Journey toward Creation

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Evolution Debunked

• If evolution really works how come mothers only
  have two hands? Ed Dussault
• An ounce of mother is worth a pound of
  clergy. Spanish Proverb
• That best academy, a mother's knee. James
  Russell Lowell
• All women become like their mothers. That is
  their tragedy. No man does. That's his. Oscar
  Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895

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GETTING SOME ANSWERS TO NAGGING QUESTIONS OF LIFE

• OF COURSE IT MAKES A SOUND, ITS A TREE
• THE GLASS IS ½ EMPTY
• THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST
• ½ TO ¼ CORD OF WOOD
• WHY DONT PSYCHIC HOTLINES CALL YOU RIGHT BEFORE
  YOU CALL THEM?

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THE Beginning
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Journey toward Creation
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Begin with the End in MIND

• Theres no better time than now to investigate
  and comprehend our surroundings. What are the
  odds that we humans would appear on the cosmic
  scene at the best possible time to witness the
  sweep of cosmic history, to study the universes
  beginning and attributes? Given that we humans
  also occupy the best possible location for
  viewing all of cosmic history (unblinded by the
  light of nearby nebulae, star clusters, galaxies,
  and our own galactic core and protected from
  multiple other cosmic hazards), it seems
  reasonable to conclude that the Creator intended
  for us to be here and to make Himself known.

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We are on a journey, a fast one

• I present this evidence as a knowledge seeker,
  just like you. Phil 312-14 NASB
• I am a teacher
• Checks for understanding or touchbacks
• Deer in headlights
• Thumbs up
• Fist of five
• Paradigms
• Learned never to say never-
• We come to this later

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dissonance

• The brain is a sense seeking organ
• Augustine There is a god-shaped hole in each of
  us, and our spirits are restless until they find
  rest in HIM
• Questions to ponder, those that keep me awake at
  night
• (Ed look at your sheet-Hint Hint)

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What are the tools of a scientist?

• Quotes
• Research
• C
• A
• S
• E
• Copy and Steal Everything

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For Real, what do physicists use as tools?

• Light wavesROY G BIV
• Starlight and galaxy light
• Numbers-MathematicsStats and Probability
• EMG
• Time
• History
• Defend theologically
• Defend scientifically

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• "A telescope is an astronomer's time machine,"
  explained Fermilab researcher Huan Lin, a member
  of the discovery team. "The light from this
  galaxy took more than 11 billion years to reach
  us."

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What does scripture indicate or infer?

• Dual Revelation the Creators attributes ensure
  harmony of his creative works and his inspired
  word (Bible)
• Creation Purposesnature fulfills the Creators
  states an simples reason for creating
• Creation chronologyHe transcends creation the
  realm of nature has a beginning and end, a before
  and an after.
• Predictability of the divineclose and careful
  study of natures records can reveal evidence of
  the Creators miraculous interventions

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• Gen 11 In the beginningwe are passengers on a
  controlled and designed explosion for our benefit
  on this tiny planet.
• Job 38-39the Lord speaks to and humbles Job
  about His creation.
• Psalm 104God creates and maintains creation
• Pvb 8The call of Wisdomand its yearn for us to
  listenwith 4 ears not just 2 (old adage)

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God has set before us

• This mystery of His universe unfolding
  continually
• What an awesome thing it is
• What is awe
• Grand Canyon
• Supernumerary Rainbows

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Where is the journey going to take us?

• 2 views or theories toward creation
• Young Earth ? ID ? Old Earth
• God is Honored by engagement in honest
• debate and dialogue
• Lets lay some foundations and If when Im
  finished and my fingers are all colors, Ive done
  my job.
• Physics has lots of phenomena to demonstrate his
  awesome power
• Can I cut a hole in a piece of paper big enough
  form me to walk thru?
• What does your experience tell you when a ball is
  dropped?
• Can I move the pong pong ball
• What about this spinnerrattleback?

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Young Earth

• Biblical literalists --seven "days" of Genesis 1
  24-hour days of history during which
• God created the world in eight divine acts, or
  "fiats" - hence the view is also referred to as
  "fiat creation.
• "44 Young Earth creationism holds that the
  creation week occurred a mere six to ten
  thousands years ago.45
• Other literalists have attempted to reconcile
  their literal reading with the findings of modern
  geology regarding the age of the Earth.

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Old Earth

• Gap creationism inserts a "gap" between Genesis
  11 and 12 into which geologic time can be
  inserted, during which the world of a presumed
  pre-Adamite race was destroyed and then rebuilt
  a position called the "Ruin-Reconstruction
  Interpretation".It states that life was
  immediately and recently created on a
  pre-existing old Earth. One variant rests on a
  rendering of Genesis 11-2 as
• Progressive Creationism is the religious belief
  that God allows certain natural process (such as
  gene mutation and natural selection) to affect
  the development of life, but has also directly
  intervened at key moments in lifes history to
  guide those processes or, in some views, create
  new species altogether (often to replenish the
  earth).
• Day-age theory, holds that each "day" (Heb. yom)
  of Genesis 1 represents an "age" of perhaps
  millions or even billions of years.

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Neo-creationism

• is a movement whose goal is to restate
  creationism in terms more likely to be well
  received by the public, policy makers, educators,
  and the scientific community. It aims to re-frame
  the debate over the origins of life in
  non-religious terms and without appeals to
  scripture.
• creationism is an inherently religious concept
  and that advocating it as correct or accurate in
  public school curricula violates the
  Establishment Clause of the First
  Amendment.123

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The Earth Is Round

• Consider Isaiah 4022 which mentions the circle
  of the earth. This description is certainly
  fittingparticularly when the earth is viewed
  from space the earth always appears as a circle
  since it is round.
• Another verse that indicates the spherical nature
  of our planet is Job 2610. This verse teaches
  that God has inscribed a circle on the surface of
  the waters at the boundary of light and darkness.

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The Expansion of the Universe

• The Bible indicates in several places that the
  universe has been stretched out or expanded.
  For example, Isaiah 4022 teaches that God
  stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and
  spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.

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The Hubble ShiftRed Shift

• That means that the wavelengths of the light they
  emit have been increased. The light has been
  stretched out since it was emittedit is shifted
  toward the red end of the spectrum (since red
  light has a longer wavelength than blue).

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Another piece of brain research

• Once you or I have learned something, its hard
  to go back to the time when we didnt know
  anything about itteachers face difficulty
  heredont forget parents are a childs first
  teachers!
• Often times we present a jigsaw without the
  picture to put it together. Our minds like to
  frame everything on prior knowledge.
• When there is no prior knowledge we have to
  create new neurons ? frustration

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What about this light thing

• Light travels fast,
• 7.5 x around globe in a sec,
• 8 mins from sun
• moon 2 sec,
• 6 trillion miles in a year
• Parsec -- is equal to 3.086x1016 metres, 3.26
  light-years, or 206,265 Astronomical Units. In
  other words, quite a long way.

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solar
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What is our place in the physical and spiritual
context?

• This controlled explosion
• The Sun travels around the center of the Milky
  Way galaxy
• at 487,383 mph or 135 miles per second.
• local cluster ? 1,342,161 mph
• Universe expanding at 80 kilometers per second
  per megaparsec 70- x 3 million light years210
  million light years
• 225 million years to make one circumference of
  the galaxy
• Sun is 4.6 billion years old, so it has made the
  trip 20.5 times.

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• -The circumference of the Earth at the equator is
  25,000 miles If we were to sit on a satellite
  above the Earth
• -25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of
  25000/24 or just over 996 to 1000 miles per hour
  or 18.55 mile per second

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Numbers and a sense of their enormity

• A math problem
• How many remember dimensional analysis?
• How big is a billion?
• If I gave you 1,000,000,000 and you spent a
  dollar per second, how many years would it take?
• I just purchased a 1.5 terabyte jump drive

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How about other numbers

• Largest identified and usable number
• asankhyeya 10140
• Western googol 10100
• So Ten raised to the power of one googol 10 10
  100
• so what, we are now so big that the number of
  atoms in the universe is only 1086
• How old is the universe 13.7BILLLION YEARS

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Infinity, real or conceptualis it both /and

• When we get that big, infinity becomes a concept
  not a number We try to wrap finite minds around
  this term
• Lets look at a few things
• Lets take a journey back to when you were first
  introduced to the term
• INFINITY
• It probably started with a number that you could
  always add one more to

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Then things got weird

• Number line
• Negative Numbers
• Now both directions
• Then what about between two numbers
• Fractions ?
• Roots
• Imaginary

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WHAT CHARACTERSITICS OF LIFE DO WE HAVE TO
CONSIDER?

• THE Anthropic Principle-
• Asserts physical and chemical theories
• Astrophysics and cosmology
• There is one form of life
• The only kind of universe we can occupy is
  similar to this one
• 200 characteristics have to be in place for life
  to exist

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Planets lets start close

• Moons
• no double planets can form at the same time (we
  havent found any yet) moon is about 100 million
  years younger.
• 4.5 x109 yrs ago there was a big crash 200,000
  mph ? earth lost atmosphere ? thinner one
  allowing 4 life.

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So what?

• Right size, right velocity, right angle (?),
  right materials, right time or else
• Diff atmosphere
• 2 thick
• 2 thin? barren
• correct ? life water in 3 states-for stable
  water cycle Density of H20 as it freezes
• diff mass
• Discover Magazine May 2009solar system
  simulations require gravitational stability

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A Digression-our seasons
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position in the solar system

• rotation 4x more slowly than when life 1st
  appeared
• atmosphere
• burn up
• Meteors hit and deposit mineral etc.
• scientists agree--heavy bombardment ? changes
  mass ? minerals ?
• vaporize oceans
• melt crust minerals

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Lets get out a little further

• Earth is brimming with lifedid organisms come
  from Mars or Earth when bombarded? KEY question
  in class with other teachers
• Logicasteroids can send earth rocks into solar
  system toowe think everything is hitting us?!

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Jupiter and Mars
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Saturn

• 1/3 Jupiter mass, 1000 Earth volumes

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Out further

• Kuiper Belt of asteroids
• 2 more light years ? Oort Cloud100 billion
  comets ? delivery system for essential life
  elements

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Further -24 trillion miles Alpha Centauri
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Timing of star formation

• Age
• Rate of burn-radiation
• Location
• Composition
• ancient stars neededexhaust ashes for elements
• Heavy elements9 billion years of ashes
• Fluorine from white dwarfs
• Larger than our sunruns out of fuel?supernova ?
  C, N, O, P, K, S, Fe, Cu, Ag

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Location, Location Location

• we are in a just right location with an arm for
  life and to be able to look out into the universe
• 14 billion yrs of enrichment for possibility of
  life
• probably decreases life support position in
  galaxy
• edge too sparse
• spiral armno formation
• Earth is not the geometric center but it is the
  bio-center of the universe

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Galaxy shape

• size of central bulge
• too much ?radiation
• too little not enough planet gas
• lots of factors -- planet, sun, location,
  galaxy, mass, bulge
• its a matter of numbers

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Milky Way
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Why so many stars anyhow

• 400 million light yearscosmic desertinfo
  limited
• 1021 stars enormity essential for life
  formation
• ch 24fewernuclear fusion decreases only H and
  He
• More ? elements heavier than Fe, no C, O, N.
• finely tuned cosmos

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Andromeda
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Big Bang Big Collapse

• Aha the Boomerang
• 2 factors
• mass density causes it to slow down chance if
  off 1/1060
• space NRG densityspeed up1/10120
• delicate finely tuned balance I tell of 2
  decimal places in my class
• quasarsplasma reacts in galaxy nuclei outshines
  by orders o magnitude

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Earth is exceptional in every aspect

• Laws of physics have design evidence is
  overwhelming
• Supernatural agency ? Supreme Being
• The universe was created out of nothing in
  balance for life
• HawkingGod intended to create beings like us!
• Probability1 in 10215 it gets more remote with
  each new discovery
• By chancethe universe is too young! 13.75
  billion years of cosmological time

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Where does this take us

• Dark energy-every 3 days over the past century
  new papersnobody is admitting they have the
  answer
• Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office,
  1899 "Everything that can be invented has been
  invented.
• I am learning never to say never

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No you dont have to
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Engineering and Physics

• Some predictions made in the past have proved to
  be wrong
• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than
  1.5 tons." -- Popular Mechanics, 1949
• "I think there is a world market for maybe five
  computers." Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM,
  1943
• "There is no reason anyone would want a computer
  in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman
  and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
• "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be
  seriously considered as a means of communication.
  The device is inherently of no value to us." --
  Western Union internal memo, 1876.
• "Heavier-than-air flying machines are
  impossible." Lord Kelvin, president, Royal
  Society, 1895.

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BIOCENTRISM

• Since the advent of quantum physics in the 1920s
• Results do depend on the observer
• The famous light -2-slit experiment,
• Goldilocks PRINCIPLE
• Fine tuning of the cosmos
• NOT TOO THIS or Too That
• just right

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4 explanations for Goldilocks

• Incredible coincidence
• God did it
• Anthropic Principle-right conditions for life in
  the universe
• Biocentrismuniverse is created by life
• Affects how we view space and time
• Time does not exist independently of the life
  that views it.

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Look at the frames of a film

• To take a picture,
• Sharpness of the object in view blurs that around
  it.
• Everything we perceive is being actively and
  repeatedly reconstructed in our head and
  organized in a whorl of information.
• There is intangibility in space and time
  according to this model
• It is a mode of interpretation about all the
  potential possibilities.

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How can I keep this up???
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Hang in there
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We have a place in this universe
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• Wrap infinity around finite minds
• Isp-trips.org
• Quote others often
• CASE
• One viewpoint and not authoritative
• Paradigms
• Confusing
• Toys
• Eraser
• Rattle-back
• Shot glasses
• Paper hole

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• Nebulae

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Milky way
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Fundamentalist

• mean strong adherence to any set of
  beliefs in the face of criticism or
  unpopularity, but has by and large retained
  religious connotations.6
• movement within the Protestant community of the
  United States in the early part of the 20th
  century
• often used as a pejorative term

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"five fundamentals

• The inspiration of the Bible by the Holy Spirit
  and the inerrancy of Scripture as a result of
  this.
• The virgin birth of Christ.
• The belief that Christ's death was the atonement
  for sin.
• The bodily resurrection of Christ.
• The historical reality of Christ's miracles.

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The days

• 1- God creates light
• 2- God creates a firmament
• 3- God commands the waters below to be gathered
  together in one place, and dry land to appear
  (the third command). "Earth" and "sea" are named.
  
• 4- God creates lights in the firmament
• 5- God commands the sea to "teem with living
  creatures", and birds to fly across the heavens
• 6- God commands the land to bring forth living
  creatures
• 7- God, having completed the heavens and the
  earth, rests from His work

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Methods of Creation 

• Divine Action Creation 
• Evolutionary Creation
• cleverly designed
• Allowing natural evolution
•   Progressive Creation 
• long history of nature spanning billions of
  years,
• Young-Earth Creation -
• miraculously created everything in the universe
• 144-hour period less than 10,000 years ago. 
• earth's geology and fossil record were formed in
  a global flood.  
•   Secular Atheist Views 
• Darwinstarted as a theist, missionary, agnostic
  (suffering)
• Sagan-the Christian God, is insufficient,

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ID used by God

•       nature produced by natural process
  because, before history began, the universe was
  designed so this would happen, or natural
  process that was supernaturally guided by God to
  produce a desired natural-appearing result, or
  design-directed action by God that was
  miraculous-appearing and is thus potentially
  detectable by observations.
•   God is in control

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How should we Investigate?

• With understanding and respect
• Competence and Character
• Appropriate humility

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  According to Genesis According to modern science
Sun Created after the world Present before world coalesces
Grass, land plants, trees Created before the sun Evolved after the sun
First forms of life Land plants Marine organisms
Birds Created before land animals Evolved from land animals
Fruit Trees Created before fish Evolved after fish
First Human Created from dirt Evolved higher apes and Homo Sapiens share a common ancestor
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God's creation

• of the world by divine speech,
• creation ex nihilo (English out of nothing
• culminating in the sanctification of the seventh
  day as the Biblical Sabbath, the
  divinely-ordained day of rest.
• Man and woman are created to be God's regents
  over this new creation.
• Chapter 2 recounts God's planting a garden in
  which he places the first man, and from whose rib
  (or side2) he fashions the first woman the
  chapter ends with an injunction on the sanctity
  of marriage.

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Young earth

• holds that the earth and the universe are
  approximately 6,000 years old.23
• Creation science is science which sets out to
  show that supernatural creation of the material
  universe by God
• Young earth creationism holds that the scientific
  evidence is unreasonably interpreted by
  evolutionists and atheists/naturalists as
  supporting their point of view,

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Positions

• Young Earth creationism generally takes the
  following positions regarding the biblical book
  of Genesis
• Creation took place over a period of six ordinary
  (solar/24-hour) days, with God then "resting" on
  the seventh day.
• This creation, described in Genesis as "good" and
  "very good", was without flaw or defect.
• All people are descended from the first couple,
  Adam and Eve.
• Adam and Eve sinned, leading to their expulsion
  from the Garden of Eden.
• A global Noachian flood occurred, destroying all
  land-based, air-breathing life, except that on
  the Ark.
• The dispersal of humanity was caused by God after
  the Tower of Babel