apologetics 102, wk5: science & creation
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Introduction toApologetics
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1. Kalam Cosmological Argument 2. Fine-Tuning Argument
3. Moral Argument
A Case for God
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Which God?
3 Alternatives
JudaismChristianityIslam
Issue 1NT RELIABILITY
http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/3700090/He_is_risen
Issue 2
MINIMAL FACTSapproachDr. Gary Habermas’
http://www.christianpost.com/news/radiation-from-the-shroud-of-turin-a-clue-to-jesus-resurrection-106521/
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SCIENCEFaith
& Creation
There’s Conflict
Believe that the universe is millions of years old,
or believe that God created the universe.
“Only 2 options”
No Conflict
IMPORTANTrepercussions
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Remember…
1. God Wrote Two Books
Belgic Confession notes the consistency & compatibility
of God’s two books. mid 1500s
WordsWorks
His Book of Words
http://www.manbitesdog.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/11-27-10-reading-sm.jpg
Accommodate
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ex. Ancient Science
Genre
Take the Bible “literally”
His Book of Works
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4077736695/
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splashnology.com
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2. All Truth is God’s Truth
Confidently follow the truth wherever it leads
wherever we find it
DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS
Science
Scripture
The Tower of Babel by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (1563
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/files/finding_the_coin.jpg
Genre
And God said . . .and it was so . . .
God saw that it was good . . .evening, and morning . . .
POETRY?
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the
earth.
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Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep,
and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
Formless Empty
Day 1: Light & Dark Day 4: Sun, Moon & Stars
Day 2: Sky & Waters Day 5: Birds & Water Creatures
Day 3: Land & Plants Day 6: Land Creatures & Man
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HISTORY?
http://store.metmuseum.org/content/ebiz/themetstore/invt/80004093/80004093_1_l.jpg
MYTH?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4077736695/
SCIENCE?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/michaelpaukner/4077736695/
http://www.sandrabornstein.com/can-you-acknowledge-a-different-perspective/149_3500x3500_all-free-download-com_19393759/
http://josephandisraelinegypt.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/israel-slaves.png
Context
Mesopotamian clay tablet-letter from 2400 BC, Louvre. (from King of Lagash, found at Girsu)
Context
http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/mb_hattushiliramesses.jpg
http://cdli.ox.ac.uk/images/mb_hattushiliramesses.jpgAkkadian Cuneiform Tablet
Akkadian
Marduk, sun god of Babylon, with his thunderbolts pursues Anzu after Anzu stole the Tablets of Destiny.
Babylonian
Credit: public domain
Egyptian
"Departure of the Israelites", by David Roberts, 1829
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-EylbRAVrL04/TshSrOScqGI/AAAAAAAAAZM/G_IKVXNNN7Q/s1600/800px-Tiamat%255B1%255D.jpg
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jan_Brueghel_(I)_-_Garden_of_Eden_-_WGA03559.jpg
creation-hd-theme-bin-free-download-xwallpaper Creation and God's Gender (5774/2013)
A fanciful reconstruction of Phidias' statue of Zeus, in an engraving made by Philippe Galle in 1572, from a drawing by Maarten van Heemskerck
http://pastorron7.files.wordpress.com/2013/02/sab-rst.jpg
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DIRECTLY CONTRADICTS
Science
Scripture
INDIRECTLY CONTRADICTS
Science
Scripture
http://geology.isu.edu/Alamo/images/fossils/Process_Fossils_4-1.jpg
Michelangelo, The Fall, Sistine Chapel fresco
http://chicagotheaterbeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/03/The-Fall-of-Man-poster.jpg
http://blog.fhfbc.org/2011/12/created-in-gods-image.html
Masaccio
http://www.sandrabornstein.com/can-you-acknowledge-a-different-perspective/149_3500x3500_all-free-download-com_19393759/
UNDERMINES Science
Dignity & Morality
http://ncse.com/creationism/general/creationevolution-continuum
http://lhcsj.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Genesis-Series-Slide-Large.jpg
“Usually even a non-Christian knows something
about the earth, the heavens, and the other elements of the
world, about the motion of the stars and even their size
and relative positions….
first the universe: eternal or
not?
Now it is a disgraceful and dangerous thing for an
unbeliever to hear a Christian, presumably giving
the meaning of Holy Scripture, talking nonsense on these
topics; and we should take all means to prevent such an embarrassing situation….
The shame is...that people outside the household of faith think our
sacred writers held such opinions, and, to the great loss of those for whose salvation we
toil, the writers of our Scriptures are criticized and rejected as unlearned men.”
Follow the evidence wherever it may lead.http://i.imgur.com/AHma5OEh.jpg
