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

2. Do Stars That Are Billions of Light Years Away Prove That The Universe Is Billions Of Years Old?

5. “The mathematics of this new theory shows that while God makes the universe in six days in the earth’s reference frame, the light has ample time in the extra-terrestrial reference frame to travel the required distances.”

6. Gravity Affects Time

7. Genesis 1:20-25 “Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth and the open expanse of the heavens.” And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.

8. And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day. Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind:

9. cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so.And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”

11. Genesis 1:12 “And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good."

12. Genesis 1: 21 “And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”

13. Genesis 1: 21 “And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”

14. Nephesh Hebrew for “life” or “living” or “soul” or “breathes”

15. Genesis 1: 21 “And God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good.”

24. Pierre-Paul Grasse, Chair of Evolution at the Sorbonne “Naturalists must remember that the process of evolution is revealed only through fossil forms. A knowledge of paleontology is, therefore, a prerequisite; only paleontology can provide them with the evidence and reveal its course or mechanisms.”

27. “Darwin’s Break-down” • “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.”(154) • Have scientists found anything in biology like this? Yes—molecular machines that have irreducible complexity.

28. Bacterial Flagellum Irreducible Complexity

29. Bacterial Flagellum

30. The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life

32. Behe’s Discovery The number of published proposals, over the past 45 years, showing how these irreducibly complex systems might have evolved: 0 Question: Why not consider the possibility of the intelligent design of these systems?

33. Type Three Secretory System Co-option?

34. The Cell • Much more complex than a modern automated factory

35. Evolutionist Bruce Alberts, then president of the National Academy of Sciences, said in 1988 : “The entire cell can be viewed as a factory that contains an elaborate network of interlocking assembly lines, each of which is composed of large protein machines.”

38. The Information Problem: There is no scientific evidence for any process in nature that can arrange letters in a precise sequence, yet ...

39. Human agents do this easily!

40. Protein’s 3-D Structure • Proteins are like sentences. They are made up of dozens of precisely ordered letters–“chemical letters” called “amino acids.”

41. Proteins: Macro-Words! How long? • Antidisestablishmentarianism • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious Proteins are much longer than these!

42. The DNA Library Discovery • DNA is an information-packed library. • DNA is also a “macromolecule.” • As an “informational macromolecule,” it carries the blueprints for proteins.

43. And So ... • Our message in the sand • 15 letters: intelligent agent is obvious • Bacterial DNA - 2,000,000 letters • Human DNA - 3,000,000,000 letters • Darwin’s paradigm springs a huge leak: it can’t explain the origin of information.

44. Human DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any we’ve ever created. Bill Gates

48. Francis Crick (the co-discoverer of DNA) in a letter to his son: “Now we believe that the DNA is a code.”