1 00:00:01,236 --> 00:00:03,444 Answers in Genesis 2 00:00:03,444 --> 00:00:09,538 has put forth these statistics. 3 00:00:09,538 --> 00:00:11,841 You may find them interesting. 4 00:00:11,841 --> 00:00:16,767 I do. 5 00:00:16,767 --> 00:00:25,994 Fifty-six percent of Papa's generation go to church. 6 00:00:25,994 --> 00:00:29,866 Forty-four percent of my mother's generation go to church. 7 00:00:29,866 --> 00:00:35,115 Thirty-two percent of Jeff's - 8 00:00:35,115 --> 00:00:40,294 he's in a different one from me. 9 00:00:40,294 --> 00:00:44,946 He called me a young whippersnapper the other day or something - 10 00:00:44,946 --> 00:00:48,519 but 32% Jeff's age. 11 00:00:48,519 --> 00:00:50,598 Twenty-seven percent my age - 12 00:00:50,598 --> 00:00:52,965 I'm right there at the beginning of Generation X. 13 00:00:52,965 --> 00:00:56,302 It starts at 1965 and I just slipped in. 14 00:00:56,302 --> 00:00:58,624 I think it goes all the way to '80. 15 00:00:58,624 --> 00:01:01,339 But millennials - 16 00:01:01,339 --> 00:01:06,518 basically those from 1980. 17 00:01:06,518 --> 00:01:11,052 Eighteen percent attend church. 18 00:01:11,052 --> 00:01:16,489 So what you're watching is from Papa's age - 56% - 19 00:01:16,489 --> 00:01:19,518 down to 18%. 20 00:01:19,518 --> 00:01:23,309 What's happening? 21 00:01:23,309 --> 00:01:24,964 Scripture talks about there may be 22 00:01:24,964 --> 00:01:27,434 a great falling away before the end. 23 00:01:27,434 --> 00:01:29,338 What's happening in America? 24 00:01:29,338 --> 00:01:31,240 Just listen to this, 25 00:01:31,240 --> 00:01:34,167 because the statistics go further. 26 00:01:34,167 --> 00:01:35,964 Notice what they found. 27 00:01:35,964 --> 00:01:40,045 Of millennials who grew up in the church, 28 00:01:40,045 --> 00:01:43,918 61% leave the church 29 00:01:43,918 --> 00:01:47,844 by the time they hit college age. 30 00:01:47,844 --> 00:01:51,156 Why? The common answer: 31 00:01:51,156 --> 00:01:53,519 Evolution. 32 00:01:53,519 --> 00:01:55,098 (incomplete thought) 33 00:01:55,098 --> 00:01:56,985 This is what they recognize: 34 00:01:56,985 --> 00:01:58,434 We hear millions of years 35 00:01:58,434 --> 00:02:00,934 taught in high school - 36 00:02:00,934 --> 00:02:03,465 elementary school, middle school, high school - 37 00:02:03,465 --> 00:02:04,794 but not only that, 38 00:02:04,794 --> 00:02:06,555 you know what else they're saying? 39 00:02:06,555 --> 00:02:11,338 And we heard it taught by many preachers. 40 00:02:11,338 --> 00:02:14,444 And you know why it's such a battle 41 00:02:14,444 --> 00:02:16,519 for their faith? 42 00:02:16,519 --> 00:02:19,557 Because they're being honest. 43 00:02:19,557 --> 00:02:21,844 The preacher says: 44 00:02:21,844 --> 00:02:25,155 Well, it's okay to think this took 45 00:02:25,155 --> 00:02:27,446 millions of years. 46 00:02:27,446 --> 00:02:29,649 But you know what the problem is? 47 00:02:29,649 --> 00:02:34,302 These millennials read Genesis 1 48 00:02:34,302 --> 00:02:37,404 and guess what they think 49 00:02:37,404 --> 00:02:40,193 they're hearing it say. 50 00:02:40,193 --> 00:02:45,654 That it was all done in seven days. 51 00:02:45,654 --> 00:02:48,874 See, that is the problem. 52 00:02:48,874 --> 00:02:52,077 It sounds like it is saying something 53 00:02:52,077 --> 00:02:54,276 and anybody that wants to take it seriously - 54 00:02:54,276 --> 00:02:55,157 You know what? 55 00:02:55,157 --> 00:02:59,044 Richard Dawkins says these sophisticated theologians 56 00:02:59,044 --> 00:03:02,544 who want to try to find evolution in here, 57 00:03:02,544 --> 00:03:04,045 he says they're deluded. 58 00:03:04,045 --> 00:03:06,435 He says these creationists that are holding 59 00:03:06,435 --> 00:03:09,094 to what I am going to espouse, 60 00:03:09,094 --> 00:03:12,643 he said they're right. 61 00:03:12,643 --> 00:03:14,154 He's saying these other guys 62 00:03:14,154 --> 00:03:15,864 that are trying to find this there, 63 00:03:15,864 --> 00:03:16,864 they're deluded. 64 00:03:16,864 --> 00:03:18,935 Now you see he thinks he's got us then 65 00:03:18,935 --> 00:03:20,626 because he thinks that there's such 66 00:03:20,626 --> 00:03:23,184 irrefutable evidence for evolution - 67 00:03:23,184 --> 00:03:26,943 he calls it - "evil"-lution. 68 00:03:26,943 --> 00:03:32,045 The Brits say it right. 69 00:03:32,045 --> 00:03:35,294 But see, he thinks he's got us. 70 00:03:35,294 --> 00:03:39,122 It's like you can't argue it. 71 00:03:39,122 --> 00:03:43,194 But he says at least the creationists 72 00:03:43,194 --> 00:03:44,975 have it right. 73 00:03:44,975 --> 00:03:48,644 These guys that are trying to tow the line between both, 74 00:03:48,644 --> 00:03:50,743 he says they're deluded. You can't do that. 75 00:03:50,743 --> 00:03:52,283 And he recognizes that. 76 00:03:52,283 --> 00:03:55,095 And you know what? The millennials recognize that too. 77 00:03:55,095 --> 00:03:57,995 Listen to what else: 78 00:03:57,995 --> 00:04:02,645 He said of millennials who leave church, 79 00:04:02,645 --> 00:04:04,213 most heard the preacher teach 80 00:04:04,213 --> 00:04:06,426 that it's okay to believe in billions of years 81 00:04:06,426 --> 00:04:13,533 which caused them to doubt the Bible. 82 00:04:13,533 --> 00:04:18,267 Of millennials still in the church 83 00:04:18,267 --> 00:04:22,093 that haven't left, 84 00:04:22,093 --> 00:04:24,764 when asked what, if anything, 85 00:04:24,764 --> 00:04:27,794 causes them to ever doubt the Bible the most? 86 00:04:27,794 --> 00:04:29,459 Answer: the age of the earth 87 00:04:29,459 --> 00:04:31,962 is by far the biggest issue. 88 00:04:31,962 --> 00:04:33,465 Same millennials when asked 89 00:04:33,465 --> 00:04:37,345 if they have had their Christianity challenged 90 00:04:37,345 --> 00:04:40,585 and said yes, they were asked at what point. 91 00:04:40,585 --> 00:04:42,743 Two points were about even: 92 00:04:42,743 --> 00:04:43,953 The age of the earth 93 00:04:43,953 --> 00:04:47,314 and why bad things happen. 94 00:04:47,314 --> 00:04:50,585 I'll tell you these young people are being honest. 95 00:04:50,585 --> 00:04:51,694 And they recognize it. 96 00:04:51,694 --> 00:04:55,215 And you know what, this is the very thing Andy Stanley sees, 97 00:04:55,215 --> 00:04:58,416 and he's trying to come up with an answer for. 98 00:04:58,416 --> 00:05:00,694 He recognizes people are bailing out 99 00:05:00,694 --> 00:05:02,595 because scientific evidence - 100 00:05:02,595 --> 00:05:07,084 so-called science is supposedly undermining this account, 101 00:05:07,084 --> 00:05:09,145 and what happens is - (incomplete thought). 102 00:05:09,145 --> 00:05:12,153 See, too many people recognize the reality of this. 103 00:05:12,153 --> 00:05:14,564 You start having the dominoes fall 104 00:05:14,564 --> 00:05:16,136 and click, click, click - 105 00:05:16,136 --> 00:05:17,524 they go right down the line 106 00:05:17,524 --> 00:05:19,835 until you start taking out the New Testament. 107 00:05:19,835 --> 00:05:22,054 See, guys like Andy Stanley who come along 108 00:05:22,054 --> 00:05:23,945 and say we've got to unhitch this 109 00:05:23,945 --> 00:05:25,624 so that when those dominoes fall 110 00:05:25,624 --> 00:05:27,636 they don't take out the New Testament too. 111 00:05:27,636 --> 00:05:30,440 So we've got to unhitch the Old Testament. 112 00:05:30,440 --> 00:05:32,762 We've got to basically say, okay, it's myth. 113 00:05:32,762 --> 00:05:34,675 We all recognize that. 114 00:05:34,675 --> 00:05:36,845 That's not the way you defend it 115 00:05:36,845 --> 00:05:39,951 because people aren't buying it. 116 00:05:39,951 --> 00:05:42,934 You want to encourage people's faith? 117 00:05:42,934 --> 00:05:44,713 What we want to do is we want to 118 00:05:44,713 --> 00:05:47,529 defend this book in its entirety. 119 00:05:47,529 --> 00:05:54,345 And that's where the problem is. 120 00:05:54,345 --> 00:05:56,937 The reality is this, 121 00:05:56,937 --> 00:06:00,403 if millennials were looking at this account 122 00:06:00,403 --> 00:06:04,564 and saying, oh yeah, 123 00:06:04,564 --> 00:06:06,458 I see billions of years in here. 124 00:06:06,458 --> 00:06:07,543 Well, guess what? 125 00:06:07,543 --> 00:06:09,385 When they go into their college course 126 00:06:09,385 --> 00:06:11,250 and the professor stands up and he says 127 00:06:11,250 --> 00:06:12,884 this has all taken billions of years, 128 00:06:12,884 --> 00:06:14,268 what are they going to say? 129 00:06:14,268 --> 00:06:15,697 They're going to say, yeah, my faith 130 00:06:15,697 --> 00:06:17,162 is consistent with what you're teaching. 131 00:06:17,162 --> 00:06:19,459 We've seen that all along right here in Genesis. 132 00:06:19,459 --> 00:06:21,438 But they don't see it. 133 00:06:21,438 --> 00:06:24,144 That's why it is such a challenge to their faith.