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In the Beginning: Genesis and the Science of Creation

Explore ancient Hebrew texts and modern scientific theories to uncover the story of creation, evolution, and humanity's place in the universe. From biblical authority to the complexities of evolutionary theory, discover how science and religion intersect in understanding the origins of life.

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In the Beginning: Genesis and the Science of Creation

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  1. GENESIS – THE CREATOR OF DESTINY

  2. IN THE BEGINNING • Hebrew book title • John’s Gospel • The Bible • The story of Redemption • Paradise lost and paradise regained • Genesis • 12 stories/chapters • Quotations in the New Testament

  3. SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE • Science • What/when/how? • The Bible • Who/why? • Biblical authority • Scientific validity • No final conflict

  4. KEY ISSUES • Place • where on earth are we? • Time • is there a contradiction? • Eons of time • Six days

  5. CHRISTIAN INTERPRETATIONS OF THE DAYS • Augustine – angelic days • Creation research view • Gap theory • Days of revelation • Geological ages • 24 hour days followed by geological ages • Apologetic system to attack pagan creation myths • Days are poetical, sets a pattern for worship • The days are a literary device

  6. EVOLUTIONARY THEORY • Fossil record • Genetic history • Law of thermodynamics • Absence of links and facts • Complexity • Physics, Geology, Biology, Cosmology, Astronomy, Genetics, Theology… • Nothing Science has proved contradicts the Bible

  7. WHAT DO WE LEARN ABOUT GOD? • Personal • Powerful • Purposeful • Plural

  8. THE WORLD • An ordered world • result of choice and design • not chance • A cosmos, not a chaos

  9. WHAT WE LEARN ABOUT MANKIND? • Man the climax of God’s creative activity • Man made in the image of God • Thinks feels and makes moral choices • Man’s purpose • Multiply and fill the earth • Subdue the earth • dominion

  10. SABBATH REST • Creation ordinance • French revolution • WW2

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