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REASONABLE FAITH

REASONABLE FAITH. Is Reasonable Faith Possible?. THE CONTROVERSY . IMPOSSIBLE. POSSIBLE. Faith and reason should not be separated Reconcilable Faith: Believe supported by evidence. Faith and reason are opposites Irreconcilable Faith: Belief despite evidence. DEMAND CONSISTENCY .

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REASONABLE FAITH

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  1. REASONABLE FAITH Is Reasonable Faith Possible?

  2. THE CONTROVERSY IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE Faith and reason should not be separated Reconcilable Faith: Believe supported by evidence • Faith and reason are opposites • Irreconcilable • Faith: Belief despite evidence

  3. DEMAND CONSISTENCY IMPOSSIBLE POSSIBLE Believe in creation Offer evidence Requires Faith • Believe in evolution • Offer evidence • Requires faith

  4. DEMAND CONSISTENCY When? • Theory: A formulation of apparent relationships or underlying principles of certain observed phenomena which has been verified to some degree • Law: A sequence of events in nature or in human activities occurring with unvarying uniformity under the same conditions Hasn’t Happened Can’t Happen

  5. DEMAND CONSISTENCY ”Even the most ardent atheist concedes that design is all around us. To a Christian, the design we see all around us is totally consistent with the Bible’s explanation that God created all. ‘All appearance to the contrary, the only watchmaker in nature is the blind forces of physics, albeit deployed in a very special way. A true watchmaker has foresight: he designs his cogs and springs, and plans their interconnections, with future purpose in his mind’s eye. The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (1996) by Richard Dawkins (Norton Publishing).

  6. DEMAND CONSISTENCY “The number of possible ways of putting nucleotides together in a chromosome is enormous. Thus a human being is an extraordinarily improbable object. . . .Most of the 102.4x109 possible sequences of nucleotides would lead to complete biological malfunction” (“Life,” Encyclopaedia Britannica (NewYork: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.), 22:967).

  7. DEMAND CONSISTENCY Sir Francis Crick: An honest man, armed with all the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going (Crick, Francis (1981), Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature p. 88, (NewYork: Simon and Schuster).

  8. DEMAND CONSISTENCY Sir Francis Crick: “. . . But this should not be taken to imply that there are good reasons to believe that it could NOT have started on earth by a perfectly reasonable sequence of fairly ordinary chemical reactions.” (Crick, Francis (1981), Life Itself: Its Origin and Nature p. 88, (NewYork: Simon and Schuster).

  9. DEMAND CONSISTENCY “With the best intentions, but limited by natural laws and materials, it is unlikely that earth could ever truly be replicated. Too many processes in its formation involved sheer luck.” (Rare Earth, Why Complex Life is Uncommon In he Universe, 2000, pg 37)

  10. DEMAND CONSISTENCY Coined the term, “Big Bang” “The current scenario of the origin of life is about as likely as the assemblage of a 747 by a tornado whirling through a junkyard.” Hoyle, Sir Fred, The intelligent Universe (London: Michael Joseph, 1983) in Walter L Bradley and Charles B. Thaxton, “Information and the Origin of Life,” in The Creation Hypothesis, ed. Moreland, 190,191.

  11. CONSIDER GOD’S WORD • Prove all things…1Th 5:21; Acts 9:22 • Give a defense…1Pt 3:15; 1Cor 9:3 • Present your case…Isa 41:21; 1Cor 15:29-32 • Faith is based on evidence…Heb 11:1

  12. CONSIDER GOD’S WORD • Rom 1:20, Invisible attributes are clearly seen • Ps 19:1, The heavens declare God’s glory • Acts 14:17, God left witnesses • Gen 1:1-31, God created all things

  13. CONCLUSION • Both, evolution and creationism require faith • Both, evolution and creationism offer evidence BUT, WHICH ONE IS MORE REASONABLE?

  14. WHAT IS REASONABLE? “If I can synthesize life, then I will PROVE that no intelligence was required to produce life in the beginning!!”

  15. WHAT IS REASONABLE? CREATIONISM: If it looks created, it is probably created.

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