1. Biblical Creationism and Real
Science
Week 12
Todd Pencarinha
tpencarinha@comcast.net
http://www.slideshare.net/ToddPencarinha
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3. Romans 1
Romans 1:18-23 (NASB) 18 For the wrath of God is revealed from
heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
suppress the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because that which is known
about God is evident within them; for God made it evident to them.
20 For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes, His eternal
power and divine nature, have been clearly seen, being understood
through what has been made, so that they are without excuse. 21 For
even though they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give
thanks, but they became futile in their speculations, and their foolish
heart was darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools,
23 and exchanged the glory of the incorruptible God for an image in the
form of corruptible man and of birds and four-footed animals and
crawling creatures.
4. Week 1 Review
• Why this study?
• Objective of this study
• Biblical Creation
• Statistics
• Legal History of Evolutionary Teaching in
the US
• Overview of the real science behind
creationism
• Study outline
• Conclusions
5. Week 2 Review
• Questions to consider
• Uniformitarianism vs Catastrophism
• The Biblical Record
• Creation Events - Genesis 1-2
• The Fall - Genesis 3
• Observations of Genesis 1-3
• Comparison of Bible creation order vs Evolution
• Conclusions
• Applications
• Recommendations
6. Week 3 Review
• Biblical Inerrancy
• Gen 6-9 - The flood
• Gen 11 – Babel
• Observations. Interpretation
• Conclusions, Application
8. Week 5 Review
• Introduction to Geology
• History of Geology
• How Geology is Taught
• Geological Dating Methods
• Strata
• Problems with Strata Dating
• Index Fossils
• Problems with Index Fossils
• Radiometric Dating
• Problems with Radiometric Dating
9. Week 6 Review
• Reviewed Prior Geological Evidence for a Young Earth
• Rock Strata support rapid deposition and no erosion
• Bent Strata – rock does not bend
• Additional Geologic Evidence for a young earth
• Too little sediment on sea floor
• Very little salt in the sea
• Fossil graveyards
• Rapidly decaying magnetic field
• Helium in radioactive rocks
• A lack of transition species/missing links
10. Week 7 Review - Dinosaurs
• Evolution’s Claim about Dinosaurs
• The Biblical View about Dinosaurs
• Job 40, 41, Psalm 74, 104, Gen 1, Is 27
• The Evidence
• The Fossil Record
• Secular History
• Fossil Footprints
• Dinosaur Soft Tissues
• Dinosaur DNA
• Dinosaur Radio-Carbon Dating
Delk track
Years
% of DNA
Remaining
- 100.0%
521 50.0%
1,042 25.0%
1,563 12.5%
2,084 6.3%
2,605 3.1%
3,126 1.6%
3,647 0.8%
4,168 0.4%
4,689 0.2%
5,210 0.1%
5,731 0.0%
11. Week 8 – Review
• Definition of Religion
• Introduction to Biology
• Bible Passages on Science, Biology and Origins
• The Bible vs Evolution on the Origins of Life
• The Evidence
• The Evolution of Evolutionary Theory
• The Science on the Origins of life
• The Complexity of DNA
• The Complexity of Interdependencies and Interactions
• Conclusions
• Applications
12. Week 9 – Review
• Bible Passages
• Chromosomes, Genomes, Genes and DNA
• More on the Complexity of DNA
• DNA – Proof of Design
• “Junk” DNA
• Anatomical Design
• The Brain
• The Eyes
• The Heart
• The Bones
• Other Parts of the Body
• Conclusions
• Applications
13. Week 10 – Review
• Bible Passages
• Evolutionists Claims About the History of the Universe
• Astronomy and the Universe
• The Earth
• Our Solar System
• The Galaxies
• The Universe
• Conclusions
• Applications
15. Quotes by Agnostics and Atheists
• When speaking of the genius behind the design of the universe, Albert
Einstein called it “an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it,
all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly
insignificant reflection.”
• Astronomer George Greenstein (agnostic) “is it possible, without intending
to, we have stumbled upon the scientific proof of the existence of a Supreme
Being?”
• British Astrophysicist Paul Davies (agnostic), “there is for me powerful
evidence that there is something going on behind it all. It seems as though
somebody has fine-tuned nature’s numbers to make the universe… the
impression of design is overwhelming.”
• Astronomer Frederick Hoyle (agnostic) “A common sense interpretation of
the facts suggests that a super-intellect has ‘monkeyed’ with physics, as well
as chemistry and biology”
16. Quotes by Agnostics and Atheists
• Francis Crick, co-discoverer of DNA and ardent evolutionist, said “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 almost be a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have
had to have been satisfied to get it going.” And also “natural selection
could never have produced the first molecule.”
19. Recommendations
Read Gen 1-11
Read “Dinosaurs and the Bible”
Read
Watch Ben Stein’s “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed”
Watch “Is Genesis History”
Watch “Unlocking the Mysteries of Genesis”
Watch
The Institute for Creation Research www.icr.org
Answers in Genesis www.answersingenesis.org
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Editor's Notes
9:02
Lets Pray
9:18
This passage from Romans 1 has been our theme
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Week 1 Review
Why this Study - When we started this study I described some reasons for doing it:
I started by saying Evolution is a BOLD, DISINGENOUS LIE and those who perpetrate the lie are either ignorant to the science or knowingly opposing God
Unfortunately, a majority of professed Christians believe the lies
This common belief is mostly driven by a misled government and indoctrinated education system
Objective - The objective of this study was to equip believers with REAL, SCIENTIFIC evidence that demonstrates evolution cannot be true
Biblical View
In Week 1, we read through Genesis 1 and Exodus 20:8-11 and discussed the basis for what a “day” is
I also gave an overview of the many of the bible passages we would use for this study, Gen 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11, Ex 20, Josh, Jud, 1Sa, 2Sa, 1Ki, 2Ki, 1Ch, 2Ch, Job 40,41
Statistics
We showed some statistics demonstrating that 62% of professed Christians believe in evolution. 65% of mainline protestants, 66% of Catholics and 82% of Jews believe in evolution
We also reviewed statistics that demonstrated 92% of scientists believe in evolution
Legal History of teaching evolution
1859 – Darwin’s Origin of Species
1920’s Evolution commonly taught in class rooms
Later Tennessee law banning teaching evolution, ACLU fought in favor or evolution
William Jennings Bryan (politician) vs Clarence Darrow (attorney) in “scopes monkey trial” Victory for Creation side
1968 Supreme Court – ruled against Arkansas law banning teaching of evolution
1971 – Lemon Test for testing violation of Establishment Clause – one of the worst rulings in US history
Created 3 criteria by which the establishment clause would be tested – whether there was a secular purpose, whether it promoted or oppressed religion, and …
Other cases since 1971 use the Lemon Test, often outside of its stated intent, to keep any religious beliefs our of the public school system
Schools misinterpret the prohibition of mandatory teaching to a prohibition of any teaching of a religious perspective
The Scientific world view of creationism
We provided an overview of science we planned to cover in this study
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Week 2 Review
In week 2 I raised a number of questions for you to consider, that we should be able to answer as apologists
We discussed Uniformitarianism and Catastrophism
Uniformitarianism - The assumption that the same natural laws and processes that operate in the universe now have always operated in the universe in the past and apply everywhere in the universe.
Catastrophism - The theory that the Earth has been affected in the past by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.
We reviewed Genesis 1-3 and looked at the order of creation events
We discussed a 6 day work week for God.
The order of creation events was:
Day 1 – heavens & the earth were created, light created, light and darkness separated, time of a day established
Day 2 – waters were separated by an expanse
Day 3 – dry land created, vegetation created
Day 4 – sun, moon, and stars created
Day 5 – sea creatures and birds created
Day 6 – land animals, creeping things, and man & woman created
Day 7 – God rested
The best interpretation of “yom” is a 24 hour period
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In week 3 we discussed
Inerrancy of the bible – either we believe the entire bible – or we just pick and choose what to believe
We reviewed
2 Ti 3:16 - All Scripture is inspired by God
Heb 6:17-19 – it is impossible for God to lie
If we take out, for example, belief in a literal Adam, we have to throw out
The Pentateuch, Job, Hosea, Matthew, Hebrews, Romans, 1 Corinthians, 1 Timothy, Jude
If we don’t believe in Noah as a real person, the we have to throw out
Isaiah, Ezekiel, Matthew, Luke, Hebrews, 1 Peter, 2 Peter
We must believe the bible in its entirety
We went through the entire history of the flood
We discussed the idea of a local flood vs global flood
We addressed the issue of enough water to flood the earth
We discussed the issue of enough room on the Ark for all the animals & food & water
We discussed how the fossil record screams of a global flood
We discussed how the entire world and way of life changed after the flood
High mountains
Ability of people to eat animals
Animals were no longer plant eaters
Animals having a new fear of humans
Shorter lifespans
Rain
We went through the Tower of Babel
Confusion of language
1 race, but differing ethnicities due to fractured gene pool due to changed languages
I showed you DNA evidence supporting exactly what the Bible says about Babel
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In Week 4 we discussed
Inerrancy of the bible – I reminded you that we must either believe the entire bible or throw it out as just a set of interesting stories
We created an entire world history timeline from the Bible
Genesis Chapter 5
Genesis Chapters 6-9
Genesis 11
Genesis 21, 25, 35, 41, 45, 57, 50
Exodus 7, 12
Deuteronomy 47
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
We learned the earth is about 6000 years old, the flood occurred around 2500 BC, Babel around 2300 BC, the Exodus around 1500 BC and the exile around 600 BC
We also learned people lived a lot longer in the past than they do today, and genetically, that would be exactly what we would expect with a gene pool that was narrowed to just Noah and 4 women
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Week 5
In week 5, we gave an introduction to geology
I gave you a historic view of the evolution of the science of geology
We provided some insights as to how Geology is taught
Taught claiming full use of the scientific method
Yet geology is taught as if “billions of years” was fact, in direct violation of the scientific method
Note that not all mainstream geological scientists allow the long ages bias to override their scientific principles – in fact, their focus on learning truth has given us much of what we know today that refutes the long ages models
Geological Dating methods
We also evaluated the geological strata and the problems with long ages that don’t fit the strata
Problems with index fossils - We looked at “index fossils” that had been supposed to be tens or hundreds of millions of years old – right before we discovered “living fossils” like
The gingko tree
the tuatara (supposedly extinct since the Cretaceous Period until found still living in New Zealand)
the Lepidocaris crustacean (only found as fossils in Devonian rocks)
the Metasequoia conifer tree (thought extinct for the past 20 million years)
the Neopilina mollusk (supposedly extinct for 280 million years)
the lingula brachiopod (“extinct” since the Ordovician)
the trilobite (chief index fossil of the even more ancient Cambrian Period)
Algae that is supposedly in 3.4 billion year old rocks still exist today…are those rocks really 3.4 billion years old
Finally, we provided and introduction to radiometric dating and highlighted some of the critical assumptions such as
All daughter atoms must originate from parent atoms
There is no daughter atom content at the creation of the mineral/rock
Radioactive decay rates are constant
There must be no contamination
However, when we looked at the evidence we found major problems with radiometric dating
Different methods of radiometric dating almost always disagree with other methods
We saw direct evidence that radioactive decay can be directly influenced by the rotational cycles of the sun’s core – what else might cause changes
We found carbon 14 inside diamonds, which should not have any carbon 14 content – this find violates the possibility that diamonds can be even a million years old
We saw data showing up to 3.9 billion years of age for recent lava flows
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Week 6
We first reviewed the prior geologic evidence that we had already seen on young earth strata
The strata show clear evidence of rapid deposition, since there is no erosion between layers and rapid deposition is required for any chance of fossilization
We also looked at many cases of bent strata with multiple layers. The layers cannot bend unless they are soft. Since multiple layers are bent together, they must have all been soft and must have been deposited in rapid succession – like within 1 year and from a global flood
We added considerable additional geological evidence that prove a young earth
Too little sediment on sea floor – our sea floors should be 180,000 feet deep with sediment
Very little salt in the sea – the salt levels should be much more like the dead sea
Fossil graveyards – exist all around the world and have a COMMON STORY OF CATASTROPHIC FLOODING as the only mechanism for them to make sense. They also show both human and dinosaur bones together.
Rapidly decaying magnetic field – earth could not be over 20,000 years
Helium in radioactive rocks – helium is made during radioactive decay, but the amount of helium in the rocks is way too high for the timeline
A lack of transition species/missing links – they are all still missing.
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Week 7
In week 7 I gave you the Evolutionary View that dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago and humans arose 2 million years ago
Next, we addressed the biblical view by reading passages from Job and the Psalms
Job – timing was post flood, and most likely post Babel
Job 40 – behemoth – some type of large land dinosaur
Job 41 – Leviathan – both behemoth and leviathan were well known to Job
Psalm 74 & 104 also speak of leviathan. There seems to be some mass extinction event that killed off Leviathan and left it for food for the land animals
I did not mention the deuterocanonical sections of Daniel
Deuterocanonical = the parts not included in the Hebrew old testament that were including in the catholic old testament
Bel and the dragon speaks of Daniel proving an idol of Bel was not a living god and then that a dragon was not a living god by killing it.
I reminded you all of the frequent dinosaur graveyards that include human bones and dinosaur bones and everything in between
I told you of a handful of countless dragon stories throughout the world in every culture
We looked at dinosaur footprints along with human footprints in the fossil record
We looked at the soft tissues still present in dinosaur bones. The more we look, the more we find
We spoke of finding DNA in dinosaurs. DNA degrades very rapidly and cannot last millions of years.
Finally, we looked at radio-carbon dating of dinosaur bones putting all of those dated at less than 50K years
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Week 8
In week 8 we looked at the definition of a religion: “a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith”
We concluded that evolution is clearly a religion and it has hijacked many fields of science, as well as our education system
I introduced Biology as "the study of life.“
I shared statistics that only 5% biologists believe in a god - the least likely “scientists” to believe in a god
Yet, biologists personify “Nature” (the created environment) and make God
We read through some bible passages to set the baseline
We compared the biblical view of the creation of life and the evolutionary view
Then we walked through the evolution of evolutionary theory and what is claimed about how life began
Evolutionists claim that life began in simple forms and evolved
Originally, they believed single cell organisms were simple life forms
After the discovery of DNA, RNA, their structure and how they work. Evolutionists had to completely re-think the origins of life and thus developed ridiculously weak theories about how life began
Then we looked at the real science and learned about how real science opposes evolutionary theory at every step
Yet even with that in opposition, evolutionists have continued to develop even more elaborate theories in opposition to thermodynamics and observable science AND THEY ALWAYS WILLBECAUSE EVOLUTION IS A RELIGION
Problem is, evolutionists continue to reach several impasses, such as
The oxygen paradox – where oxygen is required for life, but quickly destroys proteins and amino acids
The DNA self repairing paradox – the fact that without a repair mechanism, DNA cannot survive – even in the safety of the cells in the body
The simultaneous creation requirement of Metabolism (storage and use of energy), compartmentalization (cell & Micro structure) and self replication, to name a few
The raw energy paradox where all raw forms of energy would destroy any organic matter fast than it could be chemically produced
The water paradox – where water is required for life, yet it quickly breaks down proteins and amino acids
And a few others I didn’t mention – no RNA can self replicate – there is no mechanism for most amino acids to be produced – they are produced by living things
Then we watched a brief clip from “Is Genesis History” about the 4-dimensional complexity of DNA and how each dimension includes critical features that are precisely necessary for life
Finally, we started a discussion on the complexity of interdependencies and interactions for life to work
We concluded once again that it takes far more faith be a member of the religion of evolution than it does to be a Christian
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Week 9
We discussed Chromosomes, Genes, and DNA
Human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes (46 total, made up of 23 from each parent).
The chromosomes contain the DNA.
The genome is the entire amount of an organism’s DNA.
Only 1.5 percent of the DNA in the genome actually codes for genes. The human genome is defined by approximately 3 billion pairs.
The evolution argument necessitates that much of our DNA MUST BE JUNK
The problem is, everything we study that we once thought was junk we find has significant purpose
I also mentioned that if we are 96% genetically similar to chimpanzees, we are also 60% genetically similar to cats and bananas
Anatomical Design
We looked at 3 major organs plus the bones
The brain
Is the most complex of all organs
Interacts with virtually every part of your body
Is required for life
Manages breathing
Manager heart rate
Creates, stores, and recalls memory
Processes sight
Processes sound
Processes smell
Processes touch, pain
Processes cognitive thoughts
Signals movement
Processes balance
“Stanford University professor and senior study author Stephen Smith said that ‘one synapse may contain on the order of 1,000 molecular-scale switches. A single human brain has more switches than all the computers and routers and Internet connections on Earth.’ This research multiplies the brain's overall computing power far beyond what was previously known.”
The Eyes
Extraordinarily complex organ that allows us to convert light into images
Eyes are in pairs, which allow for 3-D imaging
Eyes are positioned to be protected in a hollowed eye socket in our skulls
Eye brows prevent sweat from getting into the eyes
Eye lashes keep dirt out of eyes
Each eye has over 1 million nerve fibers connecting it to the brain
Eyes have over 2 million working parts
Eyes are the second most complex organ
The Heart
Our bodies require systems to continuously move blood
Life is in the blood, including oxygen and nutrients
A system is needed to deliver the fresh oxygen and nutrients and remove waste – to all parts of the body
Without a pump to move the blood, life would end after just a few minutes
The pump can never stop or rest
The pump must operate in 2 separate circuits – one to and from the lungs, and a second to and from the rest of the body
The pump must have a way of creating higher pressure than the rest of the body to send the blood out
The Bones
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In Week 10, we will reviewed the scientific data from the field of astronomy
Claims of Evolutionists
We review the evolutionists vies of how the universe came into existence
The Earth
The earth is the perfect distance from the sun, perfect orbit, perfect tilt, perfect magnetic field, perfect atmosphere, perfect mass, perfect sun, perfect rotation, perfect moon, and perfect giant planet neighbor and many other factors making it unique and rare
We reviewed the evidence of Lunar Recession and how it proves definitively that the earth must be young.
Our Solar System
Jupiter is the ideal “vacuum cleaner” planet for protection of the earth.
Jupiter should be cold and dead, given its size and distance from the sun, but it still has the amount of heat that would be expected from a recently formed planet
Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune all still have strong magnetic fields, which decay and should not still exist if they planets are billions of years old.
Saturn’s rings should be dull, due to space dust over billions of years, but they are clear and bright
Saturn’s moons should have no geologic activity and no methane gas, yet they still do, indicating they are young
“Natural” processes cannot explain the tilt of Saturn or Uranus or the rotation of Venus or Uranus.
Neptune should have no heat, yet still radiates like a very, very young planet.
Comets should have burned out long ago, so secular scientists created the idea of an “Oort cloud” that sits just outside of our solar system and regularly produces new comets
Galaxies
Spiral galaxies should have lost their spiral shape after billions of years of rotation.
The distant galaxies we see in the Hubble “deep field” should not be fully formed since they are at such distances as viewing back to the beginning of the universe
The Universe
The so-called “cosmic nurseries” have massive stars that cannot last long according to the laws of physics, plus any age to the nebulas would have “blown” away the nebula’s gas clouds
We observed that in every direction, the red shift shows the universe is expanding away from the earth. Furthermore, the expansion is accelerating, which requires some force other than a “big bang” – more like a “perpetual pull”
We discussed the “horizon problem” of the big bang. Mass and temperatures in the universe are evenly distributed which does not fit a big bang. Scientists have created this “inflation” model that violates the laws of physics to fix the model.
Conclusions
Wherever we look, we find problems that don’t fit the “billions of years” narrative.
Secular scientists came up with multiple theories to try to explain these phenomena, yet one single theory provides the answers to all the problems we will discuss – that is that the universe is only a few thousand years old
The best model, which is just one model, that fits the data is a young universe, created by an eternal God, just as described in the bible.
9:55
In Week 11, last week, we looked at mathematics and physics
Introduction to Mathematics
Within mathematics, I discussed that mathematics is a very useful tool that God has given us to rule over the earth
Mathematics in Nature
Mathematical formulas, like the Fibonacci sequence, can be used to describe the shapes of snails, galaxies, and flowers
Fractal patters are repeating patterns that describe fern branches and even Romanesco broccoli
We also discussed how bees and ants can somehow solve very complicated problems, that we tend to solve with mathematics
Ants were able to solve the complicated “towers of Hanoi” with ease.
Mathematical probabilities
We then discussed binary sequences and the incredible number of possibilities that can be created with even just binary sequences
I also gave you the example of 1 million monkeys, with only 26 characters on a computer, typing a character every second would take 2 years to get the right phrase of 10 characters long
Those same million monkeys would take 18 billion years to type the right 17 digit phrase
Then we looked at DNA. A super-computer testing 1 million quadrillion (= 1 sextillion) possibilities per millisecond would take 44 billion years to determine all options for a string of 70 DNA nucleotides
The point of all the math was that if it takes a supercomputer 44 billion years to find the right strand of DNA 70 nucleotides long, is it really possible for “Nature” to find the right 3 billion nucleotides long?
Physics
In Physic we introduced the various fields of physics
Traditional or Newtonian
Relativity
Quantum Mechanics
String Theory
M Theory
We discussed the various problems of physics with the Evolutionary Theory
The first law of thermodynamics states that energy is never created or destroyed, yet the big bang theory opposes that view
The second law of thermodynamics states that things are moving from order to chaos – everything is degrading, yet evolution says life is evolving and moving to higher levels
When we ask about origins of the universe, evolutionists willfully violate the first law of thermodynamics with the big bang
When we ask about origins of life, evolutionists willfully violate the second law of thermodynamics with simple life evolving to more complex life