God and Science

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God and Science
Kings College, London 6/11/2014 John Oakes PhD
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Thomas Huxley, Darwins bulldog
We are as much the product of blind forces as is
the falling of a stone to earth, or the ebb and
flow of the tides. We have just happened, and
man was made flesh by a series of singularly
beneficial accidents.
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Richard Dawkins

• In the universe of blind physical forces and
  genetic replication, some people are going to get
  hurt and other people are going to get lucky and
  you wont find any rhyme or reason to it, nor any
  justice. The universe we observe has precisely
  the properties we should expect if there is at
  the bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no
  good. Nothing but blind, pitiless indifference.
  DNA neither knows nor cares. DNA just is, and we
  dance to its music.

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Accident or Design?
William Paley
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The Teleological Argument Evidence for Design in
Nature The Anthropic Principle
Boeing 747 Design or Accident?
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Water

• Ideal solvent to support life (dissolves ions and
  molecules
• Right boiling and melting points
• High specific heat
• Solid floats on liquid
• Contracts from 0 to 4 degrees centigrade

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Designed Elements?
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Carbon The Central Element of Life
3-D molecules
Large, complex yet flexible molecules
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The Ozone Layer Is oxygen a designed element?
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No Uranium, no plate tectonics
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DNA
a)
b)
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Protein
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Nature creates order, but not information
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A House of Cards Order and Information. A much
better analogy for living things.
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Simplest life form break it down

• E. coli about 1 trillion bits of information.
• E. coli have 3000-4000 different proteins.
• DNA and RNA to make and be made by these
  proteins.
• Lipids (membrane), Carbohydrates, etc.
• The simplest living cell is an unimaginably
  complex nano factory

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It is mere rubbish to think at this point of
the origin of life. One might as well think of
the origin of matter.
Charles Darwin
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Science before the 1950s The universe was NOT
created. Hebrews 113 By faith we understand
that the universe was created so that what is
seen has been made from things that are not
visible. Genesis 13 God said Let there be
light, and there was light. The Big Bang 1929
Hubble. The Red Shift The universe is
expanding. 1965 Penzias and Wilson, background
microwave radiation. Physicists now The
universe was created.
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Physics The Finely Tuned Universe
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Fine Tuning of the
Universe   Constant A Little Bigger A Little
Smaller   1. Gravitational constant very
short-lived stars no stars 2. Ratio of
electrons to protons no stars or galaxies no
stars or galaxies   3. Strong Nuclear
Force no hydrogen, fusion only hydrogen   4.
Weak Nuclear Force all H2 ? He at big bang no
He at big bang no heavy elements   5.
Electric Force no chemical bonding no chemical
bonding   6. Expansion rate of universe no
galaxies universe collapses quickly 7. Ratio
of matter to antimatter too much radiation for
life not enough matter for galaxies to
form   and many more.
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A finely-tuned instrument built by humans. Good
to one part in a billion?
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Fred Hoyle on Fine-Tuning
a super-intellect has monkeyed with physics,
as well as with chemistry and biology.
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Antony Flew Considers God...

• Flew is increasingly persuaded that some sort of
  Deity brought about this universe. He says he has
  in mind something like the God of Aristotle, a
  distant, impersonal "prime mover." It might not
  even be conscious, but a mere force. In formal
  terms, he regards the existence of this minimal
  God as a hypothesis that, at present, is perhaps
  the best explanation for why a universe exists
  that can produce complex life

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The Right Kind of Galaxy
Spiral
Irregular
Eliptical
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The Right Galaxy
Our galaxy is a spiral, which produces
stars over much of its history. Not an
elliptical, where star formation ends before
there are many heavy elements. Not an
irregular, where radiation events would have
destroyed life.
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The Right Star Location

• Right distance from center of galaxy
• - Closer too much radiation, disruptive
  gravity
• - Further too few heavy elements
• Right relation to supernovae
• - More or closer exterminate life
• - Less or further too few heavy elements
• Right number of stars in system
• - Zero pretty cold!
• - Two or more unstable orbits if planets at
  all.

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The Right Kind of Star The Goldilocks Star
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The Right Kind of Planet
Right distance Rocky planet with plenty of
oxygen and water Thin, light planetary
crust Huge moon for stable planetary rotation
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Conclusion Since the creation of the world
Gods invisible qualitieshis eternal power and
divine naturehave been clearly seen, being
understood from what has been made, so that men
are without excuse. Romans 120 The heavens
declare the glory of God the skies proclaim the
work of his hands. Day after day they pour
fourth speech. Night after night they display
knowledge Psalms 191-2
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Part II Science and the Bible Delos B.
McKown Christianity is scientifically
unsupported and probably insupportable,
philosophically suspect at best and disreputable
at worst, and historically fraudulent.
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Papyrus Ebers
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• The Ebers Papyrus
• To prevent hair from turning gray, anoint it
  with the blood of a calf which has been boiled in
  oil or with the fat of a rattlesnake.
• A mixture of six fats, namely those of the
  horse, the hippopotamus, the crocodile, the cat,
  the snake and the ibex.... to prevent hair loss.

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Drugs of Choice in Papyrus Ebers

• Lizards blood
• Swines teeth
• Putrid meat
• Moisture from Pigs ears
• Excreta from animals including human beings,
  donkeys, antelope, dogs, cats and flies

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I will not bring on you any of these
diseases... Exodus 1526 The pig... is
unclean for you...those that walk on their
paws...the weasel, the rat...are unclean for
you. Leviticus 11
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The sting of a hornet is healed by the
house-fly, crushed and applied to the wound.
The gnat, feeble creature, taking in food but
never secreting it is a specific against the
poison of the viper. An ancient Hebrew medical
manuscript.
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Whoever touches the dead body of anyone will be
unclean for seven days. He must purify himself
with the water on the third and seventh
day...take some hyssop, dip it in the water and
sprinkle the tent and furnishings and the people
who were there. Numbers 19
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Semelweiss
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Vienna, 1847

• In maternity wards one out of every six women
  dies.
• Obstetricians ascribe deaths to constipation,
  fear and poisonous air.

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Death Rate falls from 18 to 0.5
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Thymol A Powerful Disinfectant
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Leviticus 1346
As long as he has the infection he remains
unclean. He must live alone he must live outside
the camp. Quarantine for infectious disease
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LEPROSY

• Killed millions of people in Europe and around
  the world for thousands of years.
• Fear of all other diseases taken together can
  hardly be compared to the terror spread by
  leprosy.
• Dr. George Rosen

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Leprosy
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MEDICAL COMMUNITY HAD NO ANSWERS
They taught that it was brought on by eating
hot food, pepper, garlic and the meat of diseased
hogs. Other physicians said it was caused by a
malign conjunction of the planets. Leviticus
1346 As long as he has the infection he remains
unclean. He must live alone he must live
outside the camp.
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The life is in the blood
Leviticus 1714 the life of every creature
is in its blood. That is why I have said to the
Israelites, You must not eat the blood of any
creature, because the life of every creature is
its blood anyone who eats it must be cut off.
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Bloodletting The most common medical practice
in 1700s and 1800s
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Bloodletting Instruments from 1800s
1693).                                       G
eorge Tiemann Co. American armamentarium
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For the generations to come, every male among
you who is eight days old must be
circumcised... Genesis 1712 Vitamin
K Prothrombin a clotting protein.
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Clotting Protein Peaks on Day Eight
Available Prothrombin
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How Did Abraham Pick the Eighth Day?
Day Circumcised Number of Hebrew Boys Number of Deaths
1 823 4
3 759 6
5 693 8
7 855 3
9 770 2
11 698 4
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He spreads out the northern skies over empty
space He suspends the earth over nothing Job
268 The earth is on the back of four elephants
standing on top of a turtle, encircled by a
serpent, swimming in a sea of milk The Sutras
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Topics not touched on 1. The origin of the
universe. 2. The origin of life. 3. The
origin of species especially of humans. 4.
The age of the earth. www.evidenceforchristiani
ty.org