This document outlines the key differences between creationism and evolution/materialism as explanations for the origin and history of the universe. It argues that creationism provides an eyewitness account from God that describes a young earth created in 6 days, whereas evolution relies on invented stories about the past not testable by science. The implications are that creationism implies morality and an afterlife, while evolution denies God and purpose to life. The document urges the reader to choose one of these opposing worldviews.

1. Creation vs Evolution
An introduction to the debate
And
Why it matters

2. Science
• Operational Science is: Observable,
repeatable, testable in the present
• Historical (Origins) Science is: Inventing
stories about the past to fit the facts in
the present
See creation.com/its-not-science for more information

3. What are the facts in the present?
• Rock Layers
• Fossils
• Living organisms
• Intelligence
• Stars
• Planets
The facts are available for anyone to study
The conclusions we make about the past (how and why), are governed by our world-view and
interpreted using our preconceived bias

4. What are the stories about the past?
• How rock layers formed
• How fossils formed
• How living organisms started
• How living organisms developed into what we
see now
• How intelligence came about
• How stars came about
• How planets came about

5. Materialistic History:
Invented Stories About the Past
• The universe burst into something from
absolutely nothing—zero, nada. And as
it got bigger, it became filled with even
more stuff that came from absolutely
nowhere.
• 14 billion years for the universe and
4.5 billion years for the solar system
See creation.com/radiometric-dating-questions-and-answers for more information

6. Invented Stories About the Past
• The first life was a cosmic accident
• All living things descend from this
common ancestor… (bacteria,
microbes, plant, trees, fish, birds,
animals and humans)
See creation.com/origin-of-life-questions-and-answers for problems with the origin of life
See creation.com/the-evolution-trains-a-comin for problems for evolution

7. Invented Stories About the Past
• Diversity is a combination of accidental,
beneficial mutations, accumulating new
features over eons of time
• Death and suffering are the means of
creating diversity
See creation.com/mutations-questions-and-answers for problems with mutations

8. Invented Stories About the Past
• Rock Layers laid down slowly over
millions of years
• Fossils created by dead animals being
covered with sediment over eons of
time

9. Implications for the Present
• There is no God
• There is no purpose to life
• There is no basis for morality
See creation.com/morality-and-ethics-questions-and-answers for more information

10. Implications for the Future
There is nothing after death

11. Biblical History
Eye Witness Account Of The Past (God)
• In the beginning...
God...
See creation.com/history-questions-and-answers for more information on Biblical History
See creation.com/who-created-god for information on where who made God

12. Eye Witness Account Of The Past
(God)
• Everything created within 6 days
• Approximately 6000 years ago
See creation.com/young-age-of-the-earth-universe-qa for evidence for a young earth

13. Eye Witness Account Of The Past
(God)
• All living things were created in ‘kinds’
• ‘Kinds’ contain rich genetic information
to allow for great diversity
• Diversity is achieved at the expense of
genetic information (Natural Selection)
See creation.com/speciation-questions-and-answers and
creation.com/dogs-breeding-dogs for more information on diversity
See creation.com/refuting-evolution-chapter-2-variation-and-natural-selection-versus-evolution and
creation.com/natural-selection-questions-and-answers for more information on the difference
between Evolution and Natural Selection

14. Eye Witness Account Of The Past
• Adam and Eve were real people –
created in the image of God
• All people are descended from Adam
and Eve
• Adam rebelled against God's
instructions, (this is called sin), the
consequence of which is death and
disease for ALL creation

15. Eye Witness Account Of The Past
• Noah's flood was a real event that
covered the entire earth
• It was a massive catastrophic process
that produced most of the fossil record
• It changed the geography of the earth,
created canyons, mountains and plains
See creation.com/plate-tectonics-questions-and-answers,
creation.com/fossils-questions-and-answers and
creation.com/geology-questions-and-answers
for more information on the flood and its effects

16. Eye Witness Account Of The Past
• Only those humans and air breathing land
animals on the ark survived the flood
• The Tower of Babel was a real event. Mankind
tried to rebel against God's instructions to
spread out and fill the earth. God confused the
languages and people groups spread out in
their own language groups
See creation.com/noahs-ark-questions-and-answers for more information on Noah’s Ark
See creation.com/the-tower-of-babel-account-affirmed-by-linguistics for more information on the
development on languages

17. Biblical History
Eye Witness Account Of The Past
• Jesus was a real man
• Jesus was fully God
• Jesus' birth, life and death fulfilled many
prophecies
See christianthinktank.com/jrthal.html and www.bede.org.uk/jesusmyth.htm for extrabiblical
references to Jesus

18. Biblical History
Eye Witness Account Of The Past
• Jesus was sinless, yet was crucified
having done nothing wrong – dying in
our place and paying the price for our
rebellion against God (our sin)
• Jesus rose from death – proving his
divinity
Being fully God and humbling himself to be born as a man – a descendant of Adam, He is the
only person able to pay the penalty on our behalf. See creation.com/jesus-christ-questions-and-
answers for more information

19. Implications for the Present
• God is our Creator
• We are answerable to God
• God is a Holy God and demands justice
for our rebellion (sin)
• Jesus has paid the penalty on our behalf
– if we accept him and believe

20. Implications for the Future
There is an eternity after we die
Either Heaven or Hell awaits

21. A Tale of Two World Views
• These two world-views (materialism &
creationism) are not compatible
• They are diametrically opposed
• You must choose one or the other
• Christianity is destroyed if you try to
blend them
See creation.com/creation-compromises and creation.com/creation-why-it-matters

22. So Why Does It Matter?
• If the Bible is true,
• If the Bible can be trusted with our
history,
• It can be trusted with our future.
• An eternal future is worth being sure
about!
See creation.com/sola-scriptura for ‘How did the New Testament become the New Testament’
and creation.com/bible-questions-and-answers and www.tektonics.org/lp/ottextcrit.html
for ‘Can it be trusted’