Where does LIFE come from

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Where doesLIFE come from?
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Spontaneous Generation

• What is it?
• The belief that living things can come from
  non-living things. (Or from dead things.)

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Spontaneous Generation

• Really? People really believe this?
• Yep! Some people do. (Weird, isnt it?)
• The recipe for mice, for example.
• There is a great amount of evidence that this
  theory does not accurately describe where life
  comes from.

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Spontaneous Generation

• Key thought
• Even today, many evolutionists believe in
  spontaneous generation!
• Many evolutionists believe that today living
  things come from other living things, but the
  first life on planet earth came from non-living
  things!

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Biogenesis

• What is it?
• The belief that living things can only come from
  other living things.
• Life comes from life!

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Biogenesis

• The word biogenesis
• Bio- means life
• genesis means beginning
• So
• Biogenesis means

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Biogenesis

• There is a huge amount of evidence that this
  theory is true.
• Living things simply dont come from non-living
  things, or from dead things.

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A Christian Perspective on the Origins of Life

• GOD CREATED
• Genesis 11 - In the beginning, God created the
  heavens and the earth.
• Psalm 339 - For He spoke and it came to be
• John 11-3

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A Christian Perspective on the Origins of Life

• God created all things, and all things praise
  Him!
• Colossians 115-17
• Psalm 148

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A Christian Perspective on the Origins of Life

• God created all things GOOD!
• Genesis 131 - God saw all that He had made, and
  it was very good.
• Human sinfulness has messed up the good things
  God has made.
• Genesis 317-18 - Cursed is the ground because
  of you

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Humankinds Task in Creation

• Genesis 126-28
• (This passage is called the Cultural Mandate.)
• We are created in Gods Image.
• We are Gods representatives to creation.
• God has commanded us to care for His creation.
• Purpose for science class
• We do science to learn more about Gods world so
  that we can better care for it, respect it, and
  honor God through how we use it.

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How do we know God created?

• Well
• We cant prove it. (But no one really can prove
  what they believe.)
• Remember Hebrews 111-3.
• We have confidence (FAITH) in God and in his
  revealed Word!

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So What?

• People will ask you what you believe!
• 1 Peter 315-16 - Always be prepared to give an
  answer to everyone who asks you the reason for
  the hope that you have. But do this with
  gentleness and respect
• Know what you believe!
• Be ready to answer peoples questions!
• Be gentle and respectful when you do this.