Evidence,

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Evidence, Evolution and the Existence of God
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20 July 1969, 1056 p.m. EDT
Neil Armstrong makes the first human footprint on
the moon
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Later, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin collected 48.5
pounds of lunar rocks
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From where did these rocks come?
As with all matter, if go back far enoughan
unmade, eternal Maker
What about the moon itself? From where did it
originate?
So precise in its movements, can know its phase
1000 years from today
It has an unmade Mover
Such common sense laws which regulate life prove
God
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A Word About Science
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True science and true religion are not
contradictory
Falsehoods in either disrupt unity between the two
Bible believers need not fear true science
However, scientism is opposed to true religion
(and also to true science)
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Man stands alone in the universe, a unique
product of a long, unconscious, impersonal,
material process with unique understanding and
potentialities. These he owes to no one but
himself, and it is to himself that he is
responsible. He is not the creature of
uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is
his own master. He can and must decide and manage
his own destiny. -George Gaylord Simpson
SCIENTISM!
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True science is in complete harmony with the
Bible and always will be, because God is the
Author of both!
What about true science?
Science deals only with the natural, with things
that can be apprehended by the sense organs.
Science deals with those things that can be
measured. -Dr. John Klotz Genes, Genesis
and Evolution
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Science is concerned with a given physical system
already in operation
Science is powerless to explain origins- beyond
its realm
All science begins with observation, the first
step of the scientific method. At once this
delimits the scientific domain something that
cannot be observed cannot be investigated by
science. -Dr. Paul Weisz, Principles of
Biology
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Science has no business in the realm of origins-
no wonder it cant find an answer!
But, since it has gone there anyway, lets use
its own laws to prove what it says cant be
proven- the existence of God!
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Cosmology- Cause and Effect
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Simply stated- Every effect must have a cause
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For every house is builded by some man but he
that built all things is God. Hebrews
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Simply stated- Every effect must have a cause
If hear a sound in the night, investigate- Why?
Something caused it
Illustration- Washington D.C.
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U.S. Capitol Building
Reasonable to assume it just happened?
Did not see it built cannot see its builder
It is an effect it had to have a cause
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Simply stated- Every effect must have a cause
If hear a sound in the night, investigate- Why?
Something caused it
Illustration- Washington D.C.
Consider the Universe
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Either it is
Eternal
Not eternal- produced itself
Not eternal- produced by something anterior and
superior
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It is not eternal- both science and the Bible
agree
Did not (because could not) produce itself
Law of Cosmology
Only alternative- produced by something anterior
and superior
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If there was ever a time when absolutely nothing
existed (as evolutionists claim), there would
still be nothing
From nothing comes nothing but nothingness
That Mind is God!
Since something now exists, something has
always existed
Since matter is not eternal, that something is
mind
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Biogenesis- Life comes from Life
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Simply stated- Life does not come from non-living
matter
Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation
and showed that it takes life to produce life
Has been claimed that scientists have produced
life in laboratory- not true!
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Scientists have combined living matter with
non-living matter and the combination lived
But, this happens every time you eat a meal!
What if scientists DID produce life in the
laboratory? What would that prove?
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That it takes life to produce life!
That life is the result of action by intelligence!
What creationists have said all along!
Matter cannot produce mind
The nest doesnt produce the bird, but the bird
the nest
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However, mind can produce matter (if mind is
sufficient)
Science violates its own law of biogenesis when
it claims life came from non-living
Life is the result of life and, that life must
be eternal
That eternal Being is God!
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Without exception we find that Nothing comes
from nothing
Are we to believe that the universe in its
entirety is an exception to this universal law?
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Thermodynamics- Energy Conversion
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Thermodynamics literally means heat power
Involves the study of movement and conversion of
energy
1st and 2nd laws of Thermodynamics are two of the
greatest and most reliable ever formulated by man
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The two laws of thermodynamics are, I suppose,
accepted by physicists as perhaps the most secure
generalizations from experience that we have. The
physicist does not hesitate to apply the two laws
to any concrete situation in the confidence that
nature will not let them down. -Dr. P.W.
Bridgman, Harvard Physicist
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1st law (also called Law of Conservation of Mass
and Energy)- energy and matter are neither
created nor destroyed, only changed in form
Burn a piece of wood not destroyed, just changed
in form
What does this have to do with existence of God?
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Evolution demands a time when NOTHING produced
SOMETHING- a violation of this law of nature
As this law is true, only an action above it
could bring matter and energy into existence
For evolutionist, a huge problem for
creationist, a miracle (thus, God!)
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Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and
all the host of them. And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made and he rested
on the seventh day from all his work which he had
made. Genesis 21, 2
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The Genesis record reveals that the creation
process was the insertion of creative energy from
outside the universe
This is different from the present order which we
now observe and was completed at the time of
creation
Unlike the big bang, quite consistent with the
1st law of thermodynamics
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2nd law (Law of Increasing Entropy)- in any
closed system there must always be a decrease of
energy and organization
Simply states three things 1) Systems tend
toward most probable state 2) Systems tend
toward most random state 3) Systems are depleted
of useful energy
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Systems tend toward most probable state
Water seeks its own level
If left alone, things deteriorate
Systems tend toward most random state
Water wont run uphill
Things tend to become less, not more, organized
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Systems are depleted of useful energy
Hot water removed from its heat source gets
cooler never the other way around
Matter and energy tend to decrease, not increase
Illustrated
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EVOLUTION
Left to itself, rusty pile of bolts
Will turn into a new car
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2nd Law of Thermodynamics
Will turn into a rusty pile of bolts
Left to itself, a new car
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Which is most likely to happen?
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Cosmology- Cause Effect
Why do scientists violate the very laws by which
they operate?
Biogenesis- Life Comes from Life
Thermodynamics- Most Reliable Ever Formulated by
Man
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Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists, not
because it has been observed to occuror can be
proved by logically coherent evidence, but
because the only alternative, special creation,
is incredible. -Dr. D.M.S. Watson, University
of London
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It is not that the methods and institutions of
science somehow compel us to accept a material
explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the
contrary, that we are forced by our a priori not
based on prior study or examination adherence to
material causes to create an apparatus of
investigation and set of concepts that produce
material explanations, no matter how counter-
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intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the
uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an
absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in
the door. -Professor Richard Lewontin, Harvard
University
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Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe
it because the only alternative is special
creation, and that is unthinkable. -Sir Arthur
Keith, British Evolutionist
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Thus, by their own admissions, evolution has not
been and cannot be proven
Their refusal to denounce it comes not from the
evidence (which overwhelmingly refutes it), but
from their refusal to accept the only
alternative--a Creator-God!
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And even as they did not like to retain God in
their knowledge, God gave them over to a
reprobate mind, to do those things which are not
convenient Romans 128
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The very laws of science themselves refute the
theory of evolution
However, many scientists would rather dispense
with their laws and the evidence itself instead
of admit the existence of God
They even admit it!
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Sources -Notes from a bygone day (likely from
Apologetics Press material) -Batsell Barrett
Baxter, I Believe Because -Jonathan Sarfarti,
Refuting Evolution