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Teacher:
There was one place
on this earth

that was absolutely perfect,

and it was a garden.

Children:
The Garden of Eden.

Teacher:
Very good.
The Garden of Eden.

And the story that
we're gonna hear about
on the Garden of Eden,

comes from
the book of Genesis...

in the what?

The Bible.

Teacher:
The Bible.
Very good.

In the Bible.

Narrator:
For those Christians
who believe their Bible

is the word of God,
the literal truth,

one man is held up
as the Antichrist--

Charles Darwin--

for leading millions
of Christians astray

with a very different
account of Creation:

evolution
by natural selection.

♪ ♪
( choir vocalizing )

It seems outrageous to them
that Darwin was laid to rest

here in Westminster Abbey--

the highest honor the Church
of England could offer.

( Charles Darwin's voice )

Dr. Charles Bonner:
We believe in creation
because of our faith

in the Lord Jesus Christ
and God's word, the Holy Bible.

Amen?

Amen.
Evolution, I believe,

was a way for the atheist
to devise a method

of how we got here.

And it wasn't by God,
and it was all by accident.

If the theory of evolution
is a fact,

this Bible must be false,
so we're all

stupid ignoramuses.

My friend, it takes more faith
to believe in a theory,

an unproven theory,
than to believe

in the beginning,
God created the heavens
and the earth.

Amen.

I think one
of the major questions
we run into today is,

is evolution really compatible

with biblical Christianity?

And I believe the answer is
just unquestionably no.

There's no dispute.
God has determined what is true.

And he's told us
what he did in Genesis,

the order in which he did it.

And he expects us
to believe it.

Museum Video Narrator:
In the beginning,

God created the heaven
and the earth.

And God said,
"Let there be light."

And God said, "Let the earth
bring forth grass,

the herb yielding seed

and the fruit tree
yielding fruit."

And God said,
"Let the waters bring forth

abundantly the moving creature
that has life."

And God said,

"Let us make man
in our image."

Male and female
he created them.

And God said to them,

"Be fruitful and multiply,

and fill the earth
and subdue it.

And have dominion over

the fish of the sea

and over the birds of the air

and over every living thing
that moves upon the earth."

And the evening
and the morning

were the sixth day.

Narrator:
According to the
latest Gallup Poll,

46% of Americans

believe the Genesis account
of creation.

All right, now look
right out here at me and smile.

( camera shutter clicks )
Photographer: Smile. Smile.

Smile.

Now look up at the dinosaurs
in that window.

( roars )

Look afraid!

Look very afraid!

( playful screams )

Exhibition Narrator:
The Lord God planted
a garden in Eden.

Narrator:
At no time in
the past 300 years

has there been such
a concerted effort in support

of a literal interpretation
of the Bible

and especially the Genesis
account of Adam and Eve

and a six-day creation.

Exhibition Narrator:
The Lord God said,

"It is not good that the man
should be alone.

I will make a helper
fit for him."

And he took one of his ribs
and made it into a woman.

Narrator:
Creationism is
the fastest-growing branch

of Christianity.

Not just here
in the United States,

but worldwide.

I choose to believe
that the Bible

is the word of God,
and it contains

first and secondhand witnesses
of these events,

so I can believe it
so much more than I can believe

the secular scientists
who weren't there to
see these things.

If somewhere
within the Bible

I were to find a passage
that said "two-plus-two

equals five,"

I wouldn't question
what I'm reading in the Bible.

I would believe it,
accept it is true

and then do my best to work
it out and to understand it.

I can't even fathom

coming from this little thing
that crawled on the ground...

to apes to being human.

It just doesn't--
It sounds crazy to me.

When you have generations
of people being taught

that evolution's fact,
and therefore Genesis
is not true,

and you have to
reinterpret the Bible,

why shouldn't we do
what we want to do?

There's no absolutes,
therefore we determine

what is right
and what is wrong.

♪ ♪
( siren wailing )

Ham:
In the Creation Museum,

when we walk
into Graffiti Alley,

it's to represent a culture

where one has taken away
a foundation of absolutes.

So why not abort
a human being?

After all,
get rid of spare cats,

get rid of spare kids.

What is the difference?
( gunshot )

Why shouldn't marriage
be two men, two women

or whatever you wanna
make it to be?

( siren wailing )

I think that Darwin knew.
I think he knew--

"What I'm teaching
is going to have

a profound effect
on mankind."

And it's the kind of effect
that moves people away

from trusting God,
trusting the God of the Bible

into trusting man
and the words of man.

And he made a decision--
"I'm going on with this."

♪ ♪
( chorus vocalizing )

Charles Darwin's voice:
Considering how fiercely
I've been attacked,

it seems ludicrous
that I once intended
to be a clergyman.

( ringing )

I did not then
in the least doubt

the strict and literal truth
of every word in the Bible,

and soon persuaded myself
that our creed must be
fully accepted.

The blood of Christ.

Ham:
I don't believe he did
believe all of the Bible.

He didn't really believe in
six literal days of creation.

If you assume those days
of creation are ordinary days

and you take those
genealogies in the Bible,

you can only get
approximately 6,000 years.

You can't get
millions of years.

If the idea of millions of years
hadn't have been popularized

in the late 18th,
early 19th century,

Darwin could never have
popularized his ideas
of evolution.

No person of the first rank

in professional
geological circles

in Darwin's day
to whom he was exposed,

believed that the earth was
very, very recently created

with life on Earth
in six 24-hour days.

You have to think about
the 19th century as a period

of enormous digging.

♪ ♪

If you think about
the canal systems,

if you think about
the building work,

the laying of gas,
the building of railways--

this is a landscape
that was being dug up.

Everywhere fossils
were coming up.

Really extraordinary things
like mammoths

and plesiosaurs.

That gave evidence of

very, very early life forms
in the very lowest rock strata,

which people were now
beginning to understand

as being deep time...

but also an enormous
diversity of species

that was no longer represented
on the earth at all.

So enormous numbers
of extinct species,

and people had
to make sense of that.

And you couldn't make sense
of it within the time frame

that the church was promoting.

Darwin didn't work

with any geologist
who doubted

that the earth was
unimaginably old

and full of the relics
of extinct animals.

♪ ♪

At Cambridge,
his role models

were clerical naturalists.

These men were devout,
they were ethically upright,

they were
professionally ambitious

and they did science
for the glory of God.

And it was from them
Darwin learned

his ambition in science,
and then came his chance

to sail around the world
on HMS Beagle.

♪ ♪
( seagulls squawking )

It took five years,
started just three months

after he graduated
from Cambridge,

when he really was rather
idly wondering what
to do with his life.

He was invited onboard
not as a naturalist,

but as the gentleman companion
to the captain.

The voyage of the Beagle
was the most important voyage

ever taken.

What I find reading
Darwin's own accounts

is his excitement,
his delight,

his love
in the natural world.

He was
in a kind of paradise.

♪ ♪

Darwin's voice:
Among the scenes which have
deeply impressed on my mind,

none exceeded in sublimity

the primeval forests
un-defaced by the hand of man,

temples filled with
the varied productions
of the God of nature.

No one can stand in
these solitudes unmoved

and not feel
there is more to man

than the mere breath
of his body.

In this voyage,
which was nearly five years,

the longest stretch of time
Darwin spent onboard

was, I think, 48 days.

And he never wasted
an opportunity.

As soon as the ship
came into port,

he'd buy a horse,
rent a horse,

sometimes with companions,
sometimes on his own,

and go up high into
the foothills of the Andes

or around the coast
looking at coastal formations,

into deserts...

all the time, describing,
describing, describing,

noting it down.

He regarded it
as his duty to do this.

This was why he was there,

and he wasn't going to waste
an hour of his time

idling around.

He must go and explore
that rock face

and see what
he could find there.

Darwin wasn't just interested
in the crust of the earth

and the formation
of its features,

he was interested
in the remains of life

within that crust--
extinct animals.

Stott:
Every new landscape
that he saw,

every new bit of scenery,

every new diversity
of species group

gave him more
and more evidence that,

no, this didn't happen
in one great snap of creation.

These extraordinary mountains
and lakes

and coastal landscapes
had all shifted imperceptibly

over millions
and millions of years.

Narrator:
But while all this
was happening,

Darwin was experiencing
profound changes
within himself.

Darwin had left the comforts
of his upper-class
English existence,

and for the first time
in his life,

he was faced with extraordinary
violence and cruelty.

♪ ♪
When he was in Chile,

there was a major earthquake,

and his whole comprehension
of the world changed.

The solid earth,

our foundation
of our life,

is shattering.

And as he later discovers
a day or so later
in Concepción,

there's been huge suffering.

The cathedral at Concepción
has collapsed,

burying in its rubble
many devout worshippers.

He must have began to think,

"There's something
arbitrary here.

This is not a-- a--
a loving God."

( clamoring )
( whip cracks )

Moore:
Probably the most shattering
episode during the voyage

was his encounter
with slavery.

He had read all about slavery--
Darwin had--

and then on the Beagle voyage,

he set foot in Brazil
and he saw it

in the raw, torn flesh.

He encountered
instruments of torture.

He saw grown men
cowering in fear.

He saw children abused
by their masters.

He was profoundly affected

by what some humans

were capable of doing
to other humans

whom they regarded
as animals.

Darwin's voice:
It makes one's blood boil,

yet heart tremble,
to think that we Englishmen

and our American descendants,
with their boastful cry
of liberty,

have been
and are so guilty.

♪ ♪

Narrator:
Darwin's empathy was
for all suffering creatures.

Darwin's voice:
I cannot see,

as plainly as others do,

and as I should wish to do,

evidence of design
and beneficence

on all sides of us.

There seems to be
too much misery in the world.

I cannot persuade myself
that a beneficent

and omnipotent God

would have designedly created
the ichneumonidae

with the express intention
of their feeding within

the living bodies
of caterpillars

or that a cat
should play with mice...

( growling )

( squeaking )

Now if his professors
had told him

that this world is not
the way it used to be,

that it changed
because of sin,

maybe if he had been
taught the truth

about the history in Genesis,
he would have responded

differently to the death
and suffering issue.

We are bearing the brunt
of Adam's sin,

and it's very difficult.

And the Lord tells us
to love each other

and bear each other's burdens,

and that's what we try to do
at Haven of Rest.

God cares for us.

Give your cares.

Let God deal
with those cares.

Jesus says, "I am
the resurrection and life.

He who believes in me,

yet though he die,
he shall live."

Do you believe that?

He will save you.

♪ ♪

Rose:
We have about 170 people

come in here for dinner.

A large percentage of those
ask for shelter as well.

Those are the ones
that are truly homeless.

So many of them have been
through sexual abuse,

neglect, um, have turned
to alcohol and drugs

for who knows what reason.

Some of them have even
shared with us

that this is
a last resort.

A lot of people ask
"How a loving God

can allow so many evil

and painful things
to happen?"

I don't believe there is
any clear-cut answer,

because we don't understand
the mind of God, for one thing.

However, the Lord
does not do things

without a purpose.

Some of the trials
we go through

will strengthen us
and give us wisdom.

We don't usually learn
strength and wisdom

and faith
through having it easy.

We learn the most
through trials.

But also, we live
in a fallen world.

Back in Genesis,

it talks about how
it didn't start out that way.

But because of the decision
that man made,

because the Angel of Light,

Lucifer, was there
and tempted him,

we live in
a fallen world now,

and so these awful things
do happen.

♪ ♪

( Hitler speaking German )

( speaking continues )

Ham:
All the death

and the suffering
we see here

isn't the result
of a Creator God.

It's sin that's the cause
of what we see here.

So the whole point
of this room

is to get across to Christians
and non-Christians

it's not God's fault

there's death and suffering
in the world,

it's our fault
because we sinned in Adam.

♪ ♪

Narrator:
After all that
he had experienced,

Darwin could no longer
accept the simple,

biblical explanation
for cruelty and suffering.

But by now, something else
was taking shape in his mind,

something much more dangerous.

In September 1835,

four years after
leaving England,

the Beagle dropped anchor
off some little-known islands--

the Galapagos.
♪ ♪

Darwin's voice:
Here we seem to be brought

somewhere near
to that great fact,

the mystery of mysteries,

the first appearance
of new beings on this earth.

Jones:
What Darwin noticed most of all

was that the animals and plants
on the Galapagos

were rather like
the animals and plants

on the mainland
of South America,

but they were
slightly different from them.

Now if it was just
being on islands

that made them different,
Cape Verdes and Galapagos

should have looked the same,
but they didn't.

They looked more
like their neighbors.

Why was that?

Darwin realized that
what must have happened

is that a small sample
of creatures,

including many birds
and the like,

reached these new conditions
and changed slowly over time.

In other words,
they'd evolved.

At that time,
he had no idea how or why.

As he catalogued his species
on the journey home,

he scribbled
the first tentative notes

on the possibility
of evolution.

Darwin's voice:
If there's the slightest
foundation for these remarks,

the zoology of the archipelagos
would be well worth examining,

for such facts would undermine
the stability of the species.

Moore:
Evolution was
a dangerous idea.

And only bad people,

such as French atheists,
materialists, free thinkers,

would dare to speculate

that species had naturally
arisen in the course of time.

He knew that he had
to confine his thoughts

to private notebooks.

Narrator:
And it would take seven years

of intensive research

before he felt ready
to write to a trusted friend.

Darwin's voice:
At last, gleams
of light have come,

and I'm almost convinced--

quite contrary
to the opinion I started with--

that species
are not immutable.

It is like
confessing a murder.

Jenna Dee Martin:
What he has done
is worse than murder.

I am saddened
for Charles Darwin.

Being led astray
from the real truth

and leading so many others
astray with his philosophies

and doctrines and theology.

I think one of the saddest
byproducts, if you will,

of the theory of evolution
is that it reduces our status

as human beings
to that of an animal.

We did not evolve out
of something that is
less important.

God created man
on the sixth day,

created us separately,
created us distinctly.

♪ ♪

♪ I go where God ♪

♪ And glory shines ♪

♪ To one eternal day ♪

♪ This failing body ♪

♪ I now resign ♪

♪ For the angels
point my way ♪

♪ For the angels point
my way... ♪

Darwin's voice:
Man may be excused
to feeling some pride

at having risen, though not
through his own exertions,

to the very summit
of the organic scale.

And the fact of his having
thus risen

may give him hopes
for a still higher destiny

in the distant future.

♪ Where feet nor wings
could climb... ♪

Pastor Joe Coffey:
The Bible says we're created
a little lower than angels,

which is much more noble
and majestic

than the explanation
that evolution gives

for who we are
and what we are.

♪ Well, I go where God ♪

♪ And glory shine ♪

♪ To one eternal day... ♪

Lewis:
We can create songs,
we can write books.

we can do these things
to the glory of God.

The Bible even says
the angels can't have
the same relationship

that we can have with God.

♪ I go where God
and glory shine... ♪

Jobe:
I do not believe that we are

some sort of
a highly-evolved primate.

Nathan Verst:
I don't know how someone
could observe humans

and miss the dignity

that's put there
by God alone.

♪ For the angels
point my way... ♪

Darwin's voice:
Man in his arrogance thinks
himself a great work,

worthy of the interposition
of a deity.

More humble,
and I believe truer,

to consider him created
from animals.

♪ ♪

Darwin's voice:
The main conclusion
that man is descended

from some lowly
organized form will,

I regret, be highly
distasteful to many.

It has been asserted that
man alone is capable of

progressive improvement,

that he alone makes use
of tools,

that no animal
employs language,

has a sense of beauty,

the feeling of gratitude.

But they are endowed with
well-marked social instincts,

parental and filial affections

and would inevitably acquire
a moral sense or conscience,

as soon as
intellectual powers had become

nearly as well-developed
as in man.

To put man down
as just an animal,

that we're no different
than a dog, a horse,

an elephant
or a cat or anything else

is totally preposterous.

God made us in his image.

And so to say that
man is an animal

and God created man
in his own image--

so does one come back
and say, "Are you saying...

♪ ♪
...God is nothing more
than an animal?"

In the seven years
that it took Darwin

to reach his murderous
conclusion,

his life changed completely.

In 1839, he married
his cousin Emma Wedgwood.

They had a marriage
of 43 years,

of great mutual respect,
great tenderness,

and that stayed the same
even though Darwin moved

further and further away
from Emma's beliefs

and her Christian certainties.

Narrator:
Eventually, they would
have 10 children,

seven of whom survived
into adulthood.

Two years
into their marriage,

Charles and Emma moved here,
to Down House,

18 miles from London,

where they would spend the rest
of their lives together.

Down House was
far more important

to Darwin
as a scientific arena

than the Galapagos or even
the whole of South America
had been.

Because there he could
settle down and get to work.

In order to be a great
scientist, you have to
devote your entire life

to science.

24 hours a day,
seven days a week.

♪ ♪

And Darwin did that.
He worked manically.

It was a constant pulse.

Work hard, collapse,
work hard, collapse.

Tick tock through the years.

His house became a menagerie
full of not just noisy

growing children,
but of growing plants

all over the place
and noisy animals...
( dog barking )

( birds squawking )
...dead and alive,

and boxes of things
coming in the post

and letters pouring through,
into the letter box.

Um, and all being presided over
at home by the domestic goddess,

which was Emma--

freeing him to work hard
in his study.

She made an environment in which
he could work obsessively

on his big project
for 20 years and more.

Aubrey Manning:
He had greenhouses
in which his gardener

was cooperating with him,
breeding programs on plants.

He was collecting stuff
coming in from all over
the world.

He was asking people
to send him specimens
which he would look at.

His correspondence with
other scientists across
the world is gigantic.

It's flabbergasting,

his letter-writing and
the letters he was getting back

with people giving him--

he's writing to Muller
in Brazil,

"Can you give me evidence
on these crabs,

which I believe
exist on your shore?"

It's extraordinary.

And he's collecting
all this together,

well aware that he will
be attacked by religious people

and by other scientists
who think that this is fanciful.

Darwin's voice:
I determine to collect
every sort of fact

that could bear in any way
on what are species...

and have never ceased
collecting facts.

Moore:
When he was working
he was not doing

just one thing at a time.

He was doing his species.

He was dissecting all
the barnacles in the world.

He was keeping
animal carcasses.

He was doing experiments with
flowers in the kitchen garden.

He was raising pigeons.

And on and on it went.

Randal Keynes:
He decided to make a collection

of fancy pigeons
because they showed

the most extraordinary
varieties created,

just in a few generations.

He then compared them

and crossbred them,

and all to explore

how man
can change organisms

by selective breeding.

Darwin's voice:
If feeble man can achieve
all these variations

in so short a time
by artificial selection,

I can see no limit
to the amount of change,

to the beauty
and infinite complexity

which may be affected
in the long course of time

by nature's power
of selection.

He needed to gather
the evidence,

think through everything
and work it up into a theory

that he could present
for serious attention
by fellow scientists.

Darwin's voice:
I have steadily endeavored
to keep my mind free,

so as to give up
any hypothesis,
however much beloved,

as soon as the facts
are shown to be opposed to it.

I feel within me...

an instinct for truth.

There is only one truth,

and truth is not
an assimilation
of information.

But there is one truth,
and that's found in the Bible.

Jesus said, "I am the way,
the truth and the life.

No man cometh
to the Father but by me."

If all we are is a product

of this random
mutation process,

then where does morality
come from,

where does hope come from,

where does
love come from,

where does anything that
makes us a human being

really come from?

I think Darwin was
the first to understand

where his ideas
were leading him.

He had no illusions about
how dangerous this work was

or what conclusions
it might lead to.

Darwin's voice:
Once grant that species
may pass into each other...

and the whole fabric
totters and falls.

We allow planets, suns,
whole systems of the universe

to be governed by laws,

but the smallest insect
we wish to be created at once

by a special act
with its instincts in place.

Darwin says,
"No, we do not believe

that God individually causes

the planets to go in orbits,

we should not believe that
he individually creates
animals and plants."

These things take place
by laws, ordained to
govern the creation.

Darwin's voice:
An innocent and good man
stands under a tree

and is killed by
a flash of lighting.

Do you believe that God
designedly killed this man?

Or when a swallow
snaps up a gnat...

that God designed that?

I can't and don't.

Darwin's view is that God
isn't really needed in
the here and now.

He may exist.

He may well have designed
and ordered creation,

but he basically
lets it go on its way.

What that does,
it puts God so remote...

( chuckles )
that we can safely ignore him.

He's way back at the Big Bang,

and he really hasn't
done much since.

And here's another issue
we need to think about--

What's more basic to
Christianity than prayer?

Prayer is a case where we
actually have an opportunity

and are invited to do so
by our Father to speak to God.

Why bother pursuing
a relationship with God

if he's closed the door on us

and doesn't care
about us anymore?

To think that I had
no communication with God

would be so devastating.

I can't even imagine
adopting such a view

just to make peace
with Darwin.

If that's the way
the world works,

if it is just
this mechanical thing

that God set
spinning in place,

then you believe in a God that
doesn't intervene in nature.

That takes away any possibility
of miracles, any possibility
of answered prayer,

any possibility
of the resurrection.

And in reality,
you take away the possibility

of Christianity
to be true at all.

♪ ♪

♪ I sing... ♪

( backup choir singing )

♪ Because I'm happy... ♪

Coffey:
Christ Community Chapel
started about 30 years ago,

with about 30 people
gathering in a living room.

And from that, we have grown
to five different campuses

that all operate as one church.

We average
a weekend attendance

of probably around
4,000 to 4,500 people.

Narrator:
Since the 1990s,
the number of megachurches

in the United States
has increased fourfold.

Coffey:
We have a lot
of outreach going on.

Overseas, I think
we are probably involved
in 30 different countries.

♪ Oh, I sing,
oh, I sing ♪

♪ And I sing... ♪

Coffey:
In the Middle East,
in the Far East,

across the world
in South America,

in Africa,
here in the States.

The only growing branch
of Christianity, I think,

is evangelical
biblical Christianity

that is faithful
to the scriptures.

♪ ♪

♪ He watches you and me ♪

Choir:
♪ Me... ♪

♪ His eye is
on the sparrow... ♪

Coffey:
I think people are
longing for truth,

for something that
they can sink their teeth into

and that answers the deep
questions of their souls.

And that's what biblical
Christianity is offering now.

( applause, cheers )

Everybody has to come up
with a reason for the world

being in the mess
that it's in right now.

That explanation for Christians
happens in Genesis--

the flood.

Everything in Genesis
plays itself out

throughout the entire rest
of the Scripture.

So if you take out or change
Genesis to mean something else,

to do something else,
you begin to eviscerate,

to gut the Gospel message

and the whole of Christianity.

There is only one being
that really

knows you
from cover to cover,

knows everything
you have ever done

and every motive
you have ever had,

and then can deliver
a verdict

of whether you are okay
or not okay,

and that's God.

God knows us intimately well,
inside and out,

from the top of my head
to the bottom of my feet,

the number of hairs
on my head.

And that's the privilege of
having a relationship with him,

that he is in every aspect,
every part of our movement,

day in and day out,

and we have this
living relationship with him.

I can't imagine life

without knowing
that God has a plan,

and that plan is not just
for the here and now,

but that plan includes
a hope and a future,

and a future way beyond
whatever we'll face
here on Earth,

but a future of him
in Heaven.

When my boys were 10
and seven and two,

I found out, after having
a series of lumps and bumps

in my body
that I had ignored,

that I had
non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.

And I remember the dread
in that doctor's eyes

when he told me that
it was stage III

and possibly stage IV.

If I only had
a few days to live,

it would be hard.

It would be difficult.

There would be tears,

but I would know,
without a shadow of a doubt,

that I have a faithful God

who loves me
and had a plan for me.

We even shared with our boys
that Mommy could get sicker.

And we tried to help them
to know that if I did die,

that God would still be God

and that He would
still be faithful.

That was hard,
but we did it

in His strength.

I was prostituting in every
single street here in Akron,
♪ ♪

alleys, abandoned houses,

jumping in and out of cars
with complete strangers,

doing unthinkable sexual acts
for money,

so that I was able to pay
for crack.

I smoked away
every dream and hope

to a point where I thought
that I was just worthless.

I started to use marijuana.

In Vietnam I started with that,
and then I started to use

opiates back when
I got home-- morphine.

And then that turned
into heroin,

and I soon find
myself with a habit.

And that habit then became
the lord of my life.

And I remember one night
being on Broad Street,

and I was screaming out
to God to kill me

or save me, but don't let me
live like this anymore.

It was a horrible place.

And so, I just very sincerely
one night said,

"God, there's got to be
more to life than this.

And if you're real, would you
make yourself real to me?"

He removed my addiction
on the spot.

He healed me.

That's exactly what started
bringing me up out of
that darkness.

It was the love
that he has for me.

It's amazing,
and I felt...

I felt like
a new creature.

I know he's real.
I know he lives within me,

and I know he's the best thing
that ever happened to me

and ever happened
to this world.

And now it's my privilege
to share that and proclaim that

to every man, woman,
boy and girl.

There's good news
and there's hope.

I would love
to encourage Mr. Darwin

and others that feel
just like him

to try God.

And see the transformation
for themselves.

If I were asked
what is the primary reason

I believe evolution

is incompatible
with biblical Christianity,

I could sum it up
in one word for you-- death.

If you want, add pain,
suffering and death.

I know a little about this.
I lost my first wife to cancer.

Now my second wife has cancer
and so do I.

Whether we're young or old,
death is inevitable.

And how do we deal with death?

How does evolution
deal with death?

Narrator:
It was a question Darwin
would have to face himself

in his early 40s.

He and Emma loved
all their children,

but there was one who
was specially precious to them,

their eldest daughter Annie.

Moore:
Annie was a delightful child--

pliable, amenable, loving.

She loved to touch her parents,
to be caressed, to be held,

to plait their hair,
to touch their arms.

She was sensitive
to their feelings.

Narrator:
Just before her 10th birthday,

Annie fell seriously ill.

Darwin took her to
the spa town of Malvern,

and the doctor he credited
with saving his own life

when he was in a critical
condition two years earlier.

He left her there
in the care of Dr. Gully,

and hurried back to Emma,
who was heavily pregnant
with their eighth child

and in no condition
to take the 150-mile journey

from Down House to Malvern.

Two weeks later,
Darwin was summoned back

to face an agonizing crisis.

Darwin's voice:
It is now from hour to hour,

a struggle between life
and death.

Oh, my own,

it is very bitter indeed.

Narrator:
Annie died at Easter, 1851.

This was a watershed,
because Darwin no longer

felt it possible
afterwards to believe

in a good,
loving Christian God.

This is, for him,

the final nail
in his Christian coffin.

Here's the conflict:

God is good...

God is all-powerful,

horrific,
catastrophic tragedy
takes place.

So how can all
of these things be true?

Abby's 17 years old, and she
was in an automobile accident,

and has since been unable
to regain the use of her legs.

She's not able to
breathe on her own or eat.

I'm no doctor...

but I think God would
have to move for Abby
to walk again.

"Streams of mercy
never ceasing,

call for songs
of loudest praise.

Teach me some
melodious sonnet

sung by flaming
tongues above.

I'll praise the mount
I'm fixed upon...

Nathan and Abby Marsh:
mount of thy redeeming love."

Verst:
I wish that one
of us could sing.

It would have been...

( Dan Marsh laughs )

Reta Marsh:
We can all sing,
we just can't sing good.

- Verst: Yeah, I can't.
- I can.

Reta:
You can.
Yeah, go ahead.

Abby was singing.
She's like, "What
are you talking about?"

Dan:
If we had any music,
we could harmonize.

She's singing solo.

Verst:
We don't make
any sense of this.

I don't know how we could.

We couldn't agree that
she's done anything
to deserve this.

Reta:
It's a horrible thing
we're going through...

but there is no way we could
do it without God's presence.

There is absolutely no way.

We are so weak,
but he is strong,

and he is holding us up
every day.

Dan:
We don't understand
the timing,

but we do understand
his presence.

We know that all things
will come to good.

We don't know how.

I can't understand

how this could be
for Abby's good.

I trust that somehow it is.

Reta:
We have no doubt
God is a good God,

a loving God.

He will never leave us
or forsake us.

And he has a plan for her,
and I firmly believe he is
going to use her life

as a testimony.

There already have been
a lot of people touched
by her.

Verst:
Heather, my wife,

said I'm praying and praying
and praying for Abby,

and nothing's happening...

And nothing's changing.
Why would I pray...

to God?

Who knows? The Lord
may choose to be merciful.

He might hear our cry
and relent,

but if he doesn't,
no matter what happens,

I still believe that
God wants the best
for his people.

Reta:
I don't know how
people without God

can survive
things like this.

I-- I don't know
how they could.

I couldn't,
I couldn't do it.

For Darwin there was
no such consolation.

There was no comfort
to be had in a God who
would reconcile him

to his daughter
in another life,

or in the notion that there
was a purpose to her death.

And he was inconsolable.

He tried to avoid
the pain of Annie's death

by concentrating
on his species theory.

But there was
a darkness that started
to permeate his writing.

Moore:
Darwin was not a well man,

ever since he'd begun
working on evolution.

Because he knew what
a disreputable thing
he was doing,

and yet he didn't intend
to be disreputable.

He was afraid
of being misunderstood.

It tore him apart.

Emma was his protector.

Emma made it possible
for him to get on with what
he cared most about,

which was this enormous burden,
this vision of nature,

this vision of God's creation,

which he was determined
to put to the Victorian world

and hope they would accept.

Narrator:
"On the Origin of Species"

was first published
on November 24th, 1859.

It's never been
out of print since.

People realized that when
"The Origin" came out
in November 1859,

this was serious,
substantial

and something to be
reckoned with.

And it sold out instantly.

I think the most striking thing
about the book, in fact,

is that the reaction
is much more muted

and appreciative than,
I think, legend would have it.

This was not an idea
that you could ignore,

because Darwin had
presented it so well

and with so much evidence,
that it demanded a verdict.

And certainly within
about five to 10 years,

most educated people
in Britain,

including those
of a religious persuasion,

and quite often those
of an orthodox religious
persuasion,

are convinced that
species have evolved.

In the United States,
the book was published

on the eve
of the great Civil War,

and by the turn
of the 20th century,

evolution and its experts
were well established in
American higher education.

It was one thing
when scientists were just
debating it among themselves--

well, you know, scientists are
always theorizing about things--

but when it was
thrust upon you,

when it was taught
to school kids

as the cutting edge
of science,

that it really became
a public flash point.

Evolution came
under attack by a distinguished
American politician,

named William Jennings Bryan.

He believed evolution
was un-American.

He believed it was immoral,
it was corrupting

and must not be taught
to American school students.

And Bryan's crusade--
it was called a crusade--

really reached a climax
in the summer of 1925

in a small town
of Dayton, Tennessee,

where a local school teacher
was put up

to admit that he had
taught evolution

in violation
of a state statute.

And so it happened--
William Jennings Bryan
to prosecute

John Thomas Scopes
for teaching evolution.

Clarence Darrow,
the great defense attorney

for the
American Civil Liberties Union,

to defend Scopes
from fundamentalism.

So suddenly you had this clash
of these two brilliant

and famous orators,

Darrow and Bryan,

and that was when it exploded
into this huge media sensation.

James Moore:
The Scopes trial was a circus.

Circus performers came and
brought their chimpanzees.

Film crews showed up
♪ ♪

A radio station had
a live outside broadcast

from the courtroom.

And the issue was

whether Bryan
and his popular constituency

were to have jurisdiction
over professional scientists.

Male singer:
♪ I am inclined to believe... ♪

Moore:
The jury were mostly
illiterate local gentleman.

Singer:
♪ There's no chimpanzee
in my pedigree ♪

♪ And you can't make
a monkey of me. ♪

Rosenhouse:
The result of the Scopes trial
was that Scopes was convicted,

and he was fined $100.

But the real effect
of the Scopes trial

was simply that evolution
largely disappeared

from public school
science classes.

That's why the anti-evolution
sentiment itself largely died
down over the next few decades.

♪ ♪

Narrator:
If there was a single event
that brought Darwin's theory

back into the spotlight,

it was the launch of Sputnik
on the fourth of November 1957.

Rosenhouse:
The cultural impact of Sputnik
is hard to exaggerate.

At that time, of course,
the Cold War was just
getting going,

and people were very worried
about this in the United States.

"My God, the Russians
beat us into space."

And this was considered
a serious indictment

of the American
educational system.

We were falling behind
in science.

There was a renewed interest
in science education as
a result of this,

and one effect of that
renewed interest

was redesigning curricula
to be used in high school
science classes.

And this involved teaching
advanced physics

and it involved teaching
evolution as the framework

for understanding
life sciences.

When the Russians launched
their Sputnik,

it was a challenge
to the scientific community,

to the government
of the United States.

There was a panic

in the scientific community
of America.

"Hey, we're supposed
to be leading edge here.

We gotta to catch up.
We gotta get ahead."

Science almost became God
in our country.

And so they started shoveling
all kinds of money

into scientific endeavors.

But behind that all

was this idea that Darwinism
is correct also.

The huge programs to bring
biology teaching

into the American
school system awoke,

effectively, something of
a sleeping tiger.

Narrator:
For the first time in history,

Creationists fought back,
using an entirely new tactic.

They would fight science
with science--

orthodox science
with creation science.

♪ ♪

Video Narrator:
The Bible reveals
that God created...

all the animal and plant kinds
in the beginning

and we're now learning that
God placed a huge amount
of information

within each created kind,

allowing them to diversify
into the myriad of plants
and animals we see today.

This is not evolution.

It's creation by
an all-knowing, all-powerful,

infinitely wise Creator.

Video Narrator #2:
Further up we see a
massive grouping of galaxies

called the Virgo Cluster.

It contains
over 2,000 galaxies,

and is 50 million light years
away from Earth.

Critics of the Bible
have suggested

that it is impossible for
the light from these galaxies

to reach Earth in only
six thousand years,

but in fact, there are several
different ways to get light

to travel these distances
in a short period of time.

These include gravitational
time dilation,

alternate synchrony conventions
and others.

Video Narrator #3:
Many scientists contend
that dinosaurs died off

over 60 million years
before humans came to be.

The possibility that humans
and dinosaurs ever co-existed

is unthinkable to them,

but what does the Bible say?

The Bible makes it very clear
that God created land animals
on day six.

Dinosaurs were land animals.

Therefore Adam and Eve
and dinosaurs

lived hand in hand.
They lived together.

From just reading Genesis
you get the idea

of a perfect world--
no death, no disease,

animals, man,
the dinosaurs

were all vegetarian.

Now, the fossil record--
it's a record of death.

It's a record of animals
eating each other.

It's a record of disease,

because there are dinosaur
bones with brain tumors.

( roars loudly )

But you can't have dinosaurs
with brain tumors

and dinosaurs eating each other
until after sin.

Video Narrator #4:
So if dinosaurs lived
alongside humans,

and Noah even brought pairs
of young dinosaurs with him
on the ark,

what happened to them?
Where did they all go?

Well, dragon legends
are found

in many cultures and traditions
all around the world.

So it is hardly surprising

that the world would be filled
with legends of heroes,

like St. George,

and their encounters
with mighty beasts.

If the only way you can make
your belief persist

is to lie to children,
which is what Creationists do,

about the age of the earth
and things of that nature,

if that's the only way
this thing can persist,
it's not worth it.

It should disappear.

There is
so much evidence to show

that what Darwin saw
in outline to be true

is infinitely true
on every single level.

How miraculous it is that
this man in the middle
of the 19th century

was able to see
in broad outline

what we can now see
in infinite complexity.

There's been so much
advancement in science--

you know, our understanding
of DNA, the genome,

our kinship with animals.

If you are going
to throw evolution away,

you have to throw
all of that away.

We have eyes.
We have years.

We were given those by God,
potentially.

Why would we have been misled?

And not only us as individuals,

but why would
hundreds of thousands,
millions of people

that have taken these questions
very seriously,

why would they all
have been misled as well?

We're very aware of
how much evolution is taught

in the public school setting.

So, that's why we like
to homeschool.

Can you show me
on the timeline
where he is?

He's right here
on the timeline.
Okay.

Okay. And what word

that we use today
came from his name?

In modern English,
"martyr" means somebody

who's killed
for the sake of Christ.

We do need to shield
our kids from what's
going on in the world,

and help them to be able
to defend their faith.

Gladiator fights,
traumas and there's
a slaughtering house

for Christians
who would not deny Jesus.

So all of these people
were witnessing the slaughter

of multiple Christians
and watching gruesome things,

such as gladiators fighting
each other to the death.

I'm sure that they will be
attacked when they go out
into the world

when they're older
and they're in the workforce.

One of our children
is very interested in science.

Nero was the first emperor

to start
the major persecution

of the Christians.

We warn our son that
there are going to be

many people who are not
going to agree

that God created this world
in six literal days.

They're gonna tell him
it's a fairy tale.

He needs to have strong faith
and believe God's word

to be able
to defend that later.

It used to be that there was
a three-legged stool.

The family taught
what the schools taught
what the church taught.

Now you have, in our church,
you have families and church
teaching one thing,

and you have schools
teaching another thing.

Often times, when I'm dealing
with young people,

especially people who are
about to graduate out
of high school,

go off to college,

I tell them that
they're going to face

significant opposition
to what they believe,

as far as their understanding
and love for the word of God.

You read headlines
and you watch television,

and the overwhelming current

is belief in evolution.

Are you threatened by it
or do those--

do those arrows kinda--
do they wear you down?

I absolutely believe
that God had a controlling hand

over my creation and over
the creation of the earth

and creation of all things.

Um, and there's nothing that
the secular world can say
to shake that.

I was raised and I believe
that the Bible is fact,

so if something's
gonna collide with it,

then it's obviously incorrect
and false.

I think sometimes our culture
has like a overly-heavy reliance

on, like, science.

Christianity is more
than science

and scientific proof.

Have you guys ever been
in a situation where

you've been articulating
your faith,

and it was met with mockery?

It should never surprise us
that we're mocked or hated
by the world.

I mean, Christ said that
this would happen,

and it's happening, so--

I have to say
and I'm willing to say

that the first 11
chapters of Genesis

are true and correct,

because it's God's word.

You know...
( chuckles )

...if one could imagine
Darwin sitting down

in that lovely, sunny garden
with those young people,

I think he would quite quickly
engage them in

a much more interesting series
of conversations...

about the world
and about being

and the nature of creation
and evolution and so on,

which I'm sure they would find
absolutely fascinating.

But he wouldn't be
giving them the answers;

he would be
asking them questions.

♪ ♪

Narrator:
Darwin himself never stopped
asking questions

about his science
and about God.

( Darwin's voice )

...in the sense of denying
the existence of God.

I feel most deeply that
the whole subject is...

Stott:
It was the final,
humble admission

from one of the greatest
minds of all time.

♪ ♪

Narrator:
On April 26th, 1882,

thousands gathered here
at Westminster Abbey

for the funeral
of Charles Darwin.

The American ambassador,
Russell Lowell,

was one
of the pall bearers.

Reflecting on Darwin's life,

the Bishop of Carlisle
told the mourners

there need be no conflict
between the study of nature

and belief in God.

♪ ♪