Sermons From Science -- May 2017 科学布道 -- 2017 年 5 月

Sermons From Science -- May 2017科学布道-- 2017年5月 Sermons from Science have been published in both YouTube under the name “Pastor Chui” and their PowerPoint slides and corresponding videos in the website http://ChristCenterGospel.org since 2011. Just type “Pastor Chui” in Google Search. The contents of this presentation were taken from different sources and in the Internet. May God have all the glory. Pastor Chui http://ChristCenterGospel.org ckchui1@yahoo.com 12/20/2019 1

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • The Creation.com website published an article written byLita Cosner. I now quote her article below: • “The Bible is the most influential and widely read book in the world. It has shaped the world’s literature—especially that in English. It was the best-preserved book in the ancient world and is the most-printed and most-translated book today. • “Of course, Christians believe that the 66 books which make up Scripture are uniquely inspired by God and so are an inerrant and authoritative collection. 12/20/2019 2

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “But out of all the media through which God might have given us His revelation, why did He choose a written medium? Why didn’t He inspire an oral tradition that was passed down from generation to generation? Or some sort of visual medium other than text? • “In fact, for several reasons, a collection of written documents was the ideal way for God to reveal Himself. • “Preserved revelation • “God is associated more with the spoken word in Scripture than with the written word. So why inspire written documents? One very good reason is that written documents are less susceptible to ‘mutation’ over time. 12/20/2019 3

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ 12/20/2019 4

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “Studies show that oral tradition, especially in societies with low literacy, is actually quite accurate, but as we can see with the Flood stories around the world, history passed down strictly orally has a tendency to change much faster than written documents. • “Because Scripture was copied down, we can look at very ancient manuscripts to get an accurate view of what the Bible actually says. Each copyist would make mistakes in their copies, but because there were so many copies, it is possible to compare them and see who got it wrong and who got it right. • “This would not be possible with an oral tradition where the earlier versions would die with the people who transmitted them. 12/20/2019 5

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “Propagated revelation • “When a message is strictly oral, its transmission is restricted to the movement of the people who carry the message, and it is limited to people within earshot of the person speaking. By contrast, a written document can be copied 100 times and taken around the world. • “Words communicate concrete meaning, i.e. propositions, or factual statements about things. • “Messengers can faithfully communicate the message, because they have it written down. For the Gospel to spread rapidly, written documents were practically indispensable—as necessary as it was for Paul to travel on his missionary journeys to plant the churches in Asia, it was also necessary for him to write to them to give them teaching from far away. 12/20/2019 6

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “Furthermore, the written revelation enabled authoritative quoting that others could check for authenticity. The New Testament authors frequently quote from the Old Testament. In turn, there are over a million quotations of the New Testament by the Church Fathers. • “This would enable reconstruction of almost the entire NT from the quotations alone. • “Translated revelation • “Another reason that it is fitting that God revealed His Word in a written form is that it can be translated into any language. This started happening very early in Christian history. For example, while there are over 5,800 manuscripts of the New Testament in the original Greek, there are about 10,000 manuscripts of Latin translation, and 5,000–10,000 translated into other languages like Coptic and Aramaic. 12/20/2019 7

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “These other translations arose as more and more people groups became converted to Christianity. This is because Christians believe that Christ will save people “from all tribes, and peoples, and languages” (Revelation 7:9). • “Perfect revelation! • “The Bible claims to be the Word of God, and those who believe it can be glad that God inspired it in such a way that we can read the same truth that people thousands of years ago penned, even when we read it in a different language. No other medium is as easy to transmit, preserve, and make available to wide groups of people. 12/20/2019 8

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “For the Gospel to spread rapidly, written documents were practically indispensable. • “So it made sense, when God wanted to give a message to be preserved for all His people, for all time, that He gave a book. • “Propositional revelation • “Words communicate concrete meaning, i.e. propositions, or factual statements about things. A painting could mean various things to different people (especially if it is an abstract painting), but there are only so many ways to interpret “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth”. 12/20/2019 9

Why did God give us a book?为什么上帝给我们一本书？ • “In Scripture, God’s revelation and action in the world is characterized by words. God created the universe by speaking (Genesis 1). God’s covenant with Israel was mediated with words (Exodus 20). • “Jesus is called “The Word” (John 1). Over and over God’s Word is equated with God Himself—to love God’s Word is to love God, to spurn God’s Word is to spurn God.” • Thank God for the contribution of Lita Cosner. 12/20/2019 10

Gloria Deo 愿荣耀归上帝 12/20/2019 11

Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument科学推翻了进化论的最佳论证 • The Institute for Creation Research website published an article written by Brian Thomas. I now quote his article below: • “Transposons are a class of “mobile genetic elements” that operate within the DNA of living organisms. For years, macroevolutionary proponents have claimed that their presence undoubtedly supports Darwinian evolution. But a recent investigation showed that transposons have been wrongly interpreted, changing macroevolution’s best argument into its worst nightmare—an almost complete lack of genetic material for it to “tweak” into newly selectable features. • “Transposons are segments of DNA that utilize cellular machines to replicate themselves and then splice the copies back into the host DNA, thus inflating the total volume of DNA without adding new genes. Some species appear to have large volumes of DNA that resulted from this process. About 44.4 percent of human DNA consists of repetitive elements, with perhaps most from transposons. 12/20/2019 13

Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument科学推翻了进化论的最佳论证 • “Many scientists still believe that these repeated segments contain nearly random, functionless, non-coding sequences with which “evolution” can tinker. But a new study published in Nature Genetics found that they actually contain functional code that is accessed for use in specific tissues.1 Scientists recently discovered that DNA which came from transposons can regulate the expression of gene products. • “One class of transposons, called “retrotransposons,” is formed when DNA is copied into RNA, which is then reverse-copied back into DNA. Retrotransposon sequences had been almost dogmatically interpreted by evolutionary scientists as remnants of ancient viruses. These viruses supposedly infected the host organism long ago, and it was assumed that the viral DNA became incorporated into one or more of its chromosomes. 12/20/2019 14

Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument科学推翻了进化论的最佳论证 12/20/2019 15

Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument科学推翻了进化论的最佳论证 • “Intriguingly, chimpanzees and humans share some almost identical repeated sequences that look as though they were formed by retrotransposons. Evolutionists have argued that they must have been introduced by the same virus before the two species diverged from a (presumably) ape-like ancestor. Thus, each species retains today a remnant of the same ancient viral infection. • “This is often cited as strong evidence that humans and chimpanzees share common ancestry, and therefore that broad-scale evolution is true―that single cells can eventually develop into humans through random natural forces. This is currently one of evolution’s best arguments. 12/20/2019 16

Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument科学推翻了进化论的最佳论证 • “But the argument rests squarely upon the premise that these long DNA repeat sequences came from ancient viruses. Creation scientists predicted that not all—and perhaps not any—retrotransposon activity was viral or random, but instead was part of a well-designed, originally created cellular process.2 The new Nature Genetics study has confirmed this creation prediction. • “The researchers found that between 6 and 30 percent of active RNA transcripts use retrotransposon sequences.1 These transcripts carry regulatory information from the DNA to the rest of the cell. They also found that different sections of retrotransposon sequences are accessed by different tissues. Thus, at least some, and perhaps all, of the sequences carry important information for certain cells to use. This means transposons did not come from ancient viruses and therefore can no longer be used to support the idea that chimpanzees and humans evolved from a common ancestor that was infected by a virus.3 12/20/2019 17

Science Overturns Evolution's Best Argument科学推翻了进化论的最佳论证 • “This discovery will likely disappoint a generation of evolutionary scientists who based human-chimp ancestry and therefore broad-scale evolution on the false assumption that retrotransposons and the like were from viral infections. But it likewise ought to disappoint those who have relied on supposedly useless, supposedly virus-derived DNA as raw material employed by some imaginary evolutionary process to engineer ever-more-complicated life forms. Instead, it looks like all DNA is useful, which suggests that its host creatures were designed on purpose.4” • Thank God for the contribution of Brian Thomas. 12/20/2019 18

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 • The Institute for Creation Research website published an article written by Dr. Jeffrey Tomkins. I now quote his article below: • “A new research study has shown that large regions of the human genome, once thought to be useless junk, work to keep your heart functioning properly.1 When these areas of the genome malfunction, cardiovascular failure is often the outcome, showing the importance of every piece of God's handiwork. 12/20/2019 21

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 • “The human genome is composed of more than just DNA sequences that produce proteins. In fact, only about 2% to 3% of the genome directly encodes information specifying the sequence of proteins. Despite this small percentage, about 80 to 90% of the entire genome is copied into RNA—a phenomenon that has been termed pervasive transcription.2,3 A large proportion of this activity produces long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). These lncRNA encoding regions are actually very similar to protein-coding genes in their regulation and genomic structure.4,5 And they are located all over the genome, between protein-coding genes as well as inside them. Some even partially overlap protein-coding sequences. 12/20/2019 22

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 12/20/2019 23

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 • “The many different types of lncRNAs studied so far are associated with gene regulation, chromosome structure, protein production, and other cellular processes.4,5 And many lncRNAs are important factors in development and human health. However, the specific relationship of lncRNAs to human heart failure has not been explored on a large scale. 12/20/2019 24

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 • “In this new study, researchers studied both failing and non-failing human hearts. The normal heart tissue was collected from organ donors while the failing heart tissue was sampled from people awaiting heart transplants.1 The researchers also sampled failing heart tissue from the same people after they were put on pump support called left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). Because heart failure is a process of gradual loss of heart function, the left ventricle (the heart's primary chamber) becomes less efficient, and thus it receives the prosthetic assistance. 12/20/2019 25

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 • “All of the cellular RNAs were sampled from these different sets of heart tissues and the transcripts were sequenced en masse to a high level of redundancy. After sorting through the huge amounts of data, the researchers identified 1249 lncRNA regions of the human genome differentially expressed when comparing normal to failing hearts. The study also revealed the gene expression patterns of protein-coding genes and it was found that the genomic variability in transcription was primarily based on the lncRNAs. 12/20/2019 26

'Junk' DNA Keeps Your Heart Beating'垃圾'DNA保持你的心跳 • “This data fit well with other studies that have shown that the alleged junk DNA regions of the genome are the major regulators of function. The protein-coding genes are like building blocks, while the non-coding DNA is what controls and orchestrates genomic function as a huge sea of finely tuned and critical metadata. • “Once again, the exquisite bioengineering in the genome as anticipated by the Biblical view of creation has prevailed over the evolutionary predictions of useless junk littering our chromosomes.” • Thank God for the contribution of Dr. Tomkins. 12/20/2019 27

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 • The Institute for Creation Research website published an article written by Dr. Jeffrey Tomkins. I now quote his article below: • “The traditional evolutionary model states that organisms evolve by random mutations. These mutations somehow provide new genetic information leading to novel traits that can be selected upon by the environment. Not only does this speculative paradigm lack empirical support, but documented beneficial mutations are exceedingly rare. Now, a new study shows mutations that commonly arise during cell division are not only unhelpful, but instead are highly correlated with cancer.1 12/20/2019 30

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 • “Many tissues in the body need to regenerate themselves or replenish other types of cells, such as blood cells produced from bone marrow. This process is accomplished through stem cells. Researchers previously documented that the lifetime risk of cancer among 25 different tissue types is strongly associated with the total number of times the stem cells in those same tissues divide to make new cells.2 In addition, it is also known that about three mutations occur every time a cell divides.3 These mutations arise in the form of copying errors during the process of DNA replication. 12/20/2019 31

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 • “In the grand evolutionary story, DNA copying errors will somehow lead to new mutations in the germline stem cells that make sperm and eggs so these mutations will be heritable. But do such DNA copying errors occasionally lead to beneficial mutations, or are the odds stacked against such naturalistic optimism? While this new study doesn't evaluate germline stem cells, it does take a close look at stem cell division in general, and the odds are not in favor of evolution. 12/20/2019 32

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 12/20/2019 33

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 • “The data in this new study show a strong correlation between cancer incidence and normal stem cell divisions in human tissue samples from eight different countries across the globe. The strong association was detected regardless of the environment in which the subjects lived. This major role of DNA replication mutations in cancer was supported by using cancer genome DNA sequencing and epidemiological data. Results indicated that DNA copying errors are responsible for two-thirds of the mutations in human cancers! 12/20/2019 34

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 • “These data not only show the futility of invoking mutation as an engine of evolution, but also add support to the fact the human genome is degrading—devolving—not evolving and improving over time. Cornell University geneticist Dr. John Sanford demonstrated this process of genetic entropy through a variety of studies.4 • “The original humans, Adam and Eve, were created with error-free genomes that contained no mutations. Then, as recorded in Genesis 3, sin entered the world through Adam’s disobedience and the whole creation was subject to the curse. The veracity of the human genome has been incessantly degrading ever since. 12/20/2019 35

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 12/20/2019 36

New Study Confirms Harmful Role of Mutations新研究证实了突变的有害作用 • “Humans, and the rest of biological creation, are not gradually evolving better genomes over time. In fact, the empirically observed mutation rates we have seen in a variety of creatures match the biblical model and timeframe.4,5 The facts of science we are now documenting in the genome with modern technology profoundly support the Bible, not the failed naturalistic speculations of mankind.” • Thank God for the contribution of Dr. Tomkins. 12/20/2019 37

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • The Answers In Genesis website published an article written by Dr. Andrew A. Snelling on March 27, 2017. I now quote his article below: • “North Carolina State University has recently conducted research revealing an “oversight in a radioisotope dating technique used to ate everything from meteorites to geologic samples,” which means that “scientists have likely overestimated the ages of many samples.” This research was done in the university’s Nuclear Engineering Department by Associate Professor Robert Hayes and a report published in the journal Nuclear Technology.1 12/20/2019 40

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “To claim a key flaw has been found in the radioisotope dating methodology, which underpins the millions-of-years edifice of all modern secular geology, is quite extraordinary. Such an extraordinary claim requires extraordinary evidence to back it up, and since this is a complicated subject, it requires some preliminary explanations so that the details of this claim and the evidence for it can be readily understood. 12/20/2019 41

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 12/20/2019 42

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “Atoms, Isotopes, and Radioisotopes • “Every chemical element is made up of atoms unique to it. All atoms consist of a nucleus around which electrons (negatively-charged particles) orbit. Within the nucleus of nearly all atoms are protons and neutrons, positively-charged and neutral particles respectively. • “All the atoms in each chemical element have the same number of protons in their nuclei. That number is called the atomic number of the element. Element 1 is hydrogen with one proton in its nucleus. Its chemical symbol is H. One of the heaviest elements is uranium with 92 protons in its nucleus and symbol U. 12/20/2019 43

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “The combined number of protons and neutrons in an atom’s nucleus is called its atomic weight, because almost all the weight or mass of an atom is in its nucleus. However, the number of neutrons in the nucleus of each atom is not always the same. Often there are equal numbers of neutrons and protons, but sometimes there are more neutrons than protons. • “Thus every element has atoms with the same atomic number, but its atoms can have several different atomic weights because of the different numbers of neutrons. Atoms of the same element that have different atomic weights are called isotopes of that element. 12/20/2019 44

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “For example, carbon (symbol C) is element 6 because it has six protons in every one of its atoms. However, while most carbon atoms have 6 neutrons in their nuclei, there are a few atoms with seven and even fewer atoms with eight neutrons in their nuclei. We distinguish these isotopes of carbon from one another by their different atomic weights as carbon-12, carbon-13, and carbon-14, or in “shorthand” as 12C, 13C and 14C (see figure 1). Figure 1. The three isotopes of carbon, showing their numbers of protons, neutrons and electrons. 12/20/2019 45

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “The nuclei of 14C atoms are unstable due to their size, so they each randomly eject a portion of one of their neutrons out of their atoms. The result is different atoms, with seven protons and seven neutrons in their nuclei, and seven orbiting electrons. Those characteristics define element 7 atoms, which are stable 14N (nitrogen). • “The ejected particles can be measured by suitable detectors such as Geiger counters. This process of nuclei ejecting particles is known as radioactive decay. So the unstable isotopes are called radioisotopes. Thus 14C is often referred to as radiocarbon. • “GEOLOGISTS AND OTHERS HAVE DEVISED WAYS TO USE RADIOACTIVE DECAY AS A METHOD TO DATE ROCKS AND DEAD ORGANIC MATERIALS SUCH AS BONES. 12/20/2019 46

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “Geologists and others have devised ways to use radioactive decay as a method to date rocks and dead organic materials such as bones. This method is called radioactive, radiometric, or radioisotope dating.2 The radioisotope, which decays, is often referred to as the parent isotope; while the stable isotope, which is the end result of the radioactive decay, is called the daughter isotope. • “In the case of the radiocarbon dating method, we can measure the rate at which 14C decays today to 14N. If we know how much 14C was in a bone when an animal died, and we can measure how much is in the bone today, then by knowing the rate of decay we can calculate how long ago the animal died.3 Or so the theory says. It is a bit more complicated than that.4 Supposedly very ancient materials that should thus be old in evolutionary time still have 14C in them and are thus only thousands of years old.5 12/20/2019 47

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “Isochron Dating • “There is a refinement of the radiometric dating method known as isochron dating. In the case of 14C decay to 14N, and 40K (potassium) decay to 40Ar (argon), only single samples are required to measure the parent and daughter elements and calculate an age for the bone or rock, respectively. • “However, in many rock units, such as individual granite bodies and individual basalt lava flows, many single samples can yield different Rb (rubidium)-Sr (strontium) or U (uranium)-Pb (lead) radiometric dates. This is because the different samples have different quantities of the parent radioisotopes in them. 12/20/2019 48

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 • “So the isochron method was developed to use multiple samples from each rock unit to obtain a single age for it. It is argued that using multiple samples gives a more reliable result. Furthermore, the isochron method is claimed to overcome other problems with the assumptions involved in all radiometric dating techniques.6 • “The theory of isochron dating goes like this. At time zero when the rock unit formed (for example, the granite body crystallized and cooled), the samples of it had different numbers of parent 87Rb atoms in them. But because the radioactive decay of the 87Rb was just starting, the samples all had the same zero amount of daughter 87Sr in them. • “So we plot this on a graph of 87Rb on the horizontal axis and 87Sr on the vertical axis. At time zero, the line connecting each sample point on the graph is a horizontal line (see Figure 2). Since all the points on that line are the same zero age, the line is called an isochron (iso “same,” chron “age”), in this case the zero isochron. 12/20/2019 49

Key Flaw Found in Radioisotope Isochron Dating -1在放射性同位素等时线中发现的主要缺陷-1 Figure 2. Five granite samples (labeled A, B, C, D and E) whose numbers of 87Rb atoms are plotted against their numbers of 87Sr atoms, with the resultant isochron lines at times zero, 1 and 2 as the 87Rb decays into 87Sr. 12/20/2019 50

Sermons From Science -- May 2017 科学布道 -- 2017 年 5 月

Sermons From Science -- May 2017 科学布道 -- 2017 年 5 月

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