CREATED OR EVOLVED? What about Life?

1. CREATED OR EVOLVED?What aboutLife?

2. ALL LIFE IS FRAGILE ! IT NEEDS - water, food temp temperature energy source protection WHY JUST RIGHT ? A START . . . . . but ended easily !

3. Why is Earth Suitable for life ? Design or Accident?

4. LIFE’S GREAT VARIETY • Vegetable - - - animal KINGDOMS • Invertibrate - - vertibrate CLASSES • Birds - - - - - - mammals FAMILIES • Elephant - - - man SPECIES • African - - - - European RACES • Male - - - - - - female GENDERS • YOU - - - - - ME INDIVIDUALS No two are exactly the same!

6. Living Things have • 7 specific Characteristics • Move • Breathe (respiration) • Feed - obtain and use energy. • Excrete (remove waste) • Grow & develop • Respond/adapt to environment - (sensitivity) • Reproduce • Also - all Living Things are made up of cells which can replicate.

7. What is Life? • “Property which distinguishes a living thing from dead / non-living matter” • “Animate existence” • “Period from birth to death” [OUD] • Something temporarily added to physical matter • Spiritual quality – recognisable - specially in humans

8. WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH? • Physical components remain the same, but soon decompose • 7 characteristics no longer seen • change is dramatic – no response • Spiritual component vanishes – where?

9. Where / How did Life originate? • Law of Biogenesis - It did NOT come from dead matter (Big Bang  total sterility!) • Science has NO other clear answer! Several guesses! • Someone must tell us!

10. How do life forms change? Do they evolve? Do they adapt? What is natural selection? How does it happen?

11. Changes in living things • Produced by - - adaptation to hostile conditions or “survival of the fittest” = “natural selection” • This is MICROEVOLUTION - always WITHIN SPECIES Also selective breeding – directed! • Does not / cannot cross the boundary of the species

12. Ancestral source

13. Natural selection cannot cause one kind (species) to become a new kind. • Can only select from existing information already in the genes • Cannot start off evolution when there is nothing to select from • Can cause a loss of information • Cannot plan ahead - has no foresight into the future

14. Evolution’s History of Life Over billions of years all species evolved (upwards) - from a common ancestor more new information needed

15. The Bible and the History of Life God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. Genesis 1:25

16. Opposite views of Evolution and Creation on changes in living creatures Re-assortment of existing information More complex Kinds Kinds Kinds Kinds Genera? Genera? Genera? Genera? Complex Less simple Species? Species? Species? Species? Simple Sub-species? Sub-species? Sub-species? Sub-species? Requires the addition of new complex genetic information Creationists – top down Evolutionists – bottom up

17. What do current laboratory studies tell us about genetics and change? - in the cell?

18. Boeing 747 4.5 million non-flying parts Billions of non-living parts Complexity of the Cell

19. A Simple(?) Cell To produce 1 protein in a cell requires 75+ different proteins and RNA molecules. An average protein of about 500 AA is produced in cells every 4 minutes - provided they contain all 75 components in the right place, at right concentration, in the right proportions at the right time!

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21. Results of laboratory experiments - Experiments to induce changes in rapidly reproducing organisms (e.g., microbes, small insects) show that virtually all induced changes are harmful. These changes are not the result of adding new information (required for evolution) into DNA but of deleting (losing) or changing existing information already in the DNA.

25. THE DNA OF EACH SPECIESIS DIFFERENT - gives different features & behaviour = recognisable characteristics CANNOT CHANGE DNA OF ONE KIND INTO DNA OF ANOTHER KIND BY MUTATIONS - changes are - limited - usually harmful - repaired quickly in DNA - easily “bred out”

26. Rearrange, change or remove information - from existing huge store there from “the beginning” in “kinds” - gives “subspecies” suited to habitat - eg – finches - polar bears - brown bears Provide information, or add extra & new, - to supplement what is there - doesn’t happen with no outside input! - doesn’t match what is there already! Adaptation √ Evolution x

27. Different Authority Sources For Belief 1. God’s revelation 1. Man’s reasoning 2. Not there at the beginning 2. There at the beginning 3. Knowledge incomplete 3. Source of all knowledge 4. Known to distort and manipulate the truth 4. Cannot lie (Titus 1:2)

28. Evolution is NOT - • Supported by the laws of science • Shown in the fossil record anywhere • Demonstrated by experiments on living things • A fact! • Probable! (or sensible!) • Believed by all scientists (and others)

29. Creation is NOT - • Contradicted by science • Incompatible with common experience • Difficult to understand • Wanted by most people - because they do not want God - Why ?

30. Since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities - His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that they are without excuse. Romans 1: 20

31. What is YOUR life? • Important • Significant • Precious • Short -- WHY? • “The wages of sin is death …” • “but the gift of God is eternal life – through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6.23)

32. “For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son …

33. … that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3.16