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About an hour long, but exceptionally well presented.

Here are a few quotes from the video:

"Natural selection acts only by taking advantage of slight, successive variations... ...scrutinizing the slightest variations, rejecting those that are bad, and adding up those that are good."

"For the longest time I believed that Darwinian evolution explained what we saw in biology...not because I saw how it could actually explain it, but because I was told that it did explain it...
...through college and graduate school I was in an atmosphere that just assumed that Darwinian evolution explained biology, and again I didn't have any reason to doubt it..."

"[we] thought that if we were to pull together all of the lines of empirical evidence that had accumulated by the mid to late '60s into one continuous argument, we were very enthusiastic about the possibilities for explaining the origin of the main life-building elements..." 

"Evidence is very powerful, and if we let the evidence speak for itself, it leads us in a direction towards a conclusion about the nature of life on earth..."

"A healthy science is a science that seeks the truth, and lets the evidence speak for itself."

"That's my definition of 'good science'...it's observation of the facts."

"You go where the data leads you.  Yeah, they have profound metaphysical implications...so be it."

When microbiologists are confronted with the obvious evidence of design in living organisms at the smallest levels, they have to continually remind themselves that design had no role in what they're discovering...!

"Biologists must constantly keep in mind that was they see was not designed, but evolved."

I suggest that that quote is an illustration of someone insisting on the use of "dark blinders".

I consider that the following quote is spoken by one more likely to arrive at an understanding of truth:

"Science ought to be a search for truth about the world.  We shouldn't prejudge what might be true, we shouldn't say: 'I don't like that explanation, so I'm going to put it to one side'...rather when we come to a puzzle in nature, we ought to bring to that puzzle every possible cause that might explain it."


'Improbable Object' + 'Recognizable Pattern' = ??  {design}

'Small Probability' + 'Specification' = ??  {information}



The Secret of Invincible Joy

Jesus revealed a secret that protects our happiness from the threat of suffering and the threat of success. That secret is this: Great is your reward in heaven. And the sum of that reward is enjoying the fullness of the glory of Jesus Christ (John 17:24).
He protects our happiness from suffering when he says,

Blessed are you when others revile you and persecute you and utter all kinds of evil against you falsely on my account. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward is great in heaven. (Matthew 5:11–12)
Our great reward in heaven rescues our joy from the threat of persecution and reviling.
He also protects our joy from success when he says,

Do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. (Luke 10:20)
The disciples were tempted to put their joy in ministry success. “Even the demons are subject to us in your name!” (Luke 10:17). But that would have severed their joy from its only sure anchor.
So Jesus protects their joy from the threat of success by promising the great reward of heaven. Rejoice in this: that your names are written in heaven. Your inheritance is infinite, eternal, sure.
Our joy is safe. Neither suffering nor success can destroy its anchor. Great is your reward in heaven. Your name is written there. It is secure.
Jesus anchored the happiness of suffering saints in the reward of heaven. And he anchored the happiness of successful saints in the same.
And thus he freed us from the tyranny of worldly pain and pleasure.

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