Psalm 19

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Psalm 19
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Nature Declares That God Is (Psalm 19)!

• 1 The heavens declare the glory of God And the
  firmament showeth his handiwork. 2 Day unto day
  uttereth speech, And night unto night showeth
  knowledge.
• 3 There is no speech nor language Their voice
  is not heard. 4 Their line is gone out through
  all the earth, And their words to the end of the
  world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the
  sun,

God Has Power Understanding (Gen. 1)!
1 In the beginning God created the heaven and
the earth.
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INTRO Science has achieved much

• Laws of Nature
• Law of Gravity (Newton)
• Law of Electromagnetism (Maxwell)
• Structure of the atom (Bohr, and others)
• Periodic table (chemical properties)
• DNA structure
• Cell chemistry
• Computers, electricity, vaccines, surgery,
  vehicles (ground, air, space), etc.!
• Yet understanding how something works is not the
  same as understanding its origin!

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INTRO Evolution Is An Attempt To
Explain Nature WITHOUT God

• A PBS TV series on evolution claims that
• All known scientific evidence support evolution
• Virtually every reputable scientist in the world
  support evolution
• School text books on evolution all proclaim that
  Evolution is a proven fact
• Is this overwhelming evidence?
  Is (macro) evolution fact?

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INTRO General Evolution is NOT a fact!

• Immediately after the PBS TV series, 100
  scientists (from well-known universities like
  MIT, Yale, Emory, etc) published a 2-page ad in
  the newspaper The Weekly Standard
• Public TV programs, education policy statements,
  and science textbooks have asserted that Theory
  of Evolution fully explains the complexity of
  living things. The public has been assured, most
  recently by spokespersons for PBS's Evolution
  series, that "all known scientific evidence
  support evolution" as does "virtually every
  reputable scientist in the world. ----- The
  following scientists DISPUTE the first claim and
  stand as LIVING TESTIMONY in contradiction to the
  second.. (followed by the names of these 100
  scientists)

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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)

1. Atoms The basic unit of matter (protons,
   neutrons, electrons).

Complexity Alphabet Shakespeare Power
A-bomb, Stars
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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)

1. Atoms The basic unit of matter.
2. Molecules Two or more atoms bound chemically
   together.

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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)
Amino-acid molecule
Cell
Millions of proteins
Simplest protein of life (Rybonuclease) 127 amino
acids molecules. Average proteins contains
thousands of amino acid molecules.
Chain of 100s of amino-acid molecules form
proteins
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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)

1. Atoms The basic unit of matter.
2. Molecules Two or more atoms bound chemically
   together.
3. Cells The basic unit of life.

• We now know the cell is extremely complex!
• In Darwins day, the cell was thought to be a
  simple blob, like dough (early microscopes).

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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)

• It was once expected that the basis of life
  would be exceedingly simple. That expectation
  has been smashed. Vision, motion, and other
  biological functions have proven to be no less
  sophisticated than television cameras and
  automobiles. Science has made enormous progress
  in understanding how the chemistry of life works,
  but the elegance and complexity of biological
  systems at the molecular level have paralyzed
  sciences attempt to explain their origins.
  (Behe, Darwins Black Box, p. x)

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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)

• The cumulative results show with piercing
  clarity that life is based on machines machines
  made of molecules! Molecular machines haul
  cargo from one place in the cell to another along
  highways made of other molecules, while still
  others act as cables, ropes, and pulleys to hold
  the cell shape. Machines turn cellular switches
  on and off, sometimes killing the cell or causing
  it to grow. Solar-powered machines capture the
  energy of photons and store chemicals.
  Electrical machines allow current to flow through
  nerves. Manufacturing machines build other
  molecular machines, as well as themselves. Cells
  swim using machines, copy themselves with
  machinery, ingest food with machinery. In short,
  highly sophisticated molecular machines control
  every cellular process. Thus the details of life
  are finely calibrated, and the machinery of life
  enormously complex. (Behe, Darwins Black
  Box, p. 4-5)

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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)
Cell
0.01 mm

• 50 Trillion Cells in a human body.
• 50,000,000,000,000

Encyclopedia Britannica A living cell is a
marvel of detailed and complex architecture. . .
. The information content of a simple cell has
been estimated as around 1012 bits, comparable to
about one hundred million pages of Encyclopedia
Britannica. (Life, Encyclopedia Britannica
Online, http//members.eb.com/ bol/topic?eu109621
sctn1)
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I. INVISIBLE THINGS (Col. 116)

• Molecular biologist Dr. Michael Denton To
  grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed
  by molecular biology, we must magnify a cell a
  thousand million times until it is twenty
  kilometers in diameter and resembles a giant
  airship large enough to cover a great city like
  London or New York. What we would then see would
  be an object of unparalleled complexity and
  adaptive design. On the surface of the cell we
  would see millions of openings, like the
  portholes of a vast spaceship, opening and
  closing to allow a continual stream of materials
  to flow in and out. If we were to enter one of
  these openings we would find ourselves in a world
  of supreme technology and bewildering
  complexity. (Michael Denton, Evolution A
  Theory in Crisis Bethesda, MD Adler Adler,
  1986).

12 ½ miles
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II. COMPLEXITY OF CELLS
Amino-acids building blocks of life
Amino-acid molecule
Cell
Millions of proteins
Simplest protein of life (Rybonuclease) 127 amino
acids molecules. Average proteins contains
thousands of amino acid molecules.
Chain of 100s of amino-acid molecules form
proteins
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II. COMPLEXITY OF CELLS
Amino-acids building blocks of life

• 20 different amino-acid molecules in cells
• Each protein is made of different combinations of
  amino-acids
• Living cells use thousands of different kinds of
  proteins!

Example Molecule A
Example Molecule B
Countless combinations
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II. COMPLEXITY OF CELLS
Amino-acids building blocks of life

• PLUS Amino-acid molecules come in 2 flavors left
  handed and right-handed. Life only uses
  left-handed molecules!

• The odds in favor of the chance formation of a
  functional simple cell are acknowledged to
  be worse than 1 in 1040,000.
  Effectively ZERO. (Fred Hoyle, The
  Intelligent Universe, New York, NY Holt,
  Rinehart, and Winston, 1983).
• Roughly, thats like rolling two dice and getting
  double-sixes 50,000 times in a row with unloaded
  dice. (ibid)

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II. COMPLEXITY OF CELLS
Amino-acids building blocks of life
The right arrangement of atoms coming together
to make the right combination of (left handed!)
amino-acid molecules, in the right order to make
millions of proteins arranged properly to make
just ONE CELL
Cell An Accident?
Millions of proteins!
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II. COMPLEXITY OF CELLS

• With all our current advanced knowledge and
  technologies, we cannot make a living cell from
  scratch...

• Even breaking apart a living cell to its
  elements, we cannot reform it

• The complexity of lifes foundation has
  paralyzed sciences attempt to account for it
  molecular machines raise an as-yet-impenetrable
  barrier to Darwinisms universal reach. (Behe,
  Darwins Black Box, p. 5)

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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Early biology LIMITED to the eye.

• Eye can resolve objects as small as 1/10
  mm. Thus, only the general structure was visible
  to early scientists.

• Spectacles were common in the 15th century. But
  not combined as convex and concave lenses in a
  tube until 17th century.

• Matthias Schleiden Theodor Schwan (Mid 1800s)
  developed idea that bodies are composed of cells.

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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Early biology LIMITED by early microscopes.

• For physical reasons a microscope cannot resolve
  two points that are closer than half the
  wavelength of light.

• Cells are small enough that many of their details
  and functions cannot be seen through a normal
  lens microscope.

• Thus, in 1800s cells were simple considered
  blobs

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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Spontaneous Generation Observed

• People saw small animals insects come out of
  spoiled food. They thought these creatures were
  SIMPLE (Ex. Insects no internal organs).

• As microscope revealed more details, cells

• It then seemed reasonable that simple organisms
  could arise from liquids.

• Ernst Haeckels view of the cell simple little
  lump of albuminous combination of carbon (like
  microscopic jello). (Behe p. 24)

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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Evolutionary Observations Disproven

• Louis Pasteur 1864 disproved spontaneous
  generation.

• Later microscopes revealed cells are NOT simple

1. Also, Simple Intermediate Steps?

• Example 1 Neighbor claims to have jumped a 10
  foot wide ditch. (Possible)

• Example 2 Neighbor claims to have jumped a 1000
  foot wide ditch. (Not possible!)

• Evolutionary stories attempt to paint evolution
  as example 1 (simple), when they are really 2.

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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Simple Intermediate Steps?

Could Time, Chance EVER Achieve These?
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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Simple Intermediate Steps?

The Evolution of the laptop (by Dr. Maik B.
Leev).
2 Billion years ago primitive pizza boxes were
scraped clean by monkeys. This constant scraping
began the development of keys. 1 Billion years
ago, those random key movements had stimulated
the growth of electrical connections. 500 Million
years ago, these connections in turn triggered a
gradual emergence of a primitive LED screen. 100
Million years ago, the LED screen diversified
into a High Definition flat panel. 1 Mill. years
ago, the 1st crude OS (Microsoft Windows v. 1).
Could Time, Chance EVER Achieve This?
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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Simple Intermediate Steps?

Speaking of time chance in evolution
Time is in fact the hero of the plot. The time
with which we have to deal is of the order of two
billion years. What we regard as impossible on
the basis of human experience is meaningless
here. Given so much time, the impossible
becomes possible, the possible probable, and the
probable virtually certain. One has only to wait
time itself performs the miracles. (George Wald,
Harvard University biochemist and Nobel Laureate,
1954).
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III. EVOLUTIONS EVIDENCE FAILS

1. Inescapable Complexity

Cells Are Too Complex To Be By Chance Time!
With the advent of modern biochemistry we are
now able to look at the rock-bottom level of
life. We can now make an informed evaluation of
whether the putative small steps required to
produce large evolutionary changes can ever get
small enough. You will see in this book that the
canyons separating everyday life forms have their
counterparts in the canyons that separate
biological systems on a microscopic scale.
unbridgeable chasms occur even at the tiniest
level of life. (Behe p. 15)
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IV. POWERFUL INTELLIGENCE!
Col. 116-17 For in him were all things
created, in the heavens and upon the earth,
things visible and things invisible, whether
thrones or dominions or principalities or powers
all things have been created through him, and
unto him and he is before all things, and in him
all things consist.

• Intelligent Design Evident At All Levels!

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IV. POWERFUL INTELLIGENCE!
Hebrews 34 For every house is builded by some
one but he that built all things is God. Romans
118-19 For God's wrath is ever being revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men who smother the truth by
their unrighteousness. This is so because that
which may be known of God is manifest among them
for God has made it manifest to them
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IV. POWERFUL INTELLIGENCE!
Romans 120 For ever since the creation of the
world his invisible nature, even his everlasting
power and divinity, has been clearly seen, being
perceived through the things that are made. So
they have no excuse. 21 For although they knew
God, yet they did not glorify him as God, nor
give him thanks but became vain in their
reasoning, and their senseless minds were
darkened. 22 While they professed to be wise,
they became fools,

• Even Atheists Admit Immense Complexity!

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CONCLUSION

• God Created Invisible Things
• Indisputable Complexity At Every Level!
• Complexity Of Cells
• Design Demands A Designer!
• Evolutions Evidence Fails
• Nature Can Not Produce It On Its Own!

Only God Is Powerful Enough Intelligent Enough
To make All That Is!
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