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Evidence, Evolution and the Existence of God
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It is clear that the doctrine of evolution is
directly antagonistic to that of
creation.Evolution, if consistently accepted,
makes it impossible to believe the Bible.
-Aldous Huxley
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Evolution and creation are diametrically opposed
One cannot logically believe both
If the Bible is correct and creation is true,
evolution is false
If evolution is true, the Bible is incorrect and
the creation never occurred at all
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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 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
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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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Science and religion are not antagonists, but
sisters. Both seek ultimate truth. Science helps
to reveal more about the Creator through His
creation.The public has a deep respect for the
amazing scientific advance made within our
lifetime.But it still bothers some people that
we cannot prove scientifically that God exists.
Must we light a candle to see the sun?
-Dr. Wernher von Braun
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Days 1-4 Genesis 11-5
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And God said, Let there be light and there was
light. And God saw the light, that it was good
and God divided the light from the darkness. And
God called the light Day, and the darkness he
called Night. And the evening and the morning
were the first day. Genesis 13-5
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And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters. And God made the firmament, and
divided the waters which were under the firmament
from the waters which were above the firmament
and it was so. And God called the firmament
Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the
second day. Genesis 16-8
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And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear and it was so. And God called the
dry land Earth and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas and God saw that it was
good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree
yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in
itself, upon the earth and it was so. And
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the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his kind and God
saw that it was good. And the evening and the
morning were the third day. Genesis
19-13
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And God said, Let there be lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day from
the night and let them be for signs, and for
seasons, and for days, and years And let them be
for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give
light upon the earth and it was so. And God made
two great lights the greater light to rule the
day, and the lesser light to rule the night he
made the stars also. And God set them in
the
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firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth, And to rule over the day and over the
night, and to divide the light from the darkness
and God saw that it was good. And the evening
and the morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 114-19
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Time
Force
Energy
Space
In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. Genesis 11
Matter
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Only in recent times has man determined that
universe is not a mere collection of stars, but
an arrangement of millions of star galaxies
When Moses wrote the Pentateuch, Hindus held that
the earth was supported by four elephants on a
tortoises back
Men long thought the earth to be flat prior to
the time of Columbus
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He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,
and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 267
Job- first book of the Bible penned
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It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the
earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as
grasshoppers that stretcheth out the heavens as
a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to
dwell in Isaiah 4022
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To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be
equal? saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on
high, and behold who hath created these things,
that bringeth out their host by number he
calleth them all by names by the greatness of his
might, for that he is strong in power not one
faileth. Isaiah 4025, 26
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The sheer magnitude of the universe (although not
necessarily a proof within itself) testifies to
the magnificence of the Creator
While its outer limits have not been measured, it
is estimated to be as much as 20 billion light
years in diameter
(70 sextillion)
Thats 70,000 million, million, million!
Thought to be more stars in the sky than grains
of sand on all the deserts and beaches on earth!
A light year is the distance light travels in
one year (at 186,000 miles per second!)
Counted in 2003 by Australian astronomers
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So, at 186,000 miles per second it would take you
20 billion years to go from one end of the
universe to the other!
For comparison, the sun is our nearest star (at
93 million miles from earth)
How far is the next nearest star?
Represent the distance allowing one inch to equal
93 million miles (the distance from earth to the
sun)
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Sun
In order to represent the next closest star
Earth
the board would have to be 4 ½ miles long!
One Inch 93 million miles
(each inch of which is 93 million miles!)
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If we extended our line just to the center of
our own Milky Way Galaxy
the board would need to be 25,000 miles long!
(each inch of which is 93 million miles!)
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Traveling in a jet at 535 miles per
hour non-stop
it would take 29,845,005 years to get there!
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Our galaxy is one of an estimated one
billion galaxies in the universe!
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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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While the size is impressive, the design is even
more so
The suns temperature (estimated at 10,800
degrees F at the surface and 20 million degrees C
at the center) is ideal for the right range of
light wavelengths, which allow for life on earth
Higher temperature would result in too much
ultraviolet radiation lower temperature in too
much infrared
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The earth is situated at the right distance from
the sun (93 million miles)
10 closer, far too much heat would be absorbed-
burn 10 farther away, too little heat would be
absorbed- freeze
Earth is rotating on its axis at 1000 miles per
hour at equator, providing periods of light and
darkness (necessary to sustaining life)
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If rotated much faster, fierce cyclones would
stir the features of our planet like a giant mixer
If much slower, days and nights impossibly hot or
cold
Venus rotates only once in 243 days daytime
temperatures as high as 930 degrees F (water
boils at 212 degrees)
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Earth is moving around the sun at average of
70,000 miles per hour
Course is elliptical and not circular
Northern hemisphere actually closer to the sun in
January and farthest away in July
When closer to the sun, the earth speeds up on
its path to avoid being pulled by gravity into
the sun when farther away it slows down to avoid
being flung out into space
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Earth is tilted on its axis at exactly 23.5
degrees
Combined with the speed of the earth around the
sun, this characteristic allows for the seasons
also allows plants to grow at optimum amount
worldwide
If perpendicular and not tilted, no seasons
(tropics hotter deserts bigger), poles in
perpetual twilight
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Also, water vapor from the oceans would move
north and south, piling up continents of ice and
leaving a desert between the equator and the ice
As earth moves in its orbit around the sun (in
traveling in its ellipses), it departs from a
straight line by only 1/9 inch at every 18 miles
18 Miles
If it departed by 1/8 inch, earth would travel
too close to the sun if 1/10, would travel too
far from sun
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Such precision and delicate balance demands a
Designer!
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Atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen (78),
oxygen (21) and carbon dioxide (.03)- combined
with minute levels of other gases
Proper balance of these absolutely essential to
life- Someone mixed them just right!
Ozone (40 miles above earths surface) only about
1/8 thick compressed
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Protects earth from short rays of the sun
(blister, blind, destroy life)
Allows long rays (needful for life) to pass
through
If ozone too thin, short rays would pass through
easily if too thick, long rays not allowed to
penetrate (rickets)
Most deadly of suns rays allowed to pass through
enough to keep down growth of green algae
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Unchecked, would clog every flowing stream
Yet, not all algae destroyed- major food source
for microscopic organisms
Ozone itself is poisonous to mankind, but exists
high enough to prevent problem
Atmosphere insulates and prevents heat loss at
night distributes heat over earths surface
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Nitrogen (78 of atmosphere) is essential to
plants, yet plants cannot absorb it directly
Nitrogen is chemically inert (although
analytically it should be much more chemically
active than it is)
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It is fortunate? that nitrogen is chemically
inert. If it were less reluctant to combine with
other elements it might readily combine with
water to form nitric acidand then the oceans
would turn into diluted nitric acida catastrophe
certainly as horrible as any visualized in
speculations about atomic warfare. -Martin
D. Kamen, Scientific America
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Nitrogen (78 of atmosphere) is essential to
plants, yet plants cannot absorb it directly
Nitrogen is chemically inert (although
analytically it should be much more chemically
active than it is)
How plants absorb this chemically inert, yet
essential element?
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Bacteria (called nitrogen fixers) capture and
transform nitrogen in the soil so that plants can
absorb and process it
An error in the making of even one gas would have
made the world uninhabitable!
Interestingly, nitrogen and oxygen combined in
useable form by lightning
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Farmers Digest stated that 100 million tons of
usable plant food supplied each year by lightning
When and how did lightning evolve?
If atmosphere of the earth followed proportions
found anywhere else in universe, life impossible
Do these matters reveal chaotic happenstance and
eons of time, or order and design?
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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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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 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 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
It has exactly the right tilt
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It has exactly the right amount of oceanic water
It has exactly the right weight and mass
It has exactly the right combination of
atmospheric gases
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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Sources -The Problem of Origins Part 1,
Apologetics Press, Bert Thompson -Batsell Barrett
Baxter, I Believe Because -Jonathan Sarfarti,
Refuting Evolution -The Existence of God (Part
1), Apologetics Press, Wayne Jackson -The
Existence of God (Part 2), Apologetics Press,
Wayne Jackson The Heavens Declare Gods Glory,
AP Article Reprint, Wayne Jackson -The Truth
About the Design of the Universe, Apologetics
Press, Brad Harrub