to have their Sunday school time as well. And we're glad to have a few of my former students, Chandler's fellow soccer team members. They were able to come out to the Hobo Stew last night. And that was great. Enjoyed that in spite of the rain. We had rain off and on. We still had a great time. Over 60 people came out last night in spite of the rain. So a wonderful time. Appreciate the Holtz hosting that. And so we'll go ahead and have Ray come. with some announcements before our opening song and prayer. If you haven't been out to the Holt Fellowship Hall, I would encourage you to try and participate in the future if you're able to be out there. Just a great time. They've got a nice big garage for people to meet in. And with that many people, it was not a big crowded type issue. So I appreciate them being prepared for that with the rain. And fortunately, the Lord allowed the rain to come while we were there part of the time. But also, there was a good portion of that time that it wasn't raining. So it just turned out real well. Several things coming up this week. Many have, there's been some that have signed up for the Senior Saints Trip to Ship Shawana. That's this Friday, October 8th. If you still want to participate in that, please sign that today. And that basically will be leaving 7.30 a.m. and return about 5 p.m. So there's a cost for the meal while we're there and should be a great time. Bridal shower coming up for Naomi Jones, Saturday as well, Saturday, October 9. That will be one o'clock at the Smiths, and please sign up for that today if you haven't already. And then a teen activity on Saturday, October 9, here at the church. That will be at 4 p.m. Again, that will be here at the church. The ladies' meeting's gonna be held from six to eight Is that 6 to 8 p.m.? Okay, 6 to 8 p.m. at Christo's New City Grill. I think that's on Teal Road, so if you have a question about that, see some of the ladies here. Kids for Truth, the announcement's not in here, but it will be for next week. Kids for Truth will be starting the 13th, which will be a week from this Wednesday. So that will be the 13th. Then a security team training coming up on Saturday, October 16 from 9 to 11 here at the church. Then the following Saturday, the 23rd will be a men's breakfast and then a recertification for the security team following the breakfast. Church anniversary, we're coming up on 17 years since our church Star was chartered, and we'll have a special day on October 31st, Sunday, October 31st. Have a regular morning schedule, a 1.30 service, and a picnic-type lunch. It's kind of a bring-your-own type thing, where you can go out and get something and bring it back to eat on the grounds here. And then Eric Miller will be here Sunday, November 14th. in the evening service, and then Maranatha on Tuesday, November 14th for music ministry. Turn it over to Derek. Good morning, everybody. We will be singing the first two verses of 660. If you don't mind, stand, please. The first two verses of 660. What a friend we have in Jesus All our sins and griefs to bear What a privilege to carry Everything to God in prayer Oh, what peace we often forfeit Oh, what needless pain we bear All because we do not carry Everything to God in prayer Have we trials and temptations? Is there trouble anywhere? We should never be discouraged. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Can we find a friend so faithful? Jesus knows our every weakness. Take it to the Lord in prayer. Please be seated. It's a prayer request to remember, continue to remember Kira Sleek, Lynn Fox, Kelly Lee, Karen Baylor, Bob Berninger, all dealing with cancer-related issues and treatments. Also, Bob Marion, as he continues to recover from a heart attack, it's great to have him here last Sunday. Doug Pruitt, recovering from back surgery. Bob and Jean Berninger, a separate issue, if you weren't aware, they were in an accident Tuesday of this week, vehicle ran into the back of them on 26 in the Cone area. Fortunately, they weren't hurt badly. Bob's still having some issues with his neck, but fortunately, they're both home and resting there. And then Misty Shively as well. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the privilege it is to serve you. We thank you for just the opportunity we have to bring these requests to you and we realize that there are many other requests that people probably are thinking about. Lord, we thank you that you give us the opportunity to praise you and to realize that you're in charge of all the circumstances in our lives and not surprised by any of them. We just ask that those that are going through these treatments would be encouraged by other believers and that there might be opportunities for them to share the hope they have in you, even through these difficult times. Thank you for those that are recovering at home. Just ask that you continue to strengthen them, that they might be able to be back in our services. Father, we thank you for the blessing we have of being with other believers. We just ask that you would bless our time together through this Sunday school hour. In Christ's name I pray, amen. Okay, at this time the teens can go to their class. Turn it over to Dr. Clark. I thought I would discuss my heroes of the faith. Now, for it to be a hero, in my opinion, it needs to be somebody who has accepted Christ as Savior, lives for the Lord, believes the Bible is the Word of God, then is a scientist. Someone suggested to me last week that there were a couple videos where millions of years went through, and my first response was, you know, people know where I stand, but probably I need to adjust those videos or at least have a disclaimer at the end and say, you know, we don't believe in millions of years. And I do not. But it's because of my heroes of the faith. That's the main reason. So where in the Bible is the Hall of Fame, the heroes of the faith? Where is it? Hebrews 11, that is correct. Hebrews 11, and it talks about the heroes of the faith. And it mentions Abel, Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, Sarah, Moses, Rahab, Gideon, Barack Obama, Barak in Judges 5.15. I read that and I go, that's pretty close. Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, and the prophets, and it goes on and mentions others. My first hero of the faith is Henry Morris, Dr. Henry Morris. I first ran into him when I was teaching at Marquette Manor in Downers Grove. This would have been in 1972. Yeah, my first year of teaching. and I knew that he was going to be speaking at Oak Forest Baptist Academy. So I went down there on a Saturday, and I listened. He had an afternoon session, I think, and then an evening session. He might have spoke on Sunday morning, he probably did, but I was at Market Manor, so I probably went there. And I remember listening to his message, and I even asked him a question. I said, you know, you said in your presentation Since evolution cannot be observed and you cannot do experiments on it, the same is true about creation. So why do we attack it as scientists? And he calmly said, the reason we do is because the big attack on the scripture in the last hundred years has been on the scientific level. Evolution, the book by Darwin, attacks the word of God from a scientific basis. So, I was thoroughly blessed by the presentation. I wouldn't say that I was really strongly steeped in evolution, having learned chemistry. There wasn't a whole lot of evolution taught in chemistry. So, here I am, after I taught at the Christian school for 11 years, came back because of family. I'm teaching at Lafayette. And one of the biology teachers said, well, you know, those scientists like Morris, they've got fake degrees and bogus degrees and all that kind of stuff. And I said, oh, really? He's got a BS in civil engineering from Rice University. He's got an MS in hydraulics, University of Minnesota. He's got a PhD in hydraulic engineering, University of Minnesota. teacher in a high school who has a bachelor's degree knocking a man who has a BS, an MS, and a PhD. You're going, that doesn't make a whole lot of sense. What did he do over the years? He was a hydraulic engineer at this commission. He was a teacher at the University of Minnesota. Professor and Chair at Lafayette, Louisiana. Professor and Chair professor at SIU, and professor and chair of civil engineering at VPI. He's an author. Apparently, this is still the cornerstone of the field in hydraulic engineering, a book that he wrote. He wrote at least 55 books. He wrote the Genesis Flood, probably the first book to cause Christians to start thinking about this attack on the Bible. How many have read the Genesis flood? It's pretty deep. Thank you very much. It gives a good explanation for how he could have held all the animals on it, how the animals could come to the ark, and so on and so forth. And of course, this had a great effect on Ken Ham, He says in his biography, Ken Ham does. And then Evolution of the Modern Christian. This is a book that I read from cover to cover. And then when I was at Market Manor, I would spend at least two or three weeks covering the books with the students. Now, the next time I ran into Henry Morris, after reading his books and getting his ICR pamphlet once a month and reading his articles and so on and so forth, the next time I met him, I'm trying to figure out exactly how I got this student to come, but Henry Morris was gonna speak at Purdue in the Chem 200. Chem 200 is a gigantic lecture hall. Five to six hundred people can sit in it. The night that Louis Maiden, why can I remember a student from 1984 or 85, his name, first and last name, and yet sometimes when I meet somebody in the church I go, So here's, as best I can tell, I searched for it, the door over there on the left hand side reminds me of the lecture hall. There were about 100 people there. Some Purdue students, some people from the community, and then I took Louis Maiden to the presentation. He's sitting down front, And we're waiting for the presentation to start. And I said, Lewis, you want to meet Dr. Morris? He goes, yeah, yeah. So we went down. Here's a man, just as humble as can be. He's got kind of a crumpled shirt on, and a tie, and a jacket, and yet he's brilliant when he speaks. So we talked to him for a couple minutes. He got his name, what school he went to, and why he was there, all that kind of stuff. And so we went back to our seat and Lewis said to me, man, he's really neat. He's friendly. I go, that's Dr. Morris. Well, I want to speak at this session on the long war against God, which says perhaps, you know, is the title of my most recent book. It was published in December and the second printing already out in February. It seems like the Lord is going to use that one in a unique way too, and it's been getting some very good response. It was selected by the Evangelical Book Club as its December book of the month, I think, and at least a couple of three other book clubs have used it, so it looks like the Lord is using it, and I hope you'll get it and read it. It's the most thorough and best documented, I think, book dealing with the history and the influence of evolutionism over the ages and over the world. that's available. So I want to just sort of outline that this morning. It's far too big a subject to cover in 45 minutes, but just to give you an idea of the scope and the impact of the creation-evolution conflict, you can perhaps guess from the title, The Long War Against God, that the theme of my talk, as well as of the book, is that there is a cosmic warfare going on. We're all involved in it, one way or the other, between God and the devil, has been going on since the beginning. Every age, every nation has been involved, and we're involved on one side or the other, because after all, these are the only two worldviews. They incorporate everything, and either we can explain the origin and development of all things in terms of continuing natural processes, or we can't, one or the other. And so the one is evolution, one is creation. They embrace everything in the world of sense and of knowledge and of understanding. And one must believe one or the other. You can't really believe both because they're not synonyms, they're antonyms. Each is the opposite of the other. And there is a great cosmic conflict going on and the basic rationale and the foundation of that conflict is between these two great worldviews, God-centered or creature-centered, creator or creature, or creation versus evolution. And so this has been going on since the beginning in one way or another, and my thesis is that the creationist worldview, or you might say the creationist tree, has borne good fruits, the evolutionist tree has borne bad fruits. We can evaluate these two worldviews scientifically, and we do that, and we would say that all of the scientific evidence supports creation. Not a single real fact of science supports evolution. All the real evidence supports creation. But there's also another way that you can approach this conflict that the Lord Jesus himself gave us. He said, by their fruits you shall know them. A good tree cannot bring forth corrupt fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. And so we can evaluate these two worldviews in terms not only of their scientific validity or invalidity, but also in terms of the fruits which they have produced. And I would maintain that the creationist tree has produced good fruits, it's produced sound doctrine, it's produced good systems, it's produced good practices. The evolutionist tree, on the other hand, universally has produced bad doctrine, bad fruits, bad practices. So he is certainly not without criticism. Morris was criticized by Randy Moore of the University of Minnesota for writing in the book that evolutionism is satanic and responsible for racism, abortion, and a decline in morality. Now that's a pretty tall claim, isn't it? Well, let's take a look at a book that was written in 1859 by Darwin on the origin of the species by means of natural selection. Do you know what the subtitle is on that book? Evolutionists do not recognize this. They don't want to claim it. Here's the subtitle. Or the preservation of favored races and the struggle for life. Darwin believed that the white race was superior to the other races. Is that racist? Do you think that might cause a problem? That is absolutely racist in my opinion. Probably the most prominent evolutionist in the world is Richard Dawkins. He says this, no, we're here talking about the fact of evolution itself. A fact that is proved utterly beyond reasonable doubt. The fact of evolution proved beyond reasonable doubt. Do you think statements like this in his book, or in lectures, or in pamphlets, in his proselytizing of people, would cause someone to say something like this? And I'm sorry about the audio quality, it was a cheap little microphone on a cheap little cassette player. that all people can read. It's only ignorance that keeps some from understanding evolution as fact. Class dismissed. Class is back in order. Richard Dawkins further, it is absolutely safe to say that if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, That person is ignorant, stupid, or insane, or wicked, but I'd rather not consider that. You know what he thinks of you, right? So here's a man totally on the opposite side, Richard Dawkins. I've got some video clips of him. He's a very interesting gentleman. Probably my second hero of faith would be Ken. Is it something I need to do here? Okay. Should we do something to reboot or anything? Yeah, it's quite a bit. Well, Ken Ham, let's talk about his education. And you've heard him before. It's a very interesting accent, isn't it? His education, a BS in Applied Science, Queensland Institute of Technology. That's not around here, is it? Diploma of Education, again, from the University of Queensland. Then he has four honorary doctorates. Now, we could debate about this honorary doctorate thing. You do a lot of work, you do a lot of writing, you do a lot of experimenting, you don't physically go to the university and do the coursework and that kind of stuff and write a thesis, but a school decides you've done enough work, you've done enough writing, we're gonna give you a doctorate. By the way, the gentleman that said those things about in this day and age when three out of four people can read, and honorary doctorate from Wabash because of his teaching of evolution. So, you know, he was rewarded for what he believed and taught. His career, he was a science teacher in Dalby State High School, and that's in Australia. I did not realize this, he worked for ICR, Institute for Creation Research. Every month I would get a little pamphlet from them that would talk about the things that they were studying and looking at, and certainly it was an encouragement to me. I've kept all those pamphlets all the way back to the 70s. So he worked for them in 1987. Then he went out on his own, developing the company called, or the corporation, Answers in Genesis in 1994. So that would be, what, 27 years ago? He started the Creation Museum in 2007. That's when it opened up. And then the Ark Encounter, 2016. How many have been to the Creation Museum? And how many have been to the Ark Encounter? Okay. I thought we went to the Ark Encounter a couple years ago and we drive past the Creation Museum, I thought it's just up the road here. What is, another 40 minutes away? So here are the books he's written. I didn't take the time to write them all down. I've read a number of them, don't read all of them, mostly listen to them. Our personal contact, I was teaching a Sunday evening group at our church, and Ken Ham was coming on the fourth Sunday, so I taught three Sunday evenings, and then he came on the fourth, and when he came on the fourth, the pastor says, You want to take him out to eat?" Lori and I said, okay. So we took him out to eat to Ryan's Steakhouse. That's some orchestra over there, which is no longer there. And we had quite an interesting time with he and his wife. It was very, very nice. 1 Peter 3.15 says always be prepared to give an answer or give a reason and the word answer or reason comes from or defense even comes from the word apologia from which we get a word apologetics it means to give a logical reason defense of the faith And so the Creation Museum is really a walk through the Bible, what we call the seven C's of history, answering skeptical questions of this age that cause people to doubt that you can trust the Bible. In fact, the first four C's are the geological, biological, astronomical, anthropological history that the world says is not true. And sadly, a lot of the church says we don't need to believe it. But if that history is not true, then how can the gospel based in that history be true? What about all of our doctrines, like the doctrine of marriage based in that history? And so the Creation Museum and the Ark are apologetics facilities. What we're doing is we're giving you a defense or giving you an answer. We're answering questions as you go through and look at what the Bible teaches about the history of the world and the gospel based in that history. And at the Ark, as you go through the Ark, we have answers to all sorts of questions that people have. You know, it's interesting, I've traveled around the world for the past 40 years, and no matter what country I've gone to, even third world countries, when they hear that you're on about the Bible and Christianity, they ask the same basic questions. You believe the Bible? Wait a minute, we live in a scientific age. Science has just proved the Bible. How can you believe the Bible? There's no evidence for a flood. How can Noel get the animals on the Ark anyway? Well, how do you explain all the races of people and black people and white people? Well, there are no black or white people and there are no races, by the way. There's only one race. We'll mention that a little later on. And what about dinosaurs? Didn't they live millions of years ago? Doesn't that disprove the Bible? Doesn't carbon-14 disprove the Bible? How do you know there's a God anyway? Or where did God come from? And, wait a minute, science in this age has proved that the Big Bang is true and that we evolved from ape-like creatures. How can you believe the Bible? Who's heard questions something like that? You heard those? Yes, we have. But, you know, the problem is a lot of people don't know how to give that defence or give that answer. And so today's session, what I want to do is go through quickly and just give you an overview, and that's all it's going to be, an overview, so we don't go into a lot of details. You can get those from the books. That's the whole purpose of us having videos and having books, so that you can go and get all sorts of in-depth answers in regard to these issues, but I'm going to run through and show you how I would answer some of these questions fairly briefly, but to give you an idea about apologetics and how to answer questions. People often say, how do you know there's a God? Is there any evidence for an infinite God? And atheists will say there's no evidence for God. How do you know there's a God? You know what Romans 1 20 says? It says, if you don't believe in God, you're without excuse, because it's so obvious that there's a God. So stand back for a moment and think, okay, so how could we defend that there's a God? I mean, what do we say? How can we answer the question, how do you know that there's a God? Well, we could do all sorts of things. For instance, we could even look at the laws of logic and the laws of nature and the uniformity of nature. When I debated Bill Nye on this stage a few years ago, one of the things I brought up, I said, hey Bill, wait a minute, we have the laws of nature, there's the laws of chemistry and the laws of mathematics, the laws of physics and so on. We have the laws of nature that have been the same in the past and we assume will be the same tomorrow. Where'd those laws come from? If everything came by natural processes, then how did those laws arise? And if... He normally doesn't speak with that reverberation. So, I appreciate the seven C's of history. Very concise history of the world. I'm not willing to die on the hill, 6006 B.C., at 9 a.m., God created the universe. I'm not willing to die on that hill, but somewhere in that range, certainly under 10,000 years. Ken has criticized those who attach his name to his beliefs. Ken has criticized, stating, what I say doesn't really matter. What matter is what God's infallible perfect word says, to which we say amen. Now here's a little known fact that just came out just a little while ago. Ken was arrested for vandalizing the Grand Canyon signs. Yeah. That's not me. That's the Babylon Bee. All right, my third hero of the faith Dr. A.E. Wilder Smith. No, that's not A.E. Wilder Smith, that's Gene Wilder. Okay, there he is. Passed away in 1995. Has a PhD in Physical Organic Chemistry. I think you can see why I like this guy. He has a PhD in Pharmalogical Sciences. He has a Doctor's of Science in Pharmalogical Sciences from the University of Geneva. This guy, according to my count, has three doctorates, three earned doctorates. This guy is brilliant. This guy was brilliant. Author or co-author of over 70 scientific publications and more than 30 books published in 17 languages. When we watch his video, I want to remind you he is not originally an English speaker. He probably grew up learning German. I think he knew three languages. His career includes a three-star general in NATO, director of research at a Swiss pharmaceutical company, visiting assistant professor, University of Illinois, visiting full professor, University of Bergen, Considered to be the father of intelligent design? No. You know what Wikipedia is, right? Wikipedia. There's a Christian site that talks about these guys and they say, of course the word was never coined until later, probably after his death. But the intelligent design movement itself lacks a creator. It lacks saying, Jesus Christ is what you need. And all of my heroes of the faith would acknowledge Jesus Christ is what you need, not to believe in an intelligent designer. This book is fairly complex. I think it was written in German. German has this ability to have these gigantic sentences that we would put into five or six sentences in English, and it all makes sense because German is designed in such a way that the suffix and prefix of the words tell you what word belongs in the sentence, whereas we have to say things a certain way in English. So here's one of the things he says in the book, and again, I don't really recommend this for somebody unless they have a pretty good science background. because he talks about equilibrium, he talks about thermodynamics, he talks about intelligence, he talks about information theory and so on. So these comments are referring to a section in the book. And he says, it requires a great unfamiliarity with organic chemistry not to take into consideration the above-mentioned facts when proposing postulates for biogenesis." So, my point is here. What does he call the book? The Natural Sciences Know Nothing of Evolution. I'm amazed when I talk to biology teachers and when I hear them and when they lecture us and they talk to us. They don't know anything about chemistry. They don't know anything about physics. They don't know anything about information theory. They don't know anything about thermodynamics. What do they know? Evolution. Descent with modification. That's all they know. You throw the chemistry at them and they just go, time out. Again, I apologize, the quality of the video, I think it's quite good, but it's not, you know, up to standards of today. I'm not quite 95, but I do find this, that if you would be so kind, when I finish the first lecture, just to let me have a moment pause in the jaw work, you see, so that I don't have to answer questions immediately after I finish. It takes away my strength for the second part and my son-in-law Sid telegraphed me after I'd had this operation on the brain and said you are now qualified to be Prime Minister of all Great Britain and Northern Ireland because they've cut out half your brain. So that's what I woke up to in the hospital when they'd done that. if you'd be so kind afterwards just let me have a pause for 10 minutes I'd be able to do better in the second half I'll try my best for the first half for you but let's just have a look at what God's word says about the creation of life tonight and its connection with time that's what is our subject tonight God said let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their kinds and it was so thank you, the commentary was not necessary really and God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds and the cattle according to their kinds and everything that creeps upon the ground according to its kind and God saw that it was good and he said Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in his own image. In the image of God, he created him. Male and female, he created them. and there was evening and there was morning a sixth day then you've got the time reference in just to keep you straight on that point now I want to talk tonight about the relationship of time to the creation of the universe and we'll start on that with reference to the fact that one of the great divisions that has split and is splitting... And he goes on for another 10 minutes or so. Actually, I have 10 minutes of a clip, but he goes on for 55 minutes. During the presentation, and he did notice, he did notice that he got his Bible out, right? He believes, he believes the Bible. He said this during the presentation. His ways are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts. A reference to Psalms. Those that say that the Bible teaches that the earth and the universe is old, it doesn't. There's no indication of any evolution or ancient, ancient, ancient times like millions of years in the Bible. All right, in light of the fact that You start losing students from time to time when you teach chemistry, so you do something different every seven minutes. The distance between Smurf commercials. I thought I would show you this. Hi, how are you? I don't know what that means. Top 10 signs you're not reading your Bible enough. Top 10 signs you are not reading your Bible enough. 10. You think Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob may have had a few hit songs during the 60s. 9. The preacher announces that the sermon is from Galatians, and you check the table of contents. Can we do anything about that? Should I unplug it? Should I? There we go. Number eight, you open to the Gospel of Luke and a World War II savings bond falls out. Number seven, your favorite Old Testament patriarch is Hercules. Number six, a small family of woodchucks has taken up residence in Psalms. Five, you become frustrated because Charlton Heston isn't listed in either the concordance or the table of contents. Number four, catching the kids reading the Song of Solomon, you demand, who gave you this stuff? Number three, you think the minor prophets worked in the quarries. These are signs you're not reading your Bible enough. Number two, you fall for it every time pastor tells you to turn to first condominiums. And the number one sign that you're not reading your Bible enough, you can't decide if your favorite disciple is sleepy or grumpy. Okay, enough of that. Back to chemistry. Back to the noise. I did not meet A.E. Wildersmith. I only know him through reading books, watching videos, reading pamphlets, and so on. Dwayne Gish, I did not meet him either. By the way, when the Acts and Facts would come out every month, I'd look at the calendar, and I'd see where somebody was speaking, and I'd go, okay, that guy's within 100 miles. And I've dragged forward as many of these places around the Midwest. In fact, we took a devout, a Muslim to one of them with us, and argued on the way back. So his background in education, he served in the Army in the Pacific during World War II, has a BS in chemistry from the University of California, Los Angeles, which we know as? We know as? UCLA. Has a PhD in biochemistry from Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley. He was a research associate at UC Berkeley. He was assistant professor at Cornell. He was a senior research associate at Upjohn. And then he was part of the group that started the Creation Research Society. The universe created itself naturally is irrational and unscientific. And if it could not have created itself naturally, then it had to be created supernaturally. If evolutionists really believed in science, they would abandon their faith in the God of evolution. Now let us consider the laws of probability, also a fundamental law of science. Every living cell on this earth, whether bacterial or human, is indescribably complex, marvelously coordinated in time and space, and exhibits purposefulness in every detail of its structure and function. The human body has about 30 trillion cells of over 200 varieties, 12 billion of which are found in a 3 pound human brain. In the brain there are at least 120 trillion connections, the most incredibly complex arrangement of matter in the universe. The evolutionists would have us believe that this marvelously designed and unbelievably complex human body and millions of other equally complex plants and animals were produced through millions of random chance mistakes or mutations. Evolutionist Loren Eiseley, for example, declared that man is a long chain of DNA accidents taking place over billions of years. Carl Sagan, which was quoted in Time Magazine, is saying that only through the deaths of an immense number of slightly maladapted organisms are we, brains and all, here today. He does say this in the presentation, it is literally impossible for a single molecule or protein or DNA to be generated by chance in five billion years. Then he quotes, two scientists working independently concluded that life had to be created, therefore there must be a God. His counterpart in this Summation, all living things, as we know them today, I would contend, are related through an enormous family tree. You, through your parents, your grandparents, your great parents, and as reprehensible as it may seem to you, all the way back to bacteria. You have enzymes floating around in your system that can be shown unequivocally to have amino acid sequences that resemble those that occur in bacteria, that could not possibly come about by chance in any possible way. In contrast, I find creation science is a pseudoscience. It distorts, it misrepresents. We've seen it tonight. It ignores facts. It's based on a narrow religious dogmatism. To put it in the science classroom, I believe, is to handicap America. It's to cheat our children. For only by an understanding of the logic of evolution are we going to understand the problems that we face as a civilization today. Mankind, if he doesn't understand evolution, cannot understand ecology. He cannot understand how we're drowning in this earth from an overpopulation and overexploitation of resources. To ignore these facts, I would contend, is to live a life of pretense and will certainly lead us on the road down to a dinosaur-like extinction. Therefore, I naturally favor the view of evolution. I know that it is the only explanation for our being here tonight. I think that's Jerry Falwell in the foreground there. And at least they're being polite to this gentleman, Dr. Doolittle. He said this. Did you hear it? You have enzyme floating around in your system that can be shown unequivocally to have amino acid sequences that resemble those that occur in bacteria. They could not possibly come about by chance in any possible way. Excuse me? Wait, I thought you said everything came about by chance over millions and billions of years. And now you're saying it could not possibly come about by chance. Of course they say, common ancestor, to which we respond, common designer. That's why we have the amino acid sequences that we do. And then he goes on to say, if he doesn't understand evolution, then he cannot understand ecology, he cannot understand how we're drowning in this earth from an overpopulation, excuse me for getting a little political, we're coming upon a time when we're gonna have a winter, a global freeze, an ice age that's coming. Do you remember that? The hole in the ozone layer. And on and on and on and on. By the way, according to one of our representatives, what do we have, nine more years before the world ends? Something like that? They have the wrong philosophy. And it's usually the philosophy of evolution. Ladies and gentlemen, three or four centuries ago, the notion that the Sun and other planets revolved around the Earth was the dogma of the scientific establishment. Galileo faced determined opposition from fellow astronomers when he suggested otherwise. Louis Pasteur and others, about a century ago, overturned the established dogma of centuries when they showed that living things never arise spontaneously from dead matter. Today, even though thousands of scientists are creationists and the number is growing rapidly, the notion of evolution remains a stifling dogma. Evolutionists seek to smother all challenges from within or without the scientific and educational establishments, concealing the fallacies and weaknesses of the theory and adamantly opposing a hearing for the scientific case for creation. Why is this so? Certainly not because the notion of evolution is science and the concept of creation is religion. I can think of two possibilities. First, it may be that evolutionists consider that our students are too ignorant, too illiterate to be exposed to these competing ideas of origins. They must be protected from error and carefully indoctrinated in correct ideas by those who consider themselves to be the intellectual elite, the sole possessors of truth. Secondly, having engendered this fragile tower of hypotheses, pile on hypotheses, where fact and fiction intermingle in an inextricable confusion, it may be that evolutionists are aware of the fact that the notion of evolution will fare badly if exposed to an open and determined challenge from creation scientists, and that if this is done, the majority of our students will accept creation as the better of the two concepts of origins. Whatever may be the case, it is urgent that our students be exposed to all of the evidence, all of the arguments on each side of this question, so that these two alternative concepts of origins, creation and evolution, can compete freely in the marketplace of ideas. Thank you. So, Dr. Gish participated in over 300 debates. He was known as creation's bulldog. It didn't take them long before evolutionists told each other, don't debate him. He tore them apart. Now, pardon me for this advertisement, but I do have to finance my teaching. My apologies to those of you who were not here three weeks ago when a certain person up here talked about a plastic spoon and a plastic bowl. And if you act now, there's a reverential discount of 20% My last hero of the faith, and there are many others, but these are the ones I could fit into a 45-minute presentation. And I know that there are people that will not pronounce this correctly. You gotta think Socrates, Sarfati, Socrates, Sarfati. His education included a bachelor's in science from Victoria. That does not sound like it's around here. a PhD in spectroscopy. He started the Creation Science Foundation, which later turned into Creation Science Ministries. He's authored many books and articles. He lectures across the world. He was at a West Lafayette Church a few years ago. I went to that presentation on a Saturday night and then a Sunday morning. Then he plays blindfolded chess with up to 12 people. When I was a kid learning to play chess and then reading a lot about chess history and the great players of the past, I mean, you come across this idea that they could play blindfold chess and how this developed over time when it was considered a miracle to play three games at once in the time of Philidor, who was the best player in the world in the 18th century. And then I wanted to try it myself and found that I could actually do one game, then try to do two games and three games. I did five games when I was about 14 at school. But then after that, there's very little chance to get these things organized. It's because you need someone who knows the moves to be able to transmit the coordinates accurate from one to the other. When I was about 21, I did six games. In that case, it was just transmitting moves to the individual without a caller. And it really wasn't until I started working for Creation Ministries that we thought it might be a good idea to try this again. So I was already in my 30s before I started doing this again. So in America I tried five games and then six games at a conference and found I could still do it. I raised the limit to 8 and then 10. Then I tried 11 games at a chess club where I had some proper chess, experienced chess players against me, including one lady who was in the women's chess team for New Zealand. And I won all 11 of those games. That has to be my best result, getting 11 out of 11 at a chess club as well. At the 2009 Creation Ministries Super Camp, I played eight simultaneous blindfold games and won all of them. Well, people ask me how I do it. I don't really know how I do it myself, okay? It's a bit like trying to tell a man who's been blind from birth what color means. It's just not possible to do it for someone who doesn't understand it. What I don't think I'm doing is seeing chess boards in my mind. Okay, well, I have beat 10 blindfolded chess players before. didn't think that was funny either. I thought it was pretty good. It's really to your advantage if you don't tell them where you move. You can beat them in three or four moves. There are honest non-Christians who recognize the impossibility and nonexistence of evolution in the world today. and have honestly said that evolution is not an explanation of present reality and therefore it can't be an explanation of prior reality. It isn't happening now. It doesn't happen, therefore it hasn't happened. I'm glad for that. I'm glad for that kind of honesty in the scientific world. But while they are admitting that, they are not embracing the account in Genesis. Because if you embrace the account in Genesis as true, then you embrace the Bible as true and the God of the Bible as the true and living God, and you get not only a Creator, but you get a Lawgiver and a Judge. And so, they would love to find another alternative except the Creator God of Scripture. So you have the development of this new kind of science called ID, Intelligent Design, in which people acknowledge that there is behind this great reality of the universe a mind that is intelligent from which it all springs, but they are unwilling to acknowledge that to be the God of the Bible and Genesis to be the accurate account of creation. So they come up with this kind of non-threatening middle ground, safe halfway zone called I.D., intelligent design. By the way, far from safe, deadly dangerous to reject the God of Scripture as Creator and therefore as Judge and as Redeemer. Why do they do that? And that, of course, is... Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine! Heir of salvation, Purchase of God, Born of His Spirit, Washed in His blood. This is my story, This is my song, Praising my Savior all the day long. This is my story. This is my song. Praising my Savior all the day long. And with that, I close. I will pray. Father, I worship and adore you. I thank you for men and women in my life that has encouraged me on a scientific level to understand the scripture and the creation. I pray in Jesus' name, amen. See you in 50.