Transcript Evidence, Evolution & God`s Existence 4

Evidence,
Evolution and
the Existence of God
“It is clear that the doctrine of evolution is directly
antagonistic to that of creation….Evolution, if consistently
accepted, makes it impossible to believe the Bible.”
-Aldous Huxley
Evolution and creation are diametrically opposed
One cannot logically believe both
If the Bible is correct and creation is true, evolution is false
If evolution is true, the Bible is incorrect and the creation
never occurred at all
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 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
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
“Science and religion are not antagonists, but sisters. Both
seek ultimate truth. Science helps to reveal more about the
Creator through His creation….The public has a deep respect
for the amazing scientific advance made within our
lifetime….But it still bothers some people that we cannot
prove scientifically that God exists. Must we light a candle to
see the sun?”
-Dr. Wernher von Braun
Days 1-4
Genesis 1:1-5
And God said, Let there be light: and there was
light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and
God divided the light from the darkness. And God
called the light Day, and the darkness he called
Night. And the evening and the morning were the
first day.
Genesis 1:3-5
And God said, Let there be a firmament in the
midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters
from the waters. And God made the firmament,
and divided the waters which were under the
firmament from the waters which were above the
firmament: and it was so. And God called the
firmament Heaven. And the evening and the
morning were the second day.
Genesis 1:6-8
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be
gathered together unto one place, and let the dry
land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry
land Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was
good. And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass,
the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding
fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon
the earth: and it was so. And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding
seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit,
whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God
saw that it was good. And the evening and the
morning were the third day.
Genesis 1:9-13
And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament
of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and
let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days,
and years: And let them be for lights in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth: and it was so. And God made two great
lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars
also. And God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon the
earth, And to rule over the day and over the night,
and to divide the light from the darkness: and God
saw that it was good. And the evening and the
morning were the fourth day.
Genesis 1:14-19
Time
Force
Energy
Space
In the beginning God created the heaven and the
earth.
Genesis 1:1
Matter
Only in recent times has man determined that universe is not
a mere collection of stars, but an arrangement of millions of
star galaxies
When Moses wrote the Pentateuch, Hindus held that the
earth was supported by four elephants on a tortoise’s back
Men long thought the earth to be flat prior to the time of
Columbus
He stretcheth out the north over the empty place,
and hangeth the earth upon nothing.
Job 26:7
Job- first book of the Bible penned
It is he that sitteth upon the circle of the earth, and
the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that
stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and
spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in:
Isaiah 40:22
To whom then will ye liken me, or shall I be equal?
saith the Holy One. Lift up your eyes on high, and
behold who hath created these things, that
bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them
all by names by the greatness of his might, for that
he is strong in power; not one faileth.
Isaiah 40:25, 26
The sheer magnitude of the universe (although not
necessarily a proof within itself) testifies to the magnificence
of the Creator
While its outer limits have not been measured, it is estimated
to be as much as 20 billion light years in diameter
(70 sextillion)
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So, at 186,000 miles per second it would take you 20 billion
years to go from one end of the universe to the other!
For comparison, the sun is our nearest star (at 93 million miles
from earth)
How far is the next nearest star?
Represent the distance allowing one inch to equal 93 million
miles (the distance from earth to the sun):
In order to
represent the
next closest star
the board would
have to be
4 ½ miles
long!
(each inch of which
is 93 million miles!)
Sun
Earth
One Inch=
93 million
miles
If we extended our line
just to the center of our
own Milky Way Galaxy…
the board would need to
be 25,000 miles long!
(each inch of which is 93 million miles!)
Traveling in a jet at
535 miles per hour
non-stop…
it would take
29,845,005 years
to get there!
Our galaxy is one of an
estimated one billion
galaxies in the universe!
If the sun were a hollow ball,
more than 1 million earths
could be put inside it
While the size is impressive, the design is even more so
The sun’s temperature (estimated at 10,800 degrees F at the
surface and 20 million degrees C at the center) is ideal for the
right range of light wavelengths, which allow for life on earth
Higher temperature would result in too much ultraviolet
radiation; lower temperature in too much infrared
The earth is situated at the right distance from the sun (93
million miles)
10% closer, far too much heat would be absorbed- burn; 10%
farther away, too little heat would be absorbed- freeze
Earth is rotating on its axis at 1000 miles per hour at equator,
providing periods of light and darkness (necessary to
sustaining life)
If rotated much faster, fierce cyclones would stir the features
of our planet like a giant mixer
If much slower, days and nights impossibly hot or cold
Venus rotates only once in 243 days; daytime temperatures as
high as 930 degrees F (water boils at 212 degrees)
Earth is moving around the sun at average of 70,000 miles per
hour
Course is elliptical and not circular
Northern hemisphere actually closer to the sun in January and
farthest away in July
When closer to the sun, the earth speeds up on its path to
avoid being pulled by gravity into the sun; when farther away
it slows down to avoid being flung out into space
Earth is tilted on its axis at exactly 23.5 degrees
Combined with the speed of the earth around the sun, this
characteristic allows for the seasons; also allows plants to
grow at optimum amount worldwide
If perpendicular and not tilted, no seasons (tropics hotter;
deserts bigger), poles in perpetual twilight
Also, water vapor from the oceans would move north and
south, piling up continents of ice and leaving a desert
between the equator and the ice
As earth moves in its orbit around the sun (in traveling in its
ellipses), it departs from a straight line by only 1/9 inch at
every 18 miles
18 Miles
If it departed by 1/8 inch, earth
1/9”would travel too close to the
sun; if 1/10, would travel too far from sun
Such precision and
delicate balance
demands a Designer!
Atmosphere composed mainly of nitrogen (78%), oxygen
(21%) and carbon dioxide (.03%)- combined with minute
levels of other gases
Proper balance of these absolutely essential to life- Someone
mixed them just right!
Ozone (40 miles above earth’s surface) only about 1/8” thick
compressed
Protects earth from short rays of the sun (blister, blind,
destroy life)
Allows long rays (needful for life) to pass through
If ozone too thin, short rays would pass through easily; if too
thick, long rays not allowed to penetrate (rickets)
Most deadly of sun’s rays allowed to pass through enough to
keep down growth of green algae
Unchecked, would clog every flowing stream
Yet, not all algae destroyed- major food source for
microscopic organisms
Ozone itself is poisonous to mankind, but exists high enough
to prevent problem
Atmosphere insulates and prevents heat loss at night;
distributes heat over earth’s surface
Nitrogen (78% of atmosphere) is essential to plants, yet plants
cannot absorb it directly
Nitrogen is chemically inert (although analytically it should be
much more chemically active than it is)
“It is fortunate[?] that nitrogen is chemically inert. If it were
less reluctant to combine with other elements it might readily
combine with water to form nitric acid…and then the oceans
would turn into diluted nitric acid—a catastrophe certainly
as horrible as any visualized in speculations about atomic
warfare.”
-Martin D. Kamen, “Scientific America”
Nitrogen (78% of atmosphere) is essential to plants, yet plants
cannot absorb it directly
Nitrogen is chemically inert (although analytically it should be
much more chemically active than it is)
How plants absorb this chemically inert, yet essential
element?
Bacteria (called “nitrogen fixers”) capture and transform
nitrogen in the soil so that plants can absorb and process it
An error in the making of even one gas would have made the
world uninhabitable!
Interestingly, nitrogen and oxygen combined in useable form
by lightning
“Farmer’s Digest” stated that 100 million tons of usable plant
food supplied each year by lightning
When and how did lightning evolve?
If atmosphere of the earth followed proportions found
anywhere else in universe, life impossible
Do these matters reveal chaotic happenstance and eons of
time, or order and design?
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
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 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 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
It has exactly the right tilt
It has exactly the right amount of oceanic water
It has exactly the right weight and mass
It has exactly the right combination of atmospheric gases
Such exactness has caused more than one devout evolutionist
to question his precious theory
“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
Sources
-”The Problem of Origins: Part 1”, Apologetics Press, Bert Thompson
-Batsell Barrett Baxter, I Believe Because
-Jonathan Sarfarti, Refuting Evolution
-“The Existence of God (Part 1)”, Apologetics Press, Wayne Jackson
-“The Existence of God (Part 2)”, Apologetics Press, Wayne Jackson
“The Heavens Declare God’s Glory,” AP Article Reprint, Wayne Jackson
-”The Truth About the Design of the Universe,” Apologetics Press, Brad Harrub