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Erick Stakelbeck: Turning of the Tide | Stakelbeck Tonight

May 25, 2026 | 23:29

From wars and rumors of war abroad, to the rise of anti-Christian, "woke" ideology here at home, it’s clear that Americans are living in perilous and unprecedented times. Some would even say that we’re witnessing biblical prophecy unfold in real time. Stakelbeck Tonight will make sense of these stunning developments through a bold and biblical lens.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Turning of the Tide | Stakelbeck Tonight | May 25, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight.
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I'm erick stakelbeck and the conversation about god
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Is back at a time when the culture has tried
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To push faith to the margins.
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Science and space
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Exploration are pointing people back to a bigger question.
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Was our universe designed by a creator?
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As astronauts returned from historic
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Missions and boldly proclaim their faith,
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The heavens are once again declaring the glory of god
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And people are taking notice.
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What does it mean
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When those who have seen the universe up close come back
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More convinced than ever of the existence of god?
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And is this a sign that the tide is turning?
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I recently sat down with author and origins science
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Expert david reeves, founding director of the wonder
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Center and science museum, to get the inside story.
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Take a look.
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David, great to have you here with us, my friend.
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Thanks for having.
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Me, man. about time.
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We've been wanting to do this for a while,
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And i think the timing is great.
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Hey, everyone's talking about god.
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Science, space, which you know a lot about.
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Artemis two recently landed back here on earth.
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David.
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That's at the top of the conversation right now.
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A lot of people in victor glover, the one incredible,
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Astronaut, proclaiming the gospel.
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Just amazing to see that.
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So a lot of people are talking about this.
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What was your take on artemis to that mission
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And how it showed god's presence beyond earth in the cosmos?
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Well, since the start of the nasa
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Missions, god has always been at the forefront.
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He's always found a way to make himself evident.
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Because if you go back to doctor wernher von braun,
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Who sent the first people to the moon,
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He said, a lot of people look at science
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And religion as antagonists, but they're not their sisters.
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Science tries
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To better understand creation
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And religion tries to better understand the creator.
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And you can't have creation without a creator, right?
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So the first mission to the moon that actually orbited
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The moon, which was apollo eight,
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This was on december 25th.
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And they all of the astronauts took turns broadcasting back
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To earth on every radio station imaginable.
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Reading the book of genesis.
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On christmas day? yes. over 25th. yeah.
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And so?
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So god has always been at the forefront of space exploration,
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But this sort of atheistic curve took place
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Over the years, where all of a sudden
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It became intellectually cool to say
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Nature is all that there is.
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And now here we have christians
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Who are going back to the moon just returning and saying, whoa!
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Everything i see with space points back to god's design.
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And it's interesting, eric,
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That a lot of people will will go to the moon and look back,
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And they realize
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That the moon isn't as cool as they thought it would be.
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They're looking back at the jewel of the earth
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That they left, and they're saying, you know what?
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We kind of have a special place, don't we?
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Yeah, it's a unique. that's exciting.
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It is.
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Most of the general charlie duke,
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He went to the moon as an atheist.
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Apollo,
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16 came back and became a christian.
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You've got,
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Colonel jeff williams, who's another dear friend,
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And he spent more time in space.
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And i think all but one other american astronaut,
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Brought bibles on there.
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Read from the bible.
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And now you have this mission going back to the moon
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With the exact same mindset.
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Yeah.
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And coming back and proclaiming, you know, straightforward.
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Hey, i'm a christian,
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And i believe that everything is pointing back to god.
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Yeah, this only strengthened it seems victor
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Glover already had a very strong faith.
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It's only strengthened
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His faith, his biblical worldview,
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To see that the heavens declare the glory of the lord.
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Glory of god.
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And it was interesting.
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David, one of the other astronauts,
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Said he wasn't really
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A strong believer, perhaps,
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But even he was profoundly affected by it.
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Just seeing that feeling, the presence of god.
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Do you see that in your work, oftentimes, david,
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Where people they get an up close look, they a first hand
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Experience of god's creation and it changes them.
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Absolutely every day.
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It changes them.
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A lot of people who start out and they say, hey, well,
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You know, i'm not so sure about this whole god thing.
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And then they say, well, i think nature is all that there is.
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Science has explained everything.
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But what have you just done there?
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You're saying that nature can explain everything,
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So you've just elevated mother nature
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To the position of its own god, right?
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Its own deity, and then you're like, no, no, no.
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Well, i'm not saying nature's all that there is.
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You got survival of the fittest in nature,
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But over time, anything can happen.
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You know, the world just kind of happens.
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Wait a second.
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Now you've elevated mother nature and time as god's,
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So it keeps stacking up to where
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You get these pantheon of deities.
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If you want to try to say
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That this universe happened by accident.
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Yeah.
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And yet, scientific exploration in space
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Is consistently pointing us back to design features, and design
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Implies a designer.
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And yet the theory of evolution
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Has become gospel, no pun intended.
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In the public school system.
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In particular, you mentioned the shift
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Happened, david, some time ago where god was uncool
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In the scientific realm.
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When exactly did that happen?
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Evolution became accepted.
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I mean, now, you know, by and large.
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It became more accepted.
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Evolution has been this sort of stronghold
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Within the scientific community
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Ever since the time of charles darwin,
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Because peer pressure got involved.
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And if you wanted to be
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A good science, a scientist, a modern scientist,
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Then you must follow whatever those teachings of
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The top scientists were.
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So it slowly had this curve of incline.
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But then, even as it was growing in the mid 1800s,
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You had people like charles spurgeon who said,
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You know what?
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I see the dangers of these evolutionary theories,
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And i believe that a day will come
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When children will laugh at it as being the most foolish notion
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That ever came across the human mind.
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We're seeing that day quickly approaching.
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But we're talking about space.
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We're talking about space exploration. and artemis two.
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I see that this is actually going in a different direction.
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I think that we're coming close to a day when evolution
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Will be, disavowed as the cool thing.
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But what is it going to be replaced with? probably not.
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The bible is probably going to be replaced with aliens.
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All right, well, the aliens did it.
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Aliens seeded
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Earth and aliens created everything we see and all.
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So anything but the true god of the bible.
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Yeah.
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That's such a great point. yeah, it just couldn't be. god.
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Anything but god never give the lord credit.
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But does it actually explain anything?
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No, no, because all you're doing is you're convenient.
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Come up.
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There is a law in science.
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Now, this is where it gets tricky,
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Because there is a law
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In science that says that matter can neither be that energy,
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Can neither be created nor destroyed.
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That's the first law of thermodynamics.
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This guy was fairly smart.
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His name was, einstein.
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He said out of them
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He said, matter is just an expression of energy.
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So therefore matter can neither be created nor destroyed.
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That's within the natural world.
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That's within the scientific, physical world.
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You can't create matter.
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You can only change its shape.
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So if matter can't be created in the natural world
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And everything around us, eric is made out of matter.
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Then where did the matter come from?
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Well, it actually must have come from a supernatural world.
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Somebody outside of the universe who created it all.
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Dinosaurs, fossils and the flood.
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Are they all pointing back to scripture?
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We dig into it with david reeves after the break.
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We dig into it with david reeves after the break.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight,
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Just outside nashville, tennessee,
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Something extraordinary is happening.
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A museum that's not just showcasing science,
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But challenging everything we've been told about it.
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What if the evidence all around us, from fossils to space,
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Actually points back to the truth of scripture?
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Here's more with david reeves.
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He's got a great book, 21 verses backed by science.
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Deep in your faith, folks.
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A must read amazon.com wherever books are sold.
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But i want to talk also about the wonder center
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And science museum.
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Yeah, they've been doing amazing work there
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About 30 minutes outside of nashville.
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We've been open just two years,
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But you're growing by leaps and bounds.
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Tell us, number one, why you started the museum.
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And number two, people are probably wondering,
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They're saying, hey, this guy's brilliant.
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How did you get into this field as a christian in particular?
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Absolutely. i was grown.
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I grew up in a strong christian household,
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But at eight years old, i'm digging in my backyard,
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As young boys do, and i picked up a rock
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And i was like, that's not a rock.
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That's some kind of a fossil. i don't know what it is.
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And so i went to barnes and noble
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And i grabbed the kid's fossil identification god.
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And i'm flipping through it,
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And there's this fossil, and i'm like, that's it.
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What is it?
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Well, it was a deep sea marine creature called a crying noid.
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And i'm in tennessee in my backyard near nashville,
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And i'm looking around and i'm like, whoa, where's the sea?
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You know, i'm not anywhere near the ocean.
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I kept digging a little bit further.
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Found corals, found seashells, found bivalves,
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Kept finding all of these sea creatures in my backyard in.
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Tennessee. in tennessee. which is landlocked, obviously.
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It's completely landlocked.
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Wow. and and i'm like, maybe this is actual evidence
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Of biblical history being true, because i do read
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That, you know, there was a lot of water
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Like a flood in the past, and maybe this is evidence of it.
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So i snuck that in a fishing tackle box and it
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You know, at nine years old, i had collected
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Way too many fossils in my backyard
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To fit in that little fishing tackle box.
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And i'm looking around and i said, i need a bigger box.
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So i dug in a bigger box and i would drag my friends over
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And i would say, the bible is true. god is real.
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You have to look at all these things
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That i'm finding in my backyard.
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Well, that was at nine.
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But i never imagined that one day
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I would have a much bigger box to display those things in.
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So two years ago, just over two years ago,
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We opened up the largest science museum in tennessee,
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The wonders center and science museum,
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Which has since become
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The largest science museum in the entire world.
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With any type of a biblical framework,
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You're not going to go through the whole of astronomy,
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Wonders of astronomy in the wonder center,
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In science museum, and say, oh, you see this rock from space?
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You are just star stuff.
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No. instead you're going to consistently
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See you are fearfully and wonderfully made.
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You are made in god's image. you are not an animal.
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You're not an accident of the cosmos.
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You have purpose.
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And of course, david, you were unpacking this
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On your great show here on tbn for about nine seasons.
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I think creation in the 21st century.
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So what you're doing here at the museum is amazing.
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Hey, my curiosity is killing me, and i've got you.
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I've got the man to talk about this.
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You mentioned dinosaurs.
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Yes, you mentioned noah's ark.
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A lot of people will say, well,
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There's no evidence for a flood.
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It's all just a fairy tale.
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Even though other sources, extra biblical sources
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Also talk about a great flood. absolutely.
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And people say bible dinosaurs doesn't match up.
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How do you respond to those two?
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They're probably two of the most hot button issues, i guess.
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Right?
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When people
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Assail the word of god for not having any scientific validity.
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Yeah.
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And you mentioned that other cultures have flood legends.
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Yeah. they're abundant.
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I'm talking
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About hundreds of cultures have these flood legends,
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And they're usually are like, people get on a boat,
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They put in some animals, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
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But then you read genesis six and you start to read,
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Wait a second.
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This is not just like people went on a boat.
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This is the dimensions of the ark.
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This is how old noah was when he got on
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How long the rains lasted, where they landed.
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Extreme specific detail two, two of these kinds of animals,
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But seven of these kinds of animals.
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And all of those details read like a history book.
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They don't read like a legend.
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So, number one, you have that contrast with
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All cultures pointing to a flood but not having any details.
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And here we have the biblical account having detail,
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And then you have the abundance within the fossil record
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Of where i lead dinosaur digs.
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I lead family paleontology digs to places like kansas,
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Where we dig up bones of massive creatures.
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Some of them are marine predators that are over
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50ft long.
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Things like most sars and tyler sars
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That were dragons in the deep.
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And these things kind of match the description of there's
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A creature in the bible called leviathan so fierce
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That none dare stir him up.
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You know,
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This is something that you could throw
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Spears at him and it would bounce right off.
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And people said, it's just a fairy tale.
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We're digging them up.
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And then you have another creature in kansas.
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In kansas. of all places. exactly. yeah.
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Which, again, they're marine creatures
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In the middle of landlocked kansas. exactly.
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All secularist would say.
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Well, david,
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There was a lot of
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A lot of water over kansas at some point in the past,
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But it must have been just little local floods. it.
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No, no, this was something catastrophic.
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Yes. clearly.
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So then you had this other
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Creature, and i mentioned this in 21 verses backed by science.
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You have this other creature called behemoth. yes.
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And if you read the
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The description in the book of job
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Of this creature called behemoth, it says, okay,
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So this is a creature that is the chief
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Among all beast that yahweh has created, right?
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This is like this incredible creature, this massive.
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It's got a lot of strength
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In its loins, its forces in the navel of its belly.
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Its bones are like bars of iron, and it eats grass like an ox.
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And so you're saying, eric.
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Okay, well,
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Maybe it's an elephant because it's a big creature.
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It's the most massive land creature.
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Got a lot of strength in its belly, eats grass,
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But it sways its tail like a cedar tree.
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And here's where it gets crazy.
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Because we could go two directions with this.
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We could say we don't know of any creature alive
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That moves its tail like a tree.
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So therefore the bible is a bunch of fairy tales.
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Or we could say we don't know of any creature alive
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That moves its tail like a tree.
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So therefore we haven't found that creature yet.
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Yeah, and that's what they could say about 200 years ago.
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That's true intellectual curiosity.
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It is. yeah.
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And 200 years ago, they started to find creatures
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That were sometimes over 100ft long.
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Now we're finding them in argentina and colorado and utah
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And all these places across the world, over 100ft
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Long, massive bones like bars of iron.
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These are long necked sauropod dinosaurs.
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They had feet like elephant.
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They had the most tremendous strength in their belly.
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And they had tails as big as trees that could
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Sway back and forth.
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Those are the kind of discoveries, cutting edge
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Discoveries that we are now finding using science.
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Real science.
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I don't need to to confirm what god's word says.
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I'm a christian, okay?
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I believe that it's going to be 100%
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True scientifically, historically, prophetically.
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And when it comes to the gospel, right? yeah.
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But at the same time, it sure is an affirmation.
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It sure is a strength builder.
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Yes. when we find these kind of things, if.
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Well said david, it's very satisfying.
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And for nonbelievers, look,
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Some people need to be intellectually convinced
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Before they have that heart given over to jesus.
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And this is huge in that regard.
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I think biblical archeology as well.
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David, i know you've talked about that a bit.
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What about the incredible discoveries
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We're seeing in israel and throughout the middle east,
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And the affirming of the bible we're seeing there, too.
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Pretty amazing to see that play up more and more.
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By the way, since the dead sea scrolls, it seems
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Things have gone to overdrive.
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They have.
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I mean, we're talking about you had those initial discoveries.
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You had the dead sea scrolls, you had the pontius
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Pilot inscription, you had this, you had that.
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And then so much has opened up to where you can't
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Put a spade in the ground without finding something new.
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And i.
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Erik, i know you're very passionate about it.
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I've been to israel about a dozen times.
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I've,
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You know, i've personally been on excavations when we
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We pull out this,
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This little seal, this little glass cylinder seal
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Where, you know, oh, there's an impression on this.
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And if you impress it over hot wax,
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It makes the
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Impression of the moon god sin, which comes from haran,
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Which is where abraham came out of. right.
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And it's this pagan god, this worship.
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But yeah, but this seal doesn't come from the time of abraham.
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No, it comes from the time of king solomon.
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And guess what?
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We read in god's word,
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It says that solomon at his time in jerusalem, started
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Letting the worship of pagan gods lost get out of hand.
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He lost his way, no doubt.
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Coming up,
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I is advancing at breakneck speed, and now
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We're hearing talk of bringing extinct creatures back to life.
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So where does this all lead?
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More with david reeves after the break.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight.
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From archeological discoveries in israel
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To artificial intelligence and the growing moral questions
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Surrounding genetic engineering and playing god.
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David reeves is covering some of the most controversial
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Subjects of our time in depth.
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Take a look.
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Exciting time.
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Some would say a perilous time because of fear.
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Some time, a little bit.
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We're not to have a spirit of fear, of course, but i.
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Yes, huge issue.
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I know you've been kind of delving into that as well.
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And these attempts also to create hybrids
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Out of extinct animals, direwolves, wooly mammoths,
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That's on the table, apparently bringing them back
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Into existence.
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Let's talk first about ai concerns,
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Optimism a lot going on there.
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Obviously there's a there are a ton of reservations obviously.
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Yeah.
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But what i was doing is so powerful.
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I have friends and colleagues in the scientific community
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Who are using ai to analyze micro bacteria
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And actually identify it in
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Microseconds, compared to teams working around the clock.
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Right.
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So what it's going to do
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Is it's going to allow scientific progression
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At a much faster rate than we've ever had before.
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And scientific progression is good
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Because the more we discover in science, the more it's going
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To point us back to the creator or the designer of everything.
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So i'm enthusiastic about that.
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Yeah.
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Now you have jurassic park, and in all of these movies
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That are showing, you know, dinosaurs coming back to life,
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Well, it's true that we've been somehow
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Somewhat able to recreate the direwolf.
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Yeah. how is that possible?
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Is possible because we have dogs.
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We have large dogs and wolves today.
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And direwolves were just much, much larger,
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Much, much lighter types of wolves.
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So if you can extract microscopic amounts
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Of dna, enough base pairs to start
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To create a sequence for ancient direwolves,
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Then you can insert those into modern day
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Wolves and dogs and recreate it.
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So it's possible. and it's being done.
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Man playing god it is.
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If it's a little scary in that, in that direction.
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But i'm still enthusiastic even about that.
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Let's go to the wooly mammoth for a second.
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Because i lead african photo safaris families.
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I'll take them out for 11 days in south africa, book out
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Private reserves, let them touch elephants,
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And you can feel that they have this coarse hair.
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The african elephants are so much larger than anything.
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Largest land animal alive.
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And so you're feeling them and you're like,
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Well, they have this coarse hair.
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So we have elephants, we have large
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Elephants that have hair today.
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And we are able to extract dna from, wooly mammoths
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Or mastodons in siberia as we pull them out of the ice.
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So it's very theoretically possible
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That we could bring back the wooly mammoth or the mastodon.
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And again, is it playing god?
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Maybe, but it's still a big elephant.
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It's just a hairy elephant
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When you get to the term of dinosaurs.
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Now, here's where it gets crazier,
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Because in paleontology today, we are taught that
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Dinosaurs didn't go extinct, that they got much smaller.
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They sprouted wings and flew off as chickens.
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So your t rex this.
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What is this?
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It sounds crazy.
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It sounds like a fairy tale, but it's taught as fact.
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But here's the truth of the matter.
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We don't have dinosaurs today.
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We don't have counterparts of dinosaurs that are still living.
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Those things have mostly gone extinct.
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So there's no way that jurassic park is possible.
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But here's where it gets scary.
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If we go with the secularist interpretation
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That everything is just all evolved from one single
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Celled organism, and therefore dinosaurs
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Are nothing more than large chickens, you know?
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Then how do we recreate dinosaurs?
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We extract dinosaur dna,
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Just like you see in those movies,
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And then we insert it in an ostrich.
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But whoa,
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There's a huge difference between an ostrich and a t-rex.
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So when you start playing god and putting different kinds
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Of animals together, those types of hybrids,
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There's no telling the consequences.
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And that's only possible.
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That's only
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We would only attempt that because of an atheistic ideology
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That is perpetuated the scientific community.
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David, this was fascinating, my friend.
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The wonder center and science museum, great place.
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Two summers right around the corner.
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Absolutely great vacation spot, my friend.
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21 verses backed by science.
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David reeves doing a great job. we loved it, man.
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We gotta do it again soon. have a great day.
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Thanks for having me. thank you. thanks for all you doing.
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God bless day. we appreciate. god bless. good job.
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Folks, what a powerful conversation with david
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Reeves on science, faith and biblical truth.
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Again, check out the wonder center
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And science museum outside nashville.
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It is an amazing place. up next.
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My final thoughts.
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My final thoughts.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck tonight, folks.
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As we wrap up tonight, it's pretty clear
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That whether we're looking at the depths of the oceans,
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The fossils beneath our feet,
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Or the vastness of space creation is speaking.
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The question is, are we listening?
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The bible tells us in psalm 19 that the heavens
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Declare the glory of god.
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The skies proclaim the work of his hands
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From the smallest detail to the grandest design.
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Everything points back to a creator
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Who made us with purpose.
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In a world that often tells you
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That you're an accident, that you're
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Just the product of time and chance.
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Remember this.
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You are fearfully and wonderfully made.
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You were created on purpose, for a purpose,
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And that truth changes everything.
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Thanks for joining us for the special memorial day
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Edition of stackelberg tonight.
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Until next time, god bless you and we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Turning of the Tide | Stakelbeck Tonight

May 25, 2026 | 23:29

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