Scientifically, the Theory of Evolution is seen by more and more scientists as having major weaknesses. Future sermons will support that fact. The real problem with evolution is that it presents students with a worldview that eliminates the possibility of God in creation. More than a few Christians have had their faith weakened or destroyed by the sole teaching of evolution to the exclusion of Intelligent Design which is just as or more reasonable as evolution.
Nexxt week's message is called, Three Scientific Facts That Challenge Evolution"
Vidoe of this is at https://youtu.be/B4FPn01_vnY
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why Christianity (Part 1)?Robin Schumacher
This presentation examines the problem of evil in the world and looks at how to reconcile the concept of an all-powerful and loving God with the reality of evil.
A power point for a titled What is Truth? A talk about Postmodernism, Naturalism and the Christian World View, given by Dr. John Oakes at Rutgers University 11/20-09.
Notes to Accompany "A History of Science and Christianity"
The ancient world: Chaos vs Cosmos
1. Thales (585 BC) Predicted a Solar Eclipse: Nature is predictable. Cosmos
and the human mind.
Melvin Calvin (atheist expert on the chemical origin of life): ?The fundamental conviction
that the universe is ordered [cosmos] is the first and strongest tenet [of scientists].
As I try to discern the origin of that conviction, I seem to find it in a
basic notion discovered 2000 or 3000 years ago, and enunciated first in the
Western world by the ancient Hebrews: namely that the universe is governed by
a single God, and is not the product of the whims of many gods, each governing
his own province, according to his own laws. This monotheistic view seems to be
the historical foundation of modern science.?...
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why Christianity (Part 1)?Robin Schumacher
This presentation examines the problem of evil in the world and looks at how to reconcile the concept of an all-powerful and loving God with the reality of evil.
A power point for a titled What is Truth? A talk about Postmodernism, Naturalism and the Christian World View, given by Dr. John Oakes at Rutgers University 11/20-09.
Notes to Accompany "A History of Science and Christianity"
The ancient world: Chaos vs Cosmos
1. Thales (585 BC) Predicted a Solar Eclipse: Nature is predictable. Cosmos
and the human mind.
Melvin Calvin (atheist expert on the chemical origin of life): ?The fundamental conviction
that the universe is ordered [cosmos] is the first and strongest tenet [of scientists].
As I try to discern the origin of that conviction, I seem to find it in a
basic notion discovered 2000 or 3000 years ago, and enunciated first in the
Western world by the ancient Hebrews: namely that the universe is governed by
a single God, and is not the product of the whims of many gods, each governing
his own province, according to his own laws. This monotheistic view seems to be
the historical foundation of modern science.?...
Dr. John Oakes taught a class on Presuppositional Apologetics at the 2015 International Christan Evidence Conference at York College in York, Nebraska, June 19-21. He gave a brief overview of the types of apologetics, followed by an analysis of the strong and weak points of presuppositional apologetics, followed by a discussion of world view apologetics. Here are the notes and power point for the class.
John Oakes and Robert Carrillo are team teaching a class on the history of Christianity for the staff of the San Diego Church of Christ over the next couple of months. The notes and power point for the class are available here. John Oakes has a book on the topic “The Christian Story: Finding the Church in Church History” available at www.ipibooks.com
This presentation is an introduction to the issue of ethics and morality and examines the possible sources of a standard and an authority for morality.
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why God (Part 1)?Robin Schumacher
This presentation presents the first of three core arguments for the existence of God and presents evidence for God being the beginning cause of the universe.
God vs. Science Big Bang Genesis the Creation Of Life Adam & Eve The Primordial Soup Darwin Theory Of Evolution Christianity Miracles Scientific Proof Conclusions Activities God Gods Faith
Dr. John Oakes taught a class on Modernism and Scientific Materialism at the 2015 International Christan Evidence Conference at York College in York, Nebraska, June 19-21. He gave a brief overview of the history of modern science and then give a world view critique of the philosophy, comparing it to Christianity. Here are notes and power points from the presentation.
Dr. John Oakes did a sermon on God and Science recently in San Diego. There were multiple requests that the audio be made available. The class was not recorded, but we are posting a nearly identical class taught in London, England in June, 2014.
There is so much evidence to challenge Darwin's Theory of how the many species of life developed on earth but here are my three favorites so far. The strongest challenge is one I am learning about now from molecular biology. Stephen Meyer's book , Signature in the Cell, is a powerful refutation of evolution's claims of random mutations directed by natural selection as the primary cause of biodiversity.
No one has influenced the entire world with "scientific" support for atheism, eugenics, racism and white supremacy more than Charles Darwin! It's time to dethrone him in science and in education.
Besides, his main ideas on evolution have been proven false: Absolutely no fossils to support gradual evolution between kinds of animals and molecular biology and DNA code science conclusively prove that random chance mutations could never have produced the massive complexity of life we now know exists even in one cell. Please challenge his ideas in your scientific and educational commmuities.
Here is a talk I gave on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QRM7mxCVFI&t=706s
I can send you the original as a Powerpoint or Keynote if you ask in the comments.
Dr. John Oakes taught a class on Presuppositional Apologetics at the 2015 International Christan Evidence Conference at York College in York, Nebraska, June 19-21. He gave a brief overview of the types of apologetics, followed by an analysis of the strong and weak points of presuppositional apologetics, followed by a discussion of world view apologetics. Here are the notes and power point for the class.
John Oakes and Robert Carrillo are team teaching a class on the history of Christianity for the staff of the San Diego Church of Christ over the next couple of months. The notes and power point for the class are available here. John Oakes has a book on the topic “The Christian Story: Finding the Church in Church History” available at www.ipibooks.com
This presentation is an introduction to the issue of ethics and morality and examines the possible sources of a standard and an authority for morality.
The Essentials of Apologetics - Why God (Part 1)?Robin Schumacher
This presentation presents the first of three core arguments for the existence of God and presents evidence for God being the beginning cause of the universe.
God vs. Science Big Bang Genesis the Creation Of Life Adam & Eve The Primordial Soup Darwin Theory Of Evolution Christianity Miracles Scientific Proof Conclusions Activities God Gods Faith
Dr. John Oakes taught a class on Modernism and Scientific Materialism at the 2015 International Christan Evidence Conference at York College in York, Nebraska, June 19-21. He gave a brief overview of the history of modern science and then give a world view critique of the philosophy, comparing it to Christianity. Here are notes and power points from the presentation.
Dr. John Oakes did a sermon on God and Science recently in San Diego. There were multiple requests that the audio be made available. The class was not recorded, but we are posting a nearly identical class taught in London, England in June, 2014.
There is so much evidence to challenge Darwin's Theory of how the many species of life developed on earth but here are my three favorites so far. The strongest challenge is one I am learning about now from molecular biology. Stephen Meyer's book , Signature in the Cell, is a powerful refutation of evolution's claims of random mutations directed by natural selection as the primary cause of biodiversity.
No one has influenced the entire world with "scientific" support for atheism, eugenics, racism and white supremacy more than Charles Darwin! It's time to dethrone him in science and in education.
Besides, his main ideas on evolution have been proven false: Absolutely no fossils to support gradual evolution between kinds of animals and molecular biology and DNA code science conclusively prove that random chance mutations could never have produced the massive complexity of life we now know exists even in one cell. Please challenge his ideas in your scientific and educational commmuities.
Here is a talk I gave on this recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QRM7mxCVFI&t=706s
I can send you the original as a Powerpoint or Keynote if you ask in the comments.
Basic overview of introductory apologetics: (1) Can we prove God's existence? (2) Is the Bible reliable? (3) Was Jesus God or a good guy? [additional references found in "notes" section of each slide]
This presentation in detail shows the relationship between evolution, and Islam and evolution and Social Sciences. Moreover, it explains in detail the criticism of the Darwinian ideas present in social sciences.
PROGRESSIVE CHRISTIANITY FROM LIBERAL CATHOLIC AND UNITARIAN PERSPECTIVESDr Ian Ellis-Jones
Copyright Ian Ellis-Jones 2006 - All Rights Reserved - Article Published in Communion (The Magazine of The Liberal Catholic Church in Australia), Vol 25, No 3, Michaelmas 2006.
Toward the end of the Renaissance, the modern method ofempir.docxturveycharlyn
Toward the end of the Renaissance, the modern method of
empirical science began to develop. The key players were
Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543), Johannes Kepler (1571-
1630), and Galileo Galilei (1564-1642). Although it may
seem ironic now, each of these men believed in the Christian
God. They viewed science as studying the handiwork of an
almighty Creator and discerning His natural laws. Galileo
considered God to have written two “books”: the Bible and
nature (Hummel, p. 106).
Contrary to popular belief, the cause for the diversion
between Christianity and science originated not with the
Church but with the university professors who were threat-
ened by Galileo’s revolutionary ideas. These professors were
steeped in the Greek scientific method, which included
observation to a small extent, but mostly explained the
workings of nature through rational deduction from first
principles, or assumptions, an entire view of the universe had
been built up. Consequently, the professors embraced such
misconceptions as the sun having no imperfections, the moon
being a perfectly smooth sphere that shone with its own light,
and the earth alone having a moon since the earth was at the
center of the universe. Galileo’s recently invented telescope
quickly demonstrated the incorrectness of such assumptions
(Hummel, pp. 91-94).
Not willing to be thwarted by Galileo, the professors decided
to make the controversy religious rather than academic
(Hummel, p. 92). They argued that the heliocentric (sun-cen-
tered) view contradicted scripture (e.g., Psalm 104:22 says,
“The sun rises.” Therefore, the sun must revolve around sta-
tionary earth). In the face of what at that time appeared to be
a genuine contradiction between scripture and the heliocen-
tric theory, the theologians of the Roman Catholic Church
had no choice but to condemn Galileo’s views, because the
conflict had challenged the authority of the Church.
As a result of that controversy, the schism between reason
and faith had begun. There were now two apparently
irreconcilable sources of truth: the church and science.
Secularism
A Religion Profile from International Students, Inc.
1
Secularism: An Overview
Number of Adherents
Demographer Davit Barrett estimates that there are 150 million
atheists and 768 million nonreligious people in the world. The
combined total comes to more than 918 million people (Barrett).
Secularism Among the Nations
In more than 40 countries, atheists or nonreligious make up
more than 10 percent of the population (World Christian
Database). The following are just a few of those countries:
Austrailia, Britain, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic,
France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Japan, North Korea,
Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Russia, Sweden,
Uruguay and Vietnam.
Defining the Terms
An “atheist” is one who says there is sufficient evidence to
show that God does not exist. An “agnostic” is one who says
there is insufficient evidence to know wheth ...
The Importance of Teaching Evolutionary Theory by Sally McGrawKrista Kennedy
Sample of student work for final argumentative presentation assignment of WRIT 3257: Scientific & Technical Presentations. Posted with permission of the author.
In the Bible, Colossians 2:8 reads – “Beware lest any man take you captive through vain and deceitful philosophy, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.” Since Darwin published his book of Origins 150 years ago, civilization has been on a dangerous journey of replacing God and His creation of the Universe, with what the Bible calls the “vain and deceitful” philosophies of men. These men…and women….. have been teachers, politicians, rock stars, news anchors, even some pastors and preachers. Those philosophies are evolution, naturalism, humanism, Nazism, Marxism, socialism, etc.. These philosophies have led to the social diseases of racism, abortion, eugenics, materialism, and more......
Darwin said, "If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”
Darwin, C. (1872) Origin of Species, 6th ed. (1988), New York University Press, New York, p. 154.
180 years later, his theory has broken down according to his own criteria! There is ABSOLUTELY NOT ONE TRANSITIONAL FOSSIL BETWEEN KINDS OF ANIMALS. DARWIN'S THEORY IS WRONG!
And his ideas have promoted racism and white supremacy more than any other single person worldwide for the past 150 years! Darwin needs to be Dethroned in our scientific and educational systems.
In fact, it seems like a contradiction, doesn’t it? An oxymoron: Our loving God sees the death of His beloved children as a blessing. I hope I can explain this scriptural truth well enough to convince you that God has good reasons to see our deaths as a good and precious thing.
I can tell you from personal experience and from the Bible that God is the most wonderful, tender-hearted, and kind Father anyone could imagine.
Experiencing the love of God as your Father is the birthright of every born-again Christian!
It will change your life as it has changed mine!
“They stood in their places and confessed their sins and the sins of their ancestors.” Neh. 9:2
Why: The Mosaic Covenant!
“But if they will confess their sins and the sins of their ancestors—… I will remember my covenant with Jacob and my covenant with Isaac and my covenant with Abraham, and I will remember the land.” Leviticus 26: 40-42
This message is a prophetic word the Lord has given me. Test it.
Jerusalem represents the American Church— all the followers of Jesus
The broken walls of Jerusalem represent the broken moral and spiritual foundations of the Church— broken by many sins in the Church
Through those broken walls, forces of darkness have infiltrated and corrupted the people of God
The book of Nehemiah is a metaphor for how God is rebuilding our spiritual walls and cleansing God’s people in America
God restored Jerusalem in preparation for the coming of Jesus about 450 years later
God is restoring us now in preparation for a huge national and international revival
Video of this message starts at 52:43 at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uEEWhJFNP54
More info on Freemasonry at http://www.dear-mr-mason.com/Main.html
3:32 / 13:36 Unforgiveness: One of the most Dangerous Sins a Christiain Can ...Abundant Life Fellowship
The sternest, most dramatic warnings against sin by Jesus are in Matthew 6 & 18. It is the sins of unforgiveness!
Protect yourself and your loved ones from this toxic sin!
Learn about the dangers of unforgiveness now. The world is turning against Christians more and more. Be prepared to be offended. Be ready to forgive and to return good for evil. We must! Jesus demands it. It's for our protection. Unforgiveness is a great danger.
Here's why followers of Jesus can have a confidence that is strong, consistent and holy no matter what happens to them in this life.
Video of the slides and a short video illustration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoxEVilDXfU
A message most Christians will not hear often. Some will never hear this in a church today. But persecution is coming to America—ready or not! Jesus promises us persecution. the Bible is full of examples and teaching on our call to suffer as followers of God.
Every person is made for heaven. Heaven is the home of every follower of Jesus. We are aliens here on earth. Jesus came to bring us home to heaven. What is heaven like? What can we expect there? These and other questions are addressed in this message. Live for heaven, Christian! You are headed home to heaven someday, maybe sooner than you think.
The word "God" is used about 4500 times in the Bible. In 99.9% of the time, God refers to the Father. Read these scriptures where the word 'Father' is substituted for 'God' and get a better appreciation for the loving, gentle, Father Every Christian has through faith in Jesus.
Jesus was sent by the Father to bring us back to Him. God wants a close, "Abba" daddy relationship with us like He had with Adam and Eve in the garden. They walked together int he cool of the day—as a close family of a Father and His children.
God wants all of His children to have that kind of relationship with Him. That's why He sent Jesus!
We were created to become children of God, joint-heirs of Jesus who will rule and reign with Him in heaven. Salvation through Jesus is all of that! Get to know Jesus! Glory God no with your lives and prepare yourselves to rule with Jesus forever in heaven!! Don't waste your life just living for earthly things. Prepare for eternity by loving, enjoying and obeying Jesus NOW!
Video of this message slides here: https://youtu.be/UBfoya4FR44
This is a message of comfort. God has BIG plans for all Christians when they get to heaven. He will glorify us in ways we cannot imagine. Look at the biblical proof that God has always planned to do this for all His adopted children who come to Him through faith in Jesus!
Go here to see my comments about how this teaching differs from Mormon false teachings about God and heaven. https://www.alf.church/called-to-be-glorified/
So why do I feel that this message about being adopted by God is so foundational to the normal Christian life?
Because Jesus came to bring us back to the Father. Jesus came to show us the Father. If you’re a Christian and you don’t know the Father, you’re missing one of the main reasons that Jesus came to earth. His death on the cross was just the means to enable us to know the Father and be the adopted as his children.
Video of this message at https://tinyurl.com/yar3t5j4
The Bible and experience confirms that our personalities, values, identity and conscience are largely formed by the family that raised us. We get "spiritual DNA" from our parents and ancestors that can be good and bad. Sin patterns, dysfunctional relationship patterns and coping mechanisms run in families. This is an intro to a huge and important topic that probably should be a series. This is a topic that can open up thinking and family discussions that could help heal and protect your family. This is not a topic most churches talk about but one they need to address due to the increases of sin and dysfunction in American families today.
This is just a short message on the necessity of hearing God's voice for every Christian. God speaks to His children for the same reasons we parents speak to our children: to know who we are, Whose we are and how to live well.
In a world going mad, where can you find more comfort? This message explains how God is totally prepared to comfort His people. Here are some tips to accessing what He has for you. He truly is the God of all comfort!
Richard's aventures in two entangled wonderlandsRichard Gill
Since the loophole-free Bell experiments of 2020 and the Nobel prizes in physics of 2022, critics of Bell's work have retreated to the fortress of super-determinism. Now, super-determinism is a derogatory word - it just means "determinism". Palmer, Hance and Hossenfelder argue that quantum mechanics and determinism are not incompatible, using a sophisticated mathematical construction based on a subtle thinning of allowed states and measurements in quantum mechanics, such that what is left appears to make Bell's argument fail, without altering the empirical predictions of quantum mechanics. I think however that it is a smoke screen, and the slogan "lost in math" comes to my mind. I will discuss some other recent disproofs of Bell's theorem using the language of causality based on causal graphs. Causal thinking is also central to law and justice. I will mention surprising connections to my work on serial killer nurse cases, in particular the Dutch case of Lucia de Berk and the current UK case of Lucy Letby.
Multi-source connectivity as the driver of solar wind variability in the heli...Sérgio Sacani
The ambient solar wind that flls the heliosphere originates from multiple
sources in the solar corona and is highly structured. It is often described
as high-speed, relatively homogeneous, plasma streams from coronal
holes and slow-speed, highly variable, streams whose source regions are
under debate. A key goal of ESA/NASA’s Solar Orbiter mission is to identify
solar wind sources and understand what drives the complexity seen in the
heliosphere. By combining magnetic feld modelling and spectroscopic
techniques with high-resolution observations and measurements, we show
that the solar wind variability detected in situ by Solar Orbiter in March
2022 is driven by spatio-temporal changes in the magnetic connectivity to
multiple sources in the solar atmosphere. The magnetic feld footpoints
connected to the spacecraft moved from the boundaries of a coronal hole
to one active region (12961) and then across to another region (12957). This
is refected in the in situ measurements, which show the transition from fast
to highly Alfvénic then to slow solar wind that is disrupted by the arrival of
a coronal mass ejection. Our results describe solar wind variability at 0.5 au
but are applicable to near-Earth observatories.
Observation of Io’s Resurfacing via Plume Deposition Using Ground-based Adapt...Sérgio Sacani
Since volcanic activity was first discovered on Io from Voyager images in 1979, changes
on Io’s surface have been monitored from both spacecraft and ground-based telescopes.
Here, we present the highest spatial resolution images of Io ever obtained from a groundbased telescope. These images, acquired by the SHARK-VIS instrument on the Large
Binocular Telescope, show evidence of a major resurfacing event on Io’s trailing hemisphere. When compared to the most recent spacecraft images, the SHARK-VIS images
show that a plume deposit from a powerful eruption at Pillan Patera has covered part
of the long-lived Pele plume deposit. Although this type of resurfacing event may be common on Io, few have been detected due to the rarity of spacecraft visits and the previously low spatial resolution available from Earth-based telescopes. The SHARK-VIS instrument ushers in a new era of high resolution imaging of Io’s surface using adaptive
optics at visible wavelengths.
Introduction:
RNA interference (RNAi) or Post-Transcriptional Gene Silencing (PTGS) is an important biological process for modulating eukaryotic gene expression.
It is highly conserved process of posttranscriptional gene silencing by which double stranded RNA (dsRNA) causes sequence-specific degradation of mRNA sequences.
dsRNA-induced gene silencing (RNAi) is reported in a wide range of eukaryotes ranging from worms, insects, mammals and plants.
This process mediates resistance to both endogenous parasitic and exogenous pathogenic nucleic acids, and regulates the expression of protein-coding genes.
What are small ncRNAs?
micro RNA (miRNA)
short interfering RNA (siRNA)
Properties of small non-coding RNA:
Involved in silencing mRNA transcripts.
Called “small” because they are usually only about 21-24 nucleotides long.
Synthesized by first cutting up longer precursor sequences (like the 61nt one that Lee discovered).
Silence an mRNA by base pairing with some sequence on the mRNA.
Discovery of siRNA?
The first small RNA:
In 1993 Rosalind Lee (Victor Ambros lab) was studying a non- coding gene in C. elegans, lin-4, that was involved in silencing of another gene, lin-14, at the appropriate time in the
development of the worm C. elegans.
Two small transcripts of lin-4 (22nt and 61nt) were found to be complementary to a sequence in the 3' UTR of lin-14.
Because lin-4 encoded no protein, she deduced that it must be these transcripts that are causing the silencing by RNA-RNA interactions.
Types of RNAi ( non coding RNA)
MiRNA
Length (23-25 nt)
Trans acting
Binds with target MRNA in mismatch
Translation inhibition
Si RNA
Length 21 nt.
Cis acting
Bind with target Mrna in perfect complementary sequence
Piwi-RNA
Length ; 25 to 36 nt.
Expressed in Germ Cells
Regulates trnasposomes activity
MECHANISM OF RNAI:
First the double-stranded RNA teams up with a protein complex named Dicer, which cuts the long RNA into short pieces.
Then another protein complex called RISC (RNA-induced silencing complex) discards one of the two RNA strands.
The RISC-docked, single-stranded RNA then pairs with the homologous mRNA and destroys it.
THE RISC COMPLEX:
RISC is large(>500kD) RNA multi- protein Binding complex which triggers MRNA degradation in response to MRNA
Unwinding of double stranded Si RNA by ATP independent Helicase
Active component of RISC is Ago proteins( ENDONUCLEASE) which cleave target MRNA.
DICER: endonuclease (RNase Family III)
Argonaute: Central Component of the RNA-Induced Silencing Complex (RISC)
One strand of the dsRNA produced by Dicer is retained in the RISC complex in association with Argonaute
ARGONAUTE PROTEIN :
1.PAZ(PIWI/Argonaute/ Zwille)- Recognition of target MRNA
2.PIWI (p-element induced wimpy Testis)- breaks Phosphodiester bond of mRNA.)RNAse H activity.
MiRNA:
The Double-stranded RNAs are naturally produced in eukaryotic cells during development, and they have a key role in regulating gene expression .
Astronomy Update- Curiosity’s exploration of Mars _ Local Briefs _ leadertele...
Why Christians Must Challenge Evolution ( With embedded video of message)
1. Welcome to God’s Time with you!
He Enjoys you! Come and Enjoy Him Today!
2.
3. Challenging
Evolution
Why This is Critical for
Christians
❖ “We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up against the
knowledge of God…” (2 Cor. 10:5)
4. Nature Reveals God
❖ "For since the creation of the
world, God's invisible
qualities—his eternal power
and divine nature—have been
clearly seen, being understood
from what has been made, so
that men are without excuse.”
(Rom 1:20)
5. The Theft of a Father’s Love
Evolution is a Thief A Parable
7. Scientific Facts
❖ Do not speak for themselves
❖ Always interpreted to fit within a framework
❖ The framework of the Theory of Evolution: Naturalism
❖ Things made themselves without the influence of any
intelligent outside source
❖ Evolution is a deduction from this philosophical assumption!
❖ Nothing eventually gave rise to everything…by itself!!
❖ Protozoa became professors—all by chance over time
8. Consequences of This Theory
❖ God’s glory as Creator is denied
❖ Belief in God and the Bible is weakened by “experts”
❖ Human life = just accidental animal life.
❖ Abortion is fine! Euthanasia is great! Eugenics is good!
❖ The spiritual purpose and destiny of human life is lost
❖ There is no absolute basis for morality or legal laws
❖ No God. No sin. No sin, no need for a Savior.
❖ We can so do as we please. Sexual morality is whatever we like.
❖ Life is just about being the “fittest” to survive. Some people are not valuable
9. No Absolute Morality
❖ Your concept of origins greatly determines your self-
worth, the purpose of life and how you live that life.
❖ If there is no God, there is no basis for morality except
what we make it. Man becomes the sole judge of what
is right and wrong at any given time.
❖ Historically, human behavior has been largely
controlled only by one of two things: by religion or
by force.
10. No Trustworthy Bible
❖ Denies God as Creator: Genesis, Psalms 104, Job 37-40,
Isaiah, Mark 10:6, Luke 3: 23-38
❖ Denies Jesus as Creator: John 1:3, Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:3
❖ If God is not Creator, what else in the Bible is not true?
❖ College & High School kids get confused about their
faith when “experts” prove that God did not create us.
11. ❖ Teachers and professors who
try to teach origins by
Intelligent Design are
persecuted by our schools &
government agencies.
❖ Students are ridiculed and not
allowed to discuss alternate
theories.
Persecution of Non-Evolutionists
12. The Bible is Reliable History
No Fact in the Bible Has Ever Been Proven Wrong
by Science
13. Main Points of Evolution
❖ All life on earth descended from one prehistoric cell
❖ Small, random mutations over time produced every living
thing. All mutations happened by pure chance, pure
accidents.
❖ After random chance created these increasing complex
organisms, Natural Selection (survival of the fittest, those
most able to reproduce) weeded out the weaker organisms
to give us the organisms we have today.
❖ Therefore, no Intelligent Designer, no God created all
14. The Theory of Evolution
❖ “The theory of evolution by natural selection, first formulated
in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, is the
process by which organisms change over time as a result of
changes inheritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes
that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will
help it survive and have more offspring.
❖ Evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated
theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from
a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology,
geology, genetics and developmental biology.” https://www.livescience.com/
474-controversy-evolution-works.html
15. Darwin Predicted
❖ "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by
natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with
larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as
monstrous as a whale," he speculated.
❖ The idea didn't go over very well with the public. Darwin was so
embarrassed by the ridicule he received that the swimming-bear
passage was removed from later editions of the book.
❖ Scientists now know that Darwin had the right idea but the
wrong animal: Instead of looking at bears, he should have
instead been looking at cows and hippopotamuses.” https://
www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html
16.
17.
18. A Clash of Worldviews
❖ Not science vs religious views
❖ Real science is testable, duplicatable, falsifiable
❖ It is scientific philosophy vs. religious views & Intelligent Design
views
❖ The Theory of Evolution seems to be a necessary scientific
philosophy that atheistic scientists require in order to support their
worldviews and lifestyles.
❖ Only 33% of US scientists believe in a personal God
❖ Only 20% of National Academy of Scientists might believe in God
19. Dr. D. M. S. Watson–, noted evolutionary biologist and science writer in
the magazine“Nature”: vol.124: p.233, 1929
“Evolution is a theory universally accepted not
because it can be proven by logically coherent
evidence to be true, but because the only
alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”
20. Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism
❖ “Evolutionary theory weakened one of the most intuitively
compelling arguments for the existence of God: the argument from
design.”
❖ “Professor Nigel Williams wrote that Darwin “destroyed the strongest
evidence left in the nineteenth century for the existence of a deity”
❖
“Darwin said that atheism “is best promoted by the gradual
illumination of men’s minds, which follow from the advance of
science [i.e. evolution]” https://answersingenesis.org/charles-
darwin/darwinism/why-orthodox-darwinism-demands-atheism/
❖ Similar to why German princes followed Luther!
21. Why German Princes Followed Luther
❖ Church was corrupt and over-
controlling of politics & money
❖ German princes could take
church lands and money once
they as revolt Rome as
Lutherans
❖ German princes became more
wealthy and powerful as
Lutherans.
22. Man’s Quest to Replace God
❖ Human rebellion against God
began with man’s quest for
knowledge that would
eliminate the need to get that
knowledge from God
❖ “The tree was desirable to
make one wise” ( Get. 3:6)
❖ And “knowledge puffs
up” (1Cor. 8:1)
23. The Renaissance and The Enlightenment
❖ The Renaissance ( 1400-1600) rediscovered Greek & Roman books and
the unbiblical, humanist pattern of thinking they communicated.
❖ The Enlightenment ( 1600-1800) intensified the distrust of the Bible,
religion and made human reason the main yardstick for truth. It is also
called The Age of Reason. Church abuses over centuries were partly
responsible for the rejection of Christianity and its God. (Haiti’s history!)
❖ The Scientific Revolution ( late 1500’s-1700’s) strengthened man’s
reliance on human reason alone.
❖ People could find truth themselves about the world without relying
on the Catholic Church, which had often abused its position.
24. Love God by Thinking
❖ "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE
LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART, AND WITH
ALL YOUR SOUL, AND
WITH ALL YOUR
MIND.’” (Matt. 22:37—spoken
by Jesus)
25. ❖ “We tear down arguments, and
every presumption set up against
the knowledge of God…” (2 Cor.
10:5)
❖ “…we will speak the truth in love,
growing in every way more like
Christ.” (Eph. 4:15)
❖ “Always be prepared to give an
answer to everyone who asks you
to give the reason for the hope
that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter
3:15)
Our Job Today As Christians
26. Christian Apololgetics
❖ The ministry of giving a defense of the Christian faith
❖ Ravi Zacharias, Norm Geisler, Lee Strobel, Josh
McDowell, C.S. Lewis, Michael Brown, Hank
Hanegraaff, Gary Habermas, J. Warner Wallace, Mike
Licona, R.C. Sproul, Wayne Grudem, NABEEL
QURESHI ( Pray for Nabil. He has cancer!)
28. NT Creation Apologetics
❖ Paul’s creationism argument on Mars Hill in Athens!!
❖ Some mocked, some wanted to hear more and some
believed in God on the spot!
❖ “He is the God who made the world and everything in
it…
❖ He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he
satisfies every need.
❖ From one man, He created all the nations throughout the
whole earth…” (Acts 17:24-26–Paul to Greek Pagans)
29. NT Creation Apologetics
❖ “…for he (Apollos)
powerfully refuted the
Jews in public,
demonstrating by the
Scriptures that Jesus was
the Christ.”
❖ Acts 18:26—speaking of
the Apostle Apollos
31. The Theory of Evolution
❖ Robs God of His Glory as Creator
❖ Demeans the value of human life
❖ Eliminates the divine basis for moral law and legal laws
❖ Questions and mocks the Bible
❖ Supports abortion, eugenics, euthanasia and racism
❖ Supports immorality of every kind. Sin is irrelevant.
32. Anti-semitism & Evolution: A Terrible Combination
Luther, Nietzsche,
Hilter
Ideas that Killed Six Million
33. Famous Evolutionists
❖ Adolf Hitler killed 42 million in WWII
❖ Stalin: Killed 20 million Russians
❖ Mao Zedong killed 45 million Chinese
❖ Margaret Sanger: Racist, eugenicist, Founder of
Planned Parenthood and free-love advocate, anti-
Christianity leader. (1879-1966)
❖ Richard Dawkins: passionate atheist, biologist/author
37. Churches Make Mistakes
❖ The Inquisition: 1100-1550
❖ Burned Bible Translators: 1500’s
❖ Swiss Presbyterians Drown
Anabaptists in 1527
❖ “Avoid Protestants” 1950’s
❖ Deliberately skip Mass once and
go to hell if not confessed to a
priest before you die.” 2017
❖ Hide 3000 pedophile priests &
bishops from the law. 1950-2017
38. Government Make Mistakes
❖ Slaves: just property: Dred Scott, 1857
❖ Unborn children are not people 2017
❖ 500 treaties with Native Americans be
broken or changed without consent
❖ The Tuskegee Study: 40 years of
Federal Lies against poor Black men.
❖ Native Americans in Virginia are not an
ethnic group: 1924-54
❖ Mixed marriages in VA are a crime:
1924-1967
❖ Poor, mentally challenged people can
be compelled to be sterilized in VA
1924-1979
39. Science Makes Mistake
❖ 1983, astronomer Carl Sagan coauthored an article in
Science that shook the world: "Nuclear Winter: Global
Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions”. In 1990,
he said he was way off in his calculations.
40. Fooled Scientists for 40 years
Piltdown Man, 1912
Thought to be THE missing link
40 years later, it was discovered to be a
complete fraud by a a amateur
archeologist in search of fame.
Evolutionary scientists concluded: “The
Piltdown hoax stands as a cautionary tale
to scientists not to be led by preconceived
ideas”
41. “The Piltdown Chicken”
❖ 1999 fossil from China
allegedly showing a dinosaur
with birdlike plumage was
displayed triumphantly at the
National Geographic Society
and written up in the society's
November magazine.
❖ Was later proved to be a fraud.
❖ Desperate for “proof”, the
evolutionists are fooled.
42.
43. ❖ Then you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.”
❖ (John 8:32—spoken by Jesus)
Truth Sets People Free
44. "Darwinism is a trivial idea that has been elevated to the status of the
scientific theory that governs modern biology.”
Dr. Michael Egnor,
Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook
45. ❖ “We tear down arguments, and
every presumption set up against
the knowledge of God…” (2 Cor.
10:5)
❖ “…we will speak the truth in love,
growing in every way more like
Christ.” (Eph. 4:15)
❖ “Always be prepared to give an
answer to everyone who asks you
to give the reason for the hope
that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter
3:15)
Our Job Today As Christians
46.
47.
48. Romans 1:21-22
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship
Him as God or even give Him thanks.
And they began to think up foolish ideas of what
God was like.
As a result, their minds became dark and
confused.
Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter
fools.”