Transcript Evolution - Wesley Grove Chapel

Topics
Part 1
 Two worldviews
 Biblical worldview: Where did Cain get his wife?
 Evolution worldview
Part 2
 Genetics and the human family
Part 3
 What really happened?
Part 4
 Does it really matter where Cain got his wife?
4 Worldview Questions
 Who
am I?
 Why am I here?
 What is the purpose of life
 What happens when we die?
Two Worldviews
Modern Biology, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1993
Bible
Adam and Eve
the ancestor of
all humans
Biblical Worldview
All humans are descendents
of two people
Genesis 2
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man
of the dust of the ground, and
breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a
living soul.
Genesis 2:18
And the LORD God said, It is not
good that the man should be
alone; I will make him a help meet
for him.
Genesis 2:21-23
And the LORD God caused a deep
sleep to fall upon Adam and he slept:
and he took one of his ribs, and closed
up the flesh instead thereof;
And the rib, which the LORD God had
taken from man, made he a woman,
and brought her unto the man.
And Adam said, This is now bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she
shall be called Woman, because she
was taken out of Man.
The Race Begins
Adam and Eve had three sons
(Cain, Abel, and Seth)
Where did Cain get his wife?
Adam and Children
Cain
Abel
Seth
And the days of Adam after he had
begotten Seth were eight hundred years:
and he begat sons and daughters
Gen 5:4
Cain’s Wife
Cain married his sister or close relative
Was this against the law?
Was this incest?
Adam

Adam was created perfect
 About
2,500 years later the law was given to
Moses (Leviticus 18-20)
 Abraham married his half sister (Gen 20:12)
Children inherit
two sets of genes
Evolution Worldview
Worldview
Modern Biology, Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1993
Worldview
National Geographic, Nov., 1985
The ancestry of
man traced by
Ernst Haeckel in
1867
Life Nature Library, Early Man, Time-Life Books, 1968.
Worldview
William Howells,
Mankind So Far, 1944.
“An Australian Aborigine
Most ‘Ancient’ or
Primitive of Living Men”
Life Nature Library, Early Man, Time-Life Books, 1968.
Known as Lucy, she’s the
most complete hominid
skeleton of her age and the
most famous specimen of
Australopithecus afarensis
- believed to be the
common ancestor of all
later hominids, including
modern humans.
National Geographic,
March 1996.
Genetics and the
Human Family
It’s really not
that difficult
Mechanisms for Change
Natural selection
Mutations
Evolution and Change
1. A beneficial mutation occurs
2. Natural selection selects this mutation over
any existing genes or other detrimental
mutations that code for this function
3. The mutation is inherited by offspring
KEY: This process must add
New Information
Upward progression
Evolution
Requires the
addition of
new genetic
information
Natural Selection
Genetic Variation
 Ability to adapt to the environment
 Survival of the fittest
Can natural selection cause one kind
(species) to become a new kind?
 Can
only select from existing information
 Can cause a loss of information
 Has no foresight into the future
Mutation
Detrimental
Neutral
Beneficial
Disease
No change
Add
information
No
evolution
No
evolution
Change
morphology
No evolution
Peppered Moths
What did we start with?
What did we end with?
Fruit Flies
What did we start with?
What did we end with?
Wrong Conclusions
Finches: Different beak shapes
What did we start with?
What did we end with?
Bacteria Resistance
“Constantly challenged by antibiotics,
the rapidly evolving bacteria give rise to
new, resistant strains.”
Biology: Visualizing Life, Holt, Rinehart, Winston,
1998, p. 344.
Bacteria Resistance
Resistance was already present
 Horizontal gene transfer
 Mutations – loss of sensitivity and preexisting systems
 Programmed gene expression
 Frozen bodies of explorers (1845)

What did we start with?
What did we end with?
Scientists
Alan H. Linton (Professor of Bacteriology), “Scant
Search for the Maker,” The Times Higher
Education Supplement, April 2001, p. 29.
“Throughout 150 years of the science
of bacteriology, there is no evidence
that one species of bacteria has
changed into another.”
Mutations
Lee Spetner (Ph.D. Physics – MIT, taught
information and communications at Johns Hopkins
University), Not By Chance, 1997, pp. 131, 138
“But in all the reading I’ve done in the
life-sciences literature, I’ve never found
a mutation that added information…
All point mutations that have been
studied on the molecular level turn out
to reduce the genetic information and
not increase it.”
Case Study Question
How many generations would it take
for a creature like Lucy to evolve into
a human?
Case Study
Background Information

Lucy is claimed to be 3.5 million
years old

Apes are claimed to be 3% different
from humans
Case Study – Set-Up

Let each generation be 20 years

Triple the time to 10 million years
10 million years
20 years
500,000
generations
Let every generation get one beneficial
mutation for 500,000 generations
Case Study Data

A human DNA molecule contains about
3-billion bits of information

3% of 3-billion = 90 million differences
We need to make 90 million changes
in 500,000 generations
Case Study – The Facts
500,000
90,000,000
One beneficial mutation per generation
(every 20 years) for 500,000
generations (10 million years) effects
less than 1% of the genome
Case Study Conclusion
90,000,000
500,000
No known mechanism
for evolution
Neanderthal Man
Lucy
(Australopithecines)
No Apemen!
100% Human
Extinct Ape
He married an alien
A Possible Exception
Red Hair
If we all descended from
two people, where did all
the races come from?
Shades skin color
A&E skin color
Eye Shapes
Adaptation to Cold
Natural Selection NOT Evolution
Inuit people, who live in the extreme cold of
the Arctic, tend to have short, stout bodies
that conserve heat.
Adaptation to Heat
Natural Selection NOT Evolution
Masai people, who live in the arid lands of
eastern Africa, tend to have tall, lean bodies
that disperse heat well.
Aboriginal Australians
The blond hair of some Aboriginal Australians
posed a problem for early racial classifiers
Evolution and Society
The Origin of Species
By Means of Natural Selection
or
The Preservation of Favoured Races in
the Struggle for Life
“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.”
(Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man)
“It is generally admitted that with women
the powers of intuition, of rapid perception,
and perhaps of imitation, are more strongly
marked than in man; but some, at least, of
these faculties are characteristic of the
lower races, and therefore of a past and
lower state of civilization.”
Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
New York Tribunal newspaper, 1924
(About the Tasmanian Aboriginals)
“Missing Links With Mankind in Early
dawn of History.”
“These people
are from a lower
order of the
human race.”
1904 St Louis
World's Fair
Bronx Zoo on
display in the
monkey house
Races – Au to Caus
Our Thinking
Mark 10:6
But from the beginning of the
creation God made them male
and female.
Acts 17:26
And hath made of one blood all
nations of men for to dwell on all
the face of the earth, and hath
determined the times before
appointed, and the bounds of
their habitation;
What Really
Happened?
Genesis 11:1, 4
Now the earth had one language
and one speech.
And they said, “come let us build
ourselves a city, and a tower
whose top is in the heavens; let
us make a name for ourselves,
lest we be scattered abroad over
the face of the whole earth.”
Genesis 11:8-9
So the Lord scattered them
abroad from there over the face
of the earth, and they ceased
building the city.
Therefore its name is called
Babel, because the Lord
confused the language of all the
earth;…
Tower of Babel
One Race
John 3:12
If I have told you earthly things,
and ye believe not, how shall ye
believe, if I tell you of heavenly
things?
Adam and Eve
Cain, Abel Seth
Flood
Tower of Babel
Romans 1:19-20
Because that which may be known of
God is manifest in them; for God
hath shewed it unto them.
For the invisible things of him from
the creation of the world are clearly
seen, being understood by the things
that are made, even his eternal
power and Godhead; so that they are
without excuse:
John 14:6
Jesus saith unto
him, I am the
way, the truth,
and the life: no
man cometh
unto the Father,
but by me.
Does It Really
Matter Where Cain
Got His Wife?
Gospel
Doctrines
Marriage
Death
Sin
Genesis
Genesis
Foundation
If Genesis is not
real history how
can we defend
the Gospel?
Your Worldview
Matters?
Who Am I ?
Evolution
An animal with higher intelligence
Bible (Creation)
Made in the image and likeness of God
(Genesis 1:27)
Fearfully and wonderfully made
(Psalm 139:14)
Why Am I Here ?
Evolution
A chance accident made my
existence possible
Bible (Creation)
Because of God’s love
(John 3:16, Romans 5:8, Titus 3:3-5)
What Is The Purpose of Life ?
Evolution
Whatever we make it
Bible (Creation)
To know, love, glorify, obey, and enjoy
God
Matthew 22:37, John 14:6, Matthew 7:23,
Rev 4:10-11, 14:6-7, 1John 4:9, Philippians
1:21, 1Peter 2:17, Proverbs 1:7, Hebrews 5:9
What Happens When I Die ?
Evolution
We go back to dust and that is the
end of life
Bible (Creation)
It depends on your relationship with
Jesus Christ
(Romans 3:23, 6:23, John 3:3, 14:16,
Romans 10:9)