Transcript Evidence, Evolution & God`s Existence 5

Evidence,
Evolution and
the Existence of God
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the
firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day
uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth
knowledge. There is no speech nor language,
where their voice is not heard.
Psalm 19:1-3
The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God.
Psalm 14:1; 53:1
The Bible reveals that the world shows God’s handiwork and
thus reveals His existence
If this is true, should be able to see the evidence and
determine the truth
The Bible reveals that the evidence abounds and calls one a
fool who does not correctly surmise that God is
Is it the case that the heavens declare His glory? Let’s examine
and see
Examine teleology (design) and eutaxiology (orderly
arrangement)
Teleology- design demands a designer (watch, car, paper clip)
Eutaxiology- intricate orderly arrangement requires an
“arranger”
Alphabet soup in a bowl does not spell out a poem
Orderliness of pews reveals it is no accident
Dictionary not the result of explosion in print shop
Look at creation from standpoint of these two principles and
see if God is declared
Days 1-4
Genesis 1:1-19
If the sun were a hollow ball,
more than 1 million earths
could be put inside it
The star Antares (a double star in the constellation Scorpio)
has a diameter of about 400 million miles (over four times the
distance from earth to the sun)
If Antares a hollow ball, could put the earth and sun inside
and the earth could follow its complete orbit around the sun
and not even go halfway to the outer edge of Antares! (and it’s
likely not the largest one)
Antares
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Earth
Ancient man estimated the stars to number about 3000
A July 2003 report estimated there to be 70 sextillion (70
million, million, million) stars in the known universe
Long before ancient man ventured a guess at the number of
stars in the sky, God made a promise to Abraham and then
about David based on them
And he brought him forth abroad, and said, Look
now toward heaven, and tell the stars, if thou be
able to number them: and he said unto him, So
shall thy seed be.
Genesis 15:5
That in blessing I will bless thee, and in multiplying
I will multiply thy seed as the stars of the heaven,
and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and
thy seed shall possess the gate of his enemies;
Genesis 22:17
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At the same time that the earth is traveling about the sun at
70,000 miles per hour, and rotating on its axis at 1000 miles
per hour, the sun with its solar system is moving through
space at 600,000 miles per hour in its own orbit
At the same time, the moon is traveling in its orbit around the
earth (at about 2300 miles per hour)
The period in which the moon completes an orbit around the
earth (at 2286 miles per hour) and returns to the same
position in the sky—the sidereal month—is 27 days, 7
hours, 43 minutes, and 11.6 seconds
This period is the time interval that elapses between two
successive full moons, a period that was known within a
second even in ancient times
The moon is some 240,000 miles from earth
The gravitational pull of the moon (primarily) and sun on the
oceans causes tides
If the moon were just 1/5 of this distance closer to the earth,
the tides would be so enormous that they would reach 35’-50’
depths twice each day, inundating the coastal plains
“The lunar tides have the greatly beneficial effects of
cleansing shorelines and diluting stream discharges from the
land by the large-scale mixing process of currents. These tidal
currents regularly scour out shipping channels and keep them
open. The high tide permits navigation of waters which are
too shallow at other times.”
-The Moon: Its Creation, Form and Significance, Whitcomb & DeYoung
The universe operates according to precise astronomical laws
That is why we can launch rockets to the moon and land them
within mere feet of their intended target
Such precise movements call for a primary Mover and refute
the idea of random chance
The earth is exactly the right distance from the sun
It is exactly the right distance from the moon
It has exactly the right diameter
It has exactly the right atmospheric pressure
2; 30,000 lbs. upon the
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It has exactly the right tilt
human body!
It has exactly the right weight and mass
It has exactly the right amount of oceanic water
It has exactly the right combination of atmospheric gases
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on on
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so accurately that
a variation of a second in a century would upset
Such
exactness calculations”
has caused more than one devout evolutionist
astronomical
to question his precious theory
-Dr. A. Cressy Morrison
“As we look out into the universe and identify the many
accidents of physics and astronomy that have worked
together to our benefit, it almost seems as if the universe must
in some sense have known we were coming.”
-Freeman Dyson (evolutionist), “Scientific American”
Accidents? Or the work of a
Divine Creator?
The heavens declare the glory
of God; and the firmament
showeth His handiwork
In the first four days of the creative week such things as light,
atmosphere, seas, dry land, vegetation and the sun, moon and
stars were created
Since the heavens declare God’s glory and reveal His
handiwork, such evidence ought to be (and is) abundant in
the nature of the things God created
Let’s examine further evidence regarding things created on
these days
Water has been called “the most uncommon of the common
elements”
Without it life would be impossible on the earth
Its molecules lock together to form a flinty embrace- ice
(many uses)
In winter, covers many places with blanket of snow and in
doing so stores up reservoir of much-needed water for spring
Falls as rain to give nutrients to plants and animals and to
cleanse the air and streams
Unlike any other substance (except bismuth), water is
heaviest at 4 degrees Celsius (slightly above freezing)
Thus, ice floats and water freezes from the top down
If froze from bottom up, many bodies of water would freeze
solidly in the winter, killing all the fish
Who changed the law that heat expands and cold contracts
when it comes to water!?
Consider the rain or water cycle:
“The energy of the sun received on a square mile of ocean will
evaporate and raise about 5435 tons of water vapor into the
air in an hour. Water vapor rises to considerable heights and
moves with the air currents (over the continents). When the
air holding water vapor cools, the vapor condenses into
billions of tiny droplets, so small that it takes about 8 million
to make a fair-sized drop of rain! Each of these tiny droplets
coalesces and forms larger drops, and
when the air can no longer support them, it rains.”
-Science Digest
The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth
about unto the north; it whirleth about
continually, and the wind returneth again
according to his circuits. All the rivers run into the
sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from
whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:6, 7
Who changed the law that heat expands and cold contracts
when it comes to water!?
Consider the rain or water cycle:
70% of the earth is covered with water (97% of which is salt
water)
Water absorbs heat rapidly, but also loses it rapidly
Northern hemisphere (more land) actually closer to the sun in
winter (heat more evenly retained)
Southern hemisphere (more water) closer to the sun in
summer (heat more easily absorbed and lost)
Accidental? Chance happening?
Consider plants, which were also created during first four
days
Cactus stores water while most plants give off water
Spines protect it from foraging animals while most plants are
void of such spines so that animals can readily feed on them
Evolution maintains that “natural selection” and “survival of
the fittest” governs all of nature
If so, why haven’t all plants evolved the ability to store water
and spines to keep foraging animals away?
If such characteristics are not best, why do cacti still have
them?
Consider the apple:
The chemicals composing it did not create themselves
Tiny seed within has the power to burst and send roots deep
into the soil
Besides serving as an anchor for the tree, the roots have the
ability to absorb water and nutrients from the soil
Some power sends roots in direction where water is
Same seed package sends growth upward out of soil into
sunlight; upward growth against gravity, resulting in branches
and leaves
Also against gravity, fluids from roots taken to leaves, which
operate as chemical factory combining soil nutrients with
extracted carbon from air to form apple meat
Same process puts apple meat into a neat protective package
Inside the protective package, seeds for future orders from the
apple factory
Leaves die, shed, and produce organic matter which nourishes
the soil and provides nutrients for next year’s crop
Where did the apple tree get this ability and gain all this
knowledge?
Consider the sundew plant:
Has about 200 tiny red filaments on the upper surface of each
leaf
Each filament is club-shaped at its free end and carries a tiny
drop of fluid that has a sticky substance that attracts insects
Once an insect comes in contact with the fluid, it cannot
escape
Movement of wind, rain or dust, or falling bits of mud, sand or
leaves cause the leaves and the filaments to react
The filaments secrete an acid fluid when such objects touch it,
but it does not attempt to capture or digest
But, when the smallest of insects touches a filament, a
different type fluid is secreted and the plant begins at once to
capture and digest it
Where did a lowly plant (without a brain) get the intelligence
to do that, and to tell the difference!!
Consider the bladderwort:
Grows in fresh water; has no roots; produces a stem a few
inches high with yellow flower
Leaf branches underwater inflate and allow the plant to float
Underwater leaves bear small oval “bladders” that trap and
digest small aquatic creatures
When prey touches the trigger hairs, the bladder expands,
sucking in the animal, which is then dissolved within the
bladder
100X Magnification
From whence did a plant get such intelligence?
Consider the pitcher plant
Has a pitcher-like shape that features a deep cavity filled with
liquid
Insects are attracted visually and by its sweet smell to it
Once an insect enters into the mouth of the “pitcher,” the
liquid traps it, drowns it and eventually dissolves it into amino
acids, nitrogen, phosphorus and other minerals
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Consider the venus fly trap
Each leaf has two hinged lobes that open wide
On the lobes are short, stiff hair-like extensions called “trigger
hairs”
Whenever something bends the trigger hairs, the lobes snap
shut (in less than a second), trapping whatever is inside
It doesn’t close completely at first
It is thought that the reason for this is to allow small insects to
escape because they would not provide enough nutrients
If what is trapped inside is not nutritionally valuable (i.e.
pebble, nut), the trap opens within a few hours and “spits out”
the object
When it closes over food, the large finger-like projections
(cilia) on the edges of the lobes keep larger prey from
escaping
Interlock fingers as illustration of how it works
After a few minutes the lobes will lock tightly, forming an airtight seal to keep the digestive juices in and keep bacteria out
The lobes not only produce digestive juices, but also an
antiseptic juice that prevents the animal from decaying during
the digestive process (5-12 days)
The venus fly trap has
no brain or nervous
system
The venus fly trap has
no muscles
The venus fly trap has
no tendons
How does it know to do what it does,
and where did it get such knowledge?
Science is baffled by it
There are some 500 different carnivorous plants in the world
If evolution is true, why haven’t all plants evolved this ability?
If such processes are not the best, why do these still use them?
By what intelligence do they all operate?
Accidents? Or the work of a
Divine Creator?
The heavens declare the glory
of God; and the firmament
showeth His handiwork
Sources
-Why We Believe in Creation Not in Evolution, Fred John Meldau
-Various websites