Science and Christian Apologetics

JOHN OAKES, PhD

Chaos vs Cosmos

God vs the “gods”

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274 )

Roger Bacon

William of Ockham

Nikolai Copernicus

Galileo Galilei

“The Bible was written to tell us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go”

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Sir Isaac Newton

Statue of Joseph PriestleyFounder of the Unitarian Church

VoltaireCreater of Modern Religious Skepticism

David HumeSays the skeptic:

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”

LaPlaceAbout God:

“I have no need of that hypothesis”

Hutton Lyell

How Old is the Earth?

Charles Darwin

“It is mere rubbish to think at this point of the origin of life. One might as well think of the origin of matter.”

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“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.”

A. Einstein

Creationism:

Bad Science!

table 1Gene sequence thatcodes for protein

Random DNA segmentbetween genes

Chimpanzee 100% 98%

Dog 99% 52%

Mouse 99% 40%

Chicken 75% 4%

Fruitfly 60% ~0%

Roundworm 35% ~0%