1 00:00:00,200 --> 00:00:03,760 Last week we spent some time in science. 2 00:00:06,560 --> 00:00:10,520 This week, guess what? We're going to do the same 3 00:00:10,520 --> 00:00:19,210 thing. All parents know the value of 4 00:00:19,210 --> 00:00:23,530 the great zoo. When we lived in the Bay, one of 5 00:00:23,530 --> 00:00:27,410 our favorite things to do was to go to the San Francisco Zoo. 6 00:00:27,930 --> 00:00:30,810 It's obviously great for the kids getting to see live 7 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:34,400 animals, but it was also cool for us parents as well. 8 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:36,840 Right? I don't know about you, but I 9 00:00:36,840 --> 00:00:41,560 don't usually get to see tigers in my normal goings on of life 10 00:00:41,560 --> 00:00:44,280 throughout the day. Perhaps you do, I don't. 11 00:00:45,520 --> 00:00:50,040 Polar bears definitely don't get to see those huge snakes. 12 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:55,480 I think they're super cool. Other members of my family might 13 00:00:55,480 --> 00:00:59,240 not necessarily agree with me, but I think they're cool. 14 00:01:00,360 --> 00:01:05,080 All the different animals serve as a reminder of how creative 15 00:01:05,319 --> 00:01:09,120 God is. Now, as we begin this morning, 16 00:01:09,360 --> 00:01:12,440 it's important to remind ourselves of what has brought us 17 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,080 to this point. Days one through 3 of creation 18 00:01:16,080 --> 00:01:21,080 set the framework for creation. On day one, God created the 19 00:01:21,080 --> 00:01:23,720 lights. On day 2, God created the skies 20 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:27,560 by separating the waters above the earth from the waters below 21 00:01:27,640 --> 00:01:30,240 on the earth. Then came the last piece of the 22 00:01:30,240 --> 00:01:33,280 frame. On day three, God created dry 23 00:01:33,280 --> 00:01:39,240 land, vegetation, and trees. Last week we looked at day four 24 00:01:39,240 --> 00:01:42,520 and how how God created the sun, moon, and the stars. 25 00:01:42,520 --> 00:01:45,160 Naturally, that brings us to day 5. 26 00:01:45,560 --> 00:01:50,480 So this morning we'll cover 1 1/2 days, day five, and then the 27 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:56,600 first half of day 6. So if you're able, would you 28 00:01:56,600 --> 00:02:00,520 stand as we read from Genesis chapter 1? 29 00:02:01,280 --> 00:02:03,640 I guess I probably should have reminded you to turn to Genesis 30 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:07,680 1, but I think we know where we are right next week. 31 00:02:07,680 --> 00:02:11,520 We'll still be in Genesis chapter 1, but we will finish. 32 00:02:11,600 --> 00:02:16,240 I think we'll finish chapter 1 next week reading at verse 20. 33 00:02:17,680 --> 00:02:20,840 And God said, let the waters swarm with swarms of living 34 00:02:20,840 --> 00:02:24,040 creatures, and let birds fly above the earth, across the 35 00:02:24,040 --> 00:02:27,600 expanse of the heavens. So God created the great sea 36 00:02:27,600 --> 00:02:30,960 creatures and every living creature that moves, with which 37 00:02:30,960 --> 00:02:34,120 the waters swarm according to their kinds, and every winged 38 00:02:34,120 --> 00:02:37,960 bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good 39 00:02:38,360 --> 00:02:41,360 that God bless them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply and fill 40 00:02:41,360 --> 00:02:44,160 the waters and the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. 41 00:02:44,480 --> 00:02:46,960 There was evening and there was morning the 5th day. 42 00:02:47,600 --> 00:02:50,160 And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures 43 00:02:50,160 --> 00:02:53,280 according to their kinds, livestock and creeping things, 44 00:02:53,280 --> 00:02:55,600 and beasts of the earth according to their kinds. 45 00:02:55,600 --> 00:02:58,320 And it was so. And God made the beasts of the 46 00:02:58,320 --> 00:03:00,560 earth according to their kinds, and the livestock according to 47 00:03:00,560 --> 00:03:04,120 their kinds, and everything that creeps on the ground according 48 00:03:04,120 --> 00:03:07,560 to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 49 00:03:08,000 --> 00:03:16,240 You may be seated. Day 2's framework creation of 50 00:03:16,240 --> 00:03:20,240 the skies and the seas corresponds to to what we're 51 00:03:20,240 --> 00:03:25,800 looking at here is day five and filling these areas as we begin 52 00:03:25,800 --> 00:03:29,400 this morning, we start with filling the waters. 53 00:03:32,280 --> 00:03:37,640 God said, let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures. 54 00:03:38,280 --> 00:03:42,360 God spoke commanding the waters to be filled with inhabitants. 55 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:45,920 Then verse 21 picks up. So God created the great sea 56 00:03:45,920 --> 00:03:48,560 creatures and every living creature that moves with which 57 00:03:48,560 --> 00:03:50,960 the waters swarm according to their kinds. 58 00:03:51,360 --> 00:03:54,400 God spoke into the world and he commanded the sea creatures to 59 00:03:54,400 --> 00:03:55,880 be created. And it was. 60 00:03:55,880 --> 00:04:02,920 So here again Moses uses the word burrah to speak to God's 61 00:04:02,920 --> 00:04:06,000 creative act. Last week. 62 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:11,280 When God made the sun, moon and stars, he, he Assad them. 63 00:04:11,440 --> 00:04:15,600 He, he made and formed the star stars out of the raw material of 64 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:22,000 light that was already on hand. But as God now continues with 65 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:28,080 creation, he he is barying. He is, he is creating something 66 00:04:28,600 --> 00:04:32,960 out of nothing. There's no life existent before 67 00:04:32,960 --> 00:04:36,200 this moment. Now sure, we we think of 68 00:04:36,200 --> 00:04:39,720 vegetation as being alive, but the way that vegetation is alive 69 00:04:39,720 --> 00:04:44,480 is a is a wholly different form of life than living, moving 70 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:48,240 creatures. The word for these living 71 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:52,240 creatures is is nephesh. And then this word is often 72 00:04:52,240 --> 00:04:57,960 translated as soul, but it actually means throat or neck. 73 00:04:59,520 --> 00:05:04,240 Living creatures are nepheshes. You will hear people say. 74 00:05:04,240 --> 00:05:07,920 Oh living living creatures, we have a soul. 75 00:05:08,360 --> 00:05:13,840 Actually we are a nephesh. We are, we are a soul. 76 00:05:13,840 --> 00:05:18,480 We are, we are throats if we take it literally is what it 77 00:05:18,480 --> 00:05:21,520 means. We breathe air through our 78 00:05:21,520 --> 00:05:25,360 throats, if you will. Sure, sea life doesn't breathe 79 00:05:25,360 --> 00:05:29,880 in the proper sense that that we breathe, but they still breathe 80 00:05:29,880 --> 00:05:34,120 and take in oxygen. When nephesh is used, it speaks 81 00:05:34,120 --> 00:05:36,240 of life. That which breathe in breathes, 82 00:05:36,240 --> 00:05:39,240 and it refers to both animals and to humans. 83 00:05:39,760 --> 00:05:47,280 All living beings are nepheshes. So here, on the 5th day, in a 84 00:05:47,280 --> 00:05:54,160 single moment, God creates fish. In general, the these fish are 85 00:05:54,160 --> 00:05:56,400 said to be swarms of living creatures. 86 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:00,800 Big, small, weird, highly unusual saltwater freshwater. 87 00:06:01,120 --> 00:06:06,080 God created them all. On day five, let the waters 88 00:06:06,080 --> 00:06:08,040 swarm with swarms of living creatures. 89 00:06:08,640 --> 00:06:13,040 That word swarm speaks to an innumerable number of creatures 90 00:06:13,040 --> 00:06:17,000 that, at God's command, filled the waters. 91 00:06:17,680 --> 00:06:20,560 All the fish and sea life created that day could not be 92 00:06:20,560 --> 00:06:22,840 numbered. There were swarms of them. 93 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:26,280 I'm sure you've seen videos of large schools of fish. 94 00:06:26,560 --> 00:06:30,720 The whole school moves in unison together as and as they do. 95 00:06:30,720 --> 00:06:33,520 You find yourself in awe of, first of all, how do they do 96 00:06:33,520 --> 00:06:35,120 this? Like they all just instantly 97 00:06:35,120 --> 00:06:38,480 move. And the fact that often times 98 00:06:38,480 --> 00:06:41,760 there are so many you can't even begin to count them. 99 00:06:42,840 --> 00:06:47,080 And it's interesting. It occurred to me that it's 100 00:06:47,080 --> 00:06:49,120 essentially saying you can't count the fish. 101 00:06:49,840 --> 00:06:54,920 But last week we talked about how God counted and named every 102 00:06:55,000 --> 00:06:58,880 single star, which is absolutely amazing to me. 103 00:06:59,880 --> 00:07:02,520 But here he's like, oh, there's way too many, don't even try. 104 00:07:03,360 --> 00:07:05,440 You know you're not going to count all the fish stars. 105 00:07:05,440 --> 00:07:08,280 Sure head sure, go ahead, try to count them fish, don't bother. 106 00:07:09,080 --> 00:07:11,760 Now you could estimate how many there are, but good luck trying 107 00:07:11,760 --> 00:07:17,480 to ascertain each individual fish that is out there in the 108 00:07:17,480 --> 00:07:18,640 world. Now. 109 00:07:18,640 --> 00:07:23,280 What are some examples of fish? Now as Iowans, we're familiar 110 00:07:23,280 --> 00:07:27,360 with catfish and and trout, maybe even some northern or 111 00:07:27,360 --> 00:07:30,120 muskie. But let's let's consider some 112 00:07:30,440 --> 00:07:35,200 some different kinds of fish. First of all, there's the 113 00:07:35,200 --> 00:07:37,240 archerfish. This is great for the kids 114 00:07:37,240 --> 00:07:41,320 hopefully and adults too, but hopefully the kids appreciate 115 00:07:41,320 --> 00:07:43,880 this. The archerfish is a predatory 116 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:49,400 fish that preys on land insects. It has a special mouth that 117 00:07:49,400 --> 00:07:53,360 allows it to shoot out a jet of water, and they are quite 118 00:07:53,360 --> 00:07:56,920 accurate with these streams of water and can shoot up to 10 119 00:07:56,920 --> 00:08:04,360 feet above the water's surface. And adults mostly hit their 120 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,840 target on the first try. Think about this. 121 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,240 First of all, they're doing something really cool for a 122 00:08:11,240 --> 00:08:14,720 fish. Secondly, their eyes have to 123 00:08:14,720 --> 00:08:18,280 account for the refraction of lights as it passes through not 124 00:08:18,280 --> 00:08:22,440 only air, but then the the light also passes through water. 125 00:08:22,760 --> 00:08:26,200 Once the Archer fish has a victim in its sights, it rotates 126 00:08:26,200 --> 00:08:29,960 its eyes a certain way. Its lips just break the surface 127 00:08:29,960 --> 00:08:32,919 as it squeezes its tongue against the roof of the roof of 128 00:08:33,280 --> 00:08:39,080 the grooved roof of its mouth, and that causes the water to 129 00:08:39,080 --> 00:08:43,799 shoot out and hit the target. Pretty crazy, huh? 130 00:08:45,040 --> 00:08:47,160 It's a fish. They're not supposed to do this. 131 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:52,040 Then there's electric eels. These things are ugly. 132 00:08:54,680 --> 00:08:59,080 Despite their name, they're actually not eels. 133 00:08:59,400 --> 00:09:02,120 They're actually more related to catfish. 134 00:09:02,840 --> 00:09:06,360 But first of all, they're unique in that they come to the surface 135 00:09:06,680 --> 00:09:09,720 several times an hour to breathe. 136 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:14,920 They get their oxygen from the air, not through their gills. 137 00:09:15,720 --> 00:09:20,080 Then of course, on top of that, they're electric, right? 138 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,120 How electric? Well, their shocks, their shock 139 00:09:25,120 --> 00:09:31,960 can be up to 860 volts. I would like to tell you 50 140 00:09:31,960 --> 00:09:37,760 volts is considered dangerous, potentially harmful to us. 141 00:09:39,040 --> 00:09:47,680 The the the outlet in your wall is 120 but these are 7 times 142 00:09:48,320 --> 00:09:52,680 carry 7 times the voltage of what's in our wall. 143 00:09:53,760 --> 00:09:59,120 That's crazy. Now God seems to have another 144 00:09:59,120 --> 00:10:04,360 category of marine life and mind as well as verse 21 says, God 145 00:10:04,360 --> 00:10:10,920 created great sea creatures. These great sea creatures have 146 00:10:10,920 --> 00:10:15,600 been the subject of much speculation and imagination over 147 00:10:15,600 --> 00:10:18,040 the centuries. What were they? 148 00:10:18,720 --> 00:10:21,320 Do they exist now? What might they have looked 149 00:10:21,320 --> 00:10:24,840 like? Of course we have monstrous blue 150 00:10:24,840 --> 00:10:28,680 whales that that can measure up to 100 feet long and weigh in at 151 00:10:28,680 --> 00:10:33,480 nearly 200 tons. But the thought is that these 152 00:10:33,480 --> 00:10:35,680 great sea creatures are something different and 153 00:10:35,920 --> 00:10:39,680 specific, and they're on a completely different level, 154 00:10:40,040 --> 00:10:43,520 making them worthy to be called out specifically in the text. 155 00:10:45,000 --> 00:10:49,440 The word used here is is tannin, and I'm intrigued by the fact 156 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:53,000 that the ESP translation committee chose to translate the 157 00:10:53,000 --> 00:11:00,200 word tannin as a creature. Because you see, a tannin is 158 00:11:00,200 --> 00:11:04,680 more than just a creature. The word tanin appears 14 times 159 00:11:04,680 --> 00:11:10,680 in scripture and it's translated as sea monster, sea dragon, 160 00:11:11,280 --> 00:11:14,480 dragon, occasionally as a serpent. 161 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,600 Most of the time, tanin is used to refer to something big and 162 00:11:20,720 --> 00:11:25,040 and practically otherworldly and beyond our imagination. 163 00:11:25,920 --> 00:11:29,520 It's best to understand the tanin as some sort of huge sea 164 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:31,600 monster. Isn't this cool? 165 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:33,400 Like I think this is awesome stuff. 166 00:11:33,960 --> 00:11:37,400 In Job seven, Job is talking with God and and in verse 12, 167 00:11:37,400 --> 00:11:43,360 Job says, am I the sea or a or a sea monster, a Teneen that you 168 00:11:43,360 --> 00:11:47,120 set a guard over me. Job is saying, am I really that 169 00:11:47,120 --> 00:11:50,640 large, that powerful that you allow so much suffering in my 170 00:11:50,640 --> 00:11:55,640 life to to buffer me? I'm not, I'm not a sea monster, 171 00:11:55,640 --> 00:12:00,440 is what he's saying. Ancient Egyptian and 172 00:12:00,600 --> 00:12:04,320 Mesopotamian mythology had fantastic tales about sea 173 00:12:04,320 --> 00:12:05,880 creatures. And these creatures were 174 00:12:05,880 --> 00:12:11,600 considered gods and, and of course they feared the the 175 00:12:11,600 --> 00:12:14,960 people feared these gods and these sea creatures, They were 176 00:12:14,960 --> 00:12:20,480 the embodiments of evil. The Hebrew people knew about 177 00:12:20,480 --> 00:12:24,240 these sea monsters, and they considered them the epitome of 178 00:12:24,280 --> 00:12:29,760 all chaos. And God is here saying the 179 00:12:29,760 --> 00:12:33,400 tannin. I created that, too. 180 00:12:35,000 --> 00:12:38,800 And I can't help but wonder if maybe Captain Ahab might have 181 00:12:38,800 --> 00:12:45,000 even experienced A tannin, you know, in Moby Dick, right? 182 00:12:45,680 --> 00:12:47,440 That didn't fly over everybody's heads, did it? 183 00:12:47,840 --> 00:12:49,480 A few people got it. OK OK. 184 00:12:51,760 --> 00:12:55,520 Although when I hear Captain Ahab, I think of Veggie Tales 185 00:12:58,040 --> 00:13:06,560 with Captain Ahab's Moby Blaster in Jonah in verse 20. 186 00:13:07,680 --> 00:13:10,720 In verse 20, God commanded not only the waters to be filled, 187 00:13:11,080 --> 00:13:14,000 but he also said let birds fly above the earth across the 188 00:13:14,000 --> 00:13:18,320 expanse of the heavens. So here God was filling the 189 00:13:18,320 --> 00:13:25,160 skies with birds. God fills the skies with birds. 190 00:13:28,240 --> 00:13:36,040 Now when we were praying this morning, Paul prayed and 191 00:13:36,040 --> 00:13:39,600 mentioned, oh, the answers that I would bring for Genesis. 192 00:13:39,600 --> 00:13:41,720 And he said maybe you would also have some questions. 193 00:13:41,920 --> 00:13:45,440 I got lots of questions. When we come to creation, 194 00:13:45,560 --> 00:13:49,160 sometimes I wonder what happened as as I've said, it's important 195 00:13:49,160 --> 00:13:53,000 for us first of all to remember Genesis was written from their 196 00:13:53,000 --> 00:13:57,320 perspective of the world and not our 21st century scientific 197 00:13:57,320 --> 00:13:59,000 knowledge. They didn't have all the 198 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:01,680 categories and and phyla that we now have. 199 00:14:02,480 --> 00:14:08,720 But technically speaking, birds have wings, feathers, beaks and 200 00:14:08,720 --> 00:14:13,760 they lay eggs. So we're bats created on this 201 00:14:13,760 --> 00:14:16,840 day as well. Bats don't have feathers, they 202 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:18,800 have fur. They give birth to live young 203 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,320 and nurse them, since they're actually mammals. 204 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:26,920 But they do fly, of course, so they can fill the sky. 205 00:14:27,640 --> 00:14:29,920 Were they created on this day or on day six? 206 00:14:30,400 --> 00:14:33,400 What about ostriches, emus and Penguins? 207 00:14:34,840 --> 00:14:38,120 They don't fly, they're incapable of filling the sky. 208 00:14:38,120 --> 00:14:41,880 But they certainly are birds, right? 209 00:14:42,680 --> 00:14:46,720 And then there's insects. They don't fit all the 210 00:14:46,720 --> 00:14:52,080 descriptions, but they can fly some of them, which can be scary 211 00:14:52,080 --> 00:14:56,000 when things are flying at you. I'm going to guess maybe they 212 00:14:56,000 --> 00:14:58,080 were created on Day 6. I don't know. 213 00:14:58,160 --> 00:15:00,880 I have lots of questions. I have so many questions, 214 00:15:00,880 --> 00:15:02,880 especially as I've been doing all this research and stuff. 215 00:15:03,200 --> 00:15:07,720 I just have so many questions. They won't get answered until 216 00:15:08,360 --> 00:15:13,880 the other side of this world. Now I'm going to be speak very 217 00:15:13,880 --> 00:15:16,240 strongly against evolution this morning. 218 00:15:17,400 --> 00:15:20,760 I understand that in a room with this many people, there may be 219 00:15:20,760 --> 00:15:25,280 some people who hold to an evolutionary perspective. 220 00:15:28,080 --> 00:15:33,720 I hold to God's Word as supreme. And so it is the authority in my 221 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:36,000 life should be the authority in our lives. 222 00:15:36,480 --> 00:15:40,480 And so I will speak very strongly against evolution this 223 00:15:40,480 --> 00:15:43,560 morning. We can have further 224 00:15:43,560 --> 00:15:47,240 conversations, but I think some of the things I say make a lot 225 00:15:47,240 --> 00:15:50,480 of sense. So, all right, evolutionary 226 00:15:50,480 --> 00:15:55,640 theory would have you believe that dinosaurs turned into 227 00:15:56,240 --> 00:15:59,880 birds. I, I, this blows my mind. 228 00:15:59,880 --> 00:16:03,600 I, I'm not sure how this works, but so their arms grew, 229 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:09,320 remember, because T Rex is like this, you know, so their arms 230 00:16:09,320 --> 00:16:13,280 grew, they grew out, their bones got lighter and, and they 231 00:16:13,280 --> 00:16:17,200 developed feathers and wings and organisms that had never 232 00:16:17,200 --> 00:16:22,320 experienced flight, never even seen flight, yet were instantly 233 00:16:22,320 --> 00:16:27,640 given the capacity to fly. I'm going to be honest and say 234 00:16:27,880 --> 00:16:33,240 it seems utterly preposterous to me that something without wings 235 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:38,800 could adapt and eventually fly. I know I could say this about 236 00:16:39,000 --> 00:16:42,760 all the created beings, but flight is quite literally on a 237 00:16:42,760 --> 00:16:47,240 whole other level. This is flight is just one of 238 00:16:47,240 --> 00:16:49,680 these things that blows my mind. Got the privilege the other day 239 00:16:49,680 --> 00:16:54,280 to go up in an airplane with a member of ours here. 240 00:16:54,920 --> 00:16:59,320 Every time I'm in an airplane I'm always just like, how do we 241 00:16:59,320 --> 00:17:02,000 do this? It's absolutely astounding that 242 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:05,000 we can take a huge piece of metal and make it fly in the 243 00:17:05,000 --> 00:17:11,000 air, right? We're talking about things that 244 00:17:11,000 --> 00:17:14,680 have never flown, suddenly growing the capacity to fly. 245 00:17:17,400 --> 00:17:20,920 I can't, can't swallow that now, all right? 246 00:17:21,359 --> 00:17:27,160 I think about when I look at God's creative order, I look at 247 00:17:27,240 --> 00:17:31,480 birds like eagles, condors and albatrosses. 248 00:17:31,840 --> 00:17:35,000 Their flight, it's just effortless. 249 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:39,080 Right as they soar through the sky, they hardly ever flap their 250 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:43,160 wings. Albatross has traveled thousands 251 00:17:43,160 --> 00:17:49,600 of miles before they ever set down on the earth. 252 00:17:51,240 --> 00:17:54,320 That just blows my mind. I can't fathom that something 253 00:17:54,320 --> 00:18:00,760 like an eagle could come about through evolutionary processes. 254 00:18:01,920 --> 00:18:05,640 But then there's a Hummingbird. We're going back to the other 255 00:18:05,640 --> 00:18:07,200 end of the spectrum. These were the biggest ones. 256 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:11,920 Now we have the smallest ones. These things blow my mind as 257 00:18:11,920 --> 00:18:13,200 well. If you want to know how old I 258 00:18:13,200 --> 00:18:17,080 am, I am now at the age where I think it's cool that my friends 259 00:18:17,080 --> 00:18:23,720 have bird feeders. I, I, I suspect a number of you 260 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,880 can relate. I even have a friend who has a 261 00:18:26,880 --> 00:18:31,800 camera inside her bird feeder and she's constantly posting 262 00:18:31,800 --> 00:18:38,000 pictures on Facebook, pictures, videos, she's posting videos of 263 00:18:38,000 --> 00:18:39,960 the birds coming to her bird feeder. 264 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:44,120 So you were literally face to face with these birds coming to 265 00:18:44,320 --> 00:18:46,440 eat at the bird feeder. It's really weird. 266 00:18:46,440 --> 00:18:51,720 It's trippy. But so I, I was, I was at a 267 00:18:51,720 --> 00:18:54,600 friend's house not too long ago and, and I was admiring the 268 00:18:54,600 --> 00:19:00,680 hummingbirds that were stopping by to feed and one stops and 269 00:19:01,480 --> 00:19:04,840 stands there. I've never seen this before. 270 00:19:05,440 --> 00:19:08,280 Like, I guess like, obviously hummingbirds must stand, but 271 00:19:08,280 --> 00:19:11,480 I've literally never witnessed this because I've only seen 272 00:19:11,480 --> 00:19:16,400 hummingbirds flying around, you know, from flower to flower or 273 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:19,520 to the feeder. You know, they just buzz by and 274 00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:21,640 hover there for a moment and then fly away. 275 00:19:21,640 --> 00:19:23,800 But it was standing there tripped me out. 276 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:25,240 It was the weirdest thing I'd ever seen. 277 00:19:25,240 --> 00:19:28,920 And I know it's really simple. I can be easily amused. 278 00:19:30,640 --> 00:19:35,520 So there was that. But you know how amazing these 279 00:19:35,520 --> 00:19:39,280 things are. They hover and they fly 280 00:19:39,520 --> 00:19:45,160 backwards due to their unique wing design utilizing most birds 281 00:19:45,240 --> 00:19:48,760 fly with. They generate lift with an up 282 00:19:49,040 --> 00:19:52,680 and down pattern. The Hummingbird does not do 283 00:19:52,680 --> 00:19:56,000 that. The Hummingbird uses a Figure 8, 284 00:19:56,400 --> 00:20:00,160 that's how it flaps its wings and at one point its wings are 285 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:06,440 upside down when it's coming back and so flaps its wings in a 286 00:20:06,440 --> 00:20:12,000 Figure 8 and it does this 80 times a second. 287 00:20:14,840 --> 00:20:18,160 Like blows me away to think about this. 288 00:20:19,000 --> 00:20:20,560 This. This study has been super cool 289 00:20:20,560 --> 00:20:22,200 for me. It's taken a lot of work 290 00:20:22,200 --> 00:20:24,880 researching all these things that I've been researching, but 291 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:28,040 it is super cool. I'm not a scientist, but I think 292 00:20:28,040 --> 00:20:31,680 it's awesome. So here on day five, God filled 293 00:20:31,680 --> 00:20:34,480 the waters with various types of fish and filled the skies with 294 00:20:34,480 --> 00:20:36,560 birds. Now we come to day 6. 295 00:20:36,800 --> 00:20:41,400 God filling the earth. He filled the earth or or the 296 00:20:41,400 --> 00:20:44,560 dry land. Day three had prepared the land 297 00:20:44,560 --> 00:20:48,240 for what was to come on day 6. The third day's vegetation in 298 00:20:48,240 --> 00:20:52,920 the trees all provided sustenance for the 6th day. 299 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,840 Animals. The first animals mentioned in 300 00:20:55,840 --> 00:21:00,200 verse 24 are livestock, or we'll just call them cattle here. 301 00:21:01,920 --> 00:21:08,600 Now, to be honest, I think cattle or cows are lame. 302 00:21:10,640 --> 00:21:13,200 I'm not a farmer. I don't make money from them. 303 00:21:13,920 --> 00:21:16,720 They just seem lame to me. They seem boring to me. 304 00:21:16,720 --> 00:21:20,520 They just lay there or stand there just chewing their cud, 305 00:21:21,360 --> 00:21:25,960 right? But it's that cut chewing that 306 00:21:25,960 --> 00:21:32,240 makes them so amazing. They have I'm sure you're aware 307 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:35,200 of this. They have a complex 4 stomach 308 00:21:35,440 --> 00:21:40,080 digestive system that allows them to gain nutrition from hay, 309 00:21:41,800 --> 00:21:45,920 something that is impossible for animals that that lacks stomachs 310 00:21:45,920 --> 00:21:50,680 with multiple chambers. So this design converts 311 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:56,560 cellulose, which we can't process, We can't use cellulose. 312 00:21:58,080 --> 00:22:05,400 This design in the cow allows them to take hay and convert 313 00:22:05,400 --> 00:22:12,880 that to milk, which is something that is a staple in our lives, 314 00:22:13,520 --> 00:22:15,960 right? Something that we find highly 315 00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,920 beneficial. Without it, I wouldn't have my 316 00:22:18,920 --> 00:22:22,920 ice cream. So I am incredibly grateful that 317 00:22:22,920 --> 00:22:27,880 the cow can take hay and turn it into ice cream. 318 00:22:28,520 --> 00:22:35,200 That is fantastic. And I would suggest that the 319 00:22:35,200 --> 00:22:40,800 primary purpose of of cattle of of livestock is it seems, is to 320 00:22:40,800 --> 00:22:45,880 serve humanity. They they don't do much else but 321 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:51,800 wherever humanity is you will find livestock. 322 00:22:52,200 --> 00:22:56,240 They are incredibly useful and value valuable to us. 323 00:22:58,280 --> 00:23:04,120 Next is the creeping things. Some people are like you can 324 00:23:04,120 --> 00:23:08,760 just skip over this. I know there are many people who 325 00:23:08,760 --> 00:23:10,520 could do without all the creepy crawlies. 326 00:23:10,520 --> 00:23:14,560 Creepers are obviously insects, worms, arachnids, reptiles, 327 00:23:14,560 --> 00:23:19,080 maybe even small mammals. Like I'm going to disclose 328 00:23:19,080 --> 00:23:20,400 something here. Everybody's going to be like 329 00:23:20,400 --> 00:23:20,840 you. What? 330 00:23:22,080 --> 00:23:26,440 So in a number of years ago, probably about 12 years ago, 331 00:23:26,640 --> 00:23:34,720 maybe 10, I don't know. In an attempt to not buy, not 332 00:23:34,720 --> 00:23:44,200 get a dog or a puppy, we got, I did some research, we got rats. 333 00:23:46,080 --> 00:23:50,720 And I know some of you just checked out, like, no way, I'm 334 00:23:50,720 --> 00:23:53,520 out of here. We got 2 rats. 335 00:23:54,440 --> 00:23:56,440 They were friendly, they were fun. 336 00:23:56,480 --> 00:24:02,160 They are incredibly docile. Yeah, it was, it was, it was 337 00:24:02,160 --> 00:24:04,920 neat. Except that these people that 338 00:24:04,920 --> 00:24:06,600 said, oh, we'll help take care of it. 339 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:09,240 You know how it went. So who did it? 340 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:13,040 Yeah, it was mostly me that took care of them. 341 00:24:13,640 --> 00:24:16,200 Everybody else changed their minds once once they came home 342 00:24:16,920 --> 00:24:18,920 and they eventually of course died. 343 00:24:19,720 --> 00:24:25,760 But but I think rats are probably in view here on on the 344 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:28,880 6th day of creation as creeping things. 345 00:24:30,080 --> 00:24:34,640 Now I feel the need to remind you what God said of His 346 00:24:34,640 --> 00:24:39,680 creation. It was good. 347 00:24:41,040 --> 00:24:44,480 All of God's creation was good in its original form. 348 00:24:45,000 --> 00:24:48,520 I know a majority of us tend to be repulsed by creeping things, 349 00:24:48,520 --> 00:24:51,480 but God said they were good when he created them. 350 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:56,120 Why God created gnats and mosquitoes though, we will never 351 00:24:56,120 --> 00:25:01,640 know. They are the reason why I the 352 00:25:01,640 --> 00:25:03,600 largest reason I put up with summer. 353 00:25:04,360 --> 00:25:09,480 Summer is my least favorite. I'm not sure, but I'm going to 354 00:25:09,480 --> 00:25:12,480 guess most of you don't experience too many bug bites in 355 00:25:12,480 --> 00:25:15,480 the winter. So yeah. 356 00:25:17,640 --> 00:25:20,480 But they were originally declared good. 357 00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:23,400 It's worth reminding ourselves that creeping things also 358 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:27,280 revealed God's creativity, wisdom, and power. 359 00:25:28,160 --> 00:25:29,720 Now we're going to get really weird here. 360 00:25:30,880 --> 00:25:36,840 So first of all, let's consider the Bombardier beetle. 361 00:25:38,080 --> 00:25:44,400 This thing shoots explosives from its butt or something like 362 00:25:44,400 --> 00:25:47,640 that. It has a defense mechanism where 363 00:25:48,040 --> 00:25:51,480 when it's threatened, it shoots a hot chemical spray at its 364 00:25:51,480 --> 00:25:53,560 threat. This is a mixture of two 365 00:25:53,560 --> 00:25:56,600 different chemicals that are catalyzed in its abdomen. 366 00:25:56,960 --> 00:26:01,480 When hydroquinone and hydrogen peroxide are mixed together, 367 00:26:02,120 --> 00:26:05,760 there's a chemical reaction that brings the resulting chemical to 368 00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:08,720 nearly the boiling point of water. 369 00:26:09,840 --> 00:26:14,280 However, in order to effectively mix the chemicals, the 370 00:26:14,280 --> 00:26:17,840 Bombardier beetle must be able to produce the right chemicals, 371 00:26:18,160 --> 00:26:21,440 keep them in separate reservoirs, and bring them 372 00:26:21,440 --> 00:26:24,680 together at the precise right time with the necessary 373 00:26:24,680 --> 00:26:28,280 catalytic enzymes and immediately shoot them out 374 00:26:28,640 --> 00:26:33,600 before they explode in order to not destroy itself in the 375 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:34,440 process. Right. 376 00:26:34,440 --> 00:26:40,400 And not to mention having the ability to aim this spray and 377 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:46,720 hit the target. Such a complex system with many 378 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:52,920 interdependent parts. What about chameleons? 379 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:56,200 You know, they can change colors to blend in with their 380 00:26:56,200 --> 00:26:58,960 environment, but but they also have eyes that move 381 00:26:58,960 --> 00:27:02,000 independently of each other. One eye looks one way and the 382 00:27:02,000 --> 00:27:03,800 other eyes look in the other way. 383 00:27:05,240 --> 00:27:08,680 They can move independently and look around in completely 384 00:27:08,680 --> 00:27:12,640 different directions. Oh, but if the chameleon 385 00:27:12,640 --> 00:27:16,560 supposedly developed this ability, and then why didn't 386 00:27:17,040 --> 00:27:21,680 other organisms further up the evolutionary chain develop this 387 00:27:21,680 --> 00:27:25,440 ability as well? So like I said, I have questions 388 00:27:25,440 --> 00:27:27,720 even on the evolutionary side of things. 389 00:27:28,080 --> 00:27:31,600 If you want to maintain an evolutionary perspective, how 390 00:27:31,600 --> 00:27:37,600 does this lead to this? These traits would have no doubt 391 00:27:37,600 --> 00:27:41,920 serve them well in their survival of the fittest, if 392 00:27:41,960 --> 00:27:47,840 evolution is to be believed. So now we move on to other 393 00:27:47,840 --> 00:27:49,760 creatures that God created on day 6. 394 00:27:50,480 --> 00:27:54,720 The beasts of the earth. Beasts of the earth. 395 00:27:54,720 --> 00:27:58,840 Of course, we naturally think of lions, tigers and bears. 396 00:28:00,040 --> 00:28:04,640 Thank you. It occurs to me though, that 397 00:28:04,640 --> 00:28:09,720 like in a generation or two, I might not be able to do that and 398 00:28:09,720 --> 00:28:17,880 get get that response. Wolves, elephants, drafts, you 399 00:28:17,880 --> 00:28:24,440 know, all all the things, but did you ever stop to think about 400 00:28:26,000 --> 00:28:32,080 dinosaurs? We hold God's word to be true, 401 00:28:33,560 --> 00:28:38,000 but we also know that dinosaurs existed, right? 402 00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:42,040 So where do they fall in creation? 403 00:28:43,120 --> 00:28:50,080 Probably right here on Day 6. I know what I just said is 404 00:28:50,080 --> 00:28:56,640 preposterous to the world. I know that because the world 405 00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,480 has has a lens that they look through. 406 00:29:00,800 --> 00:29:05,640 But from a biblical perspective, our perspective allows for this 407 00:29:05,640 --> 00:29:09,520 to be the case. And I might touch on dinosaurs 408 00:29:09,680 --> 00:29:13,720 more in a couple months. I don't know. 409 00:29:13,720 --> 00:29:17,040 We'll see when, when we get to the flood, we'll see. 410 00:29:17,880 --> 00:29:22,480 So but if if God created the world as Genesis tells us, and 411 00:29:22,480 --> 00:29:25,240 we know that dinosaurs existed and must have been here on day 412 00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:27,480 six. We already heard about the 413 00:29:27,480 --> 00:29:30,280 Tannin, God's special sea monster. 414 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,880 But the book of Job mentions a couple other huge creatures as 415 00:29:33,880 --> 00:29:36,840 well. One of them is called Behemoth. 416 00:29:37,440 --> 00:29:41,400 In Job 40, God is explaining his greatness to Job. 417 00:29:41,400 --> 00:29:47,080 Job 40 verses 15 through 19. Behemoth, which I made as I made 418 00:29:47,080 --> 00:29:49,680 you. He eats grass like an ox. 419 00:29:49,680 --> 00:29:53,320 Behold his strength in his loins, in his power, in the 420 00:29:53,320 --> 00:29:56,560 muscles of his belly. He makes his tail stiff like a 421 00:29:56,560 --> 00:29:58,560 cedar. The sinews of his thighs are 422 00:29:58,800 --> 00:30:01,280 knit together. His bones are tubes of bronze, 423 00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:08,040 his his limbs like bars of iron. Some have suggested, oh, this 424 00:30:08,040 --> 00:30:12,080 is, this must be a hippo or or a crocodile. 425 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:16,680 And you're like, yeah, like, OK, I can see how you might arrive 426 00:30:16,680 --> 00:30:18,960 at that. Except I'm pretty sure 427 00:30:19,240 --> 00:30:23,600 crocodiles don't eat grass last time I checked. 428 00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:27,880 But there's a good chance that the word behemoth actually 429 00:30:27,880 --> 00:30:32,560 refers to something bigger, like a sauropod of some sort. 430 00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:37,840 A sauropod like a brachiosaurus fits the description well. 431 00:30:38,360 --> 00:30:41,880 It eats grass like an ox has strong hips or loins, and it 432 00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:44,960 moves its tail like a cedar tree. 433 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:49,200 This is just one of the beasts of the earth. 434 00:30:49,320 --> 00:30:54,640 We could go on and on about all sorts of other beasts, but you 435 00:30:54,640 --> 00:30:55,920 probably don't want to be here all day. 436 00:30:57,040 --> 00:31:01,480 Looking again at verse 24, God said let the earth bring forth 437 00:31:01,480 --> 00:31:05,080 living creatures according to their kinds, living livestock 438 00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:07,440 and creeping things and beasts of the earth according to their 439 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:08,680 kinds. And it was so. 440 00:31:08,720 --> 00:31:11,200 And God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, 441 00:31:11,400 --> 00:31:14,440 and the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that 442 00:31:14,440 --> 00:31:19,720 creeps on the ground according to its kind, God saw that it was 443 00:31:19,720 --> 00:31:24,360 good. So God was very clear when he 444 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:28,520 created the plants, the fish, the birds, the land animals that 445 00:31:28,560 --> 00:31:32,760 each would produce after its own kind. 446 00:31:35,920 --> 00:31:42,640 They produce after its own kind. God wanted to make sure his 447 00:31:42,640 --> 00:31:46,760 people understood that that each kind produces after its own 448 00:31:46,760 --> 00:31:48,280 kind. There's there's purpose and 449 00:31:48,280 --> 00:31:52,800 intention in God's design of all these creatures. 450 00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:58,720 Animals coming into existence wasn't random and purposeless, 451 00:31:59,240 --> 00:32:02,760 but rather serve the purpose for which God designed them. 452 00:32:04,160 --> 00:32:09,320 Moses wrote down the phrase according to its kind 9 times in 453 00:32:09,320 --> 00:32:14,480 five verses. We can only speculate why why 454 00:32:14,480 --> 00:32:18,520 God had Moses write this phrase down 9 times, but we do know 455 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,680 that theirs was a culture steeped in paganism and 456 00:32:21,680 --> 00:32:24,160 idolatry. As I've mentioned, they had 457 00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:27,880 Pagan ideas about the origins of life, and it's also possible 458 00:32:27,880 --> 00:32:32,400 that they needed to understand the created order that Pagan 459 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:37,520 deities didn't, didn't control or or bring each Organism into 460 00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:42,360 existence. Each living creature reproduced 461 00:32:42,360 --> 00:32:46,160 more of the same because that was its purpose. 462 00:32:47,440 --> 00:32:50,680 This is the way God designed creation from the very 463 00:32:50,840 --> 00:32:53,280 beginning. It shows intent and purpose in 464 00:32:53,280 --> 00:32:56,560 God's work. Also, the fact that this phrase 465 00:32:56,560 --> 00:33:01,200 precedes God's declaration of goodness speaks to his desire to 466 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,640 communicate goodness in his design for biological 467 00:33:04,640 --> 00:33:09,440 distinctions, to communicate his goodness in in purpose and 468 00:33:09,440 --> 00:33:12,280 goodness in the reproductive boundaries. 469 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,880 Each Organism reproducing after its own kind isn't just 470 00:33:17,880 --> 00:33:26,960 necessary, but it's also good. God's creation reproducing after 471 00:33:26,960 --> 00:33:31,800 its own kind also runs contrary to evolutionary theory. 472 00:33:35,960 --> 00:33:37,880 It runs contrary to evolutionary theory. 473 00:33:37,880 --> 00:33:42,600 It's highly unlikely Moses had Darwin's survival of the fittest 474 00:33:42,600 --> 00:33:46,120 in mind when he wrote the words according to their kinds, right? 475 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:52,000 But this phrase handily serves as a refutation of Darwin's 476 00:33:52,000 --> 00:33:55,640 evolutionary theory that one kind of creature can turn into 477 00:33:55,640 --> 00:33:59,920 another kind. One genus does not yield 478 00:33:59,920 --> 00:34:04,680 another. Even within a genus, fertility 479 00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,400 is spotty. When crossbreeding occurs, 480 00:34:08,560 --> 00:34:14,560 horses and donkeys can be bred together, but the result is a 481 00:34:14,560 --> 00:34:18,719 sterile mule. Lions and tigers can be bred 482 00:34:18,719 --> 00:34:22,360 together, but the result is well, it's impressive when you 483 00:34:22,360 --> 00:34:26,920 look at a Liger, but it also is sterile. 484 00:34:28,000 --> 00:34:34,199 Lions and tigers are cats, Horses and donkeys are equus. 485 00:34:34,600 --> 00:34:39,639 However, a horse doesn't become a cat, and a cat doesn't become 486 00:34:40,280 --> 00:34:43,120 a horse. Why is this the case? 487 00:34:44,719 --> 00:34:47,360 Because of each living organisms DNA. 488 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,719 Every living thing has a complex genetic code stored in its 489 00:34:52,719 --> 00:34:56,360 DNADNA determines the fundamental building and 490 00:34:56,480 --> 00:35:00,120 maintenance instructions for living organisms. 491 00:35:01,080 --> 00:35:04,320 Each Organism passes on the instructions to the next 492 00:35:04,320 --> 00:35:06,880 generation. These instructions determine 493 00:35:07,040 --> 00:35:11,320 what the Organism is and traits of that Organism. 494 00:35:12,440 --> 00:35:18,440 Geneticist Doctor Lane P Lester writes in the middle 1800s, some 495 00:35:18,440 --> 00:35:22,080 scientists believe that variations caused by the 496 00:35:22,080 --> 00:35:26,320 environment could be inherited, that is, they could be passed 497 00:35:26,320 --> 00:35:28,960 down. Charles Darwin accepted this 498 00:35:28,960 --> 00:35:32,480 fallacy, and it no doubt made it easier for him to believe that 499 00:35:32,480 --> 00:35:35,400 one creature could change into another. 500 00:35:36,440 --> 00:35:41,080 He thus explained the origin of the giraffes long neck in parts 501 00:35:41,080 --> 00:35:45,840 through the inherited effects of the increased use of parts in 502 00:35:45,840 --> 00:35:50,480 seasons of limited food supply, Darwin reasoned giraffes would 503 00:35:50,480 --> 00:35:54,840 stretch their necks for the for the high leaves, supposedly 504 00:35:54,840 --> 00:35:59,040 resulting in longer necks being passed on to their offspring. 505 00:36:00,400 --> 00:36:06,160 However, it's important to say that reaching for a higher 506 00:36:06,160 --> 00:36:10,960 branch does not change one's DNA. 507 00:36:11,680 --> 00:36:17,000 So this is scientifically illogical and we could go on and 508 00:36:17,000 --> 00:36:23,280 on about the wonders of DNA. Evolutionary theorists also like 509 00:36:23,280 --> 00:36:27,920 to point to mutations as being the tool used for each Organism 510 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,800 to move up the evolutionary chain. 511 00:36:31,760 --> 00:36:35,760 The problem is that mutations don't cause organisms to become 512 00:36:36,040 --> 00:36:39,080 more complex. Mutations reorient the 513 00:36:39,080 --> 00:36:41,560 information that is coded in the DNA. 514 00:36:42,320 --> 00:36:46,080 So the evolutionary theorist needs to add more time to 515 00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,920 history in order to accommodate what they perceive as the 516 00:36:49,920 --> 00:36:56,280 capacity of organisms to mutate enough in order to progress up 517 00:36:56,280 --> 00:37:00,600 the evolutionary chain and become new types of organisms. 518 00:37:02,600 --> 00:37:08,520 When Darwin studied his finches, he used them as as proof of his 519 00:37:08,520 --> 00:37:14,040 theory and natural selection. He maintained that natural 520 00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:17,680 selection would drive rapid evolutionary responses to 521 00:37:17,720 --> 00:37:22,680 environmental pressures. What Darwin observed is what we 522 00:37:22,680 --> 00:37:30,080 refer to as micro evolution. Microevolution is a is a change 523 00:37:30,080 --> 00:37:34,080 in the frequency of genetic variance within a population 524 00:37:34,680 --> 00:37:38,600 over short periods. This occurs at the population 525 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:42,920 level and and it can be observed during your time of research. 526 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:47,880 You can see these changes. Darwin observed changes within 527 00:37:47,880 --> 00:37:52,640 the population of Finches on the Galapagos Islands, and he could 528 00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:55,480 witness these changes during his time there. 529 00:37:56,800 --> 00:38:00,200 This is something creationists believe in. 530 00:38:00,920 --> 00:38:09,480 We believe in microevolution. It makes sense, but it needs to 531 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:14,200 be differentiated from macroevolution. 532 00:38:14,560 --> 00:38:19,400 Macroevolution is large scale evolutionary changes occurring 533 00:38:19,680 --> 00:38:25,240 over long periods and which lead to diversification of species 534 00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:29,880 and the origin of new higher taxonomic groups, that is, 535 00:38:30,080 --> 00:38:32,720 groups that are above the species level. 536 00:38:33,400 --> 00:38:37,320 It's a result of, they would say, microevolutionary changes. 537 00:38:38,240 --> 00:38:45,720 Now, if macroevolution is to be believed, then Darwin's finches, 538 00:38:47,400 --> 00:38:51,320 his proof of natural selection, should have yielded a higher 539 00:38:51,560 --> 00:38:54,840 taxonomic group, a different genus. 540 00:38:55,440 --> 00:39:05,080 Rather, Darwin's research with finches still yielded finches, 541 00:39:06,880 --> 00:39:11,000 right? We learned this in in school. 542 00:39:12,280 --> 00:39:16,840 They were just different sorts, different varieties of finches. 543 00:39:17,880 --> 00:39:24,840 This has been offered as evidence of macroevolution, even 544 00:39:24,840 --> 00:39:30,800 though it is not actual evidence of macroevolution as a whole. 545 00:39:30,800 --> 00:39:34,760 Creationists do not believe in macroevolution. 546 00:39:35,400 --> 00:39:39,000 There are theistic evolutionists, but that's a 547 00:39:39,280 --> 00:39:42,920 different animal. No pun intended, actually. 548 00:39:46,000 --> 00:39:50,600 And I can't support that viewpoint of macro evolution 549 00:39:50,800 --> 00:39:58,080 with the theistic evolutionist. The fact is, science has never 550 00:39:58,240 --> 00:40:02,840 observed, never will observe, the evolution of one species 551 00:40:03,080 --> 00:40:09,280 into a new life form. It's a genetic impossibility. 552 00:40:09,560 --> 00:40:12,440 I could go on about missing links, but then we'd be headed 553 00:40:12,440 --> 00:40:20,080 down a rabbit trail. Scientists who believe in 554 00:40:20,080 --> 00:40:23,400 evolutionary theory always talk about missing links. 555 00:40:23,400 --> 00:40:26,640 So there, there, there, there's, there's something there, 556 00:40:26,640 --> 00:40:29,600 there's, they're out there. But we can't find these missing 557 00:40:29,600 --> 00:40:34,440 links because I would suggest they don't exist. 558 00:40:36,560 --> 00:40:39,440 So God filled the waters, He filled the skies, He filled the 559 00:40:39,480 --> 00:40:42,920 earth, and he gave it all the capacity to reproduce according 560 00:40:43,160 --> 00:40:47,520 to its own kind. In verses 21 and 25, God looks 561 00:40:47,520 --> 00:40:51,400 upon his creation and He declares it good. 562 00:40:52,520 --> 00:40:57,440 Simply put, this is God's own assessment of His creation. 563 00:40:59,040 --> 00:41:02,480 God said it's good. I'm pretty sure that God would 564 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,960 know if His creation was good or not, right? 565 00:41:07,080 --> 00:41:09,960 God's original creation lacked deformities. 566 00:41:09,960 --> 00:41:12,760 It lacked mutations. The world, the world changes 567 00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:18,520 when sin enters the scene. But prior to Adam's fall, things 568 00:41:18,520 --> 00:41:23,480 are drastically different than they are now after the fall. 569 00:41:25,760 --> 00:41:28,800 Natural selection and survival of the fittest aren't necessary 570 00:41:28,800 --> 00:41:33,720 in God's original creation, as as all of His creation lives in 571 00:41:33,720 --> 00:41:37,040 harmony originally with each other. 572 00:41:38,480 --> 00:41:43,400 There were no unfit animals, no imperfections or or inferiority. 573 00:41:43,840 --> 00:41:46,600 They were all good in their design and creation. 574 00:41:48,720 --> 00:41:51,520 The fact that creation was good can also be found in the fact 575 00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:54,960 that there was no death prior to the fall. 576 00:41:57,920 --> 00:41:59,440 There was no death prior to the fall. 577 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:02,280 Scripture is clear that death did not come into the world 578 00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:07,320 until sin entered the human realm, Romans 512 says. 579 00:42:07,520 --> 00:42:11,360 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man and 580 00:42:11,360 --> 00:42:15,480 death through sin, so death spread to all men because all 581 00:42:15,480 --> 00:42:19,240 sinned. Death entered the world through 582 00:42:19,320 --> 00:42:25,640 sin, impacting not only the human world but also the animal 583 00:42:25,640 --> 00:42:29,160 Kingdom. This doesn't simply tell us 584 00:42:29,160 --> 00:42:34,960 about the past, but also points to a future reality. 585 00:42:36,000 --> 00:42:40,760 There's a future reality, Isaiah 11 verses 6 through 8. 586 00:42:42,160 --> 00:42:46,160 Now I will say this passage has been variously interpreted to 587 00:42:46,360 --> 00:42:51,240 refer to either a millennial Kingdom or to the new heavens. 588 00:42:51,560 --> 00:42:56,360 Either way, it doesn't matter. The results is the same, and it 589 00:42:56,360 --> 00:43:00,760 shows a return back to God, the state of God's original 590 00:43:00,800 --> 00:43:04,160 creation. The wolf shall dwell with the 591 00:43:04,160 --> 00:43:07,320 lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the young goats, and 592 00:43:07,320 --> 00:43:11,000 the calf, and the lion and the fattened calf together, and the 593 00:43:11,000 --> 00:43:14,200 little child shall lead them. The cow and the bear shall 594 00:43:14,200 --> 00:43:16,520 graze, their young shall lie down together, and the lion 595 00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:20,640 shall eat straw like the ox. The nursing child shall play 596 00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:24,240 over the whole of the cobra, and the winged child shall put his 597 00:43:24,240 --> 00:43:33,680 hand on the adder's den. All creation will one day return 598 00:43:34,000 --> 00:43:37,720 to that place of peace under the Messiah's reign. 599 00:43:39,080 --> 00:43:41,440 The wolf and the lamb will live in harmony. 600 00:43:42,280 --> 00:43:49,240 The leopard opts to not eat the goats, the cow and bear graze, 601 00:43:49,240 --> 00:43:58,320 and the lion eats a straw. Someday we will live the zoo 602 00:43:58,320 --> 00:44:03,640 life together. Humanity will get along with 603 00:44:03,640 --> 00:44:07,120 creatures that have long been considered threats. 604 00:44:08,320 --> 00:44:11,920 The vegetarian idea ideal that we'll see set up in the garden 605 00:44:13,600 --> 00:44:16,640 will be realized as we live in the goodness of what God 606 00:44:16,640 --> 00:44:21,360 intended the world to be at the beginning of His creation. 607 00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:28,240 Everything will be good and there will be no more death. 608 00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:37,960 You see, this book doesn't just cause us to look back, but it 609 00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:43,160 gives us hope as we look towards the future reality as we reign 610 00:44:43,720 --> 00:44:47,080 with Christ. Let's bow our heads and close 611 00:44:47,080 --> 00:44:57,430 our eyes. Father God, we we thank you that 612 00:44:58,350 --> 00:45:02,630 we can look into your word, that your word teaches us of your 613 00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:10,200 greatness, how awesome you are. How awesome it is that you feel 614 00:45:10,200 --> 00:45:13,600 the waters, you feel the skies. You, you filled the earth and 615 00:45:13,600 --> 00:45:19,200 you declared it all good. Life was complete, so there was 616 00:45:19,200 --> 00:45:23,000 no, no death in the original creation. 617 00:45:26,520 --> 00:45:33,120 And God, we long for the day when we will return back to the 618 00:45:33,120 --> 00:45:40,760 way things were. Life will be much easier. 619 00:45:40,760 --> 00:45:48,640 Life will be perfect, complete. No more conflict, strife. 620 00:45:52,400 --> 00:45:57,240 We say, God, Jesus, would you come? 621 00:45:57,240 --> 00:46:02,440 Would you return back? We look forward to that future 622 00:46:02,440 --> 00:46:09,720 reality being in your presence. Thank you for this time. 623 00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:11,840 In Jesus name we pray. Amen.