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THE CASE FOR CREATION
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TATEMENTS of CIENCE and CRIPTURE
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DUCATIONAL DIFYING VANGELICAL
Presented by Dr Thomas J Kindell Founder
President of Reasons for Faith Ministries, Inc.
Be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks
you a reason for the hope that is within you I
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IMPLICATIONS OF THE LAWS OF THERMODYNAMICS
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ORIGINS
An emotional question.
An unprovable question.
Approaching the question properly.
Lets agree to use fair rules.
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We take the side of science in spite of the
patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in
spite of its failure to fulfill many of its
extravagant promises of health and life, in spite
of the tolerance of the scientific community for
unsubstantiated just-so-stories, because we have
a prior commitment, a commitment to materialism.
It is not that the methods and institutions of
science somehow compel us to accept a material
explanation of the phenomenal world,
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but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our
a priori adherence to material causes to create
an apparatus of investigation and set of concepts
that produce material explanations, no matter how
counter-intuitive, no matter how mystifying to
the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an
absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in
the door. Richard Lewontin, Billions and
Billions of Demons, The New York Review, January
9, 1997, p. 31
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A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature,
and purpose of the universe.The Random House
College Dictionary, 1982. Rev. ed. Edited by
Jess Stein, p. 1114
Definition - RELIGION
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Evolution is a general postulate to which all
theories, all hypotheses, all systems must
henceforward bow and which they must satisfy in
order to be thinkable and true. Evolution is a
light which illuminates all facts, a trajectory
which all lines of thought must follow that is
what evolution is. P. T. de Chardin, as quoted
by F. J. Ayala, Journal of Heredity 683-10, 1977
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What happened to the classic definition of
science?
Science The search for truth whatever that
truth may be through the scientific method of
repeated experimentation and observation.
Science Redefined as Materialism You may search
for truth but only where and how we tell you
to. Only materialistic explanations are allowed.
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THE PROBLEM
Whenever you allow your opponent to define the
rules of argument you lose!
The First Rule
I set the rules and you dont!
The Second Rule
Heads, I win Tails, you lose!
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The search for truth, for truths own sake, is
unimportant the only thing that matters is that
a materialist victory is assured by controlling
the definition of science so that no matter
what they have to win by definition.
CONCLUSION
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It doesnt matter if all the evidence supports
intelligent design and contradicts naturalistic
evolution.
Dr. Scott Todd, an immunologist at Kansas State
University said in Nature magazine
Even if all the data point to an intelligent
designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from
science because it is not naturalistic. S. D.
Todd, Nature 410(6752)423, September 30, 1999
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SCIENCE - OR JUST PHILOSOPHICAL BIAS?
Evolution is a theory universally accepted not
because it can be proved by logically coherent
evidence to be true, but because the only
alternative, special creation, is clearly
incredible. D. M. S. Watson
Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe
it because the only alternative is special
creation which is unthinkable. Sir Arthur
Keith
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The only alternative to evolution is the
doctrine of special creation, which may be true,
but is irrational.
L. T. More
We find that while ID arguments may be true, ID
is not science. U. S. Dist.
Judge, John Jones
How can the truth be irrational and unscientific?
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A DOUBLE STANDARD REGARDING INTELLIGENT DESIGN?
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THE DOUBLE-EDGED SWORD OF SCIENCE
A hypothesis is empirical or scientific only if
it can be tested by experience. A hypothesis or
theory which cannot be, at least in principle,
falsified by empirical observations and
experiments does not belong to the realm of
science. F. J. Ayala,
Biological Evolution Natural Selection or
Random Walk?, American Scientist, Vol. 62, p.
700
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In accepting evolution as a fact, how many
biologists pause to reflect that science is built
upon theories that have been proved by experiment
to be correct, or remember that the theory of
animal evolution has never been thus proved?
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The fact of evolution is the backbone of
biology, and biology is thus in the peculiar
position of being a science founded on an
unproved theory...Is it then a science or a
faith? Belief in the theory of evolution is thus
exactly parallel to belief in creation...both are
concepts which believers know to be true but
neither, up to the present, has been capable of
proof. L. Harrison Matthews,
Introduction to The Origin of Species, 1971
Edition
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COMPARING MODELS
Neither evolution or creation qualify as
scientific theories.
The evolution and creation hypotheses do qualify
to be discussed and compared as scientific models.
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The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Complexity
Disorder
Less Energy Available for Use
The entropy also measures the randomnessof the
system The greater the randomness, the greater
the entropy. Harold Blum - Evolutionist
Physicist
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The Second Law of Thermodynamicssays, roughly
speaking, that in any change the Universe becomes
a slightly more disorderly place the entropy
goes up, the information content goes down. This
natural tendency towards disintegration and chaos
is evident all around us
P. Davies, Chance or choice Is the Universe an
accident?, 80 New Scientist, p. 506
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EVERYTHING THAT HAD A BEGINNING REQUIRES A CAUSE
TO EXPLAIN ITS ORIGIN

• The Universe (including time itself) can be shown
  to have had a beginning.

2. It is unreasonable to believe something could
begin to exist without a cause.
3. The Universe therefore requires a cause.
4. God, as Creator of time, is outside of time.
Since therefore He has no beginning in time, He
has always existed, so doesnt need a cause.
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NOTHING THE PREFERRED CAUSE
It is tempting to go one step further and
speculate that the entire universe evolved from
literally nothing. Allan H. Guth Paul J
Steinhardt
...that our Universe had its physical origin as a
quantum fluctuation of some pre-existing true
vacuum or state of nothingness.
Edward Tryon
This quantum cosmology provides a loophole for
the universe to, so to speak, spring into
existence from nothing, without violating any
laws of physics. Paul Davies
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No theory can rule out divine creation.
Scientific theories are simply proposals for how
the world is, to be tested by observation. There
is no logical impediment to God creating the
universe five minutes ago in its present state,
complete with human memories. In the end a theory
stands or falls on whether human beings consider
it reasonable. Paul Davies, In a correspondence
sent to A. W. Mehlert, March 22, 1993.
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Ordinarily the second law is stated for isolated
systems, but the second law applies equally well
to open systems. John Ross, Chemical and
Engineering News, July 27, 1980, p. 40
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the simple expenditure of energy is not
sufficient to develop and maintain order. A bull
in a china shop performs work, but he neither
creates nor maintains organization. The work
needed is particular work it must follow
specifications it requires information on how to
proceed. G. G. Simpson and W. W. Beck,
Life An Introduction to Biology, 2nd ed, NY,
1955, p. 466
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THE FOUR ESSENTIAL CRITERIA

• The system must be open to the environment.

2. An adequate influx of energy must be available.
3. The system must possess an energy conversion
mechanism to convert harmful raw energy into a
useful form of energy.
4. A directing program must exist to control the
conversion machinery and to direct the converted
energy into the creation and maintenance of
complexity.
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This explanation, an open system however, is
not completely satisfying, because it still
leaves the problem of how or why the ordering
process has arisen (an apparent lowering of the
entropy), and a number of scientists have
wrestled with this issue. Bertalanffy (1968)
called the relation between irreversible
thermodynamics and information theory one of the
most fundamental unsolved problems in
biology. C. J. Smith, Problems with Entropy in
Biology in Biosystems, Vol. 1, p. 259, 1975
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PRIGOGINES NOBEL PRIZE
In 1977, Ilya Prigogine received the Nobel Prize
in chemistry for using thermodynamics, in the
words of the committee, to bridge the gap that
exists between the biological and the social
scientific fields of inquiry.
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What was the role of dissipative structures in
evolution? It is very tempting to speculate that
prebiotic evolution corresponds essentially to a
succession of instabilities leading to an
increasing level of complexity. G. Nicholis
I. Prigogine, Self-Organization in
Non-Equilibrium Systems From Dissipative
Structures to Order Through Fluctuations, p. 12
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SHATTERING THE CRYSTAL ILLUSION
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Crystallization occurs because it leads to the
lowest energy state and to the most stable
arrangement of atoms or molecules under the given
conditions. Crystallization leads to simple, very
uniform repeating structures, which are inert.
These structures do not function, and are not
designed by function. P. T. Mora,
Crystallization and the Second Law, 199 Nature,
216 (1963)
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Unfortunately this principle of crystal
formation cannot explain the formation of
biological structures. The probability that at
ordinary temperatures a macroscopic number of
molecules is assembled to give rise to the highly
ordered structures and to the coordinated
functions characterizing living organisms is
vanishingly small. Ilya Prigogine,
G. Nicolis and A. Babloyants, Thermodynamics of
Evolution, Physics Today, Vol. 25, November
1972, p. 23
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How do present-day organisms manage to
synthesize organic compounds against the forces
of dissolution? They do so by a continuous
expenditure of energyA living organism is an
intricate machine for performing exactly this
function
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When, for want of fuel or through some internal
failure in its mechanism, an organism stops
actively synthesizing itself in opposition to the
processes which continuously decompose it, it
dies and rapidly disintegrates. What we ask here
is to synthesize organic molecules without such a
machine. I believe this to be the most stubborn
problem that confronts us the weakest link at
present in our argument.
G. Wald, The Origin of Life, in The Physics and
Chemistry of Life, p. 17.
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if your theory is found to be against the
Second Law of Thermodynamics I can give you no
hope there is nothing for it but to collapse in
deepest humiliation. A. S. Eddington The
Nature of the Physical World, NY Macmillan,
1930, p. 74
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For ever since the creation of the world His
invisible nature and attributes, that is, His
eternal power and divinity have been made
intelligible and clearly discernible in and
through the things that have been made His
handiworks. So men are without excuse
altogether without any defense or justification.
Romans 120 Amplified
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