Evolution' Does It Really Matter

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Evolution. Does It Really Matter?
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There is no Question of greater importance than
whether or not God exists

• The answer to this single question affects ALL
  other questions

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If there is a Supreme Being, then life has
purpose and some form of meaning. If not, then
our very presence on this Earth is simply the
result of a cosmologic explosion.
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What does it matter?
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It matters because at its fundamental core,
organic evolution is a Godless theory of origins.
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February 12, 2009 WAS the 200th anniversary of
Darwins Birth

• New Testament Christians need to be
• forearmed and forewarned

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Charles Darwin

• Charles Robert Darwin, February 12, 1809.
• Darwins mother died when he was just eight years
  old
• His father was a successful physician, running
  one of the largest medical practices outside of
  London.
• His grandfather was Erasmus Darwin, also a
  physician, and the author of Zoonomia, or the
  Laws of Organic Life.

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Charles Darwin

• At the early age of 16 Darwin was sent to the
  University of Edinburgh to study medicine, but he
  couldnt cut it.
• Two years later his father sent him off to
  Cambridge where he studiedof all thingsdivinity

Darwins only degree was in Divinity!
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The Evolution Model
According to the evolution model, the Universe is
completely self-contained. That is to say, the
Universe is all that exists. There is no First
Cause, no superintending intelligence, no
divine guidance that is responsible for what we
see around us.
Rather, the Universe and all its complex systems
including all non-human organisms, man, etc.can
be explained on the basis of random, chance,
naturally occurring processes occurring over eons
of time.
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Micro vs. Macro Evolution

• Micro-evolution is truebut is defined as small
  changes within limited parameters (ex. Dogs bred
  for different traits)
• Macro-evolution is false and has never been
  proved in a labit says that all life descended
  from a common ancestor. (Ex. Dog to a fern)

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The Origin of Species1859(2009 marks the 150th
anniversary of this publication)

• Full Title The Origin of Species by Means of
  Natural Selectionor The Preservation of Favored
  Races in the Struggle for Life.

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• there is no fundamental difference between man
  and the higher mammals in their mental faculties.

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• Evolutionary science has become a modern-day
  Baal that many worship. It is considered the
  religion of the intellectual elite.
• Today, Darwinian evolution is being taught as
  fact, while atheists and evolutionists continue
  to try and discount the validity of Gods Word.

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Sadly, Many Christians Have Bought into the Lie
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What does it matter?
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It matters because it affects how we answer the
major questions of life
Where did I come from? Why am I here? Where am I
going when I die?
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If the foundation is undermined, it will not be
long until the superstructure built upon it
collapses as well.

• One who doubts the Genesis account will not be
  the same man he once was, for his attitude toward
  Holy Scripture has been eroded by false teaching.
  Genesis is repeatedly referred to in the New
  Testament, and it cannot be separated from the
  total Christian message
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The conclusion I have come to is this the law
of Christ is incompatible with the law of
evolution Nay, the two laws are at war with
each other Evolutionist, Sir Arthur Keith,
Evolution Ethics. (Keith wrote the forward to
Darwins book for the 1959- 100 year anniversary
reprint.)
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Daniel Dennett Concerning Parents Who Teach
Their Children Something Other Than Evolution
Those of us who have freedom of speech will feel
free to describe your teachings as the spreading
of falsehoods, and will attempt to demonstrate
this to your children at our earliest
opportunity. Darwins Dangerous Idea, 1995, NY
Simon and Schuster, p. 519.
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You are an animal and share a common heritage
with earthworms. Biology Visualizing Life,
Holt, 1994
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• We know, for example, that humans evolved from
  common ancestors we share with other living
  primates such as chimpanzees and apes (p. 757).
• Like all other forms of life, humans are
  products of evolution by natural selection (p.
  352).

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Christians are being inundated with Evolutionary
Rubbish
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• WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVEIN EVOLUTION?
• Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We
  believe it because the only alternative is
  special creation, and that is unthinkable.
• (Sir Arthur Keith, as quoted in W.A. Criswell,
  Did Man Just Happen?, 1972, Zondervan, Grand
  Rapids, Michigan, p. 73)

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What does it matter?
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It Matters

• Because the foundations of the creation account
  are being compromised, and if there was no
  Creator, then there is no Savior.

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Redemption is the major theme throughout the
Bible
Genesis 3--Man Sins
Revelation
Initially, man was in a covenant relationship
w/ God
The rest of the Bible is teaching how to get
back into that covenant relationship
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Redemption is the major theme throughout the
Bible
Genesis 3--Man Sins
Man was in a covenant relationship w/ God
The rest of the Bible is teaching How to get back
into that covenant relationship
If Evolution is true then Genesis is a myth
20,000,000,000 years ago Big Bang
In the beginningDIRT...
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What does it matter?
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It matters because organic evolution is bad
science!
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Evolution
Life from non-life
Design found in nature
Origin of Universe
Remember There are 3 fundamental pillars that
evolution cannot explain. If evolution cant
explain the origin of life, then why is it taught
as fact?
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But the Creation Model Can
Life from non-life
Origin of Universe
Design found in nature
Remember There are 3 fundamental pillars that
evolution cannot explain. If evolution cant
explain the origin of life, then why is it taught
as fact?
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• Evolution Falls Short
• Can evolution explain why we laugh/cry?
• Can evolution explain the origin of sex and
  gender?
• Can evolution explain altruism/charity?
• Can evolution explain the origin of language?
• Can evolution explain the origin of the human
  consciousness?
• If evolution is true, then at what point along
  that Tree of Life did God reach down and
  instill a soul?

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The origin of lifea miracle?

• An honest man, armed with all the knowledge
  available to us now, could only state that in
  some sense, the origin of life appears at the
  moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the
  conditions which would have had to have been
  satisfied to get it going.
• Francis Crick in Life Itself Its Origin and
  Nature (New York Simon Schuster, 1981) p. 88
  (emp. added).

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Consider this

• Has evolution produced entirely new creatures
  (macroevolution)?
• Have mutations ever added new genetic material?
• Has evolution demonstrated how life evolved from
  non-life?
• Has evolution described the origin of the
  Universe?
• Can evolution explain irreducible complexity
  (i.e., flagella, cellular proteins)
• The answer to all of these questions is a
  resounding NO!

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What does it matter?
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• It matters because many of our children are
  being intimidated. They are being told evolution
  is a fact.
• They are being bullied into believing that
  All intellectual people believe in evolution.
  Only a moron would believe in the Creation
  account.

This is a lie!
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• IS EVOLUTION A FACT?
• ...Evolution is as well documented as any
  phenomenon in science, as strongly as the earths
  revolution around the sun rather than vice versa.
  In this sense, we can call evolution a fact.
• (Stephen Jay Gould, Dorothy, Its Really
  Oz, Time, 154 859, August 23, 1999)

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• Evolution is a fact, like apples falling out
  of trees
• (Stephen J. Gould, Is Man a Subtle Accident?,
  Newsweek, November 3,1980).

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• Evolution is a fact, like digestion
• (W.W. Howells, Mankind So Far, 1944, p. 5).

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IS EVOLUTION A FACT OF SCIENCE?

• Evolution of the animal and plant world is
  considered by all those entitled to a judgment to
  be a fact for which no further proof is needed
• (Richard Goldschmidt, American Scientist, Vol.
  49,1952, p. 84).

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No serious biologist today doubts the fact of
evolution.... The fact of evolution is amply
clear. We do not need a listing of evidences to
demonstrate the fact of evolution any more than
we need to demonstrate the existence of mountain
ranges (J. Savage, Evolution, Holt, Rinehart,
Winston, New York, 1965, Preface).
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The first point to make about Darwins theory
is that it is no longer a theory, but a fact. No
serious scientist would deny the fact that
evolution has occurred... (Julian Huxley, in
Issues in Evolution, Sol Tax, ed., University of
Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, 1960, p.
41).
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• This intimidation and influence often causes
  young people to doubt the Truths they have been
  taught.

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Richard Dawkins on Creationists

• It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet
  somebody who claims not to believe in evolution,
  that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane (or
  wicked, but Id rather not consider that).
• Richard Dawkins, Book Review (of Donald
  Johanson Maitland Edeys Blueprint), The New
  York Times, April 9, 1989, section 7, p. 34

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• IS EVOLUTION A FACT OF SCIENCE?
• The pathetic thing is that we have scientists
  who are trying to prove evolution, which no
  scientist can ever prove (Robert A. Millikan,
  Nobel laureate in physics, quoted in the
  Nashville Banner, August 7, 1925).
• 2. Scientists who go about teaching that
  evolution is a fact of life are great con men,
  and the story they are telling may be the
  greatest hoax ever. In explaining evolution, we
  do not have one iota of fact.... It is a tangled
  mishmash of guessing games and figure
  jaggling... (Theodore Tahmisian, nuclear
  physicist, Atomic Energy Commission, quoted in
  the Fresno Bee, August 20, 1959).
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• Some scientists say, just throw energy at it
  and it will happen spontaneously. That is a
  little bit like saying put a stick of dynamite
  under a pile of bricks, and bang, youve got a
  house! Of course you wont have a house, youll
  just have a mess.
• (Paul Davies and Adams Phillips, 1998, More Big
  Questions Sydney, Australia ABC Books
  pp.47-48.)

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• "Biologists are simply naive when they talk
  about experiments designed to test the theory of
  evolution. It is not testable. They may happen to
  stumble across facts which would seem to conflict
  with its predictions. These facts will invariably
  be ignored and their discoverers will undoubtedly
  be deprived of continuing research grants."?-
• Professor Whitten (Professor of Genetics),
  University of Melbourne, Australia, 1980 Assembly
  Week address.

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• "Nine-tenths of the talk of evolutionists is
  sheer nonsense, not founded on observation and
  wholly unsupported by facts. This museum is full
  of proofs of the utter falsity of their views. In
  all this great museum, there is not a particle of
  evidence of the transmutation of species."
• -Dr. Etheridge, senior paleontologist of the
  British Museum of Natural History, cited in Dr.
  Scott Huse, The Collapse of Evolution.

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• "So heated is the debate that one Darwinian says
  there are times when he thinks about going into a
  field with more intellectual honesty the
  used-car business."?-Sharon Begley, "Science
  Contra Darwin," Newsweek, April 8, 1985, p. 80.

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What does it matter?
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It matters because many Christians are
compromising Gods Word.
Compromise
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Some would question Couldnt each of the days
have been millions of years, thus allowing for
evolutionary time? i.e.,Day 1 1 million
years Day 2 1 million years Day 3 1
million years Day 4 1 million years Day 5
1 million years Day 6 1 million years So
maybe creation really took 6 million years?
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The Bible is clear For in six days the Lord
made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all
that is in them, and rested the seventh day.
Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and
hallowed it. Exodus 2011
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Logical thinking tells us this could have never
happened. Day 3Genesis 19-13 God made grass,
flowers, and trees.
Those flying insects required for
pollination werent created until Day 5!
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EVENING AND MORNING The words evening and
morning are used together in the Old Testament
with the word day (yom) over 100 times in
non-prophetical literature. Each time day
refers to a literal, 24-hour day.
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GENESIS 114   Then God said, Let there be
lights in the firmament of the heavens to divide
the day from the night and let them be for signs
and seasons, and for days and years. If each day
of creation was millions of years what is the
writer describing in this verse?
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Work shall be done for six days, but the seventh
is the Sabbath of rest, holy to the Lord. Whoever
does any work on the Sabbath day, he shall surely
be put to death. Therefore the children of Israel
shall keep the Sabbath, to observe the Sabbath
throughout their generations as a perpetual
covenant. It is a sign between Me and the
children of Israel forever for in six days the
Lord made the heavens and the earth, and on the
seventh day He rested and was refreshed. Exodus
3115-17
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The Long Day of Joshua And there has been no day
like that, before it or after it, that the Lord
heeded the voice of a man for the Lord fought
for Israel. Joshua 1014
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For since the creation of the world His invisible
attributes are clearly seen, being understood by
the things that are made, even His eternal power
and Godhead, so that they are without
excuse. Romans 120
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But from the beginning of the creation, God
made them male and female. Mark 106 Jesus here
indicates males and females were here from the
beginning of creation. This is in direct conflict
with the evolutionary theory. (see also Matthew
194)
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And so it is written, The first man Adam was made
a living soul the last Adam was made a
quickening spirit.

• I Cor. 1545

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Psalm 336,9

• By the word of the Lord were the heavens made
  and all the host of them by the breath of His
  mouth.
• For He spake, and it was done He commanded
  and it stood fast.
• This verse does not read For He spake, and
  over millions of years it was finally done He
  commanded and after eons of time it stood fast.

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What does it matter?
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Our belief is not a blind leap of faith. Make
sure your children know the evidence for why they
believe what they believe.
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If Creation is True
If Evolution is True
1. There is a Creator.
1. There is no Creator.
2. There are no rules- no commandments - no law.
2. There are rules-right and wrong.
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If Creation is True
If Evolution is True
3. There is a purpose to life.
3. There is no purpose to life.
4. Man is evolving with no need of a Savior.
4. Man is a fallen creature in need of a
Savior.
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For the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus
made me free from the law of sin and death.

• Romans 82

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If Creation is True
If Evolution is True
5. Man brought death into the world.
5. Death brought man into the world.
6. There is an after-life.
6. There is no after-life.
7. There is no hope of knowing the future.
7. There is comfort in knowing the future.
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