Calvary International Church November 11, 2012 THE BIBLE & SCIENCE MAN, STARLIGHT AND WRAP-UP

Main Sources: CMI: http://creation.com/ Answers in Genesis John Byl, Ph.D. Astronomy Mike Riddle: The Origin of Man Dr Thomas J Kindell Ken Ham: Six Days & Eisegesis Chris Ashcraft John Jaquery - Calvary International Church Northwest Creation Network Creation of Man

. Man was the final goal of creation . Man was created:  From the Dust of the Ground  Breath of Life  Living Creature: Blood-life animating principle . God did not use another animal to form man . The Image of God Man in the Image of God

. Male and Female . Unity-Plurality in relationships . Personhood, morality, speech, will, love… . Man’s Role:  Steward  Servant Man in the Image of God

. Male and Female . Unity-Plurality in relationships . Personhood, morality, speech, will, love… . Man’s Role:  Steward  Servant  Signify  Develop  Express . The Green Movement Ape Men

3 ways to make an ape-man 1. Up-scale 2. Scale-down fossils 3. Combine and Make-up fossils  Nebraska Man   Others…

Nebraska Man as depicted in the Illustrated London News

They did NOT have: A complete skeleton A complete skull A complete jaw All they did have in its entirety was: A SINGLE MOLAR TOOTH! Full examination results finally published in Scientific American, Dec. 16, 1927.

Nebraska Man turned out to be neither an ape nor a man. It actually turned out to be: Full examination results finally published in Scientific American, Dec. 16, 1927.

Nebraska Man turned out to be neither an ape nor a man. It actually turned out to be: A PIG! “A five million year old piece of bone that was thought to be the collarbone of a humanlike creature is actually part of a dolphin rib... The problem with a lot of anthropologists is that they want so much to find a hominid that any scrap of bone becomes a hominid bone.”

Dr. Tim White (anthropologist, University of California, Berkeley) as quoted by Ian Anderson in New Scientist, April 28, 1983, p. 199 Ape-men have been deduced from bones which actually belonged to:

PIG DOLPHIN ALLIGATOR HORSE BEAR ELEPHANT DONKEY

From Ape-Men by M. Bowden Piltdown Man

• a human skull • ape-like jaw • human-like teeth • 500,000 years old

Forty years later… • Recent jawbone • Teeth shortened to make them appear human- like. • Bones had been treated with chemicals • Longest enduring FRAUD! ramidus kadabba Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

18Km away in a different stratum! Ardipithecus ramidus kadabba

Spread over an area 15Km long! Was this history’s first suicide bomber? Palaeontology “Few sciences produce such abundant returns from so few fragments of fact as palaeontology.”

Nigel I Lawkes, The Times (London), Sept 23, 1994

Ape Men

3 ways to make an ape-man 1. Up-scale apes - Lucy 2. Scale-down Human fossils 3. Combine and Make-up fossils  Nebraska Man  Piltdown Man  Others…

• afarensis discovered by Donald Johanson in Ethiopia in 1974. •About 40% complete •Dated to be 3 million years old •Walked upright

•Finger and toe bones of model are straight. •The hands and feet are clearly human- like. Prior to the creation of this exhibit, fossils of A. afarensis had revealed their hands and feet to be very curved and ape-like.

J. Stern, R. Sussman, 1983. Am J. Phys. Anthropology, 60:279-312. “A summary of the morphologic and functional affinities of the Hadar hand fossils leads inexorably to an image of a suspensory adapted hand, surprisingly similar to hands found in the small end of the pygmy chimpanzee-common chimpanzee range”

J. Stern, R. Sussman, 1983. American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 60:279-312, p284. “… A. afarensis …represented by the famous skeleton known as Lucy – had wrists capable of locking the hands in place during knuckle walking”

Lucy on the ground with knuckles Science News, April 8, 2000, p.235

Nature, March 23, 2000. Australopithecus afarensis Skull of Lucy’s species “The skull form of all austral- opithecines is extremely ape- like... the show too many specialized and ape-like characteristics to be either the direct ancestor of man or of the line that led to man.”

Ashley Montague, Man: His First Million Years, World Publishers, p. 77 “But I myself remain totally unpersuaded. Almost always when I have tried to check the anatomical claims on which the status of Australopithecus is based, I have ended in failure... the skull is in fact so overwhelmingly simian as opposed to human that the contrary proposition could be equated to an assertion that black is white.” S. Zuckerman, Beyond the Ivory Tower, Taplinger Pub. Co., NY, pg. 77 Episode one (Dr. Owen Lovejoy) PBS Nova Series; In Search of Human Origins episode one 1994 (Dr. Owen Lovejoy) PBS Nova Series; In Search of Human Origins episode one 1994 (Dr. Owen Lovejoy)

Upright Lucy “…the australopithecines known over the last several decades…are now irrevocably removed from a place in the evolution of human , … and certainly [removed] from any place in the direct human lineage.”

Dr. Charles Oxnard, The Order of Man, Yale University Press, pg. 332.

• No similarity in appearance to human • Long arms are identical to chimpanzees • Jaws are similar to chimpanzees • Upper leg bone is similar to chimpanzees • Lucy’s legs were very ape-like • Brain size of chimpanzees • Large back muscles for tree dwelling • Hands similar to pygmy chimpanzee • Ape-like foot • Fingers and toes were long and curved • Locking wrists Ape Men

3 ways to make an ape-man 1. Up-scale apes - Lucy 2. Scale-down Human fossils 3. Combine and Make-up fossils  Nebraska Man  Piltdown Man  Others…

Neanderthals “Detailed comparison of skeletal remains with those of modern have shown that there is nothing in Neanderthal anatomy that conclusively indicates locomotor, manipulative, intellectual, or linguistic abilities inferior to those of modern humans.”

Erik Trinkaus, “Hard Times Among the Neanderthals,” Natural History, 87:10, p. 58 Neanderthals “Despite their stocky body build and their stocky skull shape, there is no hard evidence to say that Neanderthals were, in any way, inferior intellectually to modern man – They are known to have made sophisticated flint tools, built huts out of animal skins and had control of fire. They also buried their dead.” Vij Sodera (M.D., author of three surgical books), One Small Speck to Man: the evolution myth, 2003, p. 346. “Most anthropologists recognize burial as a very human, and a very religious, act. But the strongest evidence that Neandertals were fully human and of our species is that at four sites Neandertals and modern humans were buried together.”

Marvin Lubenow, “Recovery of Neanderthal mtDNA: An Evaluation,” Journal of Creation, 1998 p.89. Neanderthals

• Used jewelry • Made musical instruments • Did cave paintings • Capable of speech • Knew how to reset broken bones

Neanderthals

Distant Starlight

. How can we see stars that are millions of light-years away from us? . Horizon Problem . Alternatives  Different clock rates (Humphries, Hartnett) Distant Starlight

. How can we see stars that are millions of light-years away from us? . Horizon Problem . Alternatives  Different clock rates (Humphries, Hartnett)  Variable speed of light (Setterfield, Jason Lisle)  Illusionary History (Tipler – Multiple black holes)  Mature Creation (Philip Gosse) Mature Creation and Science A modern cosmologist who is also a theologian with strict fundamentalist views could construct a universe model which began 6000 years ago and whose edge was at distance of 6000 light years…

A benevolent God could easily arrange the creation so that suitable radiation was travelling toward us from the edge of the universe to give the impression of a vastly older universe.

George Ellis, Cosmologist and Professor in the University of Cape Town, South Africa Mature Creation and Science It would be impossible for any scientist on earth to refute this world picture experimentally or observationally; all he could do would be to disagree with the author’s cosmological premises.

George Ellis, Cosmologist and Professor in the University of Cape Town, South Africa Mom’s Theory

. 1492 – Europe to America: several months by ship . 2012 – Europe to America: few hours flying

"Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me, if you understand.” Job 38:4

I can accept, what I don’t understand! Calvary International Church November 11, 2012 THE BIBLE & SCIENCE WRAP-UP

Main Sources: Answers in Genesis MKen Ham: Six Days & Eisegesis John Jaquery - Calvary International Church Foundation Biblical Authority Theological Implications

Shortcomings of Evolutionary Model Origin of Life Fossils Big Bang

Evidences of Fine Tuning Biological Machines DNA

The Biblical Model

João Jaquery – Calvary International Church Wrap-up

. Let’s not make a big deal out of this  The different views of the millennium  Christians differ regarding baptism  The gift of tongues  Millions of years and 6-Days is just another one of these . Are these differences of the same nature?  Does science have a say regarding  the millennium, baptism, or gift of tongues?  How about millions of years? Christian Leaders

We have to admit here that the exegetical basis of the creationists is strong… Data from various disciplines point to a very old earth and an even older universe. James Boice, Genesis: An Expositional Commentary, volume 1, 1982, pages 57 and 60. Christian Leaders

It is apparent that the most straightforward understanding of the Genesis record, without regard to all of the hermeneutical considerations suggested by science, is that God created heaven and earth in six solar days,…”

Christian Leaders

The study of has rendered it virtually impossible for a serious scientist to make a case for a six day creation about six thousand years ago, as Christians would once have believed without question.

Milton Keynes, Salt Magazine: for All Ages, January-March, 1998, page 29. Christian Leaders

From a superficial reading of Genesis 1, the impression would seem to be that the entire creative process took place in six twenty-four- hour days. […] this seems to run counter to modern scientific research, which indicates that the planet Earth was created in several billion years ago.

Gleason Archer, A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, page 196. Christian Leaders

Biblically, we find the young earth approach of six consecutive 24-hour days and a catastrophic universal flood to make the most sense. However, we find the evidence from science for a great age for the universe and the earth to be nearly overwhelming…

Rich Milne & Ray Bohlin, “Christian Views of Science and Earth History,” Probe Ministry web page Christian Leaders

It is of course admitted that, taking this account by itself, it would be most natural to understand the word [day] in its ordinary sense; but if that sense brings the Mosaic account into conflict with facts, and another sense avoids such conflict, then it is obligatory on us to adopt that other.

Charles Hodge, Systematic Theology, volume1, 1871, pages 570-571 Christian Leaders

…even though newer interpretations of the biblical narrative did not seem to be ‘the most natural meaning,’ yet if geological facts ‘unequivocally require such an interpretation to harmonize the Bible with nature,’ then ‘science must be allowed to modify our exegesis of scripture.

Davis Young, professor at Calvin College, The Biblical Flood, pg. 146. In Summary…

. The Bible is Clear, there is no doubt about it . Extra biblical views are overriding the Bible’s authority . You can’t take the Bible as written . The door to discredit the Bible is open . The Bible has lost its absolute authority Martin Luther’s example

When Moses writes that God created heaven and earth and whatever is in them in six days, then let this period continue to have been six days, and do not venture to devise any comment according to which six days were one day. But, if you cannot understand how this could have been done in six days, then grant the Holy spirit the honor of being more learned than you are. continued… Martin Luther’s example

For you are to deal with Scripture in such a way that you bear in mind that God Himself says what is written. But since God is speaking, it is not fitting for you to wantonly to turn His Word in the direction you wish to go.

Martin Luther, What Martin Luther Says: A Practical In-Home Anthology for the Active Christian, page 1,523 Martin Luther’s example

We must understand that these days were actual days, contrary to the opinion of the holy fathers. Whenever we observe that the opinions of the fathers disagree with Scripture, we reverently bear with them and acknowledge them to be our elders. Nevertheless, we do not depart from authority of Scripture for their sake.

Martin Luther, What Martin Luther Says: A Practical In-Home Anthology for the Active Christian, page 1,523 "Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar. Proverbs 30:5-6