073: Dan Robinson – Stand Still and Consider the Wondrous Works of God

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Welcome to the good Christian
talks podcast.

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I’m Levi.
And I’m Chris.

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Thank you so much for joining us
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For this week, we’re listening
to a talk that was given at the

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watch on Lake.
Bible school just last year by

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our brother Dan Robinson.
This was an evening program that

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he gave and the topic of his
class is stand still and

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consider the wondrous works of
God.

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And what brother Dan is taking a
look at in this class is the

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proof in the world around us
that there is a Creator.

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This is a topic that I feel many
people may have heard similar

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classes to talking about how the
complexities in the world.

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I’ll just prove to be more
evidence of the fact that there

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is a intelligent designer behind
some of the things that we see

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in the world around us rather
than things that just randomly

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happened to come together.
I really enjoyed the way brother

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Dan took a look at this.
So one of the examples that he

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uses and in the class, he makes
references to videos and some

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slides that he’s put up on the
screen.

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And in the beginning, you kind
of feel like you’re starting to

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lose something but he ends up.
Describing what you’re seeing on

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the screen fairly well, I
thought I was able to follow the

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class really well without being
able to see See, the content

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that he was putting up when he
gave this evening program at the

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Bible school.
But what was unique about?

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This one is he goes to one of
the examples that is often used

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in, in kind of conversation of
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I being an example of how
complex the human eye is and

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what made it unique in this
case, his brother Dan is an

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optometrist by trade.
He is an eye doctor.

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So he spent a lot of time
looking at different eyes from

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different animals.
And how how much variety there

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was in the different eyes and
then spend some time looking at

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the human eye.
But then what I thought was

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unique in the way that brother
Dan approach.

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This is typically, you hear a
class and they talk about, you

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know, the is so complex, it’s
amazing.

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Like, there’s no other way that
it could have been created and

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then the conversation just stops
and that’s sort of like this is

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the proof and stops and then
you’ll see different things from

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people in the scientific
community and people who don’t

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believe the same things that we
do will then break down.

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The eye and say, you know why,
it’s not a good example and

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brother, Dan touches on those
arguments and then turns around

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and breaks those arguments down
to make further arguments to

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support the idea that the, I
actually is a really good

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example of God’s creation.
And the wonder that is into it,

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which I found really interesting
because I had heard people, use

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the eyes, an example, and go
into some detail on the

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complexities of the eye, but
never go into kind of the

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counter argument as to why the
eye isn’t a good example of Of a

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divinely inspired creation and
then broke that argument down

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and again, reinforce that
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So I just found it to be a
really more in-depth.

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Look at the argument that
sometimes people use, when they

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look at the creation around us
to use it as an example to prove

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that God exists and that the
creation we see around us is

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proof of his his power in the
world around us.

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So I really enjoyed this class.
It was a fun one to just kind of

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dive into I’m a little bit of
science nerd.

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So it was fun to listen to
brother Dan, and because it is

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his His trade in his career, he
was able to add a lot more depth

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than I feel a lot of other
classes on a similar topic were.

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So it was a great one to listen
to this one came in as a

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suggestion that somebody had
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Washington Bible school, and
really enjoyed it and sent it

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our way.
I’m glad they did.

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It was a great one to listen to.
If you have any other

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suggestions or recommendations,
even just speakers that you

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would like to hear more of feel
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We’ve got some really
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the last couple weeks and months
from people who are finding

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certain classes or topics.
It’s or speakers to be really

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encouraging for them and we love
hearing about that.

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We’re glad that it’s something
that is uplifting to everybody.

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I know myself and Levi, we’ve
both been enjoying being able to

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listen to all of these classes
and dig into them.

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It’s been um, look up Lifting
for us and we hope it’s been

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just as uplifting to you with
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We’re going to turn it over to
our brother Dan Robinson for his

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evening program class stand
still and consider the wondrous

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works of God.
I love this verse and when you

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think about it there’s an awful
lot to this verse every phrase.

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Is important.
I wanted to put, you know,

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capitals or highlights or make
the text, a little bigger for

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the important words.
And as you can see, I’ve I’ve

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almost highlighted everything in
the verse because it’s all

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important.
And in case, you’re not sure

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from the title, our class this
evening is really to strengthen

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our conviction that God is the
creator of the universe in which

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we live.
The world is increasingly,

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pushing God to the side out of
their minds.

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They teach Evolution as a fact.
It’s an Aligning some underlying

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assumption in almost every
scientific article that’s

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written about biology.
And our class might be a little

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scientific.
I don’t think it’ll be too

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challenging.
We’re just going to look at how

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complex the world we live in is
and I think it’s rather ironic

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that at a time when there’s an
explosion of knowledge where we

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have the technology to see the
vastness of the universe, and

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look down in minut detail at the
complexity of every creature.

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And we’ve Things are thousands
of times more complex than we

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ever thought.
Man is quick to leave God out of

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the equation.
So, where does this first come

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from?
It comes from the lips of a like

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you in the Book of Job and you
might be hesitant to take some

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verses out of Joe.
But there’s there’s nothing

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untrue about this statement that
the job makes if you’d like just

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turn in your Bible to job, 37,
I’ll put it on the screen.

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In case you find it difficult to
look it up.

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But but, This is pretty
important.

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Just read for you job, 37.
I’ve left some of it off the

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screen and so I’ll have to turn
it up here.

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It says hearken unto this so job
stands still and consider the

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wondrous works of God Dost.
Thou know, when God disposed

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them and cause the light of his
Cloud to shine, Dost, thou know

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the balancing of the clouds.
The wondrous works of him which

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is perfect in knowledge.
And so we know Ally whose

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approach, he’s, he’s trying to
get job to admit that he doesn’t

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understand all the ways of God
and hear his topic is something

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quite simple.
It’s it’s the weather and he

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says to job.
Can you explain the, the clouds

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in the sky and the lightning and
the rain?

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The NIV says, do you know how
God lays his command upon them

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and Club causes the lightning of
his Cloud to shine?

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And I think that’s a pretty
valid question to anyone even to

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scientists today.
We more we learn the more we

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realize we don’t understand how
these things happen, but you see

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what’s repeated in these two
verses again?

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And again, it’s the wondrous
works of God Wonders that are

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are perfect in knowledge and
there’s so many wonders of

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creation isn’t, isn’t there?
The wonders of everyday life?

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Roman says, there’s so many
wonders in the world about us.

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That man is without excuse that
everyone should believe in God.

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By just looking at the things
that have been created and those

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wondrous works.
I looked it up to see what it

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meant in.
Almost every translation has the

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same thing, but strong stiction,
areas a little bit helpful.

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It tells us sort of the the
color of the language.

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It means to be to be separate.
The works of God are different

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than the works of anyone else.
There they’re distinguished.

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You can tell that their gods and
not man’s They’re great.

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They’re difficult.
They’re wonderful.

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So the idea of things that no
other person could accomplish

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and presumably this is the
argument of a like you job.

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Watch what you’re saying.
There’s proof all around you.

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That God is all-knowing and he
knows what’s what he’s doing and

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who are we to question him?
That same word in Hebrew Paula

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is in Psalm 139 which we did for
our reading, just turn over to

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Psalm 139.
This is a rule really, really

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interesting section of
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When you look at the, the Hebrew
words, it says, in verse 13,

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thou Hast possessed, my reins
thou has covered me in my

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mother’s womb.
I will praise thee for, I am

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fearfully and wonderfully made
marvelous.

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That’s that word about wondrous
marvelous are thy works.

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And that my soul knoweth right,
well my substance was not hid

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from thee when I was made in
secret and curiously wrought in

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the lowest parts of the earth.
And so Typically, the psalmist

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is talking about the creation of
a child in the womb, you know,

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how can anyone understand that?
It’s so marvelous.

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It’s it’s beyond understanding
how a single cell becomes, you

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know, a baby, that’s born, nine
months later everyone that’s the

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psalmist says should understand
this and and you’ve got to love

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the beauty of the Hebrew
language in verse 13, where it

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says covered me in Rotherham
that says Thou did.

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We’ve me together in the womb
the ESV said you knitted me

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together in my mother’s womb and
that’s applicable to all

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children.
But particularly applicable to

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Christ who is the subject.
And then in verse 15, the word

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curiously wrought, his to
embroider and so you can just

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picture the fine.
Embroidery, that’s done.

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That becomes who we are when
we’re born.

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Some of actually suggested that
this language sounds a bit like

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the twisting together of two
fibers of DNA.

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And if you read the section very
closely, it sounds like all the

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instructions of how a person is
made are written in in the

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twisting together of the DNA
strands.

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But that’s an uncertain, of
course.

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But the point is, is that when
we look at things that are

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around us, especially the
creation, we see the power of

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God and what Liu is Owing job is
to stand still, that was our

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excitation last night, wasn’t
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We move so quickly.
We often don’t take a moment

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just to meditate upon the things
that God has done.

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And we’re going to do that
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We’re going to look at some of
God’s creation, just sit back

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for an hour.
Look at the complexity of what

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God has made and Marvel at at
his power and we want to

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consider and again, we’ll just
look at that word there.

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Consider means to Take some time
to mentally, think about to

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meditate upon, to attend, to
discern to look well, to to

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perceive.
That’s how its translated

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elsewhere.
And I was, I was planning on

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showing you a lot of things that
God created, but I kind of got

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stuck on what I think is the
most incredible thing that God

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has made, and you’re probably
able to guess what that might

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be.
It would be your eye. that is an

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extreme close-up of a part of
the eye called, the iris And I

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chose this picture because there
was a moment in my life where I

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did exactly what a like you
advise job to do.

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I’m in my first year of
optometry school and we’re in a

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lab on.
The second floor with other

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students and we have these
microscopes, where you can look

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at the eye and it was the very
first time.

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I got to look at an eye living.
I up close with a microscope and

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this is what I use every day to
look at people’s eyes and I’ve

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never looked It anything like
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So close that was living because
I looked in microscopes and you

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could see things that, you know,
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But when you look at the eye
under the microscope, there’s

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all these these Hills and
Valleys and folds, it’s all

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different colors.
You know, you think of your I

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being one color but there’s all
different shades of color who is

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in 3D.
It’s intricate that black hole

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in the middle.
That you see that’s like in a

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camera.
Has a lens behind it that you

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can’t see in the picture.
But the best part was that,

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while I was looking at it,
everything is moving.

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You know, when you move the
light to the pupil the pupil get

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smaller, and then when you move
it away, it gets larger.

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So not are you looking at only
looking at a picture like this,

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but it’s moving.
It’s really hard to describe

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what it looked like, but it made
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And I thought, I think I’m the
only person probably in this

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room that’s thinking that this
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this just kind of kind of

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happened.
What occurred to me is actually

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this part of the eye is a
muscle.

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We learned that in class, but
there’s actually two muscles in

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this part of the eye, the iris.
There’s a circular muscle here

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that when it contracts makes the
pupil smaller and then there’s

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all these muscles that run
laterally and when they contract

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that makes the pupil bigger.
So, this happens all day long as

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you’re looking at things that
people gets bigger and smaller

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to All the amount of light that
comes into your eye, it actually

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responds to your emotion.
It responds to how close an

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object is response to those
little sticky drops.

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We put in your eyes when you go
for an eye exam and make you

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blurry.
And I just wanted to recreate

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for you.
That moment, I had 20 years ago

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and I’ve built it up pretty big.
I don’t know that it’ll work,

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but this is a video if it works
here of the eye up close.

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Moving.
Hopefully, that doesn’t gross

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anyone out.
Come on, you have two of them

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and they’re doing this all day
long.

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Can’t it can’t be that at that.
But you know it’s the pupil

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getting bigger and smaller.
That’s the muscles working in is

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you know the people get smaller
that Iris tissue thins out and

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is it gets bigger?
It gets thicker.

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I’m going to turn that off.
Just in case it is gross and you

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are The blank that you were
looking at.

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That happens in a tenth of a
second and on average, we blink

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about ten times a minute, except
when you’re staring at your

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device’s.
When you only do it about five

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times a minute and your eyes dry
out and that color of the eye

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depends on a whole bunch of
genes.

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Most most children of European
descent are born with light

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colored eyes, almost blue.
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months, the darker pigment
forms.

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If it’s going to And you usually
know the eye color of a child

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and there’s up to 15 different
genes.

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That decide that so no matter
what color eyes, your parents

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have, you can have children with
different color eyes.

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There is, I’m looking at this,
under the microscope and I’m

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thinking, none of my classmates
believe that this intricate

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structure is made by God.
Well, there’s a lot to the I and

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I think you need a quick Anatomy
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Here took me a long time to find
a picture that had that few

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labels on it because I didn’t
want to.

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To overwhelm you.
But you’ve got the front of the

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eye, where you’d stick a contact
on your eye called the cornea.

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You’ve got a whole called the
pupil, this is great for five,

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right?
The lens.

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And then at the back of the eye
called the retina, which is like

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the film of your camera and then
there’s a nerve that goes out

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the back and we’re going to talk
about some of these tonight.

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So if you’re thinking like a
camera, you’ve got the pupil,

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which is the aperture, you’ve
got the cornea and lens, which

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is focusing.
Camera.

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The retinas like the digital
sensor and the nerve is like,

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the USB cable that goes to your
computer and your brain is like

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Photoshop, okay?
So that’s, that’s really what’s

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happening with this here and
just give you some interesting

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facts about the eye.
This is a photograph of the

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retina.
That’s like the sensor of your

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camera.
Film for those of you that are

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older, the filament the back and
every eye has about 7 million

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cones which allow you to see in
the day there’s three different

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types of them that allow you to
see in color.

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So if you only have two types of
cones, you’re not going to see

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colors the same way as everyone
else and you’ll be somewhat

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colorblind.
There’s got to be some mails

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here, that are colour-blind
because one in twelve males has

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some color vision deficiency.
That’s why we have trouble with,

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you know, clothes and stuff like
that.

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But less than 1 in 200, women
have color deficiencies and it’s

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all to do with genetics.
And then you’ve got 120 million

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rods which allow you to see at
night and pick up motion, okay?

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And some of the processing of
what you see.

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Actually happens in this tissue,
the nerves actually connect

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before they go to the brain and
then that yellow circle there

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that is 1.2 million nerve fibers
going out the back of your eye,

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connecting your eye, to the
brain.

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And Jeb because the nerve goes
out in that yellow circle.

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You have what’s called a blind
spot.

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Okay, there’s no rods or cones
in that optic nerve.

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So if you were to close one eye
and hold something in a certain

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spot about here, it would sort
of disappear.

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It’s hard to do because your
brain actually fills in most of

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the detail.
Most of your vision is in that

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little dark circle there in the
middle, that’s your best Vision.

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That’s where, when you’re
looking at something, the light

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focuses on the back of the eye
and it’s called the macula

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you’ve heard of macular
degeneration.

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Perhaps some of the older
members, we know people in our

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family with that disease and in
that area for every square

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millimeter, there’s 140,000
cones little cells that detect

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light and You’ve got a retina
display in that same area you’ve

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got 139 pixels.
So your eye is 140,000 cones and

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your retinal display has 139
pixels.

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Not really retina, is it?
Yeah, but it’s what they call it

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and the rods that you see at
night, or actually focused about

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15 degrees off to the side.
So, if you were looking at a

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star at night, and look right at
it might kind of disappear, but

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if you look off to the side
about 15 degrees, you’ll see it

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much better because that’s where
your, your nighttime vision.

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Ian is focused, you’ve got
muscles that control your eye,

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you got the ones you think
about, right?

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Left up down and a couple that
turn the eye in different

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direction, they help, give us a
view of the world.

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That’s that’s better than 180
degrees that we think about And

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they’re quite interesting.
Have you ever watched someone

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that’s really quite poor at
doing home movies and

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everything’s moving all the time
and you sort of start feeling

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nauseous, you ever thought why
your vision isn’t like that.

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When you’re running down the
road and everything stays in the

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right spot?
Well, it’s your eyes are hooked

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up to sensors in your ears that
send how you’re moving and

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adjust for eye movements to
compensate that in real time.

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No, that’s way better than any
camcorder heads and, and your

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eye does this automatically You
and these muscles never get

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tired.
They’re not like muscles where

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you’re running.
And you know by the end of the

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day you don’t want to move your
eyes anymore.

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The other interesting thing is
that remember that small area

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with lots of cones in it called
the macula.

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Well, that’s our best Vision.
But we actually see the whole

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world because our eyes
constantly are moving, and the

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Brain puts all the pictures
together and gives us this this

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full view.
That’s why when you take a

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picture and you show it to
someone else, it doesn’t Quite

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capture.
Like if you’ve been to the Grand

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Canyon, you can’t quite capture
the Grand Canyon on film, or in

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a picture as it is in real life
because their eyes just do a

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much better job at taking in the
whole picture.

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So those are just some of the
things that make me Marvel at at

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the creation of God, there was
there was a wise man named

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Solomon, who said the hearing
year and the seeing I the Lord

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hath made both of them.
So when so when we look at Some

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beautiful lake or a mighty tree
or we look at the intricacy of a

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bird in Flight, you know, we can
Marvel at God’s creation but we

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should also Marvel that he’s
given us.

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The eyesight the complexity of
our eye, in order to be able to

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see it, but God gives us site
for another reason.

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In Psalm 90 for it says he that
planted the ear, shall he not

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here and he that formed the I
shall he not see?

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I think there’s a bit of a
warning there for us, isn’t

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there reminding us that if if we
have this ability to see things,

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surely God can see and it would
be absurd to say that God is

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blind.
But there’s people that do and

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perhaps those people are us.
If we do things thinking that

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God isn’t watching us, and we
might say that by our actions,

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he were to look at the context
of this verse.

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You’ll see that it’s the wicked,
that would say that the Lord

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shall not.
See but there are some people

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that actually say this
literally, and we’ll talk about

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that in a moment.
It also says, in Psalm 90 4

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verse 8, that people who say
that are brutish and strong

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says, that means that their
senseless, they don’t have their

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senses and their thinking that
God doesn’t see.

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So there’s some pretty Spirit,
good spiritual lessons that we

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can look at.
You could do a good class on on

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whether our spiritual vision is
is 20/20.

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Like, we like to have Well, our
last verse 4 for this evening is

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from First Kings chapter 4 and
we think about the wisdom of

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Solomon, we think of his
Proverbs, we think of how

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important the fear of the Lord
is.

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But it appears that God also
gave Solomon a little bit of

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understanding about biology.
He spoke of trees and the cedar

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tree spoke of hyssop, he spoke
of beasts and fowls and of

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creeping things in a fish’s.
And when he looked at all these

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things, he would have been
impressed.

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With the creative power of God.
And I think, we’ll how much more

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impressed.
Should we be that we can, you

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know, put pictures of this up on
the screen.

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We can look at the eye in great
detail, with with huge

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magnification and we should be
impressed with his Limitless

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power, and the observations that
we are going to make this

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evening.
I just don’t think fit in with

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the concept of evolution.
You know, there’s so many

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different eyes in nature.
How did they evolve so many

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times?
How is it that each eye is

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perfectly suited to its
environment?

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And how did things that are?
So complex appear without a

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Creator?
And there’s actually a lot of

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scientists that are ready to
admit.

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That Evolution does not provide
the answers.

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So, I’m going to share with you
some of the eyes in nature.

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So that is a box jellyfish and
it’s called a box jellyfish,

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because it’s shaped like a box
and most of them are venomous.

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They live, of course, in our
oceans and these jellyfish are

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carnivores.
They actually hunt little fish.

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They can move up to four miles
an hour and I’m like other

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jellyfish, which only have
simple eyes.

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These jellyfish have eyes with a
cornea.

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And lens and the retina and it
has 24 eyes actually in groups

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of six.
So there’s four dark spots that

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you can see there.
And in each of those dark spots,

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there’s six eyes and four of
them are really simple, they

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just detect light and two of
them are complex.

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And have this structure, like,
our eyes, have one looks up in

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one looks down, and it allows it
to distinguish between light and

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dark.
It helps, it have directional.

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Oh swimming.
It helps it hunt.

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00:24:30,800 –> 00:24:33,700
Its prey.
That’s kind of interesting.

433
00:24:37,200 –> 00:24:40,700
That’s a fruit fly.
Okay they’re like two or three

434
00:24:40,700 –> 00:24:45,200
millimeters in size and those
red circles on the side of it

435
00:24:45,200 –> 00:24:49,700
are the eyes of the fruit fly
and it’s very different than our

436
00:24:49,700 –> 00:24:51,100
eyes.
They’re called compound eye.

437
00:24:51,100 –> 00:24:55,300
So instead of being one eye,
that fruit fly each of its size

438
00:24:55,300 –> 00:24:58,000
has 100.
No sorry, a thousand different.

439
00:25:00,200 –> 00:25:03,200
Sections that are just all
individualize and even though

440
00:25:03,208 –> 00:25:07,100
they only live about 40 days,
they’re very complicated.

441
00:25:07,100 –> 00:25:11,200
The vision of the fruit fly.
Here’s an electron microscope

442
00:25:11,200 –> 00:25:16,500
picture of some of the sections
of the eye of the fruit fly.

443
00:25:16,500 –> 00:25:19,900
So there’s thousands of these
elements that actually focus

444
00:25:19,900 –> 00:25:23,100
light and you know what it’s
better than our I in many ways

445
00:25:23,100 –> 00:25:26,000
because it can see almost 360
degrees.

446
00:25:26,000 –> 00:25:28,100
It has a much better field of
view.

447
00:25:28,800 –> 00:25:30,600
It’s way better at motion
detection.

448
00:25:30,600 –> 00:25:34,300
As you know, when you try to
swat a fly, it somehow senses

449
00:25:34,300 –> 00:25:37,600
that you’re moving before you
even think to move, it can

450
00:25:37,600 –> 00:25:42,300
detect polarized, light.
It can detect its position on

451
00:25:42,300 –> 00:25:47,600
earth, like GPS, and you want to
wear those little spikes.

452
00:25:47,600 –> 00:25:49,500
Are that come out between every
eye there.

453
00:25:49,600 –> 00:25:54,000
They’re actually called see Ty
and their little hairs and they

454
00:25:54,000 –> 00:25:57,200
slow down the evaporation.
So the eyes don’t dry out as

455
00:25:57,200 –> 00:26:01,400
quickly on the fruit fly.
They also reduce dust getting in

456
00:26:01,400 –> 00:26:03,900
the eye of a fruit fly.
Since it doesn’t have eyelids,

457
00:26:04,900 –> 00:26:07,900
pretty incredible the structure,
and just these little little

458
00:26:07,900 –> 00:26:15,500
animals and I know what that is.
It’s a cuddlefish.

459
00:26:15,600 –> 00:26:18,000
Yeah.
It’s in the same class is an

460
00:26:18,000 –> 00:26:23,400
octopus and a squid and these
guys can grow up to 23 pounds,

461
00:26:24,000 –> 00:26:27,900
the Greeks and Romans actually
gathered them for the pigment

462
00:26:27,900 –> 00:26:30,100
that came out of it.
It’s a brown pigment that it is

463
00:26:30,800 –> 00:26:34,200
ejects when it’s excited and
it’s called sepia.

464
00:26:34,200 –> 00:26:37,000
That’s the brown pigment or CP.
I don’t know how you pronounce

465
00:26:37,000 –> 00:26:40,200
it in.
D.c. don’t know how you

466
00:26:40,200 –> 00:26:47,400
pronounce it, Ontario either,
but This is a bone inside it

467
00:26:47,400 –> 00:26:50,500
called the cuttlebone.
And if any of you have birds

468
00:26:50,500 –> 00:26:54,300
that sometimes the the bone that
they put inside bird cages that

469
00:26:54,600 –> 00:26:58,600
birds use to get a source of
calcium and it’s actually

470
00:26:58,600 –> 00:27:02,100
considered one of the most
intelligent of creatures because

471
00:27:02,100 –> 00:27:04,200
it has a large Brain to body
ratio.

472
00:27:04,900 –> 00:27:07,200
And I don’t know if you’ve ever
seen cuttlefish but they

473
00:27:07,200 –> 00:27:12,000
actually can change color.
So I have a video of the

474
00:27:12,000 –> 00:27:14,800
Cuttlefish that’s just
Absolutely incredible.

475
00:27:16,100 –> 00:27:19,900
The Cuttlefish has taken
camouflage to the next level.

476
00:27:20,400 –> 00:27:25,200
They can change their color
shape and texture to blend in

477
00:27:25,200 –> 00:27:31,000
with the background.
It’s hard to believe looking at

478
00:27:31,000 –> 00:27:35,500
these pictures, but all these
cuttlefish are exactly the same

479
00:27:35,500 –> 00:27:38,100
species.
They’re simply changing their

480
00:27:38,100 –> 00:27:40,800
appearance depending on what’s
around them.

481
00:27:44,300 –> 00:27:49,000
It’s called adaptive camouflage
and it’s perfect for hiding from

482
00:27:49,000 –> 00:27:57,000
those predators and prey.
It’s not amazing.

483
00:27:57,000 –> 00:28:00,500
I first time I didn’t even see
it there and then jumps out for

484
00:28:00,700 –> 00:28:03,100
fish.
So so not only do they have

485
00:28:03,108 –> 00:28:06,600
remarkable eyes that will come
to in a minute but their skin is

486
00:28:06,600 –> 00:28:08,900
incredible.
It’s got these thousands of sex

487
00:28:08,900 –> 00:28:12,400
filled with pigment and there’s
different colored pigments and

488
00:28:12,400 –> 00:28:15,300
there’s muscles on the
Cuttlefish skin that that open

489
00:28:15,300 –> 00:28:18,000
up different sections and it’s
like an LCD screen.

490
00:28:18,000 –> 00:28:20,100
You know, your screen on your
computer, it can create

491
00:28:20,100 –> 00:28:23,100
different patterns with the
muscles allowing different

492
00:28:23,100 –> 00:28:28,100
pigments to be.
Okay, it’s it’s in it’s

493
00:28:28,100 –> 00:28:30,100
complicated.
It’s too complicated for me to

494
00:28:30,100 –> 00:28:33,800
understand or explain the the
layers of cells that allow it to

495
00:28:33,800 –> 00:28:39,000
create this this color.
But what’s interesting is their

496
00:28:39,000 –> 00:28:42,800
eyes and they have a different
type of I which will talk about

497
00:28:42,900 –> 00:28:46,000
towards the end that has no
blind spot.

498
00:28:47,100 –> 00:28:51,200
And what’s what’s surprising
about the Cuttlefish is that it

499
00:28:51,200 –> 00:28:54,300
uses its skin not just for
camouflage but they think that

500
00:28:54,300 –> 00:28:58,200
uses it skin to communicate with
other cuttlefish with different

501
00:28:58,200 –> 00:29:00,500
patterns that it can commute
that way.

502
00:29:00,800 –> 00:29:03,800
And I guess what’s remarkable
about it is that if you’ve got a

503
00:29:03,800 –> 00:29:07,700
fish that’s depending on seeing
different colors, you think it’s

504
00:29:07,700 –> 00:29:10,800
vision would have really good
color vision, but they only have

505
00:29:10,800 –> 00:29:13,200
one type of cone in their, in
their retinas.

506
00:29:14,300 –> 00:29:19,800
So how do they see the color?
Well, scientists think it has to

507
00:29:19,800 –> 00:29:22,500
do with the pupil of the
Cuttlefish so that’s a

508
00:29:22,508 –> 00:29:29,500
cuttlefish I closed up and that
W is the pupil of the Cuttlefish

509
00:29:30,100 –> 00:29:35,500
and that pupil is not a very
great shape of pupil in order to

510
00:29:35,500 –> 00:29:37,800
focus an image.
I don’t know if any of you do

511
00:29:37,800 –> 00:29:40,600
photography but it creates an
awful lot of what’s called

512
00:29:40,600 –> 00:29:43,700
chromatic aberration.
If you’ve got a camera, When it

513
00:29:43,700 –> 00:29:46,700
has chromatic aberration, it
means you’ve got color fringes

514
00:29:46,700 –> 00:29:50,100
all around the picture, not each
colors in a different Focus, so

515
00:29:50,100 –> 00:29:52,100
it’s not a very clear picture
for us.

516
00:29:52,300 –> 00:29:55,900
So you want a lens that doesn’t
have chromatic aberration, but

517
00:29:55,900 –> 00:29:58,800
if you’re a cuttlefish that
depends on communicating by

518
00:29:58,800 –> 00:30:02,100
seeing the color on other
cuttlefish skin, you want

519
00:30:02,100 –> 00:30:05,500
chromatic aberration because you
can interpret the blur of

520
00:30:05,500 –> 00:30:10,200
different colors and thus see
colors by doing that, and God’s

521
00:30:10,200 –> 00:30:12,900
given the Cuttlefish this very
strange pupil.

522
00:30:13,700 –> 00:30:16,800
Perhaps for that reason, if
scientists understand it

523
00:30:17,200 –> 00:30:20,300
correctly.
So I just think that’s amazing.

524
00:30:20,300 –> 00:30:22,400
I’m really glad that wasn’t what
I was looking at in the

525
00:30:22,408 –> 00:30:25,300
microscope that day at that
school because that might have

526
00:30:25,300 –> 00:30:31,000
been a little creepy, you know.
So does that point to you to a

527
00:30:31,000 –> 00:30:33,800
Creator where the eye is
perfectly matched to its

528
00:30:33,800 –> 00:30:36,600
environment, or does it point to
devolution?

529
00:30:38,400 –> 00:30:42,600
That is a bay scallop.
That’s what you eat.

530
00:30:42,600 –> 00:30:46,000
If you eat scallops, you eat one
of the muscles inside the shell

531
00:30:46,600 –> 00:30:49,300
and they Farm them in Florida.
And that’s what you eat at Sea

532
00:30:49,300 –> 00:30:53,300
Foods places.
But do you see those blue

533
00:30:53,300 –> 00:30:57,100
circles?
Hundreds of them, those are

534
00:30:57,100 –> 00:31:00,700
eyes.
The scallop has eyes.

535
00:31:01,900 –> 00:31:04,800
I didn’t know that the must have
missed that day at school.

536
00:31:06,500 –> 00:31:12,100
That’s a close-up of the eyes of
a scallop and they have these

537
00:31:12,100 –> 00:31:14,900
very bright blue colors because
of something called guanine

538
00:31:14,900 –> 00:31:18,900
crystals and they call them
simple eyes but they’re really

539
00:31:18,900 –> 00:31:22,800
not that simple actually because
they have a cornea.

540
00:31:23,000 –> 00:31:25,700
They have a retina and behind
the retina, there’s a mirror.

541
00:31:25,700 –> 00:31:29,000
That’s the blue part.
And the retina where In two

542
00:31:29,000 –> 00:31:32,300
ways, the light goes through it
and it senses, light it reflects

543
00:31:32,300 –> 00:31:35,200
off the mirror, bounces back
through and that detects

544
00:31:35,200 –> 00:31:41,400
contrast and the scallop can
actually see not really well but

545
00:31:41,400 –> 00:31:46,600
it can tell differences between
contrast between, you know,

546
00:31:47,500 –> 00:31:51,500
shelves of the, on the ocean
floor, how murky the water is

547
00:31:51,500 –> 00:31:55,600
and that helps it to do its
hunting and detect predators.

548
00:31:56,600 –> 00:31:58,100
Kind of an interesting set of
ice.

549
00:32:00,100 –> 00:32:05,000
That’s a shrimp.
A mantis shrimp, a crustacean

550
00:32:05,000 –> 00:32:08,700
that lives in rivers and oceans.
And it’s you don’t see this very

551
00:32:08,700 –> 00:32:11,300
often at least I’ve never seen
one because I guess it hides in

552
00:32:11,300 –> 00:32:14,500
the sediment at the bottom of
rivers and it has a compound.

553
00:32:14,500 –> 00:32:17,800
I like like the house flies or
like the fruit fly that we

554
00:32:17,800 –> 00:32:21,600
looked at before, but in each
eye, there’s over 10,000

555
00:32:22,000 –> 00:32:27,400
sections or units of its eye.
And so these eyes as you can

556
00:32:27,400 –> 00:32:29,300
probably guess can look in
different directions.

557
00:32:29,300 –> 00:32:31,500
One can turn one way and the
other can look the other way.

558
00:32:32,200 –> 00:32:36,800
And it has completely 360 degree
Vision as a result.

559
00:32:37,100 –> 00:32:41,800
But this, this animal has
between 12 and 16 different

560
00:32:41,800 –> 00:32:45,600
cones to see different colors.
So, you know, we think we see

561
00:32:45,600 –> 00:32:50,000
color, well, that the mantis
shrimp can see all sorts of

562
00:32:50,000 –> 00:32:53,700
colors, it can see the UV
Spectrum, it can see polarized

563
00:32:53,700 –> 00:32:57,600
light, and they think that it
has all these cones, not to help

564
00:32:57,600 –> 00:32:59,900
it.
Distinguish colors better, but

565
00:32:59,900 –> 00:33:01,800
it doesn’t have the brain to
interpret.

566
00:33:01,900 –> 00:33:05,000
It like we do.
So it’s interprets color by

567
00:33:05,000 –> 00:33:07,700
having different sensors and it
doesn’t need as much processing.

568
00:33:07,700 –> 00:33:12,300
Power to see the colors.
I just had to include that

569
00:33:12,300 –> 00:33:14,900
picture because it was really
strange.

570
00:33:14,900 –> 00:33:18,400
Okay, the next few slides, it’s
Guess the Animal.

571
00:33:18,400 –> 00:33:23,600
Okay.
What do you think that is?

572
00:33:25,700 –> 00:33:26,500
Yeah.
What do you think?

573
00:33:28,200 –> 00:33:32,800
It’s a goat.
You guys were getting scared.

574
00:33:34,400 –> 00:33:40,000
What’s different about it?
It’s pupil is rectangular yeah,

575
00:33:40,300 –> 00:33:45,500
ours around the Cuttlefish of
nice W’s and this one is

576
00:33:45,500 –> 00:33:49,000
rectangular, and it gives it
better peripheral vision for

577
00:33:49,000 –> 00:33:52,900
watching for Pray when it’s
grazing blocks out more of the

578
00:33:52,900 –> 00:33:54,900
light from above.
Because it doesn’t need to see

579
00:33:54,900 –> 00:33:59,300
up and the sun would
desensitize, its retina and it

580
00:33:59,300 –> 00:34:01,500
has great ability to rotate its
head.

581
00:34:01,500 –> 00:34:04,700
So that when it’s in different
positions grazing, those eyes

582
00:34:04,700 –> 00:34:08,199
stay parallel with the ground.
Very well because it’s well

583
00:34:08,199 –> 00:34:13,699
suited for that.
A chameleon.

584
00:34:13,699 –> 00:34:16,900
Yes, which is a type of lizard.
So the two answers, I heard were

585
00:34:16,900 –> 00:34:21,100
absolutely correct and some can
be aliens can change color.

586
00:34:21,100 –> 00:34:25,199
I don’t know if they change as
well as those cuttlefish, but

587
00:34:25,199 –> 00:34:27,500
they have really good eyesight.
These chameleons.

588
00:34:27,500 –> 00:34:30,900
They can see UV light, they can
detect little insects 10 meters

589
00:34:30,900 –> 00:34:35,400
away and you’ll notice something
here, the eyelid is actually

590
00:34:35,400 –> 00:34:38,699
fused to the cornea, so it
doesn’t open and close its eyes.

591
00:34:38,699 –> 00:34:41,800
It’s just fused there and
there’s a few reasons for that.

592
00:34:41,800 –> 00:34:44,000
One is.
It’s Camouflage, you know,

593
00:34:44,000 –> 00:34:46,900
rather than having a big guy
that skin comes right up, it

594
00:34:46,900 –> 00:34:49,900
also gives it better focus
because it’s got a small pupil

595
00:34:50,600 –> 00:34:52,400
like a camera.
When we have a small aperture,

596
00:34:52,400 –> 00:34:57,100
we get a better focus on our
camera and the eyes can move

597
00:34:57,100 –> 00:34:59,200
independently.
So one can be looking at the

598
00:34:59,200 –> 00:35:02,200
pray that it wants to get the
other can be moving all around

599
00:35:02,200 –> 00:35:05,400
in surveying, you know, for
Predators or things that want to

600
00:35:05,600 –> 00:35:09,800
attack it.
And the eyes bulge out a little

601
00:35:09,800 –> 00:35:11,500
bit, to give it a better field
of view.

602
00:35:12,100 –> 00:35:16,000
And it actually Ashley has a
special lens that lets it have

603
00:35:16,000 –> 00:35:18,600
depth perception with only one
eye looking at something.

604
00:35:18,600 –> 00:35:22,000
So I can judge how far something
is, because my two eyes are

605
00:35:22,000 –> 00:35:24,800
getting different pictures of
it, and the Brain interprets

606
00:35:24,800 –> 00:35:26,300
that and gives me depth
perception.

607
00:35:26,300 –> 00:35:28,700
That’s how we can hit a baseball
pretty well, because we can

608
00:35:28,700 –> 00:35:32,400
judge how far it is.
Well, this I has been specially

609
00:35:32,400 –> 00:35:35,000
designed because it needs to be
looking in different directions.

610
00:35:35,300 –> 00:35:38,700
That the lens gives it two
different, you know, focuses and

611
00:35:38,700 –> 00:35:41,300
the Brain interprets that as
depth perception.

612
00:35:42,000 –> 00:35:44,300
And it also has Lens.
That’s designed very different

613
00:35:44,300 –> 00:35:47,400
and is more like a telephoto
lens, which is really cool.

614
00:35:51,600 –> 00:35:55,700
When is that?
It’s a gecko.

615
00:35:57,100 –> 00:36:00,900
A gargoyle gecko for yeah,
that’s really good.

616
00:36:03,900 –> 00:36:06,800
I think it’s neat because the
iris kind of Blends in with the

617
00:36:06,800 –> 00:36:09,400
skin, doesn’t it?
It’s got that cool design for

618
00:36:09,400 –> 00:36:12,400
camouflage.
Again, not an eye that I really

619
00:36:12,400 –> 00:36:14,400
wanted to look at in school in
the microscope.

620
00:36:14,400 –> 00:36:16,800
But what’s different about this
eye?

621
00:36:19,500 –> 00:36:22,200
It’s got a vertical slit for a
pupil.

622
00:36:23,100 –> 00:36:27,500
It also has cones that are 350
times, more sensitive than ours.

623
00:36:27,800 –> 00:36:30,300
So our cones don’t work at
night.

624
00:36:30,300 –> 00:36:32,900
We use our rods to see.
Those are the cells that detect

625
00:36:32,900 –> 00:36:36,000
light this animal.
It’s cones can see at night.

626
00:36:37,800 –> 00:36:40,300
And that’s because it’s cones
are really much bigger in the

627
00:36:40,300 –> 00:36:45,100
retina, and this is actually the
pupil of a gecko open, really

628
00:36:45,100 –> 00:36:47,800
wide in bright light.
This is what happens to the

629
00:36:47,800 –> 00:36:53,100
pupil of a gecko.
It shrinks down, but it’s not

630
00:36:53,100 –> 00:36:55,900
weird.
There’s four little pin holes in

631
00:36:55,900 –> 00:37:00,200
its pupil and you think we’ll
why would there be for pin holes

632
00:37:00,200 –> 00:37:03,200
for pupils?
In fact, if you had for pupils

633
00:37:03,200 –> 00:37:06,400
like that, you would see four of
everything, okay?

634
00:37:06,400 –> 00:37:08,200
Which wouldn’t be really all
that handy.

635
00:37:10,500 –> 00:37:12,800
Especially if a trucks coming
towards you or something like

636
00:37:12,800 –> 00:37:18,100
that.
But the gecko behind this Iris

637
00:37:18,400 –> 00:37:22,700
has a lens with four different
sections to it, and because it’s

638
00:37:22,800 –> 00:37:26,300
eyeball is so short.
All the colors would be out of

639
00:37:26,300 –> 00:37:29,100
focus for it.
So, it has a lens that’s

640
00:37:29,100 –> 00:37:32,500
multifocal, that allows
different colors to focus and

641
00:37:32,600 –> 00:37:36,300
independently, and it can
actually then see, much, much

642
00:37:36,300 –> 00:37:38,500
clearer.
And it also allows it to be more

643
00:37:38,500 –> 00:37:41,800
camouflaged.
It’s also another cool thing

644
00:37:41,800 –> 00:37:45,100
about geckos is they they don’t
have eyelids and they don’t have

645
00:37:45,100 –> 00:37:48,600
those little hairs poking out of
them, like the fruit fly, so

646
00:37:48,600 –> 00:37:51,900
their eyes would dry out.
So there’s this remarkable

647
00:37:52,000 –> 00:37:55,100
development and I think this has
got to be one of the greatest

648
00:37:55,100 –> 00:37:58,100
designs ever to keep the keep
the pupil moist.

649
00:38:03,400 –> 00:38:05,800
It licks its eye with its
tongue, why not?

650
00:38:07,500 –> 00:38:12,900
Otherwise it’s I would dry out.
I don’t know.

651
00:38:13,100 –> 00:38:17,700
I I think there’s no end to the
complexity and the variety of

652
00:38:17,700 –> 00:38:22,300
eyes that God has created.
Don’t you think it’s amazing

653
00:38:22,300 –> 00:38:24,600
that God has given us?
This wonderful proof of his

654
00:38:24,600 –> 00:38:29,900
existence and I just wish
scientists might stand still and

655
00:38:29,900 –> 00:38:33,900
consider what they’re looking at
sometime and take the advice of

656
00:38:34,400 –> 00:38:37,700
Romans and be without excuse,
because really, there’s no

657
00:38:37,700 –> 00:38:41,500
excuse to believe in the god
that we, that we have.

658
00:38:42,500 –> 00:38:45,500
Now, I really haven’t made much
of a scientific argument.

659
00:38:46,300 –> 00:38:49,900
I’ve just given you examples of
the wonderful creatures that

660
00:38:49,900 –> 00:38:54,200
exist upon And I allow you to
come to your own conclusion.

661
00:38:54,200 –> 00:38:58,100
I know your conclusion but this
argument that I’m making

662
00:38:58,300 –> 00:39:01,600
actually has a name.
The argument for creation that

663
00:39:01,600 –> 00:39:04,800
I’m making is an argument.
It’s called an argument from

664
00:39:04,800 –> 00:39:08,800
design, it’s actually called the
teleological argument.

665
00:39:09,400 –> 00:39:12,500
So in other words, we believe in
God, when we look at what we

666
00:39:12,500 –> 00:39:14,600
believe in God, for lots of
reasons, but we point to the

667
00:39:14,600 –> 00:39:19,400
complexity of Nature and we say
there must be a God that exists

668
00:39:19,900 –> 00:39:22,600
and this Is best Illustrated in
something, you’ve probably heard

669
00:39:22,600 –> 00:39:27,400
of in classes before called the
watchmaker analogy.

670
00:39:27,400 –> 00:39:31,900
So anyone finding a pocket watch
in a field will recognize that

671
00:39:31,900 –> 00:39:34,300
it was designed intelligent,
okay?

672
00:39:34,300 –> 00:39:37,500
So if you walked along the path,
and you came up on an old

673
00:39:37,500 –> 00:39:39,800
fashioned pocket, watch like
this, and you looked at all the

674
00:39:39,800 –> 00:39:43,400
gears and you spun it and the
gears started moving and it kept

675
00:39:43,400 –> 00:39:45,700
time.
Are you going to think that that

676
00:39:45,700 –> 00:39:49,200
just happened to be there?
Or are you going to think that

677
00:39:49,200 –> 00:39:53,600
there was someone intelligent In
that designed and built a watch.

678
00:39:54,200 –> 00:39:57,000
Okay.
So that’s the watchmaker

679
00:39:57,000 –> 00:39:58,700
argument.
He says, when we look at Living

680
00:39:58,700 –> 00:40:02,200
beings that are similarly,
complex or I think I would say,

681
00:40:03,000 –> 00:40:05,900
you know, we’ve got a couple
hundred years on William Paley,

682
00:40:05,900 –> 00:40:10,900
who was the scientist to put
this this argument forward when

683
00:40:10,900 –> 00:40:14,000
we see things that are much,
much more complex that can

684
00:40:14,000 –> 00:40:17,800
recreate themselves reproduce
themselves, then that must be

685
00:40:17,800 –> 00:40:20,800
the work of an intelligent
designer.

686
00:40:20,800 –> 00:40:24,500
Well, Evolutionists.
Of course have a counter

687
00:40:24,500 –> 00:40:28,700
argument.
And their argument is called an

688
00:40:28,700 –> 00:40:34,100
argument from poor design, okay?
And they call this the Des

689
00:40:34,100 –> 00:40:37,500
teleological argument.
In other words, the opposite.

690
00:40:37,500 –> 00:40:42,100
So what they say is that if you
can see anything in nature that

691
00:40:42,100 –> 00:40:46,300
doesn’t have a very good design
that would be evidence that it

692
00:40:46,300 –> 00:40:53,500
wasn’t created by an omnipotent
all-knowing all-powerful God So

693
00:40:53,500 –> 00:40:56,300
for example you’ve got an
appendix, you can have it out

694
00:40:56,300 –> 00:40:59,000
and there’s no problems.
So why would we have an appendix

695
00:40:59,700 –> 00:41:02,100
humans?
Cannot synthesize vitamin C?

696
00:41:02,100 –> 00:41:05,800
If we didn’t eat vitamin C we
wouldn’t survive.

697
00:41:05,800 –> 00:41:07,900
We have to eat it.
We can’t make it ourselves and I

698
00:41:07,900 –> 00:41:10,600
guess I didn’t know this but
some plants most plants and

699
00:41:10,600 –> 00:41:16,000
animals can make vitamin C.
They don’t have to eat it whales

700
00:41:16,000 –> 00:41:18,800
and dolphins, breathe air, but
live in the ocean.

701
00:41:18,800 –> 00:41:21,300
Like why would you have that
kind of a design if you live in

702
00:41:21,308 –> 00:41:23,600
the ocean?
So they’re talking about

703
00:41:23,600 –> 00:41:26,900
suboptimal designs, plants are
green and not black.

704
00:41:26,900 –> 00:41:30,800
If plants were black, they would
absorb more light and they would

705
00:41:30,800 –> 00:41:34,100
be better at producing and
growing and getting energy from

706
00:41:34,100 –> 00:41:36,300
the Sun.
So, their argument is this, they

707
00:41:36,300 –> 00:41:40,500
say, if there was an omnipotent
omniscient, omni-benevolent

708
00:41:40,500 –> 00:41:44,000
benevolent Creator, God would
create organisms that have

709
00:41:44,000 –> 00:41:46,200
optimal design.
We see organisms that are

710
00:41:46,200 –> 00:41:49,100
suboptimal there for either.
God, didn’t create these

711
00:41:49,100 –> 00:41:52,000
organisms or God is Not
omnipotent on this year.

712
00:41:52,600 –> 00:41:55,400
And omni-benevolent.
I’ve been in a lot of baptismal

713
00:41:55,400 –> 00:41:57,500
interviews, and we’ve never
talked about omni-benevolent.

714
00:41:59,900 –> 00:42:01,300
We always talk about the other
ones.

715
00:42:01,300 –> 00:42:03,300
On this sense they they forgot
to have.

716
00:42:03,300 –> 00:42:05,300
They have a mechanism.
What am I missing?

717
00:42:06,300 –> 00:42:08,800
Omnipresent, I guess is the one
that we have, isn’t it?

718
00:42:08,800 –> 00:42:12,400
Yeah, so they’re wrong off.
The bat that God isn’t

719
00:42:12,500 –> 00:42:15,900
omni-benevolent.
That’s where we get into trouble

720
00:42:15,900 –> 00:42:18,600
with people understanding
suffering and difficulties that

721
00:42:18,600 –> 00:42:21,600
come into our life.
So that’s perhaps one step that

722
00:42:21,600 –> 00:42:22,400
they go.
Wrong.

723
00:42:24,200 –> 00:42:29,100
But of course they also Are
misjudging the things that God

724
00:42:29,100 –> 00:42:30,800
creates.
Oh, you’ve heard of Richard

725
00:42:30,800 –> 00:42:34,300
Dawkins.
He’s a scientist and he wrote a

726
00:42:34,308 –> 00:42:36,700
book called The Blind
watchmaker.

727
00:42:38,000 –> 00:42:40,200
First, I thought he was calling
God blind but of course, he

728
00:42:40,200 –> 00:42:43,400
doesn’t believe in God.
So what he’s saying is that that

729
00:42:43,400 –> 00:42:46,300
watch that argument that William
Paley made a couple hundred

730
00:42:46,300 –> 00:42:50,000
years ago, could be explained by
a blind process called

731
00:42:50,000 –> 00:42:53,400
Evolution, okay?
So that watch could be there if

732
00:42:53,400 –> 00:42:57,400
we had something like natural
selection, and this is what

733
00:42:57,400 –> 00:43:00,100
Richard Dawkins says, in his
book about the eye because the

734
00:43:00,100 –> 00:43:02,200
eye happens to be one of their
favorite targets.

735
00:43:03,200 –> 00:43:06,300
He says an engineer would
naturally assume that the photo

736
00:43:06,300 –> 00:43:10,600
cells that would be the rods and
cones in your retina would Point

737
00:43:10,600 –> 00:43:14,200
toward the light with their
wires leading backwards toward

738
00:43:14,200 –> 00:43:17,300
the brain.
He would laugh at any suggestion

739
00:43:17,300 –> 00:43:20,800
that the photo cells might point
away from the light with their

740
00:43:20,800 –> 00:43:24,500
wires, departing on the side,
nearest the light, okay?

741
00:43:24,500 –> 00:43:27,500
Now that might be complicated,
but what he’s saying is if you

742
00:43:27,500 –> 00:43:31,800
were making a camera You would
want the sensor to have direct

743
00:43:31,800 –> 00:43:35,500
contact with the light and have
the cables that come out of it

744
00:43:35,500 –> 00:43:38,600
behind it so that they don’t get
in the way, okay.

745
00:43:39,100 –> 00:43:41,700
Would it make sense to have all
your cables in front of the

746
00:43:41,700 –> 00:43:45,200
light sensor in your camera?
You know they block the light

747
00:43:45,200 –> 00:43:50,000
from getting to the sensor and
in that sense he’s very right so

748
00:43:50,000 –> 00:43:58,700
when you look at the design of
us on your left and Squid and

749
00:43:58,800 –> 00:44:01,100
cuttlefish Shin octopus on,
right?

750
00:44:01,500 –> 00:44:05,600
You can see that in our eyes,
all the wires that come out of

751
00:44:05,600 –> 00:44:09,700
the cells that detect light come
out the front part, get in the

752
00:44:09,700 –> 00:44:11,900
way of the light and they
actually run along the front

753
00:44:11,900 –> 00:44:15,100
surface of that and at some
point they have to curve out and

754
00:44:15,100 –> 00:44:17,600
go out the back of our eye and
they create a blind spot.

755
00:44:18,600 –> 00:44:22,800
So evolutionists say, well if
God had created the eye he

756
00:44:22,800 –> 00:44:25,900
wouldn’t have made it that way.
Because then there wouldn’t be a

757
00:44:25,900 –> 00:44:28,900
blind spot.
And the, the fibers wouldn’t get

758
00:44:28,900 –> 00:44:31,900
in the way.
All right.

759
00:44:31,900 –> 00:44:34,600
That’s their thinking, that’s
their argument.

760
00:44:34,600 –> 00:44:40,000
So, here’s just a little bit of
a lesson from optometry school.

761
00:44:41,100 –> 00:44:44,100
You’ve seen this picture of your
retina, that yellow circle is

762
00:44:44,100 –> 00:44:47,100
the optic nerve.
And that’s the, the nerve fibers

763
00:44:47,100 –> 00:44:48,300
heading out the back of your
eye.

764
00:44:48,900 –> 00:44:51,700
On the lower section is actually
a description of all the little

765
00:44:51,700 –> 00:44:54,600
nerve fibers that are actually
running in front of the cells,

766
00:44:54,600 –> 00:44:57,300
that detect light joining
together at that Circle and

767
00:44:57,300 –> 00:45:00,400
going out the back of the eye,
and there’s 1.2 million nerve.

768
00:45:00,600 –> 00:45:04,600
A, and if you do, what’s called
a peripheral vision test on a

769
00:45:04,607 –> 00:45:08,100
person and you cover their one,
I can flash the lights in front

770
00:45:08,100 –> 00:45:11,000
of them and they click a button
every time they see it, that

771
00:45:11,000 –> 00:45:13,500
picture up there is what you get
where, there’s a black circle,

772
00:45:13,500 –> 00:45:15,800
where they don’t see lights, and
you can see how that black

773
00:45:15,800 –> 00:45:19,500
circle perfectly corresponds
with the, with the nerve leaving

774
00:45:19,500 –> 00:45:22,600
the back of the eye.
So they’re absolutely right in

775
00:45:22,600 –> 00:45:26,000
that, we have a blind spot as a
result of that.

776
00:45:27,900 –> 00:45:31,200
That doesn’t happen in the
cephalopod in the octopus or the

777
00:45:31,200 –> 00:45:34,400
Cuttlefish.
And Dawkins says, if God had

778
00:45:34,400 –> 00:45:38,100
have created it, all the eyes
would be like this octopus.

779
00:45:38,100 –> 00:45:41,700
I and you think, you know, that
that kind of makes sense.

780
00:45:41,800 –> 00:45:44,600
But you know what?
That diagram doesn’t even do it

781
00:45:44,600 –> 00:45:49,900
justice because really what
those wires do in the eye, is

782
00:45:50,400 –> 00:45:53,800
they come out, these are where
the, where the light is sent

783
00:45:53,800 –> 00:45:56,100
right here, that’s where the
light has to get to.

784
00:45:56,700 –> 00:45:59,500
And then the message travels up
here, joining some other cells,

785
00:45:59,500 –> 00:46:02,900
join some other cells, and then
the fibers go to the brain.

786
00:46:02,900 –> 00:46:06,900
So the light has to get through
all of that to be sensed by your

787
00:46:07,200 –> 00:46:08,900
your retina.
You know?

788
00:46:08,900 –> 00:46:11,200
That’s, that’s a lot of
interference for the light,

789
00:46:11,200 –> 00:46:12,600
isn’t it?
You think we’ll?

790
00:46:12,600 –> 00:46:16,000
Why would God make it that way?
In fact, it’s even more

791
00:46:16,000 –> 00:46:18,800
incredible when you start
looking at at pictures instead

792
00:46:18,800 –> 00:46:21,300
of diagrams.
This is actually a picture.

793
00:46:21,300 –> 00:46:24,500
I can see in my office.
Now we have a machine called an

794
00:46:24,500 –> 00:46:26,500
OCT.
It’s almost like an MRI of the

795
00:46:26,700 –> 00:46:29,500
back of the eye and anyone who
comes into the office, we can

796
00:46:29,500 –> 00:46:32,200
look at their retina in this
detail and see all the different

797
00:46:32,200 –> 00:46:34,800
layers of the retina and the
light has to get through all

798
00:46:34,800 –> 00:46:38,900
this and get down to this layer
right here where it’s cents.

799
00:46:39,100 –> 00:46:41,800
And then this is all the
processing that goes on, and

800
00:46:41,800 –> 00:46:44,700
that’s all in the way of the
light getting through, to the

801
00:46:44,700 –> 00:46:48,600
back of your eye.
Matt also might not look all

802
00:46:48,600 –> 00:46:52,200
that bad until you see what it
is like with an electron

803
00:46:52,200 –> 00:46:57,200
microscope.
That’s all the tissue that the

804
00:46:57,200 –> 00:47:00,000
light has to get through to get
to the rods and cones with her

805
00:47:00,000 –> 00:47:04,300
right down here.
So you know, these scientists

806
00:47:04,300 –> 00:47:05,500
might be right.
Why?

807
00:47:05,500 –> 00:47:08,400
Why in the world would God make
our eyes like this?

808
00:47:08,400 –> 00:47:10,600
They, you know, they call it,
they say that the, I was made

809
00:47:10,600 –> 00:47:14,300
inside out the retina, was
inside out to the way that it

810
00:47:14,300 –> 00:47:19,300
should have been designed.
This is a quote from an

811
00:47:19,308 –> 00:47:23,600
evolutionist and 2005 although
the design of the eye is

812
00:47:23,600 –> 00:47:28,000
brilliant, it betrays the its
origin with a Telltale fly.

813
00:47:28,500 –> 00:47:32,200
The retina is inside out the
nerve fibers that carry the

814
00:47:32,200 –> 00:47:35,200
signals from the eyes rods and
cones, which sent light sense,

815
00:47:35,200 –> 00:47:37,500
light and color lie on top of
them.

816
00:47:37,900 –> 00:47:40,800
And after plunge through a large
hole in the retina to get to the

817
00:47:40,800 –> 00:47:45,000
brain, creating a blind spot.
No intelligent designer, would

818
00:47:45,000 –> 00:47:47,600
put such a clumsy Arrangement
now.

819
00:47:47,600 –> 00:47:50,700
He’s speaking about Camcorder in
a camcorder.

820
00:47:50,700 –> 00:47:52,300
And it’s true because it
wouldn’t work.

821
00:47:53,400 –> 00:47:56,800
And this is just one of hundreds
of accidents Frozen in

822
00:47:56,800 –> 00:48:00,900
evolutionary history that
confirm the mindlessness of the

823
00:48:00,900 –> 00:48:03,500
historical process.
And so they look at that and

824
00:48:03,500 –> 00:48:06,100
say, that’s not the way, it
should be designed.

825
00:48:06,500 –> 00:48:08,200
Hence, God couldn’t have done
it.

826
00:48:08,800 –> 00:48:12,700
It must have been done by a
series of chances and mutations

827
00:48:12,700 –> 00:48:16,300
and all sorts of complicated
jargon to get to this.

828
00:48:18,200 –> 00:48:20,300
It’s incredible.
You know, they’re calling into

829
00:48:20,300 –> 00:48:25,500
question the creator of the
universe and our eyes.

830
00:48:25,500 –> 00:48:29,600
I guess are an accident of
evolution, one of millions of

831
00:48:29,600 –> 00:48:32,100
accidents when you think about
it, okay?

832
00:48:32,100 –> 00:48:35,800
So that was that’s the science
you point but really, what we

833
00:48:35,800 –> 00:48:39,000
found out is that they’re not
quite right.

834
00:48:39,900 –> 00:48:43,200
Because if we take another
picture of the eye and we’re

835
00:48:43,200 –> 00:48:46,300
just displaying it a different
way, you can see all the rods

836
00:48:46,300 –> 00:48:51,500
and cones there in those nice
colors, those rods and cones are

837
00:48:51,500 –> 00:48:54,600
embedded in something.
Called the retinal pigment

838
00:48:54,600 –> 00:48:59,500
epithelium is going to be a test
before you can leave, okay?

839
00:49:00,200 –> 00:49:01,800
Okay.
We’ll call it the rpe, that’s

840
00:49:01,800 –> 00:49:04,100
what we call it.
Anyways, we can’t even remember

841
00:49:04,100 –> 00:49:08,900
those other words.
So it’s called the rpe and it

842
00:49:08,900 –> 00:49:11,600
actually turns out that there’s
a very good reason.

843
00:49:11,600 –> 00:49:16,800
Why our eyes are our retinas are
inside out, would anyone here

844
00:49:16,800 –> 00:49:19,500
admit that we live a different
life than cuttlefish?

845
00:49:20,000 –> 00:49:23,300
Yeah.
Yeah, they live in the ocean,

846
00:49:23,300 –> 00:49:27,300
they kind of have very specific
needs for their eyes, but we

847
00:49:27,300 –> 00:49:32,300
have very different eyes and
those rods and cones that detect

848
00:49:32,300 –> 00:49:35,900
light are really high
maintenance cells.

849
00:49:35,900 –> 00:49:40,400
And remember, there’s over 125
million rods and cones that we

850
00:49:40,400 –> 00:49:44,000
see with.
So, underneath the rods and

851
00:49:44,008 –> 00:49:48,800
cones, there’s a very important
layer called the rpe and below

852
00:49:48,800 –> 00:49:51,400
it.
A Huge network of blood vessels

853
00:49:51,400 –> 00:49:53,700
like nowhere else in the body
because the eye needs more

854
00:49:53,700 –> 00:49:56,800
energy than anywhere else.
And in fact, it needs a way to

855
00:49:56,800 –> 00:49:59,500
get rid of all the heat that the
I produces.

856
00:50:00,200 –> 00:50:04,100
And it’s important that this
layer is in contact with the

857
00:50:04,100 –> 00:50:06,000
rods and cones in.
And you know what that layer is?

858
00:50:06,000 –> 00:50:09,200
It’s completely opaque, no light
would get through it whatsoever.

859
00:50:09,900 –> 00:50:13,700
So it’s got to be in this
position because this is what

860
00:50:13,700 –> 00:50:16,700
rods and cones look like.
And the part that detects light

861
00:50:16,700 –> 00:50:19,900
are those little discs at the
top of the rods and the cones.

862
00:50:21,400 –> 00:50:26,600
And every day, every Rod in
every cone in your eye sheds,

863
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10% of those disks they don’t
work anymore.

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So they are Shed off.
And that layer that’s underneath

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the rods and cones has to
reprocess the photopigments

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Testa break them down, make them
reusable and funnel them back to

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the cells so that it can
recreate those disks so that

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they’ll work.
So every night, as you go to

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sleep, the cones that have been
working all day Percent of them

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just break off and get
reprocessed.

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And every morning, when you wake
up 10% of the rod, discs get

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reprocessed by that layer of the
eye.

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00:51:04,100 –> 00:51:06,100
Okay, that’s about as
complicated as by Todd gets

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00:51:06,100 –> 00:51:11,200
tonight, but this is important.
So if God made RI the way that

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they suggested, It wouldn’t work
because those rods and cones in

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those discs that come off.
They’d have nowhere to go.

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They just go floating into that
center, part of our eye, and

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00:51:21,300 –> 00:51:25,100
eventually, fill up the eye, and
they wouldn’t be reprocessed.

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00:51:26,000 –> 00:51:30,300
Because we live in a very
different world than octopus and

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00:51:30,300 –> 00:51:32,700
cuttlefish and in fact, their
rods and cones are different,

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00:51:32,700 –> 00:51:35,500
they don’t do that.
They don’t have these, these

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00:51:35,500 –> 00:51:37,600
discs that need to be
reprocessed.

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00:51:38,700 –> 00:51:42,200
But there’s a little bit more.
And this is my favorite part.

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Because there’s these cells that
when I went to school there

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00:51:46,700 –> 00:51:50,300
called Muller cells and when I
went to school, they described

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them as being support cells.
They didn’t really know why they

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were there.
And so they said they were

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00:51:55,400 –> 00:51:57,200
support like pillars in a
building.

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00:51:57,200 –> 00:52:00,300
So they kind of held the ceiling
up in the retina so that it

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didn’t collapse. you know what
new research says about those

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cells that they’re like fiber
optics, So running through the

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00:52:11,300 –> 00:52:16,200
retina are millions of Muller
cells that run right from the

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top where the light hits all the
way down to the rods and cones

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00:52:20,600 –> 00:52:23,300
at the bottom.
And when the light hits those

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00:52:23,300 –> 00:52:26,200
Muller cells just like fiber
optics that bring internet into

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00:52:26,200 –> 00:52:29,700
your house, the light reflects
back and forth through that cell

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00:52:30,200 –> 00:52:33,500
and gets right to the bottom of
the rods and cones.

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00:52:35,400 –> 00:52:38,400
It’s incredible.
And they’ve been able to

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00:52:38,400 –> 00:52:43,800
determine that these are
perfectly designed in order to

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00:52:43,800 –> 00:52:47,700
funnel that light to the layer
of the retina where it’s needed.

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00:52:49,100 –> 00:52:51,900
So scientists, who told us that
our eyes were inside out?

902
00:52:52,700 –> 00:52:55,800
We’re totally wrong.
And I think they’re going to

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00:52:55,808 –> 00:52:59,000
find that out about everything
that they look into and they’re

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00:52:59,000 –> 00:53:01,600
eventually going to learn that
God created this world and he

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00:53:01,600 –> 00:53:03,800
created it.
The way it was meant to be.

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00:53:04,400 –> 00:53:07,800
Well, what about the blind spots
and we’ll just finish off with

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00:53:07,800 –> 00:53:10,400
this, you know, they point to
the blind spot as being a

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00:53:10,408 –> 00:53:12,500
horrible thing, but you know
what?

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00:53:12,500 –> 00:53:16,200
You’ve got two eyes and the one
blind spots over here and the

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00:53:16,200 –> 00:53:19,800
others over here, and your brain
fills in the information from

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00:53:19,800 –> 00:53:21,900
one eye and the other.
But that’s not all.

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00:53:21,900 –> 00:53:24,300
If you were to cover one eye, if
you did that.

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00:53:24,300 –> 00:53:26,900
And look up Is there any part of
your vision that’s missing?

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00:53:28,400 –> 00:53:31,000
You see anything?
Any anybody missing anything?

915
00:53:32,400 –> 00:53:36,800
No, because your brain actually
analyzes all the detail around

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00:53:36,800 –> 00:53:39,500
the blind spot and like
Photoshop.

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00:53:39,500 –> 00:53:43,300
It fills it in instantly all the
time while you’re working.

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00:53:44,000 –> 00:53:47,400
And so God’s given us a brain
that processes the information.

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00:53:49,200 –> 00:53:52,300
Brothers and sisters.
I don’t know about you, but we

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00:53:52,300 –> 00:53:57,400
are truly wonderfully made and
we can’t do any better than to

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00:53:57,900 –> 00:54:01,400
Echo these words from from Psalm
139.

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00:54:02,200 –> 00:54:04,500
I will praise thee, Heavenly
Father for.

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00:54:04,500 –> 00:54:08,100
I am fearfully and wonderfully
made the more science learns

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00:54:08,100 –> 00:54:11,900
about the complexity of nature,
even while they seek to explain

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00:54:11,900 –> 00:54:16,100
away a creator with complex
theories of evolution you.

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00:54:16,100 –> 00:54:18,900
And I can Rejoice that God’s
creative hand.

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00:54:19,300 –> 00:54:23,800
Is in everything around us.
Marvelous are the works of our

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00:54:23,800 –> 00:54:37,000
heavenly father. and that my
soul knoweth, right, well, Thank

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00:54:37,000 –> 00:54:39,500
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