Evidence of the Recent Creation - 180006

0:04 [Music] 0:31 welcome to the creator revealed I'm Tim 0:35 Standish I'm a scientist but I'm also a 0:38 Christian and there really shouldn't be 0:40 a butt in there 0:42 of course scientists can and in fact 0:46 should be Christians that means that I 0:48 believe the biblical record of history 0:52 amen amen well we are just very excited 0:55 that you're with us and we are very 0:58 excited that those of you at home or in 1:01 your car whether you're watching by TV 1:03 or Internet we thank you so much for 1:05 joining us and this is to me I am so 1:10 excited because creation science is 1:12 something that many people have their 1:16 views have changed a little over the 1:19 years and we see Christians who are kind 1:22 of amalgamating almost I don't know if 1:25 that's the proper word but they're 1:27 taking evolution and they're taking a 1:29 little from the Bible and they're doing 1:31 this and that coming up with all kinds 1:34 of ideas so I'm excited about this 1:36 series what are we going to talk about 1:37 today well we're going to talk about 1:39 evidence 1:40 remember that science is all about 1:44 empirical evidence and occasionally I 1:46 actually quite commonly I hear what 1:50 seems to me to be a ridiculous statement 1:52 which is there is no evidence for a 1:56 recent creation we're going to disprove 2:00 that today well we're going to look at 2:02 some evidence that's for sure and and 2:04 and obviously each person has to draw 2:07 their own conclusions but I will tell 2:09 you that again this is from my 2:12 perspective as a scientist actually 2:15 there is abundant evidence of the recent 2:18 creation of life now I'm concentrating 2:21 on life because I'm a biologist life is 2:24 what I study I'm not a geologist so I 2:27 won't try to go too far down that way 2:30 but I will compare what geologists and 2:35 what the biological evidence say okay 2:39 all right so I want to start off with a 2:42 Bible text and this is Isaiah which 2:45 is one of my favorite books by the way a 2:46 book that is full of the creation 2:49 interestingly enough the creation and 2:52 the new creation that God's promised so 2:54 Isaiah wrote this he said lift up your 2:56 eyes to the heavens look at the earth 2:59 beneath the heavens will vanish like 3:02 smoke the earth will wear out like a 3:05 garment and its inhabitants die like 3:08 flies but my salvation will last forever 3:15 my righteousness will never fail God 3:22 makes this incredible promise here to us 3:26 yes the earth is old now that doesn't 3:31 mean that life is millions or hundreds 3:34 of millions of years old or billions of 3:36 years old or even according to to some 3:40 people but thousands of years old is a 3:43 long time and none of us can go back 3:47 probably none of us can genuinely figure 3:50 out the exact date on which God started 3:55 the creation we get these dates by via 3:59 calculations that have some error in 4:03 them but what is obvious both by looking 4:05 at genealogies in the Old Testament and 4:08 also by looking at genealogy in the New 4:11 Testament because we have the genealogy 4:13 of Jesus Christ and we know how many 4:16 people there were from Adam to Jesus by 4:19 looking at those things we can know with 4:21 a reasonable degree of assurance that 4:24 life is thousands of years not millions 4:29 of years old that's data that's a real 4:32 record of reality what do we see when we 4:37 look at the creation let's start off by 4:39 talking about clocks because we all know 4:42 that there isn't a clock out there on 4:45 palm trees or on human beings or on 4:50 anything else 4:51 there isn't an actual clock but there 4:54 are things that act like clocks 4:58 but sometimes those clocks give to 5:01 different times I don't know if you've 5:04 ever seen a clock towel like this with 5:06 the faces with different times on them 5:09 yeah but that's that is sort of the 5:13 situation that we sometimes see with 5:15 science now remember we're interpreting 5:18 data to come up with the Sun with the 5:21 times that are being estimated so let's 5:25 start off here this is well actually one 5:27 of my favorite places it's south of 5:29 Sydney in Australia a place called kool 5:31 cliff and you can see why can you see 5:33 that that beautiful line of coal there 5:37 this is why Australia is the Saudi 5:39 Arabia of coal 5:40 there's huge amounts of coal there in 5:43 this in this Basin around Sydney and 5:48 here's the thing do you see what a 5:51 straight line that is between the coal 5:54 and the and the sandstone that's on top 5:57 of it hmm when you do something called 6:01 radiometric dating what you find out is 6:05 that supposedly there was five million 6:11 years that that coal was on top of the 6:14 earth and then the sandstone came along 6:19 and piled up on top of it so just think 6:22 about that a little bit what do you 6:24 think would happen if that call was 6:26 sitting there with just air above it for 6:29 five million years you would expect some 6:36 kind of erosion maybe or some kind of or 6:40 maybe the coal would get lit on fire 6:41 maybe to be struck by lightning maybe it 6:44 was under water so it didn't burn but if 6:46 it was under water then you'd expect 6:48 erosion yeah well or something and then 6:50 you've got to dump all of this coal at 6:52 this this sorry this sands on top of it 6:55 to make the sandstone really five 6:57 million years what the evidence is most 7:02 reasonably interpreted as there as 7:05 meaning is actually very little time at 7:07 all okay because there's no erosion 7:11 the coal is still they cannot leave coal 7:12 sitting out on the Earth's surface for 7:14 five million years yes so there's a kind 7:18 of logic here we're looking at two 7:20 different clocks and they're telling us 7:23 different times at this place called 7:26 coal cliff first of all there's that 7:28 radiometric clock and that says five 7:32 million years but the flat interface 7:34 between the layers says a short period 7:37 of time 7:38 we've got two two clocks telling us two 7:41 different periods of time and these flat 7:45 gaps in time that we see they're they're 7:49 actually quite common there are there 7:52 you can see them for example in the 7:53 Grand Canyon here in the United States 7:56 where there are millions of years 7:57 missing they're also between layers and 7:59 yet it's absolutely flat no erosion no 8:03 indication that there was actually any 8:05 time there they're called para 8:07 conformities and as i said they they 8:10 show up all over the place the para 8:13 Conformity visible at coal cliff covers 8:15 about ninety seven thousand square miles 8:20 that's an incredible area absolutely 8:24 flat there are simply not places on 8:27 earth that'll like that today ninety 8:30 seven thousand square miles of flatness 8:33 a flat coal this is obviously something 8:36 different than we see today and well 8:39 interpreted as a short period of time 8:42 now I count this as a biological 8:45 evidence because coal came from plants 8:50 so let's look at another thing here's 8:52 here's our coal again this is just 8:54 looking at the same coal from a 8:55 different angle and when we when we look 8:58 at that coal frequently you find 9:03 carbon-14 in coal now you've all heard 9:05 that carbon-14 means long ages but 9:08 that's actually not really true is this 9:11 where they get the carbon dating yeah 9:13 this is what carbon dating comes from 9:14 though the most ancient carbon 14 dates 9:19 that you can possibly get are around a 9:21 hundred thousand 9:22 yes there are some variables in there 9:24 you're generally less than that and a 9:26 lot less so because the carbon-14 breaks 9:31 down very fast you simply it's it's a 9:33 fast running clocking the the the time 9:36 runs out after a while 9:38 so if carbon-14 is measured in a coal 9:41 sample it either had the carbon-14 put 9:44 into it or it's less than a hundred 9:47 thousand years old now remember that 9:50 call that you were looking at there is 9:51 supposed to be millions of years old 9:53 there should be no carbon-14 there and 9:56 this is something that has been done 9:59 many times in in a number of different 10:03 types of coal so here is another line of 10:06 evidence there have been a lot of 10:08 molecules that have been found 10:10 associated with fossils that are 10:12 supposed to be millions of years old and 10:15 the question is how long the proteins 10:18 last do they last hundreds of years if 10:22 you put a you know a piece of steak 10:25 outside how long does it last 10:28 not very long now a lot of that's 10:30 because bacteria will come along and 10:32 speed things up and and some animal 10:35 might come and eat it so we know that 10:37 today it disappears very rapidly but 10:40 even if you don't have animals or other 10:43 organisms breaking down these molecules 10:46 you have water that breaks them 10:47 you have oxen they just oxidized 10:50 spontaneously and other chemical 10:52 reactions degrade them and they can be 10:54 physically broken as well and radiation 10:57 radiation is something that you simply 10:59 can't get away from and it breaks things 11:01 down 11:01 so this this exact skeleton here from 11:06 this exact skeleton they have found 11:08 proteins a whole blood vessels and 11:12 things that they got out of the bones 11:14 for this particular dinosaur here the 11:18 idea that those would have lasted for 60 11:20 something million years is very 11:24 optimistic let's put it that way very 11:26 optimistic reasonably these are 11:29 explained as telling us that these 11:31 dinosaurs did not live that long ago and 11:34 there have been scientific pay 11:36 that's published about this it's it's 11:38 not something that is fringe science one 11:41 more thing let's go through it really 11:42 quickly hey it's not that technical what 11:45 mutations these are random changes in 11:48 DNA sequences and most most of these 11:50 changes have a very small impact 11:53 thankfully or we'd all be dead and 11:55 you're going to see why in just a moment 11:57 let's imagine that we have a wife and a 12:00 husband and they have a whole bunch of 12:03 children in fact they have ten children 12:05 and let's just imagine that there is a 12:08 very low mutation rate 1.1 i'm sorry / t 12:12 / me 0.1 mutations per individual per 12:15 generation that would mean that one of 12:18 their children had a mutation now you'd 12:22 think ok natural selection can get rid 12:23 of that child and the rest of them will 12:27 be perfectly fine but what would happen 12:31 if you had a higher mutation rate let's 12:34 say point 5 mutations per generation 12:36 well that would mean 5 out of the 10 12:39 half of them would not survive if 12:42 natural selection selected them out but 12:44 you'd still have 5 so you'd be fine but 12:46 what if you had one mutation per 12:48 individual per generation it wouldn't 12:51 exactly be like this but we're just 12:53 illustrating something here that would 12:55 in this example mean absolutely all of 12:59 your children had mutations and natural 13:01 selection would not be capable of 13:03 getting rid of them so what is the 13:06 actual human mutation rate if one 13:11 mutation per individual per generation 13:13 or 0.1 what is it exactly 13:16 well there are lots of estimates about 13:18 this but generally speaking they're well 13:21 over 100 mutations per individual per 13:26 generation the the point is this human 13:31 beings are incapable of even having 13:33 enough babies to get rid of all of these 13:35 mutations so natural selection is not 13:39 only improbable it sounds impossible 13:41 well natural selection isn't going to 13:43 fix this problem yeah we're going to 13:45 accumulate mutations now thankfully our 13:47 bodies are so rude 13:49 just that we can survive a whole bunch 13:52 of mutations but the question then 13:55 becomes how many mutations can we 13:57 survive at what point are we going to to 14:02 die because we simply our genomes are 14:07 worn out and truthfully we don't know 14:11 exactly but we could be pretty sure that 14:14 it isn't millions of years in fact it's 14:17 pretty remarkable that we're able to 14:19 survive thousands of years which sounds 14:22 pretty optimistic or pretty pessimistic 14:24 when you think about it we're all doomed 14:27 except for one thing Sode salvation we 14:32 exactly God's salvation is eternal and 14:36 so what does this evidence all of this 14:40 evidence that we've seen about a recent 14:42 creation 14:43 Tellis well there are a few things that 14:45 I would pull out of it number one 14:48 God's mercy the creator's mercy is not 14:52 in not using this death driven process 14:56 of evolution over eons of time is very 15:00 clear the time isn't millions hundreds 15:05 of millions of years of suffering 15:06 struggle and death and secondly his 15:10 mercy is clear in not allowing sin and 15:15 suffering to have continued over 15:18 hundreds of millions of years in the 15:21 past 15:21 so we can praise God the time is short 15:27 Jesus is our Creator and he created 15:33 thousands of years ago not millions of 15:36 years ago and he is our Redeemer amen 15:40 and I believe that he is coming soon 15:46 not millions of years from now so we see 15:49 that there is sufficient evidence to 15:52 prove the recent creation of life and we 15:58 believe it isn't more than 6,000 years 16:01 ago personally but please stay tuned 16:03 we've got something special coming up 16:06 [Music] 16:11 welcome back to the Creator revealed 16:14 today we are talking about evidences 16:17 that support the idea of a recent 16:21 creation of our earth and we believe 16:24 this support the biblical account of 16:27 creation 16:28 yes specifically we've been looking at 16:30 living things what evidence is there in 16:33 living things that points towards a 16:36 recent creation of all of this life and 16:40 one of the things that we've talked 16:42 about is chemicals these proteins and 16:47 other biological chemicals that we find 16:50 inside fossils and so the big question 16:56 is can these things last for millions of 16:59 years to understand this we're going to 17:04 talk with a chemist dr. Ryan Hayes he 17:07 teaches in the department of chemistry 17:08 and biochemistry at Andrews University 17:11 which happens to be my alma mater so I'm 17:15 excited to hear what dr. Hayes has to 17:18 say about this so welcome dr. Hayes I 17:20 right hi it's good to be here thanks for 17:24 having me on this is exciting topic 17:28 we're thinking about chemicals and 17:31 recent creation and boy there's a lot of 17:34 new information that's coming out you 17:37 know here in just in the last few years 17:38 and and the last decade or so about all 17:42 these molecules that are you know being 17:45 found in you know in geological 17:48 formations or pulling up dinosaur bones 17:51 and finding tissue in there that this is 17:55 just utterly amazing it is incredible 17:58 stuff and I think that the 18:00 most people have a kind of gut-level 18:03 understanding that something like 18:05 proteins that that's the stuff that 18:07 muscles are made out of that's what 18:09 that's meat and we know that meat 18:12 doesn't last for very long on a dead 18:14 animal so the idea that you would find 18:17 these things for example in dinosaur 18:20 bones if you if you remove the the the 18:26 yeah the not the bone marrow itself but 18:29 the hard part the that part of the bone 18:32 you are actually left with proteins you 18:36 can do that with obviously modern bones 18:39 if you take a cow's bone and remove this 18:42 chemical that's in there called calcium 18:44 and calcium apatite isn't it there's 18:48 hydroxyapatite yeah I was just remarking 18:58 with my students even today about the 19:01 chemical properties of carbon-based 19:05 molecules which were made out of and all 19:08 life is made out of and the energy that 19:11 is holding our bonds together is 19:14 actually somewhat easily broken just 19:18 from the heats and the light that we 19:22 have shining on our planet that comes 19:24 right out of our planet itself and and 19:26 the molecules in some ways are designed 19:30 not to to last forever without some 19:33 input into the system so when things are 19:37 left out in the open or left on the 19:40 ground there's biological things that 19:43 will come and attack and chew of them 19:44 all up or just UV lights and heat or 19:48 even the cold can break things up and 19:51 the chemicals that were made out of and 19:53 living things are made of thee they just 19:55 don't last that long there's also 19:58 something that I've heard a cold 20:00 background radiation and apparently you 20:03 know over over short periods of time 20:05 it's not that much but over the course 20:08 of millions of years this background 20:11 radiation 20:13 everything is exposed to unless your 20:15 repairing the damage to these molecules 20:19 you're gonna wind up shredding them 20:21 because they're big molecules and form 20:23 that radiation can you just embrace said 20:26 over millions of years you don't believe 20:27 there has been no in fact the whole 20:31 point of this is the fact that we find 20:34 these molecules in in fossils is a 20:41 pretty good indicator that those fossils 20:44 are not in fact millions of years old 20:46 and so the idea would be and dr. Ryan 20:49 correct me if I'm dr. Hayes dr. Ryan 20:52 Hayes correct correct me if I'm getting 20:54 this wrong but you know if you find 20:59 something that should have broken down 21:01 over a long period of time that probably 21:03 tells you that there hasn't been a long 21:04 period of time that's absolutely right 21:08 I think many people don't realize that 21:11 our DNA and a lot of the molecules in 21:14 our body are just being pummeled we have 21:17 thousands of breaks happening every day 21:20 because of the radioactive earth that we 21:23 live in I loved making that point to my 21:25 students and the people I talked to we 21:28 live in a very radioactive world and the 21:31 reason why we don't see a lot of that 21:32 damage in the short term like days weeks 21:36 and years is that we there are at least 21:38 five known repair systems that are 21:41 constantly fixing the trillions of miles 21:45 of DNA that we have in our in our in our 21:47 body so without those repair mechanisms 21:50 DNA and and so many other organic 21:53 molecules will just fall apart from the 21:56 radioactivity and other things that 21:58 we've talked about so just we live in a 22:00 really radioactive world but we're sort 22:02 of shielded from that in the sense that 22:04 there there was design that knew what 22:07 problems would happen and systems a 22:10 little machines that go in and fix our 22:11 DNA so our DNA is constantly being 22:15 destroyed in little bits and pieces 22:17 every day and it's eventually after 22:20 enough decades 22:22 you know this leads to cancer and so 22:24 this is why there's such a problem 22:25 some cancer is that eventually the 22:28 systems can't keep up with all the 22:30 damage that's happening in our bodies 22:31 this work received the Nobel Prize in 22:34 2015 in chemistry figuring out how our 22:37 DNA is being repaired so when we find 22:40 these things in the ground and earn the 22:42 earth it can't be that all these things 22:45 just don't last that long so what about 22:47 what about a situation like these people 22:50 who freeze their bodies so that they 22:53 could be resurrected later on is that 22:56 something that I mean is is there some 22:58 conceivable way in which we could 23:01 preserve things in you know so they 23:05 would last for millions of years as as 23:07 being as some people believe apparently 23:11 yeah sure I mean that's I mean you would 23:13 want to try that right if you could cool 23:15 things down cold enough maybe you could 23:18 stop a lot of the degradation but the 23:21 fact of the matter is a lot of that 23:23 radioactivity is gonna just slam right 23:25 through even frozen material so sure 23:30 it's a good idea to try to free 23:32 something or encase it in something so 23:34 it can last a long time but that is a 23:38 real even then in and themself is a real 23:40 challenge and takes design to figure out 23:42 how can you can preserve something for 23:45 such a long time in a random fashion 23:48 just throw some cold on it and will last 23:50 forever I don't think so you know but 23:53 that's just something that scientists 23:55 are looking at how do you keep something 23:56 lasts for a long time it's not an easy 23:57 because it's a it's a hard problem to 24:00 get biological materials to last a long 24:03 time 24:03 it's a hard problem and so even when 24:06 people are working on it then you say 24:08 that's something that probably isn't 24:10 going to happen little in with with some 24:13 fossil that that's being buried in the 24:15 ground in in whatever in sandstone or 24:19 limestone or whatever you just simply 24:20 wouldn't expect to get anything lasting 24:23 for for millions of years and then no 24:26 that's it's exactly right I mean so we 24:30 shouldn't be we shouldn't be surprised 24:32 that these things degrade fast we should 24:35 be surprised that we're seeing anything 24:37 and I think a lot of scientists are 24:38 surprised 24:39 that bones are turning up tissue and 24:42 just finding anything that resembles 24:45 organic molecules is just utterly 24:47 amazing but yet that's what we're 24:49 finding in bones and a lot of samples 24:51 that by radiometric means they seem to 24:55 be really old but yet the defy you know 25:00 chemical degradation this is this is 25:03 amazing so I think this is some really 25:05 good evidence pointing to the fact that 25:08 life is a relatively recent thing on 25:11 this planet thousands of years I think I 25:14 think we have to take that into strong 25:17 consideration for sure so that means 25:19 that you do accept the biblical account 25:23 and the generations to say that our 25:25 earth is probably no more than six 25:27 thousand years old yeah you know you 25:31 ever take a few thousand years but for 25:33 sure and I think as a scientist you have 25:35 to look at the credibility of the Bible 25:38 and the fact that this document has 25:41 lasted so long and is described so many 25:43 things that are so accurate now I would 25:46 love for my textbook to be that accurate 25:51 well so we have to thank you so much for 25:56 joining us dr. Hayes I know we could 25:57 talk about this forever it seems it's a 26:02 wonderful and fabulous topic you know 26:04 surely one of the things I love about 26:06 science is that it is full of surprises 26:11 and sometimes to be perfectly honest I 26:15 don't know what to do with those 26:16 surprises but I remember when I first 26:19 heard about these molecules inside 26:21 dinosaur bones I was shocked 26:24 in fact my colleague who told me about 26:26 it I said I don't think that's going to 26:28 be true and yet what we found I on some 26:32 other side also collected peer-reviewed 26:35 scientific papers we have hundreds of 26:37 them now reporting these things it's 26:41 very strong evidence that life is 26:44 thousands not millions of years old and 26:47 it's just like archeological finds when 26:50 people said oh no there was no David 26:52 was no this archeology finally found it 26:55 and that's what's happening now science 26:58 is finding proof our evidence of a 27:02 recent creation 27:05 [Music] 27:27 you