Creation vs. The Theory of Evolution Can We Believe the Bible? Overview.

Creation vs.

The Theory of Evolution

Can We Believe the Bible?

Overview

Scope, Clarifications, and Definitions

• THEORY of evolution• Truth about Adaptation• Issues of Semantics• Scientific Method: Use and Abuse

– Observation, Hypothesis, Experimentation, Conclusion (or further Experimentation)

Quick view of Theory of Evolution

• Age of Earth ???• Extensible Timeline• Symbiosis of Geology and Paleontology• Genetic Mutations• Natural Selection• Common Ancestry

Quick View of Biblical Creationism• Genesis Account

– 6 Literal days of Creation– Genesis Flood– Tower of Babel

• References in Scripture– Psalms and Isaiah in abundance– Romans 5:12-14, I Corinthians 15:20-22 (Adam)– Romans 8:19-22 (Creation waits for Revelation)

2 Peter 3:5 - 7

• 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

Revelation 4:11

“ You are worthy, O Lord,

To receive glory and honor and power;    For You created all things,    And by Your will they exist

and were created.”

Compromise Viewpoints

Biblically Important?

• The Creator is the Redeemer– John 1:1-18

• The Redeemer is the Creator– Colossians 1:14-18

• Redeemer saves Real World, not Ideal World– Romans 5 (Adam and Christ)

• Non-Creator God cannot ‘create’ New Man• Allegorical Adam means mythological salvation –

God Forbid!• God is in charge of this world, He can help me

Creation vs.

The Theory of Evolution

Can We Believe the Bible?

Theory of Evolution

Theory of Evolution

• Stage 1: Hydrogen Rush• Stage 2: Rapid Expansion (‘Big Bang’)• Stage 3: Cooling and Equilibrium• Stage 4: Primordial Ooze meets Energy• Stage 5: Single-cell Life• Stage 6: Genetic culling and Selection

Problems for Theory of Evolution

• Fraudulent Examples– Piltdown Man / Neanderthals– Peppered Moths– ‘Lucy’– Haekel’s Egg drawings

• Lack of Transitional Forms• Rate of Change Double-edged Sword• Fossils

Information

• Information Technology?• Creation• Communication• Interpretation• Predicated Action

Major Scientific ‘Pink Elephants’

• Bohr’s Atomic Model• Physics Assumptions (Horse)• Rate of Change• Extrapolation / Interpolation• ‘From here’ assumptions• Piecemeal analysis• Urge for ‘new’ Discoveries

Creation vs.

The Theory of Evolution

Can We Believe the Bible?

Biblical Creationism

Biblical (Young-Earth) Creationism

• Ex Nihilo• Six Literal 24-hour days of Creation (G1)• Man / Woman• Fall of Man and the Cursed Earth • Genesis World-wide Flood (G6)• Subsequent Catastrophism• Tower of Babel (G11)• Ages of Man, Creatures

Questions about Creation

• How old is the Earth? Are you sure?• What happened to the Dinosaurs?• What are the dragons and unicorns in the

Bible? Behemoth? Leviathan?• Did Methuselah really have 969 birthdays?• What about the Grand Canyon?• How did the animals et al. spread out?

Intelligent Design - Bombardier

Intelligent Design – Woodpecker

Intelligent Design - Platypus

Intelligent Design - Giraffe

Intelligent Design - Beaver

Intelligent Design - Chicken Egg

Intelligent Design - Chuckwalla

Intelligent Design - Gecko

Intelligent Design - Bears

Intelligent Design - Dragonfly

Intelligent Design - Elephant

Intelligent Design - Firefly

Intelligent Design - Glowworms

Intelligent Design - Hippopotamus

Intelligent Design – Golden Plover

Intelligent Design - Whales

Intelligent Design

• The Fingerprints of God• Irreducible Complexity• Function• Design• Beauty and Diversity• Bear witness of God