God's Not Dead

00:37:26,400 --> 00:37:27,833 It's okay, David. 627 00:37:28,040 --> 00:37:30,508 I'm sure we can make good use of our time here today. 628 00:37:30,760 --> 00:37:32,193 Sure. 629 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:33,879 We can meet the choir director, 630 00:37:34,080 --> 00:37:36,753 talk about song choices for the upcoming concert. 631 00:37:36,960 --> 00:37:39,758 Or we could meet the women's club 632 00:37:39,960 --> 00:37:42,713 about the details for the next craft bazaar. 633 00:37:42,920 --> 00:37:44,433 Lots of important stuff. 634 00:37:44,640 --> 00:37:46,119 (secretary) And since you're not leaving, 635 00:37:46,360 --> 00:37:48,316 you'll have time to meet Mina for lunch. 636 00:37:48,520 --> 00:37:51,080 Right, I can meet Mina for lunch. 637 00:37:51,280 --> 00:37:53,475 (out-of-town pastor) Sounds like you need this vacation more than I do. 638 00:37:53,680 --> 00:37:57,036 (Reverend Dave) No, I just need to do some meaningful work 639 00:37:57,240 --> 00:38:00,038 so that I can have something to take a vacation from. 640 00:38:00,240 --> 00:38:02,629 (out-of-town pastor) You know, some of the most important work that we do 641 00:38:02,880 --> 00:38:04,313 may seem meaningless to us. 642 00:38:04,520 --> 00:38:05,999 This coming from the missionary 643 00:38:06,200 --> 00:38:07,758 who literally is in the trenches, 644 00:38:07,960 --> 00:38:10,235 winning hearts for the Lord on a daily basis. 645 00:38:10,440 --> 00:38:13,989 David, God has you exactly where he wants you. 646 00:38:14,200 --> 00:38:16,839 He who is faithful in a very little thing 647 00:38:17,040 --> 00:38:19,076 is also faithful in much. 648 00:38:19,280 --> 00:38:21,032 God knows you're doing the work. 649 00:38:21,240 --> 00:38:23,879 It's all part of his grand design. 650 00:38:24,080 --> 00:38:26,116 (Josh) All of which points to a God that created it. 651 00:38:26,360 --> 00:38:29,477 You see, in the real world, we never see things 652 00:38:29,680 --> 00:38:31,830 jumping into existence out of nothingness, 653 00:38:32,040 --> 00:38:36,591 but atheists want to make one small exception to this rule, 654 00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:38,472 namely, the universe and everything in it. 655 00:38:38,680 --> 00:38:40,557 (female student2) But in his book, "The God Delusion," 656 00:38:40,760 --> 00:38:42,193 Richard Dawkins says 657 00:38:42,400 --> 00:38:44,436 that, "lf you tell me God created the universe, 658 00:38:44,640 --> 00:38:50,317 then I have the right to ask you who created God." 659 00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,351 Dawkins' question only makes sense 660 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:55,114 in terms of a God who has been created. 661 00:38:55,320 --> 00:38:57,788 It doesn't make sense in terms of an uncreated God, 662 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:00,036 which is the kind of God that Christians believe in. 663 00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:01,673 And even leaving God out of the equation, 664 00:39:01,880 --> 00:39:03,871 I then have a right to turn Mr. Dawkins's own question 665 00:39:04,080 --> 00:39:06,275 back around on him and ask, 666 00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:10,712 "lf the universe created you, then who created the universe?. " 667 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:14,469 You see, both the theist and the atheist are both burdened 668 00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:16,477 with answering this same question 669 00:39:16,680 --> 00:39:19,558 of how did things start. 670 00:39:19,760 --> 00:39:21,432 What I'm hoping you'll pick up from all this 671 00:39:21,640 --> 00:39:24,154 is that you don't have to commit intellectual suicide 672 00:39:24,360 --> 00:39:26,794 to believe in a Creator behind the creation. 673 00:39:27,000 --> 00:39:29,514 And to the extent that you don't allow for God, 674 00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:31,910 you'd be pretty hard-pressed to find an incredible 675 00:39:32,120 --> 00:39:36,716 alternative explanation for how things came to be. 676 00:39:40,880 --> 00:39:45,396 (Professor Radisson) Well, I imagine you're quite pleased with yourself. 677 00:39:45,600 --> 00:39:47,909 I see you've carefully avoided the fact that Stephen Hawking, 678 00:39:48,120 --> 00:39:49,599 the world's most famous scientist, 679 00:39:49,800 --> 00:39:51,756 and who is not a theist, 680 00:39:51,960 --> 00:39:57,318 has recently come out in favor of a self-designing universe. 681 00:39:57,520 --> 00:39:58,919 I haven't avoided it, I just didn't-- 682 00:39:59,160 --> 00:40:01,355 You just didn't know about it. 683 00:40:01,560 --> 00:40:04,028 Alright, well let's see what Professor Hawking, 684 00:40:04,240 --> 00:40:06,356 Lucasian Professor of physics at Cambridge, 685 00:40:06,560 --> 00:40:09,836 who occupies a teaching chair once held by Sir lsaac Newton, 686 00:40:10,040 --> 00:40:12,600 has to say about the origin of the universe. 6