In the Beginning: Science and Genesis 1-11

1. In the Beginning: Science and Genesis 1-11 “If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?“ Psalm 11:3

4. Albert Einstein

5. 1 Peter 3:15 “but sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.”

6. Why should we take seriously what the Bible says over any other “religious” book?

7. World Religions 1. Evolution - the religion that wrongly teaches that man created god.

8. Evolution’s “John 1:1”: From eternity were the particles… and the particles became complex living stuff. And the living stuff became aware, and the living stuff conceived of god.

9. World Religions • Evolution - the religion that wrongly teaches that man created god. • Recipe Religions - the religions that rightly teach that God created man but wrongly teach you can earn salvation by your own deeds.

10. World Religions • Evolution - the religion that wrongly teaches that man created god. • Recipe Religions - the religions that rightly teach that God created man but wrongly teach you can earn salvation. • Christianity - the religion that rightly teaches salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone and cannot be earned (Eph 2:8-9).

11. 2 Tim 3:16: “All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, for training in righteousness.”

13. The Bible: Contains 1,817 prophecies Covering 737 different subjects 27% of the Bible is prophetic! Its prophecies fulfilled to date have been 100% accurate!

14. Isaiah 64:6 “All our righteous deeds are like a filthy garment.”

15. Luke 19:44 “because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”

16. Daniel 9:25-26 “So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven week and sixty-two weeks… Then after the sixty-two weeks Messiah will be cut off.”

17. Aren’t science and religion separate disciplines that do not involve each other?

19. Science and Creationism: • "Scientists, like many others, are touched with awe at the order and complexity of nature. Indeed, many scientists are deeply religious. But science and religion occupy two separate realms of human experience. Demanding that they be combined detracts from the glory of each."

20. Non-overlapping Magisteria "the reason why we support that position is that it happens to be right, logically. But we should also be aware that it is very practical as well if we want to prevail.”

21. Science and Creationism: A View from the National Academy of Sciences “The hypothesis of special creation has, over nearly two centuries, been repeatedly ...considered and rejected... In the forms given in the first two chapters of Genesis it is now an invalidated hypothesis...”

22. “Confronted by this challenge to the integrity and effectiveness of our national education system ... the Academy states unequivocally that the tenets of ‘creation science’ are not supported by scientific evidence...and creation has no place in a science curriculum at any level.”

23. DoctorsDoubtingDarwin.org

26. Isn’t Genesis just an allegory and not intended to be read as a narrative of how the earth and all that is in it was created?

27. Mark 10: 6-8 “But from the beginning of creation, God MADE THEM MALE AND FEMALE. For THIS CAUSE A MAN SHALL LEAVE HIS FATHER AND MOTHER, AND THE TWO SHALL BECOME ONE FLESH…”

28. English is called an SVO language, • Hebrew is VSO, • and Japanese is SOV.

29. Language Structure: English – Our cat (s) caught (v) a mouse (o) Hebrew – Caught (v) our cat (s) (a) mouse (o) Japanese – Our cat (s) (a) mouse (o) caught (v) Hebrew in the vso is narrative, but in the svo, such as the Psalms, it is poetic.

30. Genesis 1:1 (Hebrew) “At-start created (V) God (S) the heavens and the earth (0).” verb(V) subject(S) object(O)

31. Genesis 1:1 is written in the vso, so it is a narrative, not poetry.

32. It’s Quiz Time!

33. Which of these is not a pre-historic animal? a) saber-toothed tiger b) mammoth c) tyrannosaurus rex d) archaeopteryx

34. Genesis 1:23 • Genesis 1:25 • Genesis 1:27 • Genesis 1:31

35. When did God make man? • Gen 1:27: “And God created man in his own image…”

36. When did God make mammals? • Gen 1:25: “And God made the beasts of the earth…and the cattle …and everything that creeps on the ground …

37. What day were they made? • Gen 1:23: “And there was … morning, a fifth day.” • Gen 1:31: “And there was … morning, the sixth day.” They were all made on Day 6. Therefore, …

38. …there is no such thing as a prehistoric animal!

40. They compromise Scripture by filtering the immutable, inerrant word of God through dynamic, ever changing science, rather than filtering dynamic science through the immutable, inerrant word of God.

41. Most Study Bibles are Evolutionized! Job 40:15 (just before Psalms)

44. Most Study Bibles are Evolutionized! Job 40:15 (just before Psalms) Job 41:1 Isaiah 27:1

45. Most Study Bibles are Evolutionized! Job 40:15 (just before Psalms) Job 41:1 Isaiah 27:1

46. Psalm 118:8 “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.”

47. Don’t the days indicated in Genesis Chapter 1 really mean long periods of time and not literal, 24-hour days?

48. 2nd Peter 3:8 “But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.”

49. Isaiah 55:8-9 “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, Neither are your ways My ways, declares the Lord. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.”

50. Hebrews 11:6 “And without faith it is impossible to please Him…”