Sermon
Evolution and Science - The Fossil Record
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Josh is gone and Jackson, if you can switch me over here, but the
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Josh is gone. So I'm going to do the teen
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Sunday school class in here this morning and you've got an
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outline, hopefully. Does anybody not have an
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outline? You should have one of these.
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Brother Kevin's got some extra ones.
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Did anybody not get one? Teen should already have theirs,
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hopefully. But all right, I'm going to try
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to give you a crash course in this this morning.
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All right? This is evolution, Evolution and
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science. And there's a lot of things that
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we've been talking about. There's really this this whole
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course is an apologetics course. And it's designed to help us to
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have confidence in the Bible. Does anybody know what
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apologetics is? If you could just put it in a
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simple sentence, What is apologetics?
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Yeah, a defense of the faith is essentially what it is, right?
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What I believe and why I believe that that's what apologetics is.
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And and so we've been going through this series in our class
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for quite some time now. We went all the way back and we
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looked at a lot of different archaeology and all the
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archaeology points to the fact that the Bible is true.
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All of the all of the places that are mentioned in the Bible.
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There's been many times when scholars, all the smart people
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have said this, this place is mentioned in the Bible, but
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there's there's no evidence of it.
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And all of a sudden they find evidence of it.
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And you know, even King David for years and years and years,
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the archaeologist said there is no King David.
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There is no, there is no, there's no evidence of him
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anywhere. It's just a myth.
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It's just something that Israel made-up to have somebody to
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follow, kind of like, you know, Zeus or, you know, some of these
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other mythical people. And then all of a sudden they
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started finding all kinds of things with David's name on it
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to prove that there was actually not only a King David, but that
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he was as powerful as the Bible says that he is essentially as a
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king and many, many other things like that.
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But then evolution is also the same way.
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There's many things that evolution came along and I don't
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have time to give you all of the history of it, but I actually
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here's here's what we've been looking through when it comes to
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evolution in science. And of course I don't have it
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now. Is there a reason it's not
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following me here? Let me let me disconnect and and
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try reconnecting again. Sorry, give me one second here.
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See if this does it. It's not well, let's see what
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happens here. Let me let me disconnect.
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I think I, I think I've had to do this a couple times before.
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Let me try this real fast. I'll reconnect.
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Sometimes I try to set it all up ahead of time and sometimes when
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it sits there for a little bit, it doesn't connect.
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There we go. All right, so let me get to the
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slideshow. There we go.
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All right, so this is what we've been discussing in in our class
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and the history of evolution. Let me just give you give you
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give it to you very, very briefly.
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All right, Charles Darwin is credited with coming up with the
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theory of evolution. He did not come up with the
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theory of evolution. He popularized the theory of
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evolution. It's been around for many, many
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years. But when Charles Darwin went and
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visited the Canary Islands and, and some of the other islands
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out in that same general area, he observed some different
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things that he felt gave credibility to evolution.
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And so he came back and he wrote a book called On the Origin of
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Species. And that book became very, very
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popular. And really during that entire
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time, you got to, you got to kind of understand what was
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going on in world history at that time.
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In the late 1800s and mid, mid to late 1800s, Bible skepticism
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was very, very high and minute. Much of that was coming out of
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Germany. There was a lot of higher
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critics in Germany. And during that time a lot of
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Americans went over to study in Germany and came back with a
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with a strong criticism of the Bible.
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Doubting the stories in the Bible, doubting the miracles,
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doubting the the deity of Christ, doubting many of these
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different things. And when evolution was
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reintroduced, if you will, or popularized during that time, it
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gave them some other way to explain how everything got here
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other than creation. And so many, many, many people
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jumped on this theory of evolution.
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It became very, very popular. But you've noticed that I've
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said theory of evolution because that's all it is, and that's all
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it ever has been. Nothing in evolution has ever
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been proven. They're still today looking for
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a missing link, something to prove that evolution is the way
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everything got here. And they have their, their,
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their proofs and different things like that.
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But slowly but surely, every one of those proofs gets disproven.
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And they, many times, even the evolutionists themselves come to
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the conclusion that, OK, that is, you're right, that's not a
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proof for evolution. But we have this.
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And then they, they stick with that one for a while and it, and
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it, and it, and it looks really good.
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And then all of a sudden, oh, that one got disproven and
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disproven too many times that even the evolutionists say,
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you're right, that one's not a good, that one's not a good
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proof. But we have this and they just
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continually keep moving to different ideas about how
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everything got here, about how evolution could be possible and
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everything else. Now, I will say this, I give
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Charles Darwin a little bit of a pass because back in the mid to
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late 1800s, they didn't have near the information that we
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have today. And even with what we're going
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to talk about today, the fossil record, even with the fossil
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record, Charles Darwin said we don't have much information.
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Paleontology is in its infancy. We don't have much in the fossil
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record. But I can, I can tell you that
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as more research is done, as as paleontology grows, the field of
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paleontology grows, more fossils are found.
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I believe it's going to prove the theory of evolution.
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Well, that was 150 years ago. Now we have a lot of fossils,
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millions and millions of fossils that have been found.
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Much research has been done through paleontology and nothing
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has proven evolution. And I'll give Charles Darwin a
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pass because he didn't have a lot of information.
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But I don't give the evolution is today a pass because there is
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so much information out there. There's no way that evolution
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could possibly be true. And one of the greatest
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evidences against evolution is the fossil record.
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So I'm going to give you a crash course in this.
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We've actually been in this for about 3 or 4 weeks, maybe even 5
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weeks by now. And we've covered a lot of
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different things in here. But I'm going to give you a
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crash course in the fossil record this morning.
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So you have your outlines there. Let's jump right into this.
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Number one, this is your little dot at the top.
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The fossil record is used to prove evolution, but it actually
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disproves evolution. That's the fossil record is one
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of the one of the biggest evidence is if you want to call
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it that, that that the evolutionists have and you know,
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everything has turned out to be a hoax.
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We, we spent a lot of time talking about the ape men, the
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ape men that were, you know, you've, you've probably all seen
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the transition chart that goes from an ape to a human, right?
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I mean, that's kind of when you see evolution, that's a lot of
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times what you picture this little guy that started as an
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ape and slowly, gradually stood upright and next thing you know,
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he's a man, right? They found all of these
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transitional forms, if you will, all of these ape men.
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But it turns out that every single one of them was either a
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hoax or misproven. They built an entire ape man out
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of a tooth that they found. They found a tooth and based on
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that tooth, they built an entire man out of that thing.
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That was that was a hairy, you know, long arms like an ape.
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The you know, the, the, the, the digits that that are all
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separated makes it easy for them to grab on the trees and
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everything else. We finally found proof based off
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of a tooth and then they found out that it was actually a pig's
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tooth. They, they found fossils that
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were buried in, in like an old limestone quarry.
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They, they, they found a leg bone, they found an arm bone.
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They found a few different things.
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They, they, they made this entire man, ape man out of this,
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out of these bones that they found.
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And it turned out when they started doing more research into
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it later on, that it was actually not even real bones.
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Somebody faked it, painted him to look old and then buried him.
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And then he magically found it. You know, The thing is when you,
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when you find something that proves evolution like that, not
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you get fame, you get money, you get popularity, you get all of
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those things. And So what would what, why
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would somebody not want to go find these evidences for
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evolution, right? I found a transitional form.
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Now you're speaking all over the world.
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Now you're writing books. Now everybody knows your name.
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So that the, the, the temptation is very, very strong to, to
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fudge these things and to, you know, to apply these hoaxes
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into, you know, come up with all these different things that,
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that prove every one of them when it comes to those ape men
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has as, as all of them have been proven to either be 100% ape or
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100% human or complete hoax. One of one of those three things
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has always been what has come. And even the evolutionists agree
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with that. It's not just that I'm a
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creationist and I'm saying it from my perspective, but this
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is, this is the fossil record is where of course they find these
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things. Fossil record is just a little
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bit different than that, but we'll talk about that.
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So the, the fossil record, this is number 2 is the is vast, it
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is huge. There are millions and millions
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and millions of fossils that have been found over the course
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of, of of all these different years.
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And I'll say this, this is your Third Point there.
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Charles Darwin knew that the fossil record did not provide
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evidence for his doctrine, but he believed this problem could
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be explained by the incompleteness of the record and
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the rudimentary state of paleontology in his day.
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I explained that already, but that's just a way for you to
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write that down. The incompleteness of the record
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is what he blamed for not having evidence of evolution.
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Now, it's not incomplete. Now there's so many fossils.
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Now we know a lot from the fossil record.
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And so the fossil record has some problems.
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And for evolutionists, I will say, and today there are 200
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million fossils in museums worldwide.
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And that doesn't even include all the fossils that people have
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found and kept for themselves. I mean, there's millions and
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millions and millions of fossils that have been found and nothing
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that that proves evolution. So here's some problems with the
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fossil record for evolution, which obviously are not problems
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for us. They help creation.
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They, they prove creation. So here you go #1 the fossil
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records geologic column has major problems, Major problems.
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Now I will show you what the geologic column looks like.
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And I know you can't see it all from there, but you have the
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Paleozoic age, you have the Mesozoic age, and you have the
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Xenozoic age. Those are the kind of the three,
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the three major ages that the fossil record of the geologic
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column is broken up into. And all the way at the bottom,
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the pre Cambrian layer. This, this layer is, I can't see
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it myself, but it's 250 million years old, some even more than
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that. But this, this fossil column
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consists of layers of the Earth that supposedly represent
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millions of years of time. There's supposed to be 3 major
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eras, 13 stages. The Paleozoic, there we go. 540
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to 250 million years ago is the oldest stage.
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That's where you have. Of course, they said that
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everything started off as single celled organisms and gradually
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got more and more complex until you ended up with, you know,
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that Organism crawling out of the primordial ooze that got
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here by The Big Bang. By the way, there was a huge
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explosion and all of this stuff just got here.
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Last time I checked, an explosion does not help things.
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It destroys it, right? Could you imagine if there was a
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giant explosion and all the sudden the next thing you know,
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there was a a giant jumbo jet that just magically assembled
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itself, right. And a jet, by the way, is far
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less complex than even one single human cell.
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There is still things, even with the technology that we have
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today, there are still things that they do not know about a
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single human cell that they have not been able to figure out
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either how it works. They're still discovering things
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that are inside the smallest of the things that are inside the
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cell, inside every single cell. And you have trillions of them
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in your body, inside every single cell.
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You have the the equivalent of a gigantic factory operation going
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on in every single cell in your body.
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And they multiply by the thousands and even the even the
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millions daily. You lose cells, you gain cells.
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It's just so, so, so complex. And all of this happened by a,
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by a, a massive explosion. But then the, the cell formed
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and it got bigger and more and more complex and next thing you
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know, it crawled out onto the land and then that thing mutated
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and had something else. And you know, the, the problem
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with that is mutations are not usually good, right?
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That's why you don't see all kinds of mutations out here
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everywhere. Mutations don't normally live,
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right? One of the things that they say
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is that a bat came from a rat. OK, think about some of these
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problems that you would have. OK, bats can't see right?
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They use echolocation and they fly to catch their food and they
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eat. They eat bugs and everything
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else. If a rat suddenly became 1/2 bat
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and now it's either blind or it has wings and it but it can't
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grab his food because the mouse's body is far too heavy to
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fly, right? If by chance there was something
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that became 1/2 mouse half bat, it's not going to live a week,
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let alone millions of years to keep evolving, right?
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And and that's the same thing that you see with every so
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so-called transitional form. Those transitional forms can't
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live, they're mutations, right? A mutation does not usually
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survive and if it does, it usually doesn't survive very
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long. And if it does, it does not
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reproduce as that mutation. It can, right?
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Because it's a mutation. And so the whole theory of
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evolution and everything getting here by mutations falls apart
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when you just think about it from a logical standpoint.
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You don't see things walking around with two heads, right?
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Or if you do, it's very, very rare, right?
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And, and they're not reproducing other things with two heads with
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every generation that comes after that, right?
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Because it's a mutation. And So what what you end up
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happening with, with all of these things, the age of multi
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celled organisms, the fish, the amphibians, and gradually they
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got more and more complex. And the next thing you know, now
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you have everything that we have today with all of the multi
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celled organisms and all of those other things.
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And so I got to move along quickly or we're we're not going
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to get very far. But let me give you some major
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problems. I'm I'm skipping all of these
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things here. This is the this is problems
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with the geological column here. Some some very, some very
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difficult things that they run into.
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And the first is the problem of depth.
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According to evolution, every layer represents millions of
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years. OK, I'm going to this is not any
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of your points here. All right, I'm going to give you
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some more of these, but this is just kind of setting the this
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the table for what I do want to talk to you about with this.
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But layers of millions of years of sediment that gradually laid
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down South. Each layer would be millions of
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years thick. And if every strata, if every
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layer was visible in one part of the Earth, by the way, that's a
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huge problem for them because there is no geologic column that
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starts at the bottom and goes all the way to the top anywhere
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on Earth. Nowhere on earth do we find
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that, but it would be 100 to 200 miles thick if it was.
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Could you imagine going 200 miles deep into the Earth?
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There is. There is no place on Earth where
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the geologic column is visible because of that.
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So that's there's nowhere on Earth of that scene.
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And we've got a lot of different things that go along with that.
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But here's here's their first problem letter AA major problem
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with that is the missing strata. The missing strata, they're
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unconformities are layers in which millions of years of
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supposed evolutionary history are missing, right?
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You have places on Earth where there are these strata, but you
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go from something that they say is 150 million years old, you
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skip layers and you go to something that is 50 million
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years old and there's layers that are missing in between
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there. If it took millions and millions
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and millions of years to lay those things down, how are those
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layers missing Where they at, right?
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Why are why are they not everywhere on earth?
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If it took millions and millions of years for that to happen, why
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don't we see them everywhere? It should be in every layer,
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right? And they're just, they're just
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not there. 14 major non conformities just in the Grand
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Canyon layers that are missing in the Grand Canyon.
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Fourteen of those layers that are just they're just not there.
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If evolution is true, the billion years will be
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represented by deep layers of rock.
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But again, those layers are missing.
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Here is another major problem with the geologic column.
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This is letter B. The geologic column is all is is
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often jumbled together. Sorry, this is this.
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Is this this slide here? Problem is that the geologic
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column is often jumbled together.
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Sorry if I get this a little bit out of order or whatever.
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I'm skipping a lot of slides. I'm skipping through this very
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quickly because I want to try to try to get to as much of this as
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possible. But that's another problem.
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It's often jumbled together. And by that I mean this.
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They've identified how old these layers are.
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What you have is a layer that they say is 150 million years
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old that's buried in the layer above something or below
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something that they say is 250 million years old.
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Or you have a layer that's supposed to be 540 million years
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old because it's the oldest is the pre Cambrian layer.
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And you find that on top of other layers that are supposed
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to be younger than that. How is that possible?
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If they got laid down over millions of years, there should
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be no jumbling together. Everything Everywhere on the
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earth should always be in the exact same order, right?
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How do you explain? To lay down, here's another huge
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problem. Fossilized trees that Pierce the
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geological column. The geological layers have
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fossilized trees in them. What happens when a tree dies?
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It rots, falls over, continues to rot, and it goes back to
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dirt, doesn't it? How long does that take?
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100 years. Let's give it a lot of time and
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say that it took 100 years for that tree to die, for it to rot
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standing up, for it to fall over and go back to dust.
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Let's say it took 100 years for that to happen, right?
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These trees that they found fossilized Pierce layers that
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are millions of years old. It starts in layers that are
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let's just say 75,000,000 years old and go up to layers that are
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50 million years old. Is it, is it possible at all for
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a tree to stand for 25,000,000 years?
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No way possible, right? It's not going to live that
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long, number one. But even if it's dead, it's not
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going to stand for that whole time.
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But if evolution were true and everything was laid down over
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millions of years and that tree stood there while all those
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millions of years accumulated to accumulate those layers, right?
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Well, how do you explain a tree standing up through multiple
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layers? It happened all at the same
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time, right? Through a worldwide flood.
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That's the only way that you can explain that it happened.
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Something in order for something to be fossilized.
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OK, what happens when you shoot a deer?
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And let's just say, you know, obviously for the sake of this
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argument, you just shoot a deer. It dies.
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You don't clean it, you don't do anything.
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OK, let's just skip the shooting.
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Let's say you find a deer on the side of the road, right?
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What happens to that deer? The rots, let's say.
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Let's say no vultures found it. It didn't eat nothing.
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Ate it up right? But that deer rots and what
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happens to it? Eventually all the skin goes
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away. Eventually all the meat goes
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away, and then you're left with bones, right?
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What happens to those bones? Eventually they deteriorate to
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the point where they're just like paper and they they
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crumbled. It takes a little bit of time,
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right? But that's what happens.
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That's why you don't walk through the woods and just see
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thousands of deer bones everywhere, right?
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Because I mean, think about how many deer have died over the
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course of the last 200 and 5300 years that we, that people have
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been on this continent, right? It just, it doesn't happen
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because they all eventually disintegrate and they disappear,
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right? But how do you have then deer in
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the fossil record or fish or anything else in the fossil
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record? Something that is fossilized
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cannot be fossilized if it takes millions of years for those
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layers to build up around it, right?
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It's not going to fossilize that way.
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It would be gone long before it had time to do all of that
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stuff. But if something is buried very
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quickly in a mudslide or in a volcano or something like that,
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it's it's fossilized. It's frozen in place just
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exactly like that. In the fossil record.
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They have found dinosaurs that are in the process of giving
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birth. They found, they found dinosaurs
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that were sitting right on top of eggs that still had the
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embryo inside the egg. How does that happen over
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millions and millions of years? It can't.
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In order to be fossilized, it has to be buried very quickly.
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And that's exactly what you have happening with these trees.
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Fossilized trees that are piercing multiple layers of the
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geological column are not going to happen over millions of
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years. It's going to happen instantly.
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And that only gives us more proof that the biblical flood is
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true and that that's the way that everything happened.
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So let me give you another one. Here we go skipping around #3 #4
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sorry, Letter D. Another problem is the out of
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place fossils. Out of place fossils.
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It's another problem that you have.
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And, and when I say that, I mean this.
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A lot of fossils have been found in the wrong layers.
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So what they have is all right, your dinosaurs and all of those
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other things where they, you know, they were the ones that
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came along first or not even that you're single celled
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creatures. You're you're really small
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things that that everything else kind of grew out of.
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It would make sense that those were in the oldest layers,
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right? They would have to be because
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they were the ones that died first.
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They got buried over multiple years, millions of years.
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They got buried first. Problem is you find things that
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they say are supposed to be 250 million years old in the 50
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million year old layers and you have things that they say are 50
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million years old that are buried in the 250 million year
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old layer. How is that possible?
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If it died and all of those live down there, and then evolution
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happened and all of those things came from those things, then how
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do you, how are those fossils jumbled?
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Well, there's only one way to explain it.
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They were all buried at the same time, all at the same time, and
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with a worldwide flood, right? That's the only way that you can
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possibly explain that. Let me give you #2 the fossil
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record. First of all, the geological
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column has major problems #2 the fossil record does not contain
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the countless transitional creatures that Darwinian
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evolution requires. OK, it would be one thing if
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there was thousands and thousands and thousands of these
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things we could say, all right, somehow we have to explain this
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to be able to say that evolution is not true, right?
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But here's the problem for evolutionists.
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Not only are there not thousands and thousands and thousands of
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transitional creatures, there are none.
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They have never found a transitional creature.
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There's been times when they thought they have, you know,
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there's a fish that lives way, way, way deep in the ocean that
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actually has feet. And they're like, oh, look at
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this. We found, we found, they found
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it in the fossil record 1st. And that was their, that was
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their evidence for evolution. Well, then they found out that
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actually somebody caught one. It was really deep in the ocean,
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but they caught it, brought it up, and now they find out that
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there's actually hundreds of them in the ocean.
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It's not evidence of evolution. It was something that stayed the
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same for their supposed millions of years, right?
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They found it in a million years old layer, but they're still
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alive today. So obviously they're either
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evolution did not happen or it's still in the process of
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evolving, or that's just the way it was made, right?
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It was the way it was created. And obviously we know that
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that's the case. So the the transitional forms
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that are supposed to be there are not Letter A Darwin admitted
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that the fossil record didn't contain these partly formed
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creatures. Darwin was at least a little bit
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honest. Now he was he, you know, Darwin
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does not get a pass because he was a Bible critic.
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He didn't believe the Bible and that's why he came up with this
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theory in the 1st place. But at the same time, he was at
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least a lot more honest than a lot of the evolutionists are
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today. Darwin admitted that there was
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not a lot of evidence for his theory.
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Darwin admitted that they didn't know these different things.
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And Darwin even admitted that if someday they were able to
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disprove his theory, he would discard it.
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He never did that by the top, by the end of his life, he didn't.
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He didn't discard his theory, but at least he was honest
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enough to say this is a theory. The ones who are alive today
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that are promoting these ideas of evolution are not honest
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enough to say Darwin was right. There is no evidence for
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evolution. But Darwin at least admitted
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that there was not enough evidence to prove that there
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was, you know, transitional creatures found in the fossil
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record. But his idea was, hey, over the
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next however many years, as paleontology advances and as
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more fossils are found, we will find those transitional
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creatures. Well, they never happened. 150 a
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175 years later, there are still no transitional creatures that
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have been found in the fossil record.
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That's a huge problem for evolutionists because literally
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their entire theory is based on the fact that everything was a
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transitional creature at some point, and there's none.
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There's none. Let me give you another point
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here. Let us see.
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Evolutionists claim to have found missing links, but when
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they're examined, it's evident that they're not the kind of
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evidence that would stand up in court.
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If you were to take evolution and put it on trial, you would
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not find any of these transitional creatures.
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Evolution is claimed to have found missing links, but when
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they're examined, it's evident that they're not the kind of
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evidence that would stand up in court.
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Nobody would. Nobody would.
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Nobody would say that evolution is true if you were to present
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the evidence on both sides. Let me give you a letter D the
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fossil record. Sorry, jumping around here.
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Let me jump farther here. I'm skipping a lot.
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I wish I could give you all of this, but the fossil record
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disproves disproves evolution and that it does not contain the
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countless transitional creatures that Darwinian evolution
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requires. There just is not the evidence.
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So that's a huge problem for evolution is because the fossil
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record does not contain the countless creatures that
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Darwinian evolution requires. Here's another problem for
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evolutionists #3 the fossil record shows creatures appearing
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suddenly fully formed with no evolutionary history.
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That's a big problem for evolutionists.
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First one, first reason why is the suddenness.
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Let me let me jump up here. The suddenness, the Cambrian
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layer is is kind of where this where this explosion took place,
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so to speak. But the suddenness of the
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appearance of creatures has even been given the name Cambrian
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explosion or biology's Big Bang. The Cambrian layer is named
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after the rocks in Cambria, Wales.
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That layer is supposed to be 500 to 600 million years old,
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supposed to represent the beginning of life.
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It's, it's very, it's very early, at the beginning of the
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Paleozoic era, as we already, as we already mentioned and showed
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you, but they call it the Cambrian explosion because a
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huge variety of fossil creatures appear in these rock layers
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fully formed. In other words, you would think
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that there would be layers below it that would have all of these
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transitionary creatures in it, but that's not the case.
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This Cambrian explosion shows all of your animals, all
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completely fully formed, 0 transitional forms in that
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layer. So it's a huge problem for
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evolutionists because how did those get there?
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Where did they come from? If they came from evolutionary
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transitions, then there should be all, there should be
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evolutionary transitions everywhere in those layers.
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But they're not. They appear suddenly, all of a
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sudden in those, the layers that they claim to be the oldest, all
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of these animals appear fully formed, no transitional forms
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whatsoever. And again, that's a huge problem
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for them. That's a big problem for
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evolutionists. Here you go, letter B Darwinism
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predicts that the fossil record will show that creatures
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gradually evolved, but in fact it shows creatures appearing
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fully formed. Missing from the fossil record
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are the millions of years of slow development from the
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supposed first simple life form below the Cambrian layer.
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So you have the pre Cambrian layer.
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And in that pre Cambrian layer there should be all kinds of
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transitional forms, because in the Cambrian layer you have all
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of these animals fully formed. But here's a problem.
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There are no transitional forms in the pre Cambrian layer
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either. So how did they get there?
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Well, there's one way to explain that, and that is a worldwide
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flood. That's how they all got buried
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at the same time, very suddenly. Here's another problem with the
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fossil record. For evolutionists, the fossil
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record shows complexity from its earliest layers, and we kind of
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discussed this already a little bit, but complexity from the
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earliest layers. Letter A.
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According to the Darwinian doctrine of evolution, life
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arose from a simple creature 1 celled and developed into ever
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higher life forms, creatures such as bacterium to higher and
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higher life forms. But that's not what the fossil
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record shows. There is no single celled
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creatures that gradually got bigger and bigger.
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There's none of that. It's there's no simple creatures
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in the fossil record. Everything just shows up.
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Letter B creatures appear not only fully developed, but with
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incredibly complex features, things like trilobites.
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And if you've ever been to the Creation Museum, they have a lot
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of different fossils in the Creation Museum.
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In fact, they even have some fossils in the Ark Encounter.
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They have a very large leaf that is fossilized from a tree in the
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fossil record. Guess what?
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Leaves die and in just the course of less than a year, they
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get hard and they get soft and brittle and they crumble, right?
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A leaf can't lay there for millions of years while layers
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form over the top of it. It has to be buried all at once
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in order for that to happen. So the bat here's a lot of
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different things. The oldest bats have the ability
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to fly and detect insects with echolocation organs.
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They all had those in the fossil record, the trilobite eyes,
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15,000 lenses, and some of the species of trilobites.
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That's not a simple single celled creature.
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That's very complex. No such thing as a simple
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creature. Microbiology has taught us that
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a bacterium is more complex than a modern city.
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Just one, one little cell, even plant life.
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Plants, by the way, do math. Do you know that obviously
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plants need sunlight to live because that's what they use for
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photosynthesis, right? What they've done is a bunch of
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different experiments to try to see how these plants do when you
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take them out of the sunlight and put them in a dark room.
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And what they found is that these plants will actually do a
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complicated math problems, if you will, to figure out how to
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store the stuff that they already have so that they can
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stay alive while they're while they don't have the sunlight.
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And then when you put them back out in the sun, they, they, they
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do these complex calculations again to figure out how to start
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this process all over. And, and, and, and there's just
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so much, there's so much that goes along with all of those
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things to just prove that there's nothing.
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There's no, there's not these simple little one celled
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creatures. You don't find them anywhere in
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the, in the fossil record letter C.
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The complexity of creatures at every level of the fossil record
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disproves evolution. Life appears in all of its
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amazing complexity from the very, very beginning.
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Here's #5 problem with the fossil record for evolution is
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the fossil record exhibits stability or stasis.
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You've heard of homeostasis, same state, the stability of
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species rather than change. And that's a big problem for
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evolutionists as well. Here's Letter A Creatures not
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only appear in the fossil record fully formed, as we already
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talked about, but they also retain the same form and habits
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throughout their existence, even over supposed millions of years.
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There are bats in layers that are 150 million years old, and
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there are bats in layers that are supposedly 50 million years
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old that are the exact same. There's no change in the 100
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million years between those bats.
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If evolution was constantly evolving and creatures were
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constantly evolving through evolution, then there should be
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changes in 100 million years. The problem for evolutionists is
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there are no changes between the 150 million year old bats and
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the 50 million year old bats. There's no change at all.
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Now obviously we know that that's that, that the earth and
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history that we have from the Bible doesn't give near that
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much time. 6 to maybe 7000 years old is the oldest.
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The Earth could be maybe 10,000 years old at the very, very
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oldest, not millions of years. So we know it didn't happen over
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millions of years anyway. But even on top of that, it's a
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big problem for evolution. It's because 100 million years
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and everything is supposed to be gradually changing and there's
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no change in 100 million years between the creatures that are
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buried at those oldest layers and the creatures that are
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buried in the youngest layers. That's a problem for them.
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It's a huge problem for them because it just, it just proves
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that everything has stayed the same, that the evolution, the,
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the change that that evolution requires just didn't happen,
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especially the way that they said it did.
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So there's a lot of different quotes by a lot of different
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evolutionists. Even this is 1 from Johns
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Hopkins University, he said. I've demonstrated A biological
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stability for species of animals and plants that I think would
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have shocked Darwin. Something tends to prevent the
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wholesale restructuring of species.
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Wonder what that something could be.
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Maybe it's God, huh? Maybe the Bible is true after
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all. But this is this is a bat that
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supposedly dated to 50 million years old looks very, very, very
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similar to a bat that you'd see today if you saw a bat skeleton
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and and and saw what his bat skeleton looks like.
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It looks very, very, very similar to that bat because the
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problem is there have been no changes Letter B.
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This proves that layers of sediment.
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I'm sorry, I'm, I'm, I'm jumping ahead, letter B on the top.
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The stability of creatures disproves Darwinism.
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If evolution is true, living things would continue to change.
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All right, Number six, the uniformitarian view is now
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rejected even by evolutionists. Now I've got to do this very,
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very quickly because Charles Lyell, Charles Darwin, Thomas
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Huxley, those were all men who were very popular during that
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time and helped popularize the idea of evolution.
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Thomas Huxley was called Charles Darwin's bulldog.
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He was called Darwin's bulldog because he was the one that was
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out there. Charles Darwin was not a very
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outspoken guy. He was not a guy that was out
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there doing all these speeches and championing evolution.
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Although he wrote the book. Thomas Huxley, who was also a
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Bible critic, found Charles Darwin's book and he became the
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champion for the cause of evolution.
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He was the one that was giving speeches and being very
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passionate about getting this idea of evolution out to the
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masses. And so he was one of them.
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And then Charles Lyell also was a student of Charles Darwin.
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And Charles Lyell came up with the idea of uniformitarianism.
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And uniformitarianism basically says that everything continues
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at the same rate as it always has.
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So you look at the river in the bottom of the Grand Canyon and
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you can tell that the the the river at the bottom of the Grand
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Canyon is carving itself, carving itself deeper by 1 inch
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per year. So if we take that calculation,
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then we can see how deep the Grand Canyon is, and we can say
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that it took this many millions of years for the Grand Canyon to
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form. OK.
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Even evolutionists reject that idea today because it's very,
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very, very easy to see that those things happen even today.
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Look at the floods that just happened in Texas, right?
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A small Little River that gets a massive flood can carve A
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gigantic river in a matter of an A couple hours or a day, let
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alone millions of years, right? Even through rock layers.
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There's been a lot of evidence of that.
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And, and, and I'll try to share some of this with you.
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I may have to do this next week. I want to finish this for you
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without just kind of leaving you hanging.
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But maybe, maybe we'll, maybe we'll do this in Sunday school
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next week because I'm pretty much out of time.
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I don't want to go too long, and I want to explain a little bit
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more of this for you. Brother Josh is going to be
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surprised to find out that he's not teaching Sunday school next
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week. But I just want to give you a
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little bit more in the way of this because there's so much,
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there's so much to this. But the fossil record is really
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the greatest evidence that we have against evolution and in
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favor of creation. Obviously, you look at the ape
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men, it's very easy to prove that they're not evolutionary,
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right? They're either ape, they're man,
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or they're fake, right? There's a lot of other things
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that that prove evolution is not true and prove that creation is
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true. And I'm not just saying that
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give us evidence. I'm talking about that prove
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that evolution is not true, right?
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And like I like I'm saying with this, even the evolutionists
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agree that uniformitarianism, and this is one of their biggest
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arguments for years and years, Uniformitarianism, look, look,
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everything's, everything's the same as it always has been.
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Even they reject this idea now they've moved down from it
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because they're saying you're right.
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There's no way that this proves evolution.
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They're still not saying creation is how everything got
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here, but they're willing to move the goal posts.
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Now, let's just say and Charles Lyell with this idea of
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uniformitarianism, the past is the key to the present is has
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been disproven so many times that even evolutionists, the
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majority, if not all of them say, OK, you're right.
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Unitarian uniformitarianism is not, is not true.
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We know that because we can see it.
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And you look at volcanoes that erupt and how they completely
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changed the landscape in just a matter of hours.
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And it's just, it's enough to say that the past is not the key
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to the present, right. So we'll, we'll discuss this
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next week. I'll finish this out.
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Maybe I'll slow down a little bit and give you the last of it
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a little bit slower and give you give you a few more things that
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go along with that. But let's pray and then we'll
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we'll finish up for this morning.
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Father, again, we thank you so much for your goodness to us.
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We thank you for the opportunity that we have to just prove that
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the word of God is is is not only reliable and true, but that
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we can stand on it. We can, we can trust in it
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everything that we find in it, not just these.
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Stories of creation and the flood and all of these other
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things, but every part of it is true and we thank you for that.
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I pray that you would just help us to be stronger in our faith
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when it comes to these things and be able to give an answer to
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every man that asketh the reason of the hope that is found in us
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through Jesus Christ. And may this be a help to us as
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we go forward. Thank you again for all you do
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for us in Jesus name, Amen.