In the Beginning: Science and Genesis 1-11

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In the Beginning Science and Genesis 1-11

• If the foundations are destroyed, what can the
  righteous do? Psalm 113

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• As medical doctors we are skeptical of the
  claims for the ability of random mutation and
  natural selection to account for the origination
  and complexity of life and we therefore dissent
  from Darwinian macroevolution as a viable theory.

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What Darwin Didnt Know January 2008
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Genesis 11

• In the beginning, God created the heavens and
  the earth.

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Genesis 119

• Therefore its name was called Babel, because
  there the Lord confused the language of the whole
  earth and from there the Lord scattered them
  abroad over the face of the whole earth.

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Class Schedule

• Jan 23 Introduction Jan 30 Introduction
• Feb 6 No Class Feb 13 Introduction/Gen 11
  Feb 20 Gen 12-10 Feb 27 Prayer Meeting
  Mar 6 Gen 111-19 Mar 13 Gen 120-25 Mar
  20 Gen 120-25 Contd Mar 27 Easter Break
  Apr 3 Gen 126-31 Apr 10 Gen 5 Apr 17
  Gen 71-20 Apr 24 Gen 71-20 May 1 Gen
  721-24 May 8 Gen 918-19 119
• Gen 1025 May 15 Overview (Final
  Class)

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In the Beginning Science and Genesis 1-11
Rich Akin Lakeside Community Chapel January-May
2013
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Is there compelling evidence for evolution?
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New Atheism

• is the belief that religion should not
  simply be tolerated but should be countered,
  criticized, and exposed by rational argument
  wherever its influence arises. Proponents of New
  Atheism argue that recent scientific advancements
  demand a less accommodating attitude toward
  religion, superstition, and religious fanaticism
  than had traditionally been extended by many
  secularists.

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Evolutionist Philosopher Daniel Dennett
Darwinian evolution is a universal acid it eats
through just about every traditional concept and
leaves in its wake a revolutionized world-view.
That worldview is Materialism
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Christopher Hitchens

• the tenets of organized religion are nothing
  more than the delusions of humankind needed to
  sustain our desire for pageantry and meaning.

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Science Books???
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The God Hypothesis
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Conflicting Worldviews
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• Without a Biblical worldview, there is no basis
  for knowledge and therefore the evolutionists
  worldview is irrational.

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Matthew 1230

• He who is not with Me is against Me and he
  who does not gather with Me scatters.

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The Ultimate Proof of Creation

• The ultimate proof of creation is this if
  biblical creation were not true, we could not
  know anything (italics his)! This proof can be
  stated in a number of different ways, but what it
  really comes down to is this

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• only the Christian worldview (starting with
  a literal Genesis) can rationally make sense of
  the universe. Only if biblical creation is true
  can we have genuine knowledge about anything.

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• The argument is that the Bibles account of
  origins (along with its other accounts) must be
  true. Only the God described in the Bible can
  provide the foundation for the things we take for
  granted.

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• Without Gods Word, we would not have a good
  reason to believe in the preconditions of
  intelligibility the basic reliability of memory
  and senses, laws of logic, uniformity of nature,
  morality, personal dignity and freedom, and so
  on.

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Naturalism (Nature is all there is)

• You are the product of random, natural
  processes that did not have you in mind.

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• There are no absolutes!

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• Why should we take seriously what the Bible says
  over any other religious book?
• Arent science and religion separate disciplines
  that do not involve each other?
• Isnt Genesis just an allegory and not intended
  to be read as a narrative of how the earth and
  all that is in it was created?
• Dont the days indicated in Genesis Chapter 1
  really mean long periods of time and not literal,
• 24-hour days? And what about the Gap theory
  -billions of years passed between Gen 11 and
  12?