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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.

♪ ♪