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Genesis 1:1-25

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“Today we know that if we were to count all the stars in the Milky Way

at a rate of one every second, the process would take two thousand

five hundred years!” --Prof. David Block,

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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“Behold a universe so immense that I am lost in it. I no longer know where I

am. I am just nothing at all. Our world is terrifying in its insignificance.”

–Bernard de Fontenelle (1657-1757)

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“Astronomy leads us to a unique event, a universe which was created out of nothing, and delicately balanced to

provide exactly the conditions required to support life. In the absence of an absurdly-improbable accident, the

observations of modern science seem to suggest an underlying (one might say

“supernatural”) plan.” --Arno A. Penzias, Nobel prize winner in Physics

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Genesis

Genesis is not an explanation of how God created everything.

Genesis is a declaration that God created everything.

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Phillip Johnson, Darwin on TrialHugh Ross, The Creator and the Cosmos

Michael Behe, Darwin’s Black BoxLee Strobel, The Case for a Creator

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“The controlled universe reflected in the Bible, has God as both its creator and sustainer/ruler. He creates in an ordered way, and sustains and rules it in an ordered way, so that science is possible; but he is not bound by what he has created, so he is at

perfect liberty to do things another way, with the result that miracles are possible.” --D. A. Carson, The Gagging of God

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Genesis 1:1-25

1. The Creator-Creation Distinction

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“God has a voluntary relation to everything He has made but He has

no necessary relation to anything outside of Himself.”

--A. W. Tozer

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Genesis 1:1-25

1. The Creator-Creation Distinction2. When God Speaks, Stuff Happens!

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"Every happening, great or small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us; the art of life is to get the message.”

--Malcolm Muggeridge

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Genesis 1:1-25

1. The Creator-Creation Distinction2. When God Speaks, Stuff Happens!3. God is Creative

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“In the absence of any other proof, the thumb would convince me of

God's existence.” --Sir Isaac Newton

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Without God’s designed order in the universe, science would be

impossible.

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Genesis 1:1-25

1. The Creator-Creation Distinction2. When God Speaks, Stuff Happens!3. God is Creative4. God Transforms Things

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“We would very soon become contemptuous of a god whom we

could figure out like a puzzle or learn to use like a tool. No, if God is worth our attention at all, he must be a God

we can look up to – a God we must look up to.”

--Eugene Peterson, A Long Obedience in the Same Direction

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