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2. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? An Answer to Evolution And Some Questions for Evolutionists

3. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? �If you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid, or insane (or wicked, but I�d rather not consider that).� Richard Dawkins, Oxford University

4. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? What is Evolution? �A Gradual process in which something changes into a different and usually more complex or better form (American Heritage Dictionary, 2000) When I speak of evolution today I am talking strictly about the theory that says �all biological life arose from a common ancestor of a single cell.�

5. Why the Need for this lesson? Student Survey in 2000 elementary-school years (8-10) were exclusively creationists, whereas the oldest children (10.5-12) were almost exclusively evolutionists with a small number being creationists (Evans, 2000)

6. Why the Need for this lesson? Some say, �Christians should address only where they are going, not where they came from� Theistic Evolution The consequence of Evolution makes God and Christ liars!

7. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? The Bible Says God Created Us Ps 139:13-16 Fearfully � to be afraid and stand in awe (Vines) Wonderfully � Expressing actions that are beyond the bounds of human powers or expectations (Vines) Skillfully wrought � Ex. 26:36, skill involved to bring about the complex and intricate formation

8. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? The Bible Says God Created Us In The Beginning� Gen. 1:21, 27; 2:3, 4 This is HISTORY. And God is the most accurate and unbiased historian this world has ever known. Christ Affirms it Matt. 19:6; Mk. 10:6 Jn. 5:46-47

9. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? What does the Body and the Bible say? There is Design! 1 Cor. 12:12-27

10. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Made = Maker, Created = Creator, Design = Designer Law of Teleology � Where there is design there must be a designer. Design � An Arrangement of individual components within an object so as to accomplish a functional or artistic purpose.

11. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? The Body considered at 4 levels Cell (white blood, Nerve, etc.) Tissue (group of cells, skin, etc.) Organ (group of tissue, liver, etc.) System (group of organs, heart + lungs = cardiovascular system)

12. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Design In Human Cells Design proves a Designer! Ax. 17:28-29; Heb. 11:1-3 Nerve Cell

13. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Long Thin Extension to Transmit Messages Compare to Phone, email or fax. Did those message devises have a designer? Computer Programs based on Neuroscience

14. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Nucleus of Cell contains DNA DNA is the CODE to our Genetic Makeup. Compare to a computer program, did Microsoft Windows have a designer?

15. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Design In Human Tissues Design proves a Designer! Ps. 89:47-48; Eccl. 12 Skin Muscles Bones

16. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Design In Human Tissues Skin Design at Hand Tires have tread for grip so do hands. How come one has a designer and the other is an accident? Eyelashes and Nose hair Protect eyes and filter air. Design?

17. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Design In Human Tissues Muscles 1 Sam 17:5-8; 38-40 Muscles are made up of muscle fibers Compare muscle strands to suspension bridge cable. It is stronger to have a cable made up of smaller strands than a solid cable of the same size. But God knew that first!

18. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Design In Human Tissues Skeletal Protection of the body �Perhaps an engineer will someday develop a substance as strong and light and efficient as bone, but what engineer could devise a substance that, like bone, can grow continuously, lubricate itself, require no shutdown time, and repair itself when damage occurs?� (Brady and Yancey, 1980, p 90)

19. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Design In Human Tissues Skeletal Arch in Human Foot Compare the design of a bridge arch to a human foot. This design is best for weight distribution. Very needed since the avg. human walks 65,000 miles. Did the bridge have a designer?

20. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? �Well what about the skeletal findings in the rocks? Just because we find different looking skeletons does that prove humans evolved? NO! The Bible is the first to admit that people are different. Many of these have been proven to not be human but in fact ape (Brad Harrub, Burt Thompson, www.apologeticspress.org/rr/rr2002/r&r0205a.htm)

21. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Gen 6:4; Num 13:33 - Giants Isa. 18:1-2 � Difference in Skin Gen 5:27 � Methuselah 969 years old It has been documented that the human face slowly protrudes outward at the passing of time (Jack Cuozzo, Buried Alive) Compare a child�s face to a grandfathers Also a harder diet will strengthen the jaw and brow muscles which increases the bone The longer you live the bigger the facial skull. And we know that some in the book of Genesis lived for a long long time.

22. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? There are difference in cultures today. The Bush people (African tribe avg. 4 feet tall) The Zulu people (African tribe avg. 7 feet tall)

23. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? �What about Neanderthals and Lucy?� Neanderthals have been proven to be humans that mated in their own gene pool like the Zulu tribe. Lucy has been proven to be in the chimp line. No longer the supposed �missing link�. Further studies have shown that her pelvis, arms, legs, teeth, and rib cage all point to her being a knuckle-walking animal (�Lucy Dethroned�, Brad Harrub, Burt Thompson, www.apologecticspress.org/rr/rr2003/res0305a.htm)

24. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Bias is what keeps this new info quiet. �There is no such thing as a total lack of bias. I have it; everybody has it. The fossil hunter in the field has it�In everybody who is looking for hominids, there is a strong urge to learn more about where the human line started. If you are working back at around three million, as I was, that is very seductive, because you begin to get an idea that that is where Homo did start. You begin straining your eyes to find Homo traits in fossils of that age�Logical, maybe, but also biased�

25. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Bias is what keeps this new info quiet. I was trying to jam evidence of dates into a pattern that would support conclusions about fossils which, on close inspection, the fossils themselves would not sustain�it is hard for me now to admit how tangled in that thicket I was. But the insidious thing about bias is that it does make one deaf to the cries of other evidence.� (Lucy: The Beginnings of Humankind, Johanson and Edey, pg257, 258, 277)

26. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? Bias is what keeps this new info quiet. The finder of Lucy in the National Geographic in 1996, 22 years after Lucy was discovered said, �Lucy has recently been dethroned� (Face-to-Face with Lucy�s Family, National Geographic, 189[3]:96-117)

27. Are We Fearfully and Wonderfully Made? What have we learned? The Body has design and thus a Designer! It is not an unguided accident as evolution teaches.