Chapters 8-10

Presented by David M. Hasz

Written by Charles Colson

Life in a Test Tube?

• A little science estranges a man from God. A lot of science brings him back. - Francis Bacon

Life in Test Tube Cont.

• All the tests produce the wrong kind of amino acids that sustain life.

Other Problems

• Sidney Fox started with amino acids thus left handed acids.

• Amino acids not hooking up to form peptide bonds, needed to sustain living things.

Other Problems

• Scientists have to “cheat” to get results.

Several Cheating scenarios

• Filter out the longer ultraviolet rays

• Trap amino acids as soon as they form to keep them from disintegrating

Cheating Scenarios

• All the experiments that have produced so much excitement are artificial.

Not a Chance

• The computer revolution put evolutionary theory to death.

• In 1960’s scientists started writing computer programs to test theory.

Not a chance

• By 1966 chance theories were being secretly burned.

No way

• Life by chance - Same probability as

• Line up 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 blind people.

No Way

• Give them all a rubik’s cube and have them all solve it at exactly the same moment.

Many are seeing the light - sort of

• Many scientists are accepting the idea of an intelligent “Designer”

• Science is not challenging the Christian faith it is proving it to be true.

• Let’s look at DNA

DNA

• This is the language in the heart of a cell.

• DNA is made up of chemicals but it has to be in exactly the right order.

DNA

• All creation points toward an intelligent designer.

• Watch argument

Information Theory

• A field of research that studies the ways information is transmitted.

• Is a message high or low content.

• DNA is high, who wrote it?

The declaration

• NABT - life is the outcome of “an unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable, and natural process”

• This takes God out of the picture.

The Declaration

• All the pictures and no one has ever witnessed evolution in process

Breeding

• At first there is a lot of change but eventually the changes level off and there is a line breeders cannot cross.

Breeding

• As breeding is intensified the organism grows weaker, not stronger.

Breeding cont.

• When the organism is left to itself it returns to the original.

• Evolution through mutations?

Breeding

• Most mutations are harmful or lethal to the organism.

• The collection of mutations is devolution

Irreducible complexity

• This is the concept used to aruge that organisms could not have evolved piecemeal. They would have died.

• Darwin admitted it would be the end of his theory if we could find complex organs that could not evolve in slight modifications.

The Bat

• How could it get from rat to bat?

• It would be extinct along the way.

• The Eye - How would is slightly alter over time to become an eye?

The danger

• Much more at stake than scientific theory.

• Our origin determines our destiny.

• Ethics -what if there is a God?

The Law

• Traditionally, a nation’s laws were understood to be based on a transcendent moral order.

The Law

• The belief was that “men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws… must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness”

WHAT?

• Where did that come from? Calvin Coolidge our thirteenth president.

WHAT?

• Education - Dewey argued that our brains are just evolving organs as well. Ideas are just hypothesis - thus the gutting of the academic and moral education today.

Why did they support it?

• Many of Darwin’s earliest and most ardent supporters were quick to spot the scientific weakness of his theory, yet they chose to champion it because they saw it as a useful means of promoting naturalistic philosophy.

It was rigged

• The data proves evolution was not so much about scientific evidence is was more about rationale for naturalism.

• We should all be asking “who is this guy”

Rigged

• Everyone now realizes that everything stands or falls on the doctrine of creation.

Let’s line up the evidence

• First - cosmology has discovered not all matter is eternal as naturalist scientists once assumed.

Evidence

• Second - there are staggering “coincidences” that make the universe fit for life.

The evidence

• Third - laboratory experiments touted as proof that life can arise spontaneously, turned out to prove nothing of the sort.

Evidence

• Fourth - Darwin did not succeed in demonstrating that life developed by natural forces.

Christianity

• Is an objective perspective on all reality, a complete worldview.

• Only Christianity consistently stands up to the test of practical living.