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Michael P. Hays mph@criticalmass.pro criticalmass.pro 307-631-2104

WhY? CRD. Creation Redemption Dominion. Michael P. Hays mph@criticalmass.pro www.criticalmass.pro 307-631-2104. Who are you?. Introduction Part 1. Thanks for coming!.

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Michael P. Hays mph@criticalmass.pro criticalmass.pro 307-631-2104

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  1. WhY? CRD Creation Redemption Dominion Michael P. Hays mph@criticalmass.pro www.criticalmass.pro 307-631-2104 Who are you? Introduction Part 1 Thanks for coming!

  2. He said in a loud voice, "Fear God and give Him glory, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and the springs of water.” Revelation 14:7

  3. “If Jesus was not the redeemer who died for our sins, and this is what evolution means, then Christianity is nothing.” G. Richard Bozarth The Meaning of Evolution Journal of American Atheists, Feb 1978

  4. Some Special Events • Columbus - 1492 • Protestant Ref. - 1517 • 1776, 1789 • Uniformitarianism - 1798 • Principles of Geo. - 1830 • Beagle – 1835 • Origin of Species - 1859 • Marxism - 1863

  5. Some Special Events • Bolshevik Revolution - 1918 • Humanist Manifesto – 1933 • WW II – 12/7/1941 • Churches – 501(c)3 - 1954 • Sputnik - 10/4/1957 • Textbook Funding - 1959 • Sep. Of Ch. & St. – 1963 • Right to Privacy - 1973 • Terrorism - 9/11/2001

  6. Post-modernism • The cosmos is all there is • Chemistry & Physics • Cosmic Consciousness • Human reason is autonomous • No absolutes Points of Tension!

  7. Number of Words 30000 1961 – 26,819 words 20000 10000 0 1950 1960 1970 1980 Indoctrination in Evolution Before and after Federal Funding Peak - 1963 33,089 words The decline since 1963 reflects the overall downward trend of textbook content. The percentage of text devoted to evolution has not diminished. 2-3,000 words Source: Educational Research Analysts, (903) 753-5993

  8. The modern Creationist movement began in response to public school indoctrination.Published early in 1961

  9. Religion: A set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe.

  10. Religion is an insult to human dignity and has no place in scientific endeavor. Steven Weinberg, Professor of Physics, University of Texas at Austin, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb ‘99

  11. Michael Newdow “I have a right to know that when my child goes to the public school she’s not taught that my religion is wrong and that’s what They teach her and that’s a harm to me.” His religion is atheism!

  12. Oct. 17, 1999 News media and textbooks try to make it look like science vs. religion. They imply that evolution is part of science.

  13. The telling case ofDr. Richard Sternberg

  14. Dr. Richard Sternberg Holds two PhDs, one in theoretical biology and the other in molecular evolution. Was a Smithsonian Institution research associate and former managing editor of the independent journal, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. Committed the sin of allowing the publication of a fully peer-reviewed ID article.

  15. Bias

  16. Bias In reality it is not a matter of whether you are biased or not, but which bias is the best bias to be biased with anyway?

  17. Bias The bias you have determines what you do with the evidence when you find it. Everyone has a bias.

  18. Dogma In reality it is not a matter of whether you are dogmatic or not, but which dogmatism is the best to be dogmatized with anyway?

  19. “… science is not as empirical as many scientists seem to think it is …” “Science is not just the making of observations: it is the making of inferences on the basis of observations within the framework of a theory.” David Hull “The Effect of Essentialism on Taxonomy – Two Thousand Years of Stasis (II)” British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 16(61):1-18, 1965

  20. “Creation and evolution, between them, exhaust the possible explanations for the origin of living things.” Douglas J. Futuyma Science on Trial: The case for evolution. New York: Pantheon Books, p. 197, 1983

  21. “Organisms either appeared on the earth fully developed or they did not.” Douglas J. Futuyma Science on Trial: The case for evolution. New York: Pantheon Books, p. 197, 1983

  22. In the beginning God... Biblical Time Line: 2000 YA Jesus’ Birth Now 6000 YA (~4000 BC) Creation 4400 YA (~2400 BC) Flood Evolution’s Time Line: This religion is tax supported! Earth Forms 4,600,000,000 BC Life Appears 3,000,000,000BC 15,000,000,000 years ago Big Bang Man Evolved 3,000,000BC In the beginning…Hydrogen...

  23. “The conclusion I have come to is this: the law of Christ is incompatible with the law of evolution… Nay, the two laws are at war with each other…” Sir Arthur Keith, Evolution & Ethics. Keith wrote the forward to Darwin’s book for the 1959 - 100th year anniversary reprint.

  24. “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 adherence to material causes… Richard Lewontin “Billions and Billions of Demons” New York Review (Jan 9, 1997): p.31. wwwanswersingenesis.org/lewontin

  25. … to create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that produce material explanations, … Moreover, that materialism is an absolute, for we cannot allow a Divine Foot in the door.” Richard Lewontin “Billions and Billions of Demons” New York Review (Jan 9, 1997): p.31. wwwanswersingenesis.org/lewontin

  26. “Even if all the data point to an intelligent designer, such an hypothesis is excluded from science because it is not naturalistic.” Dr. Scott Todd An immunologist at Kansas State University Correspondence to Nature 410(6752):423 (Sept 30, 1999) <wwwanswersingenesis.org/todd>

  27. “A central tenet of modern science is methodological naturalism – it seeks to explain the universepurely in terms of observed or testable natural mechanisms.” John Rennie Editor in Chief of SciAm Scientific American, July 2002, p84

  28. And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie 2 Thessalonians 2:11

  29. How can we know if what you are saying is true? There is no way for you to know whether what I’m telling is true unless you know what the truth is and There is no way for you to know what the truth is unless there is a truth that you can know, Frank Peretti

  30. When communists would take overan area what was the firstthing that was taught? Darwinism! Hegelian dialectics? Marxist economics? Why? To establish the ‘fact’ that there is no authority higher than the state.

  31. “The German Fuhrer … has consistently sought to make the practice of Germany conform to the theory of evolution.” Evolution and Ethics 1947, Sir Arthur Keith p, 230

  32. Evolution isn’t just a dumb theory, it’s a deadly religion!

  33. “It is absolutely safe to say that if you meet someone who claims not to believe in evolution, that person is ignorant, stupid or insane” Richard Dawkins Put Your Money on Evolution New York Times, April 9, 1999 p. 35

  34. All scripture is given by inspiration of God, andis profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness… 2 Timothy 3:16

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