Transcript 3-A-Sound-Faith.ppsx

A SOUND FAITH:
SCIENCE
What is Science?
Science is a systematical and logical approach
to discovering how things in the physical
universe work.
The systematical and logical approach
involves observation and experimentation.
What are the limitations of science?
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Five things science cannot prove
Existential Truth
Moral Truth
Logical Truth
Experiential Truth
Historical Truth
Absolute Truth
• God’s Truth
– God revealed His truth to us in nature (spoken
word).
– God revealed His truth to us in Scripture (written
word).
Job 38:31-33
“Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades? Can you
loosen Orion’s belt? Can you bring forth the
constellations in their seasons or lead out the Bear
with its cubs? Do you know the laws of the
heavens? Can you set up God’s
dominion over the earth?”
1 Corinthians 1:18
For the word of the cross is folly to those who are
perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the
power of God.
Scientific Evidence for Intelligent Design
• Large Scale (universe)
• Small Scale (cellular level)
• Within the Human Soul
What comes before H?
What does science say about this?
• Universe began a finite time ago.
– Time began some time ago.
• Electromagnetic radiation emanated from nothingness.
Albert Einstein
• “I want to know God’s thoughts. The rest are
details.” Albert Einstein
– Energy and mass are connected.
• E = mc2
And God said, “Let there be light”.
And God said, “Let there be light”.
• Genesis 1:1
– “In the beginning God created the heavens and the
earth.”
• Genesis 1:21
– “So God created the great creatures of the sea and
every living thing with which the water teems…”
• Genesis 1:27
– “So God created mankind in his own image…”
The English Language
• Thar wus a kar.
• There was a car.
An Author?
• Letters (26)
Words
Sentence
Paragraph
Chapter
Novel
• DNA (AGCT)
Codon (amino acid)
Protein
Organ
Organ System
Organism
Evidence within the Human Soul
We cannot quench our thirst for understanding.
Psalm 19:1-3
“The heavens declare the glory of God; the
skies proclaim the work of his hands. Day after
day they pour forth speech; night after night
they reveal knowledge. They have no speech,
they use no words; no sound is heard from
them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth,
their words to the ends of the world.”