What is the origin of life? Chance or design? Creation or Evolution? We consider the power and design behind the mystery of life and the designer of that creation. If God made the world why has He not shown up? He has in Jesus Christ.

1. Life - Where did it Come From?
● Life – The Power behind it
How did it come to be? -
The Creation of a Creator
● Life – A Personality behind it?
Who did it? Cause
The Creator of the Creation
● Life – The Point of it?
Where does that leave me? Destiny
www.GraceinChrist.org

2. Life where did it come from?
● 240 pages
● ~ 400 000 letters

3. Life where did it come from?
“...a landmark in scientific writing and the
most popular scientific text of all time,”
“chosen as one of the one hundred most
important books of the twentieth century,”
Cambridge University poll ranked it as the
book “most likely” to have the same influence
as Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection”

4. Life Where did it Come from?
“Even if there is only one possible unified
theory, it is just a set of rules and
equations. What is it that breathes fire into
the equations and makes a universe for
them to describe? The usual approach of
science of constructing a mathematical
model cannot answer the questions of why
there should be a universe for the model to
describe. Why does the universe go to
all the bother of existing” Stephen
Hawking

5. Life, How did it Come to be?
Stephen Hawkins:'Brief History of Time'
Unanswered questions:
1.Why should the universe exist?
2.Into what was the universe produced?
3.What is the end of the universe?

6. Life, How did it Come to be?
● The conflict between the Word of God and
the world is not a conflict of different
answers but between answers and no
answers!
● Do we have better answers?
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7. Life, How did it Come to be?
● The conflict between the Word of God and
the world is not a conflict of different
answers but between answers and no
answers!
● Do we have better answers?
www.GraceinChrist.org

8. Life, How did it Come to be?
● Origin – How – The Creator
Genesis 1:1-3, 20, 26
● Cause – Who – Christ
John 1:1-5
● Destiny – Where does that leave me?

9. Life - Where did it Come From?
● Life – The Power behind it
How did it come to be? -
The Creation by a Creator
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10. Origin – How – The Creator
For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and
unrighteousness of men, who by their
unrighteousness suppress the truth. For
what can be known about God is plain to
them, because God has shown it to them.
For his invisible attributes, namely, his
eternal power and divine nature, have been
clearly perceived, ever since the creation of
the world, in the things that have been
made. So they are without excuse.
(Rom 1:18-20)

11. Life - The Power behind it
● Intelligent
● Ordered
● All Powerful
● Creator

12. Life - The Power behind it
● Intelligent
● Ordered
● All Powerful
● Creator
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13. Life - The Power behind it

14. Life - The Power behind it

15. Life - The Power behind it
“And now the announcement of Watson
and Crick about DNA. This is for me the
real proof of the existence of God.”
— Salvador Dali

16. Life - The Power behind it
Biochemist Dr Duane Gish: “The genetics
are so incredibly complex and can be so
marvelously interrelated that it’s absolutely
going to demand an intelligent source. The
idea that all of this could have come about
by random accidents, genetic errors, and
so forth is just simply beyond
comprehension.”

17. Life - The Power behind it
‘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'
● Crick (atheist)

18. Life - The Power behind it

19. Life - The Power behind it
● Simplest form of life
● The genome of M. genitalium consists of
525 genes
● 580,070 base pairs
● The size of an average novel of 250 pages
● Wuthering Heights, 2 X Lord of the Flies,
1984
● 1 letter wrong - disaster
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20. Life – Not so simple

21. Life – Not so Simple

22. Not so simple

23. Life – not so simple

24. Life - not so simple

25. Life – not so simple

26. Life not so simple

27. Life – Not so Simple

28. Life – Not so Simple

29. Life – A Personality Behind it?
● Where does Jesus Christ fit in?
● God created you
● Do you know Him?
● You know He is there?
● Do you know much / anything
about Him?
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30. Life – A Personality Behind it?
“No man hath seen God
at any time...”
(John 1:18)

31. Life – A Personality Behind it?
●
Life – must have a purpose.
●
Why say so much in
creation and remain so
hidden?
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32. Life – A Personality Behind it?
●
Life – must have a purpose.
●
Why say so much in
creation and remain so
hidden?
www.GraceinChrist.org

33. Life – A Personality Behind it
John 1:4; 1:18
Jesus Christ came:
● By a means only God could come
● Performed the work only God could do
● For a purpose only God would have.
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34. Life – Who Did it?
“No man hath seen God at any
time; the only begotten Son,
who is in the bosom of the
Father, he hath declared him.”
(John 1:18)
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35. Life – Who Did it?
“for all have
sinned, and fall
short of the
glory of God;”
(Rom 3:23)

36. Life – Who Did it?

37. Life – The Point of it
“He that believeth on the
Son hath everlasting life:
and he that believeth not
the Son shall not see life;
but the wrath of God
abideth on him. .”
(John 3:36)
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