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Jack Hibbs: You have been created the Bible says in the image of God. You are a trichotomy. You have a body, that's obvious. You have a soul, that's your thinking, and you have a spirit that the Bible says is either born again or not. You either know this Creator Jesus that we speak of, or you don't.

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David J.: On today's edition of Real Life Radio, Pastor Jack continues in his series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ and a message titled Christ and His Creation. Now, this is a series about the real Jesus, who Jesus really is, not the Jesus of popular opinion, but the Jesus of the Bible, God Himself, who stepped into our world.

And in this message, we're going to see that Jesus is also the Creator of everything around us. You see, when we look at the world, we're really facing a choice. Either everything came from random accidents, or it came from a designer, and the evidence we see in creation points us straight to Jesus Christ.

So today, Pastor Jack teaches that rejecting Christ isn't really about the evidence at all. It's a decision made from the heart. If Christ is real, then we're accountable to Him, and that's exactly what He's calling us to embrace. Now with his message called Christ and His Creation, here's pastor and Bible teacher Jack Hibbs.

Jack Hibbs: Evolution is bankrupt of facts in that it is scientifically void of evidence. It is a theory. Remember that. Your teachers are not telling you it's a theory. They state it as a fact, don't they? When in fact it is a theory. In fact, it's a pretty poor excuse for a theory. A theory is supposed to be an educated guess. Well, the one saying it might be educated beyond their ability to reason, I guess, but the fact of the matter is, the evolutionary theory is a terrible, terrible guess.

Concerning this, Time Magazine came out with "How Man Evolved." Amazing new discoveries revealed the secrets of our past. Plus, Stephen Jay Gould, he's the big hitter, on the creationism wave. Well, I've read this, like you probably have. You know what they did? They took old news, they took old news and repackaged it and spit it out again.

And it's hilarious because I took the time to research some of this stuff, and stuff you already know, but maybe it's going to refresh you concerning this exciting thing about how we evolved and how Time Magazine is going to help us with these amazing new details. Well, it announces to us that Java Man, we've all heard of Java Man. We were schooled with Java Man.

Well, Java Man was founded by Eugene Dubois in 1891. But in 1922, Eugene Dubois admitted that the bone fragments that he had found, that was heralded as the missing link, was in fact the remains of a large ape, but nobody would listen to him. Piltdown Man. We all grew up with him. Founded in 1912 and later dated again and tested again in 1950, was found to be the skull of a man who died 1,000 years ago, and the jawbone that was assigned to the skullcap was that of an orangutan. That scientific evidence was published and produced, but nobody's announcing it. Why? By the way, I got all of this out of non-Christian stuff. The book that I was reading simply points you to its original source, non-Christian.

Nebraska Man, 1922. Listen to this. A tooth was found to be neither human nor ape. Don't kid. What must that mean? Well, it was heralded as the missing link by the scientific community, and this one and only tooth was admitted as convincing evidence in the Scopes trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Later, the tooth was found to be that of an extinct pig. Who's shouting it out? Nobody.

Peking Man. Dr. Davidson Black found 147 teeth and skull fragments and jawbone fragments of ancient ape-like man. But when scheduled for an appointment for a closer examination and testing, he lost the box that contained all the evidence, and it has not yet been found to this day. And yet you and I were told in school that Peking Man was real. Somebody's trying to make a monkey out of us.

Neanderthal. Now Jack, now hang on a minute. Neanderthal. I kind of like how the names are getting more exciting, too, as we get less and less data. Neanderthal man. This was it, they believed. They found this ape-like man thing in Neander Valley in Germany. He had a strange-shaped skull and interesting jaw, but under advanced X-ray examination and DNA testing, it was found to be that of an old man who suffered from severe vitamin deficiency and extreme case of arthritis.

But it is stated today that Neanderthal walked the earth. And if you stand up and question this stuff, even if you have the data in your hand, you'll be laughed at. I know this because non-Christian creationists are being laughed at right now. But you know what? There's too many of them to ignore now. You'll see in the end of this study what happened to Darwin.

Ramapithecus man. You know, you just love these names. Ramapithecus man. This thought just came to my mind: somebody's trying to make a Homo sapiens rumpus out of us. But I just made that one up. Why can't I? Ramapithecus man. Well, Ramapithecus man, he was found in 1932, and he is one of the great evolutionary hopes of the day. The problem is that the bones match exactly to modern-day orangutans. There's no difference. So you can't use them.

Australopithecus. This is the latest ruling, reigning king of evolution this week, anyway. He's the evolutionist's best friend. He was founded in 1924 by Raymond Dart and hailed as the missing link. Did you hear that? The missing link has been found. Listen how cunning and how deceitful they are in their terminology. When I mention to you, I have found the missing link, what image do you see in your mind's eye? Don't you see a long chain to the left and a long chain to the right, and in the middle a little gap, just the wee little gap?

And when you say, "I have found the missing link," it means that you put it together and you make tight the chain and it's finished. We've completed our task. You know what? They don't even have a chain. They can't even find a link. Yet it's billed that way when there's the latest evidence that shows that, oh really, how come why six months later under greater scientific scrutiny don't you hear that it was all a hoax and a fraud or it was proven to be false? Why don't you hear that? Manipulation of information. Unless you dive into books and find the right stuff in the right place.

But listen, don't be afraid of technology, friend. Go for it because the more technological advances take place, the more science or the findings or the evidence agrees with the Bible. Don't worry about it. Well, guess what? Another Australopithecus was found in 1974 by Donald Johanson, and he named her Lucy. And you all know her. We've all studied with her through school.

Well, listen, the scientific community's not buying her because the bulk of the scientific community says that Lucy is none other than a great African ape which resembles today our modern chimpanzees. I'll go quickly. I know, I know we're late. But listen, and I'm going to give you one more look. Don't you love that guy? I like him. He's cute. It's intellectually dishonest. How so? Listen to this.

Stephen Jay Gould, PhD, Harvard University. He's the big guy today. He's the big kahuna. He's the top dog. He's the big man. Evolution is as well—are you listening? Evolution is as well-documented as any phenomenon in science, as strongly as the Earth's revolution around the sun rather than vice versa. I can't believe he said that. We know how the rotations go, but no one's ever seen an evolution take place. No one. No one.

But he goes on. He says, "In this sense, we can call evolution a fact. Science doesn't deal in certainty." Oh, really? How would you like to strap yourself into a rocket with a guy thinking like this? Oh, water, gas, who cares? It's wet. Science doesn't deal in certainty. So fact can only mean a preposition affirmed to such a high degree that it would be perverse to withhold one's provisional ascent. In other words, if you don't embrace my guess, you're an idiot. So because he's Stephen Jay Gould, PhD of Harvard University, if you go against him, you are labeled as a lunatic, a fundamental wacko, an uneducated nut.

Well, listen to what the Oxford Dictionary says from 1910. Oxford Dictionary. To know, to discern, to distinguish, the state or fact of knowing. Knowledge. Systematized knowledge derived from what? Observation, study, and experimentation carried on in order to determine the nature or principles of what is being studied. The establishing and systematizing of facts, principles, and methods as by experiments and hypotheses. Scientific. Based on, using, or in accordance with the principles and methods of science, systematic and exact, is tested empirically. Empirical testing. That's the definition of science, and Stephen Jay Gould made up his own, and you and I are living in an age of redefining of words.

Are you aware of that? Let's keep going. We need to go quickly. I know and we got to go. Dr. H.S. Lipson of the University of Manchester, England, says, "Evolution became, in a sense, a scientific religion." This guy's not a Christian. "Almost all scientists have accepted it, and many are prepared to bend their observations to fit in with it." Professor of physics, University of Manchester.

Let's keep going. Colin Patterson, senior paleontologist, British Museum of Natural History. "It is easy enough to make up stories of how one form gave rise to another and find reasons why the stages should be favored by natural selection. But such stories are not part of science, for there is no way of putting them to the test." Without putting something to the test, you cannot deem it scientific. I know it's late, I know it's hot in here. Did you hear what I just said? If you cannot put it through the test, it is not scientific.

The Academy of Sciences in Moscow, Russia. One of the supreme thinkers, evolutionary biologist, said in that great think tank, he questioned the theory of evolution because he said, "I have a problem in the evolutionary chain of sheep. Sheep cannot exist without human intervention." He says, "I don't see humans coming along much later down the road. Sheep cannot exist without human care," he said. "So humans had to precede the coming forth of sheep because they have to have human care or else they die." That cost him 17 years in a Soviet prison in Siberia because he questioned and he dared to think critically.

Let's keep going. This is terribly fun. But Professor Edwin Conkle, evolutionary biologist, he says, "The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of an unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a print shop." That's good. That's good stuff.

This guy gets better. I like this guy a lot. This is Sir Frederick Hoyle, PhD, Cambridge University. Quote, "The chance that higher life forms emerged by accident or natural selection is comparable with the chance of a tornado sweeping through the junkyard and assembling a 747 jumbo jet." I love that. I like the way that guy thinks. I like him.

Dr. George Wald says, from the University of Harvard, Harvard University, professor of biology, Dr. Wald says, "One has only to contemplate the magnitude of the evolutionary task to concede"—that means give up, cave in, relinquish—"that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible." Dr. George Wald, Harvard University, professor of biology. It's amazing.

Dr. D.M.S. Watson, University of London, England. Quote, "Evolution is universally accepted, not because it can be proved by logically coherent evidence. This is true. It is accepted because the only alternative is a special creation, and that is clearly too incredible." That's his reason.

Sir Arthur Keith. Sir Arthur Keith, an anthropologist in Scotland, says, "Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe in it because the only alternative is a special creation, and that to us is the unthinkable." That's why Charles Darwin looks the way he does today. Charles Darwin, and I thought I would add, the monkey's only uncle, Charles Darwin. He is taking a beating because it is non-scientific.

Interesting. Let's keep going on this and we'll wrap this up. It is ethically negligent in the area of morality. Evolution is bankrupt of facts in that it's ethically negligent. You can't tell somebody that it's good or bad or don't do this or stand up in your seat and be a nice guy and everything because we're animals. You can't get mad at people for gunning somebody down on the freeway. We're animals. It's the survival of the fittest.

In fact, you know what? It's not only scientifically void of evidence and intellectually dishonest, it's ethically and morally debunked. And this is one of the reasons, and I've argued this before, if evolution's true, then evolutionists should be doing everything to stop homosexuality just on scientific grounds. Because homosexuality destroys the human, kills them. When two of the same gender biology, when you mix the bodily fluids of two of the same gender, there is an immune deficiency that's created that kills them eventually. When proteins are released into a male from a male, it kills them. It immediate attacks their immune system. Just on the evolutionary plane alone, evolutionists should be doing everything to stop homosexuality.

We want homosexuality to stop, and it won't ever stop as long as we're living, but it's not because of that. It's because God loves them and they're hurting themselves. But it's ethically negligent in that you teach a host of children, a generation of kids, you're just an animal. And then you get mad at them for shooting one another in school? How can you moralize or amoralize an animal? You simply train Shamu to jump through the big ring or teach him through repeated and rewards enforcement how to stand on his tail and swim backwards or whatever it is.

But a morality? Shamu knows no morality. No animal could know a morality. I know you love your dog or your cat, but your dog or your cat has no morality. When there's a seductive-looking cat on the TV screen selling Whiskas food, your cat doesn't go, "Oh my gosh, I can't believe where this world is going. Look at that cat dressed like that and walking around that way." That implies a morality. That implies a consciousness of morality. It's impossible.

Let's keep going very quickly. We'll be done with this. Created man, that's us, and his Creator God. Listen, according to the book of Romans, the nagging truth has always been at your heels that God exists. You've been hoping He doesn't. The physical evidence of science proves He exists, and you don't want to think about that because now it makes you accountable to Him.

What maybe you don't know is that He loves you. Maybe what you don't know is that He is interested in you bodily. He's interested in you logically, that is your soul, your thinking, your emotions. He's interested in you spiritually. You have been created the Bible says in the image of God. You are a trichotomy. You have a body, that's obvious. You have a soul, that's your thinking, and you have a spirit that the Bible says is either born again or not. You either know this Creator Jesus that we speak of, or you don't.

Which leads us to the best quote of all from NASA Space Center, Dr. Robert Jastrow, who says for, quote, "the scientist who has lived by faith in the power of reason and logic, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountains of ignorance and is about to conquer its highest peak. As he pulls himself over the final rock, he may well be greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries." That's great. That is something.

You see, the Bible says that the fool has said in his heart there is no God. The fool has said in his where? Heart. There is no God. Interesting. In the Hebrew, Psalm 14:1, the fool has convinced his heart. It doesn't say anything about his mind. You can lie to yourself quite effectively, but if you with intelligence look at the evidence, you'll find God. That's why today there is a host of creationists challenging the evolutionary theories of past. The evidence is all there for us to behold.

Father, we come before You, and Lord, we pray that whatever our preconceived notion might be of who You are or what You might be, may we right now, if we be wrong, divorce ourselves from it and embrace the God revealed in the Bible that is on our lap and the Bible that is outside these walls in the nature that has His fingerprints all over it. And may we decide now to make an intelligent decision with logic and reason and responsibility to see that God is real and we owe Him our allegiance and to give Him our lives. In Jesus' name, and all God's people said, amen.

David J.: Pastor and Bible teacher Jack Hibbs here on Real Life Radio and his message called Christ and His Creation. Thanks for spending time with us today. You know, this message is part of Pastor Jack's series called The Life and Times of Jesus Christ. It's a series about the real Jesus of the Bible, God in the flesh, and why knowing Him more deeply changes everything. And we'll continue on the next edition of Real Life Radio.

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