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Creation
Facts and Fossils
The majority of this presentation comes from
Ken Ham, Answers in Genesis.
www.answersingenesis.org
Facts and Fossils
Let’s talk about
Creationists and Evolutionists
God Created in six days
Death entered the world
through sin
No disease before sin
Plan and purpose
The universe created itself
over billions of years
Death has always been
around
Disease has been around
almost as long as death
No purpose – random
chance
Facts and Fossils
Let’s talk about
Creationists and Evolutionists
Yes
Do we have the same Earth?
Yes
Do we have the same animals?
Yes
Do we have the same fossils?
Do we have the same dinosaurs? Yes
Do we have the same FACTS?
Facts and Fossils
Yes!
The facts are all the same!
The science is all the same!
Facts and Fossils
We don’t disagree on the facts, or the
science!
We disagree on the history.
Facts and Fossils
Questions about the present and the past:
Do you exist in the present or the past?
The present
Do fossils exist in the present or the past?
The present
When you dig up fossils, are you digging up the present, or
the past?
The present!
Facts and Fossils
Fossils don’t come with date tags on them
saying, “Hi! I’m 65 million years old!”
When we dig up a fossil, we make up a
I’m 65
story about the fossil and how Million
it got there.
Years Old
The story you make up will be based on,
and consistent with, what you already
believe about the past.
Facts and Fossils
Here is a fact! What is missing?
Perhaps
Maybe
Two
Was
aan
smiley
semi-circles?
apple
it a circle?
face
coresomeone
shape?
ripped the middle out of?
Facts and Fossils
How many people think it was a circle?
What is missing?
Nothing! I drew it that way!
Facts and Fossils
We started with a fact, and I gave you a
presupposition: “What is missing?”
So your mind says, “Something is missing! I’ve
got to fill it in!”
The interpretation that it was a circle is totally
logical and consistent with the presupposition
that something is missing, but it is totally wrong
because the presupposition was wrong.
Facts and Fossils
You’ve heard the phrase, “The facts speak
for themselves!”?
Nonsense!
The facts NEVER speak for themselves.
Facts and Fossils
All facts must be interpreted.
Facts without interpretations are meaningless.
When teachers teach in school, they’re not
teaching facts, they’re teaching interpretations
of facts.
When you watch the news, you’re not watching
the facts of world history, you’re watching an
interpretation of the facts of world history.
Facts and Fossils
We’ve been told Scientists look at the
evidence and derive theories from the
evidence, right?
WRONG!
Scientists already have beliefs and
suppositions they take to the evidence.
Facts and Fossils
Regarding the issue of Christianity,
Humanism, Creation, and Evolution, we all
have the same facts! We live in the same
world!
The difference is how you interpret the
facts, and how you interpret the facts
depends on the glasses you have on, and
the glasses you have on depend upon the
beliefs you have concerning the past.
Facts and Fossils
The present is all the same. The facts in the
present are all the same. The difference
is the belief you use to tie it all together
into an overall big picture.
That depends on the history you start with.
It’s a matter of what history you believe.
Facts and Fossils
“What about the millions of years?”
“Haven’t they proven millions of years with
scientific dating methods?”
All dating methods are based on
assumptions.
ASSUMPTIONS
Are assumptions ever wrong?
ASSUMPTIONS
Assumptions are guesses:
“If this is true, then…”
Assumptions are fallible.
Therefore…
ALL dating methods are fallible.
ASSUMPTIONS
Radiometric Dating Methods
Minimum of three assumptions:
1. Known initial quantities
2. Constant decay rate
3. No contamination
None of these three assumptions is provable.
We have no reason to believe any of these
assumptions is more correct than any other
assumption anyone might make!
ASSUMPTIONS
If you were going to believe something,
which account do you think would be more
reliable?
An account based on guesses?
An account from someone who was there?
Well, who was there…
…In the beginning?
Historical Account
Do we have an account from someone who
was there?
YES!
The world says millions of years and the
Bible says six thousand years. If you
believe in God, whose statement should
you believe?
Historical Account
So, if God, who knows everything about
everything, invented language, and then
gave us HIS revelation in language, and
that revelation gave us a historical
account of the creation of the world, I
should be able to take that historical
account and make sense of the world I
see today.
Historical Account
When you apply God’s history to what we
see today, it is indeed true and reliable.
Let’s try an example…
Historical Account
Noah’s Flood
“I believe it
was a local
flood…”
Historical Account
Noah’s Flood
If it were a local flood…
Why did Noah have to build an Ark? He could have walked to
the other side of
the mountains
and missed it!
Why did God send animals on the
Ark so they would escape death?
He
had
a hundred
years
notice!
There
Why
was
the Ark big
enough
to would have been other
animals
to reproduce that kind if
hold each kind of air-breathing
land
Why would birds have been sent on
animal that ever existed? the animals that had gone on the
board?
have simply
ark hadThey
died could
instead.
If only Mesopotamian animals
winged
were
across to a nearby mountain
on board, the Ark could have
range.
been
much smaller.
Historical Account
Noah’s Flood
If it were a local flood…
How could waters rise to 15 cubits (22.5 feet) above the
mountains (Genesis 7:20)?
God has
broken his
promise never
to send such a
People
who
were
not
living
in
the
vicinity
Water seeks out its own level.
flood again.
would
not
have
been
affected.
They
would
It couldn’t have risen to cover the local
have
escaped
God’s
judgment
on of
sin.
mountains
while
leaving
the rest
theChrist
compared
the coming judgment to the one
world untouched.
in the days of Noah. (Matthew 24:37-39) A
partial judgment in Noah’s day means a
partial judgment to come.
Historical Account
There is world-wide evidence of a global
flood:
– Billions of dead things buried in rock layers
laid down by water all over the earth!
• massive death, rapid burial —The Fossil Record
– It’s everywhere. The earth is one big
graveyard!
Historical Account
Let’s look at another example:
Dinosaurs!
– Dinosaur bones – many un-fossilized, some
with red blood cells and soft tissue!
Which fits better with that:
MillionsThousands
of years orofthousands
years?
years, of of
course.
Millions of years would have obliterated all
soft tissue.
Historical Account
Dinosaurs:
– Cave drawings of dinosaurs
– Cultural accounts of dinosaurs and a global
flood
– Biblical references to dinosaurs —That’s a
topic for another lesson
All of these are evidence that dinosaurs have
been around during the time of man.
Historical Account
How do dinosaurs fit with the Bible?
• When did God create dinosaurs?
– God made everything in six days
– He made land animals on day six
– Therefore, dinosaurs were made on day six
• How did they become fossils?
– Massive burial in the global flood
Historical Account
Why do they only find dinosaurs as fossils?
• They find MANY different kinds of
animals as fossils.
• Only the extinct animals are “interesting”
so you never hear much about the rest.
Historical Account
Don’t fossils take millions of years to form?
• Fossilization is a process that can take
anything from a few hours to many
years. It depends on the conditions of
mineral content and ground water.
• There was a LOT of ground water in
Noah’s flood.
Summary
• Facts are meaningless without
interpretation.
• The history a person believes will
influence his interpretation of the facts.
• Assumptions are fallible.
If you weren’t there and you don’t know
everything, you either have to make fallible
assumptions, or accept the word of
someone who was there.
Summary
Have you put your faith in the infallible God?
Do you accept all of His Word for your life?