 Anyway tonight's about understanding what God has done in our lives and how true he is in spite of the fact that the world seems very very certain of a lie and A lot of lies and they will tell you that you are stupid Okay, in spite of that fact this tonight is about you understanding still just lie and God is still true and Not only is God true in some general sense every single word He says is true 100% and That goes from Genesis 1 1 all the way to the last verse of Revelation 21 22 22. Yeah, that's right Every last word is true. The Bible itself says every word of God is flawless That's what this presentation tonight's on and what I want to help you with tonight if it's been in trouble for you is you might be in a Genesis dilemma because you might be a person who goes to school and gets told everybody knows Evolution happened evolution is a fact evolution is just the way things and you know what if you believe that And you try to couple that with your Christianity. You're gonna have problems. I know I did so that's what this is about tonight, so Let me ask you. Are you facing a Genesis dilemma? Here are some questions you might ask yourself to see if you are Did dinosaurs live before mankind you don't have to answer please don't raise your hand just think about this, right? Were people who lived in caves who use simple tools and did not have Wi-Fi less smart than us Were stars formed before the earth? How about fossils and diamonds and things did it did those take millions of years to form and Is the Bible actually in conflict with science? Think about that a second If you answered yes to any of those questions to that degree you may be facing a Genesis dilemma You may have taken in some of the lies around you and the only reason you believe it is because really smart people told you it Must be true We serve a really smart God He's a lot smarter than the smartest people every single scientist like me has to bow the knee before him everyone and If you're watching on there, I know some of my friends you told me you're gonna be here tonight, and you're not here I'm watching you and You're gonna have to bow to I'm gonna have to bow we all bow before God because he's the greatest He's the king and he knows exactly what he's doing, so This is my I love me wall. All right. This is my college and grad school and PhD diplomas and everything like that And I'm not showing you this to say hey isn't Glenn great. No, that's not it at all I just want you to know not every scientist believes evolution People will tell you oh all the scientists are agreed that evolution happen. That is a lie. I Don't believe it and I can show you hundreds of other people who are scientists to who don't believe it Many of them I know personally many of them taught me what I'm telling you tonight And tonight I'm only gonna get the very little tiny bit of what we're talking about here tonight I really only have a little bit of time, and I'm gonna talk to you first of all about my own personal Genesis dilemma it was ancient starlight You know if the universe is supposed to be like 13.8 billion light years across and a light year takes is how long it light travels in a year That must mean that the universe is at least 13.8 billion years old, and how do you fit that into seven days? 6000 years ago. Oh my word is the Bible true Because I'm a scientist right and I'm taught this is what we believe it's hard for scientists It really is because you're told that everybody believes this and if you don't believe it, you're stupid Okay, and you can't publish something that says I mean something other than evolution is You have to stick with the party line. So it's hard for scientists. This was hard for me You know what I struggled with this for years thinking maybe the Bible is true in the general sense about Genesis maybe it's not exactly 100% you know like everything else is 100% true But the Genesis 1 through 11 we got some problems with that Well a friend of mine. Thank God pointed this out to me that when God created the trees He created them. He's a special Hebrew word that's used that potters use he Barra them that means they created by stretching out and So they weren't he didn't put trees in the ground on day three and 40 years later They were full grown trees. No, he put them in the ground. He stretched them out. He barra them The Bible also says God stretched out the heavens That means one time they were small and then he stretched them out and they became big now Some people might call that the big bang, but what I'm telling you God stretched out the heavens And when he did that's what left behind all this red shift and all that light behind there It didn't take 13.8 billion years to get this big. God did it for me. That was overcoming that Genesis dilemma So if you have one tonight, I hope I'll be able to help you get through that All right, so we only have time today for just a couple of questions first question. That's very important Is the Bible in conflict with science and the second question I want to talk about tonight is what about the millions of years? What about deep time what about billions of years back way back when you know all that stuff You hear it over and over and over again people always tell me well The reason you don't subscribe to evolution is because you don't know very much about it. No, I'm sorry I hear it every single day Every day and so do you You watch TV shows it's on there. It's on commercials. It's all it's on people's t-shirts. It's everywhere. We know a lot about evolution So what about those millions years? Let's start off talking about the scientific method here because I want to show you that the Bible is not in conflict with science Here is the scientific method for operational science This is the method that all scientists use and every time I get in the conflict with Someone who wants to tell me about atheism they try to tell me how the scientific method works is if I hadn't had like 18 years of The school figuring this out myself But here it is. Sorry sarcasm. Sorry. I'm working on this. God be gracious. Thank you You start out with I mean this is a circle you can start out anywhere But let's say you start with a theory you start with an idea of how the universe works and then you test it with an experiment You put the chemicals together it blows up and yay you won but you died Oh anyway, you you have an experiment you can test the results of you can do it over and over and over again And then your friends can do the experiment they can say yeah, he's right or no He's not right under these circumstances That's what it's all about then you observe the results of those experiments You take notes if you go what it says and then you interpret the results of the experiment One little catch this interpretation phase is kind of like wearing a pair of glasses So if you have a pair of glasses If your classes are good you see one thing if your glasses are bad you see another thing So if I have a pair of glasses and I put those on I'm gonna say differently than I saw before so Interpretation is like a pair of glasses that you wear and somebody might say oh no science is absolutely objective. That is baloney Okay, because there have been differences on theories for as long as there's been science Back in the 1860s scientists did not believe that rocks fell from the sky because how could rocks get up there in the first place Right, they didn't understand that meteorites actually were happening And they thought oh there's half the royal Academy of Science kicked people out for believing in meteorites Well, they were wrong because they interpreted it wrong because they had a different interpretation. Everyone has an interpretation So that's operational science. That's how we do that people say well creationism isn't science. Well, guess what? Creationism isn't operational science. It is however forensic science and so is evolutionism Both of them are talking about events that happen in the past just like your murder mystery You can't go back and say hey, could you kill him again so we can see how you did it? You know I can't do that and when you're looking at the beginning of the universe you can't go back and say Let's let's see that one again. Yeah, it's too late So for forensic science, you can't do experiments not in the same way you can for chemistry and physics and all those other things You can't do those experiments You can't repeat it so you have to kind of guess and you guess by looking at what you can see in the universe You make those observations and you can do tests to see if those observations are consistent in their results and stuff like that That's fine, but you're gonna interpret and you're gonna interpret based on something you already believe. I Want you to understand that you always interpret based on something you already believe it might be the Bible It might be something else entirely Might be man's ideas So I want you to understand that the Bible and science are not in conflict Because what's really in conflict is evolutionism and creationism and those that put the ism on the end ism What does the ism mean anyone know what an ism is? It's a belief system It just means I believe in creation or I believe in evolution Creation ism versus evolution ism is the big deal and the glasses you wear here is the glasses based on the Bible God's word that's where I start Someone shouldn't do not listen to someone who says oh well. Can you argue with me about that apart from the Bible? Don't do it Because that's where we start our reasoning from they start the reasoning from there is no God That's a start. I should just as easily come to them and say can you argue that without the belief that there is no God if They could do that Then it would be fair But that's they're not gonna do it. What's even worse is what you believe about the existence of God will determine Even before you start talking about it what you are able to interpret out of what you see Some people are like fish and water who don't know that they're wet I have only I have talked with a lot of atheist evolutionists and people who do not believe the Bible I've only met one lady only one person who was a lady who? Actually was able to admit that she had a worldview ahead of time that she was putting on and saying I'm starting out from the position I'm not believing God every single other one. I've talked to say oh no. I start with the data No, you don't no one starts with the data You start by believing something and you either start by believing God is who he says he is the Bible is what he says He is it is or You start somewhere else and that's why they come to the conclusions They do they don't come to the conclusions because the data tell them what does the data don't tell say anything People talk data doesn't talk. Okay, so how do you know if the set of glasses you're wearing is the right set? Well, I go get good eye doctor. You'll see one of these right and if your glasses make the eye chart look like that Maybe you need to get new glasses All right, if the glad if your glasses make the eye chart look like this then you might be seeing the right thing So this is what C.S. Lewis says about this. I love this quote. I believe in Christianity as I believe the Sun has risen Not only because I see it the Sun But because by it by the Sun I see everything else in other words folks We believe in the Bible because it makes sense of everything Doesn't it? I mean before I really understood how Important that was I didn't understand how the universe fits on why we're here Ask anyone to explain the problem of evil. Why do we have evil in the universe that people are basically good? No one but Christians can explain it Really the Bible makes sense of everything so I want you to understand for us This is not optional the Genesis account is a given we interpret our observations of nature by the Genesis account Not the other way around We don't start and say well that maybe the Genesis account is wrong No, that's our actually our basis and there's actually nothing wrong with having a basis because you look at the eye chart And if the eye chart looks fuzzy if the world looks fuzzy because of your view worldview Then you go and say well, maybe my starting assumptions were wrong But you know what I've looked a long time and I'm very very happy with my starting assumptions And I just get happier all the time not because I don't question them because I do I am a scientist And I do question things all the time and I talk with people and ask them questions and they help me so Just once you understand There's not room For two sets of glasses You do this You won't be able to see Where one set of glasses here's the deal so Can we compromise? Well, can't we just compromise on a literal young day six-day creation young earth creation couldn't gotta just use devolution instead He probably heard these before right can't can't the Bible and evolutionism be both right at the same time You do that You've you've abandoned Genesis to do that you've abandoned God to do that So I just want you to know no you cannot do that This is not possible you cannot fit the millions of years that are required by scientists to make their theories work Because they don't work unless you have millions and billions of years to somehow explain how something so totally impossible as evolution of life could happen You can't fit those millions of years into the Bible. Here's why One day the first day God created light right on the first day Evening in morning when it says the first day day one when it says evening in morning It's talking 24 hours. It's real simple in English Hebrew Russian Spanish you name it whenever you do One day a day one the evening in the morning. That's 24 hours. There was six of them and then arrest That's all you get Okay, Genesis is also a factual story people say oh well Genesis was poetry It was written in a poetic style blah blah blah. This has been actually disproven Statistically they took all the texts in the Bible and lined them up according to whether they were more like poetry or more like Prophecy or more like a factual story that was told for information purposes Guess where Genesis was all the way on the story side being a factual story just a and Abraham climbed the mountains same kind of thing Genesis account of creation is just like it happened. This is how it happened. It's not a poem So Moses did not have some oral tradition that he was passing along he used written documents and he said This is the story of Adam in other words. I'm copying now from Adam's scroll This is the story of Abraham. I'm copying from Abraham's scroll to tell you this he summarized written accounts This is not like the Navajo that have this oral tradition, which is wonderful But no one really knows exactly where it came from Thousands of years past no he had or he had a written tradition from people who actually were their eyewitnesses all the way back to the very beginning so Genesis in that oral tradition or in that in that written tradition Records the family tree of humanity with the ages of people and how old they were when they had kids So if you add all those numbers up and you go all the way up to secularly recorded history You can get about 6,000 years. You can't get much more So That's all you get 6,000 years if you believe in the Bible and say I believe the Bible. Oh, yeah I believe the Bible. We say that every Sunday. This is what you believe you can't get out of it Please don't try because if you do you're just gonna be wearing two pairs of glasses and making a fool of yourself If creation took long ages millions of years, this is really important get this, please Then that means that for millions of years people things animals people whatever were suffering dying being sick and Sin hadn't even come into the world and the Bible says sin death came in the world through sin That negates the gospel You can't do that and be a Christian So this is important if you don't believe Genesis 1 1 what will you think about John 3 16? If you decide to disagree with God on Genesis on a creation, what will you think about Jesus? We just say well, you know God that Genesis things wrong, but I get you on Jesus I'm all the way with you. No, you can't do that. This is a whole thing. It all fits together So we have to be together on this so if you do believe the Bible How are you gonna answer these really smart-sounding people who have these degrees and stuff like that who tell you well actually the Universe is 13.8 billion years old and the earth is four billion years old and there's Dinosaurs were 65 million years ago and all this other stuff that they are basically making up because other people told them Because they have to fit their theories in the amount of time they have available Don't they have some kind of proof of this? Well, it's called radioactive radiometric dating And that's a long word and I'm not going to go into details about it But I'm gonna talk about one kind of radioactive metric dating who here's heard of carbon dating Anyone heard carbon dating right anyone ever have been have someone tell you carbon dating proves that the world is millions of years old And this is complete and utter bunk. Let me tell you why this is a carbon dating can be used to estimate the ages of Living things things that had lived it can't be used to show rocks Because rocks don't breathe and I'll show you how that works here. Here's what here's the way it works We're up high above the earth now and high above the earth We have carbon 14. This is nitrogen it gets struck by this high energy radiation up up in the heavens above the atmosphere Sorry, this is technical bear with me. It'll be fun. All right That gives us carbon 14. It's radioactive. You can detect it. All right So carbon 14 there's a lot of it up there and it just get gets struck by a radiation and it turns into carbon 14 And then that stuff falls down to the earth and then as it falls to the earth there we go It gets absorbed by plants and animals eat the plants and So carbon 14 gets into living things. No rocks eat grass So no rocks that don't come didn't come from animals have carbon 14. And does that make sense? It has to have been living It has to breathe once it breathes it gets carbon 14 in it. What happens when it dies? It stops breathing. All right, so it stops collecting carbon 14 so now if the flood comes along which it did gets buried up and This tree Turns into coal the carbon 14 is still in it only here's the interesting thing Over time about every 5700 years half of it goes back to nitrogen Again, so now we can now we have a clock. We can say okay How much carbon for if you know how much carbon 14 was there in the first place and You know how fast it goes and that that speed has stayed the same over history then you have a clock We don't actually have that that good of a clock after after all because we don't know all those things for sure But people rely on that that clock. That's what carbon dating is That's how it works. Now get this this is kind of fun. What happens to coal? Well, some of it Gets pressed down into diamonds diamonds are very hard It's the hardest thing known to man hardest natural substance known to man So if diamonds have that carbon 14 in them and They do How can they be billions of years old or millions of years old? Can't happen Now people will I've read articles saying well the creationists are making this up because they don't use pseudoscience blah blah blah blah blah blah and they talk on on and on eventually they say well The diamonds got corrupted or the labs corrupt the samples Okay, you can say that but then that you have to say that's also true of your samples that you submit that say They're millions of years old. I'm sorry. You can't have it both ways. You have to be consistent here So how can they possibly say this? It's because they have to believe they have to have millions of years if they don't have millions of years Then their theories cannot know what believe that life comes out of nothing We stopped believing that in the Middle Ages But if you have millions of millions of years, maybe you'll believe that lie. That's though. That's the hope anyway All right, so how about fossils? How are fossils formed? Everyone knows it takes millions of years to form fossils right millions of years Well, let's look at that. Maybe not here's some graphics. I got from answers in Genesis calm Which by the way if you like creation science go to answers and Genesis calm very easy to understand ask any question They have all kinds of answers there So this is what you probably heard the fish dies falls to the bottom of the ocean gets covered up with stuff eventually and becomes a Fossil now how many of you have thrown out a chicken wing and it became fossilized See let's say a bird dies in your yard and it becomes fossilized right a Fish dies in your aquarium and it becomes a fossil right No, this is not happened. This is what happens the fish dies other fish have a feast the fish falls apart no fossil Nothing left. That's what happens when things die the normal way But what we say and we believe in the Genesis flood It's in there and what happened is you know this poor fish this woman around and all of a sudden wham It gets hit with hundreds of tons of rock from volcanic explosions and from the earth being torn apart of the seams And it gets covered up in all this sediment and there there's nothing to eat it Nothing's gonna gonna get in that fish and stop it that fish stays there a perfect replica of what it was when it was alive And get this it happened so fast that this fish did not get to finish his supper in Very act of eating another fish that fish So that happened fast He didn't choke on the fish and then sort of slow that slowly fall He died and look once you notice the fins when you catch a fish are the fins open like that They always close because it's a muscle that would cause causes those fins to come up The only way those fins stay up is if they get buried like wham right away so You can see Fossils don't take millions of years to form if they did How would you get fossilized raindrops? These are raindrops They stayed around that the surface of the earth for millions of years while they hardened and earth cooled and then no Raindrops It doesn't happen that way They were immediately covered with ash and sediment because of all the incredible things that were happening in the flood and post flood And they got even though raindrops are very very fragile those raindrops got preserved just like this fish got preserved Amazing it happens very very quickly So don't be afraid of when people say this sort of thing Evolution also has some problems of its own and there's a lot of them and you know I've talked with evolutionists about them everything I'm going to tell you now if you tell this to an evolutionist they'll pull up a website Which there's plenty of them they'll pull up a website and say see no this creation science is wrong because of blah blah blah They can argue all day long and this is how it usually goes well Evolution is wrong on this point evolution is wrong on this point evolution is wrong on this point Well, no, I don't know the answer to that question Evolution is wrong on this point. Oh, but back there that one thing you didn't know the answer to that's why creationism is wrong It happens all the time. We get nitpicked to death. Don't argue with evolutionists. Love them They're lost Love them Right, don't don't feel like you got to correct them. I have a friend who's like somebody's wrong on the internet Well, you know We're all we're all wrong, right? We did we all make mistakes and don't fix them love them When you talk to them Don't don't try to show them how much better you are than them and and don't let it get all insulted when they tell you You're stupid. You know what? They're the ones who are in trouble not you So let's love them because they need Jesus They need Jesus. We all need Jesus. So here's some problems with evolution The fossil record supports evolution because Evolution is a fact because the fossil record supports evolution because evolution is a fact because the fossil record I you know if you get an argument is long enough you start to see these circles They could argue for a long long time in a circle around and they come back to a world It's actually because of because of the thing I started with here's another one We know the fossils are old because we know how old the rocks are because we know how old the fossils in those rocks are Because we know how old the fossils are because we know how old the rocks are because we know and it's very very common to date fossils By rocks and rocks by fossils. I even a friend of mine is other Mike out there And I wouldn't we were gonna submit a sample and see how it was done and they actually ask you how old were the Rocks near the sample that you were gonna gonna do can you guys give us a hint because we want it anyway Very common thing to be done Some other real quick problems here. This is a rule. This is about a hundred and sixty years old Why isn't the sea already saturated with salt this the water of rain comes off the continents and goes into the sea The sea doesn't have salt on while it does allow a little bit, but it comes mostly from the continents It should be full of salt by now if the earth is four billion years old If you're really really generous with it and say okay at the maximum rate of Change and stuff like that all that you can get 62 million years out of it Maybe but not for billion years. It just doesn't work that way Here's another one. How come the moon isn't further away? It should be at least three times further way than it is because the okay, you may not know this I'm sorry. The moon is going away. It's about an inch and a half a year But it's slowly going away if you go back in time far enough It should have been on the surface of the earth if you have if you use that the deep time They're talking about it should be about three times further away than it is since it's not That means that if you play time backwards, it would have been on the surface of the earth and that would not have worked Well, so how come it's not further away? Well, the reason is because it's not that old Sorry How okay? We all breathe turns out it's really convenient for life to breathe you hear about Silicone-based life forms in science it doesn't look at your chemistry Carbon is the way to go. It's like magic and it carbon-based life forms need oxygen So if they tell us that we were the the first life formed in the reducing atmosphere where there's no oxygen A nice little warm little pool where those nitrogen all this other stuff No life cannot form without oxygen it needs to respire in order to work And if you have oxygen you immediately destroy DNA People I say oh well DNA came first. Well, maybe RNA came first actually and then we well if you have any oxygen It gets destroyed if you don't have any oxygen. It can't make anything. So which is it? Either way you're wrong. How about in the beginning God created? How about that works for me? You've probably heard there's blood in Late 90s in t-rex bones 65 million-year-old t-rex bones. Okay, maybe they're 65 million years old How did they I mean if you had a 65 million-year-old steak would it still be stretchy? Let's say you put it in their fridge for 65 million years. Let's say you put it in the fridge for 500 years 65 million years so what was the answer? Oh wow we must have been wrong about our dates No, the answer is wow somehow blood and connective tissue must be able to stay flexible for 65 million years How is that amazing? They have to have the lie. Do you see why you need to love them? It's not that they're stupid. They are not they are very smart people Most of the evolutionists I know are much smarter than me. They have degrees. They understand this. They're good at arguing They are lost and lost as lost as they can possibly be without Jesus. They do not need us to argue with them All I'm telling you this for is so that you won't feel stupid and let the way you feel about yourself Govern what you believe because it's not true What is true about you? Whatever God says That's what's true about you Not what anybody tells you okay. I'm way out of time here evolution is seem very certain so Honestly, there's lots of people who will admit that there are problems with the models But they always appeal to some future time. You know what that's a faith statement in the future People who are less informed say oh evolution has already been proven, but that's just ignorance They don't know there's problems and if Christians and creationists say hey the secular scientists said there's a problem with their models Guess what they get bashed. That's not science. That's just Being ugly So don't expect this thing to be fair a lot of the criticism you get is name-calling I get it too I have good friends who aren't we don't name-call or anything like that because we're respectful relationship But it will happen to you you'll be in a conversation with someone suddenly they find it you believe the Bible You suddenly become very stupid it happens. It's happened to me I want you to understand this is the cost of discipleship if you would like to Be a disciple you got to be prepared to be faithful even when you get treated unfairly So this is why I'm telling you all this stuff. I say this so that no one will deceive you someone say deceive you With persuasive but thoroughly deceptive arguments see to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and someone say empty deception Empty deception pseudo intellectual babble. I love that according to the traditions and musings of what? mere men Following the elementary principles of this world rather than following the what truth the teachings of Christ and here's another one My goal is that you may be encouraged in heart united in love so that you may have the full riches of what? Complete understanding in order that you may know the mystery of God namely Christ in and we're hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge so Why look anywhere else? I'm out of time. I hope this isn't has improved your faith. Remember one set of glasses Don't believe everything you're told