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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.ย. 2024
- Cliffe Knechtle has a great conversation with college students at a campus in the southwest US.
The "Give Me An Answer" ministry began as an outgrowth of the dialogues Cliffe Knechtle has had with students on various university campuses throughout the United States. These universities include the University of Maine, Harvard, MIT, University of Florida, University of Texas, University of Wisconsin, University of Minnesota, University of California Los Angeles, University of California San Diego, Berkeley, Stanford, University of Hawaii and the University of Washington. Cliffe spoke on these campuses in front of the Student Union or Library at noon for five to ten minutes. At the close of his initial remarks, he'd open up the time for questions and answers, which usually turned into a two to four hour dialogue with students. His crowd size ranged from 25 - 500 students at a time, and between classes, new students would join the discussion. This is an extremely effective way to reach a large number of university students with the Gospel of Christ.
Cliffs is awesome. I’ve been watching him for at least 12 years and have learned so much from him.
Paul Rizzo you bet
These videos bring me back to earth....thank you for producing them. They help explain my irrational decisions and get back on the right path
Cliffe is absolutely spot on 100%, evolution does not explain the origin of life, it deals with how life diversified once it started.
bonnie43uk evolution and scripture are the complete opposites. God did not use macro evolution to create life or the universe. Macro evolution is an adult fairy tale.
@Andrew Wian, I agree scripture and evolution are at odds with eachother. According to what you believe how did God create life? (As I stated, evolution has nothing to do with the actual creation of life)
Hi Nico, I think the reason why people who study evolution call it the "tree of life" is because evolution itself is very much like a diagram of a tree, with the earliest life form being the base of the tree, and as more species evolve, they become the branches and the branches which form afterwards, each off-shoot is related to the trunk of the tree. The big question the science wants to know is, how did that seed get there in the first place, and how did it germinate? .. that is the big 'How did we get Life from non life" question that is so hard to answer. We do not know.
He certainly is 100% spot on Tom and as you say, evolution only explains how life diversified once it started, not the origin of it, that's a different question being dealt with by another theory (Abiogenesis) and this is of course what makes it so tricky for us to explain to some bible believers why we are not convinced by what he is saying to students here lol, namely, his claim that Scientists are saying that "evolution explains the origin" is a strawman argument, that bears no semblance to what the theory of evolution is supposed to be explaining, again, as you rightly said, if it was a correct representation, then he would have a great case but it isn't so it's not, trying to explain that to believers is like banging our heads against a brick wall but we have to try :)
It's such a pity that an intelligent man like Cliffe has to resort to strawmanning in order to try to convince people who maybe wavering that they should trust what the bible says and ignore what skeptics say, in fairness to him, perhaps he's not being delibarately dishonest, maybe he genuinely thinks that this is what we believe and if it is the case, then the problem is obviously that he is just not listening and understanding properly to what those he is talking about are actually saying but I think he has a sufficient level of education and intelligence to surely realize that this is a misrepresentation of what evolution is, in terms of what it is meant to be an explanation for and is just saying this to appeal to those who don't know any better and will, therefore, buy this thinking "yeah...he's right....evolution does not show the origin....therefore God must be the origin and Science is wrong" etc (facepalming time for us again...get the asprin) lol.
Hi John, yes, just for a second I thought, Cliffe has got it, the young guy in the orange t-shirt explained it perfectly, "evolution does not explain the origin of life, but only how it diversified", and Cliffe agreed with him, .. but then Cliffe said "But what do you say to those atheist's who say "Oh no, evolution explains the origin...." I'm not aware of *any* atheists who say that evolution explains the origin, that's not to say that some *might* say that, but I've not heard an atheist actually say that.
But it also opens up lots of other questions, if Cliffe is ok with the process of evolution, then he has to accept that it took literally billions of years (4.5) for everything we see today, to come about. I don't know about you, but my mind cannot grasp even 1 billion years in real time, it's such an immense amount of time, if you compare 10,000 years with a billion years the difference is mind-blowing. But all the scientific data seems to suggest that this planet we all live on, is older than our brains can imagine. Yet the Bible says God created all this in a week, and he rested on the 7th day, why did he feel the need to rest? Can God get tired? ....so many questions !
Cliff is the best Christian apologist. I know a lot of people would disagree but the way Cliff explains things and breaks things down is unmatched. I hope to be the next Cliff one day!
Wow you really believe that. You may need to see some more apologists.
@@dperkins01 I've studied for 11 years straight and never missed a day. I promise you I know them all and have seen everything from all of them. The only one that might be better that I always go back and forth with is Frank Turek. I just love their style especially Cliff's style and that's all I mean when I say he's the best. I like his style the most.
@@dperkins01actually i have to agree and i’ve seen tons of apologists
As a millennial seeking to get people to embrace the creationist view and abandon delusional scientific explanations, I am beyond grateful for your measure of faith and ability to communicate so brilliantly and lovingly to our generation!
AndieKobbieTKs© creationism doesn’t necessarily mean a literally 7 day creationist view. Please let people what you mean from what I’ve seen even this pastor has the same view as JWs in the figurative understanding for the 7 days since day in Hebrew can mean an extended amount of time and not a literally 24hr day
No it certainly doesn't. We are just limited in our thinking as human beings I'd argue. But God who is omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient hold the answer to that, I heard time and time again of this controversy. The only point that comes to mind, in my defence, is that the sovereign God has lived and will forever live outside space and time.
Besides, Bible's scriptures argues the following and as born-again growing Christian I stand on that belief:
2 Peter 3:8
8 But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.
Incidentally, Bible scriptures offend the self-proclaim intellect of our day and age. And so does the return of our Christ Jesus.
I rest my case.
The God of the bible Did NOT use evolution. Evolution is the complete opposite to what the bible teaches.. Only a Stupid God would tinker with life for millions of years to create a human. Jesus quoted Genesis. There is no reason to doubt God's word... To those doubting God's infallible word, seriously, Stop believing in nonsense and trust God
I’m not trying to start an argument but have you studied evolution, or any of the scientific explanations that you disregard as delusional?
Niko - just remember that evolution is a process, but not an origin
Thank you, I am addicted to your videos and I love them. I have an atheist friend who I can see has a potential to follow Christ. These videos educate me and help me speak the word to my friend. Thank you Cliffe :)
This guy is ace, I'm so glad I happened to switch the channel to TBN and see him, now I'm subscribed.
Cliff was on tv?
Eazola1 I only have free view on my old TV and TBN is one of the channels I have, were in England though so maybe it's different.
Cliffe is very awesome!
Praise JESUS the KING of kings and LORD of lords. ✌😀
CLIFFE I LOVE YOU!!!
Where DOES LIGHTNING COME FROM?
Those who believe that humans came from a rock is beyond fix.
Miller-Urey experiment did not produce RNA, only amino acids, which is light years short of RNA.
Keep up the good work of delivering good news
🤣🤣 it's a rare throat disease. 🤣🤣
look up James Tour.
Bless his heart. He stated that there were no eye witnesses or evidence for the resurrection. However, there were no eye witnesses when life arose (abiogenesis). Additionally, there is more evidence that life does not arise from none life than life arising from rocks randomly struck by lightning.
Dont put your faith in Nasa cliff
Where in the video did he put his faith in nasa
I'm glad to see you now understand the difference between micro-evolution and macro-evolution. The former is the result of natural selection of existing information to allow an already existing creature to produce offspring that can adapt better to the prevailing environmental conditions, such as a dog species producing dogs with longer hair in a colder climate. On the other hand macro-evolution is the creation of new information to allow the formation of new features, such as wings to allow a creature to fly. A possible example of that would be a dog to grow with wings. Such a process requires a designer (God) simply because there is no naturalistic mechanism by which new information can be formed without the aid of an intelligent mind. Randomness and lots of time can never produce the new DNA codes necessary to form a wing on a dog. Perhaps man one day can but that only proves that an intelligent mind is required. Note I'm not discussing theistic evolutionism and other similar ideas like providential evolutionism versus creationism. That's a more difficult topic. IMHO theistic evolution and the like are oxymorons and I have seen one example where it can lead to atheism. The Bible is very clear; it refutes theistic evolution and the like outright.
19:04 I think someone is getting possessed.
Then WHERE DOES RNA COME FROM?
Try google.
@@bonnie43uk No, it doesn’t come from google
@@BeanZBoT Heh, i think you know i didn't mean RNA comes from Google, .. i was suggesting he look it up online for the answer.
@@bonnie43uk hahaha yes I know, I was just being silly. Wow I didn’t think anyone would respond considering your comment was 3 years ago
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Ummm...I’m a bit confused.... trying to tie the scene from the movie “Crash” in with evolution seems a like a real stretch....
I enjoy watching Cliff it’s just that sometimes he wanders off into areas where he should not tread. Saying “good” and “yes” when neither of those words apply seems to be very misleading. The young skeptic needs to be challenged on his worldview, for instance, say that I believe in being intellectually honest and so if I believe something that is proven irrefutably undeniably and verifiably false that I MUST jettison that belief and believe what is true, regardless of how much it may embarrass me or how much “crow” I eat, being an adult means having an honest perspective about reality. THEN I go about proving his or her worldview false. My aim is to NOT change their mind but to “put a rock in their shoe” so that they may come to a place where GOD grants them repentance and beg for forgiveness from GOD.
The bible suggests the earth is around 7000-10000 years old. You just need to add up all the lineage years of people in the past
I dont agree with that line of thinking at all. We have no clue how old the earth is but mankind is indeed about 6000 years old.
King of Kings and Lord of Lords God did not use evolution. It is heresy to think otherwise
AISSA1231 But we don't know how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden before they were kicked out. Could have been thousand of years in itself.
Bible 101... don't take the whole thing so literal. Jesus is not an actual door. But if you decide to take it literal anyway, you better remember the part where it says a day to God is like a 1000 years and a thousand years is like a day. And if you really think about it, a day could be like a billions years or more, being he is outside of time.
@@bryanhk1982 no it says in the bible the morning and evening were the first day that's 24 hours
I only came here out of curiosity after viewing the one sided dillahunty debate...Now I see you are never convincing
False.
No atheist would say that great strawman.
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Trouble is Cliffe, there is now very good evidence that life can come from non-life, and life has been successfully observed emerging from non-living elements in a lab and then repeated, so I'm sorry but it's no longer a faith position. That life can come from non-life is now demonstrable. That means that evolution can account for both the origins of life and the following process too without any faith being required and without a god being necessary at any point. Once again science advances and shows us that religious thinking is fallacious for yet another reason.😅.
False, science has not proven that what so ever, have some intellectual honesty with yourself and those around you.
@@JohnjOcampo wrong! Stop being an echo chamber for Cliffe with the intellectual honesty line. It's so tired and so disingenuous.
Scientists have created the world's first living organism that has a fully synthetic and radically altered DNA code. The lab-made microbe, a strain of bacteria that is normally found in soil and the human gut, is similar to its natural cousins but survives on a smaller set of genetic instructions.15 May 2019
“Theories are obviously Faith positions”??! More ignorance of scientific protocols.
Hi rovert46. I have seen a lot of your comments and I want to applaud you for being very respectful and civil even when others are not. If you are willing, I would like to know what your top 2-3 pieces of evidence that there is no god or gods. feel free to email me your response at onebread.org@gmail.com
I will also address your comment since no one has yet...
Well, technically, scientific theories are not yet repeatable and therefore require the evidence-based faith that previous scientific research has been conducted ethically and honestly to form the theory based on inductive and deductive reasoning; but not employing the scientific method.
OneBread Ministries hi One Bread. Yeah I’m a delight right?!
I agree, there’s no point in trading insults, but I do succumb to sarcasm occasionally.
OneBread Ministries I don’t think you’re going down the “just a theory “ route are you? Theories by definition are falsifiable testable repeatable and consistently reliable in the real world.
OneBread Ministries I think we can understand existence only in terms of being within time and space and as a physical body. In this sense god cannot empirically exist as we cannot see, hear or touch him. Many claim to but there is no independent objective evidence for this. That sounds a bit simplistic but really it’s all we’ve got in reality.
Now, if god is claimed to be spiritual, incorporeal, outside space and time, I cannot process that any further. That again sounds like I’m being deliberately obtuse but if there is no benchmark for this supernatural claim/worldview I’ve got no peg to hang my coat on.
It’s like what was before the Big Bang, we don’t know, we can only speculate. Peace.
Hi Rovert, thanks for the response! Very well thought out. You brought up that existence (or reality) is only what is physical; what you can see, hear and touch.
Have you considered that there must exist something outside of space, matter, and time in order to create space matter and time? Let's say there is no such thing as wood. Can the something that caused wood to exist be made of wood itself? This is akin to the universe. Stating from leading scientists, the universe had a beginning. Could the something that caused space, matter, and time to come into existence be made of space, time, or matter? Thumbs up if you were following me.
The evidence points to something outside of space, matter, and time, in order to create space, matter, and time. This logically leads to aptly thinking about the reality beyond the physical; beyond space, matter, and time; to not limit reality to the physical. This is the benchmark that supports the claim of the 'supernatural' or something outside space, matter, and time. I hope you can find this to be a peg upon which you can hang your coat. Give the peg a shot. See if it holds. See if it holds up to the logical conclusions of a theistic worldview.
So then, what evidence is there that the something that caused space, matter, and time, can be known? And that is for another discussion. Feel free to reach out to me at onebread.org@gmail.com if you'd like to discuss privately.
Thanks!
No Cliffe, origin of species, not all life. Misrepresentation again.
Except evolutionists constantly say that evolution explains how life got here, which it doesn't.
@@GraceAlone614 we know what the Theory of Evolution explains. Fact. It’s delusional to deny it.
@@rovert46 who's "we"? Because, again, I've listened to evolutionists who argue it explains the origins of life. So it seems like evolutionists can't agree on where evolution starts.
@@GraceAlone614 sorry, I’m using we as a very generic term in the context of explicating facts which we know to be true; just as “we” know about gravity, tectonic plates, astronomical phenomena etc.
@@GraceAlone614 and yes ToE does explain the origin of life with regard to the development of species…