SupraIntellectual Faith Believing God in an Intellectualized Culture

Supra-Intellectual Faith Believing God in an Intellectualized Culture

Supra-Intellectual Faith Believing God in an Intellectualized Culture A culture strongly influenced by elite naturalists whose a priori belief is that there is no God. — Foolish intellectuals. — Ps. 14: 1; 53: 1

Creation: Is it important? • Creation is just a side-issue? • Faith in Jesus Christ is what’s important Isn’t it?

Creation: How important is it? • Faith in Jesus Christ is of • • utmost importance However Faith without understanding is Blind Faith It is seed sown on rocky soil; the sprout withers.

Creation: Why is it important? • It’s the Gospel! – The Gospel doesn’t start in Matthew. – The Gospel doesn’t start with the Birth of Christ. – The Gospel starts at Genesis 1: 1 • If you don’t understand the bad news, how can you understand the good news?

Creation: Why is it important? • If you don’t start with Genesis – You’re starting in the middle of the story – You can’t explain suffering and death • If you don’t believe the Genesis account – You’re saying Jesus is wrong – You’re denying the Foundations of our faith – You’ve got death before SIN

Jesus Said… V“… ‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be convinced even if someone rises from the dead. ’” Lk. 16: 31 V“… ‘How foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!’ ” Lk. 24: 25

Other scriptures say… V “. . . the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar. . . ” 1 John 5: 10 V “. . . let God be found true, though every man be found a liar. . . ” Romans 3: 4 V “For what does the Scripture say? ‘Abraham believed God, and it was credited to him as righteousness. ’ ” Romans 4: 3 V “Thy word is true from the beginning: and every one of thy righteous judgments endureth for ever. ” Psalm 119: 160

Believing God • Intimidated – Give up either Science or Faith – No “Rational” person, no “Educated” person – Don’t be intimidated • Split minds – Realm of Faith / Realm of Science “The Bible was not intended to be a Science book. ” – But it is intended to be truth! – Creation and Evolution: Both require FAITH!

God and Evolution What about Creation and Evolution? “Maybe God used Evolution to create!”

Creation and Evolution? “Can’t I believe in Creation and Evolution? ” You can not and you must not.

Creation and Evolution? “Why can’t I believe in Creation and Evolution? ” • Sequence • Time • Death • Billions of Dead Things Before Sin

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Sequence l Creation sequence: l l l l Day 1: Light, Water, Heavens and earth, night and day Day 2: Expanse [Stretching of the Universe] Day 3: Dry land, plants Day 4: Stars, sun, moon Day 5: Sea creatures, birds Day 6: Land creatures, man The Order is Inconsistent with Evolution

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution sequence Expansion Space Stars, Sun Earth Water Moon Death Plants Sea creatures Land creatures Dinosaurs Mammals Birds Sea creatures from land creatures Man Creation sequence: Light Water Space, Earth Expansion Plants Stars, Sun, Moon Sea Creatures, Birds Land Creatures (including Dinosaurs) Man Death

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution In fact, according to God, the Earth is the oldest object in the universe! The Earth was created on Day 1, but the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars weren’t created until Day 4.

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Time l “Millions of years” is inconsistent with what God says in His Word. l What about…? l “Gap Theory” l “Day/Age Theory” l “Theistic Naturalism” (Theistic Evolution Theory) l “Progressive Creation” All try to add “millions of years” to the Bible, and all produce some mighty strange conclusions. . .

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution …such as millions of years of death before sin. You simply can’t insert any significant period of time into God’s Word without doing severe damage to its truth.

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Death l God says death came through sin. l What is death? * l Judgment – punishment for sin l Separation – represents our current relationship with God l A blessing! An opportunity to be reconciled to God *The Relevance of Creation by Ken Ham http: //www. answersingenesis. org/creation/v 6/i 2/creation. asp

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Billions of Dead Things Before Sin l The fossil record is “Billions of dead things buried in rock layers laid down by water all over the earth. ” -Ken Ham l l l God says death came into the world through sin after creation was finished. Under evolutionary hypothesis, the fossil record marks millions of years of suffering and death. If You try to say God created through evolution, then you have billions of years of suffering and death before sin. When God finished his creation, He called it “very good. ” “ How could a good God call suffering and death “very good? ” (Gen. 1: 31)

Why you cannot believe both the Bible and Evolution Many evolutionists, including the late Carl Sagan, point this out in ridicule. l Carl Sagan: “Evolution would be the most wasteful, inefficient, and cruel process that could ever be conceived by which to ‘create’ human beings. It is absurd to suggest that the omnipotent, omniscient, loving, and saving God of the Bible could ever be guilty of such a thing!” – l The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 109 Atheists seem to understand the situation better than the majority of Christians. Here’s a quote from the “American Atheist” magazine: “Christianity has fought, still fights, and will fight science [sic] to the desperate end over evolution, because evolution destroys utterly and finally the very reason Jesus’ earthly life was supposedly made necessary. . If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing!” – Genesis and Evolution, American Atheist 30 (Jan. 1988): 7, as quoted in The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 119

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God is not a liar! l God said “Six Days. ” l Jesus said all things would be restored. l God was there. Evolutionists were not. l No Justification l

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution l God is not a liar! V V “. . . the one who does not believe God has made Him a liar. . . ” 1 John 5: 10 “What then? If some did not believe, their unbelief will not nullify the faithfulness of God, will it? May it never be! Rather, let God be found true, though every man be found a liar, as it is written, “That you may be justified in your words, and prevail when you are judged. ” Romans 3: 3 -4 “Every word of God is tested; He is a shield to those who take refuge in Him. ” Proverbs 30: 5 “Thy word is true from the beginning… Psalm 119: 160

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution l God is not a liar! l God said “Six Days” l Not only in Genesis 1, but also in the 4 th commandment V “For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. ” Exodus 20: 11 l He wrote it in stone — With his own finger V “When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God. ” Exodus 31: 18

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution “But I believe the word ‘day’ means something other than an ordinary day. ” “Yom” (Hebrew for day) l Always means an ordinary day when l Modified by a number l Accompanied by “evening, ” “morning, ” or both l Used in plural form, as in Exodus 20: 11 So in Genesis chapter 1, we see… Night, evening, morning, number, day…

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution God goes out of his way in the Hebrew language to tell us these are ordinary days.

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution “But in 2 Peter 3: 8, it says, ‘With the Lord a day is like a thousand years…” Let’s read the rest of the verse… “And a thousand years are like a day. ” Well, that cancels that one right out.

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution l God is not a liar! l God said “Six Days”! He is not inept. l God created language l God is able to say what He means l God is powerful enough to create the universe in an instant — let alone six days!

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution l God is not a liar! l God said “Six Days”! He is not inept. l Why did God take so long? l Where l Earth and Sun l Where l do we get our Month? Earth and Moon l Where l do we get our Year? do we get our Week? Genesis Chapter 1 — It’s the only source of a seven day week. V And as Jesus said, “The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath. ” Mark 2: 27 God took seven days so we could follow His example and have a day of rest!

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution l God is not a liar! l God said “Six Days” l Jesus said all things would be renewed l To the way they were in the beginning. He didn’t mean a state of struggle and death. l He meant harmony and life. Mt. 19: 28 Jesus said to them, "I tell you the truth, at the renewal of all things, when the Son of Man sits on his glorious throne, you who have followed me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. Acts 3: 21 whom heaven must receive until the period of restoration of all things about which God spoke by the mouth of His holy prophets from ancient time. Rev. 21: 5 And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making all things new!”* And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true. ” l V V V * V The word “new” here means restored — not different. Isaiah 11: 6 “The wolf will live with the lamb…”

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution • God is not a liar! • God said “Six Days” • Jesus said all things would be restored l God was there. Evolutionists were not. l l l V God is infallible. Man is fallible. God is Holy. Man is sinful. If you’re going to put your faith in God, shouldn’t you believe what He says? “God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? ” Numbers 23: 19

Why you MUST not believe both the Bible and Evolution • • • God is not a liar! God said “Six Days” Jesus said all things would be restored • God was there. Evolutionists were not. l No Justification! The only reason to believe in evolution is if you don’t believe in God and His Word. That’s a rather precarious position for a Christian to hold, don’t you think?

God Was There • The Creation account has three points in its favor right from the start: 1. There is an adequate cause for the effect, 2. Intelligence and a plan, 3. God was there. • He has given us His testimony; His Word • This testimony was entrusted to reliable men of God who wrote it down for us

The REAL Battle • It’s not God vs. Science – – It’s Truth vs. Orthodoxy Judeo-Christian religion vs. Secular Humanist religion God vs. the Ungodly “It’s the Word of God v. Man’s fallible theories. ” Creation 23(2) March-May, 2001, p. 18 • Galileo wasn’t fighting God, but an ungodly orthodoxy that included the Church.

The Orthodoxy • “It is unscientific to believe any explanation that indicates the existence of God — even if it’s true!”

Absurdity • This arbitrary assertion leads to one of two necessary conclusions: 1. Either science and truth go separate ways (if God turns out to exist) or 2. There is no God. • The humanistic evolutionist, of course, believes the second.

But God Exists! • The conclusions are false because the assertion is false. • Science and belief in God go hand-in-hand. • God is the Author of Science

Modern Interpretation? • Should we apply contemporary scientific interpretations to the Bible? – Just how much does man know? – Just how much does man not know? • “Scientific facts” get discarded every day! (Actually it’s not the facts that get discarded, but the interpretations of the facts. )

Fallible Man or Infallible God? Should we take the word of fallible men who were not there over the Word of our infallible God who was there? Of course not! “We should judge the words of man against the word of God, and not the other way around. ” -Ken Ham

Fallible Man or Infallible God? In the past, many interpretations of the Bible were wrong, not because the scriptures were wrong, but because man tried to interpret the scriptures in the context of the accepted “scientific” ideas of the day. - The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 206

Fallible Man or Infallible God? In the early ages, “if Christians had built their world view on the Bible —as Kepler, Newton, and others tried to do much later — [instead of building it on Greek “science”] the development of true science might have come much sooner. ” -The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 203

Isn’t Evolution a Proven Fact? “What about all the scientific discoveries that indicate there is no God and that evolution is a fact? ” • There are no such discoveries. – There are many assertions. – All such statements are based on the biased conclusions of fallible people. – All facts must be interpreted. – Science doesn’t draw conclusions; people do.

Objectivity Which of these statements are true about scientists? 1. They wear white lab coats 2. They work in laboratories 3. They are unbiased 4. They have white hair None!

Objectivity We’re all human. We’re all fallible. We all have biases. The question is… What bias are you biased with? Will you be biased on the side of God’s Word? or not?

Present is the Key to the Past? Evolution says “The present the key to the past. ” Jesus indicated that the past is the key to the present: V “…‘Have you not read that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, …for this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh” Matthew 19: 4 V “…‘Moses permitted you to divorce your wives because your hearts were hard. But it was not this way from the beginning. ’ ” Matthew 19: 8 V “…‘If they do not listen to Moses and the Prophets, they will not be persuaded even if someone rises from the dead. ’ ” Luke 16: 31

Believe it! Jesus did! Jesus referred to Genesis and the Old Testament as truth many times: Reference Genesis Topic Genesis Reference Matthew 19: 4 Created male and female 1: 27, 5: 2 Mark 10: 6 Created male and female 1: 27, 5: 2 Matthew 19: 56 Cleave to his wife; become one flesh 2: 24 Mark 10: 79 Cleave to his wife, become one flesh 2: 24 Matthew 23: 35 Righteous Abel 4: 4 Luke 11: 51 Blood of Abel 4: 8 -11 Matthew 24: 37 -39 Noah and the Flood 6: 1 -22, 7: 1 -24, 8: 1 -22 Mark 13: 19 Creation which God created 1: 1, 2: 4 John 8: 44 Father of lies 3: 45 Old Testament Luke 16: 31 Luke 24: 25 Moses and the Prophets Believe all that the prophets have spoken *Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1 -11? , by Dr. Walt Brown.

Believe it! Jesus did! All New Testament Writers referred to Genesis chapters 1 -11 as truth. * Reference Acts 14: 15 Acts 17: 24 Acts 17: 26 Romans 1: 20 Romans 4: 17 Romans 5: 12 Romans 5: 14 -19 Romans 8: 20 -22 I Corinthians 6: 16 I Corinthians 11: 3 I Corinthians 11: 7 I Corinthians 11: 8 I Corinthians 11: 9 I Corinthians 15: 21 -22 I Corinthians 15: 38 -39 I Corinthians 15: 45 I Corinthians 15: 47 II Corinthians 4: 6 II Corinthians 11: 3 Ephesians 3: 9 Ephesians 5: 3031 Colossians 1: 16 Colossians 3: 10 I Timothy 2: 1314 I Timothy 2: 14 I Timothy 4: 4 Hebrews 1: 10 Hebrews 2: 78 Topic Who made the heaven and the earth God made all things From one man [God] made every nation of men The creation of the world God can create out of nothing Death entered the world by sin Death reigned from Adam Creation corrupted Two will become one flesh Head of the woman In the image of God Woman from man Woman for the man By a man came death To each. . . seeds of its own (kind) Adam became a living being Man from the earth Light out of darkness Serpent deceived Eve Created all things Cleave to his wife, become one flesh All things created by Him Created in His image Adam created first Woman deceived Everything created by God is good In the beginning God made the heavens and earth All things in subjection under man Genesis Reference 2: 1 1: 1 -31 Indirect 1: 1 -31, 2: 4 1: 1 -31 2: 16 -17, 3: 19 2: 17 3: 17 -18 2: 24 3: 16 1: 27, 5: 1 2: 22 -23 2: 18 2: 16 -17, 3: 19 1: 11, 1: 24 2: 7 3: 23 1: 35 3: 16, 3: 13 1: 1 -31, 2: 1 -3 2: 24 1: 1 -31, 2: 13 1: 27 2: 18 -23 3: 16, 3: 13 1: 10 -31 1: 26 -30, 9: 23 Reference Topic Genesis Reference Hebrews 4: 3 Hebrews 4: 4 Hebrews 4: 10 Hebrews 11: 3 Hebrews 11: 4 Hebrews 11: 5 Hebrews 11: 7 Hebrews 12: 24 James 3: 9 I Peter 3: 20 II Peter 2: 5 II Peter 3: 45 II Peter 3: 6 I John 3: 8 I John 3: 12 Jude 11 Jude 14 Revelation 2: 7 Revelation 3: 14 Revelation 4: 11 Revelation 10: 6 Revelation 14: 7 Revelation 20: 2 Revelation 21: 1 Revelation 21: 4 Revelation 22: 2 Revelation 22: 3 Revelation 22: 14 Works were finished Rest on the seventh day Rest from His works Creation of the universe Abel offered a better sacrifice Enoch taken up Noah’s household saved Blood of Abel Men in the likeness of God Construction of the Ark, eight saved A flood upon the ungodly, eight saved Earth formed out of water and by water The world destroyed by water Devil sinned from the beginning Cain slew his brother The way of Cain Enoch, the 7 th generation from Adam Tree of life Beginning of the creation of God Created all things Who created heaven. . . and the earth Who made the heaven and the earth The serpent of old, who is the devil First heaven and first earth No more death, sorrow, crying or pain Fruit of the tree of life No more curse The tree of life 2: 1 2: 2 -3 1: 1 4: 35 5: 21 -24 7: 1 4: 10 1: 27, 5: 1 6: 14 -16, 7: 13 6: 8 -12, 7: 124 1: 67 7: 17 -24 3: 14 4: 8, 4: 25 4: 8, 4: 16, 4: 25 5: 3 -24 2: 9 1: 1 -31, 2: 14 1: 1 -31, 2: 1 -3 1: 1, 2: 4 3: 1, 3: 14 2: 1 3: 17 -19 3: 22 3: 14 -19 2: 9 *Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood , Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1 -11? , by Dr. Walt Brown.

Believe it! Jesus did! Some interesting points: • Every New Testament writer refers to the early • • • chapters of Genesis (Genesis 1 -11). Jesus Christ referred to each of the first seven chapters of Genesis. Every chapter of Genesis 1 -11, except chapter 8, is referred to somewhere in the New Testament. Every New Testament writer apparently accepted these early chapters of Genesis as historically accurate. *Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1 -11? , by Dr. Walt Brown.

Believe it! Jesus did! Some interesting points (continued): Two thirds of the New Testament books have references to Genesis 1 -11. (18 of 27) • Only these do not • Galatians, • Philippians, • I and II Thessalonians, • II Timothy, • Titus, • Philemon, and • II and III John *Taken from: In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood, Does the New Testament Support Genesis 1 -11? , by Dr. Walt Brown.

Take God at His word Your salvation depends on it! (That’s what faith is all about!) Why do we need a savior? “To save us from our sin. ” If evolution happened, death was already occurring before man evolved. But if death came before man, and was not a consequence of Adam’s sin, then sin, with death as a punishment is a fiction. And if sin is a fiction, why would we need Christ to save us from our sin? See 1 Corinthians 15: 21 -22, 45

What is Evolution? • Explaining the Universe without God • The idea that the Universe is selforiginating – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 213 • Evolution can take many forms, of which Darwinism is only one.

What is Evolution? • “The essential attribute of an evolutionary concept is that it identifies ultimate reality with the universe of matter, space, and time, rather than with the transcendent Creator of that universe. ” – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 207

Isn’t Evolution a Modern Idea? Not at all! • One form of Pre-Darwinian Evolution was known as “The Great Chain Of Being. ” – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 38 • Long ages have long been a belief of pagan religions. – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 46 • Even in Christ’s day, Greek Stoics and Epicureans believed “everything on the earth evolved directly from the earth material itself. ” – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 212 • The Gnostics had similar beliefs against whom Paul wrote: V “Instead of believing what they knew was the truth about God, they deliberately chose to believe lies. So they worshiped the things God made but not the Creator himself, who is to be praised forever. Amen. ” -Romans 1: 25 – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 213

Evolution IS Atheism Since Evolution was devised to explain our existence without God, Evolution… is fundamentally an atheistic teaching. A Christian must NOT believe in Evolution!

Evolution IS Atheism Evolutionist Richard Lewontin: ‘We take the side of science [sic] in spite of the patent absurdity…, in spite of its failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the…unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have a prior…commitment to materialism. …[W]e cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door. ’ – Richard Lewontin, ‘Billions and Billions of Demons, ' The New York Review, p. 31, 9 January 1997

What About Science? What is Science? • Study of observable, repeatable processes • and events in the present. What about the past? – We cannot observe the past. – We can only make conjecture and speculation about the past, based on experiments in the present.

How old is the Earth? Approximately 6000 years old • What about millions of years? – Who says? • Science? • Evolutionists! – Based on assumptions! • Appearance of age? – “But, it looks old!” – It is old! It’s 6000 years old!

How old is the Earth? Approximately 6000 years old • “No, I mean it looks millions of years old!” • How do you know what millions of years looks • • like? Can you tell the difference between a six thousand year-old rock and a six million year-old rock? Not really. We do not have the proper frame of reference to do so.

How old is the Earth? Did God make the Earth look old? • No. God told us how old everything is. – If we presume it looks older than God said it is, that’s our own misinterpretation. • How can we know? – Perceptions and inference? – Conjecture based on interpretation? – Take the word of someone who was there. • Who was there? GOD

How old is the Earth? Evolutionists keep increasing the age of the earth. Since 1900, evolutionists have increased the estimated age of the earth by 100 times! Why? The more they discover, the more they realize there is not enough time to explain the implications of their hypothesis —Evolution.

Evolution is a Fact! Isn’t it? What about all the evidence for Evolution? Evolution • Has never been observed • Has no mechanism to make it work • Has no transitional forms We see degeneration and extinction… Not evolution.

Evolution is a Fact? One Evolutionist said • “‘Today we are less confident and the whole subject is in the most exciting ferment. Evolution is. . . nagged from within by the troubling complexities of genetic and developmental mechanisms and new questions about the central mystery —speciation itself. ’” – Keith S. Thompson (Biology professor @ Yale), “The Meanings of Evolution, ” American Scientist 70, 1982 p. 529, as quoted by The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 24 • This was 100 years after Darwin’s book that supposedly solved the problem! It makes you wonder “…why evolutionary Biologists persist in believing in evolution at all. Where’s the evidence? ” – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 24

Evolution is a Fact? • Natural Selection* – Adds no information • Evolution requires a way to add new information – Mutations (errors, corruption of what was) • Loss of information • Most are harmful, a few are neutral, no known good – Downhill process • It gets rid of information. • The only way to get the information back is to breed the species with a variety that still has the genetic information. • Evolution demonstrated today? – Simple variation of traits within existing populations – “New species” are a reduction in the gene pool *Creation Magazine, 23(3) Jun-Aug 2001 p. 28 -29

Evidence for Creation • • • What Scientific Evidence is there for Creation? We live in the same world as evolutionists We have the same animals We have the same fossils We have the same Science We share the same facts!

Evidence for Creation All facts must be interpreted! • Your interpretation will depend on your • • • world-view. You take your world view to the fact and come up with a story about the fact. Creationists don’t disagree with evolutionists on science or the facts, We disagree on the history.

Evidence Dating Methods • Most dating methods indicate a young earth – Fossils – contain unfossilized bone, blood cells, and sometimes soft tissue – Decay of Earth’s magnetic field – Helium in the atmosphere • If earth is as old as evolutionists say, there should be a million – – – times more helium atoms. Helium atoms cannot escape the atmosphere. Moon’s recession from Earth Salt in the sea Erosion of continents Number of people alive today Radio halos in crystals Many more! Evolutionists downplay these dating methods.

Evidence Radiometric Dating Methods • C 14, K-Ar, U-Pb, Ru-Sr • Three assumptions: – Known initial quantities – Constant decay rates – No contamination of quantities or outside influences • These assumptions cannot be known • Radiometric analysis —even from the sample— produce inconsistent results

Evidence The Fossil Record • Huge gaps between every major life form – – – – Non-living to single cell Single-cell to multi-cell Invertebrate to vertebrate Sea creatures to amphibians Amphibians to reptiles Reptiles to mammals Mammals to man And more!

Evidence • • • The Fossil Record Abrupt appearance Fully formed No transitions Many living creatures identical to fossils Creatures/plants once thought extinct are found alive – Coelacanth – Diatonyds (“extinct” rodents) – Wollemai pine • Evidence of dinosaurs contemporary with man

Evidence The Fossil Record • Out of place embedded rocks • Trees crossing multiple strata • Geologic column (Brown, 7 th ed. , fig. 93, p. 145) (Brown, 7 th ed. , fig. 11, p. 10) (Brown, 7 th ed. , #69, p. 29, #69, p. 77) – Non-existent over much of the earth – Not complete anywhere – Strata often incorrectly sequenced

Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy • Comets – Should not exist. Oldest no more than 10, 000 years (Brown, 7 ed. , #89, p. 33) – No hyperbolic orbits (Brown, 7 ed. , fig. 125, p. 195) – Presumption of an “Oort cloud” • Completely undetectable (Brown, 7 ed. , fig. 125, p. 195) th th th

Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy This is not bad science… it’s not science at all!

Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy • Where did comets come from? • Earth! – Fountains of the great deep – More on that in another talk

Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy • Recession of the Moon – Has to be relatively “new” or – The Moon should have been long gone from Earth (Brown, 7 th ed. , Technical notes, pp. 302 -306) • Dust on the Moon – 4. 6 BY should have resulted in the accumulation of at least 50’ of dust and up to 440 -590’ -but it’s only 3/4” deep indicating a maximum age of only 7000 years. [Evolutionists have done some serious back peddling on this by revising their hypothesis on space dust to greatly reduce the expected accumulation. ] (Brown, 7 th ed. , #86, p. 33)

Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy • Sun – Faint young sun and the earth. Even 25% less heat makes a permanent deep-freeze. (Brown, 7 ed. , #49, p. 23) – No indication that the sun evolved or has ever been significantly different from what we see today. th • Earth – Meteoritic dust should be everywhere (Brown, 7 ed. , #82, p. 32) – Decay of magnetic field 50% every 1400 years. th (Brown, 7 th ed. , #83, p. 32)

Evidence Near-Earth Astronomy • Planets – Rotations different (some retrograde), orbits off plane. (Brown, 7 ed. , #43, p. 21) th

Evidence Distant Astronomy • Supernova in 1987: SN 1987 a – blue dwarf* & red giant as a binary system. – Evolutionary theory would have predicted the Red Giant to collapse into itself and nova, but the blue “giant” went supernova instead. – The wrong star blew up! *Originally, the pair was described as a blue dwarf and a red giant. Since the event, they have revised the description of the one that blew up to be a blue giant — an unknown star type before the event.

Evidence Distant Astronomy • Supernova in 1987: SN 1987 a • Some quotes immediately after the event: – “This completely contradicts everything we have believed about stellar evolution. ” – “We’ll have to start all over on our paradigm of stellar evolution. ” – “All existing theories of stellar evolution are now disproved. ” (ACC Astronomy course, 1987) • They have since re-written their interpretation of the facts of the event to fit their pre-existing theory.

Evidence Distant Astronomy • Stars and Starlight – God Stretched out the heavens – Isaiah 42. 5; Isaiah 44. 24; Isaiah 45: 12; Isaiah 51: 13; Jeremiah 10: 12; Jeremiah 51: 15 – Creation has no more problem with starlight than Evolution does. Let’s consider…

Evidence Distant Astronomy • The Big Bang. Theory – Red-shift quantized – God’s stretching of the heavens may explain this quantization

Evidence • Big Bang? Distant Astronomy – Cosmic Background Radiation • In front of some galaxies – Predicted temperature (30°K) not found (3°K instead) • Eddington already calculated 3°K in 1926 as the temperature of space due to starlight. – Other problems (Brown, 7 th • • ed. , #55, p. 70 -72) Heavy hydrogen –not mixed, comets 2 x, oceans 10 x (Brown, 7 th ed. , #27 p. 27) Order from chaos (hot gas has no information) (Brown, 7 th ed. , #16 d, p. 49) Universe speeding up and slowing down Rate of expansion increases with distance Matter is clumped even on large scale Galaxies shouldn’t exist No Population III stars exist (hydrogen and helium)

Evidence Distant Astronomy • Big Bang? Most people (even most scientists) do not understand it. They envision a dense ball of hot matter exploding into an empty space. What they do not realize is that the dimension of space must be included in the expansion. The dimensions of space itself were part of the exploding ball. Space itself was once the size of the head of a pin. Space itself expanded.

Evidence Distant Astronomy • Big Bang? Astronomer and Mathematician Sir Fredrick Hoyle, who was by no means a Creationist said, “Big-Bang cosmology refers to an epoch that cannot be reached by any form of astronomy, and, in more than two decades, it has not produced a single successful prediction. ” – Hoyle, F. , Home is where the wind Blows, 1994, as reported in The Skeptic, 16(1): 52

Evidence Distant Astronomy “Cosmology is unique in science in that it is a very large intellectual edifice based on very few facts. The strong tendency is to replace a need for more facts by conformity. ” – Hoyle, et al. , Nature 346: 807 -812, Aug. 30, 1990 In other words, Big Bang is a desolate theory, and in the absence of facts about stellar evolution, the orthodoxy imposes its beliefs on researchers.

Evidence Distant Astronomy • The farthest galaxies, 11 billion light years away, • • should show us what the early universe looked like. The light would have taken 11 BY to get here, so these distant galaxies should look young to us. Many of the farthest galaxies still look billions of years old! The universe is supposedly only 13 BY old. How did these galaxies become so “old” at a time when the universe itself was only 2 BY old?

Evidence Biology • [Mathematician] Sir Fredrick Hoyle calculated that the chance of obtaining the required set of enzymes for even the simplest living cell was one in 10 to the 40, 000. – Evolution from Space, 1981, Hoyle & Wickramasinghe • The number of atoms in the entire universe is estimated at only 10 to the 80. He called the evolution of life on earth “nonsense of a high order. ” – Hoyle, F. , “The Big Bang in Astronomy”, New Scientist, Nov. 19, 1981 • Sir Fredrick Hoyle originated the 'Tornado through a junkyard assembling a Boeing 747' example, saying that believing in evolution is like believing a tornado could sweep through a junkyard and assemble a Boeing 747. – Hoyle, Nature, 294(5837): 105, Nov. 12, 1981 www. answersingenesis. org/news/hoyle. asp#f 3

Evidence Biology Did Sir Fredrick Hoyle’s conclusions lead him to believe in God? No. Sadly, he concluded life came… from outer-space!

Evidence Biology • In Darwin’s day people viewed living cells to be • about as complex as a ping-pong ball. Today we know that a living cell is practically a universe in itself.

Evidence Biology • The organic world is one of stability of kinds with • provision for variation within the kind. There are unbridgeable gaps between the kinds.

Evidence Biology • If evolution were true, there should be no gaps. • We should see a continuum of imperceptible gradations from one form to another. It would be impossible to tell where the classification of one organism should end another begin. Speciation itself is something we should NOT see. • This is powerful testimony that Evolution is false. -H. M. Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, p. 264

Evidence Biology • Abiogenesis – Spontaneous generation – does • • not exist today. We know life comes from life! Evolutionists have to assume life came from non -life.

Evidence Biology • Evolutionists have to assume – A process that does not exist today existed in the past – An chemically different environment that does not exist today existed in the past – An oceanic composition that does not exist today existed in the past In order to explain the generation of primeval organisms that only existed in the past All from a belief system that tries to say the present is the key to the past! H. M. Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, p. 270 -271 • This is not science. – Science deals with processes that exist in the present.

Evidence Biology The “earliest” and most “primitive” form of life discovered in the fossil record… found in the Precambrian rocks of southern Ontairo… [is] still living today. – H. M. Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, p. 273 -274

Evidence Biology • Vestigial organs. – Not knowing the purpose of a structure does not mean it has lost its function or has no function. – All organs once identified as vestigial are now known to have a function. – Furthermore, the idea that an originally perfect structure deteriorates over generations says nothing at all about how it was produced in the first place. − The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 25

Evidence Biology • Morphology – Living entities that look alike came from a common ancestor? – Living entities that look alike had a common creator.

Evidence Language • Languages are more complex the farther back in history you go. – The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 253 – Brown, 7 th ed. , #13, p. 8 • Evolution predicted the opposite.

Evidence Religion • Religions all stem from monotheism, belief in a creator, and an eternal afterlife. Then they degenerated into polytheism, pantheism, and animism. Evolution predicted just the opposite. Researchers are baffled. – -The Long War Against God, Dr. Henry Morris, p. 292

Evidence Consciousness • Self-awareness — Evolution cannot explain this. Altruism • Taking action on the behalf of and to the benefit of another, often at the risk of one's own life. — Evolution cannot explain this. [Brown, 7 ed. , #11] th

Computer Simulation What about computer simulations that “prove” evolution? All computer simulations are created by intelligent beings. Such programs do only what the programmer has instructed. That being the case, they present stronger evidence for creation than evolution.

Evolution Fails on Every Front • Creation/Flood theory explains every facet of • “Life, the Universe, and Everything. ” “The simplest, most logical and most scientific model of origins is still that of special creation. ” – H. M. Morris, Many Infallible Proofs. p. 279 • “The evolution model, on the other hand, continually encounters contradictions which require a multitude of auxiliary assumptions to be imposed upon its basic formulation. ” – -H. M. Morris, Many Infallible Proofs, p. 282

New Discoveries What will we do if new discoveries indicate evolution is true? • No fear: God is the author of Science. • The facts of science will never be in opposition to God — only man’s opinions. Your starting premise will determine your conclusion regarding facts of science.

Why does Evolution Persist? • Because of the a priori foundational • premise that there is no God. The argument goes like this: – There is no God – We are here – Therefore, we evolved. • It persists because it must persist in order for people to not believe in God.

Conclusion A Christian must not believe in Evolution because… • It’s the doctrine of atheists – We must not let the teachings of atheists cloud our faith. • It’s the lie from Satan – “Did God really say…(Genesis 3: 1) He created in six days? ” – The loss of faith comes from doubting the Word of God.

The Gospel • “Why can’t we just teach the essentials? ” • This is the ultimate “essential. ” It is the first order of essence; an inseparable part of the gospel. Jesus IS the Creator!

The Gospel Jesus IS the Creator! John 1: 1 -3, 10 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through Him all things were made; without Him nothing was made that has been made… 10 He was in the world, and though the world was made through Him, the world did not recognize Him.

The Gospel Jesus IS the Creator! Colossians 1: 15 -17 15 He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. 16 for by Him all things were created: things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or powers or rules or authorities; all things were created by Him and for Him. 17 He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.

The Gospel • The Fall affected all aspects of man • Man has to be converted – Spiritually – Emotionally – Morally – Intellectually • These do not all necessarily happen at once

Inerrancy of Scripture • Are parts of God’s Word wrong? • If one part is wrong, how do we know other parts aren’t wrong?

Authority of Scripture • Can we throw out the parts of God’s Word • • we don’t like? The only way we know anything about being a Christian is through God’s Word. Without God’s Word, there can be no Christians, for we would know nothing about Jesus Christ and what he has done for all people.

Authority of Scripture • We have faith in Jesus Christ, and we believe things he believed and taught: God’s Word

Authority of Scripture • Jesus is the Word that became flesh and • • dwelt among us. John 1: 14 Believing God’s Word is what it means to be a Christian. If you don’t like God’s Word, perhaps you should be something else.

Authority of Scripture • Jesus is the “last Adam. ” • If the first Adam is allegorical, why should the last Adam be real? V “So it is written: ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam, a life -giving spirit. ” 1 Corinthians 15: 44

Authority of Scripture If you try to add millions of years to the Bible, you’ve got millions of years of death and suffering before sin. — And God called it good! Paul tells us in Romans 6: 23 Death is the penalty for sin. He also reminds us in Romans 5: 12 -14 that sin came into the world by man, and death came into the world by sin.

Authority of Scripture However, if death was around for millions of years before man, the idea of death being “the wages of sin” is a myth. Death was already here! If you’re going to cast doubt on the “six days” in Genesis chapter 1 in order to fit millions of years into the Bible, you also cast doubt on Romans 6: 23, and 5: 12 -14. Where does it stop?

What Is The Gospel? • Part I – Man was created with no imperfection; designed to live forever – Man had fellowship with God – Man rebelled and became separated from God – Man became cursed with death

What Is The Gospel? • Part II – God provided a path of redemption through death – Jesus, God’s son, took the penalty for our sin, and conquered death – Through faith in Jesus, we can spend eternity with God.

What Is The Gospel? • Part III – New Heavens – New Earth – New Jerusalem – All things restored to what they would have been all along: Life without suffering or death in a perfect place with our Redeemer and God. His name be praised forever!

What Is The Gospel? Amen.