Class Notes for Creation and Evolution
Do you leave your brains at the door if you choose to believe in
Creation?
Do you believe God used evolution as His method for creation?
How important is creation or evolution to a Christian?
Why is evolution so widely accepted today?
Why would people want to believe in evolution?
Gives a reason to suppress the truth of God -
known in their conscience
If evolution - life lacks any meaning - make best of your lost- survival
of fittest - fight to survive
you are master of your own destiny - delights humanist philosophers
If creation - with a wise designer -meaning, purpose or responsibility to life - not an accident
Both evolution and creation are hypothesis -
neither can be observed as it happened, or today, no direct evidence,
no experiment
But, most schools teach evolution as if fact
California National Center for Science Education - evolution no different
than theory of gravity
Deist will believe in Creation - Atheist or agnostic will believe in evolution
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Genesis 1:1 - In the beginning, God created …
How? only God really knows - beyond physical laws
Hebrews 11:3 - universe formed at God's command - seen from the unseen
Isaiah 55:9 - God's ways are higher than our ways
Which requires more faith?
Creation (designer) - Evolution (explain away mind, instinct, eye, etc)
Micro Evolution - speciation - plants, animal (dogs, cats) - many varieties
of species, but no new species
Macro Evolution - common ancestors, back to lifeless chemicals - everything
had to evolve
Hank Hanegraff 'Face that demonstrates the farce of evolution'
If evolution were true, what would you expect to find in fossils?
F - Fossil Follies - no fossil records showing transitions - rather
sudden appearance
Evolution - process of change - over millions of years - not even one new
kind of creature
evolutionist - gaps are due to incomplete data collection
It also has been abundantly proven that cumulative microevolutionary change
in a species line does lead to macroevolutionary change (i.e., new
species).- show me one - and if so, explain humans
What news stories make you rethink your position concerning evolution?
A - Ape Men, Fiction, Fraud and Fantasy - pieced together bones - usually
proven to be an animal
Neanderthal, Cro-Magon (human race) - Piltdown, Java, Peking (hoax - lost
fossils)- Lucy (ape)
C - Chance - everything just happened - complexity of the smallest
things?
evolutionist - survival of fittest (bacteria in petri dish - some will
die others won't)
Ideal conditions on earth - water properties, moon gravitational pull,
temperature
How did they evolve?
Bombardier beetle - noxious spray, from which casing protects
Woodpecker - beak, tongue, smell, claws - padding between beak and skull
Giraffe - highest blood pressure of any animal - valves in neck to slow blood
flow when bending down
Cells - large amount of information contained - can't be recreated
E - Empirical Science - Science is developing theories to show evolution?
- Still
Biological Design - science has no idea how complex organisms evolved - but
believe it happened
Genetics - humans for years selective breeding animals, plants - (dogs, roses,
cattle, apples)
Evolution Evidences? - commonality across species - reuse of master design
- separate kindsevolutionist - similar characteristics show evolution
from one species to another
Gen 1:24-25 - each reproduces after it's own kind. - varieties within
kind - but limits
similarities - don't you think God would reuse His designs? - i.e.
any artist, home builder
Molecular Biology - DNA - cell biology (thought would prove evolution), but
still nothing new
Matter not created nor destroyed - nature doesn't produce anything - must
have had a start
Entropy - toward disorder, loss of energy - order would not increase on its
own
evolution - simple to complex (chaos - order) creation - perfect -
decaying over time - (order - chaos)
Why Creation? faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible
John 1:1-3, Hebrews 1:2 - Jesus shown to be the Creator of all things
Acts 10:34-36 - Jesus is the Lord of all
Ephesians 1:22 - All things subject to Christ
Psalm 19:1 - heavens declare glory of God, the skies proclaim the work of
his hands
all know internally of God - universe is sufficient evidence -
but people suppress the truth - don't want moral responsibility (Romans
1:18-20)
Stand tall in what you believe - it isn't a fool's belief