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Page 1: Topics Two models of history 7 Biblical truths why it matters Science and why it matters Conclusion: Why it matters what we believe.
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TopicsTopics Two models of history 7 Biblical truths why it matters Science and why it matters Conclusion: Why it matters what we

believe

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Creation ModelCreation Model

Sin was the cause of death God destroyed the world by a worldwide

flood Man was created in the image of God

God created ALL thingsGod created ALL things

God created the universe and everything in it in 6 days

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Evolution ModelEvolution Model

About 4.6 billion years ago the earth evolved About 3.5 billion years ago life evolved Humans evolved from ape-like creatures

Time, chance, and natural processesTime, chance, and natural processes

About 15 billion years ago the universe exploded into existence

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1. Context - context - context

2. Let Scripture interpret Scripture

3. Don’t let our experiences interpret the Bible

1. Context - context - context

2. Let Scripture interpret Scripture

3. Don’t let our experiences interpret the Bible

Three Rules of Interpretation

Creation and the BibleCreation and the Bible

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The Process for CreationThe Process for Creation

The Bible “And God said” Psalm 33:6,9 “By the Word of the Lord…” Hebrews 11:3

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.

What the Bible does NOT say

Evolution model

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Contradictions Between Genesis and Contradictions Between Genesis and Geological AgesGeological Ages

Uniformitarianism/Evolution

Bible/Catastrophism/Creation

Matter existed in the beginning Matter created by God in the beginning

Sun and stars before the earth Earth before the sun and stars

Contiguous atmosphere/hydrosphere

Atmosphere between two hydrospheres

Land before the oceans Oceans before the land

Sun, earth’s first light Light before the sun

Fishes before fruit trees Fruit trees before fishes

Woman before man (by genetics) Man before woman (by creation)

Rain before man Man before rain

“Creative” processes still continuing

Creation completed

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The Cause of Physical DeathThe Cause of Physical Death Evolution: natural process Bible: What do we see being revealed sin –

“There as sin came into the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all men sinned” Rom 5:12

“For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead.” 1Cor 15:21

Curse (Genesis 3:17) Put out of the Garden to keep from eating from the tree of life (Genesis

3:22-24)

“Very Good” (Genesis 1:31) Animal death Plant death

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The Local The Local FloodFlood

Evolution: myth or local flood

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The Genesis FloodThe Genesis Flood

Bible: worldwide Flood

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Rained 40/40

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Springs of the deep

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All land creatures perished

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All mountains were covered God’s covenant promise (Gen 9:8-11,15)

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What does God say about the What does God say about the Flood?Flood?

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Flood: Genesis 7Flood: Genesis 7(19) And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the earth; and all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered.

(21) And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both of fowl, and of cattle, and of beast, and of every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

(22) All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land , died.

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(23) And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.

QuestionQuestion

If God had wanted to teach a global flood, how could He have said it more clearly?

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Who do we believe first?Who do we believe first?

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Man or God’s Word?Man or God’s Word?

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Mt. St. Helens in 1982Mt. St. Helens in 1982

Mt. St. Helens in 1982 formed a 1/40 “scale model” of Grand Canyon in just 5 days.

Other effects observed at Mt. St. Helens dramatically and visibly supported Creation/Flood geologist theories about the rapid formation of coal, polystrates, and sediment banding.

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Geological EvidenceGeological Evidence

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Geologic ObservationsGeologic ObservationsMay 18, 1982May 18, 1982

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The Little Grand Canyon of the Toutle River

Geologic ProcessesGeologic Processes

Picture by Steve Austin, Ph.D. Geology

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Rapidly formed strata on the North Fork of the Toutle River

Geologic ProcessesGeologic Processes

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Palouse Falls Gorge, WA

Geologic ProcessesGeologic Processes

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Harien Bretz named this area of eastern Washington the Channeled Scablands.

The idea that sites, such as the Palouse Falls Gorge or Dry Falls, were the results of floods was thought to be outrageous, and described by some as near lunacy since the area receives very little rainfall today.

In fact, it was not until the area was observed from the air that many of the Scabland features were accepted as flood deposits, such as the giant ripples, which are up to 30 feet high and 250 feet apart.

Almost fifty years following his original proposal, Bretz was hailed as a hero, and in 1979, at the age of 96, he was given geology's highest honor — the Penrose Medal, which rewards one researcher each year for exceptional contributions to geology.

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Palouse Falls Gorge, WA

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It is commonly known that this area was destroyed by a massive flood catastrophe.

The flood was caused when a large glacial lake, called lake Missoula, broke through its natural dam and destroyed the majority of eastern Washington.

During the Missoula flood, stratified layers and canyons were formed rapidly.

These features are common to our world and geologists are quick to interpret them as the result of slow and gradual processes because they cannot accept that the Biblical global flood was responsible.

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Polystrate FossilsPolystrate Fossils

Picture from the Geology Book by John Morris, Ph.D. Geology

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Genesis FloodGenesis Flood

“Further, the Bible teaches a universal flood…”

Henry Clarence Thiessen, Ph.D., Lectures in Systematic Theology, 1979, p. 117.

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Genesis FloodGenesis Flood

“The biblical record in Genesis 7-8 describes no local inundation confined to the Mesopotamian Valley (as some scholars have suggested) but a water level that surpassed the summits of the highest mountains.”

Gleason Archer (Ph.D., professor of Old Testament and Semitic languages ), Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties, 1982, p. 82.

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Science and the FloodScience and the Flood

“If true scientific principle demands an observer and recorder of phenomena, only the Genesis account can be considered scientific, for only it dares to claim that there was an Observer present – the Triune God.”

Eugene Merrill, An Historical Survey of the Old Testament, 1998, p. 50.

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The Genesis FloodThe Genesis Flood

“I am convinced there is far more evidence for a recent, six-day creation and a global Flood than there is for an old earth and evolution.”

Keith Wanser, Creation ex nihilo, 1999, p. 39. (Dr. Wanser works with theoretical condensed matter physics and basic theories of matter)

The Flood was Worldwide!

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The Creation DaysThe Creation Days Evolution demands long ages Bible: literal days

Meaning of ‘Yom’ Yom with a number Evening and morning Genesis 1:14 Exodus 20:11 Words used to indicate time

Genealogies (Gen 5, 1Chron 1, Luke 3)

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The Creation DaysThe Creation Days

“Probably so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university who dares not believe that the writer(s) of Gen. 1-11 intended to convey to their readers the ideas that creation took place in a series of six days which are the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience…”

Professor James Barr, Professor of Hebrew at the University of Oxford.

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The Creation DaysThe Creation Days

“There is nothing in the Bible to obviate the idea that the days in Genesis were 24 hour type days.”

Dr. Robert Cole (Ph.D. Semitic Languages), “A PhD looks at the Genesis Days”

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The Creation DaysThe Creation Days

“In the hundreds of other cases in the Old Testament where yom stands in conjunction with an ordinal number (first, second, third, etc.), e.g. Exodus 12:15; 24:16; Leviticus 12:3, it never means anything other than a normal, literal day.”

Robert L. Reymond, Ph.D., A New Systematic Theology of the Christian Faith, 1998, p. 393.

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The Creation DaysThe Creation Days

“The more modest claim, that yom means a twenty-four-hour day when used with ordinal numbers (1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc.), has the advantage that no clear counter-example can be cited with yom meaning a long period of time.”

Newman (Ph.D. Astrophysics, Th.M. Westiminster Theological Seminary) and Eckelmann (B.S.E.E., M.Div.), Genesis One and the Origin of the Earth, pp. 61-62.

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The Creation DaysThe Creation Days

“To summarize, liberal scholars of both 19th and 20th centuries admit that the text of Genesis is clearly meant to be taken in a literal, historical sense, although they deny its claims to speak accurately to our space/time cosmos.”

Douglas F. Kelly (Professor of Systematic Theology) , Creation and Change, 1997, p. 51.

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Bible: consistent messageGen 2:7 Isa 57:16 1 Cor 8:6

Gen 5:2 Matt 19:4 Eph 3:9

Deut 4:32 Mark 10:6 Col 1:16-17

Neh 9:6 John 1: 1-3 Heb 11:3

Ps 89:47 Acts 4:24 2 Pet 1:3

Isa 45:12 Romans 1:19-20 Rev 4:11

Evolution: chance accident

The Origin of LifeThe Origin of Life

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What Did Jesus SayWhat Did Jesus Say

Jesus believed Moses: John 5:46-47 Jesus confirmed Abel: Matt 23:35 Jesus confirmed the Flood: Matt 24:37-39 …from the beginning… Mark 10:6 Jesus is the Creator

John 1:1-3, Col 1:16, Heb 1:1-3, Eph 3:9

Why do we believe the Resurrection?

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1st Law of Thermodynamics

The law of conservation of mass / energy (E = mc2”).

The law of conservation of mass/energy tells us that the universe and our world began in perfect completeness and quality.

It says matter could not have started itself.

It forbids the self-origin of matter or life.

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Evolution, Science, and the BibleEvolution, Science, and the Bible

1st Law of Thermodynamics

Laws of Laws of ScienceScience

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2nd Law of Thermodynamics

The law of entropy says that the universe had to be perfect when it started, otherwise it would totally run down today.

It refuses to recognize the possibility that either matter or life could evolve into greater complexity.

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What did Albert Einstein think?What did Albert Einstein think?

Albert Einstein declared that, of all the laws of physics, the two laws of thermodynamics would never be negated or replaced.

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Evolution, Science, and the BibleEvolution, Science, and the Bible

1st Law of Thermodynamics

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Laws of Laws of ScienceScience

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Law of Cause and Effect

For every effect that we see there has to be a cause that created the effect.

In the beginning God spoke into existence all things = effect – (life/matter)

God = cause The effect cannot be greater, in size or in

kind, than the cause.

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Evolution, Science, and the BibleEvolution, Science, and the Bible

1st Law of Thermodynamics

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Law of Cause and Effect

Laws of Laws of ScienceScience

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Law of BiogenesisLaw of Biogenesis Life comes only from preexisting life

Experiments done over two centuries prove this Louis Pasteur, Redi, Spellanzani

Spontaneous origin of life impossible: Miller’s experiment made wrong assumptions

about early earth’s environment Organic molecules oxidized by oxygen Probability of protein formation by chance is less

than 1 in 10**130, i.e. ZERO/ZIP/NONE Simple cell requires 100’s of protein molecules in a

specific order

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Evolution, Science, and the BibleEvolution, Science, and the Bible

1st Law of Thermodynamics

2nd Law of Thermodynamics

Law of Cause and Effect

Law of Biogenesis

Laws of Laws of ScienceScience

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Christian Doctrine and ScienceChristian Doctrine and Science

Therefore those who accept the big bang and make it part of their Christian apologetics are guilty of interpreting the Bible in terms of current science. This is a dangerous precedent.”

“Many Christian apologists today accept the big bang and claim that Genesis is in complete agreement with the big bang. However this is a situation driven by science and not by Biblical studies….

Danny Faulkner, Ph.D. Astronomy

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Creation is the foundation

Who is the last Adam?

The works

of Jesus

Marriage

Sin?

Reason for the Gospel

John 3:16

The foundation for Christian doctrines

Why It Matters What We BelieveWhy It Matters What We Believe

Genesis 1:31Exodus 20:11John 5:46-47

“Very good” creationCreation in 6-daysJesus believes in creation

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Effects of EvolutionEffects of Evolution

One of the main reasons our youth are leaving the church is that they cannot defend a belief in the Bible

What can be done? The Bible teaches what can be done

“But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:” (1 Peter 3:15)

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Meaning of 1 Peter 3:15Meaning of 1 Peter 3:15

This is an urgent command to preach the Word – the entire written Word even when it is not popular – and right now what is not popular is, In the beginning… But it is the only true history…

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Meaning of 1 Peter 3:15Meaning of 1 Peter 3:15

We must understand what we believe

We must understand why we are Christians

We must be able to articulate this belief reasonably and biblically

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Is evolution compatible with the Bible? Does the Bible say how God created? Is Genesis true history or just a story? How long were the days of creation?