(Dr. Kim Myung Hyun- The Bible and Science)
(The Bible and Science : Lecture 1, Scientific Evidence in the Bible)
(Dr. Kim Myung Hyun (Biblical Science Research Institute)) Hello, nice to meet you
Hello
I'm sure you all have greeted each other already
but let's share another greeting with the person sitting next to you
Nice to meet you and welcome
Dr. Kim Myung Hyun (CEO of Biblical Science Research Institute, ph.D material engineering of KAIST,pre Handong Uni Prof.)
I'll be talking for a few weeks about The Bible and Science
And I'd like to introduce some scientific evidence on The Bible
I'll explain it more while we look at the screen
Do you all know where this is?
Yes, usually people would answer as the 'Niagara Falls'
It's an Iguazu fall located in South America (*on the border between Brazil & Argentina and it's 4.5km wide with an average of 70m height which is far bigger than Niagara Falls)
It takes more than 24hour flight to get there
But once you do it's a magnificent fall
There are so many beautiful places that are created by God
This is from Genesis 1:1, you can choose your preferred language and let's read it together
(Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth)
Go
In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth
(Canadian Rockies - One of the dream holiday spot) Everyone this is Canadian Rockies
(a strong representation of the vast, primitive nature of Canada) look how amazing and big it looks, right?
(The alps between Alberta and British Columbia continue to Northern America)
if it's possible, hope you could have a summer retreat there
That is the actual color of the water which is from the melted glaciers
Welcome to everyone who participated here today
I brought bundle of flowers to welcome you all
It's okay to applause everyone
In John 4:23 there are saying by Jesus
Let's read this together
But the hour cometh and now is, when the true worshippers
shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth
It says, true worshipers shall worship the father in spirit and in truth
Those of you who remember the older version,
'in spirit and in truth' was translated as 'in holy and in truthfully'
The right version is to be said as 'truth'
Worship in truth and truly worshiping
seems similar but it's different
when you say you truly worship
you can still worship even if you don't know the truth
worshipping with a fervent means
people are more desperate who idol worships
In the past, they put in effort for 3years in front of fresh water
not every Christians can follow those sincereness
but what are missing in people like that?
They don't have the truth
We should be aware of the truth God has given us
being able to say 'dear God, you have give us those truth'
is what we call a worship
Therefore, if you don't know the exact truth, you can't worship God
You can think of it like that
And in Hosea 6:6. Let's read it together
For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God than burnt offerings
Everyone, "burnt offerings" is something that people today can't experience
It's a sacrifice to God by killing a living animal, disassembling it, and burning it in fire
If you express it, you can call it worship
But God said "the knowledge of God than burnt offerings"
The more accurate translation is "the knowledge of God 'more' than burnt offering."
Living a life where you and I try to know God
That's the life of worship
Everyone, there's a difference depending on whether there's "more" or not
If you look at the translation on the left, it says, "I don't need a burnt offerings. Just the knowledge of God"
But on the right side, there's "more" in the original quote
God wants burnt offerings but also wants knowledge of God more than that
So, the special lecture on "The Bible and Science" will be a time to learn about
what God has done, especially His acts of creation and building the history
I was studying the science field called material engineering
And found out that there was a lot of scientific evidence about the Bible
And so now I'm working on spreading that knowledge to people
When you were learning at school or sending your children to school
Do they teach evolution or creation?
Do you teach evolutionism or creationism?
They teach evolution in textbooks, right? What do you believe in the two?
You have to believe in creation because of the mood today
But what's more important than what you believe is what's true
We have to believe the truth, not the lies. Do you agree?
Then let me ask you another question
Which is the historical fact, evolution or creation?
Your voices has decreased
When I was in school, I learned all about evolution just like all of you
But later, when I checked in more detail, evolution is not a historical fact
The scientific evidence is not clear
At first glance, we learn as if there is a lot of evidence
But if I really believe that I am sure enough to risk my life and check the concrete evidence
There's no hard evidence
Rather, creation, which people think of as myth, has very clear scientific evidence
Also there's a lot of historical evidence
The Bible is not a science book. They don't say "Open the Bible" in science class, right?
But even if you scientifically verify what's written in the Bible, it's true
So I gathered these evidences and gave lectures at university
And if there's an opportunity like this, I let people know
So, it's organized into more than 20 things
I think I can take this opportunity to introduce one or two topics
I'd like to introduce all of them
But it takes 2 hours per topic
Especially the last one. It takes 15 hours
So it takes about 40 hours to listen to all of them
It's about teaching for more than a year in college
I'll give you a brief summary of what's going on in general
And I'll be talking about today's topic
The first topic, "Why Creation?" is about
What's wrong with evolution, what's the scientific evidence of creation
It's the most basic and important thing that confirms those questions
And the second topic is "The Great Flood"
I'm sure a lot of people knows it
I'm sure you are aware as written in the book of Genesis in the Bible,
there was a flood judgment from God where the entire earth we live in was completely submerged in water
The great flood destroyed the world that God first created
And in a much worse environment, you and I are living very hard right now
But everyone, this great flood, from the creation of the world until the Second Coming of Jesus,
Is the largest disaster in human history
It was a flood that destroyed the entire earth
But do they teach this great disaster in school history class or not?
Yes, they don't teach you a single line. But it really happened
And so, historical and scientific evidence of this great flood
is what I'll be introducing in great details
The third one is "The Secret of the Grand Canyon"
It's a huge canyon in the U.S. You can think of it as a valley
Has anyone been there before? Oh, you're all too busy
Everyone, Grand Canyon is a world-famous tourist destination
How big this valley is... It's over a kilometer deep
And that valley is 450km long. If it's 450km, it's longer than Seoul to Busan
To put it simply, it's a valley the size of South Korea
But don't you get a little annoyed listening to this?
Our country is only a valley in a foreign country
But when they teach that at school
They teach that it's been made for hundreds of millions of years
That's a wrong explanation
Those huge piles of dirt over there
has been accumulated in just a year at the time of the Great Flood recorded in the Bible
There are a lot of people who have never heard of this before, right?
I'm going to introduce about the detailed introduction with the geological evidence that supports it
For the time being, even if you're treated like a fool by people around you, please insist
That Grand Canyon is proof of what?
It's a strong proof of the Great Flood by the God
Next is "Hanja and Genesis"
Did you enjoy learning Hanja at school or was it excruciating?
It was excruciating, right?
But there's a very surprising secret in there
You know that Hanja have meanings, right?
Surprisingly, after studying Hanja
Hanja contains the story of the Garden of Eden that's in the Bible in detail
The story of Adam and Eve being expelled after eating the fruit of the tree that makes them aware of good and evil
Those details are included in the letters
Because those Hanja were the descendants of Noah who survived the Great Flood
So Hanja that we commonly use are those that contain biblical stories
It's hard to believe, but if you listen carefully, you will be very surprised
Even in Hanja, the idea of the Savior is the same as in the Bible
Next, there's a dinosaur story
It's about what people who believe in the Bible think about dinosaurs, what's the evidence
Maybe when you raise kids, boys fall in love with dinosaurs when they're young
They love it so much that they memorize dozens of dinosaur names
But you have to explain the dinosaurs to those kids in biblical way
Since we're talking about it, let me ask you a question
God made Noah build a big ark during the Great Flood as I mentioned earlier
Ans we call that Noah's Ark
You know that they carried a pair of land animals on the ark and survived the flood, right?
Now, here's the question. Then did they put the dinosaurs in the ark or not?
Discuss with the person next to you
It won't help each other, but please pretend you're discussing it
Yes, I'm sure you have different opinions. Choose one from the following
Number 1 yes, number 2 no, number 3 I don't know
You don't know the answer, so it's okay to insist
You think it's number 1
Oh, no one
You think it's number 2
A lot more people
You think it's number 3
I'm not thinking at all
Yes, I'm sure you have different opinions
The answer is... Yes, they did put the dinosaurs on the ark
One of the most misguided stories today is the dinosaur story
When you learn at school, they teach you that dinosaurs went extinct tens of millions of years ago, right?
That's a global lie
Dinosaurs have lived together in human history since Adam
Do you believe in the Bible?
Are you insisting that you believe it?
But if you believe in the Bible, you have to think of it as the Bible
If you read the Bible, God created this world for six days and had a day off on the 7th
That's why we're living on a weekly basis
But it's written that God made animals and humans when he created the world
Then dinosaurs and humans should have lived together since Adam, if the Bible is correct
So they've been living for a long time, and when animals got on the ark during the flood
Do you think they should carry dinosaurs or not?
Of course, they should
No matter how hard you look at the Bible, there's no saying, "Don't let the dinosaurs get in."
Then, of course, dinosaurs got on the ark
And after the flood, they should have live together for a while
So these dinosaurs actually lived during Abraham's time
And lived during Jesus time, too
You almost look at me like heresy
They lived in the Middle Ages, too
But it just went extinct a little bit earlier
There's no point in just saying this
There's a lot of evidence that dinosaurs and humans lived together in history
We're going to check it out in detail
But everyone's expressions are such that you won't believe it until you see the evidence
Everyone, in our lives, things that we knew as common sense
Are there times when it's actually wrong?
There are a lot of times that happen. One of the representative ones is the dinosaur
Next is Science, Miracles, and Spirits / Souls. If you read the Bible
"Jesus walked on the water, made wine out of water." Things like that are written, right?
Do you believe it?
There are people who hold on with Amen, and there must be people who don't believe it, right?
In this age of science, if you believe in the miracles in the Bible
Are you treated as normal or abnormal?
You treated as abnormal, right?
But do you believe in the miracles in the Bible, or not?
There are people who decided to trust and endure it, right?
So if you believe it, are you normal or abnormal?
I help people believe in the miracles in the Bible
I studied science, but I believe that the miracles in the Bible
Were as true as they were written
So I am here for people to not only believe but how they can
by explaining in scientifically and biblically way
The miracle in the Bible is never an absurd story
There's a reason why scientists should believe it
So there's a scientific explanation about miracles
And the same goes for spirit and soul
People say that they have a soul and a spirit as well as a body, right?
Do you have soul and spirit, too?
Take a peek at the person next to you
Do you see the soul?
The wind is invisible, but it definitely exists
You can realize that the invisible wind is blowing by not seeing it with your eyes
But watching the trees sway in the wind
Likewise, soul or spirit cannot be seen with your eyes
But I can explain to you what the soul is, what the spirit is
with scientific and biblical principles so that you can understand
And if you listen carefully to my explanation, you can recognize the spirit of the person sitting next to you
This is a very strange story, right?
But if you know the principle, it's surprisingly easy
In case you think it's too strange, let me give you an example
How do you know that the person sitting next to you is sad?
There's something much more important than facial expressions and eyes
To know that the person sitting next to you is sad
There needs to be sadness in your heart, too
Can you relate?
If you've never experienced something sad in your life
Then you can't understand other people's sadness
Am I right?
And people who have experienced great sadness easily notice other people's small sorrows
Conversely, a person who has grown up in extreme sadness is not good at enjoying the joy
Do you agree with everything I'm saying?
So, everyone, other people's sadness is recognized as the sadness I experienced
That's the principle of perception
So the spirit of another person is my spirit, and instead, there must be order in my spirit
And there must be absolute order
You've never heard of this, have you?
Next "fossils". Do schools teach fossils as evidence of evolution or as evidence of creation?
You learned it as proof of evolution, and still teaches it like that, right?
They're really teaching it wrong
If you collect all the actual fossils, classify them, and check them out
Fossils are proof of creation that they were created according to their kind
And it's evidence of the Great Flood
It's about confirming that in detail
Next is "The Origin of Humanity and Race"
Did the monkey change into a human or was it separate from the beginning?
Yes, it's separate from the beginning
No matter how much you raise monkeys, they can't be human
And the person sitting next to you can't be a monkey no matter how broken they are
Monkeys and men have different ancestors from the beginning
But the problem is that when you learn it at school
Australopithecus, Javanese, Pekingese, Neanderthals, Cromagnons
You learn these things at school
But if you keep learning that, students
start to believe that men have changed from monkeys to humans?
But you need to know in detail what you learn in school
If you look at each of them in detail
There's not a single piece of solid evidence linking monkeys to humans
They're trying to somehow connect monkeys and humans through flimsy evidence
That's what I'm telling you
And then there's the race issue
If the Bible is correct, then all the people who live on Earth now are descendants of Adam. Am I right?
But the fact that African, Caucasian, and Asian come from one person, Adam
It's hard to understand and explain, right?
But there are things some churches goers tend to argue and that is that the
God made a man out of clay and then have to bake it in the last step
but it's black because it's baked too much, and it's white because it's undercooked, and the third, the most well baked is the golden and yellow
This story was made up by the golden and yellow people
That is not correct. There can be different races from the same ancestor
In fact, there were cases where both dark and fair skinned were born under the same parents
If you know a little bit that's the law of science's inheritance
Racial issues can be easily understood and a variety of races can emerge within a short period of time
Okay everyone, so even though there is more to explain
Hearing it so far is already very interesting, isn't it?
Listening to all this information will be helpful for you, right?
In particular, there are many conflicts between what is being taught in school to what the Bible teaches us
So when that happens, people judge based on their feelings
But you have to know it with specific evidence and make an accurate judgment
And that's the area I want to help you all
That's all for today
I'll talk about the next episode next time
I'll tell you in detail one by one
Did you enjoy today's story?
Was it worth it?
Then that's it for today. Thank you