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0:02it's the story of how God was seeking a
0:06bride for his son each book is different
0:09from every other book I'm trying to give
0:11you the keys for you to unlock it for
0:15[Music]
0:26yourself well we've got as far as
0:29chapter two and we've got 5050 or 48
0:32more to go so let's uh look in detail at
0:36chapter 2 there's a radical shift in
0:39style in content above all in Viewpoint
0:42when you read chapter 1 and close your
0:44eyes you feel yourself hovering just
0:47above the Earth but when you read
0:50chapter 2 and close your eyes you feel
0:52you're standing firmly on the ground and
0:55looking around instead of looking
0:57down that's because in chapter two man
1:01has become the center of the picture in
1:03chapter one God is the center and
1:05everything is from his angle his point
1:07of view but in Chapter 2 man is right at
1:11the center of the picture and man is now
1:14an
1:15individual in fact the generic terms of
1:18chapter 1 give way to specific names in
1:22Chapter 2 in chapter one the human race
1:25is simply male and female in Chapter 2
1:29male and female has become Adam and Eve
1:31two particular individuals God himself
1:35has a name now in Chapter 2 in chapter
1:38one he is simply God but now in your
1:41English Bibles it says he is the Lord
1:43God but when you read the word Lord in
1:46capital letters in your English Bibles
1:49that means that in the Hebrew his name
1:51is there and in the Hebrew since they
1:54don't have vowels his name is made up of
1:57four consonants j h
2:00VH from which the word Jehovah has been
2:04coined but that's a mistake because J is
2:07pronounced like a y and V is pronounced
2:10like a w so in English pronunciation it
2:14would be y
2:16HWH from which we get the word Yahweh in
2:20the New Jerusalem bible that uh word is
2:24there just as it is the Yahweh God I've
2:29already given you the English word
2:31always as being very near to that
2:34participle of the verb to be being
2:37always that's the
2:39name so God now has a name man now has a
2:44name and later in the chapter woman has
2:46a name there are names here not just
2:49names of persons but names of places no
2:52longer are we talking about the dry land
2:55we're talking about the land of havila
2:57and the land of kush and the land of of
3:00Asher and the Garden of Eden and not
3:03only have has the dry land now got names
3:06but the water has names and there are
3:09four rivers mentioned here of which we
3:11are familiar with two today tigis and
3:14Euphrates that puts the Garden of Eden
3:17somewhere near uh East Northeastern
3:20turkey or Armenia somewhere in there
3:24actually where the Mount Ararat still is
3:27where people incidentally are still
3:28looking for Noah's Ark
3:30so that locates us but the significance
3:33of the names is greater than that it's
3:36not just making things particular names
3:39make relationships possible and the big
3:43thing that happens in Genesis 2 is that
3:46man is seen at the center of a network
3:49of
3:50relationships and the meaning of life
3:53for us is in
3:55relationship and these relationships as
3:57we're going to see have three dimensions
4:00the relationship above
4:03us the relationship to those and things
4:06below us and the relationships that we
4:09have
4:10alongside so there's a vertical
4:12relationship to the God above a vertical
4:15relationship to Nature below and a
4:18horizontal n relationship with human
4:21nature in other people and ourselves but
4:23before we come to that let's notice one
4:26or two more
4:27things in chapter 1
4:30God is simply described as God Elohim
4:33which means three and yet three in one
4:36with singular verbs as we saw and a God
4:39who is like men because man is made like
4:43God that's a very important insight
4:46there is an affinity between human
4:48beings and God that is lacking in every
4:51other part of God's creation there is no
4:54animal that has this you never saw a
4:57chimpanzee prey there is something in us
5:01that is quite different from every other
5:03creature on earth and that something is
5:06that we are like the Creator in a unique
5:09way in Genesis 2 there seems to be a
5:13change to the difference between God and
5:15man that we he is unlike us and we are
5:18unlike him and we need to balance these
5:20two facts we are like God yet not like
5:24him he is like us and yet not like us
5:28and we need to keep that balance in
5:30order to have a good relationship with
5:32him the fact that he's like us means
5:35that our relationship with him can be
5:37intimate but the fact that he's unlike
5:40us will keep the relationship
5:43reverent and this balance between
5:45intimacy and reverence is terribly
5:48important especially in our worship you
5:52can become too familiar with God or to p
5:55with God as if he's just one of the
5:58congregation or you you can become too
6:01Ed by him and almost shrink into
6:05yourself and not be able to call him
6:07father he is Holy Father in Heaven he's
6:11like us and unlike us we are like him
6:13and unlike him and we need to keep that
6:16in balance and the first two chapters
6:18help us to do that the name Adam means
6:24Dusty because that signifies what uh
6:27material God used to make the first man
6:30so he's called Dusty and his wife is
6:32called Lively or Eve to you but they are
6:36descriptive names and names in the Bible
6:40are invariably
6:42descriptive even
6:45onomic meaning that the name sounds like
6:47the sound of the thing like the word
6:50cucko that's an onom matate word in fact
6:53when man named the animals as God told
6:57him to he used descript of the animals
7:00and that became its
7:02name names in the Bible are not only
7:06descriptive they carry Authority in them
7:10in other words the person who gives the
7:12name has
7:14authority over the person who receives
7:16the name so Adam names all the animals
7:21signifying his authority over them un
7:24incidentally he names his wife which uh
7:28still applies to weddings when a wife
7:30takes the husband's name that has
7:33profound implications so names are
7:35important and with Genesis 2 were right
7:38into names of One sort or
7:41another now look at the three dimensions
7:43of Human Relationships the first is the
7:46relationship we have to the the other
7:49creatures God has made and the
7:52relationship is one of subduing them God
7:55gave us the animals to serve us that
7:59does not mean that we have a license to
8:01be cruel or a license to obliterate them
8:05make them
8:06extinct but nevertheless it does mean
8:09that animals are further down the scale
8:11of value than human beings that's
8:14important especially in these days when
8:16there is total confusion I remember
8:19seeing a few women in Australia on a
8:22March of protest against the killing of
8:25baby seals and I know that those same
8:28women would not hesitate to have an
8:30abortion we live in a crazy world where
8:33a baby seal is considered of more value
8:36than a human being Jesus was willing to
8:39sacrifice 2,000 pigs in order to save
8:43one man's sanity and restore him to his
8:46family we need to get a sense of
8:47proportion that doesn't mean we've got
8:49to treat animals as if they have no
8:51feelings but it does mean that uh there
8:54is a scale of values and the creatures
8:57are put under man to serve men later we
9:01shall see after the flood to provide
9:03food for men and uh God canel the
9:08vegetarianism of creation After the
9:11flood you remember reading that in
9:14Genesis uh one and two God
9:18gave man a vegetarian diet of fruit and
9:22seed and gave the uh well made the
9:25animals herbivores rather than
9:27carnivores that's uh a sign ific thing
9:30too so in relation to Nature below us we
9:34are to have dominion over nature and
9:36Rule nature and therefore affect
9:39it we're to cultivate nature and control
9:43it it's interesting that man needs an
9:46environment that is both utilitarian and
9:50aesthetic both useful and beautiful and
9:54God did not put man in the wilderness he
9:56planted a garden for him that had
9:59aesthetic as well as utilitarian value
10:02much as old Cottage Gardens in England
10:05were a mixture of pansies and
10:08potatoes uh the useful and the Beautiful
10:10alongside each other man needs more than
10:14utility he needs more than food he needs
10:16Beauty around
10:17him because he has that within him which
10:20appreciates Beauty I never saw a dog
10:23gazing at a Sunset and saying isn't that
10:25marvelous there is that within us like
10:28God which needs more than mere existence
10:32we need to appreciate and enjoy things
10:36and not just
10:39survive well now the second relationship
10:42we have is to God
10:43above and those two trees in the garden
10:46are very important one made you live
10:49longer and one made you live
10:51shorter those two trees are not uh
10:55magical trees they are what I would call
10:57sacramental trees God can appoint
11:01physical channels to communicate
11:03spiritual blessings or curses to us
11:07that's why taking Bread and Wine wrongly
11:09in the Lord's Supper can lead you to be
11:11sick and even
11:12die it's because God they're not magical
11:15The Bread and Wine but God has appointed
11:18those physical channels of his grace and
11:22of his judgment and so I see nothing
11:25strange in trees that had such profound
11:28spiritual effect
11:30it's the sacramental principle again God
11:32uses the physical to communicate the
11:35spiritual one tree the Tree of Life
11:39tells me that Adam and Eve were not by
11:41Nature
11:42Immortal but were capable of being
11:46Immortal they wouldn't have lived
11:48forever by some inherent quality of
11:50their own but by having access to the
11:53Tree of Life they could go on living
11:55forever no scientist has yet discovered
11:58why we die
12:00they have discovered many ways how we
12:02die but why is it that the clock inside
12:05US starts winding down after all it's a
12:08wonderful machine the body and if we
12:10keep it supplied with food and fresh air
12:12and exercise it can go on replacing
12:15itself I change my skin every few weeks
12:19most of the dust in your bedroom is your
12:20discarded
12:22skin and you can go on replacing broken
12:26parts an amazing machine why can't it go
12:29on on doing
12:30that no scientist can tell us they're
12:32trying to find the elixir of Life The
12:35Secret of keeping the clock
12:38going but the secret was in the tree of
12:41life and God was making possible for
12:44human beings to go on living Forever by
12:47putting that tree in the garden for him
12:51so man was not inherently Immortal but
12:53could be by feeding on God's constant
12:56supply of life the other tree however
13:01was a very significant tree when you
13:04read the word knowledge substitute for
13:07that the word experience for knowledge
13:09in the Bible is personal
13:11experience Adam knew Eve and she
13:15conceived and bore a son that's what
13:17knowledge is in Scripture it is a
13:19personal experience of someone or
13:21something to
13:23know and God said I don't want you to
13:27know good and evil or to put it simply I
13:31want you to retain your
13:34innocence tragedy is every one of us in
13:37this room has lost our innocence in one
13:39way or another because once you do a
13:40wrong thing you can never be the same as
13:43you were you you may be forgiven but
13:46you've lost your innocence the terrible
13:50thing to lose because happiness belongs
13:52to
13:53innocence that's why Paul said in things
13:56evil I'd rather be as innocent as a baby
14:00innocence is happiness and God wanted
14:03Adam and Eve to retain their innocence
14:05so why did he put such a tree within
14:07their reach it was his way of saying I
14:10retain moral authority over you in other
14:15words you don't decide for yourself
14:17what's right and wrong you trust me to
14:19tell you what's right and wrong and of
14:22course every parent hopes their children
14:23will do the same you hope your children
14:26won't find out the hard way what's bad
14:28for them
14:29you hope they'll trust you and keep off
14:31what's bad but that is your parental
14:34Authority and God is saying to the human
14:37beings he's created you are not
14:40landlords on Earth you are the tenants
14:42and I'm the landlord and I retain the
14:45right to tell you what's good for you
14:47and what isn't the trouble is most of us
14:50in fact all of us in some way or another
14:53won't be told we're going to try it for
14:56ourselves to see whether it's good or
14:58bad there is result is you lose your
15:00innocence you can never be the same
15:02again it's tragic well now that's what
15:05the tree stood for it was saying you
15:08still relate to me as your moral
15:11Authority I still decide what's good and
15:13bad for
15:15you then the relationship alongside man
15:19not only needs to relate to that which
15:20is beneath him and he who is above him
15:24he needs someone alongside him we need
15:27horizontal relation ships something
15:30rather sad about an old age pensioner
15:32who only relates to a
15:34cat there's something not fully human
15:37there do you know what I
15:38mean nor are we fully human if we're
15:41just relating to God and not to other
15:43people we need this network I love the
15:47word Shalom I always sign it in books
15:49and I'm willing to sign you books later
15:50by the way but I always sign Shalom then
15:53my name Shalom is a beautiful word it
15:55means harmony harmony with yourself
15:59harmony with God harmony with other
16:01people and harmony with nature there's
16:04nothing better you could wish for
16:06somebody than that is there Shalom
16:09harmony with yourself with others with
16:11God and with nature here we have in
16:13Genesis 2 a picture of that Harmony and
16:17God
16:18warns Adam break that
16:21Harmony and you have to
16:24die not necessarily immediately but the
16:27clock will begin to wind down
16:29and the reason why God said that is very
16:31simple it seems a harsh punishment for
16:35just a little sin but God is saying that
16:37once you have experienced
16:40evil I have to limit the length of your
16:43life on Earth otherwise evil would
16:46become
16:47Eternal now you can see the sense of
16:49that can't you that if God allowed
16:52rebellious people to live forever they
16:54would ruin his Universe
16:56forever so he has put it time limit on
17:00those who will not accept his moral
17:03Authority now man needed this horizontal
17:07relationship a suitable companion and
17:11however much a pet May mean a dog or a
17:14cat or a bird cannot ever replace
17:17personal friendship with other human
17:20beings now in Genesis one male and
17:23female are equal in
17:26dignity and we shall see later in
17:29depravity and in Destiny let there be no
17:33mistake the first statement about male
17:35and female in the Bible they are both
17:37equally in the image of God but in
17:41Genesis 2 their function is different
17:45and we notice four things that are all
17:48picked up in the New Testament number
17:49one woman is made from
17:53man she therefore derives her being from
17:57him number two
17:59she is made after man therefore he
18:03carries the responsibility of the
18:05firstborn the significance of that will
18:08become clear in Genesis 3 where Adam is
18:12blamed for the sin not Eve he was
18:16responsible for her and the third thing
18:20that is stated is that she was made for
18:23him Adam had a job before he had a wife
18:27and man is made primarily for his work
18:31and woman is made primarily for
18:33relationships that doesn't mean that a
18:35man mustn't have relationships so that a
18:37woman mustn't go out to work it it's
18:39asking what is the primary purpose for
18:43which God made male and female and the
18:46fact that men named woman in this
18:50chapter also shows how the partnership
18:53is to work not as a democracy how can it
18:56when there are only two votes and each
18:58has one
19:00but as a partnership in which one has
19:03the
19:04responsibility rather than the right of
19:07leadership and that's how it is meant to
19:10work in
19:12cooperation it becomes competition when
19:15that leadership becomes domination on
19:17the part of the men that simply leads to
19:19Defiance in the woman and the harmony is
19:24broken there are many things said here
19:26in Genesis 2 which are terribly relevant
19:31here they are sex is
19:33good it is not spelled sin n it is
19:37beautiful in fact God said it was very
19:40good sex was created for partnership
19:44rather than
19:45Parenthood that's a very important point
19:48which has bearing on the question of
19:51contraception the pattern for sexual
19:55enjoyment is
19:57monogamy the school boy called it
19:59monotony but actually that means to be
20:02married to one person for the rest of
20:04your joint
20:06existence that here marriage is made up
20:08of two things leaving and cleaving which
20:12means there is a physical and a social
20:14aspect which together make a
20:17marriage either without the other is not
20:19a marriage sexual intercourse without
20:22social recognition is not marriage it's
20:24fornication social recognition without
20:27consumation is not a marriage um and
20:31therefore should be
20:33annulled an important Point here is that
20:35marriage takes precedence over all other
20:39relationships there would be no jokes
20:41about parents-in-law if that had been
20:45observed throughout history a person's
20:48partner is their first priority before
20:50all other
20:52relationships before even the children
20:56that husband and wife put each other abs
20:58absolutely top
21:00priority the ideal here painted of a
21:03couple is with nothing to hide from each
21:06other with no embarrassment and total
21:09openness to each other amazing picture
21:12here and it's to this picture that Jesus
21:15was to appeal centuries later there are
21:18many more things I could have pointed
21:20out well now here is a human being in
21:23this Matrix of relationships with a God
21:27above with companion alongside and with
21:32nature underneath to subdue what is
21:36below to submit to what is above or who
21:40is above and to look to each other for
21:43support
21:45alongside that's the picture and these
21:47are the three basic relationships which
21:50every human being needs and needs to get
21:53right and when sin comes in as we shall
21:56see every one of these relationships is
21:59spoiled the whole network is
22:03broken well now this is Genesis 2
22:07looking at men in his context as a
22:10creature within creation and the
22:13messages that it brings are very clear
22:16and very much
22:18needed however there are scientific
22:22problems and particularly two which I
22:26feel we ought to look at briefly during
22:28during this talk the one is where do
22:31prehistoric men fit in in other words
22:36modern man's relationship to prehistoric
22:39men and the other of course is the much
22:42bigger question is man directly and
22:45physically related to the animal world
22:48the whole question of
22:49evolution be much easier to discuss
22:52Evolution if it was limited to plants
22:53and animals it was the inclusion of man
22:57in that theory
22:59that provoked the major crisis and
23:01indeed raises the major question let's
23:04look first then at our relationship to
23:09prehistoric men since various remains
23:13have been found especially by the leis
23:17father and son in the Ori gorge in Kenya
23:21and in other places the claim that human
23:23life began in Africa rather than the
23:26Middle East where the Bible puts it this
23:28rais es all kinds of
23:30questions we need to look first then at
23:33the relationship of modern man to
23:36prehistoric men what does science say
23:38about this what does Scripture say and
23:40can they be
23:41reconciled let's look first what the
23:43Bible says about the origin of man quite
23:47clearly the Bible says man is made of
23:50the same original material as the
23:53animals the animals were made from the
23:55dust of the earth we too are made of
23:57exactly the the same minerals that are
24:00found in the crust of the earth I gather
24:03that the minerals in my body are worth
24:05about 85
24:08P doesn't help my self-esteem but I know
24:12that all these elements will go back to
24:14the Earth either quickly in creation or
24:16slowly in burial but they'll go back to
24:19where they belong and where they came
24:21from so that man and animals are made
24:23from the same stuff and that phrase in
24:26Genesis 2 that God breathed into the
24:28dust Man became a living soul don't let
24:33that word Soul mislead you that exact
24:36phrase is used of the animals in Genesis
24:381 they are called living Souls because
24:43in Hebrew the word Soul simply means a
24:46breathing
24:48body and so since animals and men are
24:50described as living Souls they are the
24:53same kind of beings we are breathing
24:55bodies that's why when your body is in
24:57danger of stopping breathing you send
25:00out an
25:02SOS instead of an S so you send out save
25:06our souls what you mean is save my
25:08breathing body that's Hebrew
25:11talk again Lord sopr in h Park Corner
25:14was once
25:15asked where what shape is your soul and
25:18he replied
25:20oblong which is good
25:22theology I am an oblong Soul I'll be
25:26buried in an Oblong Box that's the shape
25:28of my soul and the questioner then asked
25:32him then where is the soul in the body
25:35he said where the music is in the
25:38organ which again was good theology
25:41because you can take an organ or a piano
25:42to pieces and you won't find the music
25:45but it's
25:46there it's there when it's made into a
25:48living thing by somebody else now that's
25:51important because that word soul in
25:53Genesis 2 has misled many people into
25:56thinking that what make man unique is
25:58that he has a soul no that word soul is
26:02simply means a breathing body but I
26:04think I have to say that Genesis 2
26:07speaks very clearly of man as a special
26:12creation and does seem incompatible with
26:15believing that men and the anthropoid
26:18Apes came from common stock so there is
26:20a direct Clash there and the statement
26:23that he is made in the image of
26:25God that he's made direct from dust and
26:28not from an animal and made in the image
26:30of God seems to put him in a very
26:33special creation category and the Hebrew
26:35word barah is used three times as I've
26:38said of matter life and man as if
26:41there's something quite new and unique
26:43about
26:45men now when we look at what science
26:48says oh by the way
26:50historical uh understanding of men
26:53emphasizes the unity of the human race
26:56Paul speaking in Athens said said God
26:58has made us of one blood that's true I
27:01know there are different varieties of
27:02blood but everything in history points
27:05to the unity of our human race at
27:07present and I've studied agricultural
27:10archaeology a little and it's
27:12interesting that agricultural
27:14archaeology puts the origins of growing
27:17corn and domesticating animals exactly
27:21where the Bible puts the Garden of Eden
27:23the earliest traces we have of
27:26Agriculture are in Northeast turkey
27:29Southern Armenia exactly where the
27:32Garden of Eden was I found that an
27:34interesting sidelight but when we ask
27:36what science is saying many people would
27:40have us look at this false antithesis
27:44has science made false investigations
27:47into prehistoric men or has scripture
27:50given us false information once again
27:53the
27:54repudiation of one or the other is
27:57presented tour us for example it said
27:59that piltdown men was a
28:02forgery have you heard that you know
28:05pill down man down in Sussex there's a
28:08pub called that right near the spot
28:10where it was found but piltown man was
28:13discovered to be the jaw of a
28:15pig and many Christians threw their hats
28:18up in the air shouted Hallelujah and
28:19said there you are science was
28:22wrong but we have to be honest and say
28:24who discovered piltown was a
28:26forgery was wasn't Christians who
28:29discovered that it was science that
28:31discovered it was a forgery you can't
28:33have it both ways Christians you can't
28:36say science is wrong because pill down
28:38was a forgery when science discovered it
28:39was a forgery we must be honest about
28:42all this and quite clearly science has
28:46discovered remains that look
28:48astonishingly like
28:52us some of the different um terms I've
28:56written some of them down here I thought
28:58head neander man peaking men Java Man
29:01Australian men and the Leakes have
29:04claimed now to have got back to 4
29:07million years ago and found human
29:09remains in Africa and now it's almost
29:13accepted that human Origins are to be
29:16found in Africa rather than the Middle
29:19East well now it's interesting the
29:21dating of this Homo sapiens is said to
29:23go back 30,000 years nandal 40 to 150,00
29:28,000 swansom 200,000 erectus that's
29:31China and Java Man 300,000 Australian
29:34man 500,000 and now African men 2 and a
29:38half million 3 million 4
29:40million what do we say about all this
29:44well the first thing we need to say very
29:46strongly is that nothing has yet been
29:48found that is half ape and Half
29:52Men there are prehistoric human remains
29:55but there's nothing half in half as yet
29:59second thing I want to say is that not
30:01all these groups are our
30:04ancestors and that too is now
30:06acknowledged so that anthropology is now
30:09in a state of flux and these are not
30:11ours third thing they don't follow a
30:15progressive
30:16order have you seen these pictures of a
30:19sort of ape gradually straightening up
30:22and getting a bigger
30:24head I mean I could do the same thing
30:26with airlanes this is a picture of the
30:29evolution of supersonic
30:31aircraft and it all looks so neat but
30:34that didn't develop into that by itself
30:38and just making a picture of the
30:39development doesn't prove a thing in
30:42fact it does prove that there was an
30:43intelligence making those things but um
30:47we've seen all this it doesn't follow
30:50some of the earliest human remains had
30:52larger brains than today and walked more
30:55upright and in fact the consent of
30:58opinion now is that none of these groups
31:00are
31:01ours not Homo sapiens well what how do
31:04we deal with this there are three
31:07possible ways one is to say that
31:09prehistoric man was biblical man and
31:12what we're digging up was the same as
31:14Adam made in the image of God some have
31:17even suggested that Genesis 1 was
31:19Paleolithic hunting men and Genesis 2
31:22was Neolithic farming
31:25men well that's one possibility the
31:27second is that prehistoric men at some
31:30point changed into biblical men that at
31:34some point this animal likee or manlike
31:37animal became the image of God and then
31:40there's a discussion as to whether one
31:42changed or all of them changed and that
31:45leads to more discussion the third
31:47possibility is that prehistoric men were
31:50not biblical men they had our physical
31:53appearance more or less they used tools
31:56but there is no trace of of religion or
31:59of prayer they were not made in the
32:01image of God which of those
32:04three I'm not going to tell you which I
32:06think because my feeling is that
32:08anthropology is such in such a state of
32:11flux that we don't need to answer the
32:13question and even if we could does it
32:17really
32:18matter I'm reminded of the two
32:20chimpanzees arguing and one said to the
32:22other am I my Keeper's
32:26brother well let's move
32:29on let's move on to
32:32Evolution which is the big isue not how
32:35do we relate to prehistoric men but how
32:38do we relate to the animals and I must
32:40give you a few terms to go on with so we
32:44know what we're talking about most
32:46assume that evolution is Charles
32:48Darwin's theory it isn't actually it was
32:51Aristotle's and in modern days it was
32:54arasmus Darwin who propounded it that
32:57was Charles his granddad but Charles
32:59picked it up from his atheist
33:01grandfather and he made it popular now
33:03there's certain terms we need to know
33:06the first is variation which is the
33:08belief that there have been small
33:10gradual changes in form which have
33:13passed on to each generation so each
33:16generation changes slightly and passes
33:18on the change the second is that from
33:21those variations there has been a
33:23natural
33:24selection which means the survival of
33:27those most suited to their
33:30environment in other words against the
33:33coal pit heaps in Northeast England the
33:36black moth was more suited to camouflage
33:39than the white so the white moth died
33:41out and the black moth survived now that
33:44the coal slag heaps have gone in my part
33:47of the country the Northeast the white
33:49moths are coming back again and the
33:51black Ms are disappearing which is more
33:54suitable to its environment there's a
33:56natural selection going going on so that
33:59those that are more adapted to their
34:01environment survive this selection is
34:03natural it happens automatically within
34:07nature with no help from outside nature
34:09nature herself selects those species
34:12more
34:13suitable but that slow gradual process
34:16has now changed a Frenchman called Lamar
34:19said that instead of slow gradual
34:22changes there were sudden huge changes
34:25mutations he called them it was more
34:28like a staircase than an escalator and
34:31there's been debate between these two
34:32things to try and account two more terms
34:36then we can look at it the first term
34:39microevolution believes that there has
34:41been limited change within certain
34:45animal groups within the horse group or
34:47the dog group and I believe that science
34:50has certainly proved micro
34:55Evolution but the macro evolution is the
34:58belief that all animals came from the
35:01same origin and that all are related and
35:05all go back to the same simple form of
35:07life that developed into a more and more
35:10complex
35:11being one other word that I want to
35:13introduce you to which to me is crucial
35:16it's the word
35:19struggle believing
35:21this the word struggle means the
35:24survival of the
35:26fittest and that is a concept that has
35:29caused more suffering in the 20th
35:32century more human suffering than almost
35:36any other idea I want to show you how in
35:39a
35:41moment I'm not going to argue the case
35:44for or against Evolution except to point
35:46out that evolution is still a
35:50theory it has not been proven and in
35:54fact the more evidence we get from
35:56fossil life
35:58the less it looks like being an adequate
36:01theory of how the different forms of
36:03life arose for example in the fossil
36:06evidence most different groups appear
36:09simultaneously quite quickly in the
36:11Cambrian Period they don't gradually
36:15appear over ages they appear almost
36:17together secondly the complex forms of
36:20life and the simple forms of life appear
36:24together there isn't a train from the
36:28simple to the
36:29complex thirdly there are very very few
36:32Bridge fossils that are halfway between
36:35one species and another next all life
36:40right from the beginning is very
36:43complicated it always had DNA in it next
36:47mutations sudden changes usually
36:51deform and cause creatures to die
36:54out
36:56next inter breeding usually leads to
37:00sterility and so I could go
37:03on above all the statistics do not allow
37:06for this to have happened there isn't
37:08enough
37:09time that's why a new theory is that
37:12life started on another planet and
37:14floated through space and landed here
37:16there really isn't enough time here
37:20statistically for all these varieties to
37:23have
37:25developed I want to go on to something
37:27quite different the effect of this
37:30theory on human
37:32beings not only has it fed our pride in
37:36thinking we have come so far that we are
37:39going to go on up and up and up and on
37:42and on and on as an English prime
37:43minister put it which is rather better
37:45than Back to Basics but
37:49uh I want to show you
37:52now what has happened with this word
37:55struggle you'll find it in American
37:59capitalism men like John de Rockefeller
38:02said business is the survival of the
38:06fittest and that led to Untold
38:09suffering you find it in
38:11fascism Adolf Hitler's book was called
38:14my
38:15struggle and he believed in the survival
38:18of the fittest the fittest being the
38:20German Aryan
38:21race and certainly not the Jewish
38:25people you find it in commun M KL Marx
38:28wrote about the struggle between the
38:31Bourgeois and the proletariat which must
38:33issue in
38:35Revolution you find it this word
38:37struggle in the early days of
38:40colonialism when people were simply
38:42wiped out in the name of
38:44progress and I am bold enough to say
38:48that this idea the survival of the fitst
38:51when applied to human beings has caused
38:55more suffering than any other
38:58idea but it has also faced us with two
39:01huge
39:02choices and I'm going to take a few
39:05extra minutes in this talk just to give
39:07you these choices what are we really
39:11saying when we look at the issue of
39:14creation and evolution it faces us with
39:17a mental
39:19choice if you believe in creation you
39:22believe in a father God if you believe
39:25in evolution you tend to go from Mother
39:28Nature a lady who doesn't
39:30exist if you believe in creation you
39:33believe that this universe was the
39:34result of a personal
39:37choice or an impersonal
39:41chance that there was a designed purpose
39:44under creation but under
39:47Evolution only a random
39:50pattern with
39:52creation the universe is a supernatural
39:55production an evolution it's a natural
39:59process under creation the whole
40:02universe is an open situation open to
40:05personal intervention both by God and
40:08man here we have nature as a closed
40:11system that operates
40:14itself there we have the concept of
40:17Providence that God cares for his
40:19creation and provides for it and looks
40:22after it here we have simply coincidence
40:26when anything good happens it's merely a
40:30coincidence on that side we have a faith
40:32based on fact on this side a faith based
40:35on fancy for it's simply a theory on
40:38that side God is free to make
40:42something and to make man in his own
40:44image on this side man is free to make
40:47God in whatever image he chooses in his
40:51imagination that's the kind of mental
40:53difference of thinking of creation and
40:56evolution
40:58but when we look beyond that we see that
41:00behind it there is a moral choice see
41:04the question we're trying to answer now
41:06is why is it that people seize on the
41:09theory of evolution hold it almost
41:12fanatically the answer is deep down it's
41:15the only alternative if you want to
41:18believe there is no God over
41:20us under creation God is Lord under
41:23Evolution man is Lord Creation with we
41:27are under Divine
41:28Authority but here we are autonomous as
41:31humans and can decide things for
41:33ourselves here there are absolute
41:36standards of right or wrong here there
41:38are only relative
41:40situations here we talk of Duty and
41:44responsibility but here we talk of
41:48demand and
41:50rights there we have an infant
41:54dependence we become as little children
41:56and speak of a heavenly father but here
41:58man is proud of adult Independence man
42:01come of age no longer needing God there
42:05man is a fallen creature here he is
42:08rising there salvation of the weak here
42:13survival of the strong n the philosopher
42:16behind Hitler said he hated Christianity
42:20because it kept weak people going it
42:23looked after sick people and dying
42:26people but his philosophy was survival
42:29of the strong there right is might that
42:33when you do what is right you are
42:34powerful here might is right when you
42:37are powerful whatever you do is right
42:39that leads to a situation of Peace this
42:41to war always has done that emphasizes
42:45obedience this says indulge
42:48yourself that says faith hope and love
42:51are the three main virtues in life this
42:54says fatalism helplessness and luck
42:58are where we are that leads to Heaven
43:00this leads to hell I have drawn this out
43:04so that you can see where the theory
43:06begins to lead when you think of man as
43:09simply a developed animal I am not
43:12surprised when children have been told
43:13for 10 years in school you came from the
43:16animals if when they leave school they
43:18behave like
43:20that well I've given you a feel of the
43:23issue the next talk we'll see how man
43:26has fallen and the effects that had on
43:29his family on his Society on so many
43:33other
43:39[Music]
43:45[Music]
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