1. The document discusses arguments for and against creationism versus evolution/naturalism in explaining the origins of life. 2. It explores perspectives on whether God created the world or if it created itself through natural processes alone. 3. Several questions are posed about the complexity of the universe, life forms, and human origins to argue that divine design is a more rational explanation than random chance and mutations over time.

1. By his Son, God created the world in
the beginning…He holds everything
together by what he says..
Hebrews 1: 2-3

2. So the Bible says, it’s God who
1. created the world &
2. holds everything together

3. Did God create the world or
did it create itself?
Creation or evolution?
Design or time & chance?

4. What you believe about where we came from
affects your ideas about
1. meaning of life,
2. how you live it and
3. where you are headed

6. What is Naturalism?
Naturalism says that we are just a complex
collection of neurons and all that exists in the
universe is physical, material matter. There is
no soul; Experiences like pain, pleasure,
beauty, and a sense of self do not really exist.
They are merely physiological reactions.
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7. Is Naturalism true?
How come everyone’s DNA is unique?

8. The God of the Bible is also the God of the genome….His creation is majestic,
awesome, intricate and beautiful.
Dr. Collins is a physician-geneticist noted for his landmark discoveries of disease genes and his
leadership of the international Human Genome Project, which culminated in April 2003 with the
completion of a finished sequence of the human DNA instruction book. He served as director of the
National Human Genome Research Institute at the NIH from 1993-2008
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to
whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was
turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's
Mere Christianity.

9. What is Darwinism?
Darwinism proposes that
individual organisms who best
suited to an environment
survive and reproduce most
successfully, and after
numerous such breeding cycles,
the better-adapted dominate
and the poorly suited
individuals die off.
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10. How do Emperor Penguins go two
and a half months without eating
or drinking?

11. How come dragon fly didn’t
evolve into a butterfly?

12. http://www.explorationfilms.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Incredible-Creatures-That-Defy-Evolution/dp/B000E3LGDS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tL2WRzUzLl4&list=PLB1DBE92D450C3A35

13. Remember Hitler’s Aryan
superiority theory?

14. What is deep-time-dating?
Deep-time-dating
postulates that the earth is
4.5 billion years old based
on the layers of earth’s
sedimentary rock (e.g.
Arizona’s Grand Canyon)
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15. Arizona’s Grand Canyon

16. Not really. A violent
mudflow from a Mount St.
Helens eruption deposited
fine layers in less than a
day1. And water flume
studies recreate the fast-
flow rates that deposit
particles, creating layers in
moments2.
Did beautiful layers like these require
deep time to form?
1. Austin, S. A. 1986. Mt. St. Helens and Catastrophism. Acts & Facts. 15 (7).
2. Berthault, G. 2000. Experiments in Stratification. Acts & Facts. 29 (10).

17. What is secularism?
Secularism teaches that there are no
absolute truths defining right and wrong.
It can be defined as “a system of doctrines
and practices that disregards or rejects any
form of religious faith and worship.
Essentially, secularism says that man does
not need God.
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18. They remove the Bible from classrooms only
to introduce it back – this time in the
prisons
Thanks to secularism

19. Did God create the world or
did it create itself?
Creation or evolution?
Design or time & chance?

20. 1. Where did we come from?
2. Why are we here?
3. Where are we going
questions that can lead to the answer

21. What is the purpose of the following
objects?
We know all this, don’t we?

22. 1. What is the purpose of you & me?
2. Why are we here?
3. Where did we come from?
4. Where are we going
But we don’t know…

23. Secondly, We agree that some of
the following has a creator
We debate about the creator of some, how come?

24. That is why, the One enthroned in
heaven laughs; the Lord scoffs at
the nations

25. Secondly…..

26. The God who created the
world also sustains it
Do you know the
Fine Tuning Parameters for the Universe?

27. 1. if larger: stars would be
too hot and would burn
too rapidly and too
unevenly for life
chemistry
2. if smaller: stars would
be too cool to ignite
nuclear fusion; thus,
many of the elements
needed for life chemistry
would never form
gravitational force constant

28. 1. if faster: stars would be too luminous for
life support
2. if slower: stars would be insufficiently
luminous for life support
velocity of light

29. 1. if larger: star formation late
enough in the history of the
universe would be
hampered by lack of
material
2. if smaller: gravitational tug-
of-wars would destabilize
the sun's orbit
average distance between galaxies

30. You remember the questions God asks?
Where were you when I laid the earth’s foundation?
Tell me, if you understand.
Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know!
Who stretched a measuring line across it?
On what were its footings set,
or who laid its cornerstone—

31. You remember the questions God asks?
Who shut up the sea behind doors
when it burst forth from the womb,
when I made the clouds its garment
and wrapped it in thick darkness,
when I fixed limits for it
and set its doors and bars in place,
when I said, ‘This far you may
come and no farther;
here is where your proud waves
halt’?

32. You remember the questions God asks?
Do you know when the mountain goats give birth?
Do you watch when the doe bears her fawn?
Do you count the months till they bear?
Do you know the time they give birth?

33. James Porter Moreland (born March 9, 1948), is an American philosopher, theologian, and
Christian apologist. He currently serves as a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at
Talbot School of Theology at Biola University in La Mirada, California

34. We are not from monkeys…