Repost: Evolution and You

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Today we meet a former atheist who taught evolution in the classroom until a job interview changed everything. Dr. Kennedy addresses a creation conference where he traces the roots of America’s descent into secular chaos.
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TODAY, ON THE CORAL RIDGE HOUR GENERATIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED ON A STRICT DIET OF DARWINISM BUT NEW
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DISCOVERIES ARE LEADING GROWING NUMBERS OF SCIENTISTS DOWN A DIFFERENT PATH. CREATION IS EASILY AS SCIENTIFIC AND IN FACT,
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MORE SCIENTIFIC THAN IS EVOLUTION. AND THEN, TOM DEROSA WAS A STAUNCH EVOLUTIONIST AND
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AGNOSTIC, UNTIL A JOB INTERVIEW CHANGED HIS LIFE FOREVER. HEAR THIS REMARKABLE STORY OF TRANSFORMATION.
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TODAY ON THE CORAL RIDGE HOUR.
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FROM CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, THIS IS THE CORAL RIDGE HOUR
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DESPITE ALL THE EFFORTS OF ANCIENT ALCHEMISTS, NONE WERE EVER ABLE TO TURN A BASE METAL, LIKE LEAD, INTO GOLD.
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BUT OUR ALMIGHTY GOD IS THE GREAT ETERNAL ALCHEMIST WHO TURNS ALL THE DROSS OF OUR LIVES, INTO GOLD.
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THE ALCHEMY OF GOD, THE ALCHEMY OF GRACE, ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
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IN HIS NEWLY REPUBLISHED BOOK, TURN IT TO GOLD, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY TACKLES THE DIFFICULTIES WE ALL FACE.
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CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE YOUR COPY OF TURN IT TO GOLD, ONE OF DR. KENNEDY’S MOST BELOVED
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AND INSPIRING BOOKS, SO THAT YOU CAN BE ENCOURAGED OR SHARE ASSURANCE WITH A FRIEND THAT GOD’S PROMISES
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ARE THE RICHEST GOLD NOW AND FOREVER.
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TODAY ON THE CORAL RIDGE HOUR. TOM COMMITTED HIS LIFE FOR TEACHING THE THEORY OF EVOLUTION THE INSPIRING STORY OF THIS MAN AND THE
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MIRACLE THAT CHANGED HIS LIFE FOREVER. BUT FIRST, DR. KENNEDY’S MESSAGE.
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TODAY’S MESSAGE TAKES US TO PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA, AND DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY, WHERE
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I WAS INVITED TO SPEAK A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AT THE PRESTIGIOUS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CREATIONISM.
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THIS IS A GATHERING OF EXPERTS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, SCIENTISTS AND OTHERS TO DISCUSS THE
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CRITICAL ISSUE OF CREATION VERSUS EVOLUTION.
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IT WAS MY PRIVILEGE TO BE ONE OF THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ON THE TOPIC OF EVOLUTION AND YOU.
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(APPLAUSE)
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THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
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THANK YOU, RUSS, FOR THOSE VERY KIND WORDS. FOR A MOMENT THERE, I WASN’T SURE WHETHER I WAS TEN FEET TALL OR SIX FEET UNDER.
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(LAUGHTER) SOMEONE SAID THAT THERE ARE THREE KINDS OF PEOPLE: THERE ARE THOSE THAT MAKE THINGS HAPPEN,
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THERE ARE THOSE THAT WATCH THINGS HAPPEN AND THERE ARE THOSE WHO SAY, “WHAT HAPPENED?”
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‘I’M AFRAID THAT THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE FIT INTO THE THIRD CATEGORY, BUT YOU DO NOT.
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“EVOLUTION AND YOU” WAS MY TOPIC FOR THIS TALK.
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AND MY FRIENDS, THE SEEDS OF SECULARISM, GROUNDED,
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OF COURSE, IN EVOLUTION, HAVE BEEN AND ARE PRODUCING
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A MOST PERNICIOUS AND DEADLY HARVEST IN AMERICA.
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I READ, JUST RECENTLY, AN INTERESTING ILLUSTRATION OF THAT BY DR. ERNEST GORDON.
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NOW, DR. ERNEST GORDON IS THE DEAN EMERITUS OF THE
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY CHAPEL. HE’S ALSO THE HERO OF THE “BRIDGE OVER THE RIVER KWAI.”
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HE WAS THE MAN WHO DISCOVERED THE NEW TESTAMENT AND WAS CONVERTED AND WAS USED TO
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BRING ABOUT THE CONVERSION OF HUNDREDS OF OTHER SOLDIERS THAT WERE IN CAPTIVITY THERE.
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AND WHEN THE MOVIE WAS MADE, ALL OF THAT WAS OMITTED.
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BUT HE IS A GREAT MAN AND A GREAT HERO. RECENTLY RETIRED AS DEAN OF THE CHAPEL OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY.
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AND HE SAID SOMETHING, WHICH I THINK ILLUSTRATES
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THE RESULTS OF THIS VERY, VERY APTLY. LISTEN TO HIM, DR. ERNEST GORDON: “DURING THE LATE
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FIFTIES, I WAS INVITED TO ADDRESS THE SENIOR CLASS OF AN ENGLISH DEPARTMENT IN A CITY HIGH SCHOOL.
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WHEN I ARRIVED AT THE SCHOOL, THE LATE FIFTIES, I INTRODUCED MYSELF TO THE ASSISTANT HEADMASTER,
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WHOSE OFFICE WAS AT THE ENTRANCE. HE GUIDED ME TO THE APPROPRIATE LECTURE HALL.
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TWENTY YEARS LATER, I WAS INVITED TO THE SAME SCHOOL
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FOR THE SAME PURPOSE. I, AGAIN, PRESENTED MYSELF TO THE SAME OFFICE.
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BUT IT WAS NO LONGER THE HABITAT OF AN EDUCATOR, OF
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THE ASSISTANT HEADMASTER, IT WAS A COMMAND POST OF POLICE, OF THE POLICE INSPECTOR.
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CORRIDORS AND CLASSROOMS WERE MONITORED BY POLICE OFFICERS WHO REPORTED REGULARLY TO THE INSPECTOR.
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THE REASONS GIVEN FOR THE CHANGE WERE OBVIOUS. VIOLENCE, ASSAULT, RAPE, DRUG-INDUCED MADNESS.
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I INTERPRET THIS SCENE,” HE SAYS, “AS EVIDENCE OF THE END TIMES OF A CIVILIZATION THAT HAD ONCE
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BENEFITED FROM THE CHRISTIAN WORLDVIEW; ONE THAT HAD EXALTED CREATION AND PEOPLE AND PROVIDED
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THE IDEALS ESSENTIAL FOR AN AUTHENTIC EDUCATION. I RECOGNIZE THAT CIVILIZATION DOES NOT CREATE CHRISTIANS.
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HOWEVER, THE COMMUNITY OF FAITH CREATED AND STILL CREATES THE CIVILITY THAT IS THE EVIDENCE OF CIVILIZATION.
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THAT DEMORALIZED SCHOOL IS THE TRAGIC CONSEQUENCE OF
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A SOCIETY’S REJECTION OF THE BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW
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THAT PROVIDED THE INTELLECTUAL DYNAMIC OF WESTERN EDUCATION.
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WHAT IS EDUCATION, BUT AN EXPRESSION OF THE
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PREVAILING CULTURE?” THAT IS, I THINK, A VERY DRAMATIC PRESENTATION OF
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THE BITTER FRUIT OF THE MATERIALISTIC,
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EVOLUTIONARY VIEW OF OUR TIME! NOW, THE WESTERN CHRISTIAN VIEW OF MAN HAS ALWAYS
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HELD THAT MAN IS HERE FOR A PURPOSE. THE CHRISTIAN VIEW HAS BEEN SUMMED UP IN THE
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CATECHISM QUESTION: WHAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN? TO GLORIFY GOD AND TO ENJOY HIM FOREVER.
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BUT THE EVOLUTIONIST WOULD NOT QUESTION WHETHER THAT IS THE CHIEF END OF MAN OR SOME OTHER END, BUT WOULD SAY THERE IS
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NO END OR PURPOSE OR TELEOLOGY IN ANY MAN’S LIFE AT ALL.
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NOW, MY FRIENDS, WHEN YOU GET RID OF PURPOSE, YOU
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ALSO GET RID OF MEANING AND YOU GET RID OF SIGNIFICANCE. IF SOMETHING HAS NO PURPOSE, WHAT DO YOU DO WITH IT?
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YOU THROW IT OUT. WE HAVE SEEN IN THE COURTS FOUR VERY SIGNIFICANT
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DECISIONS THAT HAVE USHERED US INTO THIS SECULAR APOCALYPSE THAT WE ARE NOW…
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WHICH WE NOW FIND OURSELVES PLUNGED INTO. THERE WAS, FIRST OF ALL, THE DECISION OF THE
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SUPREME COURT THAT RULED PRAYER OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS AND THEN THEY RULED THE BIBLE OUT OF THE SCHOOLS,
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AND THEN THEY RULED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS OUT OF THE SCHOOLS. AND NOW, THEY’VE VOTED NEGATIVELY AGAINST THE
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BALANCED TREATMENT OF CREATION ALONG WITH EVOLUTION. SO, WE HAVE SEEN THAT BANISHED FROM THE THOUGHT
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OF OUR YOUNG PEOPLE IS THE IDEA THAT THEY HAVE BEEN CREATED BY ANYONE, THAT THERE ARE ANY LAWS OR
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MORAL ABSOLUTES WHICH THEY SHOULD OBEY. AND BY THE WAY, IN THAT DECISION WHERE THEY RULED
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AGAINST HAVING THE TEN COMMANDMENTS POSTED ON THE WALLS OF THE SCHOOLS IN KENTUCKY, IN THAT
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DECISION, THEY SAID, “LEST LOOKING UPON THEM FROM DAY TO DAY, THE STUDENTS SHOULD BE MOVED TO OBEY THEM.”
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AH, ALAS AND ALACK, WE COULDN’T HAVE THAT. AND OF COURSE, IF THERE IS NO CREATOR, AND WE JUST
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AROSE BY SOME SPONTANEOUS CHANCE CONCATENATION OF
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AMINO ACIDS IN SOME PRIMORDIAL SLIME; IF THERE IS NO CREATOR, THEN THERE IS NO JUDGE.
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AND IF THERE IS NO JUDGE, THEN THERE IS NO ONE TO WHOM WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE OR RESPONSIBLE.
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IF GOD IS, THEREFORE, DEAD OR ABSENT, FROM BOTH ENDS OF THE PROCESS OF LIFE, THEN IT IS TRUE, MY
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FRIENDS, THAT, AS NIETZSCHE SAID, “ANYTHING GOES.” AND THAT’S ONE OF THE BASIC MOTIVATIONS THAT
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LIES BEHIND THE RUSH TO EVOLUTIONISM.
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WELL, WHAT HAS 130 OR SO YEARS FINALLY GIVEN TO US?
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IT IS INTERESTING THAT AT THE SAME TIME, DURING THE LAST DECADE, WHEN AMERICA HAS BEEN RUSHING THROUGH
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COURT EDICTS MORE AND MORE INTO EVOLUTION, AT THE
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SAME TIME, THE BASIC PILLARS OF THE EVOLUTIONARY FAITH HAVE BEEN COLLAPSING ALL AROUND THEM
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AND THERE ARE MANY PEOPLE THAT SUPPOSE THAT PERHAPS THE EVOLUTIONISTS REALLY HAVE PROVED THEIR CASE,
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AND TODAY, WE HAVE EVOLUTIONISTS SAYING THAT, “WE DON’T EVEN HAVE TO PRESENT EVIDENCE ANYMORE.”
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“EVOLUTION IS A FACT. IT IS NOT ONLY A FACT, IT IS A MOST THOROUGHLY
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PROVEN FACT IN ALL OF SCIENCE.” NONSENSE.
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DR. CRICK, WHO, AS YOU KNOW WAS THE CO-DISCOVERER
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OF DNA, WHICH IS THE MASTER CONTROL OF ALL OF
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OUR GENETIC DEVELOPMENT, AND WHICH IS ALSO THAT DOUBLE-HELIX, THAT SPIRAL THAT CONTAINS ALL OF OUR
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GENES, IS THE MOST COMPLEX MOLECULE KNOWN TO MAN.
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AND IT IS SO FANTASTICALLY COMPLEX, THAT DR. CRICK
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DECIDED TO APPLY PROBABILITY SCIENCE ANALYSIS TO THE
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PROBABILITY OF DNA ARISING BY CHANCE, RANDOMNESS.
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AND OF COURSE, THE GOD OF EVOLUTION IS A TRINITY OF MATTER, CHANCE, AND TIME.
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AND THOSE ARE THE THREEFOLD GODS OF THE EVOLUTIONISTS RELIGION.
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WHAT WAS THE CHANCE OF DNA ARISING BY RANDOM CHANCE
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IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD; THE SUPPOSITIOUS HISTORY, ACCORDING TO EVOLUTIONISTS,
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WHICH IS SUPPOSEDLY 4.6 BILLION YEARS.
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WELL, HE APPLIED THE SCIENCE OF PROBABILITY TO THAT QUESTION AND IT TURNED OUT THAT IT WAS ZILCH
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THAT’S NOT A SCIENTIFIC EXPRESSION, BUT IT DESCRIBES IT VERY ACCURATELY.
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HE GOT THE MESSAGE VERY CLEARLY. AND THIS WAS SO DEVASTATING TO HIM THAT
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WHAT THAT SAID, IN VERY SIMPLE LANGUAGE, IS THAT
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NOT ONLY COULD A HUMAN BEING NEVER HAVE EVOLVED NATURALLY AND SPONTANEOUSLY IN THIS
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WORLD, IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, BUT
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A SINGLE LIVING CELL COULD NEVER HAVE EVOLVED. BUT BEYOND THAT, ONE SINGLE MOLECULE WITHIN THE
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NUCLEUS OF THAT CELL, THE DNA MOLECULE, COULD NEVER EVEN HAVE EVOLVED NATURALLY IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE WORLD.
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ALL OF WHICH SAYS: THAT EVERYTHING THAT YOU AND YOUR PARENTS AND GRANDPARENTS AND CHILDREN
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HAVE AND ARE BEING TAUGHT ABOUT HOW LIFE AROSE SPONTANEOUSLY IN SOME ANCIENT SEA, IS BALONEY.
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AND DR. CRICK, BEING HONEST ENOUGH TO ACCEPT
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THAT, HOWEVER, BEING AN ATHEIST, HE WASN’T WILLING TO ACCEPT CREATION, SO HE INVENTED A WHOLE NEW THEORY
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AND AS ONE SCIENTIST SAID: THERE ARE TWO REQUIREMENTS FOR INVENTING EVOLUTIONARY THEORIES.
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YOU SHOULD KNOW WHAT THEY ARE, TWO REQUIREMENTS. NOW YOU MIGHT WONDER JUST WHERE ONE GOES TO GET THIS
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GREAT INTELLECTUAL CAPACITY TO DO THAT. BUT HERE THEY ARE: ONE, IT DEPENDS ON YOUR ABILITY TO
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WEAVE A TALE. AND TWO, IT DEPENDS UPON THE CREDULITY OF YOUR AUDIENCE.
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[LAUGHTER] WELL, WITH BOTH OF THOSE IN MIND, HE CAME UP WITH A DOOZY.
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HE CALLS IT “DIRECTED PANSPERMIA.” AND THE IDEA
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IS VERY SIMPLE. THAT SINCE LIFE COULD NEVER HAVE RISEN HERE, NATURALLY, AND SINCE THERE IS NO GOD, WHICH HE
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ASSUMES A PRIORI, THEREFORE, SOME ADVANCED RACE, LIVING ON SOME OTHER PLANET REVOLVING
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AROUND SOME OTHER SUN SOMEWHERE OUT THERE, MAYBE
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IT WAS THERE, SENT SPACESHIPS OUT INTO SPACE
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CONTAINING THEIR SPERM CELLS AND VOILA, HERE YOU ARE.
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(LAUGHTER) NOW, THAT IS SIMPLY A LENGTHENING OF
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THE SHADOW, A LENGTHENING OF THE SHADOW WHILE YOU REMAIN IN THE DARK OF ITS PENUMBRA.
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IN LOGIC, IT IS CALLED AN “INFINITE REGRESS,” AND OF
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COURSE, IT IS COMPLETELY WITHOUT HELP IN SOLVING ANY PROBLEMS, AS YOU CAN SEE BECAUSE, TO ANY
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THINKING PERSON, THE QUESTION IS GOING TO AUTOMATICALLY ARISE, “WHERE DID THAT ADVANCED RACE OF PEOPLE COME FROM?”
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“WELL, YOU SEE, THERE WAS THIS OTHER MORE ADVANCED RACE OF PEOPLE THAT LIVED ON ANOTHER PLANET…”
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“EXCUSE ME, SIR, WHERE DID THEY COME FROM?” “WELL, YOU SEE, THERE WAS A MUCH MORE ADVANCED…”
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AND ON AND ON IT GOES, UNTIL YOU FINALLY EXHAUST
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THE CREDULITY OF YOUR AUDIENCE. HOWEVER, SHORTLY AFTER THAT, ANOTHER SCIENTIST OF
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EQUAL OR GREATER FAME, SIR FRED HOYLE OF CAMBRIDGE,
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DECIDED TO EXAMINE THE POSSIBILITY OF A LIVING CELL ARISING SPONTANEOUSLY, NOT IN THE
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4.6 BILLION YEAR HISTORY OF THE EARTH, BUT IN THE ENTIRE HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE, WHICH KEEPS
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CHANGING FROM YEAR TO YEAR, BY THE WAY, AND ROUGHLY, TWENTY BILLION YEARS ON THE OUTSIDE.
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SO ANYWHERE, HERE OR ON THAT PLANET, OR ON THIS ONE, OR ANY PLACE ELSE, ANYWHERE, EVEN TO THE ENTIRE
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BEGINNING OF THE UNIVERSE, ONE SINGLE LIVING CELL SOMEWHERE.
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AND HE APPLIED THE SCIENCE OF PROBABILITY ANALYSIS TO THAT AND CONCLUDED THAT THE CHANCES OF THAT
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HAPPENING WERE ONE TO THE 40,000TH POWER.
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NOW, MOST PEOPLE ARE NOT USED TO THINKING IN TERMS OF POWER, AND I REALIZE, I HAVE A VAST ARRAY OF
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SCIENTISTS HERE, BUT I’M ENCOURAGED BY THE FACT THAT THERE’S ALSO A LARGER ARRAY OF NON-SCIENTISTS
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AND LAYMEN THAT ARE PRESENT AND FOR THEIR SAKE, MAY I SIMPLY SAY THAT ANOTHER EVOLUTIONARY
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SCIENTIST, LECONTE DE NOUAY, SWISS SCIENTIST, NOBEL PRIZE WINNER, WHO IS AN EXPERT IN PROBABILITY
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SCIENCE, SAID THAT ANYTHING WHOSE PROBABILITIES ARE LESS THAN TEN TO THE 50TH POWER WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
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AND OF COURSE, TEN TO THE 51ST POWER IS TEN TIMES THAT MANY AND TEN TO THE 52ND POWER IS TEN TIMES THAT MANY.
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AND TEN TO THE 53RD AND 4TH AND 167TH AND 2,900 AND
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KEEP GOING TO 40,000TH POWER.
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DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THAT MEANS?
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EVOLUTIONISTS LIKE TO HAVE A LONG TIME FOR THE AGE OF THE EARTH. FINE.
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(LAUGHTER) HOW MUCH WOULD THEY LIKE? TEN THOUSAND NOT ENOUGH?
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HOW ABOUT TEN BILLION? TEN TRILLION? TEN QUADRILLION?
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TEN SEPTILLION, TEN OCTILLION? HUNDRED-MILLION-BILLION- TRILLION TIMES TEN…
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WHATEVER. (LAUGHTER) AND DO YOU REALIZE THAT A FIGURE I JUST GAVE IS
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NOT A TINY FRACTION OF TEN TO THE 40,000TH POWER?
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ALL OF WHICH VERY SIMPLY IS TO SAY THAT IT NEVER,
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EVER HAPPENED. AND SIR FRED HOYLE OF CAMBRIDGE, ONE OF THE
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WORLD’S LEADING ASTRONOMERS AND MATHEMATICIANS, THE FATHER OF ONE OF THE ONLY TWO
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WIDELY-ACCEPTED COSMOGONIES OF THIS 20TH CENTURY; THE STEADY-STATE THEORY, WHICH LOST OUT IN
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THE POPULARITY CONTEST WITH THE BIG BANG, BUT NEVERTHELESS, TO BE THE INVENTOR OF SUCH A THING IS QUITE AN ACCOMPLISHMENT.
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AND HE AND ANOTHER MATHEMATICIAN, CHANDRA
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WICKRAMSINGHE DID THESE COMPUTATIONS AND THEY SAID, “THAT TO SUPPOSE THAT SOMEWHERE ON THIS
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EARTH, BY PURELY NATURAL SPONTANEOUS RANDOM CAUSES,
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THAT THE ENTIRE COMPLEXITY OF THE LIVING CELL, WITH
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ALL OF ITS AMAZING AND UNBELIEVABLE COMPLEXITY,
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THAT THIS CAME INTO EXISTENCE BY CHANCE IS NONSENSE OF THE HIGHEST ORDER.” SIR FRED HOYLE.
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WHAT YOUR CHILDREN ARE BEING TAUGHT AS SCIENTIFIC FACT AND TRUTH, HE SAYS, IS “NONSENSE OF THE
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HIGHEST ORDER.” MY FRIENDS, EVOLUTION IS DEAD
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COMING OUT OF THE STARTING GATE. THEY RANG THE BELL, LIFTED THE POST, AND THE HORSE
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DROPPED DEAD. [APPLAUSE]
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ONE OF THE MOST DAMAGING RESULTS OF DARWINISM,
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ACCORDING TO DR. W.R. THOMPSON OF CANADA, WHO IS THE HEAD OF THE NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL CONTROL, ONE OF
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THEIR MOST OUTSTANDING SCIENTISTS, SO MUCH SO THAT HE WAS SELECTED TO WRITE THE INTRODUCTION TO THE CENTENNIAL
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EDITION, 1959, OF DARWIN’S “ORIGIN OF THE SPECIES.” HE WAS A SCIENTIST OF THAT KIND OF STATURE, AND DR. W.R.
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THOMPSON SAID THAT ONE…
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BY THE WAY, HE ALSO SAID THAT ONE OF THE RESULTS THAT ACCOMPANIED DARWINISM WAS A DECLINE IN
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SCIENTIFIC INTEGRITY, AND HOW TRUE THAT IS.
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WE FIND SUDDENLY THE RISE OF ALL SORTS OF FRAUDULENT ACTIVITIES TAKING PLACE IN SCIENCE.
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BUT, HE SAID THE MOST DAMAGING THING THAT IT DID, WAS THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY
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OF SCIENCE, SCIENCE HAD BEEN SEPARATED AS A RESULT
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OF THE FOLLOWERS OF DARWIN, WHAT FINALLY RESULTED FROM IT, UNTIL WE COME TODAY, THAT SCIENCE
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IS NOW CONCEIVED AS TOTALLY SEPARATED FROM GOD.
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WHICH WAS NEVER HEARD OF BEFORE IN SCIENCE. TODAY, IT’S ALMOST ACCEPTED AS A COMMONPLACE
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THAT A CREATOR CANNOT BE CONCEIVED AND TOLERATED IN THE WHOLE SCIENTIFIC DISCUSSION.
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IN FACT, IT IS TRUE THAT DURING THE ARKANSAS
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DEBATE, ONE OF THE PEOPLE THAT TESTIFIED IN THAT ARKANSAS TRIAL SAID THAT HE WAS READING ONE OF THE
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CREATION SCIENCE TEXTBOOKS AND THREW IT INTO THE TRASH BECAUSE
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IT REFERRED TO A CREATOR. AND NOW, SUDDENLY, IF THERE IS ANY REFERENCE TO GOD OR TO
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A CREATOR, THEN SOMEHOW THIS HAS NOW BECOME UNSCIENTIFIC.
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AND SCIENCE HAS BEEN REDEFINED AS SOMETHING WHICH EXCLUDES GOD.
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WELL, THAT RAISED A VERY INTERESTING QUESTION IN MY MIND.
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IF IT MENTIONS A CREATOR, YOU THROW IT IN THE TRASH. DO YOU HAVE THE GROUND RULES?
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DO YOU UNDERSTAND HOW THIS IS PLAYED? YOU GET A BOOK, AND IT MENTIONS A CREATOR HAD
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ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE CREATION OF THE WORLD, YOU THROW THE BOOK IN THE TRASH.
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WE ALL UNDERSTAND NOW HOW THE GAME IS PLAYED. LET ME READ YOU, THEN, THE LAST PARAGRAPH OF DARWIN’S
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ORIGIN OF SPECIES, “THERE IS GRANDEUR IN THIS VIEW
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OF LIFE WITH ITS SEVERAL POWERS, HAVING BEEN ORIGINALLY BREATHED BY THE CREATOR INTO A FEW FORMS OR INTO ONE.
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AND THAT WHILST THIS PLANET HAS GONE CYCLING ON ACCORDING TO THE FIXED LAW OF GRAVITY FROM SO SIMPLE
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A BEGINNING, ENDLESS FORMS MOST BEAUTIFUL AND MOST WONDERFUL HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING EVOLVED.”
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A SUPPOSED SCIENTIFIC TEXTBOOK BRINGING IN, OF
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ALL THINGS, A CREATOR, INTO THE TRASH, IT GOES.
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[APPLAUSE]
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BUT YOU KNOW, IT IS ENCOURAGING THAT THE TRUTH IS GETTING OUT, AND THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE BECOMING
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INTERESTED IN AND BECOMING CONVINCED OF THE SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE FOR CREATION IS GROWING AT A PHENOMENAL RATE.
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JUST SINCE FOUR YEARS AGO THERE HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS NUMBER OF MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BECOME
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AWARE OF THE TRUTH, THAT THEY HAVE BEEN FED FAIRYTALES AND THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DECEIVED.
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EVEN AS DR. COLIN PATTERSON, THE CHIEF PALEONTOLOGIST OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM SAID THAT
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HE WOKE UP ONE DAY, AND SUDDENLY REALIZED THAT HE HAD BEEN DECEIVED AND DELUDED INTO THINKING THAT
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EVOLUTION WAS A PROVEN FACT. AND HE ASKED HIMSELF ONE MORNING, WHAT DO I INDEED,
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KNOW ABOUT EVOLUTION FOR SURE?” THIS IS THE CHIEF PALEONTOLOGIST OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM,
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WHICH HAS THE LARGEST COLLECTION OF FOSSILS IN THE WORLD. HE SAID, “NOTHING.” AND HE ASKED A WHOLE GROUP OF
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EVOLUTIONISTS MEETING SHORTLY THEREAFTER AT THE FIELD MUSEUM IN CHICAGO, “CAN ANY OF YOU TELL ME
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ANYTHING THAT YOU KNOW FOR SURE ABOUT EVOLUTION?”
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SILENCE. FINALLY, ONE MAN RAISED HIS HAND, NOW THIS IS A
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WORLD GATHERING OF EVOLUTIONISTS, AND THEY DON’T KNOW ANYTHING FOR SURE ABOUT EVOLUTION.
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[LAUGHTER] WHICH, OF COURSE, IS THE BEST PROVEN FACT OF HISTORY, OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE.
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“ONE THING I’M SURE OF, DR. PATTERSON, WE OUGHT NOT TO TEACH IT IN HIGH SCHOOLS.” WE’RE TEACHING IT IN KINDERGARTEN.
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BUT THE TRUTH WILL OUT. AND I AM SURE THAT THE DAY WILL COME WHEN EVOLUTION
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WILL BE RECOGNIZED TO BE THE PERNICIOUS AND HARMFUL THEORY
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AND FALSEHOOD AND DECEIT AND FAIRYTALE THAT IT REALLY IS.
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AND PEOPLE WILL REALIZE, AT LENGTH, THAT IT IS A GREAT AND GLORIOUS CREATOR, THE ALMIGHTY
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OMNISCIENT GOD, WHO HAS CREATED THE WORLD AND YOU AND ME.
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MAY IT SO BE, AND MAY IT COME SOON. THANK YOU! [APPLAUSE]
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THE LANDSCAPE OF THE DEBATE BETWEEN EVOLUTION AND CREATION IS CHANGING DRAMATICALLY!
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YOUNG PEOPLE ARE GOING ON THE OFFENSIVE, CHALLENGING PROFESSORS OF THE OLD GUARD WITH THE FACTS RIGHT
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NOW, I WANT YOU TO MEET A MAN WHO IS HELPING US EMPOWER PEOPLE, YOUNG AND OLD.
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WHETHER YOU LOOK AT THE UNIVERSE AND LOOK AT THE STARS AND SEE HOW MAGNIFICENT THEY ARE, THEY ALL OBEY THE SAME LAWS, THESE LAWS ARE UNIVERSAL.
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SO, WHO IN THE WORLD WOULD CREATE THESE LAWS BUT AN INFINITE GOD?
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IN TIMES PAST, TOM DEROSA WOULD NEVER HAVE RECOGNIZED GOD AS CREATOR.
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TOM WAS AN ABSOLUTE, DEVOUT EVOLUTIONIST. HE WOULD TALK ABOUT US COMING FROM APES.
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I DEPARTED THE WAYS OF WHAT I WAS TAUGHT AS FAR AS THE SCRIPTURE WAS CONCERNED, AS FAR AS GOD WAS CONCERNED.
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AND I STARTED TO LOOK IN TERMS OF THE WORLDVIEW AS DARWIN AND EVOLUTIONISTS WOULD LOOK AT IT.
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ALTHOUGH TOM DEROSA HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP IN THE ROMAN CATHOLIC FAITH AND CONSIDERED BECOMING A
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PRIEST WHILE ATTENDING JUNIOR SEMINARY AS A TEEN, HIS PERSPECTIVE SHIFTED AFTER HE WENT OFF TO
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COLLEGE AND WAS CHALLENGED BY A FRIEND TO READ CHARLES DARWIN’S CONTROVERSIAL BOOK, THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES.
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AND AT THAT POINT I STARTED TO QUESTION, REALLY, IF THE BIBLE IS TRUE, THEN HOW CAN I ACCEPT BIOLOGY CLASS?
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AFTER COLLEGE, AS A YOUNG TEACHER TOM QUICKLY ROSE AS A LEADER IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE HE
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WAS WORKING, AND DEVOTED HIMSELF WHOLEHEARTEDLY TO TEACHING WHAT HE BELIEVED WAS THE ULTIMATE IN
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SCHOLARLY SCIENCE, EVOLUTION. I JUST FOCUSED ON THE FACT THAT KIDS HAD TO HEAR
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EVOLUTION BECAUSE THAT WAS TRUE AND THEY NEEDED TO BE TAKEN AWAY FROM THE CRUTCH OF GOD AND BELIEVING IN GOD.
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TOM HAD BECOME AN ATHEIST AND HIS PASSION FOR TEACHING EVOLUTION BECAME HIS IDOL BUT THAT PASSION
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BEGAN TO FADE WHEN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT WHERE HE TAUGHT MADE SOME DRASTIC CHANGES IN THE SCIENCE PROGRAM.
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THEY TOOK MY SCIENCE AWAY, THE SCHOOL BOARD VOTED THAT INSTEAD OF HAVING A FULL YEAR, WE’RE GOING TO
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HAVE A HALF YEAR OF SCIENCE. IT WAS THE SUMMER OF 1978 WHEN TOM BEGAN TO
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RECONSIDER HIS TEACHING CAREER. DURING THAT PERIOD, A PRIVATE SCHOOL IN FORT LAUDERDALE WAS IN DIRE NEED OF A PHYSICS AND CHEMISTRY TEACHER.
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I KNEW NOTHING AT ALL ABOUT TOM DEROSA. DR. KEN WACKES WAS THE HEADMASTER OF DR. D. JAMES
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KENNEDY’S WESTMINSTER ACADEMY, A SCHOOL DEDICATED TO TEACHING BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES AND CREATION SCIENCE.
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WHEN THEY CALLED ME UP, THEY SAID, “TOM, DO YOU KNOW OF A CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS TEACHER? CAN YOU RECOMMEND ONE?”
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AND I CAREFULLY THOUGHT AND AFTER A WHILE I COULDN’T THINK OF ONE RIGHT OFF HAND, AND I JUST SAID, “ME.”
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AND I THOUGHT, OH, MY GOODNESS, WHAT IS HE DOING NOW. SO, HE GOT OFF THE PHONE AND HE SAID TO ME, “I’M GOING TO WESTMINSTER ACADEMY TO INTERVIEW,” IN
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I THINK IT WAS IN A WEEK OR SOMETHING FOR THIS JOB. AND I SAID, “YOU CAN’T DO THAT, TOM, YOU’RE AN EVOLUTIONIST.”
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I SAID, “WHY.” SHE SAYS, “DO YOU KNOW THAT THIS IS A CHRISTIAN SCHOOL? “THIS IS DR. KENNEDY’S SCHOOL.
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THIS IS WESTMINSTER ACADEMY. THIS SCHOOL IS WELL-KNOWN. YOU HAVE TO BE A CHRISTIAN TO TEACH AT THIS SCHOOL.”
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I SAID, “WELL, DOESN’T THAT MEAN YOU SIGN A PIECE OF PAPER?” SHE SAID, “NO.” SO, I CALLED EVERYONE I KNEW AND WE SET UP PRAYER CHAINS
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TO PRAY FOR TOM THAT DAY OF THE INTERVIEW. JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, THINGS WOULD GO WELL.
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SO WHEN I WAS IN THE OFFICE WITH DR. KEN WACKES, HE TOLD ME WHAT A CHRISTIAN WAS, AND I WAS EXPECTING TO HEAR THE SAME THING.
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BUT FOR SOME ODD REASON, HE TOLD ME THAT A CHRISTIAN WAS ONE THAT BELIEVED IN THE FREE GIFT
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OF ETERNAL LIFE. I THINK WHAT GOT TO HIM WAS THE UNDERSTANDING FOR
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THE FIRST TIME, PERHAPS, IN HIS LIFE THAT YOU DON’T WORK YOUR WAY INTO THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN.
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IT’S NOT BY BEING GOOD, IT’S NOT BY BEING RELIGIOUS. I WAS TAUGHT THAT I HAD TO WORK, WORK, WORK FOR YOUR
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SALVATION. BUT THE FACT THAT JESUS CHRIST PAID THE PENALTY FOR ME AND I DIDN’T HAVE TO DO IT WAS AN AMAZING CONCEPT.
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WE JUST PRAYED TOGETHER AND HE, OUT LOUD, ASKED CHRIST TO COME INTO HIS LIFE.
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HE SOUNDED DIFFERENT. HE JUST WAS A NEW PERSON. HE WAS NOT THE MAN I LEFT IN THE MORNING; HE WAS
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SOMEONE BRAND NEW AND ON FIRE. THAT VERY AFTERNOON, TOM HAD KEN WACKES PRESENT THE
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GOSPEL MESSAGE TO HIS WIFE LINDA ALSO. AND I THOUGHT, BOY, I THOUGHT I HAD BEEN A
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CHRISTIAN ALL MY LIFE. I WAS PRETTY WISHY-WASHY. AND SO, WE PRAYED TOGETHER AND THERE WAS A COUPLE
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REUNITED NOW FOR THE FIRST TIME IN CHRIST. IT WAS A BRAND NEW FAMILY.
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JESUS CHRIST WAS NOW TOM AND LINDA’S SAVIOR, BUT THE QUESTION STILL REMAINED IN TOM’S MIND OF
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WHETHER GOD WAS HIS CREATOR AS WELL. I THOUGHT I COULD BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION AND I COULD
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BELIEVE IN GOD. BUT AS I READ THE SCRIPTURE AND HEARD DR. KENNEDY FROM THE PULPIT, CAME TO THE
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CONCLUSION THAT THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE TO DO. I COULDN’T BELIEVE HOW HE WAS JUST SO HUNGRY FOR THE
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WORD; IT WAS JUST AMAZING. HE GOT UP IN THE MORNING, HE HAD THE BIBLE, HE CAME AT NIGHT AND HE HAD THE BIBLE IN HIS HAND.
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HE WAS ALWAYS READING IT AND HE WOULD READ IT TO THE KIDS AND HE WOULD TELL THE KIDS THINGS. THERE WERE THINGS IN THE BIBLE THAT I DIDN’T KNOW ABOUT.
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THAT FALL, TOM BEGAN TO TEACH CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS AT WESTMINSTER ACADEMY WITH GREAT ZEAL.
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WHEN I WAS HIRED AT WESTMINSTER ACADEMY, I THOUGHT IT WAS VERY UNIQUE THAT KEN WACKES WOULD HIRE ME.
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I WOULDN’T EVEN HAVE HIRED MYSELF. DR. KEN WACKES BECAME A CLOSE FRIEND AND A MENTOR IN CHRIST
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HE WANTED TO READ EVERYTHING WE COULD POSSIBLY GIVE THEM; HE ATTENDED ALL THE CLASSES HE COULD ATTEND.
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IT’S LIKE HUMONGOUS SPONGE, JUST SOAKING UP THE OCEAN DRY, HE WAS THAT EAGER TO LEARN.
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IT WAS IN THAT CONTEXT THAT TOM BEGAN TO DEVELOP HIS IDEAS AND SAW THE MISTAKES THAT HE HAD HELD
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TO ORIGINALLY AND BECAME A CONFIRMED CREATIONIST. I CAME TO THE CONCLUSION THAT THERE WAS AN
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OVERWHELMING AMOUNT OF EVIDENCE TO SUPPORT CREATION, WHETHER IT BE THE FOSSIL RECORD BEING SO
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INCOMPLETE, WHETHER WE LOOK IN TERMS OF THE COMPLEXITY OF LIFE AND LOOK AT LIVING ORGANISMS
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AND SEE THAT THEY ARE TOTALLY MASTERPIECES OF WORK. IT WAS THROUGH TEACHING AND LEARNING ABOUT
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CREATION SCIENCE THAT TOM DEVELOPED A NEW PASSION TO SHARE THE CREATION MESSAGE BEYOND THE SCHOOL WALLS.
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THAT’S WHEN HE FORMED AN ORGANIZATION CALLED THE CREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE IN 1988.
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HE KNEW HOW MANY STUDENTS WERE BEING TAUGHT IN IGNORANCE, AND HOW MANY TEACHERS OUT IN THE
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COLLEGES AND UNIVERSITIES AND HIGH SCHOOLS OF AMERICA NEEDED TO HEAR FROM ONE OF THEIR PEERS.
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ANOTHER SIDE OF THE STORY IS THAT HE JUST FELT A PASSION GIVEN TO HIM BY GOD TO SPREAD THE MESSAGE.
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AS CREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE CONTINUES EXPANDING EACH YEAR TOM HAS MET WITH MANY CHALLENGES.
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BUT IN 2002, TOM WOULD CONFRONT HIS GREATEST CHALLENGE EVER.
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GOD JUST BROUGHT TOM, PHYSICALLY, TO THE POINT WHERE HE COULDN’T EVEN STAND UP IN A CLASSROOM ANYMORE.
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I WAS CALLED TO THE EMERGENCY ROOM AFTER SOME TESTING, SYMPTOMS OF SHORTNESS OF BREATH, I WENT TO THE DOCTOR.
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THEY TOLD TOM THAT HE WAS IN TOTAL KIDNEY FAILURE; HE HAD NO KIDNEY FUNCTION LEFT, THAT HE WOULD NEED A TRANSPLANT.
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WE WERE ABSOLUTELY SHOCKED. TOM’S FAMILY STEPPED FORWARD TO DONATE THEIR KIDNEYS BUT NOT ONE OF THEM WAS A MATCH.
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TOM WOULD HAVE TO BE PLACED ON A WAITING LIST. I WAS RATHER A WORRY WART IN THOSE DAYS, IN THE VERY
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BEGINNING. AND TOM SAID TO ME ONE DAY, “WHY ARE YOU WORRIED? GOD IS IN CONTROL.
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GOD WILL TAKE CARE OF US AND I’M GOING TO GET A KIDNEY.” AND HE JUST SAID IT SO MATTER OF FACT THAT
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I SAID, “YOU’RE RIGHT,” AND I STOPPED WORRYING. I LOOK AT THIS ILLNESS, OR THE FACT THAT I HAD THIS
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ILLNESS, AS JUST A STEPPING STONE FOR GOD TO DO MORE WONDROUS THINGS.
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A MERE ACQUAINTANCE OF TOM’S, JOE PETIT, A DEACON AT CORAL RIDGE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH, FELT
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LED BY GOD TO DONATE A KIDNEY TO SAVE TOM’S LIFE. SURPRISING AS THAT IS, JOE WAS TESTED AND FOUND TO BE
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A PERFECT MATCH TO TOM’S KIDNEY. IT ENCOURAGES ME THAT IT SEEMS AS THOUGH TOM’S BODY
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IS ACCEPTING THE KIDNEY WELL. IT ENCOURAGES ME THAT TOM IS ABLE TO ACTUALLY
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CONTINUE IN THE MINISTRY THAT HE WAS INVOLVED IN. IN A MATTER OF A YEAR, LESS THAN A YEAR, I WAS
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BACK IN SERVICE AGAIN, AND THIS TIME, RATHER THAN BEING A FULL TIME TEACHER AT WESTMINSTER ACADEMY, I
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WAS SERVING GOD, NOW, AS THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF CREATION STUDIES INSTITUTE UNDER DR. KENNEDY.
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IF GOD NEVER USED ME IN ANY OTHER WAY, IF IT WAS JUST TOM DEROSA, THE STORY’S BEEN SO PHENOMENAL THAT IT
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WOULD’VE BEEN WORTH IT ALL. I HAVE A NEW VIGOR IN MY LIFE NOW THE FACT THAT GOD
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HAS MARKED THIS TIME TO SAY “AND LET EVERYBODY HEAR THAT I AM THE CREATOR OF THIS WONDERFUL UNIVERSE.”
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DESPITE ALL THE EFFORTS OF ANCIENT ALCHEMISTS, NONE WERE EVER ABLE TO TURN A BASE METAL, LIKE LEAD, INTO GOLD.
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BUT OUR ALMIGHTY GOD IS THE GREAT ETERNAL ALCHEMIST WHO TURNS ALL THE DROSS OF OUR LIVES, INTO GOLD.
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THE ALCHEMY OF GOD, THE ALCHEMY OF GRACE, ALL
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THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD.
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IN HIS NEWLY REPUBLISHED BOOK, TURN IT TO GOLD, DR. D. JAMES KENNEDY TACKLES THE DIFFICULTIES WE ALL FACE.
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CONTACT US TODAY TO RECEIVE YOUR COPY OF TURN IT TO GOLD, ONE OF DR. KENNEDY’S MOST BELOVED
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AND INSPIRING BOOKS, SO THAT YOU CAN BE ENCOURAGED OR SHARE ASSURANCE WITH A FRIEND THAT GOD’S PROMISES
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ARE THE RICHEST GOLD NOW AND FOREVER.
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THIS HAS BEEN A PRODUCTION OF D. JAMES KENNEDY MINISTRIES