It's great to be here. Strengthened by Jesus is our conference theme. And my assignment was to talk about creation and our creator and redeemer. We're in worship, and tonight's gonna be a celebration. There's been volumes and volumes of books written on six days of creation, the seventh day that God rested. There's been PhD dissertations. There's been entire Conferences just on creation for hundreds of years. And we're gonna be doing it and just, I'm gonna be talking about the high points. But I want us to worship, I want us to go away with something tonight. I want you to, to appreciate who your redeemer is. Jesus Christ is the creator God. He spoke the universe into existence, and I wanna bring some highlights to that. I thought we could start with the book of Genesis, chapter one, and I wanna read chapter one to you. If you have your Bibles, take them out, and I wanna read the first three verses of chapter two. But I wanna read the creation account as it was told to Moses by God. Who was the only eyewitness there? He was, he was the only witness to creation. And that's very important. So I want you to go away today, tonight, with feeling energized and knowing that the rule of the universe It lives in your heart. Genesis chapter one. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void and darkness was over the face of the deep. And the spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. And God said, let there be light, and there was light. And God saw that the light was good, and God separated the light from the darkness. God called the light day, and the darkness he called night. And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day. And God said, let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters. And God made the expanse and separated the waters that were under the expanse from the waters that were above the expanse. And it was so, and God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening, and there was morning, the second day. And God said, let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place, and let the dry land appear. And it was so. God called the dry land earth, and the waters that were gathered together he called seas. And God saw that it was good. And God said, let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind on the earth. And it was so. The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed according to their own kinds, and trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, the third day. And God said, let there be lights in the expanse of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for seasons and for days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth. And it was so. And God made the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day and the lesser light to rule the night, and the stars. And God sent them into the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth, to rule over the day and over the night and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good and there was evening and there was morning the fourth day. And God said, let the water swarm with swarms of living creatures and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the heavens. So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good, and God blessed them, saying, be fruitful and multiply and fill the waters and the seas, let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day. And God said, let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds, livestock and creeping things, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. And it was so. And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God 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 heavens, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on 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 God blessed them. And God said, be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living creature, every living thing that moves on the earth. And God said, behold, I have given you every green plant yielding seed that is on the face of the earth and every tree with seed in its fruit. You shall have them for food. And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the heavens, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life, I have given every green plant for food. And it was so. And God saw everything that he had made, and behold, it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning the sixth day. Chapter 2, verses 1 through 3. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God finished his work that he had done, and he rested on the seventh day from all his work that he had done. So God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it God rested from all his work that he had done in creation. Genesis 1, chapter 1, or verse 1. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. These 10 words are the first 10 words of the entire Bible. They don't introduce God. God has no introduction anywhere in the Bible. He just Says it like it is. He just expresses that he created the whole world. What was before the beginning? There was nothing before the beginning. The spiritual realm preceded the physical realm. We know that. Nothing existed physically. The three-dimensional physical world that we're gonna see in the next little bit of time was created by God. I'm gonna show you something called the periodic table of the elements where all 92 elements, naturally occurring elements in the universe that we know of that are all on earth also are the building blocks of all matter that we know of. Those are secular. figures, but it's true. Those are God's building blocks. He created them. They were created in the mind of God. Everything from hydrogen to uranium, 92. All the protons, neutrons, electrons, all the little spinning atoms, all the molecules they make, all the subatomic particles. There are 118 published elements on the periodic table, but 26 of them are synthetically made in a laboratory, but there's only 92 naturally occurring ones. You'll see 118 on the chart, and you wonder why Dan said 92. Well, those, they're very short-lived. They have to be in very, very controlled situations. They don't live very long. I mean, they exist and they disappear. They're so volatile. But they're synthetic. But the natural occurring elements, God made everything in the universe using that, and he gave it to us. We know, we know those elements exist. Then we're going to talk about DNA. Deoxyribonucleic acid, the molecule of life, every living thing on the planet that's ever lived is made up of DNA. And I guarantee you, you could put a, a tiger, a piece of tiger DNA, a tomato piece of DNA, a bacteria piece of DNA, an avocado piece of DNA, and your DNA next to it, and you couldn't tell them apart because you'd have to know the nucleotide, the arrangement of the base pairs. And that's all it is. There's only, DNA molecules only make up of six components. And it is, Absolutely mind-boggling the combinations you come up with. The genomes are the all-known genetic information of any living thing. The human genome was deciphered several years ago, not too long ago, but long enough. And it took computers to do it 24-7 for I don't know how long to do. But the human genome has 3.2 billion base pairs of DNA. The longest one, and don't quote me on this, the longest one's like a couple hundred thousand base pairs long, and the shortest one's like 50. But 3.2 billion molecules and 46 chromosomes, 23 from your dad, 23 from your mom. And that's not all. There's an animal called the lungfish. The lungfish has 14 times more pieces of DNA information in their cells than we do. It's a fish. Yeah, it's 26 billion nucleotide sequences. Well, I'm gonna pick a lot of this up in Sunday school too, but this is, I'm getting ahead of myself. Anyway, that's just in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And if there's any doubt that Jesus is our creator or isn't our creator, in the book of John, chapter one, verse one through three, in the beginning was the word, and the word was with God, and God was the word, was the word, and the word was God. The word Jesus often referred to as the word. And he was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. When you see the word God in the Bible, I would think you could be very, very comfortable using either the Holy Spirit, God the Father, God the Son. It's a triune God, three persons, one God. It's too profound for me to figure it out. I don't understand it. But I accept it through faith. And to have a God that became flesh and was born and got hungry and got cold and got upset, and grew as a boy into a man, and had a ministry, and was crucified beyond recognition, suffered, died, and was buried, and rose again to have a God come down for us and do that? After witnessing the creation of the universe? Why wouldn't we wanna worship him? He loved us that much. Day one of creation. God created light and separated the light from the darkness. There's another thing here that's very interesting. God created water on the first day, too. He did. He must have. Or, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form and void, and the darkness was over the face of the deep. And the Spirit, the Holy Spirit, capital S, it is in my Bible. Spirit is capitalized in my Bible. Okay, there's the Holy Spirit. Was hovering over the face of the waters. Well, water, H2O. Okay, we're gonna talk about the periodic table. You got an oxygen, you got a hydrogen here, a hydrogen, kind of like a Mickey Mouse face. You got two hydrogens bonded to an oxygen atom. It's a molecule. It's also a compound. You mix elements with other elements, it becomes a compound. When you mix more than one atom together, it's a molecule. So water's a compound and a molecule. One. Water is very important. I mean, he created it before he basically created anything. But he doesn't mention it. He must, it has to. It says it right there. But he didn't make a big deal out of it. Pretty cool, huh? But he did about light. And it's the first day It's a unit of measurement. It's the first 24-hour day. A day is a day is a day. Pastor Carlson, many times over the years, has said, a text without a context is a pretext. And if you're gonna understand the meaning, there's been a lot of controversy over, this isn't real, you have theistic evolution, you have the gap theory, the day-age theory, all these different, there are some very, very, very sincere men of God, Christian men, preachers, teachers, authors, sound men of God that don't believe in the literal translation of the six days. And really, I don't understand. I don't understand it either. You either believe it or you don't. If you believe this part of the Bible, well, it's open to interpretation. But when it comes down to salvation, we literally interpret salvation, the gospel is the gospel, and you can't alter one of its letters. But when you come to Genesis, You know, I don't get that, it makes God a liar almost. It's like, what part of the Bible do you start believing if you stop, if you make this, can you imagine that this crumbles the entire Bible if it's open to interpretation? Because what other parts, the flood? Well, there's a subject that you can get in, really, you can get in deep over that. A lot of people think the flood was a, ooh, no pun intended. It was a localized regional flood, not global. Well, I'll bet you a dollar and a donut, if you were in a spacecraft, two days after the flood and the rain stopped, the clouds cleared, if you were in a spacecraft, the entire planet would have been blue. It would have looked like a big water balloon. It would have. There was no land. but there are people who deny that it was, because they want to explain away, they want to explain other things, because it doesn't fit their paradigm of a particular doctrine or something. I don't know what, I don't understand it. Anyway, how we doing? Good, all right. Let's get back to light. Light's been defined as a natural agent that stimulates sight. Isn't that interesting? It's a natural agent that stimulates eyesight. It actually stimulates your eyesight. It's the source of illumination. To a physicist, a scientist who studies the physical parts of our universe, our world, light is an electromagnetic radiation at any wavelength, because there's multiple wavelengths. Radio waves are a type of light wave, or microwaves, technically, to a physicist. So it's an electromagnetic radiation at any wavelength that can travel at 186,000 miles and some change per second in a vacuum. Very important. What's a vacuum? A vacuum is a chamber or a... A chamber or a... A chamber. That is void of any matter. No matter. It's basically a chamber of nothingness. Like deep, deep space is a vacuum. And light just... We're gonna get into other things too, but we're getting ahead of ourselves here. So, that's just day one, folks. See, there's a lot, there's so much stuff here. Light, water, and 24-hour day? Well, I don't think so. Well, let me, I want one more thing. God, every single day goes, and there was morning, there was night, and there was day. The first day, and there was night, and there was morning. The second day, and there was morning, and there was night. and there was morning the third, fourth, fifth, sixth. Do you think he was trying to tell us something? A day is a day. To study the meaning of a word, it's interesting to study the context of how it's used in other parts of the Bible. And I'll tell you, there's no other part of the Bible where a day doesn't mean a day. Why wouldn't it mean a day in Genesis? Really, seriously, God rose from the dead in three days. Not three million years, he didn't evolve. No, no, really, seriously, a day is, if you think about it, a day is literally a day in every other part of the Bible. But when it comes to theistic evolution and the gap theory and some of these other things, I mean, I don't understand it. So there's a very strong spiritual warfare going on, I think, or is, they wanna, I think, this challenges the authority of the Bible. Genesis chapter one through 11 is being attacked like crazy. It always has. Okay. All right. Day two of creation. Basically, God creates the atmosphere. He basically makes things that already existed. Water, water vapor in various forms. So he forms a barrier between the water on the surface and the water on the, from the moisture in the air. He basically created the atmosphere, the sky, on day three. We know what he's doing very systematically. He's creating a living environment. He's building the biggest terrarium that's ever been. He's building an environment to support life. He's starting with the raw materials, right? He didn't put man and just build things around him. He built everything and made sure everything worked, and then he created man. Man was the last being he created. Oh, and before, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. Before, what was before the beginning? Nothing. The spiritual realm preceded the physical realm. However, Angels probably were created before that. We don't know when the angels were created, but they're spiritual beings, so they don't, they didn't operate in a three-dimensional world like we do. However, they had to have been created because in the garden, when Satan entered the snake to tempt Eve, he was already a fallen angel. Lucifer had already fallen out of heaven. So Lucifer was already condemned when he, when he tempted, when the snake tempted him being in the snake. So we don't know that. So if it doesn't tell us when they were made in the spiritual realm, we don't know. But we know they existed, and we know they existed by the time he had created the world because Lucifer just being there in the garden proves that he had made, and he had fallen already. God kicked him out of heaven already. Okay, isn't that interesting? Okay. Day three of creation, Genesis. Okay, this is where God parts the waters, and dry land appears. Now, and I don't know, it's okay to speculate. I wouldn't make doctrine out of this, and it's a hill I wouldn't want to die on. But it's interesting, is that maybe Earth was already made, surfaced with water, and when he parted the waters, it says, land appear, it says, Let the waters under the heavens be gathered together into one place and let the dry land appear. So, like the flood, being out in our space a day after the flood. You can't see land, you'd think the whole planet was water. Well, after months and months and months, you start seeing continents and the world, I'm sure you know this, The world's drastically different physically now than it was when the world was created. And because of the flood, God just trashed the planet. That flood was the most catastrophic thing since the creation of the world. It was like being in a giant washing machine with a bunch of road gravel. And God was just tearing everything up. He just tore it up, killed everything on the planet, except it was in the ark. And a few fish, because they didn't need to be in the ark, huh? Right? No, they didn't. And they survived. I can go out and show you a fish right now. It didn't perish. He killed a lot of fish because there's fossils of fish in the Himalayas at like thousands of feet altitude. How'd they get up there? Isn't that interesting? So, I mean, he just trashed it, and we have our continents. We have the giant supercontinent. Maybe when he was, when God created the world, the Pangaea is one of the theories about this giant, one-piece continent that existed. But when God tore up the, I mean, it just, it was catastrophic. Can you imagine? I mean, it just wiped out all life on Earth. All animals had the breath of life that weren't in the ark. Breath of life, air breathing, right? I mean, can you imagine? This is our God. This is Jesus Christ. This is our creator and our redeemer. Oh, some fruit trees. I'll throw some in for a little ambiance. Okay. Day four of creation. This is a computer-generated photo. I really like it. And plus, I had permission to use it. So anyway, the sun. Oh, yeah, this thing works. So you got the sun, you got the moon, you got the earth. And I forgot I had this. Boy, this is dangerous. So it's light. It's electromagnetic radiation. This set up our calendars that we're still using today. A day, a month, a year. Birds use this calendar to go to figure out when it's time to migrate. You study, you ever taken, well, anyway. Studying birds, there's certain environmental signals that can stimulate birds to migrate. It's the length of the day that really gets them going. And even breeding birds. I mean, zoos found this out a long time ago. I was involved in breeding projects years ago with some zoos on some rare birds. And, I mean, little tiny warblers they were keeping in zoos and they had only like 10 of them. They were like very rare little birds. And they learned to match the photo periods where they came from, and they put in full-spectrum lighting. Not this stuff. They had really high-energy, full-spectrum lighting that simulated the natural sunlight. And they put them on clocks, and they simulated their length of days and their night. And within two years, these birds were laying eggs and building nests in the zoos, in these cages, and they were breeding these birds. Because light, I mean, just light. Pretty cool, huh? Photo periods, birds migrating, you have this circanual rhythm of a year, it's called the circanual clock, is a year. Then you have the circadian clock, which is a 24-hour clock, moving like a ring inside a giant ring, and as this big ring moves, this little ring is stationary. And you've got the seasons. And when the season's here, you see birds starting gathering. You see them here in Rock Springs. You see birds that are fluttering in the fall. That's called pre-migratory restlessness. And they're getting ready. They're gorging themselves. They're eating, carrying, just packing on all these calories so they can make these huge, huge migrations. And it's all light, it's all the day. God, God programmed, this is all created in the mind of God, all of his creatures. This didn't evolve. It didn't, it didn't evolve. I was an evolutionist at one time. I just didn't care. I didn't care. I just, don't bother me. Don't go away. But I didn't give it a big, I didn't, yeah, okay. But then I started thinking, I got saved and I started thinking about this stuff. And it's not true. You need more faith to believe in evolution than this anyway. Really, this is, no, this is, you can hang your hat on this stuff. The Bible is where you wanna hang your hat, I guarantee it. Okay, we good? All right, oh, wait, ready for this? This is our Milky Way galaxy. This was taken by the Spitzer Space Telescope, the Spitzer, It was an infrared telescope. It was put into space in 2005, and it was decommissioned or abandoned in 2020. And the reason this thing's red, it's an infrared scope, and usually you couldn't see something like this. It has special filters on it, infrared filters, and that's cosmic space dust. But you're looking at that, It's a spiral. Our Milky Way galaxy, 100 to 200 billion stars. A billion is 1,000 million. Think about it. 1,000 times 1,000 is a million. The square root of a million is 1,000. You go 1,000 times a million, 1,000 times 1,000 is a million, 1,000 times A million is a billion. A thousand times a billion is a trillion. And so on and so forth, get it? You can't comprehend numbers that big. Okay, so we're looking at this. Like this. Okay, what you want to look at it, but you can't because we can't get out in space far enough to look above and beyond it. But NASA came up with this computer simulation. I got a copy of it. No, you can get it on the internet. I mean, I checked. How are we doing? There's our spiral galaxy. It's called a barred spiral galaxy. Barred spiral galaxies are fairly common, I guess. I'm not an astronomer, but it has these arms, and in the middle here is a black hole. The name of the black hole is Sagittarius, and there's a couple of, letters after it. Do we have any astronomers in here? What is the black hole? It's Sagittarius something, something, something. What is it? There you go. Absolutely. That's it. Oh, I know. And right here is where our sun is. You can't see the moon. And I've looked at different models, and this is probably It's pretty consistent, but that's where we are in the galaxy. Pretty small, huh? 100 to 200 billion. Now, the sources don't really agree, but 100 to 200 billion stars. OK. Now, when you, I'm going to go back. No, I'll go forward. No, got to go the other way. There you go. This is, this photo was taken just a few years ago. Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada. It's on Whistler's Peak. That's what it's called, Whistler's Peak. And Jasper National Park, it's a provincial park in Alberta, Canada. And that's at night. And you could probably read a book under that light. I've been out in the Red Desert in the middle of wintertime with some friends of mine. Paul Knezovich and I used to go out there and we used to hunt with our birds. We used to hunt coyotes all the time. And Paul Knezovich is our old families in Rock Springs. And Paul and I spent like thousands and thousands of hours together in the desert. He was a falconer. I was a falconer. We used to hunt our birds. We trapped eagles together, did contract work for the Game of Fish. And we're out there in the middle of nowhere between Oregon Buttes and Black Rock behind Berger Call, just nothing out there. And the stars are just, you know, far enough away from town. And you could read a book out there at night with the snow. It's awesome. It's cool being out there. It's just great. You hear the coyotes howling in the background. We go out there to check for lion tracks after a fresh snow because we go out and check all the back roads. And about 24 hours after a fresh snow, it's a great way to find lion tracks is you wait for the snow. and then you go hit all the back roads and if you see these tracks crossing the road, there's a big mountain line, you know where there's a lion. If you're licensed to hunt them with dogs, you go home and get your dogs, turn the dogs loose. But that's how these lion hunters find lions a lot of times. They wait for a fresh snow, but it's a great wildlife observation because things move right after a fresh snow and you can see all these tracks. And if you got this being your lights at night, it's awesome. You can see a coyote a quarter of a mile away in the dark If it's bright enough and there's snow on the ground, you could see it moving out in the distance. It's beautiful. You know, you've been out there before, haven't you, at night? Nathaniel? Now, I talked to you about the speed of light. The speed of light, electromagnetic radiation, in a vacuum, travels at 186,000 miles and some change. per second, but they measure distances in space by light years. Light years is how fast light travels in a year. And you know what? Somebody did the math on that. You ready? Okay, so 186,000 miles per second. But okay, so what? Okay. There are celestial bodies, stars that are billions of light years away from each other, billions of light years separated from each other, okay? Light travels in one year 3 point, no, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, 5.88 trillion miles in a year. 5.88 trillion years. in an hour, right, in a year. And, and, it takes a billion years, light years to get from one place to another. Okay, I'm gonna leave you with this and I'm gonna move on. It says in the Bible that God has named every one of those stars. And in the known universe, There are, you can look this up, and it's not always consistent, but it's roughly there, 200 billion, trillion stars in the known universe. Now, I don't know what's on the other side of the unknown universe, but the known universe, there is estimated, 200 billion trillion stars. And God has them named. Okay. And he died on the cross for us. Right? All right. Are you good? Are you getting bored? Okay. Okay, day five of creation. God created the diversity of animal life that lives in the water, created birds. On day five, God is the first time he blessed one of his creations, animals. Okay, this is, Balenoptera musculus, the largest creature God ever made on the planet, past and present. You know anybody know what that is? Blue whale. It's a blue whale. Yeah, blue whale's a mammal. Balenoptera musculus, it's the largest, and it's largest, it's larger than any dinosaur. 126, the females are larger than males. The largest, they grow at average, well, females can get up to about 100 feet, 98 feet, That's, I paced off 98 feet once. It's a lot. 126 tons. The baby, a newborn baby blue whale weighs between 5,000 to 6,000 pounds. That's the size of a pickup. No, really, it is. That's a newborn baby. Isn't that something? I mean, just, right? Isn't it great to think about stuff like this rather than evolution? I mean, because this stuff really, God created this. This didn't evolve. When God created on the fifth day, I got a pretty good feeling a blue whale was one of those critters that was turned loose in the ocean. An adult, maybe even the biggest one. We weren't there. Science is based on observation. It is. It has to be built on observation. repetitive research, the scientific method. You start getting into hypotheses. You start getting into pondering mathematical probabilities. It doesn't cut it. It does not cut it. It is based on observation because it has to be repeatable, science-based. It has to be observable experimentation. So if we weren't there, I don't know. I mean, I'm going to speculate, but. I think I'd rather be a fool for God than wise in the eyes of man. Anyway, okay. That's a whale shark. That's the largest fish. And a crustacean. I was a little hesitant. You know, I don't know if I should. A sea turtle is 95% aquatic, but it has to go back on the land and lay eggs. then it just boogies back into the ocean, never sees its eggs or babies again. It spends its whole life and only comes on Earth to breed. So, and then if you ever watch baby sea turtles hatch, they're just like, they just got this, and they go right to the ocean. You know, I mean, that's all they want to do. What's this? You know, they're just trying to get into the water. I mean. So I put it down here, but it could have been on day six. If you want to believe that sea turtles were created on day six, it's fine with me. Okay, and he created birds. Where's Jason? Come here, Jason. Jason. I asked them ahead of time. Jason's going to be an eagle for me. I kept eagles. I kept and trained eagles for many years. I hunted with golden eagles. I mean, I had permits from Fish and Wildlife Service. Some of my permits came all the way from the Secretary of the Interior in Washington. I had permits to go trap wild eagles, keep them, and train them, and hunt with them. I mean, there was only a handful of us way back in the early 90s, and more people are doing it now. But we kind of figured out how to get the permits to do it, and we got the permits to do it. Okay, so this picture is my eagle. His name was Eli. I don't have him anymore. Anyway, he's a male golden eagle. He was sitting on a perch like this. And he was about this high off the ground. I got on my hands and knees. You can't make this up. This is how I took this picture. I was this far away from his head. No, I was, I was, wasn't I, honey? Okay, Janet was in her front yard. Brenda saw me take his picture. Okay, we're witnesses. Okay, so anyway. Brenda saw a lot of stuff. She was our neighbor. So anyway, I, he was like, he was like, He was trained, and he was looking all around like this. I was trying to get him to sit still. I'm like, Eli, just because I didn't want to. He was just sitting on his perch. He's all roughed up. Remember, I'm trying to do this. I'm trying to take his picture. And he's going like this. So what I did is I went like this. I went, like a wounded animal. And you go like this. And I went, and that's it. Look at his face. He thinks he's going to kill something and eat it. I mean, that's it. No, there's a relaxed look, and that's a predator look right there. No, he's got you in his sights. That's how he looks at a jackrabbit a half mile away when he's going to go kill one in the desert. That's exactly what they look like. And that's Eli. So you don't do that when he's on your fist. You don't. Thanks, buddy. Here, over here. Come here, buddy. That was great. Good, good. Here. You don't have to do that. I know. Here, buddy. Here, take it. Thanks, buddy. Thanks. All right. That's when I was younger, a little younger. What a privilege. I wanted to say something real close about golden eagles. Golden eagles are northern hemispherical. They're absent in Africa. They are replaced by an eagle in Africa called the black eagle or the Varose eagle. And they look different. They're black. And that's probably Africa's version of a golden eagle. But these things are in all over the northern hemisphere. And the largest one are in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Mongolia. They're called the Daphnes, the Berghuz eagles from the Mongols. Genghis Khan and the Mongols used to hunt with golden eagles. The largest golden eagles in the world supposedly came out the Kazakhstan areas of Asia. I have friends that went over there and worked with them before. I've got several friends that went over there, good friends. And they sent me pictures of them, and they're not much bigger. I can't really tell them apart. But anyway, this is the eagle that was in biblical Asia. This is the eagle, that one right there. This is Aquila. Oops, I'm sorry, you know what I did? I did what I was, remember? Sorry, Mark. This is the eagle that God talks about in the Bible, the Aquila crusaders, Aquila, the Aquila eagles are the Buddha eagles. These are the warrior eagles that Rome used to put on their coins, on their shields. Rome, these were the warrior eagles. God mentioned them in the Bible, and this is the eagle that he was talking about. It was the only one native to that part of Asia at the time. The largest avian predator in North America. He was, he was, Jenna was out hunting with me a couple times with him. He used to just, we used to just turn him loose for a couple, three hours. He was a wild eagle. And he came back, I put him back in my truck and go home. And he was just one of those beauts. He'd catch a piece of air. I think they can see, they can see, they see better than we do. I think they can see. thermals, because I'd see him circling. He'd go like this, and he'd just point his wings, and he'd go shoot across the sky a half a mile, and go over this ridge, and he'd just hold still like this, and he'd go up about 500 feet. He'd catch this piece of air, and it was a thermal, and it would just pick him up like a kite, and jets use them. Even airliners use them. Birds use them for migration. They use those thermals up in the sky, and eagles are masters at catching thermals. And I watched him, he just goes like this, and he'd stop, and he'd go, oh, I've had seven or eight of these. And they all used to do it, and they'd catch him. And they just, they ignore him. After a while, they just, they're flapping around, and all of a sudden, they just stop, and they go shooting across the sky. And they go, oh, there's one, and it stops, and it just, and it goes up. Within 60 seconds, it's 1,000 feet in the sky. With effortless, it just goes up like an elevator. Isn't that cool? and to be able to witness that, and then calm down. When I wanna go home, I just throw my lure out and start a whistle and calm down, and he'd just come down like a bowling ball. Land on the lure and pick him up, take him home. And feed him, of course, you know. Yeah, right. Day six, God created all the animals, live in dry land. God saw that it was good. He also created human beings. Men and women were created in God's image before making mankind. God counseled with himself. He counseled with himself to make man in our own image. It's the only creature he did that with. It's in the Bible. God gave all the animals, including man, and all animals that have the breath of life, probably fish too, plants to eat. It was the curse. We're not gonna get into this now. This is for another day, maybe another conference some year in the future somewhere. But the curse, we have no idea the consequences of what that curse did. God is gonna trash, and he's gonna, at the end of the age, When it's ready, when the time's right, it says the stars are gonna fall, it's gonna melt. The sun in the new heaven and new earth, there's not gonna be a sun. God's presence will be the illumination. Kind of like day one, huh? Huh? How about he didn't create the sun until the fourth day. How come there was night and day, huh? Well, how about God's presence illuminate the whole new heaven and new earth? There will be no more sun, it says it in Revelation. I think it says it in Revelation, doesn't it? Yeah, okay. And the stars, he is gonna, I just have this, I don't know, but I wonder if he's just gonna trash everything, any trace of the old world, of sin, of everything. The only thing that's gonna be there, he's gonna erase all memory of that except Jesus just probably might have the nail scarred hands on his feet, on his hands and his feet and his side for all eternity so we can remember. the price he paid for us, and I worship him. I don't know that, I don't know. But he did, when he rose from the dead, and he appeared to Mary Magdalene, he says, Mary, don't touch me, I haven't gone to my father yet. Do you remember that? Don't touch me. Then he came down, he went up to his father, and he came back again, he said, Thomas, here, put your fingers in the hole in my hand. Well, he'd gone up and seen his father. Well, why wouldn't he keep him? Maybe he will keep them. But I do know that he's going to destroy, it says in the word, he's going to destroy the stars. Some of them, all of them, I don't know. But three or 200 billion trillion stars? You understand, he created 200 billion trillion stars on the fourth day. And he didn't even go and get out of breath. I mean, think about that, it's absolutely just mind boggling. I'm wrapping this up, got a couple more things. I'm okay, I'm good. Are you good? I got a couple of other cool slides I wanna show you. Okay, and some cool stories. Here's the periodic table of the elements. I told you there was a, there's, it goes from, you know what I'm doing? I'm trying to hit the laser. I'm hitting the push other thing at the same time. That's my problem. I'm sorry. I don't do this all the time. Yeah. So you have a periodic table from hydrogen, atomic number one, down to, where's uranium? I haven't looked at this in a long time. Where's uranium? All the way? Right there. 92. This is deceiving. This should be up here, but they sliced it because these rows would be all the way out to here if you didn't. So they cut them and put them in. I'm sorry. Yeah. So there's 118. There's 26 that are synthetically made. But 92 naturally occurring ones, I couldn't find, can't even believe random. So, now, living things, all living things, they've isolated about 25 different elements in various living things around the earth, okay? Not all living things have those 25 elements in them. But 25 of these elements on the chart, and I don't know, I don't remember which ones they are, but, All living things, from a bacteria cell to a blue whale to you and me, have six common elements. Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus, and sulfur. Those six are in all living things, guaranteed. If you don't have those six things, you're not alive. No, seriously, you're not living. A bacteria cell living under a garbage can, to a blue whale, to you and I, to a giant Sequoia redwood in California, all have plants, animals, everything. They have those six elements in common. Isn't that something? This was created in the mind of God. This is the blueprint. This is the building blocks from all matter in the universe. Isn't that amazing? Okay, moving on. DNA, don't, don't get, don't worry about this. This is not a big deal. It's really not. Who are my students, who are my students that had it in here? You learned all that, remember that? This wasn't a big deal, was it? Was it? Anyway. Huh? Oh. Anyway, this is deoxyribonucleic acid. This is the molecule of life. Six components. You've got these base units. CGs, Ats. that fit these little puzzle pieces here. C goes with G, A goes with T. It's cyanine, guanine, adenine, thymine. Adenine goes with thymine, guanine goes with cytosine, but cytosine couldn't go with thymine because they don't fit together like little puzzle pieces, right? Okay, one base unit. Now, these are adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine. I have them all color-coded. I think this is the same thing I used for our class. I took this out of this thing. It's like old. You might have had this on a test once. Okay, okay, all right. So anyway, so one base unit, this is a pentose sugar pentagram, five-pointed geometric figure pentagram. The pentagon is a five-sided building in our nation's capital. That's why they call it the pentagon. Okay, pentagon, okay, it's a geometric figure. Okay, pentose sugar, and then you have, Phosphate, another phosphate, sugar, sugars join the base units. Okay, so it goes like this, it just goes base unit, sugar, phosphate, sugar, phosphate, or a base unit, and it just keeps repeating itself. And it's like a ladder, okay, you think of it as a ladder, but it doesn't exist in nature like that, it's a double helix, it's twisted, and it, Yeah, the steps to the ladder are the base units, and the helix are the banisters of the staircase. Okay? So you have adenine, thymine, guanine, cytosine, and you've got a pentose sugar and a phosphate. And one of these, one base unit, one sugar, and one phosphate is called a nucleotide. That's it, a nucleotide. So one nucleotide. If I gave you one nucleotide, and I told you what this base unit was, could you, knowing what you know, could you build the other complementary partner on the other side? Yes. Because G only goes with C, and G only goes with C, and A only goes with T, and T goes with A. You see these little markers right here? Well, A only fits into T. You couldn't put C in there, even. So all this is all created in the mind of God. Now, there are mistakes when these things replicate. Some of these things are like, Thousands and thousands and thousands of thousands of nucleotides long. And when they're replicating it, sometimes there's mistakes. Those mistakes are called mutations in the code. But that's because of the fall. I don't believe, do you think God put an imperfect DNA molecule replication chemical in DNA when he first created it prior to the fall? No, it was very good. His creation, all of his animals had perfect DNA. Perfect DNA, perfect. It was the fall. This is all the result of the fall. Mutations and disease and predator. It is, it is. We're supposed to eat plants. Crocodiles are not supposed to grab wildebeest on the Maasai Mara between Tanzania and Kenya and that great migration. It's the biggest migration of any animals on the planet. And you see these crocodiles just grabbing these wildebeest, sticking them under the water and drowning them. That wasn't supposed to be like that. It wasn't supposed to be like that. It wasn't, and it won't be like that forever. So, all right. How we doing? Good? All right, we're wrapping things up. And God rested on the seventh day, and he wants us to have a day of rest. He created the Sabbath. He wants us to honor it. He wants us to worship him. The calendars, the days, the evidence is right in front of us. This is a chemical, okay? For years and years and years in evolution, they used to talk about animals evolving. Well, okay, no, it's not okay, but DNA doesn't evolve because it's a chemical. It doesn't, it has to be in a cell to reproduce. It has to do what the cell tells it to do. It doesn't do it on its own. It wasn't separate from the primordial soup and get with the little cell that got hit by lightning and said, hey. You know, it didn't do that. How could it? I mean, DNA, like I told you earlier, you could put DNA from five different animals and plants, corn, put a, what's your favorite vegetable? What is it? A rutabaga. Put a rutabaga, a piece of dean up here, everything. You can't tell the difference. And a Bengal tiger, and a Komodo dragon. It looks all like this. It's the arrangement of the nucleotides that codes for a Komodo dragon, a rutabaga. What do you call it? Rutabaga. I know. Nathano did that on purpose. and a Komodo dragon, a Bengal tiger, or a tomato plant. But look how creative that is. I mean, it's flawless. That came out of the mind of God. Okay, that's your redeemer, your creator. Okay. I'm gonna talk, wrap some things up here. Major plant groups on earth today, angiosperms are flowering plants that have fruits and have flowers. That's probably 99% of all of our plants we use for food. Gymnosperms, we get a lot of, and we get angiosperms, we get a lot of timber. Hardwoods are angiosperms mostly, not all, most of them. And then gymnosperms are your furs and your pines and spruces and stuff like that. And then, Look at the second most highest number of species of a group of plants or mosses. Pretty cool, huh? Now, gymnosperms, only 1,000 species. Some people speculate that before the flood, there were a lot more gymnosperms, and they were destroyed during the flood. And angiosperms sort of took advantage. The Earth is drastically, drastically different now than it was before, and even after the flood. It probably took hundreds and hundreds of years for the Earth to rehabilitate and heal after the flood. Can you imagine the damage it did? No, really, seriously. And they started the Ice Age. I mean, think about a sunny school. We're going to talk about something cool in a sunny school, about what happened to the water. OK. No, no, really. Seriously. OK. Just kind of wet your whistle a little bit there. There was a lot of water and it went somewhere. Well, yeah. There's about one and a half million species described on Earth today of animal groups. Insects are the largest. Vertebrates are fish, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals. These are just some weird... These are all the different types of animals on Earth. and the numbers of them and how they fit into, as far as numbers go, and their prevalence and how common they are on the planet. It's pretty cool. This is fairly, this came from the ICUN, I-U-C-N, International Union of Conservation and Nature. It's pretty good. I made that, so I didn't have to, I didn't copy it. I mean, I get permission, I made that pie chart. So it's kind of, I just got their stats. Biomass, very interesting. Biomass is, All the living material, all the living things on the planet, all the living things that are alive, not dead things, but alive, on the planet, estimated in mega, oh, it's in, I can't remember the, it's huge. There's a math formula for it. Anyway, plants, 82% of the planet, 82% of the plant life, biomass in the planet is occupied by plants. That's pretty cool, and it stands to reason, because they are the ones that, Filter the air and give us fresh oxygen. Bacteria, 13% of bacteria. Bacteria, but it's very, very important because can you imagine things that lived and died and didn't decay? We'd be miles high in dead corpses all over the planet. No, no, something they have to get taken care of real quickly and regenerate to prevent for disease, for recycling nutrients in the soil for plants, animals, ocean life, everything. Oxygen, even the plankton in the ocean produces a lot of, the plant plankton called phytoplankton produces a lot of oxygen. So bacteria, you wouldn't have thought about it. That's a very cool statistic, and it's true, it's true. and you have fungi. Archaea bacteria are the weird bacteria that live in the depths of the oceans. They kind of live in some of those crevices around some of those underwater volcanic activity where they actually eat and consume sulfur, gas. They're called anaerobes. They don't need oxygen. Total darkness, don't need light. Really? Protists are your one-celled organisms, amoebas, paramecia, euglena, stuff like that. Some of them can be two or three cells. And then, of course, animals. Everything from a sponge to a mammal. The lowest animal on the earth is a sponge, believe it or not. They filter feed in little holes. If you look at a cross-section of a sponge, these little filtering fibers in it. They live on current under the ocean, on currented areas. They don't live in still water. They live around currents, and they glue themselves. They're called sessile. They're bentic. They live on the bottom, and they're sessile, which means they don't move. And they cement themselves to a base, a strong base, in front of a current. And those pores push water through them, and those little filters filter food. And they squirt out the water they don't need. and they just filter their food, and that's how they eat. But they have to live near a highway where they can get their nutrients. But anyway, a sponge is the most primitive animal on the earth, and the highest are mammals. Okay, there you go. Okay, one thing I want to talk to you about. I want to share one thing with you. A miracle. I want to close with this. I'll give you right on. Okay. I promised myself it wouldn't take more than an hour and 15 minutes and I'm going to be right there. Okay. Really, you're going to believe the copious amounts of paperwork I had on my desk a month ago. I mean, what am I going to say? So anyway. Jesus healing the blind man, the man born blind, is probably, to me, one of the most wonderful miracles. I want to end this with you because it goes right in line with this. So Jesus is walking in the square, just hanging out, and he's going towards the temple, and these guys carry this man born from blind, put him down, and I'm paraphrasing. I'm not getting this exactly the same, but I get the gist of it. And Jesus walks up to him, and you know, has a conversation with him and winds up spinning on the ground, putting mud on his eyes, says, go wash in the spring of Siloam. I'm sorry? How do you pronounce it? Siloam. Pool of Siloam. Comes back and you can see. So he's just like flabbergasted. There's these guys, people walking and listening, watching him. What happened to you? Well, I can see now. Well, what happened to you? Well, Jesus, he made me see. He made mud, put it in my eyes, told me to go wash in the pool of Shalom, and I can see. So they take this guy to the Pharisees, which is like the wrong thing to do, because it was on the Sabbath, you know, and they're a piece of work. So they go, you know, so. So they start grillin' him. Well, what happened? Well, Jesus made money, put it in, oh no, how can that be? Well, I don't know. So they grab his parents, and they grab his parents, and he says, well, is this your son that was born blind? And they said, yeah, this is our son. They were afraid because the Pharisees had threatened these people earlier, not the parents necessarily, but the Jews about, you know, you start saying you're following Jesus, we're gonna throw you out of the synagogue. Okay? So they were already prepped to not, they were already, they were already worried. They were getting, you know, like they were getting interviewed by the Gestapo. They weren't going to mention, they weren't going to say anything because they didn't want to get kicked out of the, out of the, out of the temple. So anyway, they say, well, he, they say, well, he's of age, go ask him. So the parents say, well, our son's of age. This guy's a full grown man. You know, I don't know how old he was. I want to just, just wrap your head around this. Can you imagine being born blind? The guy's probably maybe in his 20s, early 30s, maybe. He didn't lose his eyesight and then become blind. He was born blind. He had no idea what eyesight was even like, okay? This is one of the most spectacular miracles I've ever, if you just think about it. So anyway, so they, After he gets his parents, they leave, they ask him again, well, tell us how you got saved. The guy goes, look, I already told you. You don't believe me, why do you want me to tell you again? Well, is he, I don't know, he said, is he evil or something? And they said, no, hardly. He's gotta be from God because nobody has ever ever, that they know of, has ever healed someone that was born blind from birth. And he says, what do you say? And he gets kind of smart-alakley with him. He says, oh, and you're gonna teach us? So they kick him out, okay? So he's out, and he's out there somewhere, and Jesus is walking around, probably not coincidental. Jesus walks up to him and goes, hey, how you doing? So, well, you know, he says, yeah, he says, well, look, I'm gonna quote it, I'm gonna go get it. No, no, no, really, that red-letter version, it's... Jesus walks up and he says, Jesus heard that they had cast him out. Jesus' timing is perfect. I mean, really, it's perfect, okay? He was God. Remember the stars? Yeah, Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him, they said, and he said, do you believe in the Son of Man? And he answered and said, who is he, sir, that I may believe in him? He calls him sir. He really hasn't got a clue. Now, here's another thing to remember. The guy didn't know who Jesus was, didn't want Jesus to heal him. He didn't care. He was sitting minding his own business. Jesus walked over to him and goes, He makes mud, goes like this, puts nothing, goes, go wash in the pool of Siloam. He wasn't crying for Jesus, save me, save me, heal me, heal me. He was minding his own business, okay, right? And then the apostle said, well, why is this guy blind? Did he sin or his parents sin? He says, none of them sin. You're gonna see the glory of God. Huh? So, so, so, he, Jesus says to him, do you believe in the Son of Man? He says, answer him, he says, and who is he, sir, that I may believe in him? Jesus said to him, you have seen him. It is he who is speaking to you. And he just, he says, Lord, I believe, and he worshiped him. He called him sir two minutes earlier. He called him Lord after that. You know what? You know what? Jesus, Well, first of all, let's back up about the eye thing, okay? to be born blind and not knowing how to see. And all of a sudden, you can see. I don't think you could stand up. I don't think you could walk. I think you'd be doing, you would have no three-dimensional space. Can you imagine somebody walking up to you or a bird flying? Can you imagine your brain the first five minutes of your 40 years, say you're 30 years old, 25 years old, have no clue, didn't know what light was? Three-dimensional space? Three-dimensional space. You mean I gotta put my foot in front of, I mean, you couldn't function. Jesus fixed his brain. He just didn't fix his eyesight. Jesus took those millions of neurons and his whole, I mean, his optic nerve, and he fixed them. He fixed his brain. He made it as though he had never been blind. So he also, it was a package. He did more than just give my sight. He fixed him because, can you, you know, I mean, Jesus probably would have made it worse if he could, how am I gonna function? He would have crawled. He wouldn't have known. He wouldn't have recognized you. You would have had to speak to me. Oh, I recognize you. I know your voice. But he wouldn't know what you look like. Jesus just, the guy got up and walked around. Like he'd never been blind. Okay, do you have any idea of the monumental miracle that is? And then, okay, you ready for this? There's another part of the story. Jesus saved him at the end. He has eternal life. So there's your creator and your redeemer. Well, I hope you enjoyed this and you got something out of it.