Where Did I Come From

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Where Did I Come From?

• Koinonia Series on Worldviews
• April 27, 2007

Adapted from Colson Warrens Wide Angle
Framing Your Worldview
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4 Test Questions of Life

• Where did I come from?
• Why is the world a mess?
• Whats the solution?
• Who am I ( what do I do now)?
• ? Which worldview best matches reality?

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Where do we start?

• From dustTo dust?
• Only a natural process?
• Through random mutations?
• ? Then, were merely a purposeless accident of
  atoms colliding

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Charles Darwin

• 1859 Origin of Species
• Theory for variation within species
• 1871 warm little pond, with all sorts of
  ammonia and phosphoric salts, lights, heat,
  electricity, etc. present, so that a protein
  compound was chemically formed ready to undergo
  still more complex changes.
• ? Any scientific evidence??

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Not So Fast

• Only simplest amino acids produced as reaction
  continued, got destroyed
  
• UV radiation on early earth
• destroys ammonia (NH3)
• converts methane (CH4) to hydrocarbons
• Hydrogen (H2) escapes into the atmosphere
• Recent studies show early earth only had nitrogen
  (N2), carbon dioxide (CO2), water ? Completely
  different starting materials

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And the fine point

• all living species have been connected with the
  parent-species So that the number of
  intermediate and transitional links, must have
  been inconceivably great. Charles Darwin, The
  Origin of Species
• ? So, we should be able to find many fossils of
  these many intermediates

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No Bones About It!

• But we lack intermediate fossil records

• We are now about 120 years after Darwin and the
  knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly
  expanded. We now have a quarter of a million
  fossil species, but ironically, we have even
  fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we
  had in Darwins time. Dr. Raup U. of Chicago
  Field Museum of Natural History

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Doubting Darwinism

• Cambrian explosion
• Suddenly, lots of species!
• No new species
• Altruism/good deeds
• We shouldnt care, but evolutionists do

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If Survival of the Fittest

• Then, get rid of people who are useless
• e.g., Nazi euthanasia program
• This person suffering from hereditary
  defects costs the community 60,000 Reichsmark
  during his lifetime. Fellow Germans, that is
  your money, too.
• ? But every person is precious!

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Plus, Intelligent Design

• The Origin of Species, Charles Darwin
  (1809-1882) 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.
• ? Now science reveals complexity!

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Molecular Machines!

• A Rotary NanoMachine Understanding the
  Structure and Dynamics of Bacterial Flagella
  Japan Nanonet Bulletin Feb. 5, 2004

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Change of Flight

• Dr. Anthony Flew Wrote books on atheism!
• My whole life has been guided by the principle
  of Platos Socrates Follow the evidence,
  wherever it leads.
  
• In 2004 It has become inordinately difficult
  even to begin to think about constructing a
  naturalistic theory of the evolution of that
  first reproducing organism.
• Now, this former atheist believes in God!

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God-created life has

• Sanctity
• Is sacred, should not be trashed
• Destiny
• Should not be random purposeless
• Dignity
• Treat one another with respect
• Eternity
• Eternal worth value

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Start to Finish

• Just nature
• Random chance
• Purposeless
• Worthless
• Despair

• God
• Intentionally designed
• For a purpose
• Worth for everyone
• Hope

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Then why stick w/ Darwin?

• Because getting rid of God
• justifies our morality
• we can be our own God.
• Point of divergence
• Going back to Adam Eve
• 1st Commandment You shall have no other gods
  before me.
  
• Sin Im going to be god

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Next Week

• Where did I come from?
• Why is the world a mess?
• Whats the solution?
• Who am I ( what do I do now)?

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