Transcripts: What Your Peers Say

Transcript: Belief in God
[On a black chalkboard, ‘What your peers say about belief in God’. In a classroom five students sit at their desks with no books. A teenage girl enters and takes her seat, she opens the black notebook. From inside the notebook Gabriel appears in a photo]
Gabriel: A lot of people say that no intelligent person would believe in God.
Larissa: But that’s just not true. Many professionals believe in God, including doctors, lawyers, teachers, even many scientists.
[Sketches in a notebook of experts]
Gabriel: When I see a car, I ask myself, ‘Who built that?’
[Wheels added to a car drawing]
It takes intelligent people to design a car.
[More car parts added]
I mean, so many things have to work just right for the whole thing to run smoothly.
[The newly painted car speeds off the note page]
Lindsey: And if a car needed someone to design it, so did humans and so did the earth and so did the universe.
[A drawing of her in a spacesuit]
Robbie: It’s like you’re walking on a beach; you see an empty glass bottle sticking out of the sand. Now glass, it’s made out of sand particles. But, honestly, would an intelligent person believe that the bottle assembled itself from sand particles? No, of course not!
[A robot and dragonfly]
Larissa: Researchers are exploring design features of insects, fish, and other animals to create new products,
[Dolphins]
Gabriel: or improve products that already exist.
[A submarine]
Heather: There’s a bird called the kingfisher.
[A blue and orange bird]
Its beak is shaped so that it can dive quickly from air into water without losing too much speed.
[Plunging into water with its long pointed black bill it grabs a fish]
Heather: So, engineers have used the shape of this bird’s beak to design the nose of Japan’s bullet train. As a result, it goes 10 percent faster while using 15 percent less energy.
Gabriel: Some airplanes navigate with the help of a computerized autopilot system that could fit in your hand.
[Gages in a cockpit]
Julie: But that’s nothing! The monarch butterfly has a brain the size of a pinhead,
[A butterfly flutters]
and yet it’s able to navigate from Canada all the way to Mexico. That’s more than 1,800 miles. That’s amazing!
[Julie points to a map]
Humans get credit for the designs they’ve copied from nature. So, who should get credit for the originals?
[A car morphs into a fish]
Larissa: No matter where we look in the natural world, at birds, butterflies, fish
[Pages turn]
Gabriel: Everything gives evidence of a Creator.
[Gabriel and his friends on the beach]
Robbie: Want more information? Go to jw.org, look for the Publications tab, and download the brochure Was Life Created?
[The cover of that brochure shows a sea turtle swimming in turquoise water]
(Logo: Black capital letters JW.ORG inside a white box. Copyright 2015 Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania)