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Creation Evolution

• Worldviews at War

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My Family
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Not a Side Issue
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Brief History of Evolution

• Disguised Materialism

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Materialism

• The essential feature of this belief is that
  everything in nature arose spontaneously by a
  process of self transformation without the
  necessity of supernatural intervention. Julian
  Huxley once said "the whole of reality is
  evolution, a single process of self

Adopted from Dr. Menton, http//www.gennet.org/fa
cts/metro21.html
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Thales (625-546 BC)
Jump
http//www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/PictDi
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The French Revolution
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James Hutton
From http//www.strangescience.net/hutton.htm
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Erasmus Darwin
From http//www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/Edarwin
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• Organic life beneath the shoreless wavesWas
  born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly cavesFirst
  forms minute, unseen by spheric glass,Move on
  the mud, or pierce the watery massThese, as
  successive generations bloom,New powers acquire
  and larger limbs assumeWhence countless groups
  of vegetation spring,And breathing realms of fin
  and feet and wing.
• Erasmus Darwin. The Temple of Nature. 1802.

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Sir Charles Lyell
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The Foundation

• Uniformitarianism The Present is the key to the
  past

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Charles Darwin
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• When Darwin published his book, it created
  a tremendous sensation it seemed to be the key
  for which the whole world was waitingIn the
  hundred years since the publication of Darwin our
  opinion of Darwin has never been so high as it is
  now.

The Ideas of Biology (New York Harper
Brothers, 1962), p 9
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• We have a prior commitment, a commitment to
  materialism .Moreover, that we cannot allow a
  Divine Foot in the door.

Richard Lewontin, Billions and Billions of
Demons, The New York Review of Books, Jan. 9,
1997
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Naturalistic Bias

• Even if all the data point to an intelligent
  designer, such a hypothesis is excluded from
  science because it is not naturalistic.

Scott C. Todd, World Magazine, Feb. 26, 2000, pg
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• And even as they did not want to retain God
  in their knowledge, God gave them over to a
  reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
  convenient. Rom. 128

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Defining Evolution
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Evolution Biology

• Gradual accumulation of adaptations over time.

• Biology The Dynamics of Life, 2000

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• Biological evolution, simply put, is descent
  with modification. This definition encompasses
  small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency
  in a population from one generation to the next)
  and large-scale evolution (the descent of
  different species from a common ancestor over
  many generations). Evolution helps us to
  understand the history of life.

http//evolution.berkeley. edu/evolibrary/article/
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Your Family Tree
http//evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/0
_0_0/evo_03
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Types of Evolution

• Types of Evolution
• Cosmic How the Universe came to be
• Stellar How stars form
• Chemical How the Chemicals came to be
• Organic How Life began
• Macro Going from One Kind to Another
• Micro- Small adaptations that create variety in
  the Kinds

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Two Types of Science

• Operational (True Science)
• Can be reproduced in a Lab
• Based on observations
• Little to no bias
• Historical (Science Falsely so Called)
• Can not be reproduced in the lab
• Based on assumptions
• Biased

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Java Man Find
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What is a Species?

• Groups of organisms that can interbreed and
  produce fertile offspring. Biology Dynamics of
  Life, 2000.

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Does the Bible use the Word Species?

• So God created great sea creatures and every
  living thing that moves, with which the waters
  abounded, according to their kind, and every
  winged bird according to its kind. Gen. 121

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Variation Within a Kind

• Kinds are created with a certain amount of
  adaptability
• This adaptability allows a kind to survive in a
  hostile environment

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Dog Kind
Jan. 2002
Limitation to how far they can vary, dogs will
always produce dogs.
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Where Creation Science Draws the Line

• The central idea of biological evolution is that
  all life on Earth shares a common ancestor, just
  as you and your cousins share a common
  grandmother.
• Evolution means that we're all distant cousins
  humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales.

Both Quotes From http//evolution.berkeley.
edu/evolibrary/article/0_0_0/evo_02
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1 Cor. 1539

• All flesh is not the same flesh but there is
  one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of
  beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

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Moral Implications of Evolution
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Image of God

• So God created man in his own image Gen. 127
• Man was to bear God's image, both in outward
  resemblance and in character. PP 46

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Dominion

• have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the
  birds of the air, and over every living thing
  that moves on the face of the earth. Gen. 128

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• And changed the glory of the uncorruptible
  God into an image made like to corruptible man,
  and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
  things. Wherefore God also gave them up to
  uncleanness through the lusts of their own
  hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between
  themselves

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• Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and
  worshipped and served the creature more than the
  Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. For this
  cause God gave them up unto vile affections for
  even their women did change the natural use into
  that which is against nature Rom 121-26

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A Conflict of Authority

• Mans Fallible Word
• vs.
• Gods Infallible Word
• Ps. 1188
• It is better to trust in the Lord than to put
  confidence in man.

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A Test for Reliable Scientific Theories

• Does it contradict the Bible?

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Viewed from a Religious Standpoint

• Science, in order to be fully appreciated,
  must be viewed from a religious standpoint. Then
  all will worship the God of science. Manuscript
  30, 1896.

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True Science
God is the foundation of everything. All true
science is in harmony with His works all
true education leads to obedience to
His government.
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"Science opens new wonders to our view she
soars high, and explores new depths but she
brings nothing from her research that
contradicts with divine revelation."
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"Ignorance may seek to support false views of
God by appeal to science, but the book of
nature and the written word shed light on each
other. PP pg 115
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The Earth Flat?

• This Greek idea that was accepted by the early
  church was never fully tested to all scripture.
• Is. 4022 It is he that sitteth upon the circle
  of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
  grasshoppers that stretcheth out the heavens as
  a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
  dwell in

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God is Still Upholding all Things

• Who being the brightness of his glory, and the
  express image of his person, and upholding all
  things by the word of his power, when he had by
  himself purged our sins, sat down on the right
  hand of the Majesty on high Heb. 13

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Self Assembly not Possible

• Through faith we understand that the worlds
  were framed by the word of God, so that things
  which are seen were not made of things which do
  appear. Heb. 113

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• Moses wrote under the guidance of the Spirit
  of God, and a correct theory of geology will
  never claim discoveries that cannot be reconciled
  with his statements. The idea that many stumble
  over, that God did not create matter when He
  brought the world into existence, limits the
  power of the Holy One. 3SM. Pg. 307

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Creation Science Differs from Uniformitarianism

• Revelation is the key to the past
• Certain world altering events have dramatically
  changed the way things look interact
• Creation
• Corruption (Sin)
• Catastrophe (Flood)

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Which Worldview is Religious?
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What is Religion

• Sometimes used interchangeably with faith or
  belief systemis commonly defined as belief
  concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine
  and the moral codes, practices, values,
  institutions and rituals associated with such
  belief. In its broadest sense some have defined
  it as the sum total of answers given to explain
  humankind's relationship with the universe.

http//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion
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Religious Commonalities

• Basic assumptions that are not empirically
  provable
• Require a certain amount of faith in those
  assumptions
• Affects how the person acts and relates to the
  world around them
• Answers questions about where we fit into the
  Universe

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Christian Assumptions

• In the beginning God (Gen 11)
• The Bible is the inspired word of God (2 Tim.
  316)
• God is a rewarder to those that diligently seek
  Him (Heb. 116)

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Assumptions of Evolution

• Unknown chemicals in the primordial
  pastthrough...
• Unknown processes which no longer existproduced
• Unknown life forms which are not to be found but
  could through
• Unknown reproduction methods spawn new lifein
  an
• Unknown atmospheric compositionin an
• Unknown oceanic soup complexat an
• Unknown time and place.

Dr. Henry Morris
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• What science educators propose to teach as
  evolution, and label as fact, is based not upon
  any incontrovertible empirical evidence
  (scientifically proven facts) but upon a highly
  controversial philosophical presupposition. The
  controversy over creation and evolution is
  therefore not going to go away as people become
  better educated on the subject

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• On the contrary, the more people learn about
  philosophical content of what scientist are
  calling the fact of evolution the less they are
  going to like it. (Phillip E. Johnson, The Dogma
  of Evolution)

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Science Falsely So Called

• O Timothy keep that which is committed to thy
  trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and
  oppositions of science falsely so called. 1 Tim.
  620

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• the theory of evolution itself is a theory
  universally accepted not because it can be proved
  by logical coherent evidence to be true but
  because the only alternative is special creation,
  which is clearly incredible. D.M.S. Watson,
  Adaptation, Nature, August 10, 1929, vol. 124,
  3119, pg. 231, 233

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Though One Rise from the Dead

• But he said to him, If they do not hear Moses
  and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded
  though one rise from the dead. Luke 1631

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The State of Arkansas Creationism
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Popperian Test

• It is guided by natural law.
• It has to be explanatory by reference to natural
  law.
• It is testable against the empirical world.
• Its conclusions are tentative (i.e. are not
  necessarily the final word).
• It is falsifiable.

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What about the Fundamental Assumptions of
Atheistic Evolution
Is it guided by natural law? F
Is it explained by reference to all natural law? F
Is it is testable against the empirical world? F
Are its conclusions tentative? P
Is it is falsifiable? F
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Which one is Religious?
Evolution Creation
Life can arise from nonliving Matter God Created Matter
The World is Billions of Years Old The World is Thousands of Years Old
Mans Ability to Know Truth in and of Himself God leads us into Truth
No Absolutes, Man sets the Standards Absolutes God sets the Standards
Both Views are Religious
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So if they have no Evidence Why dont they
Believe?
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• 2 Tim. 43-4 For the time will come when they
  will not endure sound doctrine but after their
  own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers,
  having itching ears And they shall turn away
  their ears from the truth, and shall be turned
  unto fables.

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• Jude 16 These are murmurers, complainers,
  walking after their own lusts and their mouth
  speaketh great swelling words, having men's
  persons in admiration because of advantage.

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• 2 Peter 33 Knowing this first, that there
  shall come in the last days scoffers, walking
  after their own lusts, And saying, Where is the
  promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell
  asleep, all things continue as they were from the
  beginning of the creation.

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• It is not enough to believe in law and force,
  in things, that have no pity, and never hear the
  cry for help. We need to know of an almighty arm
  that will hold us up, of an infinite Friend that
  pities us. We need to clasp a hand that is warm
  to trust in a heart full of tenderness. And even
  so God has in His word revealed Himself. Ed 133

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Which Religion will you Choose?