Is the theory of evolution a scientific fact, or is it an idiotic fairy tale promoted by brain damaged people who would rather believe the impossible than acknowledge the possibility of a supernatural creator? We ll discuss that on this week's episode of The Faith By Reason Podcast.
00:02:27.760A couple of podcasts ago, we talked about the physics of creation and we showed not only is it possible for the universe to have been spoken into existence,
00:02:37.260but that based on quantum theory, it's the only possibility that has any validity.
00:02:44.540And in the last podcast, we looked at what the Bible says about creation.
00:02:49.280So in this podcast and in the next, because I'm such a generous, magnanimous person, I am going to give the democratic response.
00:02:58.540I'm going to give the opposing view to supernatural creation.
00:03:02.620And that is the secular position of evolution.
00:03:05.800And we all know that evolution is completely true, right?
00:03:09.620I mean, it is scientific fact that has been proven beyond the shadow of a doubt.
00:03:38.060And if you don't believe in evolution, well, then you're just nothing more than a knuckle-dragging backwards hillbilly who probably has three teeth in his whole head and you only have a third grade education and you farm manure for a living.
00:03:53.280And you probably got your pinky toe bitten off by a squirrel in a hunting accident.
00:03:57.600And you probably think that women should no longer have the right to vote and black people should still be slaves.
00:04:04.940And you probably voted for Donald Trump.
00:04:06.580Or, even worse, you're probably one of them there fundamentalist Christians who believe there's a magic man in the sky who grants wishes and judges you.
00:07:42.840And then, somehow, nothing exploded, creating all the energy and matter in the universe.
00:07:50.040And then 100 trillion beneficial accidents all happened in a row, resulting in everything we see, hear, taste, touch, and feel, and life as we know it.
00:08:00.300Now, to be fair, evolutionists don't really believe that nothing exploded.
00:08:04.080They believe that all of the potential matter and energy of the universe was all contained in a subatomic particle that existed at the beginning of the universe.
00:08:14.600And they call that particle, ironically, the God particle.
00:08:18.520And apparently, this is the subatomic particle that exploded and all that potential energy was released and it became all the energy and matter of the universe.
00:08:26.200Problem is, where did this God particle come from?
00:08:29.340Well, scientists say it always existed.
00:08:31.260Well, that's kind of a problem because we know that the universe is finite.
00:08:37.380And if it did always exist, then the second law of thermodynamics, which we talked about a few podcasts ago, which would mean that all of that potential energy would have dissipated and there would be no energy to cause the explosion.
00:08:48.100So, it's impossible for this God particle to exist.
00:08:52.340Yet still, they're still looking for it.
00:08:53.900I mean, if you take a look at the big experiment happening over on the Frankel-Swiss border over in Europe, the CERN experiment, where they have this $17 billion large hadron collider where they're smashing protons against each other, trying to recreate this God particle, which they haven't done.
00:09:10.740Which means it's not empirical because no one's ever seen this God particle and no one's ever been able to reproduce it.
00:09:15.940And I kind of think the whole CERN thing is a bad idea because if they were able to recreate this particle that allegedly caused the universe and it exploded, wouldn't it destroy this current universe and start a whole new one?
00:09:43.340Well, what they do, what scientists do, is they use the uncertainty aspects of quantum physics as their straw horse.
00:09:48.720They say, well, you know, even though it doesn't seem to conform to the laws of physics as we know them, once you get down to the quantum level, physics gets a little bit fuzzy.
00:09:57.340And somewhere in that fuzziness is how this God particle could exist and explode.
00:10:08.600But again, since I'm generous, I'm just going to let it go and presume that even though it's impossible, somehow this non-existing God particle exploded and created everything.
00:10:56.960I mean, not that many times in a row, I can maybe think of a beneficial accident where, let's say, I trip over something in my house and I fall down.
00:11:03.960And as I'm on the ground, I can look over and I see under the couch something I lost.
00:11:08.680Well, OK, that's a beneficial accident.
00:11:10.600But what's the likelihood that the next four or five or six accidents I have will also be beneficial?
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00:16:53.540If the Earth was a little bit bigger, it would have too much gravity and it would trap the wrong kinds of gases in our atmosphere and it would make life impossible.
00:17:00.840If the Earth was a little smaller, it wouldn't have enough gravity to hold a stable atmosphere.
00:17:05.460You can look at the planet Mars, for an example.
00:17:07.080Mars is a little bit smaller than the Earth, but because it has less gravity, it can't hold an atmosphere.
00:17:12.040You can look at the oxygen level of the Earth.
00:17:17.080If the oxygen level, right now it's 21% of the atmosphere is oxygen.
00:17:22.980If oxygen was a little more, let's say 25%, well, fires would erupt spontaneously because, you know, fire speed on oxygen.
00:17:30.440If it was a little less, say 15%, well, there wouldn't be enough oxygen in the air for us to breathe.
00:17:57.740It's tilted just right to force to have seasons.
00:18:00.180If the Earth's tilt was a little more or a little less, the surface temperature would be too extreme, either too hot or too cold to support life.
00:18:06.860The moon, the distance and size of the moon.
00:18:10.940If the moon was a little bigger or a little smaller, the tidal effect would be either too much or too little to support life.
00:18:17.780If the Earth's reflectivity and refractivity, if those were a little more or less, life would be impossible.
00:18:53.280They say it's the way that by random chance, the Earth is just seemingly fine-tuned for life.
00:18:59.280Well, if it's random chance, let's put some probability to it.
00:19:02.440And someone much smarter than me did that.
00:19:04.540A man named Hugh Ross, a master physicist, calculated the odds of any planet in the universe by random chance, having all, not even all of them, just 100 of them, 122 of them.
00:19:14.640What are the odds of one planet having just 100 of those aspects that the Earth has?
00:19:21.260Well, scientists have estimated that there are in the universe, the number of planets is 10 to the 22nd.
00:20:17.940But since I am such a wonderful, generous person, I'm just going to ignore that possibility and keep going with our evolutionary study.
00:20:24.660But I just have to say, this is why I find it so funny whenever I see one of these reports that come out every now and then about how scientists have found an Earth-like planet out there somewhere in the galaxy, in the universe, that might contain life.
00:20:38.480Because it's roughly the size of our Earth, orbiting a star roughly the size of our Sun, in roughly the same distance.
00:20:58.980Well, according to evolutionists, the early atmosphere of the Earth was the atmosphere had methane and sulfur and ammonia and water vapor and carbon dioxide.
00:21:09.580And in the atmosphere, there were storms going on all the time, very intense storms.
00:21:13.100And there were tons of lightning strikes happening.
00:21:14.840And the lightning would strike the atmosphere with all these different gases in it.
00:21:19.520And it would be the catalyst for a chemical reaction that would form amino acids.
00:21:24.780Amino acids are one of the basic building blocks of organic life.
00:21:29.60022 of them are vital for organic life.
00:21:32.680So you had these amino acids form in the sky when the lightning strikes.
00:21:36.820And these amino acids would fall down into the ocean.
00:21:39.620And over millions of years of these lightning strikes happening and these amino acids falling into the ocean, the oceans were teeming with amino acids, with the organic building blocks of life.
00:21:51.040And over millions of years, they're swimming around and bumping into each other and having a big old amino acid rave party.
00:21:58.780And eventually, they start linking up.
00:22:00.220Chemical bonds form between the amino acids.
00:22:02.200So one amino acid becomes two, which becomes three, then four, then five, then six.
00:22:06.640Then you have a long chain of amino acids.
00:22:08.960Well, then you can get protein because protein is a long chain of amino acids.
00:22:13.940And proteins are the basic building block of organic life.
00:22:19.000That's what all of our cells are made of.
00:22:21.020And all the cells of every living thing, they're made of proteins.
00:22:23.940So now you have all these proteins coming together.
00:22:26.920And eventually, these proteins differentiate each other and they start reacting with each other.
00:22:31.560And then by random chance, over millions of years, they eventually form the first simple cell.
00:24:12.120Let's examine every step along the way and see if any of it matches up with empirical science.
00:24:18.580So let's go back to the early Earth's atmosphere and all those gases floating around and lightning striking them and amino acids forming.
00:24:26.100Well, believe it or not, that part actually is empirical, sort of.
00:24:31.160A famous experiment was done called the Miller-Urey experiment back in the 1950s.
00:24:36.220A scientist named Stanley Miller decides to replicate the early atmosphere of the Earth in the early conditions.
00:24:43.240So he gets a container, fills it full of the gases that were allegedly on the Earth at that time, and in the bottom of the container puts water.
00:24:50.760And then to simulate lightning strikes, he passes a spark through the atmosphere.
00:28:37.760They would have destroyed the amino acids immediately.
00:28:41.360You know, the ozone layer was a really big thing about, you know, 20 plus years ago in atmospheric science and environmental science.
00:28:49.500But I guess it's kind of taking a back seat in the new, most politically active environmental science is global warming or climate change or whatever they're deciding to call it this week.
00:28:58.640So the whole ozone layer thing is kind of taking the back seat.
00:29:03.020It's actually provable that ultraviolet radiation harms us as opposed to the whole global climate change thing, which is still quite debatable.
00:29:11.240Nevertheless, without oxygen, ultraviolet radiation would instantly destroy the amino acids.
00:29:16.420So no matter whether the oxygen did, whether the atmosphere did or did not have oxygen, the amino acids couldn't survive.
00:29:26.540I will assume that somehow the amino acids were able to exist in an atmosphere that did and didn't have oxygen in it at the same time, even though that's a contradiction.
00:29:36.520I'll just pretend that for the sake of evolution, contradictions can suddenly exist.
00:29:41.200So now we have these amino acids and they fall into the ocean.
00:29:44.420And now you've got, in over millions of years, the ocean's teeming with it.
00:29:47.740You have the organic soup, as scientists call it, of amino acids in the ocean.
00:29:52.120And they're bumping into each other and having the big old amino acid rave party.
00:29:55.300And they start linking together and forming bonds.
00:29:57.740Now, here's a little 10th grade chemistry for you, something you should have learned in high school.
00:30:02.500And that is whenever two molecules bond together, there is always a byproduct.
00:30:06.360They always give up something, either a molecule or a few atoms.
00:30:10.600And whatever, so they bond together and there's a byproduct.
00:30:14.780You should use a smaller amount of another piece of material.
00:30:18.260And whatever that byproduct is, if you want to break apart that bond, what you do is you simply reintroduce the molecule or substance that was given off, that byproduct, and that breaks the bond.
00:30:32.180You reintroduce it to the bond and it breaks the bond.
00:30:34.900And, chemically speaking, 10th grade chemistry, molecules tend to want to break apart more so than they want to bond.
00:30:41.260So, when two amino acids join together, what's their byproduct?
00:30:46.300Well, their byproduct is a little familiar molecule called H2O, otherwise known as water.
00:30:51.280So, water is the solvent of amino acid bonds.
00:30:56.640Now, when these amino acids form in the sky, what do they fall into?
00:31:46.900I'm just going to ignore yet another impossibility and say that somehow, even though they're in a pool of their own solvent, amino acids are still able to bond together and form proteins.
00:32:03.800Yes, proteins are a long chain of amino acids, but proteins are very complex.
00:32:08.920They're actually, they're a matrix of amino acids, and they're actually, for lack of a better term, kind of bent and twisted in a way to form a certain matrix that are specific to the protein.
00:33:33.320But in order to form that simple life, that simplest bacteria, the simplest living cell imaginable, the simplest single cell possible, you need 2,000 different proteins.
00:35:53.96010 to the 17th is much smaller than the numbers we've been talking about.
00:35:59.180That means if you took, for every second in the universe, if you tried once every second, for every second the universe has ever existed, and tried to have a single protein form, you wouldn't be close.
00:36:12.42010 to the 17th is way smaller than 2 to the 75th.
00:37:00.800Well, when you multiply numbers with exponents, you just add the exponents.
00:37:05.420So if you multiply 10 to the 17th times 10 to the 80th, the seconds in the universe, multiplied by the number of atoms in the universe, well, you just come to 10 to the 97th.
00:37:14.940Still way too small of a number to deal with 2 to the 75th and 10 to the 40,000th and 10 to the 100 billionth.
00:37:44.560Impossible to magnitudes we can't even imagine.
00:37:46.840We don't have the words to describe how ludicrous this theory is.
00:37:52.040We don't have the words in English language or any language that I know of that can adequately describe how ridiculous it is for something to have one chance in 10 to the 100 billionth when impossible is 10 to the 50th.
00:38:05.620So why do people believe this nonsense?
00:38:10.320Why is it the dominant worldview of our culture?
00:38:14.240Why do scientists who should know better believe in this ludicrous nonsense?
00:38:19.740Well, the truth is, most high-level scientists don't.
00:38:22.640They keep it on the down low, but the high-level scientists don't.
00:38:33.220I wouldn't want to try to teach these brats.
00:38:34.620I know what I was like when I was in school.
00:38:36.120And I wouldn't want to deal with people like me either.
00:38:38.500But the truth is, they're not high-level scientists.
00:38:40.240If they were high-level, they'd be working at the university research level or in a private institution.
00:38:45.380And these lower-level scientists, they just do what they're told.
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00:40:27.040An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle.
00:40:37.720So many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.