Origins: Where do we come from

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Origins Where do we come from?

• Evolution/Creation
• Intelligent Design

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Unlocking the Mystery of Life

• Discovery Institute

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Intelligent Design

• Does it rule out the possibility of evolution?
• What is Evolution?

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Definition of Evolution

• Change over time
• Change that causes something to improve or become
  more complex

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Biological(Organic)Evolution

• Gradual change of one kind of organism into
  another organism

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Biological Evolution

• Offspring must inherit new characteristics that
  make them different from their parents

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Natural Selection

• Some individuals are better able to compete
• Those that win, live and reproduce
• Darwin

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Theory of Natural Selection

• How a population changes over many generations in
  response to its environment

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Intelligent Design

• Naturalistic explanations are not sufficient to
  explain the origin of complex systems from an
  objective position.
• Irreducible complexity helps to explain why

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Intelligent Design

• To whom does the video attribute the design that
  we see in nature?
• Was any specific name used?

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Understanding the ID Movement

• Intelligent Design
• How Intelligent is it?

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Problems with I D

• Divorces Creator from creation
• No neutral science
• Natural theology backfired
• Unaccountable for dysteleology
• Dont know God as Redeemer

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Why does it matter what we believe?
Its not just about the beginning. Its also
about the end.
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Evolution the Bible
Did God use Evolution?
7 Biblical Evidences
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7 Evidences

• The process of Creation
• Time, chance, natural processes
• He Spoke and it was created

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7 Evidences

• The order of Events
• Stars and Earth
• Reptiles and Birds
• Earth of lava or water

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7 Evidences

• The cause of physical Death
• Natural process from beginning of time
• Result of the curse, consequence of sin

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7 Evidences

• The Genesis Flood
• Regional flood, fossils of old earth
• All plants and animals die, 20 ft of water covers
  all

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7 Evidences

• The days of Creation
• Long ages, given enough time we have faith
• Scriptural evidence says 24 hour days

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7 Evidences

• The Origin of Life
• Accident, chance
• God created for a purpose

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7 Evidences

• Jesus and Creation
• Dont believe in Jesus
• He believed Moses and Genesis, God wrote 6 days
  on the stone tablets

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First Law of Thermodynamics

• The sum of all matter/energy in the universe it
  constant
• Energy and matter cannot be created or destroyed
• Universe cant create itself

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2nd Law of Thermodynamics

• In an open system, useable energy will decrease
  over time
• Systems decrease in complexity not increase

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Law of Cause and Effect

• Every material effect must have an adequate cause
  that existed before the effect
• Big Bang is an effect, what is the cause?

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Law of Biogenesis

• All life comes from existing life
• Theory of spontaneous generation proven false
• God created Life

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What is the battle really about?
Not Science/Bible Evolution/Bible or
Evolution/Science
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Why does it matter what we believe?
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Firm Foundation

• If we dont believe the words of Moses, we cant
  believe the words of Jesus
• Genesis is foundational to the rest of the bible

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Firm Foundation

• I Peter 315
• Be ready to give an answer about what you believe
  and why you believe it

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Firm Foundation

• Meaning comes from Origin
• If we dont acknowledge a creator, who makes the
  rules?

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The Deception of Evolution

• The bible has answers
• We have to ask the right questions
• We have to bring it back to Christ

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7 Cs of History

• Creation - 6 24-hour days
• Day 1 Light, day night
• Day 2 separates water, sky
• Day 3 land seas, plants
• Day 4 Sun, Moon Stars
• Day 5 Birds sea creatures
• Day 6 Land animals, Man

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7 Cs of History

• Catastrophe
• World wide flood
• Confusion
• Tower of Babel, languages
• Christ came as a man

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7 Cs of History

• Cross
• Jesus died for our sins so that we can be
  forgiven
• Consummation
• Second coming, New Earth

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Why Should I believe the Bible.
10 Reasons to Believe
That the Bible is True.
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10 Reasons to Believe the Bible is True

• Honesty about people
• Heroes fail
• Not a happy ending for all
• Preservation
• Been around a long time
• Dead sea scrolls

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10 Reasons to Believe the Bible is True

• Accuracy
• Historically/Geographically
• Natural world descriptions
• Unity
• 40 authors, over 1600 years
• One message hasnt changed

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10 Reasons to Believe the Bible is True

• Divine Claims
• Without it we have unsolved mysteries in
  literature
• Miracles
• Signature of God, names eye witnesses

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10 Reasons to Believe the Bible is True

• Prophecy
• All fulfilled in Jesus
• Endorsement
• Jesus used scriptures
• Said it was about Him

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10 Reasons to Believe the Bible is True

• Survival
• Central book of Western civilization
• Changed Lives
• Great social/cultural influence
• Changed History

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What should I believe?
You are the only one who can decide.
But please remember
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Evolution

• Not everything you read about Evolution is true.

• There is a lack of evidence to support Biological
  Evolution.

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Evolution

• A belief in evolution undermines the Bible and
  Christianity as a whole.

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God was there

• Scripture is Gods way of telling us what
  happened
• If we believe the Bible is true, we have to
  believe the creation story in Genesis

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God is the One Creator

• We are made in His image
• We were created by Him to worship and glorify Him
• He sent His Son to die for our sins so we can be
  with Him again

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God is the One Creator

• He makes the rules
• We follow His rules to have a happy, healthy life

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Now What? Essay

• Read what you wrote at the beginning of this unit
• Write an essay about what you think now
• Has anything changed or become more clear to you?