Evidence

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Evidence, Evolution and the Existence of God
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The heavens declare the glory of God and the
firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day
uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where
their voice is not heard. Psalm 191-3
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The fool hath said in his heart, There is no
God. Psalm 141 531
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The Bible reveals that the world shows Gods
handiwork and thus reveals His existence
If this is true, should be able to see the
evidence and determine the truth
The Bible reveals that the evidence abounds and
calls one a fool who does not correctly surmise
that God is
Is it the case that the heavens declare His
glory? Lets examine and see
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Examine teleology (design) and eutaxiology
(orderly arrangement)
Teleology- design demands a designer (watch, car,
paper clip)
Eutaxiology- intricate orderly arrangement
requires an arranger
Alphabet soup in a bowl does not spell out a poem
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Orderliness of pews reveals it is no accident
Dictionary not the result of explosion in print
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Look at creation from standpoint of these two
principles and see if God is declared
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Days 1-4 Genesis 11-19
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If the sun were a hollow ball, more than 1
million earths could be put inside it
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The star Antares (a double star in the
constellation Scorpio) has a diameter of about
400 million miles (over four times the distance
from earth to the sun)
If Antares a hollow ball, could put the earth and
sun inside and the earth could follow its
complete orbit around the sun and not even go
halfway to the outer edge of Antares! (and its
likely not the largest one)
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Antares
186,000,000 miles
Sun
Earth
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Ancient man estimated the stars to number about
3000
A July 2003 report estimated there to be 70
sextillion (70 million, million, million) stars
in the known universe
Long before ancient man ventured a guess at the
number of stars in the sky, God made a promise to
Abraham and then about David based on them
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And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look
now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be
able to number them and he said unto him, So
shall thy seed be. Genesis 155
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That in blessing I will bless thee, and in
multiplying I will multiply thy seed as the stars
of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the
sea shore and thy seed shall possess the gate of
his enemies Genesis 2217
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Apart from Divine revelation, how could these
ancient writers have known that the stars were as
innumerable as the grains of sand on the sea?
As the host of heaven cannot be numbered, neither
the sand of the sea measured so will I multiply
the seed of David my servant, and the Levites
that minister unto me. Jeremiah 3322
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At the same time that the earth is traveling
about the sun at 70,000 miles per hour, and
rotating on its axis at 1000 miles per hour, the
sun with its solar system is moving through space
at 600,000 miles per hour in its own orbit
At the same time, the moon is traveling in its
orbit around the earth (at about 2300 miles per
hour)
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The period in which the moon completes an orbit
around the earth (at 2286 miles per hour) and
returns to the same position in the skythe
sidereal monthis 27 days, 7 hours, 43 minutes,
and 11.6 seconds
This period is the time interval that elapses
between two successive full moons, a period that
was known within a second even in ancient times
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The moon is some 240,000 miles from earth
The gravitational pull of the moon (primarily)
and sun on the oceans causes tides
If the moon were just 1/5 of this distance closer
to the earth, the tides would be so enormous that
they would reach 35-50 depths twice each day,
inundating the coastal plains
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The lunar tides have the greatly beneficial
effects of cleansing shorelines and diluting
stream discharges from the land by the
large-scale mixing process of currents. These
tidal currents regularly scour out shipping
channels and keep them open. The high tide
permits navigation of waters which are too
shallow at other times. -The Moon Its
Creation, Form and Significance, Whitcomb
DeYoung
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The universe operates according to precise
astronomical laws
That is why we can launch rockets to the moon and
land them within mere feet of their intended
target
Such precise movements call for a primary Mover
and refute the idea of random chance
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The earth is exactly the right distance from the
sun
It is exactly the right distance from the moon
It has exactly the right diameter
It has exactly the right atmospheric pressure
Approximately 15 lbs. per inch2 30,000 lbs. upon
the human body!
It has exactly the right tilt
It has exactly the right weight and mass
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It has exactly the right amount of oceanic water
It has exactly the right combination of
atmospheric gases
Its rotation on its axis is exactly right
Its rotation on its axis is determined so
accurately that a variation of a second in a
century would upset astronomical
calculations -Dr. A. Cressy
Morrison
Such exactness has caused more than one devout
evolutionist to question his precious theory
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As we look out into the universe and identify
the many accidents of physics and astronomy that
have worked together to our benefit, it almost
seems as if the universe must in some sense have
known we were coming. -Freeman Dyson
(evolutionist), Scientific American
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Accidents? Or the work of a Divine Creator?
The heavens declare the glory of God and the
firmament showeth His handiwork
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In the first four days of the creative week such
things as light, atmosphere, seas, dry land,
vegetation and the sun, moon and stars were
created
Since the heavens declare Gods glory and reveal
His handiwork, such evidence ought to be (and is)
abundant in the nature of the things God created
Lets examine further evidence regarding things
created on these days
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Water has been called the most uncommon of the
common elements
Without it life would be impossible on the earth
Its molecules lock together to form a flinty
embrace- ice (many uses)
In winter, covers many places with blanket of
snow and in doing so stores up reservoir of
much-needed water for spring
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Falls as rain to give nutrients to plants and
animals and to cleanse the air and streams
Unlike any other substance (except bismuth),
water is heaviest at 4 degrees Celsius (slightly
above freezing)
Thus, ice floats and water freezes from the top
down
If froze from bottom up, many bodies of water
would freeze solidly in the winter, killing all
the fish
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Who changed the law that heat expands and cold
contracts when it comes to water!?
Consider the rain or water cycle
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The energy of the sun received on a square mile
of ocean will evaporate and raise about 5435
tons of water vapor into the air in an hour.
Water vapor rises to considerable heights and
moves with the air currents (over the
continents). When the air holding water vapor
cools, the vapor condenses into billions of tiny
droplets, so small that it takes about 8 million
to make a fair-sized drop of rain! Each of these
tiny droplets coalesces and forms larger
drops, and
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when the air can no longer support them, it
rains. -Science Digest
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The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth
about unto the north it whirleth about
continually, and the wind returneth again
according to his circuits. All the rivers run
into the sea yet the sea is not full unto the
place from whence the rivers come, thither they
return again. Ecclesiastes 16, 7
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Who changed the law that heat expands and cold
contracts when it comes to water!?
Consider the rain or water cycle
70 of the earth is covered with water (97 of
which is salt water)
Water absorbs heat rapidly, but also loses it
rapidly
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Northern hemisphere (more land) actually closer
to the sun in winter (heat more evenly retained)
Southern hemisphere (more water) closer to the
sun in summer (heat more easily absorbed and lost)
Accidental? Chance happening?
Consider plants, which were also created during
first four days
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Cactus stores water while most plants give off
water
Spines protect it from foraging animals while
most plants are void of such spines so that
animals can readily feed on them
Evolution maintains that natural selection and
survival of the fittest governs all of nature
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If so, why havent all plants evolved the ability
to store water and spines to keep foraging
animals away?
If such characteristics are not best, why do
cacti still have them?
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Consider the apple
The chemicals composing it did not create
themselves
Tiny seed within has the power to burst and send
roots deep into the soil
Besides serving as an anchor for the tree, the
roots have the ability to absorb water and
nutrients from the soil
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Some power sends roots in direction where water is
Same seed package sends growth upward out of soil
into sunlight upward growth against gravity,
resulting in branches and leaves
Also against gravity, fluids from roots taken to
leaves, which operate as chemical factory
combining soil nutrients with extracted carbon
from air to form apple meat
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Same process puts apple meat into a neat
protective package
Inside the protective package, seeds for future
orders from the apple factory
Leaves die, shed, and produce organic matter
which nourishes the soil and provides nutrients
for next years crop
Where did the apple tree get this ability and
gain all this knowledge?
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Consider the sundew plant
Has about 200 tiny red filaments on the upper
surface of each leaf
Each filament is club-shaped at its free end and
carries a tiny drop of fluid that has a sticky
substance that attracts insects
Once an insect comes in contact with the fluid,
it cannot escape
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Movement of wind, rain or dust, or falling bits
of mud, sand or leaves cause the leaves and the
filaments to react
The filaments secrete an acid fluid when such
objects touch it, but it does not attempt to
capture or digest
But, when the smallest of insects touches a
filament, a different type fluid is secreted and
the plant begins at once to capture and digest it
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Where did a lowly plant (without a brain) get the
intelligence to do that, and to tell the
difference!!
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Consider the bladderwort
Grows in fresh water has no roots produces a
stem a few inches high with yellow flower
Leaf branches underwater inflate and allow the
plant to float
Underwater leaves bear small oval bladders that
trap and digest small aquatic creatures
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When prey touches the trigger hairs, the bladder
expands, sucking in the animal, which is then
dissolved within the bladder
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100X Magnification
From whence did a plant get such intelligence?
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Consider the pitcher plant
Has a pitcher-like shape that features a deep
cavity filled with liquid
Insects are attracted visually and by its sweet
smell to it
Once an insect enters into the mouth of the
pitcher, the liquid traps it, drowns it and
eventually dissolves it into amino acids,
nitrogen, phosphorus and other minerals
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Why go through all the hassle of capturing its
food when it could just take it out of the
ground?
Why doesnt the pitcher plant just
take nutrients out of the soil just like other
plants?
Where did the pitcher plant get this ability?
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Consider the venus fly trap
Each leaf has two hinged lobes that open wide
On the lobes are short, stiff hair-like
extensions called trigger hairs
Whenever something bends the trigger hairs, the
lobes snap shut (in less than a second), trapping
whatever is inside
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It doesnt close completely at first
It is thought that the reason for this is to
allow small insects to escape because they would
not provide enough nutrients
If what is trapped inside is not nutritionally
valuable (i.e. pebble, nut), the trap opens
within a few hours and spits out the object
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When it closes over food, the large finger-like
projections (cilia) on the edges of the lobes
keep larger prey from escaping
Interlock fingers as illustration of how it works
After a few minutes the lobes will lock tightly,
forming an air-tight seal to keep the digestive
juices in and keep bacteria out
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The lobes not only produce digestive juices, but
also an antiseptic juice that prevents the animal
from decaying during the digestive process (5-12
days)
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The venus fly trap has no brain or nervous system
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The venus fly trap has no muscles
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The venus fly trap has no tendons
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How does it know to do what it does,
and where did it get such knowledge?
Science is baffled by it
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There are some 500 different carnivorous plants
in the world
If evolution is true, why havent all plants
evolved this ability?
If such processes are not the best, why do these
still use them?
By what intelligence do they all operate?
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Accidents? Or the work of a Divine Creator?
The heavens declare the glory of God and the
firmament showeth His handiwork
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Sources -Why We Believe in Creation Not in
Evolution, Fred John Meldau -Various websites