Objection 5:Evolution
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Biblical Foundation:
“For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible... everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him.” (Colossians 1:16MSG)

“In the beginning, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands.” Psalm 102:25

1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

 2 Now the earth was [a] formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

 6 And God said, "Let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8 God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.

 9 And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good.

 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.

 14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. 19 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day.

 20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.

 24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. 25 God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

 26 Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, [b] and over all the creatures that move along the ground."

 27 So God created man in his own image,

       in the image of God he created him;

       male and female he created them.

 28 God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground."

 29 Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. 30 And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so.

 31 God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day. (Gen. 1 NIV)

For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God. (Rom 1:20 NLT)

Effects:  Men who left faith   

In fact, a prominent evolutionist named William Provine of Cornell University, was blunt in spelling out the implications of Darwinism. If Darwinism is true, he said, then there are five inescapable conclusions:

1. There’s no evidence for God.

2. There’s no life after death.

3. There’s no absolute foundation for right and wrong.

4. There’s no ultimate meaning for life.

5. People don’t really have free will.

As Time magazine put it: “Charles Darwin didn’t want to murder God, as he once put it. But he did.”

(The Case for the Creator, Lee Stoblel, DVD)

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40% of Americans believe that both Creation and Evolution are true. (http://www.creationevidence.net/whocares.shtml)

 

Definitions:

Evolution   The evolution worldview teaches that the universe made itself from nothing approximately twenty billion years ago. (http://www.creationevidence.net/whocares.shtml)

 

Gap Theory   Some Christians try to compromise with Evolutionists.  They invent the gap theory which says that the days of creation are not really days.  The days are really years, thus making the world billions of years old like the evolutionists surmise.  However, the Bible does not need to be compromised.  By changing the meaning of "day" in the Bible, the door is wide opened to questioning other events.  For example, Jesus' death and resurrection can also be questioned.   (http://www.creationevidence.net/whocares.shtml)

Creationism   The creation worldview says that God made the universe approximately six thousand years ago. (http://www.creationevidence.net/whocares.shtml)

 

Intelligent Design
Is intelligent design the same as creationism?

No. The theory of intelligent design is simply an effort to empirically detect whether the "apparent design" in nature acknowledged by virtually all biologists is genuine design (the product of an intelligent cause) or is simply the product of an undirected process such as natural selection acting on random variations. Creationism typically starts with a religious text and tries to see how the findings of science can be reconciled to it. Intelligent design starts with the empirical evidence of nature and seeks to ascertain what inferences can be drawn from that evidence. Unlike creationism, the scientific theory of intelligent design does not claim that modern biology can identify whether the intelligent cause detected through science is supernatural.

Honest critics of intelligent design acknowledge the difference between intelligent design and creationism. University of Wisconsin historian of science Ronald Numbers is critical of intelligent design, yet according to the Associated Press, he "agrees the creationist label is inaccurate when it comes to the ID [intelligent design] movement." Why, then, do some Darwinists keep trying to conflate intelligent design with creationism? According to Dr. Numbers, it is because they think such claims are "the easiest way to discredit intelligent design." In other words, the charge that intelligent design is "creationism" is a rhetorical strategy on the part of Darwinists who wish to delegitimize design theory without actually addressing the merits of its case. http://www.intelligentdesign.org/whatisid.php

Deception of Evolution: #1

There are at least six different and unrelated meanings to the word “evolution” as used in science textbooks.

   1. Cosmic evolution- the origin of time, space and matter. Big Bang.

   2. Chemical evolution- the origin of higher elements from hydrogen.

   3. Stellar and planetary evolution- Origin of stars and planets.

   4. Organic evolution- Origin of life from inanimate matter.

   5. Macroevolution- Origin of major kinds.

   6. Microevolution - Variations within kinds

(http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=67?pg=articles&specific=3)

 

Important Questions for Evolutionists
The following questions were distributed to the 750-plus people who attended Dr Hovind's debate at Winona State University in Winona, Minnesota.

1. Where did the space for the universe come from?

2. Where did matter come from?

3. Where did the laws of the universe come from (gravity, inertia, etc.)?

4. How did matter get so perfectly organized?

5. Where did the energy come from to do all the organizing?

6. When, where, why, and how did life come from dead matter?

7. When, where, why and how did life learn to reproduce itself?

8. With what did the first cell capable of sexual reproduction reproduce?

(http://www.creationevidence.net/questions.shtml)

 

Deception of Evolution: #2
Origin of life –
HighSchool Biology text  p. 369,
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BuildingTheCase DVD I could take you back to the very spot where I lost the last remnants of my faith in God when I was a teenager. It’s on the third floor, northwest classroom of Prospect High School in Mount Prospect, Illinois, where I learned in biology class about an experiment that had been conducted in the 1950s at the University of Chicago.

In his laboratory, Stanley Miller recreated the early atmosphere of the earth and shot electrical discharges through it to simulate lightning. Lo and behold, after a while some amino acids – the building blocks of life – collected at the bottom of the container.

The implications were instantly obvious to me: if it’s that simple for nonliving chemicals to turn into living matter by themselves, then God was out of a job!... First, the negative evidence against Darwinian evolution convinced me that purely naturalistic processes cannot reasonably account for the creation, development, and diversity of life. A lot has been written by scientists critiquing Darwinism in recent years, but I’ll just hit a few highlights.

For example, that 1953 origin-of-life experiment by Stanley Miller – the one that helped lead me into atheism – has now been thoroughly discredited. It turns out that Miller’s concept of what the early atmosphere of the primitive Earth was like has been supplanted by new evidence that it was actually quite different – and if you run the same experiment with a reproduction of the Earth’s actual environment, you don’t get the amino acids that Miller got.

In fact, all naturalistic theories have utterly failed to explain how non-living chemicals could have somehow assembled themselves into the first living cell. There aren’t just hurdles to explaining how life could have assembled by itself into the first living cell, but there are insurmountable barriers involving the origin of biological information that aren’t going to be resolved by more research and effort.

(The Case for the Creator, Lee Stoblel, DVD)

Dr. Hovind's $250,000 Offer
Author: Dr. Kent Hovind  Formerly $10,000 offered since 1990

I have a standing offer of $250,000 to anyone who can give any empirical evidence (scientific proof) for evolution.* My $250,000 offer demonstrates that the hypothesis of evolution is nothing more than a religious belief. (http://www.drdino.com/articles.php?spec=67?pg=articles&specific=3)