Evolution and Creation

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Evolution and Creation Get in the Know
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Why is it important to study EVOLUTION
(Darwinism)? Darwinism is Poison
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• Why is it important to study EVOLUTION
  (Darwinism)?
• Darwinism Poisons Morals

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• Why is it important to study EVOLUTION
  (Darwinism)?
• Darwinism Poisons Morals
• Darwinism Poisons Evangelism
• Darwinism Poisons Truth (Not AJTB)

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• Topics for Discussion
• Epistemology (How Do We Know?)
• Metaphysics (What is Reality Like?)
• Cosmology (Origin of Universe?)
• Geology (Origin of Earth?)
• Biology (Origin of Life?)
• Anthropology (Origin of Man?)

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• What Counts as Knowledge?
• Belief
• True Belief
• Justified True Belief
• Appropriately Justified True Belief

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• View of Reality (Worldview)?
• Theism
• -Creator God/Intelligent Designer
• -Open Universe
• Naturalism (Atheism)
• -The Universe is all there is
• -Closed Universe

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• Origin of the Universe?
• Intelligent Designer
• -Theistic God
• -Creator
• -Causer
• Big Bang (10-20 billion years ago)
• -Necessary bc of Naturalism
• -Matter has always existed
• -Dense matter explodes

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BIG BANG
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• Big Bang Rebuttal
• First Law of Thermodynamics (Law of Energy
  Conservation)
• -Energy can be converted, but cannot be created
  or destroyed by any natural means.
• Universe Cant Generate Itself.

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• Big Bang Rebuttal
• Second Law of Thermodynamics (Law of Energy
  Decay)
• -Energy available for useful work tend to
  decrease.
• -Organized complexity tends to become
  disorganized.
• Universe should be out of energy.

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• Big Bang Rebuttal
• No accounting for the existence of galaxies or
  galaxy clusters, because Big Bang should have
  dispersed matter uniformly through space.
• No accounting for the existence of stars, because
  new stars need other stars to form.

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• Origin of the Earth?
• According to Naturalism, formed 4.5 billion years
  ago as a result of purely naturalistic causes.
• According to Intelligent Design Theism, God
  Created

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• Origin of Life?
• According to Naturalism by chance, over time,
  via mutations, non-living matter became the
  building blocks for life, which became a
  simple-celled organism, which became more and
  more complex organisms. (Tree of Life)
• According to Intelligent Design Theism, God
  Created life after its own kind. (Orchard of
  Life)

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• Rebuttal of Darwinism 4 Eyes
• Ignores Intelligent Design Possibility.
• Cannot account for Information Increase between
  species.
• Biochemistrys Principle of Irreducible
  Complexity.
• Fossil record absent of any certain Intermediate
  Species.

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• Rebuttal of Darwinism
• Principle of Irreducible Complexity applied to
• Bird Lungs and Wings from Reptiles?
• Whale from Land Mammals?

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• Three Christian Views of Origins
• Young Earth Creationism (6/24hdays)
• Old Earth (Progressive) Creationism
• -Six 24hr days of creation followed by
  indeterminate Age
• -Six Ages
• Theistic Evolution

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• Why is it important to study EVOLUTION
  (Darwinism)?
• Darwinism Poisons Morals
• Darwinism Poisons Evangelism
• Darwinism Poisons Truth (Not AJTB)