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One of my jobs here is to make sure that we have men for here and we have delegated that to Malachi and we don't have to worry about it. Malachi is in charge of getting our men together and just one little thing we don't have to do and thanks Malachi. All right, let's pray. Lord, heavenly father, thank you so much for this day. Thank you so much for um this church. Um Lord, I pray for the offering. I pray that um we would be wise with it and that we would use it to glorify you. And Lord, thank you. Thank you for everything you've done. You bless us so much in Jesus name. Amen. >> Amen. I was a wrench. I remember who I was. I was lost. I was blind. I was running out of time. Sin separated. The brereech was far too wide. But from the far side of the chasm, you held me in your sight. So you made a way across the great divide. left behind heaven's strong to build it here inside. There at the cross you paid the debt I owed. Broke my chains, freed my soul. For the first time I had bow. Thank you Jesus for the blood of life. Thank you Jesus. It has washed me white. Thank you Jesus. You have saved my life. brought me from the darkness into glorious light. >> You You took my place. You laid inside my tomb of sin. >> You were buried for three days, but then you walked right out again. And now death has no sting and life has no wind. For I have been transformed by the blood of the lamb.

Thank you Jesus for the blood. Thank you Jesus. It has washed me white. Thank you Jesus. You have saved my life. Brought me from the darkness into glorious light. There is nothing stronger than the wonderworking power of the blood. The blood that calls us sons and daughters. We are ransom by our father through the blood. of love. There is nothing stronger than the wonder working power of the blood. The blood that comes with sons and daughterers. We are ransomed by our father through the blood. The blood. Thank you Jesus for the blood. Thank you Jesus. It has wash. Thank you Jesus. You have saved my life. Brought me from the darkness into glorious light. Thank you Jesus for the Thank you Jesus. in he was. Thank you Jesus. You have saved my life. Brought me from the darkness into glorious Father, we do pray uh for this time as Dr. Saridy comes and shares with us. Um I pray that you would anoint him that you would speak to him, God, and speak through him. Um we know that uh uh he is an expert in apologetics and uh Lord so many of us can be uh are are kind of ignorant in that area and so I just pray that you would uh uh inform us uh give us knowledge, give us wisdom and uh how to rightly apply it. Lord we love you in Jesus name we pray. Amen. Now the question is is where is Dr. Saridetti? There he is. Come on up onto the stage, sir. Please welcome him to the platform.

>> Working. Oh, good. Yeah. Can't leave it on overnight because the battery wears out, right? So, but thank you for for inviting me here. I think it's the second time we've been here. We've had a good time a few years ago with my colleague Katon Hi, I understand. So, my turn this time. So, uh we had a good time last night, I think, if for those of you who are there talking about dinosaurs and having some uh pretty intelligent questions afterwards, which I like. But just to let you know where I'm coming from, I am a real scientist. I'm a sort of person that your textbooks in the government school say doesn't exist. A scientist who believes the Bible, but I'm definitely one of them. There a lot of us around. In fact, creation creation ministries hires more PhD scientists than any other Christian ministry. And science itself grew out of a Christian worldview of a divine law maker, a god of order who upholds the creation and also gave us dominion over creation. So we have a duty to try and find out how it works. Now my own work was involved with laser lights and onto selenium ring molecules like these and I published in specialist journals in my time but for the last 30 years or so I've been working with Creation Ministries International. Um you may may also realize I'm not from this country originally. Um so here's a geography lesson. Here is what where I come from. I used to live in New Zealand for a while too. So I've lived in both of those countries. I do have lived in he this country since 2010. Um I I collect passports like you collect stamps. I think I've got three of them now. Three three citizenships. Triple nationality. Now one reason we moved here is because we have two granddaughters who uh live in the states and of course much easier to visit when

they're in the same country rather than 9,000 miles across the ocean as you were. I'm also a chess master sometimes playing from memory. Like here I'm playing these 12 guys. This guy's making my moves for me and telling me what the guy's doing. Uh every square has a letter and number like 8 by8 Excel spreadsheet. That's how you do that. And I play with good people my time. Another thing uh my name is a bit unusual because it's actually a Hebrew name. It's the Hebrew word for Frenchman. Yeah. So but I do believe in Jesus or Yeshua. And one reason is he fulfilled many prophecies of the Hebrew Bible that you know as the Old Testament or in Hebrew Tanakh is a word for the Old Testament and some of those prophecies have an expiration date on them. So only he could have done that. Now a lot of my time these days is spent dealing with this man because you could say he's a patron saint of the religion of the government schools today. The government schools are teaching religion just not the Christian one. They're teaching a religion of evolutionary humanism which says there's no God who made us or who owns us and therefore has the right to make the rules for us and also loves us so he makes rules for our good. Instead uh we can make our own rules and choose our own gender. That's what the government schools are doing. And let's face it, it's it's a it's a problem. If if that's all people hear, they're going to believe what they hear. I mean, after all, you send them to the schools, you're saying they're the experts and they're teaching evolution. That's what they're going to believe because uh 30 hours a week of evolution, one hour a week in Sunday school, if you're lucky, who's going to win? And is any wonder we have a big dropout rate of kids from church homes even because I think it's the one of the

issues is that they think science has disproved the Bible, which of course I don't believe it has. In fact, I'm pretty sure it's the other way around. But if they never hear the issue, what are they going to believe? Now, one place you can do to that will help you neutralize that is our free website, especially now that we started to publish some a lot of free videos. In fact, Dawn, my friend at the book table and colleague uh and I have done a couple of videos ourselves. We did one on on the art shape and size and capacity of the ark, another one on natural selection. So, we've done a few ourselves. Uh but creation.com is where you go with 15,000 articles on it as well. But one way you can be connected and get free newsletters which are very topical like James Web Space Telescope discoveries disproving the secular big bang idea and that's to get our free email newsletter and we're going to have some these clipboards coming around if you don't mind. Thank you Malachi and Co. I appreciate your help. Uh young ladies too. Uh but put your name and your email. It's an email newsletter and we promise not to spam you. We promise not to give your address to any third party. We will prospect your privacy, protect your privacy and also if you put your postcode uh you'll be notified of any creation speakers in your area as well because I'm not the only one. I think we've got a guy coming out not too far from here in a a month's time called Bo who's an ex Air Force pilot. So these are sort of things you get with that. Also in the book table, we're a faithfunded ministry. Our books are part of the way we serve the church and the home by equipping them and going far deeper than I could possibly go in in one hour in the morning. Okay? Uh as well as to take it to other people. I think it's too good to keep to yourself. And one you might like is the Genesis account. It's my commentary on Genesis 1

to 11 800 pages. the only commentary that talks about dinosaurs and design and living things and even uh fossil fuels and uh um the overpopulation myths, but also for instance how all the doctrines of Christianity had their beginnings in the early chapters of Genesis and how Jesus and the apostles understood Genesis. I mean, if we're Christians, we're followers of Jesus and therefore we should have the same view of Genesis as Jesus had, I would have thought. And there's a companion video series too called the Genesis Academy 12-part video series. Good for teaching in Sunday schools, home groups, study groups. So, you asked me some good questions last night. So, I'm going to ask you one now. Isn't that fair? Hope it's a good question. Okay. What was Jesus's first miraculous act recorded in the Gospels? I don't think that's the right answer, though. I'm I'm sorry to say. I don't think that's right. The reason is water into wines. John chapter 2, the wedding of Ka, which is said to be the first sign to his disciples in his earthly ministry. See how it's qualified? But go back uh a chapter right to the beginning of John's gospel. What do we see? In the beginning was the word. The word was with God. The word was God. Who is the word? Indeed, it is. It tells you through him all things were made. Without him, nothing was made that has been made. So you see even before he was born he created the universe. So isn't this the first miracle he did was to create everything. And it's very important because John wrote his gospel to show Jesus is our savior and we can believe in him have eternal life. But he starts off showing Jesus is God and creator. That's a pretty important thing because God spoke through various prophets a long time

before Jesus came and one I think Americans say Isaiah and Australians say and they're both wrong because the Hebrew is yes. God spoke for Yeshua and said I am the Lord which is Jehovah or Yahweh and apart from me there is no savior. So you see the implication if if Jesus is savior he must be God. There's no way around that. But he's also fully man. He's a mediator between God and God and man. So he's both God and man. This is foretold as well by the same prophet. The redeemer will come to Zion to those in Jacob who repent of their sins. Now the Hebrew word go for redeemer means kinsman redeemer. And you can see it's translated as kinsman redeemer in other parts of the Bible like the book of Ruth and you can see the qualifications of the kinsman redeemer. And one of them is that he's related by blood to those whom he redeems. So you get that if Jesus is our kinser and redeemer, he must be our blood relative. So how can this be? Well, let's have a look at two of the gospels that give Jesus's ancestry line, his genealogy. First of all, Matthew's gospel written to Jewish people starts from the first Jew, Abraham, and he goes through to King David. And this line of kings in in yellow ends up with Joseph. And there's a dotted line here because Joseph wasn't the biological father. Uh ma Matthew's tracing the legal adopted and kingly line of Jesus, but Luke takes care of the biological line. Luke's tracing Mary's line. That's why the names are different. And you can tell from the Greek and the context is Mary's line that Luke's dealing with. So Luke goes backwards uh from Mary to King David. Mary's a descendant of King David through a son called Nathan. And then you see back to David, then to Abraham. But Abraham um was didn't drop out of the sky in Genesis 12.

Luke is trying to write to all humanity, not just the Jewish people. And he wants to show Jesus's common humanity. So he actually goes to Abraham's human ancestry which you find in Genesis 11 and Genesis 5. And Luke chapter 3 traces all those names as real historical people not as myths or allegorories or imaginary people. These are all just as real as Abraham and the rest. Abraham son of Terra, son of Nah, etc. to the son of Noah. And then all the way back up to Adam who's called the son of God, not the son of an an eight. You can't mix evolution and the gospels. Adam is a direct creation of God. And he's also the ancestor of Jesus. He's the ancestor of everyone else on earth who ever lived. No matter what race or people group or nationality or ethnic group you come from, you you come from Adam and therefore you can be saved through your kinsman redeemer. That's why we have missionaries like ethnos uh to go to these different people because they all come from Adam. And they stressed this point that all of us come from Adam and therefore we're all related to Jesus. Without a historical Adam, you have to throw out the kinsman redeemer. Now, if Jesus is God, it means what he says is true. And he said things like scripture cannot be broken. And last time I checked, Genesis is part of scripture. He's saying Genesis can't be broken. And he rebutes people for not knowing scripture or believing it or un or understanding it. Like for instance, he rebuked his opponents by saying, "Have you not read what was said to you by God? What you read in the Bible is what God has said to us." So a very clear statement here. Now the Bible is a book of history. You got the theology, the doctrine of God, and you have the morality, what's right to do and what's wrong to do. But they're also connected with the history. You can't separate them.

like marriage clearly a moral teaching but when Jesus was asked about marriage where does he go he go he he says here uh in Mark 10 also Matthew 19 the parallel passage because I mean Jesus a typical Jewish teacher I mean what he said he would have said a hundred times with minor variations that's why you got slight differences in the gospel because he would have said the same thing hundreds of times that's what he did that's what they did in those days but he said here from the beginning of creation God made the male and female male. Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother, hold fast to his wife, the two shall become one flesh. So, what's he quoting here? He's quoting Genesis 1:27 and 2:24 as real history to justify the moral teachings of marriage. Now, there are certain people who claim that Jesus said nothing about gay marriage. uh you find them in some liberal theological cemeteries I mean seminaries but quite clearly he's defining marriage as male and female that's the only type of marriage he recognizes and the only type of marriage that God ordained from the beginning and a man leaves his father and mother because the first man had no father and mother notice it's a two become one flesh not more than two one man and one wife not one man and four wives lives and the two become one flesh because Eve was taken from Adam's flesh. So when you have the history of marriage, all the morality makes perfect sense. Throw out the history, the marriage hasn't got anything to stand on, which is a pretty serious problem, I would have thought. And a bit of science for you is that the rib is the one bone in the in the body that will grow back. modern surgeon discovers at this late 20th century, but the Bible had it right all along, thousands of years before. God knew what bone to take out. So, Adam didn't had to spend his whole life with

a missing rib. Now, what about the gospel? I mean, there are people who tell me, uh, forget about Genesis and Adam and Eve and just preach the gospel. Okay, how about we follow the example of the greatest gospel preacher in history? I don't mean Billy Graham. I mean the apostle Paul. Okay. So, how did he do it? Well, let's look at 1 Corinthians 15, the gospel resurrection chapter in the Bible. And he reminds them of the gospel that he taught them probably 15 years before. This is written about 50 something AD. And he taught them this long before. The earliest Christian creed on record is probably this passage here that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the scriptures, buried on the third day, raised accordance with the scriptures. Okay. So, you got Paul summarizing the gospel in a nutshell, but he doesn't it's not in a vacuum. He says according to the scriptures, it's the foundation of the gospel is the history revealed in the Bible. Now, Paul goes on in this same chapter to explain where sin entered the human race and the consequence of it. So, where do you think he goes? Goes to Genesis 3 and goes to Adam by name. For as by a man came death by a man has come the resurrection of the dead. For as an Adam will die, so in Christ shall all be made alive. This is Paul's gospel, part of Paul's gospel chapter. And he's going back to Adam to say that Adam sinned and brought physical death because God said to Adam, you were made from dust. Now you're going to go back to dust. That's clearly physical death there. That's why Jesus, the third, the second person of the Trinity, he took on human nature so he could live a perfect human life and pay the penalty we deserve. He had no sin of his own to pay for so he could pay for ours. And so he died a physical death on the cross

and said it is finished which in Greek was one word tetellsti which was written on bills of debt to say paid in full. So our sin debt is paid in full form by his death on the cross. But that wasn't the end of it. Because on the third day, Jesus rose from the dead. Physically, he left the tomb empty. The grave clothes wrapped up. The tomb was empty. He appeared to 500 people at once, ate fish, which proved he was who he said he was, and that God had accepted the sacrifice. And Christianity would have been dead on arrival if they could have found Jesus's body. But of course, they never could. All they could do is make up silly stories. One of them you can see in Matthew's gospel. Uh just tell everyone that when you were asleep, the disciples came and sold the body. Well, if you're asleep, you couldn't possibly know that, could you? Okay. So, the resurrection is is a a cornerstone. But Paul links the resurrection of Jesus to the death brought by the first man, Adam. And in fact, he links it even further by going to Genesis chapter 2. It is written, "The first man became a living being. The last Adam became a lifegiving spirit. See first man Adam not he's not one of a whole lot of humans evolving from a whole lot of apeike creatures. He's explicitly called the first man. And he's contrasted with Jesus who is the last Adam. The first man had to be given life. The last Adam comes from heaven to give life. You see? So clearly Paul understood Genesis was history and he expected his readers and hearers to know about Genesis. So it proves the early church was discipled in the book of Genesis. And this is where you find the first prophecy of the Messiah. And the Jews understood this. This is a historical record show the rabbis understood this to be the Messiah. The

doom of the serpent was the offspring of the woman. Now, this is a prophecy of the virginal conception. He's called the the seed of the woman because he has no human father. So, you see how all the doctrines of the of Christianity have their roots in these early Genesis chapters. I use the term virginal conception because it's a conception that was miraculous. The birth was a normal birth. And just to remind us, it's a scientific fact that life begins at conception or fertilization. This is not a religious claim. This is a fact of de of genetic science. Life begins at conception. And the first to rejoice at the coming of the Messiah was the unborn John the Baptist. Very clear teaching that the baby in the womb is a human being worthy of life and protection. >> So the question can arise if there's a God of love, why is there so much death and suffering in the world? Well, I think I've answered the big picture. I mean, I can't answer every the every specific claim, but I think I've given you the big picture is that death wasn't the way God made it. Death is a result of Adam's sin. Now, evolution says it was death that brought man into being, but evolution, but biblical says it was man that brought death into being. So, these two can't be mixed logically. I'm not saying you're not saved if you believe in evolution, but I'm saying there's a huge logical disconnect here. I mean the founding chairman of creation ministry believed this for a long time for decades but he realized he just could not mix these two. So he repented of believing this and just and promised that he'd trust God's word on this picture which is what I would ask everyone to do the same. Now even the millions of years has its problems. And the reason is this picture of the garden of Eden here God said it's very good. In fact seven

times God says the creation is good and the seventh time is very good. Seven's a number of perfection in the Bible. So he's saying nothing bad in the in the finished creation. No death or suffering or evil. Everything's very good. But the millions of years view came about over 200 years ago where certain people decide to reject God's historical revelation and which talks about creation and the flood. They said that we must instead explain the rocks and the fossils by processes we see happening now. They didn't prove it. They just decreed So of course things are happening quite slowly and gradually now. Therefore it would have taken millions of years to form the rocks and the fossils we see. That's where the millions of years came from. The problem is if the if Adam and Eve are standing on these millions of years those rock layers all contain fossils and fossils mean dead things. They also have diseases like gout and osteoporosis and bone cancer which means there's suffering and then apparently all this death and suffering disease is very good. So God says bone cancer is I'd hate to see what very bad is supposed to mean. But see this is the logical outcome. If you have millions of years you're putting death and suffering and bone cancer and infections and and uh uh broken bones and all these sort of things before sin. But the Bible's very clear that these things are the result of Adam's sin. So you also see death is called the last enemy. Again, to have the last enemy as part of God's very good creation. No, that doesn't make sense. Now, this is something happened as an intruder because of sin. You got Romans as well. Sin came into the world through one man. Once again, death and sin through Adam, but it's also righteousness and life through Jesus. Two heads of humanity. And those two heads are contrasted in

one verse in the next chapter. The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord. Very clear over and over again. Death is the result of sin. But all the millions of years and evolution undermine this connection. which means the Bible's being uh torn apart. I've shown you mostly New Testament parts that gets torn up if evolution is true. And this is surely the wrong way, Brown, because the Bible's God's word. Now, people have rebuked me telling me the Bible is not a scientific textbook. And I usually respond, well, thank goodness because textbooks always go out of date. Bible never does. Now, one thing that changed in the cre in the account in in in Genesis with Adam's sin, the ground was cursed. But when you look at the diet of humans and animals, they were created to be planteaters. Absolutely clearly. Now, we are allowed to eat meat. Now, don't worry. We can eat meat. God said we could. After the flood, he said we And Jesus ate meat. He ate the Passover lamb. He ate fish. Okay, so it's not a sin to eat meat. Jesus was totally without sin. He ate meat. Okay, but you see what he says, as I gave you green plants, now I'm giving you the the animals too. Now, here's a just to be clear here, humans began to eat meat after the flood. Animals began to eat meat between the fall and the flood. Humans only after the flood. Okay. Now, one reason is that God cursed the ground, which means that plants were no longer as nutritious as they were. I mean, broccoli is proof of the curse. And you could say my home country is proof of the curse, too. If I can get this like the some of the the worst spiders in the world and the worst most v dangerous snakes in the world and most

dangerous jellyfish in the world. So quite a few things there. But here here's a question for you though. If fossils happened after Adam and Eve, what do you think could have caused them? Well, here's an idea. There are three whole chapters of Genesis that explain that. And Jesus clearly believed it was a real event and Noah was a real person. The ark was a real vessel too. He believed the flood he used as a warning of a future judgment. So I think he he wants us to understand it. In fact, when you look at Genesis, you look at how the language this this universal language all throughout the flood accounts. all the mountains under the whole heavens and everything died. Okay, basically only Noah was left and those on the ark. So clear that the uh that it's a universal flood. There was nowhere to go. That's why he had this huge uh ark built. 340 times the capacity of a semi-tra could hold over 300 sheep. Each each semi-trail can hold 300 sheep over a 100 pounds each. So you got about a 100,000 plus animals the size of the sheep that the ark could hold. And most animals are much smaller than a sheep. And even the big dinosaurs probably went on as before their growth spurts. So what were small while they're on the ark? I talked about that yesterday. So why a local flood makes no sense. Why build this big thing if it's a local flood where you can migrate to? And also, how do you keep a local flood up for a whole year? And then if they want to say the the uh the flood was local to Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, then it would have flowed out to the Indian Ocean. We look at the the land, it slopes down towards the Indian Ocean. How do you get the ark up to the mountains of Ararat in a local flood? It's in the wrong direction. It's

just it makes no sense at all. And think about the rainbow. What does a real rainbow mean? The real rainbow means I'm never going to do this again. Never do what again? This Christian college professor says, "Never do another local flood." But that means God's broken his promise. I don't believe God breaks his promise. We can trust his promises. And he promised never to send another global flood. And I'm going to contrast these two views. This is a quite important. Well, here's the a typical museum view. This picture as as from an Australian high school biology book from my time as a high schooler, and it tells you how a fossil formed under evolutionary ideas. This fishy is swimming along and it dies and it sinks to the bottom of the ocean. And then you see how the mountains get eroded away over thousands of millions of years washing silt into the ocean and burying that fish. And the next layers produced the same way. The mountains are all worn almost flat. That's the evolutionary picture. But let's do some real science, you know, observation and testing. First of all, observation. You've got some water very close by, I understand. go scuba diving and see if you can find fossilizing dead fish on the ocean floor. Hang on. They're saying we should look at process scene that that's supposed to be happening now. Well, where are the fossilizing dead fish happening now? It's not happening now, is it? And also, what happens to a dead fish? Anyone here keep a pet fish when you lose your fish? Where does it go? Where do you find a dead fish? On the surface like this, you mean? Hang on. This picture says fish go down. Hang on. But we know fish go upwards when they die. They float. So already we know this doesn't make sense. You don't need to be a PhD scientist to refute

evolution. Just simple observations like this. And what happens to floating dead fish? Nothing left of it. Right? So here's a better idea. This this is not going to work. I mean this is but something will work. I mean if you want to get a pet goldfish fossilized tip up a cement truck over it. So this is what would happen here. You go with a fishy swim but you in the floods the first cause of the flood was the fountains of the great deep bursting forth. So you're having these huge underwater eruptions producing these giant mudslides going so fast the poor fish he hasn't got a chance to escape. and he's um buried really quickly. A bright young girl yesterday was asking about how quickly the death would happen, but I think it happened quite quickly. A bit of uh medical knowledge here for you. You know, you have your blood pressure measurements, what happens there. They squeeze your upper arm. They squeeze you so hard until the blood doesn't flow. They they can work out your blood's not flowing. That's your upper limit. The systolic pressure is when the blood is too you can't flow anymore. And that's how a constrictor snake kills. It doesn't kill by suffocation. It kills by stopping raising the pressure inside that the blood can't flow and cardiac arrest is caused very very quickly. So it's not suffocation. So you think this this thing here would be quickly um subjected to so much pressure it's its heart would stop. Okay. But it's buried so deeply the scavengers can't get to it. And the mud pulls out some yucky stuff that forms when fish uh when things rot and stops it turning the whole fossil f fossil into mush but also the mud is full of of mineral dissolved minerals and the minerals replace the soft tissues and turn it into stone but keeps the the form very accurate. But the

point is you have to bury it really really quickly under huge amounts of rock of mud and it has to be thick enough so the stuff the the bloating fish want to float when they die, right? So they they bloat and float. So it has to be quite deep to stop this floating bloating through and and and washing out. So deep burial and that's when you get the fossil. And as I mentioned yesterday, some of the fossil bearing layers go across whole continents and even have matching layers in different continents. So it's not just a local thing, but you got these humongous wide layers that go across continents. And here's some examples of fossil that show they had to bury really quickly. Like this ichthyossaur, a reptile version of a dolphin. Mother ichthyossaur. Well, look closely. Here she is giving birth to her baby. So, is this poor creature lying on the ocean floor for millions of years? Slowly giving birth while slowly being covered. I mean, I've heard of long, difficult labor, but really now, what about when you feed your fish? Do they eat quickly or slowly? Quick or slow. What's the answer? I I agree with you. So, what do you think of this picture here? Look closely. In the middle of his lunch, right? Yeah. Imagine you're going to McDonald's for your cholesterol burger. You go chomp and you fossilize in this position. It had to be quick, didn't it? It can't be slow. It had to be quick to produce something like this. And we see these sorts of fossils all over which had to be produced really, really quickly. So, so a lot of different things point to uh the flood. The fossils are one of the biggest proofs of the flood. Another interesting uh issue is the flat layers between rocks. Like you go to the Grand Canyon, it looks

like you're seeing across the rim a whole stack of pancakes. But when you look at the top of a Grand Canyon, you can see how very highly eroded the surface is extremely dra jagged like this. So this is what happens when the surface is exposed. It becomes rough and irregular like this. So how come you got such a flat gap between layers supposed to be 12 million years apart? It looks like no time for erosion between the layers which means there must be very little time between not the 12 million years but very little time. When you think shales are very soft rock as well that'd be very highly eroded if it was exposed but it means it hasn't been exposed very long. So the evidence for the flood is three things. the rapid burial of everything in the huge continentwide layers, but also very little time between the layers as well. But now I want to just have a a break here from the science briefly and explain why I do what I do. And one of the motivations is this uh passage here that if I told you earthly things and you don't believe, how can you believe if I told you heavenly things? And earthly things including the facts of creation and the flood. Heavenly things mean include salvation. And we're supposed to be prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you a reason of the hope that is in you. And that Jesus and the greatest command including loving God with all our minds. Nourish our minds on God's word. Paul tells us to be transformed by renewing our mind. over and over again. But then we get these questions that come up from your kids going to government schools or uh going to the latest movie or whatever is on the television these days and they oh dinosaurs died out 66 million years ago. How could the Bible be right? And if if we all came from Adam and Eve, how do we get different races? And where did Kane get his wife when he

wasn't able? And these are all found in this creation answers book. It's a it's a 60 questions and 20 chapters. In fact, some of the questions last night were actually covered in this book. And it's part of this starter pack which we recommend to start to start off with if you're new to because it has my first book refuting evolution designed to refute the high school biology evolutionary classes and also a free DVD. So, it's a real Jewish bargain. But now I want to get into the issue of design of things. It's interesting that the apostle Paul says that people have no excuse for uh for not believe for for being unbelievers because of what's being made the clear evidence of design all around us. Now I want to give you some examples of design here just to show you what we look for with design. Like for instance this is an airplane. We know this is design. But how do we know? What do we look for to see whether this is designed? Well, one thing, loads of correct components. But you realize an airplane is made up totally of non-flying parts. How do I get back to Florida tomorrow? Well, the answer is they're organized correctly. So, correct components, but also correct organization. And when you have organization, you know there's an organizer. But the evolutionary story can be summarized by matter plus time plus energy produces organization. That summarizes it. So I'm going to test this idea to for try and form an airplane. I got a tornado here to provide the energy. I've got a junkyard of airplane parts to provide the components and I'll give you as much time as you want. Will an airplane happen? You think? Exactly. My next point actually. Very good. Uh what if I told you instead that this picture is a tornado hitting the

airplane and turning it into a junkyard? Is that a better idea? Why? Why is it better? Well, the answer is there are many more ways of being a junkyard than being an airplane. That's it. So, when you have time and energy, you go to the more probable state, which is why you get the junkyard. I mean, think about why you toss a coin hundred times. There's only one way to get all heads or all tails. There are lots of different ways of getting 50 of one and 50 of the other or 51 to 49, but only one way to get all heads, which is why you suspect it'll it's a rigged coin if you see a 100 heads in a row saying that that's the whole point of this. So, it's the the the that the number of possible ways of getting something. I mean, parents, do you ever have to tell your children to mess up their rooms? Well, again, there are many more ways of being messy than being tidy. See how it's a useful principle to understand? Now, compare this to living creatures. Living creatures are unique because they can make copies of themselves. I mean, have you ever seen a jet plane have a baby jet? And even the Boeing factory doesn't make new factories. It doesn't copy itself, but living things copy themselves. Your children are sort of copies of you. Now, your body is made of trillions of microscopic cells. And your cells are continually making copies of themselves, which is why your body can grow and repair injury because you got these self-copying cells. And just as some figures here, um, a man weighing with a 70 kg man which is about 154 pounds has about 30 trillion human cells and 38 trillion bacterial cells inside their large intestine and about 4400 trillion viruses. You need those bacteria and viruses to be healthy. That's the microbiome and the vyro

inside you which you all need. So it's really interesting to see what we have here. Now one interesting thing to think about is canned food. Canned food refutes evolution. Here is the reason. Everything you got all the components of life in your can. It was once living stuff, right? But as long as you sterilize and seal it, it's safe to eat for a long time because no germ is going to form in there to give you food poisoning. Only if you broke the seal, can the germ come in from outside to give you poo poisoning to the point, but as if you leave the can sealed, despite having all the components of life that you could possibly want, no life will form in there. Now evolutions believe that life began in some sort of primordial soup by what they call chemical evolution. But the thing is this is as ideal as situations as you could possibly want is the stuff in the can because most of the comp the components are there already. Chemicals, components, machines are there already but you don't get life forming from there. So how could you get life from some sort of primordial soup? Makes no sense. Real science says life comes only from life. It's called the law of biogenesis. Evolution says life must evolve from non-living non-living chemicals. Now, I'll do one little design thing. I've got a whole talk just on design. It's free on the website if you want it. Um, now in your your cells, the energy source is this stuff here called ATP. Now, you don't have to wor memorize the chemistry if you don't want to. I like chemistry, but you don't have to worry about that. The thing is, your body makes its own weight in ATP every day and consumes it. Cyanide kills you by stopping ATP production. But now we know uh that

this stuff is made by the tiniest motor in the universe. It's not working. Just a minute. Sorry. This animated sequence shows the ATP synthes enzyme in operation. The animation is based on an incredible series of scientific discoveries. Only the colors show artistic license. ATP or adenosine triphosphate is the energy currency of the cell. ATP is produced by a tiny molecular rotary motor rotating at up to 7,000 RPM. These are so small that a 100,000 would fit side by side in a millimeter. A current of protons drives the motor. Unlike man-made electric motors which use electrons, this portion of the enzyme is where adenosine diphosphate is combined with a phosphate ion in the presence of a catalyst to produce ATP which is then released making way for the next cycle. A top view of the enzyme shows the sequential operation. Almost every biochemical process in your body requires ATP. Such a nano machine exhibits all the characteristics of super intelligent design. ATP is vital for life and many of these motors were needed before the first living cell could exist. An evolutionary impossibility. Now, let's get back to our airplane. What would really show design here is finding the instruction manual to build it. And we actually have that living things. We not only have the machines, we have the instruction manual, the famous DNA molecule that stands for definitely no accident. Well, actually deoxxyribboucleic cancer. I do know what it means here, but this is the instruction manual for life. In fact, everything has de every living thing. Viruses aren't living things, but living things have DNA as their instruction. Even the simplest things like the micro plasma has about 600 kilobytes of information, but the data compression software is

amazing because it it generates about 10 times that much when it makes a copy of itself. So to try to to model it on computer, they needed 100 um plus supercomputers running for 9 to 10 hours to model what the simplest thing does. What about the more complicated things? Like we have about 5,000 times as much information as the simplest living thing or about three gigabytes worth. If the information in every one of ourselves was written in paper and ink, it would take a thousand Bible size books of information to write it out. Mind you, only about 200 times the size of the IRS tax code. But the information didn't come from the ink. That's an important thing. Information doesn't come from the ink. It came from the author arranging the ink into letters and words and sentences and paragraphs and also using a language. In the same way, the DNA message doesn't come from the DNA chemistry. It comes from outside as independent. It rides upon the chemistry just the same way as a message of a book rides upon the ink molecules but doesn't come from the ink molecules. And also we need a language because if I give you a gift you're happy right? It'd mean something for free. Now if you were Germans would you be happy? Now a gift in German means poison. In fact I gave these some creation talks back in New Zealand. a German came up to me and said, well, he was when he first came to New Zealand, he was appalled by our Christmas customs trying to poison our families. So, you see how you need the right messages otherwise you get the right language otherwise you get the wrong message. But in fact, DNA is better than a human language because there are about four at least four different languages going on at the same time. So DNA is like a book you can read in English and

German and backwards and every tenth letter. There's so many different languages on the same letters. I mean writing a book is at least human intelligence but writing a book in multi- languages that's that's intelligence way beyond our own. So that's what we have in every living thing. But now I just want to talk about the issue uh of adapt. I promised a bright young lady yesterday that I'll talk about that. You see going evolution goes from simple to complex. Basically this is the summary of evolution from goo to you via the zoo. We start with this primordial soup with zero information. We have the first living cell with say 600 kilobytes. In fact probably much more than that. And then we get up to humans with three gigabytes, which means information is going uphill. That's what we must have to show evolution happening is information going uphill. But what do we actually see? I'll give you an example of dogs. Darwin liked this example uh of dogs. So what I got here on the belly is meant to be a gene. It's a part of a DNA. And this D on the left says make short fur. On the right, it says make long fur. You combine them, you have medium fur. But when these dogs marry and have kids, the kids, they pass on one or the other because you get your information in pairs. One half comes from your mother, one from your father. And when you marry and have kids, you pass on half of yours. Your spouse passes on the other half, which is why the child has a unique new information. So these dogs marry and they have kids. And this pup got a short fur gene from his father and from his mother. You have some which have one of each, like their parents, medium fur. Now, what if they both pass on a long fur gene? What happens? You get long. See, you Darwin says

evolution happening here. I'd say no evolution's happening here because Darwin didn't know genetics. that was a creationist, a monk uh uh living in in what's now Czech Republic, Gregor Mendel discovered genetics and he realized that God had already programmed this v variety into the created kind so they could have lots of varieties. All that genetic variations there to begin with and we're just sorting out what's already there. There's nothing there's no evolution happening here. Same happens with the humans. I mean, people say there are a lot of different human skin colors. I beg to differ about that. I mean, white, sorry. It's all right. Any more white paper, right? Me, I'm not white. See, I'm light brown. Bit of pink, too, because of blood vessels. But the point is, there's really only one uh skin pig main pigment called melanin. And we have different amounts of the same stuff. You see, I don't I just have less of it than some people here. I have a bit more of my hair for the time being. Anyway, um what happens when you get older? In fact, you you have certain en enzymes that don't get produced. And see human we produce hydrogen peroxide as in metabolism and then it's broken by down by the next enzyme. But as you get older that that enzyme breaking down peroxide doesn't work. So you get your hair becomes bleached. So you so that's what happens. The white hair is actually bleached from the hydrogen peroxide that your body produces. Yeah. Okay. But also your eye, different eye colors are caused by different amounts of the same stuff. If you have lots of melanin, your eye, you have dark eyes. If you have a little bit, you have blue eyes because you see the light scattering like the blue sky. It's not because there's blue stuff there. It's because your your your uh iris scatters blue light like the sky does. The point is we had different

amounts of the same stuff. So, I think Adam and Eve had to be medium brown. They couldn't have been white people because you've got black people coming from them. They had to be medium brown to get all the different uh people we see today. And what's what I got here? Capital letter means dark skin. Small letter means light skin. So, capital letter means lots of melanin, dark skin, little bit of melanin, lots of melanin, little bit. So, capital dark, little small letters are light. And see, in one generation, they could have a very light-skinned son, a very dark-skinned daughter, a son who's a bit darker than his parents, a daughter who's a bit fairer than her parents. So, one generation, if if God programmed this variation, the first family ever produced would have had a huge variety. And we see this happening today with these these two girls are twins. Again with the right variety in the parents, you can have a big mixture in the children. And these two girls are also twins. So this is an idea how different so-called races can be produced by Adam and Eve. In fact, there's only one one real race. It's the human race. There's more difference between people of different blood types than different skin shades. If you want a a successful blood transfusion or organ transplant, you have to make sure the blood types are compatible. The skin color doesn't matter. It's the blood type that matters. That's the If you want to divide into races, it makes more sense to divide according to blood groups, not according to skin color. I'm not saying you should divide according to blood. I'm just saying how much more absurd it would be to divide according to skin color. If it's absurd to divide according to blood groups, that's it's called an R4i. How much more silly is it?

That's what it's called. But going back to this these dogs here, imagine they go to the ice age. Who's going to do better in the ice age? Well, obviously the furry ones are protected from the cold. The other ones are going to die of exposure. The only furry ones get to live and pass on their genes. And the only genes they can pass on are these long fur genes. So the next generation, it's all long fur. See, this is natural selection in action. Don't be afraid of it. Creationists discovered variation and adaptation and natural selection before Darwin hijacked it from us. But what's natural selection doing? It's a culling force, not a creative force. It's removing things. It's not adding things. Evolution requires information to be added. And here we have something subtracting information. It's going in the wrong direction for evolution. Not so I don't really like talking about micro and macro evolution because that talks about big versus little. The key issue is not the size but the direction. The direction here is downhill. Things are being removed not added. So these dogs could actually are less able to adapt to a cooler climate in the future because they've lost all the genes for short fur. They're stuck with the long fur. So the only game left for evolution is mutation. Now mutations is a copying mistake. That's what it means. I mean why do you think you have type automatic correction of typos when you're using a computer? Oh, I must the autocorrection has its own problems. I have to admit, but the point is there are again many more ways of getting it wrong than getting it right with a typo. That's why you don't want them. We have amazing error checking machines in our cells to try to stop mutations. They do arise. We live in a fallen world.

TNR stands for totally naked rooster and a bulldog has to be born by C-section. So it's no good in nature and a lot of human diseases are caused by mutations. Sometimes just one letter is wrong and that's all you need and becomes a very serious disease. So let's summarize what I've been talking about here is that evolution requires information to go uphill. But what we see is sorting out what's already present. We see natural selection culling some of that and we see mutations wrecking some of that. But what we don't see is the uphill change that evolution requires. But most of the time you see an example in the textbook or a newspaper of a so-called proof of evolution. What they've shown you is proof of natural selection that creationists didn't dispute before Darwin even. So knocking down a straw man a straw man called fixity is species that says things don't change. But God program species to change. It's he programmed by giving us all this amazing genetic variation in the created kinds. So let's uh have a look at this. There's a famous evolutionist called Richard Dawkins from England. Staunch atheist uses evolution to push his atheism. Although he now for the last 10 or so years he's been claiming to be a cultural Christian because he sees that uh getting rid of Christianity has allowed the influx of something much worse as he puts it. But he's become canceled because he dares to criticize Islam. You can't you criticize Christianity it's fine. You get rewarded. Criticize Islam you get cancelled. Okay. So, anything goes except for Christianity with these people. It seems uh some people. But anyway, Richard Dawkins was asked about this a long time ago. >> Professor Dawkins, can you give an

example of a genetic mutation or an evolutionary process which can be seen to increase the information in the genome? He couldn't answer the qu. He's the leading expert in evolution. He couldn't really work out the question here. And he also said evolution has been observed. It's just that it hasn't been observed while it's happening. But he also admits evolution the Darwin made it possible to be an intellectually fulfilled atheist. He needs evolution as a crutch for his faith. So what are we supposed to do? Well, the Apostle Paul says we demolish arguments and every pretention that sets itself against the knowledge of God, we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. So we're not just and we're not just about bashing evolution or intelligent design. We are unashamedly trying to point that Jesus Christ is our Lord, creator, and Savior. That's what we exist as a ministry for. Now, one way to help this and help yourselves and your families and your outreach is our creation magazine. This is actually comes out uh four times a year. We got other stuff coming as the other months as well. So, monthly you'll get something. But it's been going for uh for almost 50 years this magazine and it goes to over a 100 countries and around the world and you get this these testimonies like this that um a person gave from the magazine and and it undermined his evolutionary faith. He realized he hadn't got a leg to stand on. There must be a creator and therefore how can I become right with my creator. Now every magazine gives a a gospel message. So you got to here is how you become right because he's actually done it all for us. We don't do anything. He has done the things that we need. All we have to do is is believe and trust in him because he's done all the work for us. But here's another one for you that encourages me as a believer

but also to tell my teach my children the truth of creation and to witness. And when it comes to your children, make no mistake, it's not a question of whether to witness to your children, but who is doing the witnessing because someone is witnessing to your children. Make no mistake. So the point is let it to be the right sort of witness. That's why we have these clipboards coming around here. Now remember to mark the X here. Now when you get the clip, please take after you fill it in, please take it with you to Dawn and David who have been very kind to to help me this this weekend get to the book. Don't go away with it. Please come and you'll get you some gifts with with it too. Uh English gifts, not German gifts. >> Okay. Now, do you pass Malachi and Coy and your your your worthy colleagues, pass these around, please. So, so fill this in. Name, address, and the email. The reason for the email address is that it come with a free digital subscription too, which you can give to 500 five people, five people around the world, and they can then uh read on their tablets or iPhones and things and you get the first issue today. subscribe. You get the first issue now, but you pay for two years. You get you get a bulk discount for the two years, but you also get a free book. So, it's a real Jewish bargain this one as well. So, free book with the two-year subscription, but you always get the current issue. So, you can start reading right away. And here's an example. It's a a very attractive thing. People will pick it up because it's attractive. And you get other things as well. Well, I'm doing a uh here's here's a couple of my an article I wrote a while back for this newsletter update. Um is evolution needed for science? Another one, our creationist, real scientists, that sort of thing. And done one recently about the size and shape and capacity of the

ark. One coming on the pitch of the ark. And here's a classic article, how do dating meth methods work? And this is not about how boys meet girls, it's about how old things are. And here's one about how a a fountain is so rich in minerals that it turns teddy bears into stone. You see, you don't need millions of years. You need the right conditions is what you need. So when you have the right conditions, things can happen much more quickly. And every magazine interviews a PhD scientist. If you got kids going to to high school here, every magazine show there are real scientists who believe what I do. And here's about carbon 14 dating. You heard that carbon 14 proves millions of years. Well, no, it disproves it because you diamonds are pure carbon. One thing you realize, you see, the so-called pencil lead is not lead. You can't get their poison from chewing pencils. I don't recommend it, but you can't get their poisoning from it. It's graphite, a soft form of carbon. But diamond is extremely hard form of carbon. It's the hardest substance on Earth, except for the human heart. Anyway, the point is once the the diamonds form, nothing's getting in or out of it. The thing is they're meant to be over a billion years old and yet they have carbon 14 in them. And carbon 14 decays so fast it should be gone in under 100,000 years. So the fact that you have carbon 14 in the diamonds shows they haven't existed even a 100,000 years. They could have existed any time up to that 100,000, but not more billions of years. Uh just forget about it. That's why I have the article here called diamonds a creationist's best friend and those uh these are from creation magazine too those two twins I show I showed you and the ethosaur fossils they are from creation magazine so some of the things

I've been showing you in this talk are from this magazine that's how we do it and we also have kids pages like this series on astronomy I wrote a while back I'm writing a series on the flood I'm almost finished next one I'll be doing is about flights okay that's for kids and And I've had adults tell me they learn a lot of from the kids articles. Happens. I mean often that's the best way to start something. You think of Jeopardy champion James Holtz, one of the greatest Jeopardy player of all time. He says he gets his knowledge by reading lots of kids books on different topics. That's how he does it. And a kids book on astronomy you might like. I'm in the process of almost finishing a high school adult book on astronomy. But for the moment we have a kids book on astronomy. We have various packs. If you're interested in something for for presents, birthday or Christmas presents, these packs might be one way to do it because they're very highly discounted. And we have a family foundations pack. This is quite a good thick book from these are old uh creation magazine articles but but re-edited and updated. And we also have a dinosaur pack which is a very popular one too. So, but for the adults, we have things like biblical biology 101 covering a lot of stuff and more than what I've been talking about. And the adult high school dinosaur book called Titans of the Earth, Sea, and Air. And one of my own favorite books I wrote was called By Design about all the amazing wonders of the design in creation. So, those are some things that you might like. So, I really appreciate you uh giving me your attention. Tonight at 4:00 this afternoon, I'll be talking more in depth about Genesis. Uh why it must be taken as history, more in depth about how the rest of the Bible takes Genesis, a bit about how, when, and how it was written, a bit more in depth about where death

came, where death began for humans and animals and plants, all those. We talk about a few of those things and also having a time for Q&A, too. So, thanks very much again. God, please. Um, so, um, many of you probably don't know this, but back in 2006, my wife and I, we were in Lynchburg, Virginia, and, uh, we were in a creation ministries, um, creation studies class. And one of the things that we were able to do was actually go to Randolph Min Women's College where Dr. Richard Dawkins was giving a presentation. And uh uh Amber, she asked a very simple question. Uh and this question went viral uh on YouTube. I think that's like six million views or something like that. She just asked Dr. Dawkins the simple question, what if you're wrong and uh of course he doesn't listen uh because as Dr. Saridy said, there's uh nothing harder than the human heart. And um I I would encourage you today to consider that if you are not a follower of Jesus Christ, if you do not believe and take the word of God uh at how it presents itself, uh ask yourself that question. What if you're wrong? Because literally all of eternity stakes upon what you will do with Jesus Christ. Do you believe that he is the offspring that was promised in Genesis chapter 3? Do you believe that he actually came to this earth and that he actually died on the cross and that he actually rose again and that he will actually return one day? That's what we believe as a church. Amen. We're going to take a moment and we're going to uh I'm going to pray and the worship team's going to come up and we're going to respond in worship with just an old 90s worship song. You are my all and all. And that's the profession of our hearts. Maybe today you need to trust in the Lord Jesus Christ and you need to turn away from relying on your own understanding and put your trust in

him. I pray that today would be that day. Let's all pray together. Father, we do love you so so much and we thank you for this wonderful presentation. How faith affirming it is uh that you have called us into fellowship with you. And if there's anyone here today that maybe uh they need to turn away uh from believing uh something other than how you have said that the world was made. I pray that today would be that day and we give you the glory for it. Uh maybe today people need to um put their faith and trust in Jesus Christ. Uh we thank you that you are the sacrificial lamb, the one that uh died for our sins. As uh Dr. Saridi said to Telsty, it is finished. paid in full. And I pray that we would uh walk in that freedom that you offer to us. God, thank you for um all that you've done. And we just pray that as we come back at four o'clock that you would keep us all safe uh that we would have a great time and uh uh enjoy the fellowship uh this afternoon. Father, we love you. Thank you for your grace in Jesus name. Amen. Let's all stand and worship together. You are my strength when I am weak. You are the treasure that I seek. You are my all in all. seeking you as a precious jewel. Lord, to give up, I'd be a fool. You are my all in all. Jesus, lamb of God, worthy is your name. Jesus, lamb of God, worthy is your name. Taking my sin, my cross, my shame. Rising again, I bless your name. You are my all it all. When I fall down, you pick me up. When I am dry, you fill my cup. You are my all in all. Jesus, lamb of God,

worthy is your name. Jesus, lamb of God, worthy is your name. Jesus, lamb of God, worthy is your name. Jesus, lamb of God, worthy is your name. >> Romans 16:20, the God of peace will soon crush Satan under your feet. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Go in peace.