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Have you ever thought about it?
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I mean really, what is the purpose to life?
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Why are we here? Where did we come from?
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For that matter, where are we going to go
when this life is over?
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This seminar talks about the age of the earth.
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Dr. Hovind gives solid evidence to show that
this earth is not billions of years old.
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In fact, the evidence points towards a literal
six-day creation.
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Just like we’re told about in Genesis chapter
one.
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Hi, my name is Eric, and we hope you enjoy
this incredibly powerful seminar.
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It is presented by Dr. Hovind. It’s called
“The Age of the Earth.”
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Well, it is an honor to be here tonight in
Tennessee. My name is Kent Hovind.
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I taught high school science for 15 years,
and now for 16 years I have been an evangelist
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doing seminars on creation, evolution, and
dinosaurs.
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And I tell people right up front that I believe
the Bible is the infallible, inspired, inerrant
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Word of the Living God.
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I believe it from cover to cover. I even believe
the cover on mine; it says: Kent Hovind.
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And for those who don’t know, the Bible is
your Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.
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You really ought to read the book because
you are going to be gone for an awfully long
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time.
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And when you leave here, there is no coming
back, so make sure you are going to the right
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spot.
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Now, one of my jobs as a Christian is “to
be ready always to give an answer to every
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man that asketh a reason of the hope that
is in us.”
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I think in the last few hundred years the
Christians have not done a good job of answering
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this evolution theory.
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And we’ve tolerated this philosophy of evolution
which is actually a religion.
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We have allowed this religion to take over
our school system and our legal system.
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Our whole thinking process now is based on
a philosophy which has zero scientific evidence.
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None!
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We’ve been offering $250,000 for anybody with
any real scientific evidence for evolution.
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That offer has been out there for 12 years
now.
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There is no real scientific evidence for it
whatsoever.
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People believe in it, I understand; but that
doesn’t make it science.
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Now, there are three things I try to accomplish
in my seminar.
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Number one, I want to strengthen your faith
in the Word of God.
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Number two, if you are not saved I want to
try to get you converted.
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I’ll tell you right up front, I am after you.
I am not sneaking up on you - I am after you!
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All right?
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Number three, if you are saved and you are
not doing much for the Lord,
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... then I am going to try to make you uncomfortable.
All right?
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You know where we are going now.
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OK, this is not my wife. That’s just a picture
of her.
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Last summer was our 31st anniversary and we
sat down to figure out how much money we have
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spent since we got married.
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We have spent all of it.
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We live in Pensacola, Florida - or what’s
left of it.
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Hurricane Ivan about blew it off the map.
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But we are having a good time rebuilding down
there.
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I have three children, one of each. And I
got them all married off and the dog died,
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so I made it. Praise God.
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I am home free; it is wonderful.
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And for those who don’t know, we now have
the whole family working in the ministry,
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and I have four grandkids so far.
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And for those that don’t understand this,
grandkids are God’s reward for not killing
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your own kids when you thought about it.
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How many have already figured that out? That’s
great, isn’t it?
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All of them live right around me and work
in our ministry; they all want to serve God
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with their lives.
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That is worth something to somebody.
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We have about 40 people in our ministry, and
we want to do things that will help strengthen
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your faith in God’s Word.
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We want to change people’s worldview.
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There are two ways to look at this world.
That’s called your worldview. How do you view
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this world?
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Some people look at the world one way, and
some look at it another way. We’ll talk about
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that in a minute.
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But the way you view the world determines
how you answer the four great questions of
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life.
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There are four fundamental questions that
every single religion on planet earth tries
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to answer.
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Who am I? Where did I come from? Why am I
here? And where am I going when I die?
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The way you answer those questions is totally
determined by your worldview.
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Some people look at the world and say, “You
know, it’s amazing - a big bang made this
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from nothing.” That’s the humanist worldview,
based on the evolution theory.
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Other people look at the world and say, “You
know, there is an incredible design - there
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must be a Designer!” That’s the creationist
worldview, based on creation.
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And those two worldviews are at war with each
other. Somebody is wrong, and I enjoy showing
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them who they are.
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I’ve done a lot of debates, over 90.
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92 debates now I’ve done at the universities;
one here at U.T. Knoxville against Dr. Pigliuchi.
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I’ve debated him twice; I will be glad to
do it again. I don’t think he will, but I
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would be honored.
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The guys I debate are a lot smarter that I
am, but I slaughter them because I am right
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and they are wrong. It’s real simple.
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But if the evolution theory is true, how would
you answer the four great questions of life?
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Who am I, and what am I worth?
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Well, if evolution is true, you are nothing
important.
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You are just a piece of protoplasm that washed
up on the beach; you are not worth a thing.
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Actually you are part of the problem. You
see, because you are one of the polluters
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of the environment, and the more of you we
can get rid of, the better.
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See, that’s normal thinking if evolution is
true.
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Where did I come from?
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Well, if evolution is true, you came from
a cosmic burp about 20 billion years ago.
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Why am I here? What’s the purpose of life?
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Well, if evolution is true, there is no purpose
to life, so you might as well have fun. If
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it feels good, do it.
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Where am I going when I die?
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Well, if evolution is true, you are going
to the grave and you are going to get recycled
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into a worm, or a plant.
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But see, the Bible says: “In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.”
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Now if that’s true, that puts a whole different
set of answers to those questions.
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That means we had better try to figure out
who God is and find out what He wants and
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do what He says. Because He created this place,
which means He owns it, He makes the rules.
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We had better find out what He wants. And
if you are not obeying His rules, you may
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be in trouble one of these days.
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We’ll get into more about that later.
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The devil doesn’t like this idea that God
created the earth. The devil came to Eve in
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the Garden of Eden.
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The first thing he said to the woman was,
Eve, hath God said...? “Yea, hath God said?”
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He is trying to raise doubts about God’s Word.
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Satan always tries to raise doubts about God’s
Word.
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That is one of the reasons that we’ve got
all this confusion on different Bible versions.
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We cover more on that in video #7.
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The second thing he said to the woman was,
“Ye shall not surely die.”
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He is calling God a liar, basically.
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The third thing he said to Eve is what I want
to talk to you about tonight.
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He said, Eve, if you eat off of that tree,
ye shall be as gods.
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And right there is where the whole idea of
evolution got started.
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It didn’t start with Charlie Darwin; it started
with Satan in the Garden of Eden.
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He wants you to think you can become a god.
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Yes, boys and girls, we started like an amoeba,
and we are evolving. We are getting bigger
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and better and stronger and smarter...
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...and some day we are going to sail around
the universe and discover new life-forms,
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like “Star Trek.”
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People ask me all the time, they say, “Hovind,
do you think there is intelligent life on
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other planets?”
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I say, “No, I taught high school 15 years;
there is not much intelligent life on this
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planet!” I didn’t get to see a whole lot of
it.
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Satan’s a liar. He said that you can be like
God. I tell you what, the Mormon Church has
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swallowed that.
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They teach their people that if you are a
good Mormon, when you go to heaven you get
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to become god. And if you’re a good Mormon
wife, when you go to heaven you get to be
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eternally pregnant, producing spirit babies.
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My wife doesn’t want to go. She said, “That’s
not heaven, honey.”
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But there are some great books to reach Mormons
and a good Web site: www.utlm.org.
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If you want to reach Mormons, you ought to
study that one.
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I was surprised to find out a couple of years
ago some of the major Catholic theologians
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of the past have taught that man can become
god.
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It is still in their catechism right now.
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Now most Catholics don’t believe that, and
they don’t even realize some of their leaders
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have taught that.
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But even Kenneth Copeland said, “Adam, in
the Garden of Eden, was god manifest in the
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flesh.”
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He said, “You don’t have a god in you; you
are one.”
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I am sorry, Kenneth, you are crazy about that,
OK?
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Kenneth Hagan said, “The believers are called
Christ; that’s who we are, we are Christ.”
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No, you are crazy. The job is not available,
and you couldn’t do it if you had it.
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You are not God, all right? Nor are you Christ.
Walk on water sometime; I want to see that.
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Lucifer is the one who wants to be God.
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Lucifer said, “I will ascend into heaven,
I will exalt my throne above the stars of
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God: ...”
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“I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation,
in the sides of the north, ...”
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“...I will ascend above the heights of the
clouds: I will be like the most High.”
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See, Satan wants to be God. But the job is
not available, so he is all upset about that.
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Since he can’t be God, he lied to Eve and
told her she could be like God.
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Satan hates us, though, because we are made
in God’s image.
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And boy, Eve fell for that hook, line, and
sinker. “Wow, I get to be God!”
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Hitler said, “If you tell a lie long enough
and loud enough and often enough, the people
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will believe it.” He said they are more likely
to believe a big lie than a small one.
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If you want to get somebody to believe a lie,
you have to do it like my two big brothers
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did to me.
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I have two older brothers; they have always
been older than I am. They still are today.
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When I was about six years old, I was raised
in Peoria, Illinois.
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By the way, I know I am in Tennessee, but
are there any more Yankees in the crowd? Any
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Yankees out there?
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Five, six, seven, OK. And how many Southerners
do we have?
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Oh!
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Well, just remember who won, if you would.
I know, ‘it ain’t over yet, right?’
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But I was raised in East Peoria, Illinois,
in the North.
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But I did move to Florida, as soon as I got
smart enough to figure out that the South
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is going to rise again.
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But when I was about six years old, I came
running in for breakfast one morning.
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I was the first one there for breakfast; so
I got the last banana out of the bowl to put
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on my cereal.
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Well, a few minutes later my two big brothers
came in.
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They said, “Hey, Kent, is that the last banana?”
I said, “Yep, and I got it.”
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How many of you have an older brother or sister?
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You know that wonderful feeling you get when
you finally pull one over on them?
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Boy, that morning I had them, and I knew it.
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They wanted my banana. But big brothers do
not beg little brothers for anything.
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They either beat them up and take it away
by brute force, or they lie to them and trick
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them out of it somehow.
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So my brothers said, “Hey, Kent, do you know
how bananas are made?”
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I said, “No.”
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I was only six years old, and it’s been proven
in laboratory tests that the brain doesn’t
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even start to grow until kids are 18 to 20.
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How many parents can verify that from raising
kids? I said “No, how are bananas made?”
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And they said, “Well, down in the South America,
they have these spiders that live up in the
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trees, and when they die all their legs fold
up, and mold begins to grow on the dead spider
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legs.
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And a banana is really nothing but moldy spider
legs.”
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I said, “You guys are lying to me. You just
want this banana because you know it’s the
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last one.”
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They said, “No brother, we are not lying.
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You cut that thing in half and look in the
middle; you can still see the black spots
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where his legs were.”
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I did not eat bananas for nearly three years
after that.
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They lied to me. Have you ever been lied to
before?
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I would not have believed the lie if it hadn’t
been for those black spots.
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See, if you want to get somebody to believe
a lie, you have to mix it with some truth.
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That’s a technique they have used for years
to kill rats. You don’t give the rat a bowl
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of poison. You give the rat a bowl of good
food with a little poison mixed in.
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They are mixing two things together that really
do not belong together.
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See, rat poison is 99.995% good food. That’s
how you trick them.
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They’ve done the same thing for years to sell
Marlboro cigarettes.
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They mix them in with cowboys.
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You can watch any Marlboro commercial; there
is something about a cowboy in there.
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Have you stopped and thought about that?
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What is the connection between smoking Marlboro
and cowboys? Do all cowboys smoke Marlboro?
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No. Do you have to smoke to be a cowboy? No.
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If you start smoking Marlboro, do you become
a cowboy automatically? No.
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You may smell like a horse, but you are not
a cowboy. OK?
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Actually it has been proven in laboratory
tests that nobody in the world smokes. Nobody
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smokes!
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Only the cigarette smokes; the person is the
“sucker.” That’s all. I think they ought to
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put the real names on those things. We ought
to have some truth in advertising.
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They should really be calling them: Cancerettes,
Breath Rotters, By-pass, Malignant, Phlegm
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Balls, and Money Suckers.
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They do the same thing with beer.
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They try to associate beer with sports. What
does beer have to do with sports?
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They get some big football player holding
his can of Bud Dumber, or Bud Stupid.
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They call it “Budweiser”; it doesn’t make
them any wiser though, that’s for sure.
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He’s got some Bud Dumber, or Miller Low Life,
or Dead Dog, whatever it is.
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He says, man, you drink this stuff, and you
will be a football player. Yeah, right!
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The Bible says if you drink that stuff, you
will wreck your life.
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“Who hath woe? Who hath wounds without cause?
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They that tarry long at the wine.” The Bible
says, don’t even look at it when it gets fermented.
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Habakkuk says, “Woe unto him that giveth his
neighbor drink.” There is a lot in the Bible
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about not even touching that stuff.
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One kid said to me one time, “What’s the matter,
Hovind, don’t you like beer?”
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I said, “I don’t know. I have never tasted
it. I am 52 years old, and I’ve never had
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a drop in my life!” (Well, I’ve had Nyquil
a couple of times.)
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He said, “How do you know that you won’t like
it, if you don’t try it?”
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I said, “Now son, that’s a brilliant way to
live your life.”
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Let me ask you a question, son. Have you ever
laid your head under a semi truck?
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Well, how do you know you won’t like it if
you don’t try it?
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You don’t have to try everything to figure
out if it’s good or bad.
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There are other ways to learn - like watching
somebody else do it.
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Wow, don’t do that; that will hurt.
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Like the redneck’s famous last words: “Hey
you all, watch this!”
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I like science, folks; I collect science books.
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There is a lot of good science in these books,
but there is some poison mixed with it.
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It’s kind of like the rat poison. It’s not
good food
I am against, it’s the poison!
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I need a boy and
a girl who would like to learn the scientific
way to shoot a rubber band.
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Who would like to learn? OK, that boy right
there, come up here. And one girl, let’s get
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one girl, come on.
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Way back there. OK, hurry up, run!
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All right, the scientific way to shoot a rubber
band.
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What’s your name sir?... Josh, How old are
you Josh?... I was ten for a whole year one
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time. That’s amazing.
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I was supposed to be eleven but I was sick
for three years when I was two and a half.
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And how old are you going to be when you are
almost twelve? “Eleven.”
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And how much does your mom pay you to be good?
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So you are good for nothing, and you are ten.
Pick a rubber band out of here, Josh.
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OK, the brown one. And what’s your name, ma’am?
“Laura.”
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Laura? Pick a rubber band out of there, Laura.
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You want the pink one of course; a girl one.
OK.
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Here’s what I want you to do, Josh and Laura.
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We are going to stand here and shoot a rubber
band down the center aisle. Go ahead.
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That one won’t work; that’s a double one.
Here, let me try it.
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Try an orange one, here. That’s two tied together;
I didn’t see that.
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OK, Josh, shoot the rubber band down the center
isle. Past the table; not too far.
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Laura, give it a try; come on. Oh, three
rows back.
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Now, watch carefully; I’m going to get down
to the same size as you guys, and I am going
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to show the scientific way to shoot a rubber
band.
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Are you ready for this? Now, I want you to
notice that my fingers do not leave my hand
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at any time.
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You believe that? OK now, pay attention.
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See the guy sitting way in the back of the
church? Ah, about three fourths of the way
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there.
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Probably, right about now you are thinking
of a question that has five words in it.
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What question are you thinking of? How do
you do that?
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See, I told you it had five words in it, right?
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Now, before I show you how to do this, I want
to explain something.
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Some kids should not learn how to do some
things, because they become what’s known as
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a menace to society.
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Who’s responsible for this kid right here?
Where’s your mom & dad? Is he safe with this
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information? Ha, ha. Mom says no!
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And who’s responsible for this one here, where
is... Nobody?
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Oh, back there. Did your husband come? No.
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OK now, pay attention- the scientific way
to shoot a rubber band.
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There are two sides to a rubber band. Are
you with me so far?
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One side represents your flesh, that’s your
body. And the other side represents your spirit.
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Now your spirit has to live in your flesh,
or else you are dead.
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If your spirit ever leaves your flesh, you’ve
got a real problem on your hands! (Actually
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the neighbors do.)
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But what most people do wrong in rubber band
shooting, and in real life, is they put the
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same emphasis on the flesh and the spirit.
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See, if you pull both sides the same and let
it fly, if you could watch it in slow motion,
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both sides are going
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And all the energy is wasted inside the rubber
band because the flesh and the spirit are
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fighting with each other.
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So, the secret to high-speed velocity through
a fluid medium such as the atmosphere ...
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... which offers resistance, is to minimize
or eliminate the turbulence. OK?
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All I did when you guys weren’t watching,
was stretch one side tighter than the other.
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One side is tight.
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Now pay attention to what’s going to happen.
If you do it right, the spirit leads the flesh,
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takes away most of the turbulence, and it
goes much farther.
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Got the guy in the back row! So when I am
up here with a whole pile of rubber bands,
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...
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... knowing I can hit anybody in the room,
it gives you this feeling of power ...
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...that some kids really just don’t know how
to handle; do you know what I’m talking about?
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You are thinking about it right now, aren’t
you? Yes, I thought so. Let’s give them a
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hand; have a seat, guys. Thank you so much.
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The Bible says, “the flesh lusteth against
the Spirit, the Spirit against the flesh;
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they are contrary one to the other.”
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This is why some of you won’t go very far
in your spiritual life. You feed the flesh
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too much.
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Shut off the TV once in a while...Simple.
Wait until you see our super airplanes go.
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Tomorrow we are going to show you our super
airplanes.
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I make paper airplanes that go so far, that
if they don’t land in a tree or on a building,
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they go all the way to the ground.
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Our record with the paper airplane is 450
feet.
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We are going to put them completely over the
building including the steeple, tomorrow.
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We like science. We are not against science,
but I am against poison mixed in with the
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science, That’s all. Here is a first grade
textbook.
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This is what they tell the kids in the first
grade. Earth has changed much since its formation
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four and a half billion years ago. Now just
hold on a minute.
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Is the earth four and a half billion years
old? No, as we’ll see in a minute. But if
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you tell that to a first grader, he’s going
to believe you.
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First graders believe everything you tell
them. They believe bananas are moldy spider
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legs. I did.
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And they tell them again in the second grade.
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Since its formation 4.5 billion years ago,
earth has changed. Down at the bottom it says:
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“Life too, has evolved on earth.”
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This word “evolved” is a very tricky word.
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I’ve done over 90 debates and about 7,000
radio and TV call-in talk shows, and I’ve
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learned how to win the debate on evolution
in the first five minutes.
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It is so easy. If somebody says, “Do you believe
in evolution?” I say, “What do you mean?”
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“Well, you know, evolution.”
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“No, which one are you talking about?” There
are six meanings for the word. Are we talking
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about cosmic evolution- evolution of time,
space, matter? I don’t believe in that, with
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the big bang. We’ll talk about that in a minute.
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Are we talking about chemical evolution? Because
according to the big bang theory, the big
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bang produced hydrogen, and maybe some helium.
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Then how did we get all these other elements?
Do you want me to believe uranium evolved
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from hydrogen?
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They’ll say, well yes, you have fusion in
stars. Yes, but you can’t fuse past IRON (Fe)
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very well.
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Besides, you have a chicken and an egg problem
here, because the stars have to make the elements,
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and the elements have to make the stars. Which
one came first?
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Which brings up, of course, stellar evolution.
How did the stars form?
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Did you know that nobody has ever seen a star
form?
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Scientists don’t even have a clue how a star
could form- not even any good theories about
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star formation (more about that in video #7).
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We see stars blow up all the time. It’s called
a nova, or a super nova if it is a big one.
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That happens all the time. But we never see
one form.
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And yet there are enough stars out there that
we know about that everybody on planet earth,
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every single individual, can personally own
11 trillion stars to themselves.
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Those are the ones we know about. We don’t
know about the ones that we don’t know about.
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Fourthly, there would have to be organic evolution,
origin of life. Life would have to be started
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from non-living material.
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Nobody has a clue how that could happen. Then
we would have to have what’s called macroevolution.
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That’s where an animal changes to a different
kind of animal.
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Did you know that nobody has ever seen a dog
produce a non-dog? Never!
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You may get a big dog, or a little dog, but
you are going to get a dog every time. And
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it could be that the dog, the wolf, and the
coyote had a common ancestor.
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I wouldn’t argue about that - they probably
did. But every five-year-old kid knows they’re
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the same kind of animal. I’ll show you.
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Is anybody in here five or six? Who is five
or six years old? Anybody?
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OK. How old are you, buddy? Six? I want you
to take a test.
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Here we have a dog, a wolf, a coyote, and
a banana.
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Which one is different than the rest of them?
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The banana! Give him a hand! All right, very
good!
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We have college professors that can’t figure
that out! I’ll tell you want I want you to
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do.
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When we are done, I want you to go out to
the table out in the hallway, and you can
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pick out any free video or DVD you want, OK?
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We’ve got a bunch of videos and DVDs about
dinosaurs and stuff out there.
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The Bible says the animals are going to bring
forth after their kind. Now Charlie Darwin
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wrote a book on the table down here called
“Origin of Species.” See, the dog and the
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wolf are the same kind of animal but different
species.
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He fooled everybody by changing the word from
“kind” to “species.”
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We’ll talk more about that in video #4. Lastly,
we have what is called microevolution.
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This is changes within the kinds. Now that
one happens. I’ll go along with number six.
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I think animals can produce a whole variety
of offspring: long hair, short hair, long
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legged, short legged; that happens.
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But the first five are purely religious. That’s
not science.
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We never observe any of those! So if you want
to win the debate on evolution, simply define
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exactly what you are talking about.
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And you’ll find all they ever give are examples
of number six, which there is no argument
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about. It happens.
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But then they’ll imply that that is somehow,
magically, evidence for the other five. And
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it is not.
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The teachers are taught though to be sure
to stress to the students that the earth is
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billions of years old.
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Make sure the kids believe this. You know,
I happen to be a little old fashioned.
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I think in science class, we should be teaching
science.
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Science includes things we can observe, study,
test, and demonstrate. Things like the first
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law of thermodynamics.
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The first law of thermodynamics tells us,
“Matter cannot be created or destroyed.”
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Well, everything is made out of matter; so
if matter cannot be created or destroyed,
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then how did the world get here?
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We are here, you know. So that leaves only
two choices.
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Somebody made the world; or the world made
itself. There is no other choice.
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Well, there are a few out there on the lunatic
fringe, who will tell you, “We are not really
-
here at all; we just think we are here.”
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OK, you can forget about those folks. We are
here.
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So, either somebody made the world, like the
Bible says, God created it; or the world just
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made itself, like the humanists believe.
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It just is self existing and not created.
Well, if the world just made itself, how could
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this happen?
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Boy, the devil thought about that for a long
time. Finally, one day, he came up with the
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big bang theory.
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How many of you have ever heard of the big
bang theory before?
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I was on an airplane years ago, flying from
Dallas to San Francisco. And I happened to
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sit right next to a professor from Berkeley,
U Cal Berkeley.
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I don’t know if you folks in Knoxville have
ever heard of Berkeley or not, but Berkeley
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is not a Bible college.
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So here I was on the airplane about that far
away from this guy, and we started talking
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about creation and evolution.
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Everybody I sit by on the airplane wants to
talk about that, so I talk about it with them.
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He said he believed in evolution. I said,
“Yes, sir, I figured that; you have to if
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you teach at Berkeley.”
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I said, “Tell me, sir, if you believe in evolution,
how did the world get here?”
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He said, “Oh, it came from the big bang.”
I said, “Really? I’d like to hear about this!”
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He said, “You are a science teacher and you
have never heard of the big bang?”
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I said, “Oh, yes sir, I’ve heard a lot about
the big bang, and I believe in the big bang.
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But my big bang is a lot different than yours.”
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I said, “You tell me about your big bang,
and then I’ll tell you about my big bang.”
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And so, the professor took off on one of those
answers that looked like it came straight
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from the textbook.
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He said, “Well, Mr. Hovind, I believe about
18 to 20 billion years ago...” (that’s a long
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time)
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“...all the matter in the universe...” (that’s
a lot of stuff)
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By the way, the word “universe” comes from
two Latin words: “uni,” which means single,
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and “verse” which means a spoken sentence.
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Did you know we live in a single spoken sentence?
God said, “Let there be....” That’ll preach.
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There is a sermon someplace right there, OK?
And if your pastor can’t find it, he’s got
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no preaching in him at all!
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“All the matter in the uni-verse was concentrated
into one very dense, very hot region, that
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may have been much smaller than a period on
this page.” Say what?
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Everything in the universe squished into a
dot smaller than a period on a page?
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Wow! That’s one crowded dot. And heavy, too.
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But that’s not the first time this happened,
boys and girls.
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This textbook says: “Some day, after many
billions of years, all the matter and energy
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will once again be packed into a small area
no larger than the period at the end of this
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sentence. Then another big bang will occur.”
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“It happens every 80 to 100 billion years.”
Can you believe they cut down a tree to print
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that?
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Where is Al Gore when you need him? That’s
what I want to know, yeah!
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And why did you guys send Al Gore to Washington?
You had him here, you know.
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Now, this textbook author was brilliant. I
could not believe how smart this guy was.
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He said, “Boys and girls, nothing really means
nothing.” You have to be at least that smart
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to write a book.
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He said, “Not only matter and energy would
disappear, but also space and time.
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However, physicists theorize that from this
state of nothingness, the universe began in
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a gigantic explosion.” What?
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Yes, boys and girls, you see, one day, nothing
exploded...
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...And here we are! We can spend three days
talking about the big bang theory.
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They used to say that the thing that exploded
was a few light-years in diameter. Then they
-
said, “Oh no, it’s only 275 million miles.”
And then they said, “It’s only 71 million
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miles.”
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They keep getting it smaller, and now they
are saying “nothing” exploded.
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A couple years ago “Discover Magazine” here
said, “Where did everything come from?”
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“Boys and girls, the universe burst into something
from absolutely nothing - zero, nada.
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As it got bigger, it became filled with even
more stuff that came from absolutely nowhere.
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How is that possible? Ask Alan Guth.
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His theory will explain everything.” Wow,
I’ve got to meet this Alan Guth guy.
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Alan Guth said in “Scientific American,” “The
observable universe could have evolved from
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an infinitesimal region.” (In the Hebrew,
that’s “a dot.”)
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He said, “It’s then tempting to go one step
further and speculate that the entire universe
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evolved from literally nothing.” You see,
boys and girls, we all came from a dot and
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the dot came from nothing.
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And they call that science, and put it in
a science journal?
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I think I’d call that a fairy tale and put
it in the garbage.
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I said, “Professor, what happened to your
dot?”
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He said, “Hovind, 20 billion years ago all
the dirt in the solar system was drawn into
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this little, bitty, tiny dot.
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And it was spinning. It spun faster, and faster,
and all of a sudden, it exploded: big bang!
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And the pieces that flew off became galaxies,
and sun, moon, stars, and here we are. People.”
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Nothing but stardust.
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I said, “Sir, can I ask you a couple of questions,
please?”
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He said, “Sure, what do you want to know?”
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You know, we’ve got a three-hour flight sitting
this far away from each other on the airplane.
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I said, “Well sir, I’ve got a question. You
said that 20 billion years ago, all the dirt
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got together for a big squish, a big spin,
and a big bang. Where did all the dirt come
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from?” You know, who made matter? He said,
“We don’t know.”
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I said, “OK now sir, hold it. If I told you
what I believe, that about 6,000 years ago
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God created the heaven and the earth, then
you are going to say, ‘and where did God come
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from?’ And I have no idea.”
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But you said, 20 billion years ago there was
a big bang; and you don’t know where the dirt
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came from.
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So basically, I believe: “In the beginning,
God”; and you believe: “In the beginning,
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dirt.”
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Don’t tell me my theory is religious, and
your theory is scientific. No, no, no!
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They are both religious. The news media tries
to make it look like it is science versus
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religion.
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It’s not science versus religion; these are
two religions.
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Evolution and creation are both religious.
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You have to believe in one or the other.
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The difference is the evolution religion is
tax supported.
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That’s the difference - one of many differences.
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By the way, these two time lines are the same
thing right here, behind me.
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On the top time line, every inch represents
150 years.
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Abe Lincoln was not even president one inch
ago.
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If I was to show you what 20 billion years
looks like at the same scale as the top chart...
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(...I have to have this chart on the bottom
to be this scale...)
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...This one would have to be 2,100 miles long.
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That’s from Pensacola to Portland, Oregon.
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I don’t want to carry a chart that big, so
I made a new scale for the other one.
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The professor said that he did not know where
the matter came from.
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So I said, “Sir, can you tell me where the
laws came from?”
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This universe is run by laws. Gravity, centrifugal
force, inertia, Boyle’s law, Cole’s law (You
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can eat that with potato salad).
-
There are all kinds of laws in the universe.
Where did the laws come from?
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And by the way, why aren’t the laws still
evolving? Do you ever think about that?
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Why is gravity always the same? Why don’t
you weigh 10 pounds more one day? (You say,
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“I do!”
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Well, that’s for a different reason.) Where
did the energy come from? Who bought the gas
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to run this machine?
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The professor said, “I don’t know; we don’t
know any of those things.” I said, “Can I
-
ask you another question?”
-
He said, “Sure. What else would you like to
know?”
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Else? What do you mean, what else? you haven’t
told me anything yet.
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I said, “Sir, does Berkeley have a merry-go-round?”
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How many of you know what a merry-go-round
is? You go round and round, until you throw
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up.
-
He said, “No, we don’t have a merry-go-round
at Berkeley.”
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I said, “You really ought to get one.
-
You could learn some good science on a merry-go-round.”
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If you put some fourth graders on there...
Any fourth graders in here?
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Last year or next year fourth graders. I know
it’s summertime here.
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All right! I like fourth graders; I spent
the best five years of my life in a fourth
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grade.
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(That was before they diagnosed ADD. By the
time my brother was in the fourth grade, we
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all knew what he was going to be when he finished
high school - 32!)
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Well, we are going to put some fourth graders
on a merry-go-round and get the high school
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football team out there to get it spinning
clockwise, as fast as it will possibly go.
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Now if you have a digital watch, you may not
know what clockwise means. ...I’ll tell you
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later.
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We are going to spin the merry-go-round clockwise,
and the kids are going to go through four
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phases.
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They start off in phase one, where they’re
screaming at the football players, “Come on,
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let’s go faster! Faster! Can’t you go any
faster?”
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You get up around 30 miles an hour, and the
kids enter phase two, where they stop screaming.
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They just quietly concentrate on trying to
hang on for dear life.
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When you get up around 60 miles an hour, the
kids enter phase three, where they start screaming
-
again, but now they are screaming, “Stop!
Stop! Please slow down!” Don’t stop though;
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keep going faster and faster.
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When you get to 100 miles an hour, you enter
phase four where the kids begin to fly off
-
the merry-go-round. Now when this happens,
you will notice a very interesting phenomenon
-
of physics.
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If the merry-go-round is going clockwise when
the kid flies off, the kid will be spinning
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clockwise.
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Until he encounters resistance, like a tree
or a pole.
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That’s because of a law in physics known as
the conservation of angular momentum.
-
See, if a spinning object breaks apart, the
pieces that fly off are going to spin the
-
same direction, because the outside is moving
faster than the inside.
-
And we can talk all day about the conservation
laws if you’d like, but the professor said,
-
“Yes, I know about the conservation laws.”
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I said, “Well good, sir, then let me ask you
a question. If the universe began as a spinning
-
dot like you said, why do two planets spin
backwards, and probably three?”
-
He got real quiet, a puzzled look on his face.
I said, “Sir, why do eight out of ninety-one
-
known moons spin backwards?
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Why do Jupiter, Saturn, and Neptune have moons
going both directions at the same time?
-
Why is the Sun 98% hydrogen and helium, but
the other planets are less than 1% hydrogen
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and helium?
-
And why are these nine planets so different
from each other? If they all came from the
-
big bang, why are they all so different?
-
Very different compositions!
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And why do some whole galaxies spin backwards?”
-
CNN did an article, “Goofy galaxy spins in
wrong direction.”
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I said, “Sir, why are these things going backwards?”
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He said, “I don’t know.
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Why do you think they are going backwards?”
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I was hoping he was going to ask that.
-
I said, “Sir, it’s really simple.
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You see, ‘In the beginning God created the
heaven and the earth,’ and God did it that
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way on purpose, just to make the big bang
theory look stupid.”
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Yes, amen.
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Now, I do believe in the big bang, because
the Bible teaches the big bang.
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It says, “The heavens shall pass away with
a great noise.” In the original Greek, that’s
-
a big bang!
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So there is going to be a big bang. It just
didn’t happen yet, OK?
-
So kids, if you go to school, and some professor
says, “Hey, do you believe in the big bang?”
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You should say, “Yes I do, and you’d better
get saved and get ready for it.”
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The big bang is coming soon to a city near
you.
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By the way, if the world came from a big bang
and slowly evolved over billions of years,
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why did Jesus die on the cross?
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What’s the purpose of the death of Christ?
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And when the Bible says God is going to restore
the world like it used to be ...
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Restore it to what? More death and suffering?
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We cover more on that theistic evolution position
in video #7.
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The big bang theory is ludicrous for numerous
reasons, OK? If the big bang theory were true,
-
then matter would be evenly distributed. But
it’s not.
-
Serious, serious problems with the big bang
theory! Even Fred Hoyle said, “I have little
-
hesitation in saying that a sickly pall hangs
over the big bang theory.”
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Get more on that in the book, “Evolution Cruncher.”
It’s a 900-page book; it’s only $5.00. It’s
-
an excellent book to give away to every kid
in your high school.
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The second law of thermodynamics tells us,
“Everything tends toward disorder.”
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If you leave something alone for awhile, it’s
going to rot, rust, die, fall apart, or break
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down.
-
Nothing gets better by itself. That’s what
the Bible teaches. “The heavens are the works
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of thine hands: they shall perish;...they
wax old as doth a garment.”
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Nothing gets better by itself. Take a look
at your hairdo when you wake up in the morning.
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You’ll see exactly what I am talking about.
Everything tends towards chaos, all right?
-
Here is Sue at 20. Here she is at 90. And
here she is at 3,000. Everything tends toward
-
chaos, folks, all right?
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All you have to do is nothing, and everything
deteriorates, collapses, breaks down, wears
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out.
-
That’s what the second law is all about. Everything
is getting worse.
-
Nothing is getting better. But the textbook
says, “Humans probably evolved from bacteria
-
more than 4 billion years ago.”
-
Was your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa
bacteria?
-
Evolutionists will say, “Well, Hovind, don’t
you know that if you add energy, you can overcome
-
the second law of thermodynamics?
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And the earth receives energy from the sun,
so the earth is an open system. That’s how
-
we overcome the law.”
-
I understand the argument, but they are missing
the point. Number one: the universe is a closed
-
system.
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Number two: adding energy is destructive,
unless there is a special mechanism to use
-
and harness the energy.
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See, the Japanese added a bunch of energy
to Pearl Harbor one day. They didn’t organize
-
a thing for us, did they?
-
So a few years later, we added some energy
to a few of their cities - returned the favor.
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Didn’t organize any thing for them. Adding
energy is destructive.
-
The sun adds energy to the roof of your house;
but it’s going to destroy your house.
-
The sun’s energy will destroy the entire house.
-
The sun’s energy will destroy the roof on
your car. It will destroy your upholstery.
-
The sun’s energy will destroy your paint job.
-
There is only one thing that can actually
use the sun’s energy: chlorophyll.
-
And one little plant cell is more complex
than a space shuttle.
-
We cover more on that in video #4.
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Evolution violates the second law, and evolution
is wrong, OK?
-
This textbook shows the kids a fossil starfish
and says, “3.4 billion years old... the remains
-
of an early ancestor of modern human beings.”
-
Was your great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa
a starfish?
-
How about “Discover Magazine,” November 2004?
Was your ancestor a sea sponge? This is your
-
ancestor. Wow, who’s your Daddy?
-
Now, please don’t laugh at this next picture,
OK?
-
This is going to be a picture of my brother
when he first wakes up in the morning, after
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his first cup of coffee, which apparently
was a little too strong.
-
By the way, I’ve got to warn these kids.
-
Kids, listen carefully. Do not drink coffee!
Because if you drink coffee when you are young,
-
when you get married, your babies will be
born naked and illiterate.
-
And tea is worse. There was an Indian once,
who drank four gallons of iced tea.
-
That night, he drowned in his teepee. Be careful
with that stuff; it’s deadly.
-
Anyway, this is going to be my brother, please
don’t laugh- he can’t help it. There he is!
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Notice what the textbook says, “30 million
years ago...” Now kids, let me translate that
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for you.
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Anytime the textbook says, “million of years
ago,” what it means is: long ago, and far
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away.
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It means a fairy tale is coming next, OK?
That’s your warning, a fairy tale is coming
-
up.
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“Thirty million years ago these critters evolved.”
There’s that word again, you’ve got to watch
-
that.
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It says, “they are ancestral to both humans
and modern apes.” Ancestors to humans?
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Grandpa? “What big eyes you have, grandpa!”
“All The better to see you with, my boy.”
-
You know, we’ve been teaching kids they are
nothing but an animal. And today a lot of
-
them act like animals.
-
Even Barbara Reynolds figured it out. “Your
kids go ape in school?” Here’s why- he’s being
-
taught evolution.
-
“Guess what, Johnny, you are an animal and
share a common heritage with earthworms.”
-
“Ha, ha, you mean I’m just an animal? OK.”
-
Have you ever stopped and thought, that possibly
what we are teaching the kids is affecting
-
how they behave?
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What you believe determines how you behave.
Kids are taught today that you are just an
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animal.
-
The rock music these days is all full of death
and destruction and blood. Well, the Bible
-
says, “They that hate me love death!” Kids
are taught today, “There are no absolutes.”
-
I was in a debate one time, and this professor
said, “Hovind, there are no absolutes!”
-
I said, “Are you absolutely sure?” Blew his
little brain!
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“Now, hold on a minute, how can I be absolutely
sure, when there are no absolutes?”
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I was speaking in a public school in Pennsylvania
a couple of years ago, and this kid sat on
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the second row.
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He said, “Hovind, I am an atheist. There is
no God.” I said, “Are you sure?”
-
He said, “I am sure.” I said, “Let me ask
you a question, son.”
-
I said, “Do you know everything?” He said,
“Oh, no...no.”
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I said, “Well, OK, good. Do you think maybe
you know half of everything?” He said, “No...”
-
Well, let’s pretend for a few minutes that
you know half of everything.
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Would it be possible then for God to exist
in the other half that you don’t know? Brand
-
new thought - rattled around in his brain
for awhile and got lost, I’m sure!
-
I said, “And by the way son, if you’re an
atheist, let me ask you a simple question.
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How do you tell right from wrong?”
-
Ask an atheist that question some time.
-
How do you tell right from wrong?
-
He said, “That’s easy ... I decide what’s
right and wrong.”
-
He said, “I am the god of my own universe.”
-
I said, “I am glad to hear about that, son,
because I am going to shoot you in five minutes.”
-
He said, “You can’t do that.”
-
I said, “Oh yes I can! You see, I am the god
of my own universe, and I decided it’s fine
-
for me to shoot you.”
-
You see where that logic would lead in a hurry
if “every man did that which was right in
-
his own eyes” like the book of Judges says.
Serious problems for society - big time! How
-
do you tell right from wrong?
-
A simple question to ask an evolutionist.
They don’t have a way to tell.
-
Maybe Osama bin Laden should decide right
from wrong. Maybe Bill Clinton should decide
-
right from wrong.
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If he has any idea where to find it! I mean,
how do you tell right from wrong? Simple!
-
It’s real easy to tell right from wrong-
-
“Thus saith the Lord.” Now you see, that is
absolute.
-
And the Lord said, “Ye shall not make any
cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print
-
any marks upon you.”
-
Some people either don’t know what God says,
or maybe they just don’t care what God says.
-
But God says don’t do that, OK? Now, if you
did it in the past, you could just say, “God,
-
I’m sorry,” and not do it again.
-
A lot of teachers don’t seem to understand.
-
They just blindly follow the textbook and
think that they have to teach this evolution
-
theory.
-
No, you don’t have to teach this evolution
theory! Teachers can teach creation in public
-
schools if they want.
-
We’ve got a video tape called: “The Public
School Presentation” which deals with all
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the laws about teaching creation in public
schools.
-
What happened was, Arkansas and Louisiana
passed laws to require that creation be taught.
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The court struck it down in both cases. They
said, “You cannot be required to teach creation.”
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They said, “The teachers can teach it if they
want, but it has to be voluntary on the teacher’s
-
part.”
-
Even Stephen Gould said, “No statute exists
in any state to bar instruction in ‘creation
-
science.’”
-
It could be taught before, and it can be taught
now. He was commenting on the 1987 Supreme
-
Court decision.
-
The ACLU, “the American Communist Lawyers’
Union,” have tried really hard to spread the
-
propaganda around that you cannot talk about
creation in the public schools. And that’s
-
just simply not true.
-
It’s always been perfectly fine to teach creation
in the public schools. There’s never been
-
a law against that, OK?
-
But if a teacher gets up in front of the class
and says, “OK kids, listen, you started off
-
like a slime, and you slowly evolved to a
human.”
-
You don’t need to be a genius to figure out
that teaching will destroy some kid’s faith
-
in the Bible.
-
And anybody that destroys a child’s faith,
better read what Jesus said about that.
-
He said, “Whoso shall offend one of these
little ones which believe in me, it were better
-
for him that a millstone were hanged about
his neck...
-
And that he were drowned in the depth of the
sea.” Anybody that teaches evolution is in
-
trouble when they stand before God. The Bible
says, “Be not many masters, knowing that we
-
shall receive the greater condemnation.”
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It’s interesting, though, what happened. Back
in the 1950s, the average textbook in America
-
had very little evolution - two or three thousand
words was all.
-
But in 1957, the Russians beat us in the space
race by launching Sputnik and Americans panicked.
-
How many of you are old enough to remember
the panic in America when the Russians were
-
winning the space race?
-
They had articles in “Life Magazine” like,
“How You can Survive Fallout.”
-
They said, “The Soviets are ahead of us in
science, because the Soviets teach evolution.
-
We don’t teach it in our schools.” They had
articles on how to build your own bomb shelter.
-
People were building them in their back yards
to survive nuclear fallout.
-
Wait a minute; the Soviets are ahead in science
because they teach evolution?
-
What does evolution have to do with putting
up a satellite?
-
Then, in 1959 it was the hundred-year anniversary
of Darwin’s book coming out.
-
And in 1959, Eisenhower asked congress for
a billion dollars to push more evolution into
-
the school system.
-
And he got it.
-
American textbooks were rewritten in the late
50s and early 60s to include more evolution.
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They called it “the cold war reconstruction
of American science education.”
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Our whole science curriculum and other curriculums
were rewritten to make sure evolution was
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taught.
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And by 1963 the average textbook had 33,000
words about evolution.
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By 1963, prayer was taken out of our school
system.
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Anybody remember that? Madeline Murray O’Hare?
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By 1963 we saw a great rise in pre-marital
sex for every single age bracket. We saw a
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great rise in sexually transmitted diseases
for ten- to fourteen-year-olds.
-
We saw a great rise in unwed birth rates - a
550% increase in pregnancies.
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The difference is being aborted.
-
Now one third of all the kids born in the
hospitals are born to a couple that are not
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married. One third of them.
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Illegitimate children. Now listen carefully.
If you are one of those, this is for you.
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Timothy was a “half-breed” that never should
have been born.
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Timothy’s mommy was Jewish, his daddy was
Greek. The Jews weren’t supposed to marry
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anybody but Jews.
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Mama disobeyed; Timothy was the result. But
he wanted to serve God, and God said, “I’ll
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take you, son.” He wrote two books in the
Bible.
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So if your parents messed up, you shut your
mouth- quit whining, and go serve God with
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your life, OK?
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There are no excuses. God will use anybody,
OK?
-
The number of unmarried couples living together
has increased radically since 1963. God’s
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Word hasn’t changed. He said, “Thou shalt
not commit adultery.”
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He said, “Whoremongers and adulterers God
will judge.” Jesus said, “If you even look
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and lust, you have committed adultery already
in your heart.”
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By the way, ladies, that’s why it’s important
how you dress.
-
My daddy always said, “If you’re not in business,
don’t advertise.”
-
Divorce rates have gone crazy in this country.
Child abuse is up 2,300%. Illegal drugs are
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up 6,000% . Violent crimes are up nearly 1000%.
-
I am not that old, but I remember the days
when you did not have to lock your house.
-
Anybody remember those days?
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And you left the keys in the ignition all
the time. You never took them out, because
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you might lose them.
-
And you go up to t the average high school
and half of the pickup trucks in the parking
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lot had a loaded rifle hanging in the back
window.
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And nobody got shot in school in those days,
did they? You probably didn’t hear about this,
-
but the kids at Columbine High School that
shot everybody were very strong believers
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in evolution.
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They did the shooting on Hitler’s birthday,
on purpose.
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They shot Isaiah Shoels just because he was
black.
-
Hitler hated black people; so did they. This
was evolution-motivated shooting.
-
And right after the shooting, Rosie O’Donnell
got on her TV program and said, “See, we need
-
more gun control.”
-
Rosie, those kids broke 18 gun laws going
into that school. I don’t think two more gun
-
laws would have slowed them down.
-
See, Rosie can’t figure it out; but one guy
figured out the whole thing and put it on
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the spare tire cover on his van. I saw that;
I said, “Man, I’ve got to get a picture of
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this!” This explains everything.
-
He said, “Blaming guns for Columbine is like
blaming spoons for Rosie O’Donnell being fat.”
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It’s not the spoon’s fault, Rosie! And it’s
not the guns’ fault, either. Yeah, blame the
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gun - that’s brilliant! SAT scores have plummeted
since 1963.
-
Twice in the last forty years they have dumbed
down the test.
-
They made the test dumber, so the scores would
go back up. Teen suicide rates have gone crazy.
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Now, if I told you that if you kissed a frog,
it would turn to a prince, what would you
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say?
-
You would say, “No, frogs don’t turn into
princes.”
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How many of you ladies got your husband by
kissing a frog?
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Come on, let’s see. Looks like only about
three.
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See, it doesn’t happen very often; but in
the textbooks it does.
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We started off like an amoeba and slowly evolved
into a frog and very slowly became a prince.
-
It’s the same fairy tale. See, if the frog
turns into a prince quickly, we all know it’s
-
a fairy tale.
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But if the frog turns into a prince slowly,
now then, that’s modern science.
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No, I’m sorry, that’s still a fairy tale - even
more of a fairy tale.
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The difference is not a kiss. That won’t do
it anymore.
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Today, boys and girls, if you want to turn
your frog into a prince, you’ve got to have
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a super, special, high-powered, magic ingredient
called billions and billions of years.
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How many of you have ever heard that before?
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“Billions of years ago..” It’s all in the
textbooks. You see it on TV, in the magazines;
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it’s in “National Geographic.”
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“Billions and billions of years ago...” They
talk about it like it’s a fact of science.
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Here is a fourth grade textbook. It says,
“Many millions of years ago...”
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Now wait a minute. If anybody ever says that
to me, I say, “Were you there?” They’ll say,
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“No, of course I wasn’t there.”
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Then I’ll say, “Now do you know the earth
is millions of years old?
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Is this really a part of science? Is this
something we can observe, study, test, and
-
demonstrate?”
-
They’ll say, “No, but everybody believes the
earth is millions of years old.” No, they
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don’t.
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Most Americans believe the earth is less than
10,000 years old and God made it.
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Less than 15% are evolutionists and atheists
in the surveys that they take. Majority of
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Americans do not believe the earth is millions
of years old.
-
Now it’s true that slightly more than half
the scientists believe in evolution. That’s
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true, I agree. But that doesn’t make it true.
It’s true that they believe it, but what they
-
believe is not true.
-
See, just because a bunch of scientists believe
something doesn’t mean anything.
-
There was a time when scientists taught that
the planets go around the earth.
-
The scientists used to teach that a big rock
will fall faster than a little rock.
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They used to teach that if you were sick,
you had bad blood. Take out your blood, and
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you will get better.
-
There were special places all over America
to get your blood taken out.
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You could tell where they were, because they
had a white pole with a red stripe around
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it.
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The barber was the blood letter. And right
beside George Washington, ...
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... when they were bleeding him to death,
was a Bible that told him, “For the life of
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the flesh is in the blood:”
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If they would have read that verse, he might
still be alive today. Well, he would have
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lived longer, anyway.
-
But listen, if you went scuba diving and found
a treasure chest full of gold coins.
-
And I asked you the simple question, “When
did the boat sink?”
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You say, “I don’t know.” Well, look at the
dates on the coins.
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If there’s a coin in that box from 1750, you
ought to be able to figure out that the boat
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sank after 1750.
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How many can figure that out with no help
at all? It couldn’t sink before that, could
-
it?
-
You don’t poke around in the box and find
the oldest coin.
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You have to find the most recent coin. And
that kind of limits when the boat could have
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sunk.
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That’s called the limiting factor.
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Did you know that there are probably a hundred
different ways to tell how old the earth is?
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A lot of them give big numbers, and a lot
of them give small numbers, but it’s the small
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ones we’ve got to worry about.
-
If you find a dinosaur bone, you should notice
two things about it immediately.
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Number one, it does not talk. Number two,
it doesn’t have a date stamped on it.
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It does not say: “Made by a dinosaur in 70
million BC in Taiwan.” They don’t say that,
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OK?
-
So, how do you tell the age of a fossil? How
do you tell the age of the earth?
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How old is this earth anyway? Well, the Bible
dates add up to about 6,000 years.
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The textbooks say it’s billions. Somebody
is wrong.
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There is a difference between 6,000 and 20
billion.
-
Congress doesn’t seem to understand the difference,
but there is a difference, OK?
-
We’ll talk about that in the next session.
-
How do you show that the earth is not billions
of years old?
-
But if it is only 6,000 years old like the
Bible teaches, that raises some interesting
-
questions.
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What about the dinosaurs? What about carbon
dating?
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How did the light from the stars get here?
What about Grand Canyon?
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Didn’t it take million of years to form? What
about the geologic column?
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Well folks, that’s why my seminar is about
seventeen hours long. I am talking as fast
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as I can go, but we cover all that.
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We’ll cover some more of that in just a minute.
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The Bible says in Genesis 1:1, “In the beginning
God created the heaven and the earth.”
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When was the beginning?
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The Bible says that Jesus created all things
in heaven and earth.
-
Well wait, did God create the heaven and the
earth or did Jesus create the heaven and the
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earth?
-
Well, they are both fine.
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Jesus is God Almighty in the flesh in spite
of what “Jehovah’s false witnesses” teach,
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OK?
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Jesus said in Matthew 19:4, “Have ye not read
that he which made them at the beginning made
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them male and female.”
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By the way, that was Adam and Eve, not Adam
and Steve. But Jesus said that was the beginning.
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Same thing in Mark 10:6, “From the beginning
of the creation God made them male and female.”
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The Bible says death came into the world because
of man’s sin.
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Nothing died until Adam sinned.
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By man came death. The Bible is real clear
on the topic.
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Adam was the first man and Eve was the mother
of all living.
-
Well, that makes it pretty easy then; we just
add up the dates.
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The Bibles says Adam was 130 when Seth was
born.
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Seth was 105 when Enos was born.
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Enos was 90 when Cainan was born.
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You go through the Bible; you add up the dates;
it’s not hard to do.
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You can make a chart like this pretty easily.
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If you get my seminar notebook, the last page
folds out to be that chart, or we’ve got them
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laminated like this one.
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You might want them for placemats when your
skeptic friends come over for lunch.
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You can really stir up a conversation with
one of those. Our ministry has quite a few
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placemats. And the kids can read that instead
of the cereal box.
-
But if you add up the dates in the Bible,
you are going to get about 4000 BC for the
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creation.
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Not millions of years ago, but 4000 BC.
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Now I’m not one of those guys that tries to
put an exact date on it.
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I don’t say that it was 4004 BC,
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October 23rd at two in the afternoon.
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I don’t think you can get that close from
Scripture.
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I think Adam was made in the afternoon because
it was just before Eve. It’s the only clue
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I found.
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And I can’t prove this but I think I figured
out why God made Adam first.
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I think God made Adam first because he didn’t
want any advice on how to do it.
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How many would agree with that one?
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By the way, BC means Before Christ. Almost
all the new textbooks are changing it to say
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BCE- before the common era.
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Christ is gone from the schools, folks. Textbooks
say the earth is billions of years old. Jesus
-
said the creation of Adam was the beginning.
-
Well, was He lying? Did He not understand
science? Or was He right?
-
How old is the earth? When was the beginning?
-
“Thou Lord in the beginning has laid the foundations
of the earth.” How old is this earth?
-
Could that date of 4000 BC be correct?
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I do many debates at universities and speak
on a lot of talk shows and stuff, and there’s
-
always some atheist that calls in.
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He will call in and say, “Hovind, I have got
a question, Who did Adam’s sons marry?”
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Good question and a fair question.
-
I say that’s a good question and I’d be glad
to answer that. However, you guys are the
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ones that have a serious problem.
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The Bible says “Cain went out from the presence
of the Lord and dwelt in the land of Nod,
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on the east of Eden. And Cain knew his wife
and she conceived.” Well, it doesn’t say he
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found her there.
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But who was his wife and who did Seth marry
anyway?
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And I think I can answer that. However, compared
to the evolutionists we have a minor problem.
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They believe that 18 or 20 billion years ago,
there was a big bang where nothing exploded
-
and made everything.
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And 4.6 billion years ago the earth cooled
down and it was a hot ball of rock.
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“The earth began as a hot ball of rock.”
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And then millions of years of torrential rains
created great oceans, and swirling in the
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waters of the oceans is a bubbling broth of
complex chemicals.
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“Progress from a complex chemical soup to
a living organism is very slow.”
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It sure is; it doesn’t even happen; that’s
how slow it is!
-
This guy said, “The first self-replicating
systems must have emerged in this organic
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soup.”
-
So according to the big bang theory, 20 billion
years ago there was a big bang, and then 4.6
-
billion years ago the earth cooled down.
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It rained on the rocks for millions of years,
turned them into soup, and the soup came alive
-
3 billion years ago.
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And that first life-form found somebody to
marry (now there’s a good trick) and something
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to eat, of course, and slowly evolved into
everything we see today.
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That’s the big bang theory.
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So great-great-great-great-grandpa was soup.
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I spoke at a college in Boston one time. They
said, “Hovind, you can come to speak at our
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college, if our professors can ask you any
questions they want.
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We would like to show the students how dumb
you Christians really are.”
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I said, “I would be honored to come for that.”
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So I showed up. There were six professors
and all their students in the room. You know,
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I felt like Daniel in the lion’s den!
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I got out my charts and said, “Folks, I believe
the Bible. I believe 6,000 years ago God made
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everything. Then 4,400 years ago, God sent
a Flood which destroyed everything.”
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“Noah saved two of each kind - not species
- kind of animal life on the ark.”
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Then I told them what they believe, because
most of them don’t know what they believe.
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Twenty billion years ago there was a big bang.
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Then 4.6 billion years ago, the earth cooled
down. It rained on the rocks for millions
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of years, turned them into soup and the soup
came alive.
-
One professor was really upset.
-
He said, “Hovind, do you realize that there
are hundreds of varieties of dogs in the world?”
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I said, “Oh yeah, there’s a bunch.”
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He said, “You mean to tell me that you believe
all those dogs came from just two dogs on
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Noah’s ark?
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Do you expect me to believe that?”
-
I said, “Sir, would you look at what you are
teaching your students?
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You’re teaching your students that all those
dogs came from a rock.”
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He didn’t have any more questions after that.
-
Anyway, who did Adam’s sons marry? Well, the
Bible says Adam lived after he begat Seth
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800 years and begat sons and daughters.
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How many kids could you have in 800 years?
Several, right?
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A friend of mine in Arkansas had 15 kids in
15 years.
-
I met a family from Minnesota with 20 children,
all of them under 20. It’s cold in Minnesota.
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So who did Adam’s sons marry? Well, they married
sisters.
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You say, “Married their sisters?!”
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Well calm down; first of all, there’s no other
choice, OK?
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Secondly, who are you going to report them
to? Think about it.
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Thirdly, there were no laws against it till
2,500 years later when Moses gave the law.
-
They didn’t need laws against it at first.
For the first thousand years or so, the race
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had almost no genetic defects.
-
There was no problem marrying a sister. See,
everything about you is inherited. Even having
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children is hereditary. If your parents don’t
have any, you won’t either.
-
You say, “Wow, I never thought about that.”
Go think about it. You’ll see I’m right.
-
People say, “You can’t marry sisters; what
about genetic similarity?”
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Adam married his rib. Talk about genetic similarity!
It was not going to be a problem back then.
-
And you won’t notice this reading the Bible,
but when you graph out the date, it is pretty
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amazing.
-
You’ll realize that Adam lived long enough
to know his great-great-great-great-grandson.
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Noah’s daddy could have known Adam for 56
years.
-
Can you imagine a family reunion back in those
days?
-
All right, everybody hop on the camel. We
are going to go visit great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandpa
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Adam.
-
And he is going to tell us what it was like
in the Garden of Eden (before the first woman
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ate the first man out of house and home).
-
I do tell a lot of Adam-and-Eve jokes. And
I’ll just tell you that right now. And this
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one lady said, “Now just where would you men
be without us women?”
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I said, “In the Garden of Eden.”
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But it’d be lonely; it wouldn’t be worth it.
-
You won’t notice this reading your Bible either,
but when you graph out the dates, it’s like,
-
wow, that’s pretty cool!
-
Noah’s son Shem lived long enough after the
Flood to know Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
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Jacob had 13 kids: 12 boys and 1 girl. One
of those boys was Joseph.
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He’s the guy that got the coat of many colors.
And the brothers got jealous and beat him
-
up. They threw him in the pit and he ended
up down in Egypt.
-
And he became the “Vice Pharaoh” or whatever
they called it.
-
And later Joseph invited all of his brothers
to move down to Egypt and live with them.
-
So Joseph is introducing his dad, Jacob, to
Pharaoh. And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How old
-
are you?”
-
And Jacob said, “I’m 130 years old.”
-
“Few and evil have the days of the years of
my life been and have not attained unto the
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days of the years of the life of my fathers.”
-
I read that verse 36 years ago as a brand
new Christian and I thought, what’s he saying
-
here?
-
I’m 130, but this is nothing compared to my
ancestors?
-
Yeah, when you figure he could have personally
known Shem, Arphaxad, Salah, and Eber.
-
If you were 130 but you know a 600-year-old
that lives around the corner, you just don’t
-
feel so old anymore.
-
Anyway, the textbooks say that the earth is
billions of years old.
-
Jesus said the creation of Adam was the beginning.
-
Now was Jesus lying? Was He stupid?
-
Or was He right? How old is the earth?
-
Do the books in this town teach the kids the
earth is billions of years old?
-
Are they going to learn this in school when
they go back?
-
“4.6 billion years ago ...”
-
Even some Christians are teaching that the
earth is billions of years old.
-
Some people do who really sincerely, honestly
love the Lord!
-
This list of folks tells some of those, just
a few of those, who teach that the earth is
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billions of years old.
-
I debated Hugh Ross for three hours on the
John Ankerberg show.
-
Both of those guys believe that the earth
is billions of years old. People say, “Well
-
who cares? What difference does it make?”
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It makes a giant difference.
-
Because if you are going to have billions
of years, you are going to have death before
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sin.
-
Now you have a heresy. And it is heresy!
-
It’s not heresy to believe the earth is billions
of years old, but it is heresy to put death
-
before sin.
-
Now that is a clear heresy.
-
The Bible says death reigned from Adam to
Moses. By man came death. In Adam all die.
-
Who cares about the age of the earth?
-
Well for one thing, the credibility of Genesis
is at stake.
-
The average person reading that book is not
going to find billions of years in there.
-
So the question is real simple.
-
Can the average person read the Bible and
understand it or do we have to have some guru
-
tell us what it means?
-
Secondly, the credibility of Jesus is at stake
since He quoted Genesis 25 times. And just
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about every other book in the Bible refers
to the Book of Genesis.
-
It’s an important topic. And the evolutionists
really care!
-
If you take away billions of years, their
theory looks real silly.
-
Jesus said, “For had ye believed Moses, ye
would have believed me: for he wrote of me.”
-
Well, the Bible clearly teaches about 6,000
years.
-
Let’s see what the scientific evidence says.
-
In 1999 the world’s population crossed over
the 6 billion mark.
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In 1985 there were 5 billion people on planet
earth.
-
In 1800 there was one billion people here.
-
Everybody agrees there were about one billion
people here around 1800. And everybody agrees
-
the world’s population is growing rapidly.
-
But the world is not overcrowded. Don’t fall
for that over-populated propaganda going around
-
the schools.
-
The world is not overcrowded.
-
The whole world’s population today, all 6
billion people, would fit inside Jacksonville,
-
Florida twice.
-
That little city has 25 billion square feet.
-
The world’s not overcrowded, folks.
-
Have you driven across Nebraska? Or Kansas?
Or New Mexico? Or Texas?
-
Drive across Texas. Have any of you driven
across Texas?
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You can go for three days. Are we still in
Texas?
-
Yeah, nothing out there but flat rabbits,
I tell you what.
-
The world’s not overcrowded.
-
Drive across Tennessee, for Heaven’s sake.
It’s not overcrowded.
-
Look, if it’s overcrowded where you are, move!
-
There is plenty of room out there other places,
OK? Back when Jesus was here, the world’s
-
population was only about a quarter of a billion!
-
It looks like the whole population growth
curve started about 4,400 years ago.
-
Now if you believe in evolution, you’ve got
a problem.
-
You think man’s been here for 3 million years.
-
In 3 million years the population would have
grown. Right now there’d be about 150,000
-
people per square inch.
-
That would be crowded. No, man’s not been
here for millions of years.
-
God told Adam to replenish the earth; fill
it with kids. Have lots of kids!
-
“He formed the world to be inhabited,” Isaiah
45 tells us.
-
We got people on the other side saying we
should reduce the population of the earth.
-
That is Satan’s plan, of course.
-
Jacques Cousteau said we need to eliminate
350,000 people per day.
-
Ted Turner said we need a 95% decline in populations.
-
Okay, Ted, you first.
-
These guys for the New World Order want to
reduce the population of the world to a half
-
billion.
-
See, Satan was told by the Lord in the Garden
of Eden, “You are going to crawl on your belly
-
and eat dust all your life.”
-
Then the Lord said, “I will put enmity between
thee and the woman, between thy seed and her
-
seed, it shall bruise thy head.”
-
Satan knows that someday some seed of the
woman is going to bruise his head and he’s
-
not looking forward to that.
-
So he has decided he’s going to kill every
human being on the planet.
-
Satan’s goal is to kill all of humanity to
thwart God’s plan.
-
God said to fill the earth with kids; have
a bunch of kids.
-
Satan says, “No, we are going to reduce it
to zero.”
-
Remember when Herod wanted to kill baby Jesus
in Bethlehem? What did he do?
-
He killed all the children. Let’s be sure
to get the right one. Just kill them all.
-
And Satan’s going to try to kill every human
being on the planet.
-
Charles Wurster said, “People are the cause
of all the problems, we need to get rid of
-
some of them.”
-
Bill Clinton signed the biodiversity treaty
that said we need to reduce the earth’s population
-
to one billion.
-
They’ve already got the earth divided up into
regions.
-
The red areas on the map are for animals only.
No human beings allowed.
-
The treaty’s been signed; it just hasn’t been
enforced yet - coming soon though.
-
Peter Singer is the guy who wants to have
abortions after the baby’s born.
-
You have got 28 days to decide if you want
to keep it.
-
He said, “Christianity is our foe.”
-
“If animal rights is to succeed, we must destroy
the Judeo-Christian religious tradition.”
-
Like animals should have more rights than
humans. Alan Gregg said, “The world has cancer,
-
and the cancer is man.”
-
Prince Phillip is the husband of Queen Elizabeth.
She’s the one that invented the “micro-wave.”
-
Prince Phillip said, “If I could be reincarnated,
I would wish to return to earth as a killer
-
virus to lower human population levels.”
-
Nice guy, Phil. By the way, Monsanto is real
busy on developing genetically modified foods.
-
They banned them in Europe.
-
But 70% of everything you eat now contains
genetically modified foods, causing all kinds
-
of problems with health.
-
Get the book, “Seeds of Deception,” if you
want a whole lot more on that.
-
Or read “Engineered Extinction” from the “New
American” magazine about how our food is being
-
tampered with to reduce the population.
-
The United Nations said, “Food is power, we
use it to control behavior, ... we do not
-
apologize.”
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And before you get excited about vaccines,
you might want to read what’s happening with
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the viruses being injected in with the vaccines.
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Time bombs are being planted in there.
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There’s a long story on that; we cover more
on that in our “Bible & Health” video tape.
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Autism has gone crazy. There’s been a 75,000
percent increase in autism in Illinois! It’s
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from vaccines, most people believe.
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Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) seems
to be from vaccines.
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In Australia they made vaccines non-mandatory.
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50% of the people dropped out, and Australia
had a 50% drop in (SIDS) Sudden Infant Death
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Syndrome.
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Go to www.marytocco.com if you want more on
vaccines.
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But there are people who want to reduce the
population of the earth.
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Go outside of Atlanta, Georgia, to the town
of Elberton. Go north about seven or eight
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miles on Highway 77.
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Look off to the right. You’ll see a place
where they teach that we should reduce the
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population of the planet.
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If you look off to the right, you’ll see these
stones over here that look like Stonehenge.
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You drive over there and it is the weirdest
place - in the middle of nowhere.
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You get up and you read them and it says in
12 languages: The Ten Commandments for the
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New World Order.
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Commandment number one, Maintain humanity
under one-half billion.
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Well now hold on a minute, there are already
6 billion people here.
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How do they propose to “maintain humanity
under a half billion?”
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Looks to me like there would have to be a
dramatic drop in human population. That is
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exactly what the devil wants.
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More on that in our college class: CSE 101.
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Well, regardless of what happens in the future,
the population today tells us that man has
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only been here about 4,400 years.
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They said it looks like there has been a genetic
bottleneck. The whole population was reduced
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to just a few thousand just a couple thousand
years ago.
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Hey, they are getting closer. Actually it
was all reduced to eight persons only about
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4,400 years ago.
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I tell everybody that you keep studying, and
when you get done climbing the mountain of
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truth, you’ll find the Baptists have been
sitting there all along.
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Galaxies are spinning, but the stars in the
middle go faster than the stars on the outside.
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So why do we still have spiral arms on the
galaxies? They should not be there.
-
Galaxies are evidence that the universe is
not billions of years old.
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Stars are blowing up all the time. It is called
a supernova or a nova.
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But a star blows up about every 30 years,
and yet there are less than 300 supernova
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remnants or fragments that have been found.
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That’s only a few thousand years worth of
stars.
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Why aren’t there billions of supernova remnants?
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Some people say, “Well, new stars are forming
in the Crab nebula or horsehead nebula.”
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No, that’s a bunch of bologna. We cover that
on video #7. Nobody’s ever seen a star form.
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The planet Jupiter is cooling off rapidly.
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The stars are changing from red giants to
white dwarfs.
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The textbooks say it takes billions of years.
We know that is not true.
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All the ancient astronomers said Sirius was
a red star. Today it is a white dwarf.
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It happens in a few thousand years. Don’t
let them tell you it takes billions of years.
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Jupiter’s cooling off rapidly.
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Constantly losing heat, it cannot be billions
of years old. It would have been cold by now.
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Jupiter’s moon Ganymede has a strong magnetic
field, indicating a liquid core, meaning it
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is not billions of years old.
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Saturn’s rings are expanding away from the
planet. They cannot be billions of years old.
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There’s more about that in the book, “In the
Beginning” by Walt Brown, an excellent book
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by the way.
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The moon goes around the earth. How many knew
that already? The moon goes around the earth.
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Did you know that as the moon moves around
the earth, it is gradually getting farther
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away?
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We are slowly losing the moon. It’s leaving
us a couple inches a year - no big deal.
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Nothing to worry about; plus nothing you can
do about it anyway.
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But the moon is getting farther from the earth
every day.
-
Now kids, this is going to be complicated,
so listen carefully. The moon is getting farther
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from the earth every day.
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So that means that it used to be ... closer.
How many can figure this out with no help
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at all?
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Well, if you bring the moon in closer, you
start to create a problem, because the moon
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causes the tides.
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You folks in Knoxville probably don’t worry
about the tides.
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But in Pensacola, you worry about the tides.
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You see, if the moon was closer, the tides
would be higher.
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There’s a law called the inverse square law.
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If you brought the moon in to 1/3 the distance,
you take the 1/3, flip it over and square
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it. It’s nine times the gravitational pull!
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If you run all the math on this, you’ll find
out that the moon and earth would have been
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almost together 1.4 billion years ago.
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Dr. Walt Brown says 1.2 billion years ago
is the max life span for the earth and moon.
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Well, if the moon was whizzing around just
above the surface of the earth, that explains
-
what happened to the tall dinosaurs.
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They got mooned.
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Comets are flying around through space, but
comets are constantly losing material.
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Stuff blows off the tail of a comet.
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You can’t just keep losing; pretty soon it
is gone.
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You know, it’s kind of like your checkbook.
-
See, if your outgo exceeds your income, your
upkeep will be your downfall, every single
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time!
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Well, these comets are always losing material.
That’s something you just can’t keep doing
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forever.
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Most astronomer’s say comets can’t last more
than about 10,000 years. OK, well then I have
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a question.
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Why do we still have comets out there? They
should all be gone by now.
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I mentioned in a seminar years ago that comets
are an indication that the solar system is
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less than 10,000 years old.
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And an atheist went home and devoted an entire
Web site against me, an anti-Hovind Web site.
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There are now over a thousand.
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One guy told me there is closer to 2,000 anti-Hovind
Web sites now. I’m so proud of myself.
-
Well, this one scoffer on his Web site said,
“Hovind, don’t you know about a Dutch astronomer
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back in 1950? His name was Jan Oort.
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He proposed (he hoped; he wished; he prayed)
that there was a great shell of comets out
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there, and new ones kept coming in to replace
the ones that are burning out.”
-
So he said that the reason we still have comets
is because new ones are replacing the ones
-
that are burning up.
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They called it the “Oort Cloud” of comets.
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He said this Oort cloud is 50,000 astronomical
units away.
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Well, if you don’t know what an astronomical
unit, it is the distance from the sun to the
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earth.
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That is one astronomical unit.
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It’s pretty hard to see Pluto without a really
good telescope. And Pluto’s only 39 astronomical
-
units away.
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You’re never going to see a comet at 50,000
astronomical units, that’s for sure.
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Nobody’s ever seen this Oort cloud. Oort never
saw the Oort cloud.
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The whole thing is based on a mathematical
mistake. There is no Oort cloud.
-
Even Carl Sagan said, “Many scientific papers
are written each year about the Oort cloud,
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its properties, its origin, its evolution.
...
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Yet there is not yet a shred of direct observational
evidence for its existence.”
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There is no Oort cloud.
-
But the scoffer on his Web site said, “Hovind,
if you want to use the comet argument to prove
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the earth is young, ...
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It’s up to you to prove beyond a shadow of
a doubt that the Oort cloud and other sources
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don’t exist!”
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Wait, wait, wait. How would you prove the
nonexistence of something?
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Wouldn’t I have to be all places at the same
instant to prove something doesn’t exist?
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What he’s trying to do here is called shifting
the burden of proof.
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The liberals do it to us all the time, and
we fall for it.
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I’ll show you how easy it is to do. Suppose
I said that watermelons are blue on the inside
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until you cut the skin. Prove I’m wrong.
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It’s called shifting the burden of proof.
That would be pretty hard to do, wouldn’t
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it?
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As soon as you cut the skin - oh see, it turned
red. I was right; it was blue a second ago.
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He says I have to prove there’s no Oort cloud.
Now wait, Dave, here’s what we know.
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We know we have comets. We know they don’t
last more than about 10,000 years.
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We know the Bible says the earth is 6,000
years old. I don’t have a problem with comets.
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But he wants it to look like I have a problem
with comets, when he’s the one who’s got the
-
problem.
-
The Bible says, “The heavens declare the glory
of God.” It’s interesting. Evolution theory
-
has the sun and stars evolving before the
earth.
-
The Bible says, God made the earth before
the sun and stars.
-
Everything about the evolution theory is backwards
to the Bible. Every single thing - absolutely
-
backwards!
-
These theories don’t match. Everything’s backwards.
-
The Bible says man brought death into the
world. Evolution says death brought man into
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the world.
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The Bible says God created man; evolution
says no, man created God.
-
These theories are polar opposites.
-
People say, “Couldn’t God use evolution to
create?”
-
Well He could have, but it’s not the God of
the Bible, that’s for sure.
-
The God that would use evolution is cruel,
wasteful, and retarded.
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It’s not a God you would want to pray to,
that’s for sure.
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We’ll cover more of that on video 7 of the
blue series of tapes back there.
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The psalmist said, “When I consider thy heavens....”
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By the way, heavens is plural; we get into
that more in video #2.
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He said, “when I consider.” Kids, you’d do
yourself a favor every once in a while to
-
shut off that TV.
-
Go outside, and consider the heavens. Go see
what God has done.
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The psalmist said, “While I was musing, the
fire burned.”
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The word muse means “think.” Think.
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The Bible uses that word twice. Think.
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Now, English is a pretty interesting language,
you know.
-
A “theist” is a person who says he believes
in God.
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If you put the letter “a” in front of a word,
it means the opposite.
-
So an “atheist” is a person who says he does
not believe in God.
-
“Muse” means to think. So what is the opposite?
You got it.
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“Amuse” means literally, to not think.
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Did you know we’ve got entire parks where
you can pay money and go do that.
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They are called amusement parks - a place
to not think.
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He said, “When I consider thy heavens, the
work of thy fingers, the moon and the stars,
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which thou hast ordained: What is man that
thou art mindful of him?”
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You know what’s interesting? A person that
spends his time considering what God has done
-
is just not impressed with what man can do.
-
And some of you parents ought to go home and
look at your kid’s bedroom. And if what you
-
see all over the wall are sports heroes (you
listen carefully), you are training your kids
-
to meditate on what man can do, not on what
God can do.
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And his brain, his thinking process, is going
to be about that deep.
-
You know the depth of his understanding is
“Wow, he threw the ball through the hoop.”
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Who’s going to care in a thousand years? Who’s
going to care in five years?
-
Does anybody know who won the Stupid Bowl,
err, Super Bowl five years ago?
-
Does anybody care? It doesn’t matter, does
it?
-
All those grown men out there fighting over
that one ball, and they can all afford to
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go buy their own.
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No, I mean it’s not sinful. It is just dumb
to pay a guy five million dollars to carry
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a pig bladder down a cow pasture through some
plumbing.
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It’s not going to last, folks.
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Think about things that are going to last
forever, like what God has done. Meditate
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on that.
-
The Bible says, “Speak to the earth and it
shall teach thee.”
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The earth is like a big magnet. Now magnets
always lose their strength.
-
The earth’s magnet has lost 10% of its strength
in the last 150 years.
-
That means, of course, that it used to be
stronger- since it’s getting weaker.
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And it cannot be more than 25,000 years old.
Just the earth’s magnetic-field decline limits
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it to less than 25,000 years.
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And that also means carbon dating can’t work.
Give you a few examples here: the lower leg
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of a mammoth dated 15,000 years old, but the
skin was 21,000.
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One part of a mammoth is 29,000 years and
another part, 44,000. You talk about a slow
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birth.
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We cover more on Carbon-14 dating in video
#7 and all the serious problems with that.
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The textbooks will say, well, yes the magnetic
field is getting weaker, but that’s because
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it’s reversing.
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It’s a pattern of reversals.
-
No, there are no magnetic reversals in the
magnetic field at the bottom of the ocean.
-
We cover that in video #6. This is all a part
of another theory called: Pangaea.
-
How many have ever heard of “Pangaea” before?
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That all the continents used to fit together.
-
Well, I bet they didn’t tell you they shrank
Africa nearly 40% to make them fit, did they?
-
Did they tell you they took out all of Mexico
and Central America?
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“Senor, que pasa donde esta Mexico, Panama,
Costa Rica and Guatemala?”
-
And you know they don’t tell you what I think
ought to be obvious to a kindergartner.
-
Did you know if you take the water out of
the oceans, you will notice there is dirt
-
underneath. People say, “Hovind, do you think
the continents were ever connected?”
-
I say, “What do you mean? They are still connected.”
-
I mean, like right now; it is just the low
places are full of water.
-
What do you mean “were they connected?” Hello!
They are still connected.
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What a dumb theory! We cover more of that
in video #6 about Pangaea, in what’s called
-
“The Hovind Theory.”
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The earth is spinning about 1,000 miles per
hour at the equator. But the earth is slowing
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down.
-
The earth actually slows down about a thousandth
of a second every day.
-
The earth slows down. “Astronomy Magazine”
ran an article in 1992.
-
They said, “Earth’s rotation is slowing down.
... June will be one second longer than normal.”
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We will have a leap second. Leap second?
-
Yes, they have to have a leap second about
every year to year and a half, because the
-
earth is slowing down.
-
Now kids, this is going to be complicated,
so listen carefully.
-
The earth is spinning, but it is slowing down
-
So that means that it used to be going faster.
-
How many can figure this out with no help
at all?
-
Well, if the earth is only 6,000 years old,
this is not a problem.
-
I mean, it was going a little faster; Adam
wouldn’t notice. He didn’t have a watch anyway.
-
Some of the guys would like me to believe
that the earth is billions of years old.
-
Man, if you go back billions of years, you
are going to have a problem.
-
The earth would be spinning pretty quick.
-
Get up; go to bed. Get up; go to bed. Get
up; go to bed. You’d never get anything done.
-
Centrifugal force would have been enormous.
Man, the winds would have been 5,000 miles
-
an hour from the Coriolis effect.
-
And you want me to believe the dinosaurs lived
millions of years ago?
-
I know what happened to them. They got blown
off! No, they did not live millions of years
-
ago.
-
The Sahara Desert has what is called a prevailing
wind pattern.
-
The wind almost always blows the same way.
This creates a serious problem.
-
The hot air comes off the desert, kills the
trees next door, and that area becomes desert.
-
The process is called desertification. You
can read about it in an earth science book.
-
The Sahara Desert has been studied very carefully.
They did a long study on this and said, You
-
know what, folks, the Sahara Desert is probably
about 4,000 years old.
-
That’s when it started growing. Egypt used
to be fertile land all over the place.
-
OK, well then I have a question: If the earth
is millions of years old, why don’t we have
-
a bigger desert someplace?
-
Why would the biggest desert on planet earth
be less than 4,000 years old?
-
Well, I have a theory about that. Now here’s
my theory.
-
I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created
everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood.
-
Now it’s pretty hard to have a desert under
a flood. You have got to admit that would
-
be tough.
-
So the desert couldn’t start growing until
the floodwater went down.
-
So I predict, based on the Bible, the biggest
desert in the world would be less than 4,400
-
years old.
-
It is! Wow, maybe the Bible’s right.
-
You know when they drill into the ground,
sometimes they hit oil?
-
The oil is under incredible pressure in some
places, up to 20,000 (psi) pounds per square
-
inch. It will come squirting up out of the
ground- 20,000 psi.
-
Well, the guys who study the rocks on top
of the oil say,
-
“You know, it just can’t handle that pressure
for more than about 10,000 years.”
-
I know the weight of rock supplies pressure,
but the pressure in the well is greater than
-
the weight of overburden.
-
They say it should have cracked the rock and
leaked off in less than 10,000 years.
-
OK, well then, I have got two questions: Where
did the oil come from? And why is it still
-
under pressure?
-
Well, most scientists agree that oil comes
from organisms that are squished.
-
They’re changed by heat and pressure into
oil.
-
They learned in 1971 how to make oil in 20
minutes in the laboratory. In Australia they’ve
-
got a treatment plant that takes sewage sludge
and turns it into oil in 30 minutes.
-
There is a factory in Texas that takes turkey
guts and pressurizes them, heats them, and
-
turns them into oil.
-
It said in the article: “We duplicated what
Mother Nature does, but what took Mother Nature
-
millions of years to do, we do in about 30
minutes.”
-
Sinclair has the dinosaur as their logo. They
say dinosaurs turned into oil.
-
Yes, boys and girls, they mellowed for 80
million years. I don’t think so.
-
I have a theory about the oil, and here is
my theory:
-
I believe about 6,000 years ago, God created
everything; 4,400 years ago there was a Flood.
-
In that Flood, lots of critters and people
drowned.
-
They got buried by the gravel and the rocks
and the mud and the sand, and it got pretty
-
heavy after a while.
-
And it squished them into oil. So the oil’s
down there today from the people and animals
-
that drowned in that Flood. Which means if
you stop to think about it, you drove over
-
here tonight on some of your ancestors.
-
Well, Noah’s uncles anyway. Next time you’re
at the gas station, pumping him in there,
-
you can say,
-
“Bye, Grandpa. You should have listened to
Noah; he told you it was going to rain!”
-
Hovind, “We know you teach the earth is only
6,000 years old. We would like to prove to
-
you, you’re wrong.”
-
“Would you come with us, please?” I said,
“Sure!”
-
They took me to this big freezer outside of
Denver, in Lakewood, Colorado.
-
It’s the National Ice Core Laboratory. It
is -36 degrees F (-38C) in there.
-
They put this big suit on me, big hat, big
gloves, big boots. I was freezing in five
-
seconds when I walked in there.
-
I have got Florida blood, you know? It is
real thin.
-
They said, “Hovind, we go to Greenland and
we drill holes through the ice.”
-
You know, a government job.
-
“And, we take this big pipe and we drill it
down, and we bring this ice core out of the
-
middle of the pipe.
-
And we save it in this big freezer here in
Lakewood, Colorado.
-
We have ten ice cores from stored in this
freezer.”
-
They took me over and showed me one of the
ice cores. They said, “You see these rings
-
on here, looks like tree rings - dark, light,
dark, light?”
-
I said, “Oh yeah, it’s real clear.”
-
They said, “Well what happens, in the summer,
the snow melts a little bit, and then it refreezes
-
and makes clear ice.”
-
(It shows up dark in the picture.)
-
In the winter, the snow just packs. It doesn’t
get a chance to melt.
-
And so it shows up as a white layer.
-
So these layers represent: summer, winter,
summer, winter, summer, winter, summer, winter.
-
And they said, Now, the deepest hole we’ve
ever drilled is 10,000 feet deep.
-
And we counted these ice rings. And there
were 135,000 of them.
-
And now you’re going around telling everybody
the earth is 6,000 years old.
-
We can prove it is at least 135,000 years
old.
-
I said, “Fellas, aren’t you assuming those
are annual rings?”
-
See, they didn’t know about the Lost Squadron,
apparently.
-
But, in World War II, some airplanes ran out
of gas and landed in Greenland. Has anybody
-
ever heard of the Lost Squadron? OK. It’s
been on TV a bunch of times.
-
Well, the airplanes got left there in 1942.
-
They went on and fought the war, and everyone
forgot about them.
-
Until a rich millionaire from Kentucky got
a brilliant idea. Go find those airplanes
-
and bring them home.
-
He went there looking for the airplanes. They
had to use ground-penetrating radar to penetrate
-
the ice, and they located the planes.
-
They melted this hole down to get to the P-38.
It was 263 feet below the surface. They melted
-
this hole down to get down to the plane, took
the plane apart, and brought the pieces back
-
through the hole.
-
And they put them back together in Middlesboro,
Kentucky. Not too far from here.
-
How far is Middlesboro from Knoxville, Kentucky?
Two hours, maybe?
-
That’s where their home base is, Middlesboro.
The planes were in the ice for 48 years. They
-
were 263 feet down. That’s 5 1/2 feet a year.
-
Now, the deepest hole they’ve ever drilled
is 10,000 feet. You divide that in half and
-
you get 1,800 years.
-
I know deeper layers get squished - called
glacial firn.
-
So really 4,000 years is plenty of time to
put all the ice at the north and south poles.
-
So, why isn’t there more ice at the north
and south poles?
-
I visited the museum and saw the guy who dug
out the airplane - his name is Bob Carden.
-
I said, “Bob, when you went down to get to
that airplane, did you melt through ice rings?”
-
He said, “Oh yeah, many hundreds of them.”
-
I said, “Now wait a minute. How can there
be hundreds of ice rings in 48 years? Shouldn’t
-
there be somewhere around 48?”
-
He said, “Who told you those are annual layers?”
He said, “That doesn’t represent summer, winter,
-
summer, winter.
-
It represents warm, cold, warm, cold, warm,
cold.”
-
You can get five of those in one week in Knoxville,
can’t you?
-
But here’s a guy still calling them annual
layers. Now either he is ignorant, or he is
-
lying.
-
I hope he is just ignorant because ignorance
can be fixed.
-
You see, stupid is forever, but ignorance
can be fixed. That is the difference by the
-
way.
-
A guy that works with the Eskimos said, “Brother
Hovind, I got 15 layers of snow on my car
-
in 8 hours.
-
Not 15 inches, 15 distinct layers of snow!”
-
Your kids are going to be taught that each
of the layers of the earth is a different
-
age.
-
They’ve got Cenozoic, Mesozoic, Paleozoic,
Archaeozoic.
-
Did you know the whole geologic column is
bologna?
-
It doesn’t exist. We cover that on video #4.
-
All over the world petrified trees are found
standing up connecting these rock layers.
-
A petrified tree connecting a bunch of layers
- there can’t be millions of years difference
-
in the age of the layers.
-
One is at Cookville, Tennessee- not far from
here.
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The bottom is coalified; the center is petrified;
the top is coalified again.
-
The tree trunk runs through two coal seams.
-
We cover more of that in video #6 about coal
formation. Mount Saint Helens blew trees into
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Spirit Lake.
-
They’re going to petrify very quickly - standing
up.
-
That’s the way they sank to the bottom. They
got water logged. Wood petrifies quickly.
-
Here is petrified firewood.
-
Here is a petrified fish giving birth. It
does not take millions of years to give birth.
-
Petrified cowboy boot with the cowboy’s leg
still in it.
-
The article’s on the table down here called
“The Limestone Cowboy.”
-
The Mississippi River is depositing sediments
at the rate of 80,000 tons every hour. 80,000
-
tons of mud comes down and dumps off round
New Orleans and that delta is growing larger
-
and larger.
-
They studied the delta pretty carefully, and
they say it probably took 30,000 years to
-
put all that mud out there in the delta.
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Well then, I have a question.
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If the earth is millions of years old, why
isn’t the whole Gulf of Mexico full of mud
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by now?
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They’ll say, “Hovind, it’s 30,000 years; that
proves the Bible is wrong. The Bible says
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6,000.” I know, but I have a theory about
that.
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I believe 6,000 years ago God made everything;
4,400 hundred years ago there was a Flood.
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As the floodwater was running off, about half
of that mud washed out there in 20 minutes.
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So it looks like it took 30,000 years to get
the mud out there. It took about 20 minutes
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and then 4,400 years since then.
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A friend of mine from Louisiana is a pastor
of a church.
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He said, “Brother Hovind, I used to work in
the oil field drilling in the Gulf of Mexico-
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drilling for oil.”
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He said, “We drilled down through 14,000 feet
of mud and hit trees 60 feet tall standing
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up.”
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60-foot vertical trees under 14,000 feet of
mud.
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More about that on video #6.
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Here is a picture of the oldest tree on the
planet.
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It’s called the Bristle cone pine.
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We have a piece of Bristle cone in our museum
in Pensacola.
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It’s only 30 inches in diameter and it’s 700
years old. You can count the rings with a
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magnifying glass.
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It grows real slow. Now tree-ring dating is
not an exact science.
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Trees can produce two rings a year or three
rings a year.
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And be very careful about tree-ring dating
with overlapping sequencing.
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We cover more on that during video #7, Q & A
time, if you would like.
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The oldest tree in the world, this textbook
says, is 4,300 years old, earth’s oldest organism.
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That’s a pretty old tree. But I’ve got a question.
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If the earth is millions of years old, why
don’t we have an older tree someplace?
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Why would the oldest tree be 4,300 years old?
I have a theory about that. Here’s my theory.
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I believe about 6,000 years ago God made everything;
4,400 years ago there was a Flood.
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And so I predict the oldest tree ought to
be somewhere around 4,300 years old. It is!
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Wow!
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Maybe that Bible is right! Maybe I ought to
read that thing and believe it.
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Here is a picture of a coral reef. Did you
know that the largest reef in the world is
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in Australia?
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I had a call from a church in Brisbane one
time. They said, “Do you want to come preach
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over here in Australia?”
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I said I need to pray about this. (He said,
“Yes!”) I took my whole family over to Australia
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with me.
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My daughter and I got to go scuba diving at
the Great Barrier Reef. It was incredible!
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Some of the reef was destroyed during World
War II by ships and anchors and bombs and
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stuff like that.
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So the environmentalists went out there to
see how fast it grows back.
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They watched the reef grow for 20 years. (It
was a government project.)
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After watching it grow for 20 years, they
said the reef is less than 4,200 years old.
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OK. Well, than I have a question.
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If the earth is millions of years old, why
don’t we have a bigger reef someplace?
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Why on earth would the biggest reef be only
4,200 years old? I have a theory about that.
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I bet you know what it is, don’t you? Can
you figure it out by now? Here’s a picture
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of Niagara Falls.
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The textbook says, “Boys and girls, the rocky
ledge above Niagara Falls has been eroding
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for nearly 9,900 years.”
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Now how do they know that? Well, the rocks
are breaking off the edge.
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I mean, all waterfalls do that. They break
rocks off and the waterfall eats its way backwards.
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Flows one direction; erodes the other direction.
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Niagara Falls is moving back 4.7 feet a year.
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Charles Lyell went there in 1841 and said,
“Well, Niagara Falls is here. Obviously, it
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started up here at the cliff by Lewiston,
New York [moving back down the gully].”
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He said, “10,000 years worth of erosion.”
The people that lived there said, “Charlie,
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it erodes a whole lot faster than you think.
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One good rainstorm and there is a whole lot
of erosion takes place.” He figured three
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feet a year
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(purposely to make the Bible look wrong).
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He hated the Bible. We get into more about
him in video #4.
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Today Niagara Falls is way back there, split
over that island.
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There are actually two Niagara Falls: the
Canadian side and the American side.
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It has eroded back quite a ways just since
Charles Lyles’ time.
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The textbook says, “This gorge that the river
runs into is 7.5 miles long. A simple calculation
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shows it’s been 9,900 years.” Oh, it’s not
that simple.
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See Niagara Falls is right here. It started
up further north up by Lewiston.
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If the earth is millions of years old, why
hasn’t it eroded back to Lake Erie by now?
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Why is Niagara Falls right there? I have a
theory about that. Here is my theory.
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You see about 6,000 years ago, God made everything;
and 4,400 years ago there was a Flood.
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As the floodwater was running off, about half
of that creek washed out in 20 minutes.
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So it looks like it took 9,900 years. They
forgot the Flood.
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They also forgot to get the right number.
It should have been 8,400 had they used 4.7,
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but what do you expect?
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When it rains, 30% of the water runs into
the ocean,
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bringing with it mineral salts. The oceans
are getting saltier every day.
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Today the oceans are 3.6% salt. They could
have done that in less than 5,000 years.
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Question: Why aren’t the oceans saltier?
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Well, you see 6,000 years ago God made everything;
4,400 years ago there was a Flood.
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Now since the Flood’s been over, the oceans
have gradually gotten saltier.
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One atheist I debated said, “Hovind, can you
please tell me how the fresh-water fish survived
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the Flood?”
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I said, “Sir, aren’t you assuming the flood
was salt water.” He said, “The ocean is salt
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water.” I said, “It is - today.
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During the Flood it was probably mostly fresh
water and it has gradually gotten saltier.
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And today some animals have had to adapt to
salt water.
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And now we have fresh-water crocodiles, and
salt-water crocodiles, and they probably had
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a common ancestor.
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A crocodile.” He said, “That’s evolution.”
I said, “No, it’s not.”
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“Going from a fresh-water croc to a salt-water
croc is a minor change compared to your evolution
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story. You believe they changed from a rock
to a crocodile. Now, that’s a major change!”
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A friend of mine in Alabama raises fish and
said he took a fresh-water fish, Black Mollies.
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He slowly added salt to their aquarium. In
two weeks, they became salt-water fish.
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When he put them back in fresh water, they
died in 30 minutes.
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They can adapt to salt water, not a problem.
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How many have ever gone into a cave and the
guide said, “Don’t touch the formations; they
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take millions of years to form.” They’ve all
got the same speech, right?
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What’s the one in Kentucky? Mammoth Cave?
Or go to Carlsbad Caverns, and they say it
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took 250 million years.
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They did a study on these stalactites. And
one guy said, “You know, the fastest they
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can grow is 2.5 inches per thousand years.
That’s the maximum growth rate.” I don’t think
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so. Here are some 50-inch stalactites growing
under the Lincoln Memorial.
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They did that in 40 years. Here is a bat covered
up with flowstone before it could even rot.
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Here are 2-inch stalactites growing off a
refrigeration shed in Pensacola, Florida.
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Here is a guy in a building in Indiana built
just 40 years ago. It has huge cave formations
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in the basement of the building from water
leaking through the limestone.
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Here’s a mine that was shut down in Australia
for 55 years. When they opened it back up
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to check it out, there were already huge cave
formations in 55 years.
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Here is a pipe that was dripping for 7 years.
It made a 13-inch stalactite. I thought it
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was 2.5 inches per thousand years. It’s more
like 2 inches per year.
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They broke off the stalagmite that was under
it and gave it to me. It’s in my museum.
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Here is a parking garage built in 1997 in
Texas. It was making stalagmites on the students’
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cars parking under it.
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They had to put up a drip pan to catch the
water.
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A guy in Wyoming had a hot mineral spring
on his property in Thermopolis, Wyoming; so
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he stuck a pipe in the ground.
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The water came out the top of the pipe and
bubbled down the side of the top of the pipe.
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They had a little fountain. They called it
the Tepee Fountain.
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Well, the guy died. They left the pipe sticking
in the yard.
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As the pipe was there, it left behind mineral
deposits as the water evaporated.
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How many have seen these mineral deposits?
You get them on your sink up here.
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The guy died, and about 95 years later, the
pipe was still stuck in the ground. I went
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to see it.
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Here it is, back in 1998. That would take
some Lime A-way to scrub that thing clean,
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don’t you think?
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Yes, a little bit. The guy down the street
started his later. It’s not quite as big.
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You know, at the current rate of erosion,
the continents will erode flat in 14 million
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years?
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Why do they tell us that we’ve got fossils
that are 300 times older than that, still
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above sea level?
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They should have washed out to sea 300 times.
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All you’ve got to do is fly out west and look
at the erosion patterns, and you will say,
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“This place was destroyed by a flood.”
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The whole world was destroyed by a Flood.
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Just fly around like I do and look out the
window once in a while.
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The oldest languages in the world are kind
of interesting. “Origin of Major Writing Systems”
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from “National Geographic.” What do they say?
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Well, they say that the oldest writing systems
in the world started about 3,000 BC - 5,000
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years ago.
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The oldest writing systems. And the oldest
languages are modern, sophisticated, and complete.
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The Chinese said the year 2,000 was the year
4,700.
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They think they started their calendar with
the Flood. They called Noah, Phu Hi.
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The oldest recorded capital punishment was
3,800 years ago. The Hebrew calendar said
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the year 2000 was 5760.
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We know the Hebrew calendar was messed up
because a Rabbi purposely took some years
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out, to make it not match the prophecy to
fit Jesus.
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The Saxons had a genealogy going back to Adam.
The Danes and Norwegians had a king list going
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back to Noah.
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Don’t trust the Egyptian king list. It is
greatly exaggerated.
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See the work by Courville on that, in “The
Evolution Cruncher.”
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Why are the oldest reliable historical records
less than 6,000 years old?
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Well, I have a theory about that. I bet you
know what it is, don’t you?
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That Bible is absolutely right, folks. Absolutely
correct, scientifically.
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The evidence for a young earth is overwhelming.
Students aren’t taught that.
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Students are only shown the evidence for an
old earth. Remember the coins in the box?
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They’d better deal with the youngest ones.
Not the oldest ones.
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These books aren’t really science books anymore.
They are books about evolution.
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I think it’s part of a much bigger picture,
for a New World Order.
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You see, the guys that started this country
said, “We hold these truths to be self evident...
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All men are created equal, they are endowed
by their Creator with certain unalienable
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rights.”
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But did you know that 75% of kids from Christian
homes who go to public schools will reject
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the Christian faith after one year of college?
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That’s what happened to Crawford Toy.
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Most people have never heard of Crawford Toy,
but he was a very famous Southern Baptist
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seminary professor.
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He almost married a girl named Lottie Moon.
Has anybody ever heard of Lottie Moon?
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You know, you guys have the Lottie Moon offering
every Christmas. She was a great missionary
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to China.
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Crawford Toy, after the Civil War, went to
Europe and learned about evolution.
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He sucked it in, and believed it. He became
an evolutionist.
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Crawford came back to his Bible class and
said, “You know, the Bible intends to teach
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a plain six-day creation.
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The Bible is simply in error at that point.”
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The Bible is in error?! Now Crawford, hold
on!
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Maybe your theory is in error and maybe you
got brainwashed. It’s very easy to get brainwashed.
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I am going to try to brainwash the whole crowd,
and then we are going to quit and go home.
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Tomorrow we’ll talk about the Garden of Eden.
What was that like? And why did they live
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to be 900?
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But first, I want to try to brainwash everybody.
Here’s what’s going to happen.
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I am going to tell you a little story. As
I tell the story, I will brainwash you.
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Maybe you’ve never been brainwashed before.
It’s a harmless procedure. Don’t worry about
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it.
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When I am done telling the story, I will ask
you two simple questions about the story.
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If you know the answer, I just want you to
raise your hand.
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If you don’t know the answer, it will be because
you have been successfully brainwashed.
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Now pay attention: here goes the story. Once
upon a time, a man left home, jogging.
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He jogged a little ways and turned left. He
jogged a little ways and turned left.
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He jogged a little ways, turned left, and
jogged back home.
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As he was jogging home, he noticed two masked
men waiting for him at home.
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Who were the masked men? And why did he leave
home jogging?
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If you know, raise your hand, but don’t say
it out loud. There are about five or six.
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The rest of you, pay attention, we are going
to try it again.
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Once upon a time, a man left home jogging.
He jogged a little ways and turned left.
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I’ll give you a hint - that’s important. He
jogged a little ways and turned left.
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He jogged a little ways, turned left, and
jogged back home.
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As he was jogging home, he noticed two masked
men waiting for him at home.
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Who were the masked men? And why did he leave
home jogging?
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Anybody new figure it out? ...Two more.
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The rest of you, pay attention. We are going
to try it one more time.
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But now I am going to un-brainwash you.
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See, you didn’t realize it, but I had you
brainwashed in the first three seconds.
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I am going to un-brainwash all of you now,
just by showing you a couple of pictures.
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I’ll tell the same story word for word, but
watch the pictures.
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You will feel yourself get un-brainwashed.
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It’s the coolest feeling. Are you ready? Here
goes.
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Once upon a time, a man left home jogging.
He jogged a little ways and turned left.
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He jogged a little ways and turned left. He
jogged a little ways, turned left, and jogged
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back home.
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As he was jogging home, he noticed two masked
men waiting for him at home.
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Who were the masked men? The catcher and the
umpire!
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You say, “Brother Hovind, is it that easy
to get brainwashed?” Oh yeah!
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You see, as soon as I said, “A man left home...”
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You started thinking about a house. And you
were off track.
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And once you get off track, it’s pretty tough
to get back on.
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Would you like to see how kids get brainwashed
in your school system by the millions every
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year?
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Millions of kids in America, every single
year, get brainwashed. And it’s so simple
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how they do it.
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They put the kid in kindergarten; he can’t
even read yet.
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And they give him a book like this: “I Can
Read About Dinosaurs.”
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Would anybody like to just take a wild guess
at what the first sentence in the book says?
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“Millions of years ago....”
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And that kid’s being thrown off track in the
first five seconds.
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How many kids are being taught that in your
town? Like all of them. That’s calling Jesus
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a liar.
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Did dinosaurs live millions of years ago?
Dr. Seuss even says it, “Millions of years
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before you were born.”
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Jesus said the creation of Adam was the beginning.
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Somebody’s wrong, folks! Now wait a minute,
the Bible says before the Flood came, they
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lived to be 900 years old.
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How is that possible? Oh, we’ll cover that
in seminar part #2 tomorrow. What about the
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Flood?
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Well, that’s covered in video #6. And what
about dinosaurs? Well, that’s covered on video
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#3.
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But listen, you are going to be told in school
you started like a slime and you slowly became
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a human. You be careful, because that philosophy
will spoil you.
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Jesus said, “Beware lest any man spoil you
through philosophy and vain deceit, after
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the tradition of men, after the rudiments
of the world, and not after Christ.”
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Hey, if a child goes 12 to 16 years to school
in your town, how is he going to view the
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world?
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Probably as an evolutionist.
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If the Bible is right about the beginning,
maybe it’s right about the end. Let’s summarize
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here.
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God made the world. He owns it. He makes the
rules. And we are all guilty of breaking His
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rules.
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Everyone of us. Let me show you. Here are
the Ten Commandments.
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He told us, “Thou shall not bear false witness.”
(Don’t lie.) How many of you have ever told
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a lie in your life?
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Put your hand up, or you’re telling another
one if you don’t!
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“Thou shalt not steal.” How many ever stole
something?
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Come on, you already told me you are a liar.
Put your hand up. (Did your hand go up, there,
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brother? Put it up.)
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So far, we know we’re all a bunch of lying
thieves, right?
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Do you want to read the whole list and see
how we are doing? We’d better stop right there.
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There is no question, we are guilty. And we
are going to be punished.
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God is a righteous judge. He cannot look upon
sin, and we are going to be punished.
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Or, you need to find a substitute. That’s
where Jesus comes in.
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He wants to pay for your sins.
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Thirty-six years ago, I told him he could
pay for mine. I asked him to forgive me and
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save me.
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Hey, if you died today, where would you go?
Smoking or non-smoking?
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Where are you going when you die?
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You ought to think about that, because you
are going to be dead for a really long time.
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All you get in this life is a little bitty
dash between two dates. I am going to die
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someday.
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I am going to try to make it the last thing
I do, but it’s going to happen. It could happen
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today.
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Have you seen the way they drive around Knoxville,
Tennessee?
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You have got some certified rednecks out there,
folks.
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And you could get killed on the way home tonight.
Where are you going when you die?
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If you are not sure you are saved, why don’t
you ask the Lord to forgive you and save you.
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And if you are saved, what on earth are you
doing for Heaven’s sake?
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Everybody ought to find something to do for
the Lord. There is a war going on; find something
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to do.
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Get busy. Win souls. Be a Sunday school teacher,
bus driver; do something for God with your
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life.
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If we can help, that is what our materials
are for. There’s a catalog on the back table
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back there.
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as well as our videos. We want to help strengthen
your faith in God’s Word.
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We hope you’ve enjoyed this series on creation,
evolution, and dinosaurs.
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Much more important, though, than knowing
all the truths and facts about science,
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is to know the truth about whether you’re
going to Heaven or not.
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If you’ve never trusted Christ as your Savior,
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Let me explain quickly what you need to do
to be able to go to Heaven.
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The Bible says we’re all sinners. We’ve all
broken God’s laws.
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We’ve disobeyed the Creator. We’ve done wicked
things; we’re sinners.
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Some are worse than others, at least in man’s
eyes, but we’ve all broken God’s laws.
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The Bible says you have to repent. The word
repent means “to turn.”
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It actually means two things, “to turn from
your sin, and to turn to God.”
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God’s looking for a change in your attitude.
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You say, “Lord, I don’t want to do wrong anymore;
I’m sorry I have offended You. I want to do
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right.”
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And you turn from sin and you turn to God.
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You say, “God, would you please forgive me,
would you save me?”
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The Bible says in Romans 3:23,
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“All have sinned and come short of the glory
of God.” You need to admit you’re a sinner.
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Number two, the Bible says in Romans 6:23,
“The wages of sin is death.”
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We deserve to die and go to hell because of
our sin, but Jesus died for you.
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He loves you. He wants you come to Heaven.
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Anybody that will ask Him for free salvation
God will give the gift of eternal life, it
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says in Romans 6:23.
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It’s a free gift. And it says in Romans 10:13,
“Whosoever shall call upon the name of the
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Lord shall be saved.”
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If you would just call and say, “Lord, I’m
a sinner. Please forgive me,” and ask Him,
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He will give you that free gift of eternal
life.
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Why don’t you just pray with me right now
and you could receive Christ as your Savior.
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There are no magic words; God’s looking at
your heart, but if you could say this and
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mean it, God would forgive you.
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Just say, “Dear Lord Jesus, I know that I’m
a sinner. I’ve broken Your laws. I’m sorry.
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Please forgive me.
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Please apply Your blood to my account. Forgive
my sins and take me to Heaven. In Jesus’ name,
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Amen.”
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The Bible says if you call upon the Lord,
you shall be saved.
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So if you’ve asked the Lord to save you, He
promised He’d save you. Now your job is to
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grow.
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Read your Bible, pray, get involved in a good
Bible-believing church, and begin to grow
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to be a good Christian.
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Thank you so much. Call or write if we can
be any help at all. We’d be glad to help.
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For more information on the ministry Creation
Science Evangelism, write us at Creation Science
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Evangelism, 29 Cummings Road, Pensacola, Florida
32503.
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or call us at 1(850)-479-3466. That is (850-479-DINO)
Or visit us online at: www.drdino.com.