The Case for a Creator

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The Case for a Creator Can You Trust Genesis?
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Fridays at 700 pm
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Why is Genesis so important?
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. Genesis 11 (KJV)
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Genesis is the foundation of our faith
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Charles Darwin didnt mean to murder God, as he
once put it. But he did.Time MagazineDecember
31, 1999
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No educated person any longer questions the
validity of the so-called theory of evolution.
Ernst Mayr, Evolutionary Biologist
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The problem is to get people to reject
irrational and supernatural explanations of the
world, the demons that exist only in their
imaginations, and to accept a social and
intellectual apparatus, Science, as the only
begetter of truth.Richard LewontinHarvard
geneticist
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Darwinism is a universal acid that eats through
about every traditional concept and leaves in its
wake a revolutionized worldview.Daniel Dennett
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If Darwinism is trueWilliam Provine of Cornell
University
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If Darwinism is trueWilliam Provine of Cornell
University

• Theres no evidence for God

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If Darwinism is trueWilliam Provine of Cornell
University

• Theres no evidence for God
• Theres no life after death

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If Darwinism is trueWilliam Provine of Cornell
University

• Theres no evidence for God
• Theres no life after death
• Theres no absolute foundation for right and wrong

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If Darwinism is trueWilliam Provine of Cornell
University

• Theres no evidence for God
• Theres no life after death
• Theres no absolute foundation for right and
  wrong
• Theres no ultimate meaning for life

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If Darwinism is trueWilliam Provine of Cornell
University

• Theres no evidence for God
• Theres no life after death
• Theres no absolute foundation for right and
  wrong
• Theres no ultimate meaning for life
• People dont really have free will

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No Genesis No Christianity
If Genesis is not true then.
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Can you be a Christian without believing Genesis?
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What does Genesis teach?
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. Genesis 11 (KJV)
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. Genesis 11 (KJV)
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All things were made through Him, and without Him
nothing was made that was made.John 13 (NKJV)
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For by Him all things were created that are in
heaven and that are on earth, visible and
invisible, whether thrones or dominions or
principalities or powers.
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All things were created through Him and for
Him.Colossians 116 (NKJV)
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Thus says God the Lord, Who created the heavens
and stretched them out, Who spread forth the
earth and that which comes from it,
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Who gives breath to the people on it, And spirit
to those who walk on itIsaiah 425 (NKJV)
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For thus says the Lord, Who created the heavens,
Who is God, Who formed the earth and made it,
Who has established it,
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Who did not create it in vain, Who formed it to
be inhabited I am the Lord, and there is no
other.Isaiah 4518 (NKJV)
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You were not an accident
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What does Darwinism teach?
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You are an accident
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What is the evidence?
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Icons of Evolution
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Stanley Millers 1953 Experiment
Reproduction of an Atmosphere?
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Harold UreyNobel Laureate
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Millers theory has been abandonedMarcel
FlorkinBelgian Biochemist
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The early atmosphere looked nothing like the
Miller-Urey simulation.Science, 1995
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You see what you want to see
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Now faith is the substance of things hoped for,
the evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 111
(KJV)
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If Genesis is true then
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There is accountability
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What are the implications?
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We must be prepared to provide answers
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But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and
always be ready to give a defense to everyone who
asks you a reason for the hope that is in you,
with meekness and fear. 1 Peter 315 (NKJV)
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The Deuteronomy principle
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You shall teach them diligently to your
children, and shall talk of them when you sit in
your house,
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when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and
when you rise up. Deut. 67 (NKJV)
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You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and
they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.
Deut. 68 (NKJV)
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You shall write them on the doorposts of your
house and on your gates. Deut. 69 (NKJV)
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The Daniel principle
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Young men in whom there was no blemish, but
good-looking, gifted in all wisdom, possessing
knowledge and quick to understand,
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who had ability to serve in the kings palace,
and whom they might teach the language and
literature of the Chaldeans. Daniel 14 (NKJV)
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth. Genesis 11 (KJV)