The Controversy

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WhY? CRD
Creation Redemption Dominion
Michael P. Hays mph_at_criticalmass.pro www.criticalm
ass.pro 307-631-2104
Who are you?
Introduction Part 1
Thanks for coming!
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He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him
glory, for the hour of His judgment has come and
worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea
and the springs of water.

• Revelation 147

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If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our
sins, and this is what evolution means, then
Christianity is nothing.
G. Richard Bozarth The Meaning of
Evolution Journal of American Atheists, Feb 1978
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Some Special Events

• Columbus - 1492
• Protestant Ref. - 1517
• 1776, 1789
• Uniformitarianism - 1798
• Principles of Geo. - 1830
• Beagle 1835
• Origin of Species - 1859
• Marxism - 1863

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Some Special Events

• Bolshevik Revolution - 1918
• Humanist Manifesto 1933
• WW II 12/7/1941
• Churches 501(c)3 - 1954
• Sputnik - 10/4/1957
• Textbook Funding - 1959
• Sep. Of Ch. St. 1963
• Right to Privacy - 1973
• Terrorism - 9/11/2001

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Post-modernism

• The cosmos is all there is
• Chemistry Physics
• Cosmic Consciousness
• Human reason is autonomous
• No absolutes

Points of Tension!
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Indoctrination in Evolution Before and after
Federal Funding
Peak - 1963 33,089 words
The decline since 1963 reflects the overall
downward trend of textbook content. The
percentage of text devoted to evolution has not
diminished.
2-3,000 words
Source Educational Research Analysts, (903)
753-5993
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The modern Creationist movement began in response
to public school indoctrination.Published
early in 1961
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Religion

• A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature,
  and purpose of the universe.

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Religion is an insult to human dignity and has no
place in scientific endeavor.
Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics, University
of Texas at Austin, Chronicle of Higher
Education, Feb 99
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Michael Newdow
I have a right to know that when my child goes
to the public school shes not taught that my
religion is wrong and thats what They teach her
and thats a harm to me.
His religion is atheism!
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Oct. 17, 1999
News media and textbooks try to make it look like
science vs. religion. They imply that evolution
is part of science.
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The telling case ofDr. Richard Sternberg
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Dr. Richard Sternberg

• Holds two PhDs, one in theoretical biology and
  the other in molecular evolution.
• Was a Smithsonian Institution research associate
  and former managing editor of the independent
  journal, Proceedings of the Biological Society of
  Washington.
• Committed the sin of allowing the publication of
  a fully peer-reviewed ID article.

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Bias
Atheist No God exists Cant consider creation 100
Agnostic Dont knowCant knowDont care Definite role of God is open 100
Theist God deduced No absolutes 100
Revelationist God revealed Himself to man Absolute point of reference 100
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Bias
In reality it is not a matter of whether you are
biased or not, but which bias is the best bias
to be biased with anyway?
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Bias
The bias you have determines what you do with the
evidence when you find it. Everyone has a bias.
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Dogma
In reality it is not a matter of whether you are
dogmatic or not, but which dogmatism is the best
to be dogmatized with anyway?
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science is not as empirical as many scientists
seem to think it is
Science is not just the making of observations
it is the making of inferences on the basis of
observations within the framework of a theory.
David Hull The Effect of Essentialism on
Taxonomy Two Thousand Years of Stasis
(II) British Journal for the Philosophy of
Science 16(61)1-18, 1965
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Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust
the possible explanations for the origin of
living things.
Douglas J. Futuyma Science on Trial The case
for evolution. New York Pantheon Books, p. 197,
1983
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Organisms either appeared on the earth fully
developed or they did not.
Douglas J. Futuyma Science on Trial The case
for evolution. New York Pantheon Books, p. 197,
1983
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Biblical Time Line
In the beginning God...
2000 YA Jesus Birth
Now
6000 YA (4000 BC) Creation
4400 YA (2400 BC) Flood
Evolutions Time Line
This religion is tax supported!
Earth Forms 4,600,000,000 BC
Life Appears 3,000,000,000BC
15,000,000,000 years ago Big Bang
Man Evolved 3,000,000BC
In the beginningHydrogen...
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The conclusion I have come to is this the law
of Christ is incompatible with the law of
evolution Nay, the two laws are at war with
each other
Sir Arthur Keith, Evolution Ethics. Keith
wrote the forward to Darwins book for the 1959 -
100th year anniversary reprint.
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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
adherence to material causes
Richard Lewontin Billions and Billions of
Demons New York Review (Jan 9, 1997) p.31.
wwwanswersingenesis.org/lewontin
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to create an apparatus of investigation and a
set of concepts that produce material
explanations, Moreover, that materialism is an
absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in
the door.
Richard Lewontin Billions and Billions of
Demons New York Review (Jan 9, 1997) p.31.
wwwanswersingenesis.org/lewontin
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Even if all the data point to an intelligent
designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from
science because it is not naturalistic.
Dr. Scott Todd An immunologist at Kansas State
University Correspondence to Nature 410(6752)423
(Sept 30, 1999) ltwwwanswersingenesis.org/toddgt
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A central tenet of modern science is
methodological naturalism it seeks to explain
the universe purely in terms of observed or
testable natural mechanisms. John
Rennie Editor in Chief of SciAm Scientific
American, July 2002, p84
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And for this cause God shall send them strong
delusion, that they should believe a lie

• 2 Thessalonians 211

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How can we know if what you are saying is true?
There is no way for you to know whether what Im
telling is true unless you know what the truth is
and There is no way for you to know what the
truth is unless there is a truth that you can
know,
Frank Peretti
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When communists would take overan area what was
the firstthing that was taught?
Darwinism!
Hegelian dialectics? Marxist economics?
Why?
To establish the fact that there is no
authority higher than the state.
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The German Fuhrer has consistently sought to
make the practice of Germany conform to the
theory of evolution. Evolution and Ethics 1947,
Sir Arthur Keith p, 230
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Evolution isnt just a dumb theory, its a deadly
religion!
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It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet
someone who claims not to believe in evolution,
that person is ignorant, stupid or
insane Richard Dawkins Put Your Money on
Evolution New York Times, April 9, 1999 p. 35
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All scripture is given by inspiration of God,
andis profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for
correction, for instruction in righteousness

• 2 Timothy 316