No.

Is it reflective love? In other words, that person that says that they have loved me, in response are they giving me that freedom as well? Yeah.

So it's this mutual freedom to do things.

But it's freedom within limits, right? So again, God has set up the law of gravity.

And of course, for a long time, men wanted to fly.

They wanted to go against the law of gravity and they had all different attempts.

And of course, now we have developed planes and other devices for going up in the air.

Yeah.

Yes, that's right.

Or a particular superhuman, you know, like some of the Greek gods, these sort of things.

So God is outside of this.

But So that's why he's transcendent.

He's totally outside and above.

He's all-powerful over his creation.

He made it.

Yeah.

What implications does a morally centered universe have for how we approach science, evidence, and truth?

Yeah, so this is quite an important question, actually, particularly that last part that you alluded to, what is truth? And this is a question, of course, that is being argued and in our postmodern society, of course, we've come to, in my view, this crazy conclusion that, well, truth is relevant to the person.

Right.

And as a result of this, of course, we see that There's a whole lot of confusion in society now over certain issues, you know, classic issues, gender issues, for example, different other relationship issues, these sort of things, politics.

It comes into a whole lot of area and particularly in areas of education.

as well, what constitutes things that people should be learning.

This is all dependent on this.

And I guess the question is, what should that do for us in seeing a judge with those attributes?

Hmm

... uh, that were doing great things in the community.

Welf- welfare, uh, you know, pe- very philanthropic, this sort of thing.

Um, and I think of a, a classic example that really impressed a friend of mine who's a, a leading, uh, uh, creationist, um, and, um, uh, he's a, um, uh, has both a PhD and a DSc, and he was, uh, uh, giving a, um ...

Dr. Andrew McIntosh is his name.

He was giving a talk at the University of Virginia, and just while he was there, a young woman who had been the, the top of her medical class, she was a very strong Christian, she'd been over in Africa volunteering medical aid, uh, to, um, uh, to, uh, uh, communities that otherwise wouldn't see medical aid.

And, uh, one, one, one night, uh, on the, on the weekend, she went down to, uh, the little local, uh, shopping center to get some money out of a teller and, um, and, and, uh, buy so- some things.

Mm.

... built in in certain kinds of cells?

Yes.

Well, I, I guess the main thing to understand is how, how we see and how we see in low, um, in low-level light, and the- we've heard of the rod cells perhaps in our eyes, if we, if we do biology.

So there's a, um, a cell called, uh, rhodopsin, so, or rhodopsin.

So opsins are, are particular proteins that actually respond to, to light.

And the fascinating mechanism is this, that proteins, um, are, are, are fairly long-chain molecules, and they are bent in, in particular ways.

So they're, they're folded up.

... crazy to think about it.

but built in in certain kinds of cells?

Yes.

Well, I, I guess the main thing to understand is how, how we see, and how we see in low, um, in low-level light.

And the- we've heard of the rod cells perhaps in our eyes, if we, if we do biology.

So there's a, um, a cell called, uh, rhodopsin, so, or rhodopsin.

So opsins are particular proteins that actually respond to, to light.

And the fascinating mechanism is this, that proteins, um, are, are, are fairly long-chain molecules and they are bent in, in particular ways.

... crazy to think about.

... built in in certain kinds of cells?

cells?Yes.

Well, well, I, I guess the main thing to understand is how, how we see, and how we see in low, um, in low-level light.

And the- we've heard of the rod cells, perhaps, in our eyes, if we, if we do biology.

So there's a, um, a cell called, uh, rhodopsin, so, or, or rhodopsin.

So opsins are, are particular proteins that actually respond to, to light.

And the fascinating mechanism is this, that proteins, um, are, are, are fairly long-chain molecules, and they are bent in, in particular ways, so they're, they're folded up.

... crazy to think about.

Yes.

But there were two issues that he had to show.

Firstly, he had to show what the consequences of evil were in the long term, how evil manifested, how it grew, how the long-term effects were and how those effects multiplied.

They didn't minimise.

They didn't get better.

It wasn't where it reached a peak and then got better, as a lot of people at one stage hoped that humanity would make things better of their own accord.

And we can see that hasn't happened.

Yes.

Yeah.

So in other words, it's taking something away.

So this leads to a very interesting thing is that the Bible describes God as being true.

So if something isn't true, that's the opposite to God.

Right.

And so this leads, so if something belongs to you, right, and then you go and take that from someone, you're now creating a situation that really isn't true because that particular thing that you take belonged to someone else.

It was his, right? So we can see how this leads to a very interesting principle.

Mm-hmm.

Yes.

That they're bad things.

And often people that do these bad things, when they're confronted with issues, say they change their mind.

They realise that what they did was wrong, which is a very interesting observation.

And to me...

The fact that we also have beauty, which gives pleasure, is spread throughout all these things.

So we associate, for example, a bad thing would be destroying beauty.

Yes.

Mm-hmm.

Where did consciousness come from, right? Mm-hmm.

But let's assume that somehow, you know, in their position, of course, from the basis of evidence, there's actually no known evolutionary explanation for consciousness that works because consciousness involves the non-material aspects of our mind.

And this is another aspect of moral values.

They're non-material.

This is another thing.

So they're very much linked to this whole aspect that we discussed previously of where do thoughts come from? Where does consciousness come from? But essentially, they believe their own arguments, of course, which, as I said, I believe we've shown quite clearly that are false.

Right.

Mm-hmm.

And I think the important thing is are there any of the main professional organisations like the Diabetes Association of Australia, if you're looking at an app to look at food suitable for diabetics, these sort of things.

Some of the apps are just straight calorie counters sort of thing.

But, again, they may not necessarily be telling us the form in which the calories are coming from.

So...

Very important to read the reviews of the different apps that we have.

And I think a lot of the time, really, the basis is to...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I had the impression that all numbers are just like hiding in like hundreds and hundreds of chemicals behind them.

Well, and this is the thing.

It's important to rate what those particular apps.

So, for example, vitamin C can have a number or something like that.

And they can say, oh, that's, you know, not good.

But then it's actually some vitamin C or citric acid, something like that, which is, you know, quite a harmless sort of acid part of, you know, citrus foods, these sort of things.

So all these things can have a number.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

What do you think needs to be learned from the Thirlwall Inquiry? Good morning.

Good morning, Nick.

Well, sadly, this report is flawed because it's based on the false premise that Lucy Letby murdered and harmed babies.

And there's now a wealth of evidence that that's not the case.

The problem is, if that's the starting point...

Well, I'm sorry, Nick, but since the trial, it's now generally understood by experts around the world from a variety of disciplines that there is no sound evidence.

you're not buying it on any of those 14 charges?

I'm not buying it, but please could you let me make the point here that going down the track of safeguarding is a red herring.

Oh, wow.

And so this was a practice, for example, that was common many years ago in India.

And it was an English Christian missionary that fought to actually stop that practice.

Now, today...

And I think we would accept that, hang on, that's morally wrong to kill the wife when the husband dies.

So there are things like this that in certain cultures, these were acceptable.

Cannibalism is a classic one.

Oh, yes.

Mm.

At the end, there's nothing.

We're just going to die.

And so he committed these horrendous murders, which are really horrific in detail.

And, of course, later on he was caught.

And when he was being tried, he actually came to realise that he actually felt sorry for what he did.

He genuinely felt sorry.

Do you want to share some of that?

Mm

... were lacking.

And this is the difference with our thoughts.

Our thoughts, we can be, um, totally creative.

Um, but further, furthermore, when we created the essay on how jellyfish saved the world from World War III, we had inputs that were going in there.

That input then, that essay couldn't go any further.

It was stuck there on the computer screen.

Mm.

Mm.

And so we have the challenge of where did the first living organism come from? Uh, there's a number of, uh, challenges there.

We, you know, it's outside the scope of this chapter to, to talk about them, but basically they are that the chemical reactions required to form a living organism just don't work in nature.

Um, they, um, they only, those chemical reactions will only go in a living system.

So this again raises another interesting question, uh, and so that's why essentially the argument is that, uh, it's absolutely impossible for a living cell to form from non-living molecules on the basis of the chemistry we know today.

Now, if we extend that and take that a little bit further, what, um, they're trying to say is that, okay, these non-material molecules can somehow, uh, produce a non-material entity, consciousness.

And this is where we get into the very interesting definition of, you know, what, what is actual consciousness? Like, is, is consciousness, um, just, uh, electrical reactions within the brain, which we can measure, right? Or is it, is it actually something more? And one of the arguments is, of course, that we, you, as we mentioned before, you can weigh your brain, but you can't weigh your thoughts.

Mm-hmm.

Okay.

A small piece of that chocolate instead of a dessert will give you a much lower calorie intake.

And so often people when they fish meal, they feel like something sweet.

But by just having one small piece of chocolate, After a meal, instead of that piece of apple pie or those couple of biscuits or some other dessert, will in actual fact give you a lot less calories.

And the same goes for morning tea, you know, the traditional thing where you have a beverage and a couple of biscuits.

When you do the calculations, there's less calories in a small piece of dark chocolate than in a couple of biscuits.

And so it's just based on the maths, really, from that perspective.

I'm interested in asking about this chapter about how can we train our body to burn fat? What is that entails?

Just smell it.

And what they found was that they ate less.

So they were then allowed to go and have a meal and have whatever they wanted.

Really? And they ate less than the group of women who didn't smell the chocolate beforehand.

So that was quite an interesting finding.

The other thing, of course, too, that has come out recently, that the cocoa polyphenols have, you know, a lot of other benefits.

They can, for example, help us lower our blood sugar, these sort of things.

So how should we choose a good chocolate? What are some of the pitfalls to avoid? Yes,

Mm

... and this sort of thing.

So we've developed this ability to be able to combine this information in such a way that, uh, computers then can, can make decisions.

So we have the classic example of the autopilot, for example.

Uh, I've driven a Tesla car on autopilot.

It's quite amazing what it, what it can do.

Uh, and of course, there is still shortcomings, um, uh, depending on the system they use, whether they use a radar system or whether they use an all-visual system.

Yes

Mm

... ice ages.

Now again, just as the Bible talks about one global flood, the biblical, a, a creationist view has in particular one ice age.

Now we need to understand that there's actually no known really viable explanation for ice ages, and yet we know that a massive ice ages have occurred in the past.

We've got the, the evidences of glaciation and so forth, and we've got animals that have been preserved in the permafrost-

Mm.

So wherever you go around the world, the head of something means the most important part or the, the top of something, this sort of thing, even though they'll be using different words.

Now, there's a lot more examples that I could go into, but we don't have time for that.

Mm

...

the amount of radiometric, uh, material? Now, one of the ways that scientists, uh, get round some of these assumptions is that within a particular rock you may have different radiometric elements or different types of crystals, and we can, uh, looking at those, uh, crystals, um, measure the rates, uh, of the different ones and, and plot them, and, uh, and using averages, we can work out, you know, better timelines.

Ooh.

Ooh.It's a discrepancy? And it's very interesting that carbon-14 dating in a way is more accurate because it, carbon-14 we know a lot about its decay rate- Mm-hmm ...

has a half-life about 5,700 years, um, and we can measure it, uh, quite, quite accurately.

And the thing is that if these coal deposits were hundreds of thousands to millions of years old, there should be no detectable carbon-14 there- Mm ... because it would've all decayed away due to the short half-life.

The fact that we find it there in all the ones where we tested is very, very, well, powerful evidence, and this is much stronger evidence.

The Maltese shopkeeper.

Now, Megrahi was alleged to have bought clothes from Gauci's shop two weeks before the bombing.

He was in Malta on the 7th of December, and that was, according to the Crown, the date upon which these clothes were bought by him.

Now, there's a number of problems with that.

The first is that Mr. Gauci's clear memory of the close purchaser was somebody who was much older and much bigger and much darker than Megrahi.

So the description of the customer did not match Megrahi's appearance at the time.

The second problem relates to the date.

He could not pinpoint the date, but he did say his brother was at home watching a football match, and he did say that when the customer left the shop, it was raining.

Mm

... seen any, um, types of catastrophic events occurring that mirror what we see must have happened in the past in the geological record, and it exactly fits the flood account, that there was this massive global event where the fountains of the deep opened up, water came up from out of the earth.

It, water then obviously condensed and it rained-

Mm.

These layers that are separated by millions of years, there should be massive erosion.

And the other problem we have is, of course, we know from current, uh, geographical data and measurements of erosion rates, the rate at which rivers are carrying sediment into the ocean, all this sort of thing, the continents would erode away in less than 10 million years.

You can't have layers-