Transcript 12/9/04 ABC News Headline: Flew now believes in God

CREATION IN
STEREO
Evidence of God’s
Design from Both of
His Books
Explaining and Defending
“Mere Christianity”
Our Vast, Mysterious Cosmos
A Tale of Two Students
• Antony Flew
• World’s most
notorious
atheist, from
1950s to 2004.
Debated C.S. Lewis
at Socratic Club
12/9/04 ABC News Headline:
Flew now believes in God,
“due to evidence of design”
Psalm 19:1
The heavens
declare the
glory of God...
Romans 1:20
and beyond…
How can you detect design?
DNA…
informational
macromolecule
Galaxy
Scripture
Nature
Isaiah 42:5
• Thus says God, the LORD,
• who created the heavens
and stretched them out,
• who spread out the earth
and what comes from it,
• who gives breath to the
people on it and spirit to
those who walk in it…
Isa. 45:12 & 18-- “It is I who made the earth
and created mankind upon it. My own
hands stretched out the heavens ...
Isa. 45:21-22– “Declare what is to be;
present it! … Turn to me and be saved all
you ends of the earth.”
In the beginning was the Intelligence,
and the Intelligence was with God, and
the Intelligence was God.
Colossians 1:16-17
• For in Him all things were created:
things in heaven and on earth,
visible and invisible, whether
thrones or powers or rulers or
authorities; all things were created
through Him and for Him
• In Him all things hold together.
Hebrews 1: Creation & Providence
• He has spoken to us by his Son
through whom he made the universe.
• The Son is the radiance of God’s
glory...sustaining all things by his
powerful word.
TREE OF LIFE
…by a blind &
undirected process
Mutations: Good for Degrading Messages
• Anyway, meaning are you, maybe on vibrate
from your meeting. I’m coming home from
Sam yes, I’m getting very. I was just
wondering if you’re home at home download
on the. I only got it or not.
• I left the baby dog out and she told me you
were gonna go home. There. So I thought
you could be out of you know morrow OK 5.
Look up: Fine-tuned universe
Galaxy
Gravity is finetuned with the
force of
electromagnetism.
1 part
in 1040
Hoyle’s Fine-Tuning
A common sense interpretation
of the data suggests that a
superintellect has monkeyed
with physics, as well as with
chemistry and biology.
Look down!
DNA & Epigenome
• 12 letters 
• Genome: 3.1 billion
letters (3 gigabytes)
• Epigenome: tags
and switches on top
RNA:
Precise
copies of
DNA, in
RNA’s own
4-letter
alphabet
Protein’s 3-D Structure
Proteins are
precise
strings of
amino acids,
arranged like
letters in a
sentence.
Look Back: Abrupt Appearance
Stasis
Look back especially: Cambrian Explosion
Sudden Appearance,
Followed by…
GeoCol
Stasis!
Cambrian Oddballs: Cactiformis
Darwin on the Lack
of Transitional Fossils
“[This] is probably
the gravest and
most obvious of all
the many objections
which may be urged
against my views.”
Darwin’s Ship & Four Icebergs
Prediction & Heart of Christianity
• D-B-R of Christ: I Cor 15
• Predicted: Isaiah 53, also:
• Zech 12:10, Psalm 22