This document summarizes arguments for biblical creation and its implications over Darwinian evolution. It contends creationism best explains the origin of the universe, life-friendly planets, life, genetic code, consciousness and morality. It argues the Bible has stood up to various tests of authenticity and that nothing makes sense without creation by an intelligent designer.
1. Evolution – a Theory in Crisis Part 3 of 3 The Biblical Creation Alternative and Its Implications Also available: Part 1 of 3 – The Scientific Bankruptcy of Darwinian Evolution Part 2 of 3 – The Philosophical Bankruptcy of Darwinian Evolution
2. They changed… Lord George Lyttelton Gilbert West Frank Morrison C.S. Lewis Josh McDowell John Montgomery Malcolm Muggeridge Sir William Ramsay Lee Strobel Anthony Flew
3. The stakes are high If FALSE: nothing matters. If TRUE: nothing else matters.
5. What is faith? “ A brainwasher…a state of mind that leads people to believe something…in the total absence of supporting evidence…a kind of mental illness” and “one of the world’s great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate .” - Richard Dawkins
6. Universe from nothing by chance Odds: 0 Proof: none Life by chance Odds: 0 Proof: none The blind faith of atheism
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9. 2. Passes the Historical test Sir. William Ramsay: “ Luke is a historian of first rank; not merely are his statements of fact trustworthy…this author should be placed along with the very greatest of historians .”
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11. 4. Passes the Archaeological test William F Albright: “ There can be no doubt that archaeology has confirmed the substantial historicity of Old Testament tradition .”
12. 5. Passes the Contemporary Literature test Paul Maier: ‘‘ Many facts from antiquity rest on just one ancient source, while two or three sources in agreement generally render the fact unimpeachable. ’’
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17. Darwinian evolution Biblical Creation Man from apes Man from dust Reptiles before birds Birds before reptiles Life from chemicals Life from God Blind chance Intelligent design Irreconcilable Systems
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19. What is the Best Explanation? 2. Origin of a Life-friendly Planet Evolution Luck
20. 1 chance in 10 129 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, 000,000,000 A Life Sustaining Planet?
21. What is the Best Explanation? 2. Origin of a Life-friendly Planet Evolution Luck Creation “ God formed it to be inhabited ” (Isaiah 45:18)
22. What is the Best Explanation? 3. Origin of Life Evolution Life came from non-living chemicals by accident. ‘ Abiogenesis’ Creation Life came from the ‘living God’ by intelligent design ‘ Biogenesis’
23. What is the Best Explanation? 4. Origin of the Genetic Digital Code (DNA) Evolution DNA organised itself. Creation DNA was intelligently designed
24. What is the Best Explanation? 5. Origin of Consciousness Evolution “ Mind is a function of matter .” ‘ Monism’ Creation Man is body and spirit. ‘ Dualism’
25. Theodosius Dobzhansky (1900-1975) “ Nothing in biology makes sense without evolution .” The Reality “ Nothing at all makes sense without creation .”
26. What is the Best Explanation? 6. Origin of Morality Evolution The lice picking habits of apes Creation God imprinted the demands of His law on human minds (Romans 2:15)
27. “ There is no difference for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God” (Rom 3:22-23) “ For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God, not by works, lest any man should boast” (Eph 2:8) “ For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that He might bring us to God” (1 Pet 3:18) The Bible says:
28. The stakes are high If FALSE: nothing matters. If TRUE: nothing else matters.
