Evidence, Evolution and the Existence of God

1. Evidence, Evolution and the Existence of God

2. 20 July 1969, 10:56 p.m. EDT Neil Armstrong makes the first human footprint on the moon

3. Later, Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin collected 48.5 pounds of lunar rocks

4. From where did these rocks come? As with all matter, if go back far enough—an unmade, eternal Maker What about the moon itself? From where did it originate? So precise in its movements, can know its phase 1000 years from today It has an unmade Mover Such common sense laws which regulate life prove “God”

5. A Word About “Science”

6. True science and true religion are not contradictory Falsehoods in either disrupt unity between the two Bible believers need not fear true science However, “scientism” is opposed to true religion (and also to true science)

7. “Man stands alone in the universe, a unique product of a long, unconscious, impersonal, material process with unique understanding and potentialities. These he owes to no one but himself, and it is to himself that he is responsible. He is not the creature of uncontrollable and undeterminable forces, but is his own master. He can and must decide and manage his own destiny.” -George Gaylord Simpson SCIENTISM!

8. True science is in complete harmony with the Bible and always will be, because God is the Author of both! What about true science? “Science deals only with the natural, with things that can be apprehended by the sense organs. Science deals with those things that can be measured.” -Dr. John Klotz Genes, Genesis and Evolution

9. Science is concerned with a given physical system already in operation Science is powerless to explain origins- beyond its realm “All science begins with observation, the first step of the scientific method. At once this delimits the scientific domain; something that cannot be observed cannot be investigated by science.” -Dr. Paul Weisz, Principles of Biology

10. Science has no business in the realm of origins- no wonder it can’t find an answer! But, since it has gone there anyway, let’s use its own laws to prove what it says can’t be proven- the existence of God!

11. Cosmology- Cause and Effect

12. Simply stated- “Every effect must have a cause”

13. For every house is builded by some man; but he that built all things is God. Hebrews 3:4

14. Simply stated- “Every effect must have a cause” If hear a sound in the night, investigate- Why? Something caused it Illustration- Washington D.C.

15. U.S. Capitol Building Reasonable to assume it just happened? Did not see it built; cannot see its builder It is an effect; it had to have a cause

16. Simply stated- “Every effect must have a cause” If hear a sound in the night, investigate- Why? Something caused it Illustration- Washington D.C. Consider the Universe

17. Either it is: Eternal Not eternal- produced itself Not eternal- produced by something anterior and superior

18. It is not eternal- both science and the Bible agree Did not (because could not) produce itself Law of Cosmology Only alternative- produced by something anterior and superior

19. If there was ever a time when absolutely nothing existed (as evolutionists claim), there would still be nothing From nothing comes nothing but nothingness That Mind is God! Since something now exists, “something” has always existed Since matter is not eternal, that “something” is mind

20. Biogenesis- Life comes from Life

21. Simply stated- Life does not come from non-living matter Louis Pasteur disproved “spontaneous generation” and showed that it takes life to produce life Has been claimed that scientists have produced “life” in laboratory- not true!

22. Scientists have combined living matter with non-living matter and the combination lived But, this happens every time you eat a meal! What if scientists DID produce life in the laboratory? What would that prove?

23. That it takes life to produce life! That life is the result of action by intelligence! What creationists have said all along! Matter cannot produce mind The nest doesn’t produce the bird, but the bird the nest

24. However, mind can produce matter (if mind is sufficient) Science violates its own law of biogenesis when it claims life came from non-living Life is the result of life; and, that life must be eternal That eternal Being is God!

25. Without exception we find that “Nothing comes from nothing” Are we to believe that the universe in its entirety is an exception to this universal law?

26. Thermodynamics- Energy Conversion

27. “Thermodynamics” literally means “heat power” Involves the study of movement and conversion of energy 1st and 2nd laws of Thermodynamics are two of the greatest and most reliable ever formulated by man

28. “The two laws of thermodynamics are, I suppose, accepted by physicists as perhaps the most secure generalizations from experience that we have. The physicist does not hesitate to apply the two laws to any concrete situation in the confidence that nature will not let them down.” -Dr. P.W. Bridgman, Harvard Physicist

29. 1st law (also called Law of Conservation of Mass and Energy)- energy and matter are neither created nor destroyed, only changed in form Burn a piece of wood; not destroyed, just changed in form What does this have to do with existence of God?

30. Evolution demands a time when NOTHING produced SOMETHING- a violation of this law of nature As this law is true, only an action above it could bring matter and energy into existence For evolutionist, a huge problem; for creationist, a miracle (thus, God!)

31. Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. Genesis 2:1, 2

32. The Genesis record reveals that the creation process was the insertion of creative energy from outside the universe This is different from the present order which we now observe and was completed at the time of creation Unlike “the big bang,” quite consistent with the 1st law of thermodynamics

33. 2nd law (Law of Increasing Entropy)- in any closed system there must always be a decrease of energy and organization Simply states three things: 1) Systems tend toward most probable state; 2) Systems tend toward most random state; 3) Systems are depleted of useful energy

34. “Systems tend toward most probable state” Water seeks its own level If left alone, things deteriorate “Systems tend toward most random state” Water won’t run uphill Things tend to become less, not more, organized

35. “Systems are depleted of useful energy” Hot water removed from its heat source gets cooler; never the other way around Matter and energy tend to decrease, not increase Illustrated:

36. EVOLUTION Left to itself, rusty pile of bolts Will turn into a new car

37. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Will turn into a rusty pile of bolts Left to itself, a new car

38. Which is most likely to happen?

39. Cosmology- Cause & Effect Why do scientists violate the very laws by which they operate? Biogenesis- Life Comes from Life Thermodynamics- Most Reliable Ever Formulated by Man

40. “Evolution itself is accepted by zoologists, not because it has been observed to occur…or can be proved by logically coherent evidence, but because the only alternative, special creation, is incredible.” -Dr. D.M.S. Watson, University of London

41. “It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we are forced by our a priori [not based on prior study or examination] adherence to material causes to create an apparatus of investigation and set of concepts that produce material explanations, no matter how counter-

42. intuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” -Professor Richard Lewontin, Harvard University

43. “Evolution is unproved and unprovable. We believe it because the only alternative is special creation, and that is unthinkable.” -Sir Arthur Keith, British Evolutionist

44. Thus, by their own admissions, evolution has not been and cannot be proven Their refusal to denounce it comes not from the evidence (which overwhelmingly refutes it), but from their refusal to accept the only alternative--a Creator-God!

45. And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient Romans 1:28

46. The very laws of science themselves refute the theory of evolution However, many scientists would rather dispense with their laws and the evidence itself instead of admit the existence of God They even admit it!

48. Sources -Notes from a bygone day (likely from Apologetics Press material) -Batsell Barrett Baxter, I Believe Because -Jonathan Sarfarti, Refuting Evolution