How Do You Know What You Know

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How Do YouKnow WhatYou Know?
Lesson 1
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What Most People Think
Evolution is Science
Creation is Religion.
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Evolution

• Initial Disorganization withlater increase in
  complexityand unlimited diversification
• Not just change, but change in thedirection of
  increasing complexity.

Evolutionary TreeAll life came from one simple
cell
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Creation

• Initial Complexity withlater deterioration
  anddiversification within limits

Creationist Forest All life came from multiple
complex ancestors.
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2 General Models of Evolution
Materialistic(Atheistic)Evolution Everything
evolved by purely natural processes
TheisticEvolution God used evolution as His
method of creating
2 Specific Models AboutEvolution of Living Things
Neo-DarwinismEvolution occurredslowly and
gradually. Many have abandoned this belief
because of the fossil evidence.
Punctuated EquilibriaEvolution occurred in
sudden jumps. The biological evidence against
this belief is overwhelming.
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3 Varieties of Creation
Recent Rapid Creation(perhaps within the last
10,000 years) The Gap Theory(creation and ruin
in the distant past, recent re-creation) Progres
sive Creation of the Day-Age Theory(creation
spread out over billions of years really a
theistic version of Punctuated Equilibria
evolution)
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The Scientific Method

• Define the problem. What do you want to
  know?(e.g. Does music affect how plants grow?)
• Gather information on the subject.
• Formulate a hypothesis.
• Devise a way to test the hypothesis.
• Observe the results of your test.
• Report the results so others can repeat the test.

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Present RepeatableObservable SCIENCE
Past Non-RepeatableEyewitness Account
HISTORY
Past Non-RepeatableNo Eyewitnesses BELIEF
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What TV and Textbooks Show Us
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What We Actually Find.
a bunch of jumbled up bone fragments
that we put together
and make up stories about!
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Things We Can Test Scientifically

• Overall trends and tendencies in nature.
• Observable processes.
• Processes and events that left direct evidence.

Things We Cant

• The identity or motivation of whoever or whatever
  brought the universe into existence.
• Morality and meaning.
• Specific details such as the names of the first
  humans, what they wore, what they liked to eat,
  etc.

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Creation
Evolution
is a Religion Based on Revelation
is a Religion Based onSpeculation
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Characteristics of God

• Only seen by what He does INVISIBLE.
• Established natural laws, so is not subject to
  those laws SUPERNATURAL.
• Preceded the universe ETERNAL.
• Influence extends throughout the universe
  OMNIPRESENT.
• Directly or indirectly responsible for everything
  that has ever happened OMNIPOTENT.
• Nobody made Him SELF-EXISTENT.

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Characteristics of Random Chance

• Only seen by what it does INVISIBLE.
• Established natural laws, so is not subject to
  those laws SUPERNATURAL.
• Preceded the universe ETERNAL.
• Influence extends throughout the universe
  OMNIPRESENT.
• Directly or indirectly responsible for everything
  that has ever happened OMNIPOTENT.
• Nobody made it SELF-EXISTENT.

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How Can I Be Sure God Exists?

• Romans Chapter 1
• For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven
  against allungodliness and unrighteousness of
  men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness
• Because that which may be known of God is
  manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto
  them.
• For the invisible things of him from the creation
  of the world are clearly seen, being understood
  by the things that are made, even His eternal
  power and Godhead so that they are without
  excuse
• Because that, when they knew God, they glorified
  him not as God, neither were thankful but
  became vain in their imaginations, and their
  foolish heart was darkened.
• Professing themselves to be wise, they became
  fools,
• And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God
  into an image made like to corruptible man, and
  to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping
  things.

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God or Random Chance?
The Bible says that God loves you so much that
He gave His only Son to die for your
sins. Which step of faith makes more
sense?

• If you believe in the God of the Bible, and you
  areright, you can spend eternity in Heaven with
  Him.
• If you are wrong, you will never know it.
• If you believe in Random Chance, and you are
  right, nothing matters anyway.
• If youre wrong, you are headed for an eternal
  hell.

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Only 3 of the worldsHoly Booksspecifically
claimto be divinely inspired The BibleThe
KoranThe Book of Mormon
Holy Books
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If man evolved from apes, yourbrain
evolvedfrom an apebrain If your
brain evolved from an ape brain,
your logic evolved from ape logic
How do you know it evolved right? Maybe youre
not even asking the right questions!
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What is the meaningof bananas?
Ape Wisdom