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EVOLUTIONvs.
SCRIPTURELOOKING FOR A
SOURCE OF TRUTH
Creation of Light, Gustave Doré
1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.4 And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
GENESIS 1:1-31
THE BIBL
EIS
CLEARTHE EARTH
WAS CREATED IN SIX LITERAL 24 HOUR
DAYS
GENESIS 1:5-315B And the evening and
the morning were the first day.8B And the evening and the morning were the second day.13 And the evening and the morning were the third day.19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.31 And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.
WHENEVER THE
HEBREW WORD
FOR DAY IS
PRECEEDED BY
A NUMBER OR
THE WORDS
MORNING AND
EVENING, IT
ALWAYS
INDICATES A 24
HOUR PERIOD.
MARK 10:6But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
GENESIS 1:2727 So God created man in his own
image, in the image of God created he him; male and female
created he them.
OLD TESTAMENT
NEW TESTAMENTGENESIS 1:26
26 And God said, Let us make man
in our image, after our likeness:
JOHN 1:1,31 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.
GENESIS 2:22 And on the seventh day God
ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work
which he had made.
HEBREWS 4:44 For he spake in a certain place of the seventh day on this wise, And God did rest the seventh day from all his works.2 PETER 3:66 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:
GENESIS 6:1717 And, behold, I, even I, do bring a
flood of waters upon the earth, to
destroy all flesh, wherein is the
breath of life, from under heaven;
and every thing that is in the earth
shall die.
JESUS AND ALL
OF THE NEW
TESTAMENT
WRITERS
VIEWED THE
ACCOUNTS
PRESENTED IN
GENESIS AS
ACTUAL
HISTORICAL
EVENTS!
JOHN 1:33All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.
16For by him were all things created, that are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by him, and for him: 17And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.
COLOSSIANS 1:15-16
Using the genealogies presented in several Old
Testament texts, but particularly in Genesis 5 and
11, there are many respected theologians,
philosophers, and scientists that believe Adam was created by God around
A YOUNG EARTH?
6,000-10,000YEARS AGO
ORIGINS
ACCORDING
TO THE BIBL
EA BREIF
OVERVIEW
• God created the Heavens & the Earth, all the animals, as well as Adam & Eve in six 24 hour days around 6,000 years ago.
• Man was Tempted & Sinned
• Death Entered the World• Because of Sin All Must
Now Die
1 CORINTHIANS 15:21-22, 4521 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made alive.45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Dar·win·ism (därw-nizm)n. A theory of biological evolution developed by Charles Darwin and others, stating that all species of organisms arise and develop over a vast period of time through the natural selection of small, inherited variations that increase the individual's ability to compete, survive, and reproduce.Natural Selection: the process whereby organisms better adapted to their environment tend to survive and produce more offspring. The theory of its action was first fully expounded by Charles Darwin and is now believed to be the main process that brings about evolution.
Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. Through the process of descent with modification, the common ancestor of life on Earth gave rise to the fantastic diversity that we see documented in the fossil record and around us today. Evolution means that we're all distant cousins: humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales.
- University of California, Berkley website
• WHAT BENEFIT IS 2% OF AN EYE?• WOULDN’T IT HAVE BEEN ELIMINATED IF IT DIDN’T IMPROVE THE SPECIES ABILITY TO SURVIVE?• IF IT WASN’T, WHAT WOULD DIRECT AND GUIDE ITS CONTINUED DEVELOPMENT INTO THE COMPLEXITY WE SEE TODAY?• HOW MANY THOUSANDS OF GENETIC COINCIDENCES WOULD HAVE TO OCCUR PERFECTLY TO GET A FULLY FUNCTIONING EYE?• DOES THAT HONESTLY SOUND REASONABLE?
THE HUMAN EYE
The human eye works by some 40 different parts functioning together. If just one of these is
not present, the eye will serve no purpose. Each of these 40 parts has its own individual complex structure. For instance, the retina, at the back of the eye, is made up of 11 strata
each of which has a different function.
“To suppose that the eye, with all its inimitable
contrivances for adjusting the focus to different
distances, for admitting different amounts of light, and for the correction of spherical and chromatic
aberration, could have been
formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest
possible degree.”
--Charles DarwinOrigin of Species
• EVEN IF A CELL COULD ACCIDENTALLY ARISE BY CHANCE CIRCUMSTANCES, THEN…• HOW LONG WOULD YOU EXPECT IT TO SURVIVE ON IT’S OWN?• HOW COULD IT POSSIBLY LEARN TO MAKE AN EXACT COPY OF ITSELF?• IF IT AROSE BY CHANCE, WHY WOULD IT MAKE A COPY OF ITSELF?
A Single Cell is as a Complicated as New York City!
HOW COULD THAT POSSIBLY HAPPEN
BY CHANCE?
“When the mathematical laws of probability are applied to the known facts of
biology, the odds against the
incredible, organized complexity of our biological
world evolving through blind
chance, plus time, are so astronomical in size that, for
all practical purposes, evolution is mathematically
impossible.”
- Frank L. Caw Jr.
WHAT CAN CHANCE
REALLY DO?
COUNTINGTO TEN
1:10 BILLION
4321
WRITING ASENTENCE
1:8.3 HUNDREDQUADRILLION QUADRILLION
1 QUADRILLION/S
ECEvolutionists
Believe the Earth is
5 BILLION YEARS
“The Theory of Evolution”
25 BILLION YEARS
A tornado sweeping through a junkyard and assembling
a flight ready 747
THAT’S LIKE..
IF CHANCE IS REALLY
RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL
LIFE
WHY AND HOW DO WE
ALL HAVE DIFFERENT
FINGER PRINTS?
?
MATTHEW 10:30But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.
“Animals give the appearance of having been designed by a theoretically sophisticated and practically ingenious physicist or engineer.”
- Richard Dawinkins The Blind Watchmaker (New York: Norton, 1987), p. 36.
RICHARD
DAWKINS IS
PERHAPS THE
MOST WELL
KNOWN
EVOLUTION
SUPPORTER AND
OUTSPOKEN
ATHEIST WHO
FREQUENTLY
MAKES VISCIOUS
STATEMENTS
AGAINST
CHRISTIANS.
ORIGINS
ACCORDING
TO THE DARWI
N
A BREIF OVERVIEW
• Time, space, & matter exploded from nothing 5 billion years ago.
• Over millions of years planets and complex atmospheres formed from the dust of this explosion.
• Rain fell on the early earth over millions of years forming the “primordial soup”
• A single cell formed by accident in this liquid environment.
• This first cell evolved into every species on earth through millions of years of natural selection, death, and disease, eventually arriving at the origination of human.
“Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.” ~ Charles Darwin
THEISTIC EVOLUTION
GAP THEORY
PROGRESSIVE CREATION
DAY/AGE THEORY
FRAMEWORK HYPOTHESIS
All of these schools of thought seek to combine a belief in God and the Bible with the ideals of evolution
and the millions of years
Read “The Danger of BioLogos: Blurring the Line Between Creation and Evolution” by John Upchurch at AnswersInGenesis.com
2 PETER 3:8But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
THIS VERSE DESCRIBES THE ABSENCE OF TIME WHEN WE ARE WITH THE LORD, IT DOES NOT SUGGEST THAT THE WORD “DAY” IN GENESIS COULD BE UNDERSTOOD AS A THOUSAND YEARS.
• There is no scripture to support this idea• It completely undermines the authority of the Bible• The gospel is totally diluted by this compromise• It is based on the beliefs of atheist secular scientists• It suggests a resistance to accept, or a shame in believing, the inspired word of God
A SPIRITUALLY DANGEROUS COMBINATIONThe concept of evolution is completely contradictory to the
Genesis account of a literal six day creation.
The two ideas are absolutely incompatible!
“Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful generation; of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed, when he cometh in the glory of his Father with the holy angels.”
- Mark 8:38
CAN I BELIEVE IN
BOTH?YES.
BUT WHY WOULD YOU WANT TO?
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
ROMANS 10:9
JOHN 3:16,1816 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. 18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.
THE TWO IDEAS ARE CATEGORICALLY AT ODDS WITH ONE ANOTHER
GOD CREATES, 6,000 YRS, MAN SINS, DEATH ENTERS THE WORLD
BIG BANG, BILLIONS OF YEARS, DEATH & SUFFERING, THEN MAN
TO TRY AND BELIEVE IN BOTH IS TO NOT FULLY UNDERSTAND
WHAT EITHER BELIEF IS TEACHING
CAN I BELIEVE IN
BOTH?YES.
BUT HONESTLY ASK YOURSELF THIS…
• Do I believe what the Bible teaches about Jesus being born by a Virgin?
• Do I believe what the Bible teaches about Jesus living a perfect life?
• Do I believe what the Bible teaches about Jesus dying on the cross for my sins?
• Do I believe what the Bible teaches about Jesus resurrecting from the dead?
IF I HONESTLY BELIEVE, IN MY
HEART, IN ALL OF THESE BIBLICAL TRUTHS, WHY
WOULDN’T I BELIEVE WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES ABOUT
JESUS SPEAKING THE WORLD INTO
EXISTENCE AND CREATING ALL LIVING
CREATURES IN SIX DAYS?
20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
1 JOHN 5:20
25 I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness:
ECCLESIASTES 7:25
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