01:25:21,252
When it (explosive sound), when it goes off it gives out a great deal of gas

1170
01:25:21,252 --> 01:25:25,192
that's toxic and knock these animals out. Looking for relief, they go to a watering

1171
01:25:25,192 --> 01:25:28,722
hole. And then when the ash comes they were all buried. It's an extraordinary place.

1172
01:25:28,722 --> 01:25:37,181
Now if in the bad old days, you had heart problems, they would right away cut you open.

1173
01:25:37,181 --> 01:25:43,646
Now, we use a drug based on Rubidium to look at the inside of your heart without cutting you open.

1174
01:25:43,646 --> 01:25:52,710
Now, my Kentucky friends, I want you to consider this. Right now, there is no place

1175
01:25:52,710 --> 01:25:57,723
in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to get a degree in this kind of nuclear medicine--

1176
01:25:57,723 --> 01:26:01,044
this kind of drugs associated with that.

1177
01:26:01,044 --> 01:26:04,774
I hope you find that troubling. I hope you're concerned about that.

1178
01:26:04,774 --> 01:26:10,999
You want scientifically literate students in your commonwealth for a better tomorrow for everybody.

1179
01:26:10,999 --> 01:26:16,678
You can, you can't get this here. You have to go out of state.

1180
01:26:16,678 --> 01:26:22,562
Now as far as the distance to stars. Understand this is very well understood.

1181
01:26:22,562 --> 01:26:27,620
We, it's February. We look at a star in February. We measure an angle to it.

1182
01:26:27,620 --> 01:26:32,039
We wait six months. We look at that same star again and we measure that angle.

1183
01:26:32,039 --> 01:26:37,655
It's the same way carpenters built this building. It's the same way surveyors surveyed the land that we're standing on.

1184
01:26:37,655 --> 01:26:42,588
And so by measuring the distance to a star, you can figure out how far away it is, that star,

1185
01:26:42,588 --> 01:26:46,274
and the stars beyond it, and the stars beyond that. There are billions of stars.

1186
01:26:46,274 --> 01:26:51,079
Billions of stars more than six thousand light years from here.

1187
01:26:51,079 --> 01:26:55,857
A light year is a unit of distance, not a unit of time.

1188
01:26:55,857 --> 01:27:02,290
There are billions of stars. Mr. Hamm, how could there be billions of stars more distant

1189
01:27:02,290 --> 01:27:05,993
than six thousand years, if the world's only six thousand years old?

1190
01:27:05,993 --> 01:27:12,645
It's an extraordinary claim. There's another astronomer, Adolphe Quetele, who remarked first

1191
01:27:12,645 --> 01:27:24,821
about the reasonable man. Is it reasonable that we have ice older by a factor of a hundred than you claim the earth is?

1192
01:27:24,821 --> 01:27:27,893
We have trees that have more tree rings than the earth is old.

1193
01:27:27,893 --> 01:27:33,737
We have rocks with Rubidium and Strontium, and Uranium-Uranium, and Potassium-Argon dating

1194
01:27:33,737 --> 01:27:37,900
that are far, far, far older than you claim the earth is.

1195
01:27:37,900 --> 01:27:43,850
Could anybody have built an ark that would sustain the better than any ark anybody was able to build on the earth?

1196
01:27:43,850 --> 01:27:49,895
So, if you're asking me, and I got the impression you were,

1197
01:27:49,895 --> 01:27:55,220
is Ken Hamm's creation model viable? I say "No! Absolutely not!"

1198
01:27:55,220 --> 01:28:02,396
Now, one last thing. You may not know that in the US Constitution, from the founding fathers,

1199
01:28:02,396 --> 01:28:06,851
is the sentence "to promote the progress of science and useful arts..."

1200
01:28:06,851 --> 01:28:12,917
Kentucky voters, voters who might be watching on line,

1201
01:28:12,917 --> 01:28:17,254
in places like Texas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Kansas, please

1202
01:28:17,254 --> 01:28:20,715
you don't want to raise a generation of science students

1203
01:28:20,715 --> 01:28:24,581
who don't understand how we know our place in the cosmos,

1204
01:28:24,581 --> 01:28:27,468
our place in space, who don't understand natural law.

1205
01:28:27,468 --> 01:28:30,981
We need to innovate to keep the United States where it is in the world.

1206
01:28:32,546 --> 01:28:49,485
Thank you very much. (applause)

1207
01:28:49,485 --> 01:28:53,365
Moderator: That's a lot to take in. I hope everybody's holding up well.

1208
01:28:53,365 --> 01:28:56,966
That's a lot of information. What we're going to have now is a five minute

1209
01:28:56,966 --> 01:29:00,440
rebuttal time for each gentleman to address the other one's comments.

1210
01:29:00,440 --> 01:29:04,397
And then there will be a five minute counter rebuttal after that.

1211
01:29:04,397 --> 01:29:07,360
Things are going to start moving a little more quickly now.

1212
01:29:07,360 --> 01:29:12,053
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.

1213
01:29:12,053 --> 01:29:15,312
So, Mr. Hamm, if you'd like to begin with your five minute rebuttal first.

1214
01:29:25,140 --> 01:29:29,586
Mr. Hamm: First of all, Bill, if I was to answer all the points that you brought up,

1215
01:29:31,574 --> 01:29:34,688
the moderator would think that I was going on for millions of years. (laughter)

1216
01:29:34,688 --> 01:29:37,640
So I can only deal with some of them.

1217
01:29:37,640 --> 01:29:40,727
And you mentioned the age of the earth a couple of times, so let me deal with that.

1218
01:29:40,727 --> 01:29:49,356
As I said in my presentation, you can't observe the age of the earth. I would say that comes under what we call historical origin science.

1219
01:29:49,356 --> 01:29:53,053
Now, just so you understand where I'm coming from.

1220
01:29:53,053 --> 01:29:58,121
Yes, we admit we build our origins from historical science on the Bible.

1221
01:29:58,121 --> 01:30:03,604
The Bible says God created in six days. A Hebrew word "yon" as it's used in Genesis 1

1222
01:30:03,604 --> 01:30:07,326
with evening/morning number means an ordinary day. Adam was made on day six.

1223
01:30:07,326 --> 01:30:11,076
And so, when you add up all those geneologies specifically given in the Bible

1224
01:30:11,076 --> 01:30:21,116
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.

1225
01:30:21,116 --> 01:30:25,398
That's how we get 6,000 years. So that's where it comes from. Just so you know.

1226
01:30:25,398 --> 01:30:31,065
Now a lot of people say. Now, by the way, the earth's age is 4.5 billion years old.

1227
01:30:31,065 --> 01:30:35,753
And we have radioactive decay dating methods that found that.

1228
01:30:35,753 --> 01:30:39,453
But you see, we certainly observe radioactive decay

1229
01:30:39,453 --> 01:30:43,380
whether it's rubidium-strontium, whether it's uranium-lead, potassium-argon

1230
01:30:43,380 --> 01:30:47,151
But when you're talking about the past, we have a problem.

1231
01:30:47,151 --> 01:30:50,964
I'll give you a practical example. In Australia, there were engineers

1232
01:30:50,964 --> 01:30:54,856
that were trying to search out about a coal mine.

1233
01:30:54,856 --> 01:30:59,352
And so they drilled down and they found a basalt layer, a lava flow that had woody material in it--

1234
01:30:59,352 --> 01:31:06,234
branches and twigs and so on. And when Dr. Andrew Snelling, our PhD geologist,

1235
01:31:06,234 --> 01:31:08,766
sent that to a lab in Massachusetts in 1994, they used potassium-argon

1236
01:31:08,766 --> 01:31:11,258
dating and dated it at 45 million years old.

1237
01:31:11,258 --> 01:31:15,456
Well, he also sent the wood to the radio-carbon section of the same lab

1238
01:31:15,456 --> 01:31:20,746
and that dated at 45,000 years old. 45,000 year old wood in 45 million year old rock.

1239
01:31:20,746 --> 01:31:23,175
The point is there's a problem.

1240
01:31:23,175 --> 01:31:25,688
Let me give you another example of a problem.

1241
01:31:25,688 --> 01:31:30,139
There was a lava dome that started to form in the 80's after Mt. St. Helen's erupted.

1242
01:31:30,139 --> 01:31:35,830
And in 1994 Dr. Steve Austin, another PhD geologist, actually sampled the rock there.

1243
01:31:35,830 --> 01:31:45,866
He took whole rock, crushed it, sent it to the same lab actually, I believe, and got a date of .35 million years.

1244
01:31:45,866 --> 01:31:50,951
When he separated out the minerals amphibole and pyroxene and used potassium-argon dating,

1245
01:31:50,951 --> 01:31:57,719
he got .9 million and 2.8 million. My point is all these dating methods actually give all sorts of different dates.

1246
01:31:57,719 --> 01:32:02,661
In fact, different dating methods on the same rock, we can show, give all sorts of different dates.

1247
01:32:02,661 --> 01:32:05,365
See there's lots of assumptions in regard to radioactive dating.

1248
01:32:05,365 --> 01:32:10,609
Number one, for instance, the amounts of the parent and daughter isotopes at the beginning when the rock formed.

1249
01:32:10,609 --> 01:32:13,327
We have to know them. But you weren't there. See that's historical science.

1250
01:32:13,327 --> 01:32:20,630
Assumption 2 that all daughter atoms measured today must have only been derived in situ radioactive decay of parent atoms.

1251
01:32:20,630 --> 01:32:21,950
In other words it's a closed system.

1252
01:32:21,950 --> 01:32:24,809
But you don't know that. And there's a lot of evidence that that's not so.

1253
01:32:24,809 --> 01:32:29,618
Assumption #3 that the decay rates have remained a constant.

1254
01:32:29,618 --> 01:32:32,125
Now they're just some of them. There's others as well.

1255
01:32:32,125 --> 01:32:34,526
The point is there's lots of assumptions in regard to the dating methods.

1256
01:32:34,526 --> 01:32:39,495
So there's no dating method you can use that you can absolutely age date a rock.

1257
01:32:39,495 --> 01:32:42,630
There's all sorts of differences out there.

1258
01:32:42,630 --> 01:32:46,725
And I do want to address the bit you brought up about Christians believing in millions of years.