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1 3/18/2015 History = His-story Christ the Good Shepherd vs. Evolution (Evil-ution?) A sculpture can be beautiful, yet broken. Earth is broken due to the FALL - until Christ returns. Genesis 1:26-31; Isaiah 11 Origin? Purpose? Destiny? SUFFERING? Death? Sid Galloway knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 2 Peter 3:2-7 Uniformitarianism or Catastrophism? Part 2 of (7-part series-700 slides) Defending our Father s Honor 1. Logic verifies God (* This UNIT is only a small sample of PART 2) 3. History verifies Scripture (Luke 1:1-4) 4. Religion verifies Christianity (Romans 3:28) 5. Prophecy verifies Jesus (Luke 24:25-27) 6. Time verifies Judgment (Hebrews 9:27) 7. Action verifies Faithfulness (James 2:20) Logikos Apologetics Defending Our Father s Honor Updated 1/20/13 PART 2 of 7 Science verifies Creation Highlighting a Symposium at Cornell University on Bio-Info in 2011 Romans 8:21 The WAY to Dialog. an opportunity for bridge-building, rather than dismissive polarization bridges across cultural divides in great need of professional, respectful dialog... Dr. George Church Prof. of Genetics, Harvard Medical School The GOAL of Dialog Therefore, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God... 1 Corinthians 10:31 (on the cover of Stephen Meyer s book, DARWIN S DOUBT) * See also 2 Timothy 2:23-26 Part 2 of a 7-Part 700-Slide Series: See the FULL 7-Part 700-Slide Series: Defending our Creator Father s Honor SoulCare.ORG (John 1:1) 2. Science verifies Creation (Rom 1:20) Which WAY is the way of the Good Shepherd Creator? sid@soulcare.org the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Adapted from PART 2 of the 7-Part 700-Slide 1. Logic verifies CREATOR (John 1:1) 3. History 4. Religion 5. Prophecy 6. Time 7. Action verifies Scripture verifies Christianity verifies Jesus verifies Judgment verifies Faithfulness (Luke 1:1-4) (Romans 3:28) (Luke 24:25-27) (Hebrews 9:27) (James 2:20) 2. Science verifies Creation (Rom 1:20) 1

2 BACKGROUND INFO Who is your Authority? What do you believe? Why do you believe it? Evidence? Feelings? Who impresses you? Who is your Authority? Jesus said I AM So, you and I are NOT After decades interviewing top scholars of science, philosophy, theology, etc, plus examining their research and conclusions, there is one person who alone impresses me. His-story and teachings reveal him to be the greatest scholar alive today. Evidence demonstrates beyond reasonable doubt that he is far more than a mere scholar. He is our Creator, Christ, the only Self-existent I AM - YHWH as predicted for thousands of years in 100's of detailed prophecies - His name is JESUS (Yeshua, meaning "God-Savior"). He is the Good Shepherd 1000 s of Resources: Articles DVD s, Books, Journals The evolution of beliefs about ORIGINS based on new evidence Now, just a translator of science Young Earth Creatorist Old Earth Creationist ID / Theistic Evolutionist Agnostic Evolutionist Atheistic Evolutionist Zookeeper Family Counselor High School Teacher sort of the same role My Audubon Zoo Asian Domain Old Friends Audubon Zoo to NCZoo NCZoo Classroom Good Shepherd Initiative Education, Counseling Logikos Apologetics SoulCare.ORG Animal-Assistants 2

3 Scotty Service Dog Good Shepherd Sheepdog Drop Down Menus or just Search Apologetics for the 7-Part PowerPoint Package Website URL SoulCare.ORG - Mr. Galloway's article (after attending) - SHORT Synopsis (by Dr. Sanford) - FULL Proceedings (World Scientific) (Amazon) I had the privilege to sit next to Dr. Damadian during dinner at a science conference and discuss how he invented the MRI and why he rejects the hypotheses of macroevolution by selected mutations. VIDEO: Dr. Raymond Damadian MRI Inventor Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway VIDEO - Society Soaked in Evo-Philosophy Creation beliefs - connected to Creator s Character Atheistic Evolution If no God, then no source of truth, no good or evil, no law, no authority. Theistic Evolution - If evolution is God s Way, then violent, selfish survival of the fittest is good. Homosexuality - If no Adam and Eve, then Adam and Steve must be OK and kids with 2 Moms or 2 Dad s = FAMILY Medical studies show it s destructive. So warning is loving. Promiscuity If man is an evolved animal, then acting like one must be OK. Gospel - If the first Adam did not cause death and suffering in creation, then the 2 nd Adam, Jesus, died for nothing. Future If Eden is a myth, then God s promise to restore a New Earth where the lion will again lay down with the lamb is based on a lie. VIDEO Evolution vs. God Ray Comfort 3

4 Did You Know That... scientists recently discovered T-Rex DINOSAUR bones with soft tissue and flexible blood vessels still in them? the SUPERCOMPUTER at Los Alamos used by one of the top geophysicists in the world supports the historical story of the GLOBAL FLOOD of Noah's time? Dr. Sanford at CORNELL has demonstrated that macroevolution by mutations is impossible? hundreds of measurements show the Earth and Universe CANNOT be billions of years old? How do you know if your beliefs are true? WHY is your worldview worthy of your trust? Are things EVOLVING or DEVOLVING? What is your evidence? Enslaved by Deceptive Philosophy Beware that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, according to the tradition of men, according to the elementary principles of the world, rather than according to Christ. Colossians 2:8 Knowledge (IQ)? Wisdom (WQ)? MATURITY? MORALITY? 1 Corinthians 8:1 Knowledge puffs up, but love edifies. Proverbs 1:7 The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, But fools despise wisdom and instruction. heart attitude: Humble Hypo-tasso Ends with Creator s character of Pure Love Any Worldview must begin at the Beginning God s Way. Is it Survival of the Fittest? Is it Reincarnation? Resurrection? Or?? Space, Time, Matter, Energy, God? Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created 上帝首先创造了 Στο Θεό αρχής που δημιουργείται В начиная Бог создал בראשית ברא אלוהים في البدء خلق الله Fundamentals of the Physical Universe Herbert Spencer Racist Social Darwinist: Origin beliefs lead to moral actions! Time Force Action Space Matter God - Genesis 1:1 Beginning God Created Heavens Earth Spencer - For since the creation of the world His invisible attributes are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead, so that they are without excuse Romans 1:20 4

5 3/18/2015 In the beginning was the Word (the Logos - Logic/Information), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. John 1:1-3 VIDEO: Simple Cell No Such Thing (music) D.N.A. = Designed Not Accidental But now ask the animals, and they will teach you; Or speak to the earth, and it will teach you;. That the hand of the Lord has done this,. With Him are wisdom and strength,. Job 12:1-13 BELIEFS Shape Character & Culture Good Shepherd Initiative Yawning (and Beliefs) are Contagious SEE ALSO Part 1 of 7 Logic verifies God Natural to follow others Beliefs produce actions Hitler s Holocaust Why? Evolution Racism Eugenics / Genocide Ethnos vs Ethnos Matt 24:7 (Updated 2013) Lack of critical thinking and testing Love, Hate, Good, Evil Evidence? Assurance? Painting by Norman Rockwell Photomontage by Zachary Scott Logos verifies the Logos All Cultures have BELIEFS about... Beauty, Truth, Common to all people Defending Our Father s Honor Logikos Apologetics God s Authority Overrules Man s Majority Sid Galloway makes people vulnerable to deception & manipulation 5

6 Three PhD s Anatomy MRI Inventor Geophysics Parasitology Paleontology 1000 s PhD Creationist Many are World Renowned Scholars Genetics Astrophysics Chemist, Logician, Chess Master Can Play 12 people blind-folded Philosophy Medicine Theology Dr. Sarfati, PhD Chemistry / Chess Master / Genius 12 Chess Games Simultaneously & Blindfolded! Remember, PBS says no intelligent scientists are creationist PBS - Propaganda Broadcasting System on Origins Science Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway Outline for the Study of Creation I. Significance Why Creation is IMPORTANT! A. GOD (Would a good God design evil-ution? B. Graphae (If Gen 1-11 is wrong, why trust any of it?) C. Gospel (How is Adam connected to the Cross?) D. Glorify (Is survival of fittest man s goal?) II. Evidence The reason it is beyond logical doubt. A. Scholars (Weakest: Appeal to Authority) B. Science (Stronger: Can t prove hypotheses) C. Scripture (Strongest: Proven by Prophecy) TERMS need to be DEFINED Not everyone uses terms the same way. Misunderstanding meanings leads to confusion! Science? Biblical-Rational Faith "Faith is the... evidence of things not seen. Hebrews 11:1-3 * As SMOKE indicates an unseen FIRE Hypo-thesis (Greek = Underlying-belief) Scientific, legal, even spiritual beliefs should NEVER be blind, but based upon sufficient evidence worthy of trust. (logical inferences) VIDEO Evo Science Limits (Sarfati PhD) See video at Even beliefs in Science are influenced by both Evidence and Desires Assumptions can be dangerous, especially in science... assumptions often graduate to articles of faith, new observations are forced to fit them.... if the volume of troublesome information [evidence] becomes unsustainable [too contradictory], the orthodoxy [old beliefs] must collapse. John Mattick, PhD, Professor of molecular biology, University of Queensland and director of the Institute for Molecular Bioscience. The Hidden Genetic Program of Complex Organisms, Scientific American, October 2004, p. 61 Are All Sciences Equal? it is widely held that the different branches of science are not all on a par: some are more fundamental than others. Physics is usually regarded as the most fundamental of all. Why? Because the objects studied by the other sciences are ultimately composed of physical particles. Dr. Samir Okasha, evolutionist, PhD from Oxford Univ. Professor of Philosophy of Science., Bristol Univ. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE, p. 55 Oxford University Press, 2002 Good Shepherd Initiative Science Continuum: Direct to Indirect 1. Direct = Hard Sciences (Physics, Chem, Bio) a. Variables are tangible, controllable, measurable b. Hypotheses are testable by experiment, lab test c. Evidence in present / minimal assumptions needed 2. Indirect = Soft Sciences (Evolution, Psych., ) a. Variables: Intangible, uncontrollable, immeasurable (past historical events, emotions, thoughts, will, etc) b. Hypotheses test & inferences are much less reliable. c. Evidence from past / many assumption must be made, therefore less reliable conclusions 6

7 Example: Direct vs. Indirect Science FORENSIC Science DEAD BONES s.co.uk/assets/images/banner _anthropology.jpg s/dinosaur1.htm VIDEO: Direct Observational vs. Indirect Historical Hard Science vs. Soft Sciences Animation from Historical Science? Is it possible that science evidence indicates an Intelligent Designer exists? historical scientists often do make inferences with a distinctive logical form. This type of inference is known technically as an abductive inference. [Examples: Forensics, Paleontology, etc.] Stephen Meyer PhD from Cambridge in Philosophy of Science. Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (Kindle Locations ). p. 343 Hardcover. Historical Science? Is it possible that science evidence indicates an Intelligent Designer exists? in inductive reasoning, general rules are inferred from particular facts, in deductive reasoning, general rules are applied to particular facts in order to deduce specific outcomes. In abductive reasoning, however, inferences are often made about past events or causes based on present clues or facts. Stephen Meyer PhD from Cambridge in Philosophy of Science. Darwin's Doubt: The Explosive Origin of Animal Life and the Case for Intelligent Design (Kindle Locations ). p. 343 Hardcover. The Big Questions of Life: Origin, Purpose, Suffering, Destiny? Evolution or Devolution Are things getting better or worse? How? Why? Our Creator's Way is - the way of the cross - sacrificing self for the needs of others, (even His enemies) setting captives free. Two Opposite Ways The way of evolution is - survival of the fittest - sacrificing others for the desires of self, (predatory / parasitic) seeking false freedom. VIDEO: Animals Change BUT NOT.. Animation from Evolution simply means CHANGE The key question is which direction Micro-evolution is a TRUE process (just adaptation) ONLY downward (SELECTION) of existing genes NOT vertical change into a NEW Kind of life Biblical creationist scientists accept micro-evolution Macro-evolution is a FALSE hypothesis Assumes vertical change into new Kinds of life Molecules to microbes to man by MUTATIONS Mutations DESTROY DNA over time (Entropy) CAN T create NEW DNA, parts, creatures over time Beware of: Equivocation Deception Logical fallacy called bait-and-switch Switching the meaning of the term evolution during a debate or dialogue The term evolution simply means change Yet it can refer to two opposite directions: Microevolution is really just Adaptation Downward selection of existing genes Macroevolution is an unsupported hypothesis Upward from molecules to man by mutations 7

8 Review of Views (Worldviews) Death-After-Adam Creationists: The most biblical, best logical inference supported by the evidence Death-Before-Adam Creationists: Less biblical (Old Earth Progressive Creationism, etc....) - Fails to explain suffering of animals and people Theistic Evolutionists: Unscientific, unbiblical - Fails to explain suffering of animals and people Atheistic Evolutionists: Unscientific, unbiblical - Fails to prove Atoms, Life, Genomes by CHANCE Hypothesis = testable prediction, so IF a loving Creator exists, THEN we should find evidence that reveals a Creator in His physical creation (general revelation in the natural world - Science) reveals a Creator acting in history (His-Story) (special revelation transcending nature Scripture) true Science and Scripture are complimentary Our Temptation to Bias vs. God s Authority We are all tempted to NOT submit to the Bible as the functional authority whenever we seek to interpret either biblical or scientific evidence. Our differences involve which biases we are tempted to let rule instead if God s Word, the Bible: - Church tradition bias - Current science consensus bias - Politically correct cultural conditioning bias - Personal perspective due to life experience bias... It s easy to isolate among peers who agree, but integrity will study the best from all sides. Theology: the foundation for TRUE Knowledge The term Theology (from theos & logikos), means the "logical study of God. Keep in mind that even atheists have a theological perspective that is the root beneath their worldview. All of their beliefs are colored by their theological filter that insists, There is NO God. Latin for "knowledge" is scientia; Greek is gnosis, An agnostic is a person not yet convinced that God exists. Agnostic means, "without knowledge". Theology is inherently the cornerstone of knowledge. WHO is your Creator? JESUS promises He will come again to create New Heavens and a New Earth, where the lion will lay down with the lamb as it was in Eden. Do you know what NEPHESH means? A sculpture can be beautiful, yet broken. Earth is broken due to the FALL - until Christ returns. Genesis 1:26-31; Isaiah 11 Which WAY is the way of the Good Shepherd Creator? the creation itself also will be set free from its slavery to corruption into the freedom of the glory of the children of God. Romans 8:21 Dr. Ravi Zacharias Oxford University Visiting Prof - speaking on the Commonality of Suffering - every worldview not just Christianity must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering. Either evil proves God does not exist or evil is most coherently explained by the Christian view of God and His purpose in CREATION. JESUS AMONG OTHER GODS: The Absolute Claims of the Christian Message, p.108 # 1 Issue is Suffering & Death / When & Why For consistent belief in a good God, this is crucial. Theistic evolutionists believe that God designed death as His way to evolve life upward into man. They say only man s suffering/death is bad, not animals. This still makes God a Monstrous author of pain and terror. Some Old-Earth creationists believe God created animals separately, yet purposefully to eat each other. This belief has the same problems as theistic evolution. Other Old-Earth creationists believe fallen angels, before Adam existed, corrupted God s good creation. This sounds better, but has little to no biblical evidence. Biblically Consistent WORLDVIEW Theodicy is the theological study of this issue. It is the problem of God and natural evil. Some Old-Earth (Death-Before-Adam) Christians want us to believe God caused animal suffering before Adam because God knew Adam was going to sin later. This is ethically inconsistent in real time. Example: Dembski s error in, THE END OF CHRISTIANITY Only the Death-After-Adam-Sinned worldview is able to consistently & biblically explain a GOOD Creator and the current existence of suffering and death (even animal suffering) in His creation. 8

9 If our Creator is a Good Shepherd, then why is the world so full of horror? Beliefs have consequences... Why do good people follow things like: Hitler, Stalin, Human Trafficking, etc? The ROOTS beneath beliefs... - Beliefs are what we trust as true conclusions - Conclusions are based on evidence (good or bad) - Strong Evidence is beyond reasonable doubt - Weak Evidence causes blind, irrational faith Do NOT believe anything I say... UNLESS you find sufficient EVIDENCE. WARNING: Anti-Biblical Professors Dominate colleges today. Macroevolutionary worldview affects character & culture: * Dr. Peter Singer BIOETHICS Professor at Princeton University "In 1979 he wrote, Human babies are not born selfaware, or capable of grasping that they exist over time. They are not persons ; therefore, the life of a newborn is of less value than the life of a pig, a dog, or a chimpanzee. Practical Ethics, 1st ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1979) BIAS - Why do some people deny God? Thomas Nagel PhD, Prof. of Philosophy NY Univ. I want atheism to be true and am made uneasy by the fact that some of the most intelligent and wellinformed people I know are religious believers. I don t want there to be a God: I don t want the universe to be like that. p. 130, The Last Word, Oxford Univ. Press 1997 WHY so some people NOT WANT God to exist? Morality & renowned atheist, Huxley Aldous Huxley, author of Brave New World For myself as for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. from a certain system of morality. because it interfered with our sexual freedom.... We don t know because we don t want to know. (Book: Ends and Means) p. 316, Ends and Means Moral bias often distorts our view of clear evidence. When man believes he comes from apes, then man ends up acting like apes. Hitler s Evolutionary Inspiration Darwin s On the Origin of Species, with its brutally materialist account of nature as bleak survivalism, was made to serve as justification for the extermination of Namibian tribes and, later, for Hitler s biological anti-semitism. Ian Thompson, review of The Kaiser s Holocaust: Germany s Forgotten Genocide and the Colonial Roots of Nazism, by David Olusoga and Casper Erichsen, Faber and Faber, 2010, in Telegraph (UK). p. 54, Picador, London, Hitler s Evolutionary Inspiration Sir Arthur Keith was a British anthropologist, an atheistic evolutionist and an anti-nazi The German Führer, as I have consistently maintained, is an evolutionist; he has consciously sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution. Keith, A., Evolution and Ethics, Putnam, NY, USA, p. 230, Darwinian Eugenics [In the] years leading up to the First World War, the eugenics movement looked like a Darwin family business. Darwin s son Leonard replaced his cousin Galton as chairman of the national Eugenics Society in In the same year an offshoot of the society was formed in Cambridge. Among its leading members were three more of Charles Darwin s sons, Horace, Francis and George. Sewell, D., The Political Gene: How Darwin s Ideas Changed Politics, p. 54, Picador, London, New Book HITLER S ETHIC: The Nazi Pursuit of Evolutionary Progress Richard Weikart, PhD Prof. History at the Univ. of California. Previous book, From Darwin to Hitler 9

10 New Anti-Semitism Rising Yale just killed the country s best institute for the study of anti-semitism. If Yale doesn t want it, Washington should grab the institute before it goes anywhere else. The institute has attracted scholars from around the world to study anti- Semitism and to present papers; has numerous governance committees, most of them composed of eminent Yale faculty; and has an international academic board of advisers. So why did Yale kill the institute?. It was accused of being too critical of the Arab and Iranian anti-semitism and of being racist and right-wing. YISA - Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism VIDEO: Hitler s Holocaust & Evol Dr. Sarfati Critical Thinking? Critical Thinking is often PC: Indoctrination, Propaganda, Censorship Mystically subjective, foggy Like Eastern meditative mantras Cultic, extra-biblical, non-biblical Logikos Thinking should be: Diligent study of objective Word Biblical Meditation on it * Simple Questions for Skeptics * When confronted, Jesus often started His answers with questions. (Matthew 12:9-12; 22:17-20; Luke 10:25) It encouraged questioners to think carefully and critically about their own questions. Learning this communication skill can serve us well. Practice asking thought provoking questions, especially as your first response to a skeptic. #1 Question to ask after most claims of a skeptic: Can you please help me understand the evidence that you trust for that belief? (MORE EXAMPLES ) SAMPLE Questions you can practice: Where do you believe space/time/matter came from? Do you believe nothing + nobody made everything? Did you know 1,000 s of scientists reject evolution? Would you like to know who some of them are? Why do you think they are willing to take this risky stand? What process do you believe made a cell with DNA? What process do you believe made all the new information for all the different creatures on Earth? How could mutation errors produce so much new and beneficial genetic information? CENSORSHIP Survival of the Coolest Attacks 1,000 s of Scientists The Courageous vs. the Compromising - either confused - or cowardly Nevin PhD Professor Emeritus Medical Genetics, Queen's University No coherent, cohesive theology has yet been offered that would allow Christians to embrace evolution with integrity. Science has uncovered a great deal of empirical evidence that is challenging the Darwinian paradigm. Why then do so many want to embrace it? It appears that the only possible reason is the fear of appearing intellectually inferior to the academic consensus. p Critical (Logikos) Thinking Critical thinking is a worthy goal. Consensus thinking is sadly the usual result. i.e., belief based on majority opinion not evidence Censorship dominates academia and media regarding the subjects of Origins & Morals. * Our goal should be Science-Uncensored Logikos thinking is a Biblical command Rom 12:1; (1 Pet 2:2 milk of the logical Word ) Application of logical faith: Pro 14:15; Heb 11:1 Dr. Johanson discoverer of Lucy A. afarensis There is no such thing as a total lack of bias. everybody has it. The fossil hunter has it. I was trying to jam evidence of dates into a pattern that would support conclusions about fossils which, on closer inspection, the fossils themselves would not sustain. pp. 257, 258, 1981 It is hard for me now to admit how tangled in that thicket I was. But the insidious thing about bias is that it does make one deaf to the cries of other evidence. (p. 277) [emphasis added]. Johanson, D.C. and Edey, M., Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Simon & Schuster, New York,. 10

11 Evolutionist -James Lovelock PhD, Godfather of Global Warming and creator of the Gaia Hypothesis being a scientist has taught me you can never be certain about anything. You never know the truth. [emphasis added] Critical or Consensus Thinking Two Evolutionists Journal TITLES? Evidence of Things Not Seen [Heb 11:1] Journal SCIENCE, June 2012, Murray, Director Institute Theoretical Physics, Univ. Toronto No theory is too special to question Journal NATURE, March 2012, Camelia, theoretical physicist at the University of Rome Questioning our laws is a healthy exercise. Questions: Common to Everyone Origin? - evolution? devolution? Purpose? - rights? responsibilities? Suffering? - selfishness? loneliness? Destiny? - Death? Eternity? Answers: Many choices are offered... Evolution: (Anti-Theistic/Atheistic/Theistic) Pantheism, Polytheism, Creationism, etc Authority: Which one is worthy of trust? Evidence - showing your answers to be Possible? Probable? Beyond reasonable doubt? Origins IBE > L.I.B.E.R. = Programmer/Creator Moral Relationships (love, joy, peace ) Mind (non-physical) = Software (NEPHESH) Brain / body (physical) Organism (self-reproducing) Embryo developing Cell (like a New York City) Molecular nano-machines DNA (physical - computer) Bio-info beyond DNA Info coding language (non-physical) = Software 1,000 of Creation Scientist? 1,000 s of PhD scientists are convinced of DEVOLUTION not EVOLUTION including: the inventor of the MRI the inventor of the Gene Gun at Cornell University the inventor of TERRA at Los Alamos Labs (the top supercomputer geophysical program) Are you willing to find out WHY? Samples of 100 s of Scholars who are Creationists Astronomy Astrophysics Hartnett PhD, Astrophysics Univ. West Australia Humphreys PhD, Astrophysics Sandia Nat l Labs Geology Physics Chem. Baumgardner PhD, Los Alamos Geophysics, Inventor TERRA Snelling PhD, Geo. Univ. Sydney Wise PhD, Paleontology Under Gould at Harvard Gitt PhD, Physics/Info. Science Prof. German University Sarfati PhD, Chemistry, Logic, Chess Master Biology Genetics Med. Damadian MD, Inventor MRI Medicine/Physics Sanford PhD, Cornell Univ. Genetics, Inventor Gene Gun Menton PhD, Anatomy Prof. Wash. Univ. Sch. of Medicine Konotey-Ahulu MD, Medicine Expert in Sickle-Cell Disease Lumsden PhD, Bio., Parasitology Prof. Tulane Univ. Graduate Dean Wilder-Smith 3 PhD s Europe Biochemistry, Awarded Prof. 100 S MORE.... VIDEO - Science Censored What Should Teachers Say to Religious Students Who Doubt Evolution? by John Horgan by John Horgan, professor of science writing at Stevens Institute of Technology, author of THE END OF SCIENCE blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check/2012/11/20/what-should-teachers-say-toreligious-students-who-doubt-evolution/ How do I respond to students like this? I point out that some religion-bashing Darwinians exaggerate the power of evolutionary theory. For example, Richard Dawkins was wrong - egregiously wrong - when he claimed in his 1986 bestseller The Blind Watchmaker that life is a mystery no longer because [Darwin] solved it. What Should Teachers Say to Religious Students Who Doubt Evolution? by John Horgan. evolutionary theory does not explain why life emerged on Earth more than 3 billion years ago, or whether life was highly probable, even inevitable, or a once in a universe fluke. The theory doesn t explain why life, after remaining single-celled for more than 2 billion years, suddenly spawned multi-cellular organisms, including one exceedingly strange mammal capable of pondering its own origins. Some prominent thinkers - from philosopher Karl Popper to complexity theorist Stuart Kauffman - have critiqued Darwinism for purely scientific rather than religious reasons. 11

12 What Should Teachers Say to Religious Students Who Doubt Evolution? November 20, 2012 VIDEO Surviving Secular College (Lisle PhD) As for proponents of intelligent design, some raise reasonable questions about the limits of biology, but their answers which invoke some sort of divine intervention are pathetically inadequate. The theory of evolution by natural selection is arguably the single most profound insight into reality that humanity has ever achieved. if I don t prod these young people into questioning their most cherished beliefs, I m not doing my job, am I? Dawkins admits evidence shows life (cell/dna) seems DESIGNED by an Intelligence. But his belief is that Aliens did it, not GOD. It could be that at some earlier time, somewhere in the universe, a civilization evolved, by probably some kind of Darwinian means, probably to a very, very high level of technology, and designed a form of life that they seeded onto, perhaps, this planet. Richard Dawkins during an interview with Ben Stein for the movie, Expelled Also, my personal dialogue with Prof. at Univ. SC, Peter Nyikos PhD, Carnegie-Mellon University Willfully Ignorant Romans 1:20; 2 Peter 3:5 "Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic. Kansas State University biologist Scott Todd Todd, S.C., correspondence to Nature 401(6752):423, 30 Sept Providentially, I met Dick at a conference in the New Orleans area where his testimony convicted me to also come out of closet and boldly proclaim that I am a biblical creationist. Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway A.E. Wilder-Smith, 3 Doctorates Six Day / Young Earth Creationist (YEC) 3 Doctorates from famous universities Taught chemotherapy, pharmacology, etc Received in three succeeding years - three ``Golden Apple Awards" for the best course of lectures His last Golden Apple, professor award was inscribed, ``He made us not only better scientists, but also better men. Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway John Baumgardner, PhD Six Day / Young Earth Creationist (YEC) Famous Los Alamos National Laboratory M.S., Electrical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1970 M.S., Ph.D Geophysics and Space Physics, University of California, Los Angeles Called by U.S. News & World Report: "the world's pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical convection." Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway Norman Nevin PhD Professor Emeritus Medical Genetics, Queen's University of Belfast Those who question evolution are often treated as ignorant, idiotic or anti-science because they have the audacity to challenge the accepted and prevailing consensus. However, history has recorded that consensus was often an obstacle rather than an aid to understanding. The Nobel laureate, Julian Schwinger (regarded by some as one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century), experienced the wrath of the scientific establishment and concluded, The pressure for conformity is enormous. censorship will be the death of science. p. 211 See APPENDIX for much more from Dr. Nevin 12

13 Christ vs. Evolution is a MAJOR issue John Sanford PhD - Cornell University Over 70 scientific publications & invented the (GENE GUN) NEW Book GENETIC ENTROPY Modern Darwinism is built, most fundamentally, upon what I will be calling The Primary Axiom.... that man is merely the product of random mutations plus natural selection..... It is for this reason that the overwhelming majority of youth who start out with a belief that there is more to life than mere chemistry will lose their faith while at college. I believe this is also the cause of the widespread self-destructive and selfdenigrating behaviors we see throughout our culture. J.C. Sanford, Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, p. v Andy McIntosh PhD Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at Leeds University Thirty years in research in these fields. Evangelical Christians have generally resisted the demythologization of the events of the gospels, whereby, for example, the resurrection of Jesus is interpreted as a mythical portrayal. far from being a peripheral matter for fussy literalists, it is biblically and theologically necessary for Christians to believe in Adam as i) a historical person who ii) fathered the entire human race." Andy McIntosh PhD Beetle Inspired Technology Professor of Thermodynamics and Combustion Theory at Leeds Univ. in England - 30 years of research. Led team to develop technology based on God s Bio-designs BBC.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds BBC News- The deadly defense system of a tiny beetle has inspired award-winning research into a new generation of technology. [Dr. McIntosh said,] Nobody had studied the beetle from a physics and engineering perspective as we did, and we didn't appreciate how much we would learn from it. Censorship by Evolutionists Sarfati PhD in Physical Chemist... Logician, Chess Master: 12 players blindfolded It is evident that the evolutionists fear the increasing spread of creationist information, despite their best efforts at censorship. So they are desperate to counteract this information. But their efforts don t withstand scientific scrutiny, and in the end any reasonable observer would have to admit that evolution is a deduction from a materialistic belief system. It is a philosophy/religion dressed up as science. [Emphasis added by bold/underline] Refuting Evolution, 2002, p. 198 * John West PhD is a Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute. His current research examines the impact of Darwinian science on public policy and culture during the past century. [Evolutionists] have become the new dogmatists, demanding judicially-imposed censorship of dissent. Now, Darwinists are trying to silence debate through persecution. At Ohio State University, a graduate student's dissertation is in limbo because he was openly critical of Darwin's theory. At George Mason University, a biology professor lost her job after she mentioned intelligent design in class. At the Smithsonian, an evolutionary biologist was harassed and vilified for permitting an article favoring intelligent design to be published in a peer-reviewed biology journal. Compromise (Examples) Confused? or Cowards? Hugh Ross & Reasons to Believe See Dr. Sarfati s Critique of Ross in: REFUTING COMPROMISE Francis Collins & BioLogos Biblical & Scientific Critiques of BioLogos: Mohler PhD, No Pass from Theological Responsibility: The BioLogos Conundrum Carter PhD, The Non-Mythical Adam & Eve! Refuting errors by Francis Collins and BioLogos Science Evidence Supports Young Creation Biochemistry Book s/ DVDs Wilder-Smith 3-PhDs Science His last Golden Apple professor award was inscribed, He made us not only better scientists, but also better men." Examples: Bible s Scientific Accuracy Thermodynamic Law One (Genesis 1 bara ) Thermodynamic Law Two (Genesis 3 dysfunction) Earth as Suspended Sphere (Job 26:7 & 10) Atomic-Fission (2 Peter 3 thermonuclear potential ) Biogenesis Law (Genesis 1 Life only from life ) Genetic Fixity (Gen 1 according to their kinds ) Mutational Degeneration (Genesis 5 Ages decline) Pathogen Prevention (Lev/Deut hygiene laws, etc) *Also many creation-based hypotheses now confirmed 13

14 Scientia Questions leading logically to Jesus as Creator & Christ 1. Universe? - All from nothing, yet = D.N.A.? - DNA/Cells arising spontaneously? 3. New-DNA? - New animals by DNA mutations? * If these above cannot happen by chance, then maybe: 4. Designer? - Yet, why all the horror? 5. Suffering? - Is Survival of the Fittest Good? 6. Savior? I AM /YHWH/Self-Existent God-Man 7. Response? What should you do now? 7 Hypo-theses If, then we should find evidence. 1. Atoms? - If, then 2. Life? - If, then 3. Mutations?- If, then * If these above cannot happen by chance, then maybe: 4. Creator? - If, then 5. Suffering? - If, then 6. Christ? 7. Cross/Resurrection? 3-D Science Astro-Science Geo-Science Bio-Science EVIDENCE PREVIEW Origin of ATOMS, etc? Astronomy / Astrophysics - Hartnett PhD, University of W. Australia - Humphreys PhD, Sandia Nat l Labs - Lisle PhD from University of Colorado - Etc, Etc, et al... Physics Cosmology Books / DVDs Hartnett PhD Research Professor University Western Australia Also see YouTube Physics Astronomy Books / DVDs Humphreys PhD Sandia National Laboratories, Retired Also see YouTube Astrophysics Cosmology Books / DVDs Lisle MS, PhD Colorado of University. BS summa cum laude Also see YouTube VIDEO - Privileged Planet -DVD The Anthropic Principle TIME - Did God Begin? Today, some anti-theists mistakenly think this question somehow challenges belief in God. But they apparently do not understand that Einstein s General Relativity Theory and now experimental support show that TIME is a property of this finite universe and so TIME itself had a BEGINNING. God, by definition and nature, is the Creator of the whole universe and therefore Creator of TIME. So, God had NO beginning in time. God is YHWH, the self-existent, eternal, I AM. 14

15 Dr. James Gunn Princeton (Evolutionist, Prof. of Astronomy) Cosmological Models are NOT Science Cosmology may look like a science, but it isn t a science, says James Gunn of Princeton University, co-founder of the Sloan survey. A basic tenet of science is that you can do repeatable experiments, and you can t do that in cosmology. Cho, Adrian, A singular conundrum: How odd is our universe? Science 317: , 2007 Dr. Geo. Ellis Evolutionist (Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Complex Systems in the Department of Mathematics) Cosmological Models are NOT Facts What I want to bring into the open is the fact that we are using philosophical criteria in choosing our models. A lot of cosmology tries to hide that. (Ellis cited in - Gibbs, W.W., Profile: George F.R. Ellis; thinking globally, acting universally, Scientific American 273(4):28 29, BIG BANG BBC documentary April 2012 everything we see in the universe emerged, in an instant, from nothing. And that s a problem. It s all effect and no cause. Dr Michio Kaku is Professor of Theoretical Physics at City University, New York. How can it be that everything comes from nothing? If you think about it a while, you begin to realize it all depends on how you define nothing! Everything from Nothing? Alan Guth, pioneer of inflationary universe: The universe burst into something from absolutely nothing - zero, nada. And as it got bigger, it became filled with even more stuff that came from absolutely nowhere. Lemley, B., Guth s grand guess, Discover 23(4):32 39, April 2002; discovermagazine.com. Lawrence Krauss, Univ. Arizona, wrote a book, A Universe from Nothing, the afterword is by atheist Richard Dawkins. Origin of Energy/Atoms? Indirect Science Secular scientists do not have a logical, scientific explanation for the ORIGIN of space, time, matter, and energy. Their explanations usually begin by saying what they think happened AFTER energy or matter were already in existence. Some say that matter/energy always existed Others say that NOTHING exploded and produced energy, matter, galaxies, planets, life, you. BUT = 0, not EVERYTHING! Does this respected claim really explain the origin of energy and matter? Approximately 15 billion years ago the universe began as an extremely hot and dense region of radiant energy, the Big Bang. Immediately after its formation, it began to expand and cool. The radiant energy produced quark-antiquarks and electron-positrons, and other particle-antiparticle pairs. However, as the particles and antiparticles collided in the high energy gas, they would annihilate back into electromagnetic energy. As the universe expanded the average energy of the radiation became smaller. Particle creation and annihilation continued until the temperature cooled enough that pair creation became no longer energetically possible. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (US Dept. of Energy) VIDEO: Dr. Lisle PhD, Astrophysics Univ. CO Big Bang - Problems for ALL Scientist VIDEO: Harnett PhD, on Astrophysics (W. Australian University) No Big Bang & a Starlight/Time Problem Humphreys PhD Young Cosmos Galaxies wind up to fast The observed rotation speeds are so fast that if our galaxy were more than a few hundred million years old, it would be a featureless disc of stars instead of its present spiral shape. Yet our galaxy is supposed to be at least 10 billion years old. Evolutionists call this the winding-up dilemma, which they have known about for fifty years. They have devised many theories to try to explain it, each one failing after a brief period of popularity. 15

16 Humphreys Young Cosmos Too few supernova remnants According to astronomical observations, galaxies like our own experience about one supernova (a violently-exploding star) every 25 years.. Yet the nearby parts of our galaxy contain only about 200 supernova remnants. That number is consistent with only about 7,000 years worth of supernovas. Humphreys PhD - Comets disintegrate too quickly According to evolutionary theory, comets are supposed to be the same age as the solar system, about five billion years. Yet each time a comet orbits close to the sun, it loses so much of its material that it could not survive much longer than about 100,000 years. Many comets have typical ages of less than 10,000 years.: Evolutionists explain this discrepancy by assuming Oort cloud [and] improbable interactions with planets. none of these assumptions has been substantiated either by observations or realistic calculations. Earth: A Sphere Hung on Nothing - No flat earth idea in the Bible - Job 26:7 He hangs the earth on nothing. Job 26:10 a circle on the surface of the waters Prov 8:27 a circle on the face of the deep Isa 40:22 sits upon the sphere of the earth The Flat-Earth Fraud by Evolutionists The idea that Christians once commonly believed in a flat earth for theological reasons is a myth. The story was invented to promote the claim that Christians have widely resisted scientific advancement due to doctrinal constraints. A major motivating factor behind propagating this myth has been to bolster the Darwinian worldview and to further the goal of displacing the biblical worldview. No evidence exists to support the common claim that scientists were once persecuted for opposing the flat-earth belief or advocating the spherical earth view, which has been commonly accepted for millennia. Bergman PhD Galileo Galilei ( A.D.) vs Geocentricism What were Galileo s conflicts with the Roman Catholic Church? It was not a simple conflict between science and religion, as usually portrayed. Rather it was a conflict between Copernican science and Aristotelian science which had become Church tradition. Aristotle ( B.C.) believed the universe is finite and spherical with a stationary earth at its center. Copernicus developed a cosmology with the sun at the center, the earth rotating about a polar axis, and the earth and planets circling the sun, essentially as we know it today. [Galileo] soon made discoveries which shook the foundations of the Aristotelian cosmos. [confirming the Copernican view] Jeru-shalom = Center Stage for His-story Ezek 5:5 "Thus says the Lord GOD, 'This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center [ תוך - tavek] of the nations, with lands [' ארץ erets = Earth 700x s] around her. It is surrounded by Earth s land mass It is Center Stage of God s Revelation Pangea (Center = Israel) (GPS for Eden??) Big Bang is not the only proposed Model Big Bang term was derisively coined by Hoyle BB assumes no boundary & no center to universe Not fact. Hypotheses with many assumptions & problems: EX: quantized, rotating, horizon, missing anti / dark matter, formation of galaxies, stars, systems, planets, etc. Secular Alternative Models Eternal Matter, Steady State, Ekpyrotic, Multiverse, Creation Cosmological Models: Combination? Humphreys White Hole (event horizon passes thru Earth) Hartnett/Carmeli 5-Dimension (5 th = velocity stretched) * Both consistent with GR & explain distant light problem * Hartnett s solves the dark matter fudge (cheat) factor Scientists Open Letter Against: Big Bang An Open Letter to the Scientific Community posted on cosmologystatement.org, signed originally by 34 named scientists (from 10 countries) who oppose the big bang (including Eric Lerner, author of the book The Big Bang Never Happened, then later by a further 371 named scientists, engineers and independent researchers, 105 others (as of 24 May 2011). It was also published by Lerner, E, Bucking the big bang, New Scientist, 182(2448):20, 22 May The Big Bang Predicts that Nothing became something that exploded. - But = 0, so Nobody + Nothing = ZERO 2. Random expansion of space/time produced a chance, scattered arrangement of galaxies Original Matter A Universe With No Center and Random Arrangement of Galaxies 16

17 Big Bang Imagined Universe in TIME The Big Bang Predicts... Random expansion of space / time A Universe With No Center and Random Arrangement of Galaxies Evidence from Hubble Telescope Napier and Guthrie, Quantized redshifts: a status report, Journal Astrophysics and Astronomy, The redshift distribution has been found to be strongly quantized in the galactocentric frame of reference. ** See further supportive evidence in APPENDIX at the END of this presentation. New calculations of distances The Universe appears using red-shifts have revealed NOT random as the BIG BANG predicts, but a Galactocentric set of ordered spheres. And our Milky Way is near the center. WHY? WHY might it be a beautifully, concentrically ordered series of spheres of galaxies, with our Milky Way near the center? Logical Inference = Designed for Joy like flowers, etc Dr. Hartnett: Dismantling the Big Bang When did light billions of light-years away get to Earth? [Due to] time dilation.... We today are seeing [galaxies] [only thousands of] years after their creation as measured by earth clocks (even though the light took billions of years as measured by galaxy clocks to get here)." pp RE: our 5-D spherically symmetrical universe * sample below of calculations all available online VIDEO: Harnett PhD, on Astrophysics (W. Australian University) No Big Bang & a Starlight/Time Problem Universe: 6 thousand or 15 billion years? Your answer colors your IMAGE of the CREATOR (Either Designer of suffering/death or Good Shepherd) Einstein - time is a real property of the universe Time is relative & changes due to gravity, velocity Relativity has been updated by Carmeli, Harnett Universe - expanded as God "stretched out heavens" Age of universe depends on space/time perspective Young universe can be billions of light-years in size Science has always eventually supported Scripture Geo Science Geology Geophysics 17

18 Grand Canyon (Rock-Layers) - WHEN, HOW? My son David (at 12) & I on expedition thanks to: Canyon Ministries Tom Vail First hand view of Flood Deposition Canyon Ministries Tom & Paula Vail 30 years guiding tours Christian emphasis and goal Evangelism & Discipleship Focused on the glory of Creation knowing this first: that scoffers will come in the last days, walking according to their own lusts, 4 and saying, Where is the promise of His coming? For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of creation. 5 For this they willfully forget: that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of water and in the water, 6 by which the world that then existed perished, being flooded with water. 7 But the heavens and the earth which are now preserved by the same word, are reserved for fire until the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 2 Peter 3:2-7 Uniformitarianism or Catastrophism? MORE Ques 1: Origin of ATOMS Geology / Geophysics - Baumgardner PhD, Geophysics Los Alamos US News World Report: world's pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical convection - Snelling PhD, in Geology, University Sydney, AU -Austin PhD in Geology, Penn. State Univ. - Sylvestru PhD in Geology, Romania - Clarey PhD in Geology/Hydrology, - Mortenson PhD in History of Geology.. Many more U.S. News World Report: the world's pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical convection Geophysics Books / DVDs Baumgardner PhD Los Alamos Laboratories Ph.D., Geo/Space Physics University of California M.S., Geo/Space Physics University of California M.S., Elect. Engineering, Princeton University Also see YouTube Geology Books / DVDs Snelling PhD See YouTube Geology Theology Books /DVD s Mortenson PhD, M.Div International Lecturer AnswersInGenesis.org Also see YouTube Humphreys PhD - Sandia Nat l Laboratories Sample Evidence for a YOUNG Universe-Earth (Each of these show - cannot be billions of years old) 1. Galaxies wind up too fast 2. Supernova remnants too few 3. Comets disintegrate too quick 4. Mud on the sea floor too little 5. Sodium in sea too little 6. Magnetic field of Earth decaying too fast. 7. Strata bent, yet not cracked 8. Biomatter decays too fast 9. Fossil-radioactivity shortens geologic ages to a few years 10. Helium in minerals too little 11. Carbon-14 in deep strata 12. Skeletons Stone Age too few 13. Agriculture is too recent 14. History is too short See also Batten PhD for 101 evidences contradicting hypothesis of millions-billions years Most scientists believe the geology of Mars shows global floods in that planet s past. But, which planet logically has more evidence? Mars or Earth? 18

19 All agree - Earth s ONE continent split. - the question is, when & how rapidly? Mid-Ocean Ridges Earth s Original One Continent divided causing... * Catastrophic Plate Tectonics * Mid-Ocean Ridge to Open * Volcanic Heat / Steam Jets * Massive Volumes of Rain * Global Flooding & Erosion * Ice Age, Massive Canyons (See Dr. Ager s quote in appendix) FLOOD by Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Baumgardner PhD Looks like a modern hornet. Why no change if it s been millions of years? Are rock layers / fossils: - Millions of years old? - or Only Thousands? Your answer colors your IMAGE of the CREATOR Dating ROCKS: Radiometric Assumptions Indirect Science Rock: nonorganic Snelling PhD Geologist Dating ERRORS: serious & often s.org/articles/am/v4/n3/radio metric-dating Carbon 14 Dating - Assumptions - Indirect Science C-14 only for organic things that once lived Assumes ratio C12:C14 has always been same Many reasons this is likely wrong * Snelling PhD Geol. articles/am/v5/n4/carbon-dating C-14 & Age of Fossils (Snelling PhD) HOW is radioactive C 14 left in diamonds? Geophysicist Dr John Baumgardner (Los Alamos Laboratories, and part of the RATE research group) investigated C-14 in a number of diamonds. There should be no C-14 at all if they really are over a billion years old, yet the radiocarbon lab reported over 10 times the detection limit. The presence of radiocarbon in these diamonds where there should be none is thus sparkling evidence for a young world as the bible records. 19

20 Humphreys PhD retired Sandia Laboratories Are Dating Methods Accurate? How is the DATE for the WOOD only THOUSANDS of years? It s BETWEEN ROCK dated at MILLIONS of years. TREES: How were they fossilized and embedded through many layers, if the layers were actually deposited over millions of years of sedimentation? Graphic from Answers In Genesis.org Snelling PhD Geology Bent Rock or Molded Sediment? Folded rock layers have NO CRACK. Logic concludes: Deposited wet and flexible at same time. Then bent BEFORE solidifying into rock Cannot be millions of years BETWEEN separate layers MAN Standing Filled with inconsistencies & based on assumptions Evolutionary Timescale in Millions of Years How are there billions of fossils? often including thousands piled up together Logic Concludes: - Catastrophic flood - Animals swept up - Drowned/buried - Tons of sediment * Most major world cultures have story of a global flood Why NO decay or scavenging of the bodies of billions of fossils? LOGIC = rapid burial by watery sediment, NOT slowly covered after natural death. HOW were sediment LAYERS uniformly deposited (SPREAD) horizontally across the continent for 1000 s of miles? Also Flat Gaps : no erosion? * Snelling PhD Geology es/am/v3/n3/transcontinental-rocklayers Problem: climate differs drastically in different regions, so the best explanation is a global fluid catastrophe How were Earth s many Great Canyons CUT OUT? Montana s Government says the U.S. North West gouged by: ICE AGE Mega-LAKES. a torrent of water - ten times the flow of all the world s current rivers combined - rampaged across the Pacific Northwest. The source, Glacial Lake Missoula, disgorged a tumultuous flood when a glacial dam gave way. A volume of water equal to Lakes Erie and Ontario combined tore its way west at 65 MPH, gouging out canyons,. That catastrophic ice age flood and others afterward left remnants and signs of their existence across the Northwest. articles/2010/icefloods.htm 20

21 Mt. St. Helens Natural Experiment Mt. St. Helens Volcano 1980 Eruption: Natural Experiment Scale Model of Grand Canyon ROCK DATING ERRORS: - NEW lava rock NOW dates up to 300,000 years old, YET it is ONLY years old! SEDIMENT layers deposited - Geologic column 400 feet high CANYON cut 140 feet deep???? How many assumptions were built upon other assumptions? Check more EVIDENCE. Don t believe everything you read. Dr. Ager: on Scientific Bias Perhaps I am becoming a cynic in my old age, but I cannot help thinking that people find things that they expect to find. Derek Age PhDr, Prominent Evolutionary Geologist, The New Catastrophism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p Dr. Ager: Secular Support for Catastrophism I should, perhaps, say something about the title of this book. Just as politicians rewrite human history, so geologists rewrite earth history. For a century and a half the geological world has been dominated, one might even say brain-washed, by the gradualistic uniformitarianism of Charles Lyell. Any suggestion of catastrophic events has been rejected as oldfashioned, unscientific and even laughable. Derek Ager PhD, Prominent Evolutionary Geologist The New Catastrophism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), p. xi. Norman Nevin PhD Professor Emeritus Medical Genetics, Queen's University of Belfast The lack of transitional fossils remains a major problem for neo-darwinism.. The theory of gradual evolution over long time periods finds no support in the fossil record, which fails to support common descent. pp Living Fossils If millions of years old, then why are they virtually unchanged? God Did NOT Design Disease and Death David DeWitt PhD, Biochemist/Neuroscientist Theistic evolution is a significant threat to the Christian church. It undermines the very foundation of the Christian faith and causes people to doubt the truth of Scripture.... In [theistic evolution], death is not the enemy but the very means by which God created everything. But the Bible is very clear about this: the wages of sin is death. Death came into the world through Adam's sin. Therefore there was no death prior to the fall of man and therefore there could be no evolution whatsoever before that time. creation.com Your worldview of Earth s Age, (whether thousands vs. millions of years) affects the IMAGE of the Creator s Character: (Good Shepherd or Evil Monster) If fossil layers are really millions of years of evolutionary survival of the fittest, dysfunction, disease, and death - BEFORE man existed, Then disease / death are the design of God, not separation from God due to wages of [MAN S] sin (Rom 6:23) God is a Good Shepherd NOT a Predator * Gospel wrong, IF man did not cause death. Rom 5 * Bible untrustworthy, IF Genesis is false. John 3:12 21

22 Bio Science Biology, Genetics Natural Selection Evolution, Mutations Question 2: What is the Origin of LIFE? DNA is Designed Not Accidental ( Sid s Kids) The origin of life remains one of the great unsolved mysteries of modern science. Peltzer PhD, * Ocean Chemistry, Scripps Inst, of Oceanography * Quoted from: Signature of the Cell, by Meyer PhD Simple Cell? - NO such thing! These images illustrate the INSIDE of ONE cell SEE Harvard VIDEOS Inner Life of the Cell - What/Who made you? Chance? or a Designer? D.N.A.: Designed Not Accidental Think carefully for a moment: YOU began as 1 cell with unique DNA That cell divided into 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, etc (for a while all your cells were the same generic cells) Suddenly the coded information triggers different, specialized cells to be produced (bone, nerve, muscle cells) Plus these cells had to form at the RIGHT pre-coded time, amount, rate, place in order to develop YOU. Now that s amazing! But wait Some creatures do all of this TWICE! 1 st to be an ugly caterpillar, then AGAIN to become a beautiful butterfly. Miracle of Metamorphosis Do you realize: - What must happen for a butterfly to exist? - Let s think it through... Mystery of Consciousness The phenomenon of consciousness is the source of all value in our lives. Yet consciousness is a subject that most scientists are reluctant to deal with. We know practically nothing about either its mechanisms or its evolution.... We don t know. The machineries of consciousness are an almost perfect mystery. Boston University Anthropologist, Matt Cartmill PhD, Do Horses Gallop in their Sleep? Key Reporter (Autumn 2000): 6, 8. DNA Complexity D.N.A. = Designed Not Accidental DNA is a long thin molecule in a human cell with over 3 billion nucleotides. If a cell was the size of a basketball, the DNA would be 40 miles long. Tomkins PhD Geneticist of Clemson Univ Journals: Nature & Science - support Bible History After the Global Flood Noah s Descendants Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway 22

23 Dr. Jeffery Tomkins PhD, Geneticist of Clemson Univ - Exciting research from the summer of 2012 described DNA variation in the protein coding regions of the human genome linked to population growth. One of the investigation's conclusions was that the human genome began to rapidly diversify not more than 5,000 years ago. The Nature results convey a second spectacular confirmation of the amazingly biblical conclusions from the first study. These scientists confirmed that the human genome began to rapidly diversify not more than 5,000 years ago. In addition, they found significant levels of variation to be associated with degradation of the human genome, not forward evolutionary progress. This fits closely with research performed by Cornell University geneticist John Sanford who demonstrated through biologically realistic population genetic modeling that genomes actually devolve over time in a process called genetic entropy. Dr. Jeffery Tomkins PhD, Geneticist of Clemson Univ - According to the Bible, the pre-flood world population was reduced to Noah's three sons and their wives, creating a genetic bottleneck from which all humans descended. Immediately following the global flood event, we would expect to see a rapid diversification continuing up to the present. According to Scripture, this began not more than 5,000 years ago. We would also expect the human genome to devolve or degrade as it accumulates irreversible genetic errors over time. Now, two secular research papers confirm these biblical predictions. Tomkins, J Human DNA Variation Linked to Biblical Event Timeline. Creation Science Update. Posted on icr.org July 23, 2012, accessed December 31, Tennessen, J. et al Evolution and Functional Impact of Rare Coding Variation from Deep Sequencing of Human Exomes. Science. 337 (6090): Fu, W, et al. Analysis of 6,515 exomes reveals the recent origin of most human protein-coding variants. Nature. Published online before print, July 13, Keinan, A and A. Clark Recent Explosive Human Population Growth Has Resulted in an Excess of Rare Genetic Variants. Science. 336 (6082): Sanford, J. C Genetic Entropy and the Mystery of the Genome, 3rd ed. Waterloo, NY: FMS Publications. Genetics Books / DVDs John Sanford PhD Professor 25 years, Cornell University. Inventor: Gene Gun & many patents for genetics research See YOUTUBE Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy on JESUS. I believe the Author of Life has the power to defeat death and degeneration. I believe this is the good news. It is my personal belief that Jesus is our hope. I believe that apart from Him there is no hope.. He can give us new life today.. I humbly put before you this alternative paradigm for your consideration Jesus is our one true hope. pp Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 VIDEO: Sanford PhD Cornell Genetics Genetic Entropy Devolution NOT Evolution New evidence to add re: Bio-Info Systems Cornell BI-NPS: Stats Improbable Impossible! BINPS discoveries of DNA multilevel, overlapping layers of data compression, Epigenetic information systems (2 & 3-D spatial memory) Chromatin architectural facilitation Like a > 3-D Crossword Puzzle = High interdependence Poly-constraint limits probability of beneficial mutations. Degree of bio-optimization is % (only 5 overlapping codes = prob. ben. Mut x 10-7 ; 12 = Embryological Development not DNA controlled (Wells) Behe re: Lenski s 20yr bact. 50,000 genomic decrease Synergistic Epistasis cannot save LUCA TOL # of known genetic disorders = 6,000 Much more from the BI-NPS Hi The Contradictory Conflict between: - New Biological Information to be Explained - vs. Macroevolution s Ability to Explain Darwin s 1859 explanation - common descent Rediscovery of Gregor Mendel s Inheritance Laws 1900 Low Now! New Bio-Info to be Explained: 1850 to Today Macroevolution s Ability to Explain: 1850 to Today Hi Low The Complementary Match between: - New Biological Information to be Explained - & Intelligent Design s Ability to Explain Newly discovered Bio-Info to be Explained: 1850 to Today Rediscovery of Gregor Mendel s Inheritance Laws Now! Intelligent Design s Ability to Explain: 1850 to Today Mendel s Accountant Numerical Sim. Model: Sanford, Baumgardner, etc 2007 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy Few university-based geneticists today would choose to openly discuss the weaknesses of the mutation/selection theory. Indeed, I suspect most geneticists have never seriously considered such weaknesses. This is because by faith they have always accepted it as axiomatically true, even as I once did myself. So they have not even bothered to examine the full extent of the problems with an open mind or an open heart. p Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome,

24 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy Isn t it remarkable that the Primary Axiom of biological evolution essentially claims that typographical errors and minimal selective copying can transform a wagon into a spaceship in the absence of any intelligence, purpose, or design? Do you find this concept credible? Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 p. 9 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy Everything about the true distribution of mutations argues against their possible role in forward evolution. p. 25 Selection can sometimes work on the genic level, but systematically fails at the genomic level. p. 64 The extinction of the human genome appears to be just as certain and deterministic as the extinction of stars, the death of organisms, and the heat death of the universe. p. 83 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy By now we should clearly see that the Primary Axiom is not inherently true, nor is it obvious to all reasonable parties, and so it is very clear that it should be rejected as an axiom. Moreover, what is left, the Primary Hypothesis (mutation/selection can create and maintain genomes), is actually found to be without any support! In fact, multiple lines of evidence indicate that the Primary Hypothesis is clearly false and must be rejected. p. 111 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy We have reviewed compelling evidence that, even when ignoring deleterious muttions, mutation/selection cannot create a single gene within the human evolutionary timescale. When deleterious mutations are factored back in, we see that mutation/selection cannot create a single gene, ever. This is overwhelming evidence against the Primary Axiom. In my opinion this constitutes what is essentially a formal proof that the Primary Axiom is false. p. 139 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy Genetic damage results in aging, and aging shortens lifespan. This is true for the individual and for the population. p. 150 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy What is the mystery of the genome? Its very existence is its mystery. Information and complexity which surpass human understanding are programmed into a space smaller than an invisible speck of dust. Mutation/selection cannot even begin to explain this. It should be very clear that our genome could not have arisen spontaneously. The only reasonable alternative to a spontaneous genome is a designed genome. Isn t that an awesome mystery - one worthy of our contemplation? p. 154 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy Responsible people should be grateful to know the bad news, so they can constructively respond to it. If we have been putting all our hope in a sinking ship, would it not be expedient to recognize this and abandon the false hope? It is only in this light that we can appreciate bad news. Only in light of the bad news can we really appreciate the good news that there is a lifeboat. p. 158 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 The Miller / Urey Experimental Failure? Failed to prove chance - Required intelligence - Required information Only synthesized a few Amino Acids - Wrong kind of A. Acids undirected chemical processes cannot produce the exquisite complexity of the living cell. there is compelling positive evidence for intelligent design in the digital code stored in the cell s DNA. Skell PhD, National Academy of Sciences and Prof. Chemistry at Penn State Univ * Quote from Book Cover: Signature of the Cell, by Meyer PhD Life by Primeval Soup: Paradigm Failed The belief that life on earth arose spontaneously from non-living matter, is simply a matter of faith in strict reductionism and is based entirely on ideology. p. 284 'Although at the beginning the paradigm was worth consideration, now the entire effort in the primeval soup paradigm is self-deception on the ideology of its champions.... Belief in a primeval soup on the grounds that no other paradigm is available is an example of the logical fallacy of the false alternative. Yockey, H.P., 1992 (evolutionist). Information Theory and Molecular Biology, Cambridge University Press, UK, p Good Shepherd Initiative 24

25 Evolutionist: Dr. Eugene V. Koonin The origin of life is the most difficult problem that faces evolutionary biology and, arguably, biology in general. Indeed, the problem is so hard and the current state of the art seems so frustrating that some researchers prefer to dismiss the entire issue as being outside the scientific domain altogether, on the grounds that unique events are not conducive to scientific study (p. 351). Russian-American biologist and Senior Investigator at the National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda Good Shepherd Initiative Law of Biogenesis vs. Spontaneous Generation Natural Selection only acts on living cells/organisms It can NOT select non-living chemicals Sarfati PhD (The Greatest Hoax, p. 234) the origin of the genetic code is a vicious circle: protein machines are needed to read DNA, but these protein machines are themselves coded on the DNA. See: Myer PhD (Signature in the Cell, Oxford Press) *All cells have DNA, and NO cell is simple. Logical Conclusion: A CELL requires INTEL. * Need DNA to make Cell / Need Cell to make DNA Karl Popper, one of the most respected philosophers of science in modern times "What makes the origin of life and of the genetic code a disturbing riddle is this: the genetic code is without any biological function unless it is translated; that is, unless it leads to the synthesis of the proteins whose structure is laid down by the code. But the machinery by which the cell (at least the nonprimitive cell, which is the only one we know) translates the code consists of at least fifty macromolecular components which are themselves coded in the DNA. Thus the code can not be translated except by using certain products of its translation... Karl Popper, continued. This constitutes a baffling circle; a really vicious circle, it seems, for any attempt to form a model or theory of the genesis of the genetic code. Thus we may be faced with the possibility that the origin of life (like the origin of physics) becomes an impenetrable barrier to science, and a residue to all attempts to reduce biology to chemistry and physics. " Popper, K.R., Scientific Reduction and the Essential Incompleteness of All Science. In Ayala, F. and Dobzhansky, T., eds., Studies in the Philosophy of Biology, University of California Press, Berkeley, p Professor John Walton Research Professor of Chemistry at St Andrews University The interdependence of DNA and proteins is very remarkable. The coded information in the genomic DNA sequence is useless without the protein-based translation machinery to transform it into cell components. But the instructions for production of this translation machinery are themselves coded on the genomic DNA p SO, IT TAKES DNA TO MAKE A CELL - YET, IT TAKE A CELL TO MAKE DNA Prof. John Walton Protein Probability Research Professor of Chemistry at St Andrews University The total chance of a particular 100 amino acid sequence forming by random assembly becomes 1 in x x = 1 in To form an idea of the impossibly small chance these numbers reveal, compare them with the chance of finding one atom in the whole universe about 1 in SCEE p. 195 Probability of a Cell by Natural Processes Sarfati Atoms in the Universe Atomic Interactions/second Seconds since Big Bang (assumed) = amino acids, 387 enzymes for simplest cell 10 conserved amino acids (average).. = Probability of Science Dogma vs Science Investigation. we must never forget that our knowledge is only best thus far. Even the most fundamental laws of physics technically must be viewed as tentative.. Science proceeds through open-mindedness and the falsification of null hypotheses, not through the rhetorical pronouncement of dogmas.. The fact of purposeful programming at multiple layers gets more apparent with each new issue of virtually every molecular biology journal. Abel, D.L., The Capabilities of Chaos and Complexity, International Journal of Molecular Sciences 10: , 9 January 2009 doi: /ijms Journal: New Scientist on NO Tree of Life A recent article in New Scientist states: the tree-of-life concept...absolutely central to Darwin s thinking, equal in importance to natural selection...lies in tatters, torn to pieces by an onslaught of negative evidence. On the cover of that 2009 issue of New Scientist was the statement Darwin was Wrong (2009, 201[2692]). Coverstory author Graham Lawton admitted, The tree of life, one of the iconic concepts of evolution, has turned out to be a figment of our imagination. Lawton also interviewed evolutionary biologist Eric Bapteste of Pierre and Marie Curie University in Paris, who exclaimed, We have no evidence at all that the tree of life is a reality. Lawton, 2009, 201[2692]:34, emphasis added 25

26 Origin of ALL Creatures Genomes? ALL Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Invertebrates, Plants, Protists, etc? Question: Could Mutations? Have made all the new bio-info? Information always comes from Intelligence VIDEO Mutations Destroy NOT Create Mutations Can ONLY DEVOLVE Spetner PhD, Prof. Johns Hopkins Univ. Not even one mutation has been observed that adds a little information to the genome.. The failure to observe even one mutation that adds information is more than just a failure to find support for the theory. It is evidence against the theory. We have here a serious challenge to neo-darwinian theory. p Not by Chance VIDEO Dino to Bird Hypothesis (Menton PhD) Gecko Toes by Design Ernst Haeckel s fraudulent drawings, claiming a law of Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny The "law of recapitulation" has been discredited since the beginning of the twentieth century. University of California du/history/haeckel.html Homologous Structures Common Ancestor? Or Common Designer? Merely efficient form for effective function Example: Two Bones are best to twist a wrist = Common Designer, not a common ancestor Similar Structures by Design FACT Many common structures, even genes QUESTION Due to common ancestor or common Designer? ANSWER Efficient ENGINEER (using basic Blue-Prints) Common Forms for common Functions Andy McIntosh PhD Prof. Thermodynamics Leeds University, England In natural biological systems there is a link between thermodynamics and information.. Information is non-material. It is defined by the order not by the molecules themselves. But often missed is the deeper second matter; coding sits on bonds in a raised free-energy state. The implications are profound.. logical arrangement drives the non-equilibrium dynamics and not the other way around. This fits with Christ [God] as the Word, the Logos, and the sustainer of all things (John 1:1; Romans 11:36; Colossians 1:17; Hebrews 1:3). p

27 MUTATIONS What they really do Lost wings Legs on Face Double Faced Diprosopus PLUS 1,000 s of Human Genetic DISORDERS Andy McIntosh PhD Professor of Thermodynamics Leeds University, England Far from being an engine for beneficial change, mutations are a downhill slope. There are also implications in my own discipline of thermodynamics which also shows that new biological machinery cannot simply arise by mutations. Should Christians Embrace Evolution, p. 159 Dr John Sanford: on DEVOLUTION Mutations are word-processing errors in the cell s instruction manual. Mutations systematically destroy genetic information even as word processing errors destroy written information. While there are some rare beneficial mutations bad mutations outnumber them - perhaps by a million to one. So the net effect of mutation is overwhelmingly deleterious. The more the mutations, the less the information. This is fundamental to the mutation process.. Selection slows mutational degeneration, but does not even begin to actually stop it. So even with intense selection, evolution is going the wrong way - toward extinction! (Interview: creation.com) Mutations are Macroevolutionists ONLY hope A college AP biology textbook section heading: Mutation and sexual recombination produce the variation that makes evolution possible New genes and new alleles originate only by mutations. A mutation is a shot in the dark. Only mutations in cell lines that produce gametes [sperm & egg] can be passed to offspring, and only a small fraction of these spread through populations. p. 459 BIOLOGY, Seventh Edition, Campbell and Reece. Publisher Pearson Newer Textbooks now AVOID or MINIMIZE discussing mutations as the mechanism. WHY? Because new research shows that mutations could NOT have created the new information necessary for all of the many Kinds of creatures. Mutations cause Devolution NOT Evolution New Book Examples (the only statements in these texts): Mutations create the genetic variation needed for evolution. p. 343 BIOLOGY, Stephen Nowicki. Publisher: Holt, McDougal 2012 Edition Mutation is a random change in a gene that is passed on to offspring. p. 318 MODERN BIOLOGY, Postlewait & Hopson. Publisher: Holt, Rinehart, Winston Mendel s Accountant Genetics Computer Simulator Mendel's Accountant (MENDEL) is an advanced numerical simulation program for modeling genetic change over time and was developed collaboratively by Sanford, Baumgardner, Brewer, Gibson and ReMine Sanford PhD Book Genetic Entropy Genetic damage results in aging, and aging shortens lifespan. This is true for the individual and for the population. p. 150 Genetic Entropy & The Mystery of the Genome, 2008 Good Shepherd Initiative Sid Galloway 27

28 Genetic Entropy, Sanford, PhD DEVOLUTION not Evolution Mutation-Meltdown would have occurred if HUMAN population was even 100,000 years old. It can only be six to ten thousand. *** See also Mendel s Accountant Computer Simulation (Sanford, et al) Vestigial Organs - Left Overs from Evolution? Supposedly our tail-bone, appendix, etc??? At best, evidence of vestigial organs in man demonstrates deterioration and loss of information since the Fall. They are evolutionary relics of common ancestors with animals only if you begin with evolutionary presuppositions. Dr. David DeWitt, PhD What about left over genes - JUNK DNA -? JUNK DNA Left Over from Evo? Nevin PhD Prof. Medical Genetics Francis Collins [Human Genome Project, and Christian theistic evolutionist] writes that the junk DNA [is] consistent with common mammalian ancestor. However, recent research has reversed previous scientific thought, confirming that the non-protein coding DNA, far from being genetic fossils, is dominated by sequences rich in functional information.... p. 216 * NOTE: My personal interview of Dr. Collins * APE-Men? DVD Post-Flood Interpretation - Dr. Mitchell, MD IMAGE - C. Zollikofer and M. S. Ponce de Leon / Univ. of Zurich Does DARWIN S subtitle reveal the racist ideology historically common to evolutionary cultures? His book, THE DESCENT OF MAN, is obscenely racist. APE-MEN: THE GRAND ILLUSION Terry Mortenson PhD The five skulls found at Dmanisi do not seem to go together, having cranial capacities varying from 546 to 730 cubic centimeters and a constellation of features evolutionists typically assign to three different species of early Homo - Homo erectus, Homo habilis, and Homo rudolfensis with the fifth skull combining the characteristics of all. They may well represent members of a post-flood, post- Babel population suffering from disease and deprivation. Inconsistent Imaginative Theories FACT OR FANTASY? The newly discovered fossil bone of Homo indicates that this feature existed more than 600,000 years earlier than previously documented. The most common IMAGE of evolution Consequences-of-Having-Evolved.html Geoff Barnard PhD Senior Research Scientist in the Department of Veterinary Medicine, University of Cambridge He has been a Senior Lecturer in Biological Sciences at three other UK Universities and a visiting scientist at the Weizmann Institute in Israel. "What is certain, however, is that major chromosomal variations [differences] that clearly exist between the human and chimpanzee, such as those that have been well-documented in the academic literature and in this chapter, actually dictate against the thesis that these species have common ancestry. p Good Shepherd Initiative 28

29 Australopithecus sediba Ape, Man, or Apeman? Science or IMAGINATION? For a creation challenge to the evolutionary assumptions, see: Peter Line PhD (Neuroscience/Biophysics) Human Anatomy Books / DVDs Menton PhD Associate Professor Emeritus of Anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine AnswersInGenesis.org Also see YouTube NOVA Science Program shows scientist altering evidence to fit his beliefs Lucy altered evidence to make it fit The ape that stood up, it was a revolutionary idea. We needed Owen Lovejoy's expertise again, because the evidence wasn't quite adding up. The knee looked human, but the shape of her hip didn't. Superficially, her hip resembled a chimpanzee's, which meant that Lucy couldn't possibly have walked like a modern human.. But all was not lost. Lovejoy decided he could restore the pelvis to its natural shape. He didn't want to tamper with the original, so he made a copy in plaster. He cut the damaged pieces out and put them back together the way they were before Lucy died. It was a tricky job, but after taking the kink out of the pelvis, it all fit together perfectly, like a three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle. As a result, the angle of the hip looks nothing like a chimps, but a lot like ours. Anatomically at least, Lucy could stand like a human. See Sample Video Clip at RACISM? Evolution drawings imagine advanced man as looking EUROPEAN. WHY? human-evolution.jpg The Truth, there is only... ONE Human Race and ONE Human Color: Melanin there are ways of drawing reconstructions based on dead bones to make them appear transitional. Other alleged apehuman links are based on fragmentary evidence, such as Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba. Detailed analysis of various ape-man candidates shows that they are either fully ape-like or fully human, not transitional or even mosaic. Sarfati PhD, THE GREATEST HOAX ON EARTH? p. 145 At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilized races of man will almost certainly exterminate and replace the savage races throughout the world. At the same time the... Apes... Will no doubt be exterminated. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: A.L. Burt, 1874, 2 nd ed.), p The break between man and his nearest allies will then be wider, for it will intervene between man in a more civilized state, as we may hope, even than the Caucasion, and some ape as low as a baboon, instead of as now between the negro or Australian [aborigine] and the gorilla. Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (New York: A.L. Burt, 1874, 2 nd ed.), p Biological arguments for racism may have been common before 1850, but they increased by orders of magnitude following the acceptance of evolutionary theory. Harvard Evolutionary Professor, Stephen Jay Gould, Ontogeny and Phylogeny (Belknap-Harvard Press, 1977), p

30 Primitive Man? New Book The Genius of Ancient Man: Evolution s Nightmare Chapters by numerous authors, edited by Don Landis Primitive People? = Fallen Cultures Remember the Tower (Pyramid) of Babel Ancient Mayan Temple Ancient Pyramids vs. Modern Nomads Modern Mayan Hut Did you know? - COLOR of people is Melanin - Majority are brown - Few are light - None are white - Few are dark - None are black ONLY ONE RACE HUMAN SLAVERY: Abolished by Christians not Science Kenny, R., The Lamb Enters the Dreaming, p74, Scribe, Kenny is a non-christian historian. Having for most of my life believed that our acceptance of equality racial, class, gender was the result of the overthrow of past superstitions and prejudice by reason, I was perplexed: why had the fight against slavery, and the concern for aboriginal peoples, been so overwhelmingly the province of religious?. It was not the philosophies of Paris or Edinburgh or East Prussia who fought slavery.. It was from the Evangelical Revival that the loudest claims for what we now call racial equality came. Species is an Inexact Term: Breeding evidence confrims the Genesis 1 term Kind accurately referred to: genetic Family LEVEL, not the genus or species LEVEL. Zonkey Kingdom Phylum Class Zorse Order *Family = Genetic Kind Genus Liger Species Selection = Within each KIND, the capacity to adapt is vast, but limited. Selection is only sorting or loss of existing genes: - Artificial Selection - Natural Selection NO Mechanism to make enough NEW genes to make new KINDS Example: All Canines can interbreed, so they are related as the Dog KIND. - If we breed dogs forever: still get dogs! Experimentally Tested - Fruit Flies still Flies - Bacteria still bacteria ** Antibiotic resistant bacteria have LOST genes and structures. Evolution s Imaginary Tree of DEATH vs. Creation s Orchard of Kinds Dog KIND Molecules to Mice. to Men by mutations? Human KIND FLOOD-ARK caused a Genetic Bottleneck EXAMPLE START & RE-START of the proposed original FELINE created kinds 30

31 Complexity: Bacterial Tail 100,000 RPM Irreducibly-Impossible to Evolve by Chance * Self assembly and repair * Water-cooled rotary engine * Proton motive force drive system * Forward and reverse gears * Operating speeds of up to 100,000 rpm * Direction reversing capability within 1/4 of a turn * Hard-wired signal system with short-term memory * Clutch to disconnect filament from motor when required Video Michael Behe PhD Dr. Beheis Professor of Biological Sciences at Lehigh University in Pennsylvania. He received his Ph.D. in Biochemistry from the University of Pennsylvania in Behe's current research involves delineation of design and natural selection in protein structures. Over 35 articles in refereed biochemical journals Book: Darwin's Black Box discusses the implications for neo-darwinism of what he calls "irreducibly complex" biochemical systems. VIDEO: Bacterial Tail Flagellum (Behe PhD) Kinesin Motorized Transport Runs on ATP Energy VIDEO: Kinesin Motorized Transport ATP-Synthase Bio-Electric Motors - In Cells 100% efficiency You daily generate your own weight in ATP Impossible by Chance Andy McIntosh PhD re: ATP. the ATP motor in living organisms transfers energy from food and respiration into useable energy to drive the cell machinery of DNA, ribosomes, amino acids and protein building, etc.. unlike macro machines, chemical machinery at the molecular level involves setting up proteins of hundreds and usually thousands of bonds linking a string of amino acids. And each of these bonds is in a raised free-energy state such that left to itself, it would break down. To suggest [this these] state would be maintained while natural selection favored, over many generations, single random mutations, one by one, to finally bring together the full complement is thermodynamically absurd. p. 163 VIDEO: ATP-Synthase Motor Scripture Evidence Reveals the Creator Good Shepherd Christ 31

32 Geology Theology Books /DVD s Mortenson PhD, M.Div International Lecturer AnswersInGenesis.org Chapters by different scholars. If you are a Christian, then please read this important book! Creator s Character is at Stake What kind of God is our Creator? Is He trustworthy? How can we know? General Revelation =Science, yet studying the world only reveals that a powerful, intelligent designer must exist (Romans 1). Special Revelation = Scripture, reveals His personal character and nature. * True science eventually supports the Bible Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel,... I am the First and the Last;... who can proclaim as I do?... the things that are coming and shall come. Isaiah 44:6-7 (Predicted 700 BC, Fulfilled 32 AD) Mohler PhD, Pres. of Southern Seminary If evolution is true, then the entire narrative of the Bible has to be revised and reinterpreted. The evolutionary account is not only incompatible with any historical affirmation of Genesis, but it is also incompatible with the claim that all humanity is descended from Adam and the claim that in Adam all humanity fell into sin and guilt. The Bible s account of the Fall and its consequences is utterly incompatible with evolutionary theory. Prophetic Proof of God s Word Isaiah Present your argument, says the LORD. Produce your evidence, says Jacob s king. 22 Let them produce evidence! Let them tell us what will happen! Tell us about your earlier predictive oracles, so we may examine them and see how they were fulfilled. Or decree for us some future events! 23 Predict how future events will turn out, so we might know you are gods. New Book: 2011 Without Excuse (on biological information as evidence for God) Werner Gitt PhD Head of the Department of Information Science. Director & Professor of Technology at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology. More Books / DVDs See YOUTUBE Dr. Gitt - Universal Information & the Bible. many different [religious books] that are claimed to have divine origin. Is there an absolute test that can verify if a text is divinely inspired? Yes, there is such a test.. Scientific laws allow mankind to predict future events but only within a very limited range in time and space. Werner Gitt PhD, WITHOUT EXCUSE, pp Dr. Gitt Without Excuse - continued. if a text incorporates many predictions of future events that do occur despite intervening decades, centuries or even millennia of time, then that would be a clear sign of supernatural omniscience.. The one striking feature that distinguishes the Bible from all other world literature is, without doubt, the many prophecies that have already been fulfilled in time and space. [over] 3,000 prophetical statements fulfilled. The Bible is peerless as will be shown in this section. probability, P = 1.7 x pp Putting Huge Numbers in Perspective Estimated # Atoms in Universe = This means a 1 with 80 zeros Dr. Gitt s Probability of = 984 zeros!! 32

33 NATURE Journal 2004 says: Family tree shows our common ancestor lived just 3,500 years ago. The most recent common ancestor of all humanity lived just a few thousand years ago, according to a computer model of our family tree. Researchers have calculated that the mystery person, from whom everyone alive today is directly descended, probably lived around 1,500 BC in eastern Asia.. The figure of 1,500 BC might sound surprisingly recent. Ancient Writings & the Tower of Babel A = Evolutionary View B = Biblical View Oldest recorded writing - About 5,000 years ago - Flood about same time /Genesis-Babel-the-Chinese-Language,4752,0.aspx What about the many other writings claiming to be the Truth Science? (Last session) Hindu? Gita, Vedas, Upanishads Buddhist? Dhammapada, Zen Muslim? Koran Christian Cults? Mormon, J. Witness Philosophers? Plato, Neitzche, Fromm So many in man s history What Authority do you Trust? Kindergarten kids debate... Oh yeah, how do you know if that s true? * This question is for us too. What Did Jesus Say about Creation Jesus claimed to be the Creator John 8:44, 58; 1:1-3, Col 1:16, Heb 1:1-3 from the beginning Mark 10:6 Jesus affirmed Moses John 5:46-47 Jesus affirmed Abel Matt 23:35 Jesus affirmed the Flood Matt 24:37-39 Jesus affirmed literal DAYS Luk 13:14 Profoundly Simple Scripture Simple enough for a child, Profound enough for any PhD God s love says what He means, and means what He says If God is really good, then His Bible should be: Verifiable beyond doubt that it is truly His Word Ableto explain why suffering is in His creation True in all that it says (science, hist.) Clear enough for the average person to understand * No need for an elite group to explain hidden meanings (Surely not secular scientists & liberal theologians) The Simple-Clarity of Scripture (Perspicuity) (Ironic that such a term would be used to describe simple-clarity The doctrine [means] that Scripture is clear enough for the simplest person, deep enough for highly qualified readers, clear in its essential matters, obscure in some places to people because of their sinfulness, understandable through ordinary means, understandable by an unsaved person on an external level, understandable in its significance by a saved person through the illumination of the Holy Spirit, and available to every believer whose faith must rest on the Scriptures. Dr. Pettegrew, Prof. Theology, Master s Seminary From Scripture to Science Scriptural Method = think logically & believe based on sufficient evidence (Hebrews 11:1) (The Judeo-Christian root of modern science) Scientific Method= think logically & believe based on sufficient evidence Speculation, Hypotheses, Theories, Models, Laws Technically NONE can be proven It only takes ONE new variable discovered or new test to overturn them 33

34 The Biblical Start of Science Dr. Peter Harrison, Oxford University Professor of Science & Religion "Strange as it may seem, the Bible played a positive role in the development of science.... Had it not been for the rise of the literal interpretation of the Bible and the subsequent appropriation of biblical narratives by early modern scientists, modern science may not have arisen at all. In sum, the Bible and its literal interpretation have played a vital role in the development of Western Science." Harrison, P., The Bible & the rise of science, Australasian Science 23(3):21-24, 2009 Samples of Science Evidence for Creation Astrophysics Creation Cosmologies (Humphreys/Hartnett) Galactocentric Universe Geophysics Pangea Split (time/rate) Flood / Fossil Deposits Ark ZOO Facts Radiometric Dating Other Physical Measures Biology Interlaced Complexity Engineering Efficiency Dinosaur Cells/Tissue Genetics / DNA Designed Not Accident Epigenetic Information Mutation Meltdown Statistics Improbable/Impossible Samples of Bible s Fit w/ Creation Evidence Astrophysics Gen 1:1 Five Realities Descriptive Accuracy 2 Pet 3 Final Entropy Geophysics Spirit Vibrating Descriptive Accuracy Global Flood / CPT Ark Facts Biology Biogenesis Descriptive accuracy Genetics Genetic Fixity Gen 5 Decay Curve Information Science Computer / Cell System parallels and analogies Nevin PhD Professor Emeritus Medical Genetics, Queen's University of Belfast A theology that embraces evolution espouses the idea that God chose to use death, decay and the extinction of life forms as the best means of developing life. This presents a massive challenge to the nature of a good God who created a world that he was able to describe as very good. It makes death and decay good. p. 213 A theology that denies a significant fall and denies that physical death is a result of mankind s sin makes God responsible for the suffering in our world. Darwin considered suffering in the world a strong argument against the existence of God. p. 214 George Bernard Shaw Pulitzer Prize (his atheistic, Darwinian worldview) [Darwinism] seems simple, because you do not at first realize all that it involves. But when its whole significance dawns on you, your heart sinks into a heap of sand within you. There is a hideous fatalism about it, a ghastly and damnable reduction of beauty and intelligence, of strength and purpose, of honor and aspiration. Back to Methuselah (1921) The American Scholar, Phi Beta Kappa Journal Spring 2009, Purpose-Driven Life, by Brain Boyd Even Darwin and other atheistic evolutionists have recognized the logical incompatibility between a good God and evolution. Book: Darwin s Daughter & Human Evolution From Publishers Weekly on the book:.... [Darwin s] great-great-grandson..., Keynes [shows] how Darwin's thinking on evolution was influenced by his... anguish over his 10-year-old daughter Annie's death.... Keynes,... shows that much of Darwin's intellectual struggle in writing On the Origin of Species... arose from his efforts to understand the role of suffering and death in the natural order of the world.... After Annie's death, however, Darwin's views darkened, and in a private letter he railed against the... horridly cruel works of nature!..... could still marvel that, from this ruthless struggle, endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. " Genesis 1: Hebrew term bara : means to create something brand NEW that did not previously exists. - Bara used 3x s in Gen 1: v.1 Matter; v.21 Animals; v.27 Man - God ceased bara after 6 days & rested from new creations Nephesh = a soul, a feeling/thinking creature (able to suffer, fear, or feel joy). Nephesh chayah = living soul Plants (No Nephesh, so they cannot suffer) (No nerves/brain: originally designed by God as food) - Many kinds of invertebrates likely have no nephesh * Nephesh Animals (Not originally intended as food) (Only in Gen 9:3, post-flood, did God allow as food) (Only in solemn honor, since nephesh rep. by blood) * Nephesh Man (Unique ability to think/feel about God) (personally made by God) (to reflect His character) Did God design structures for violence or have they adapted & DEVOLVED? Skulls = Fruit Bat, Panda, Deer = Vegetarians Their TEETH are designed for thick Vegetation * Yet they LOOK like carnivore teeth. Carnivores may have adapted to eat meat AFTER the flood destroyed species of protein rich plants. (Gen 1:29-31; 9:3; Isaiah 11 and 65; Romans 8) 34

35 Nephesh Animal s Life Special to God (Animals suffering/death was never God s Way) Gen 9:1-3 first permission to eat animals You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything. But you must not eat meat with its life (its blood) in it. Lev 17:13-15 hunters compassion commanded Whatever man of Israel who hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust; for it is the life of all flesh. Its blood sustains its life. Whoever eats it shall be cut off. Noah s Ark & the Global Flood? Mystery or His-story WHY? Genesis 6 - to cleanse Earth of violence God withdrew His sustaining Hand... Every major Culture has a story of a Global Flood 2 Peter 2:4-5 God did not spare the ancient world, but saved Noah, one of eight people, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood on the world of the ungodly.... Escalating Entropy JESUS confirmed Noah s History JESUS said: For as in the days before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered the ark, and did not know until the flood came and took them all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. [His 2 nd coming] Noah s Ark: Myth or His-story? Gen 6-8 Me as Zoo-Keeper 1.5 million cubic feet Only nostril vertebrates Pair of each KIND Two of the canine kind... two of the feline kind, etc. = Less than 20,000 animals Easily fit all on 1/3 of Ark 2/3 left for food & people Massive dimensions described in the Bible Gen 6-8 Evidence: Dinosaurs Alive AFTER the Flood: Dinosaur: Blood Vessels, Cells, Soft Tissue Discoverer, Dr. Schweitzer, N. Carolina State Univ., et al Could fossil T-Rex tissue be 65 million years old? NO Logical inference = Died out relatively RECENTLY Dino Shocker - NATURE JOURNAL - 22 October 2012 Molecular analysis supports controversial claim for dinosaur cells New evidence adds heat to the argument over prehistoric dinosaur tissue. It seemed utterly impossible - organic remains were not supposed to survive the fossilization process Hebrews 11:1 vs. Dr. Schweitzer s confused ideas about: science, religion, faith, evidence, & proof For her, science and religion represent two different ways of looking at the world; invoking the hand of God to explain natural phenomena breaks the rules of science. After all, she says, what God asks is faith, not evidence. If you have all this evidence and proof positive that God exists, you don t need faith. I think he kind of designed it so that we d never be able to prove his existence. And I think that s really cool. Read more: 35

36 Job 40:17 TAIL like a Cedar TREE? Hippo? Elephant? SAUROPOD? Dan Lietha - Cartoonist Isaiah 43:20 The beast of the field shall honor me, the DRAGONS (Hebrew = tannin). Ancient Cambodian carving at the right. Could it be a Stegosaurus? ** Dragon Legends? David Catchpoole PhD Dino-Dragon Drawings, Carvings, Stories All Over the World ARK Dino Rescue? What does the evidence say? About 50 Kinds Ceratopsia Kind Tyrano Kind Saurpods Kind and EGGS even of the largest sauropods were football sized If ARK = rescue ship Young dinos taken 2 each: only 100 dinos Noah & the New Testament Hebrews 11:7 By faith Noah, being warned {by God} about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation (resuce) of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith. Dr. John MacArthur says about Noah and JESUS The flood is the only event in human history that comes close to illustrating what will happen in the end times, for the flood destroyed everything on earth. The attitude that prevailed during the time of Noah will be the attitude that prevails during the second coming [of JESUS]. When Noah told the people that God's judgment was near, they didn't care. Similarly, people during the end times will notice all the signs and wonders going on around them, but many of them won't consider what's happening and why. Hard to imagine, but true. Scientia ANSWERS leading logically to Jesus as Creator & Christ 1. Universe? - Bara by God 2. Bio-Info? - Life from the Living God 3. New-Info? - Cannot create new Kinds 4. Programmer?- The Good Shepherd 5. Suffering? - He promised (prophesied) that He would provide His Way of rescue. 6. Christ? - Jesus is your promised Messiah 7. Response? - Hypotasso or Rebellion Where did the Week come from? Common to virtually every culture throughout history are the Day, Month, Year & Week. Astronomy observations make it easy to calculate: A Day (Earth rotating on its axis in 24 hours) A Month (Moon orbiting the Earth in about 30 days) A Year (Earth orbiting the Sun in about 365 days) Week does not come from natural observations. The most logical source for the common calendar use of a seven day week is that all global cultures trace back through Noah to Adam and God s creation week. Dr. James Barr, Professor, Oxford University 1984 Today compromisers deny Hebrew language rules so far as I know, there is no professor of Hebrew or Old Testament at any world-class university [ UP TO 1984 ] who does not believe that the writer of Genesis 1 11 intended to convey... : creation took place in a series of six days the same as the days of 24 hours we now experience genealogies provided by simple addition a chronology from the beginning of the world up to later stages. [about 6,000 years] Noah s flood was world-wide and extinguished all [nostril breathing] life except for those in the ark. 36

37 Douglas F. Kelly PhD, Conservative Professor of Systematic Theology Author, Creation and Change, 1997, p. 51. To summarize, liberal scholars of both 19 th and 20 th centuries admit that the text of Genesis is clearly meant to be taken in a literal, historical sense, although they deny its claims to speak accurately to our space/time cosmos. Boring Bible Genealogies - Why 6,000 years of His-story Now matches new evidence in: Archaeology, Geology, Genetics, etc Keil & Delitzsch: Autors of the highly respected commentaries on the OT (10 Vol.) About very good in Gen. 1:31, they say: everything was perfect in its kind the existence of anything evil in the creation of God is absolutely denied, and the hypothesis entirely refuted, that the six days work merely subdued and fettered an ungodly, evil principle, which had already forced its way into it. Chart developed my Brown Day in Genesis 1 = 24 Hours when Hebrew language qualifiers are used with YOM Use of numbers & terms: morning and evening make YOM mean a 24 hour day Moral Character & Claim of Messiah JESUS alone is shown to be sinless, yet He claimed to be God in human form. EXAMPLE: Before Abraham existed, I AM John 8:58 Legend? NO. Historically verified beyond doubt Liar? NO. Honest to the point of death on cross Lunatic? NO. Universally accepted as wise LORD The most logical inference from evidence Faith is the... evidence of things not seen (Hebrews 11:1) = LOGOS / Logikos Faith Man s religion = Self-Deification Sam s Club Magazine with Oprah & Deepak Chopra on Gratitude? Grateful to Whom? Converging Pyramid of Self-Deification Man s Way vs. God s Way God Man s Religions Good Works Survival of the Fittest Romans 3:23; 6:23 God Jesus Relationship His Perfect Work is ENOUGH - Mat 5:48 Bio-Resurrection - Proof & Promise First-fruits of the NEW Creation 1 Corinthians 15 After that He was seen by over 500 brethren at once, of whom the greater part remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. the dead [believers] will be raised incorruptible immortality. 37

38 3/18/2015 is-story Timeline End For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God; and if it begins with us first, what will be the end of those who do not obey the gospel of God? 1 Peter 4:17 Alpha Beginning Birth * Inescapably to to to to Omega End Death HIS DAY Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away. Matthew 24:35 TIME is a runaway train that no man or angel can stop! 2 Peter 3 FINAL BIG BANG But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. Universal Atomic Thermonuclear Meltdown 2 Peter 3:11 Exponential Entropy looking for and hastening the coming of the day of God, because of which the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the elements will melt with fervent heat? Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells. 2 Peter 3:12 2 Peter 3:13 Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved, what manner of persons ought you to be in holy conduct and godliness, 2 Peter 3:10- Safe and Secure: Under God s Hand My adopted Black Grandfather 1 Peter 5:5-7 God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble. Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may lift you up, casting all your anxieties on Him, because He cares for you. 38

39 His WAY = His Cross = His Good Work Our Choice by His grace alone through faith alone, apart from our good works This was ONLY Part 2 of 7 in the series: Defending our Father s Honor 1. Logic verifies God (John 1:1) 2. Science verifies Creation (Rom 1:20) 3. History verifies Scripture (Luke 1:1-4) 4. Religion verifies Christianity (Romans 3:28) 5. Prophecy verifies Jesus (Luke 24:25-27) 6. Time verifies Judgment (Hebrews 9:27) 7. Action verifies Faithfulness (James 2:20) Creation Ministries International Answers in Genesis Institute for Creation Research LOGOS Research Associates Defending Our Father s Honor Logikos Apologetics SEE ALSO Part 6 of 7 Time verifies Judgment Hebrews 9:27 (Updated 2013) Defending Our Father s Honor Logikos Apologetics SEE ALSO Part 7 of 7 Action verifies Faithfulness James 2:20 (Updated 2013) A Top Evolutionary Web Resource is however... It is refuted at every point by creation scientists sites: (creationists) and (creationists) (creationists) YES, there is too much data (it seems overwhelming), BUT relax, you don t need to be an expert to understand the foundational issues involved. * Macro-evolution cannot answer 7 Key Questions Website: Creation Ministries International Website: Answers in Genesis Recommended Website: ICR Inst. Creation Research 39

40 Russian Creation Ministries Ukrainian Creation Ministry Technical Journals: - Journal of Creation - Answers Research Journal Popular Magazines: 1000 s of Online ARTICLES (every conceivable topic every educational level) 1000 s of Resources: Articles DVD s, Books, Journals - Answers Magazine answersingenesis.org - Creation Magazine creation.com New Book by Sarfati PhD Chemist, Genius Chess Master THE GREATEST HOAX ON EARTH An updated classic book by Sarfati PhD Chemist, Genius, Chess Master 12 games at the same time, while blind-folded REFUTING COMPROMISE All Subjects Books / DVDs by Sarfati PhD Chemistry Chess Master Can play 12 chess opponents at the same time while he is blind-folded. Announcer calls out moves Many more at 40

41 Physics Cosmology Books / DVDs Hartnett PhD Research Professor University Western Australia Also see YouTube Physics Astronomy Books / DVDs Humphreys PhD Sandia National Laboratories, Retired Also see YouTube Astrophysics Cosmology Books / DVDs Lisle MS, PhD Colorado of University. BS summa cum laude Also see YouTube U.S. News World Report: the world's pre-eminent expert in the design of computer models for geophysical convection Geophysics Books / DVDs Baumgardner PhD Los Alamos Laboratories Ph.D., Geo/Space Physics University of California M.S., Geo/Space Physics University of California M.S., Elect. Engineering, Princeton University Also see YouTube Geology Books / DVDs Snelling PhD See YouTube Genetics Books / DVDs John Sanford PhD Professor 25 years, Cornell University. Inventor: Gene Gun & many patents for genetics research See YOUTUBE Biochemistry Book s/ DVDs Wilder-Smith 3-PhDs Science His last Golden Apple professor award was inscribed, He made us not only better scientists, but also better men." Human Anatomy Books / DVDs Menton PhD Associate Professor Emeritus of Anatomy at Washington University School of Medicine AnswersInGenesis.org Also see YouTube Bio-Info New Book Werner Gitt PhD Head of the Department of Information. Later Director & Professor at Technology at the German Federal Institute of Physics and Technology. More Books / DVDs See YOUTUBE 41

42 Geology Theology Books /DVD s Mortenson PhD, M.Div International Lecturer AnswersInGenesis.org Also see YouTube Should Christians Embrace Evolution? Biblical & scientific responses Edited by Norman C. Nevin PhD Professor Emeritus of Medical Genetics, Queen's University of Belfast and Head of the Northern Regional Genetics Service. See many quotes in the APPENDIX below Recommended Video Online: The Programming of Life 42

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