Marine Biology Seashore Session 2018 6 Huge Answers All Need to Know Friday – Is There a God? Saturday – Can God’s WORD be Trusted? Sunday – Did the Resurrection Really Happen? Monday – Who is Jesus Really? Tuesday – Am I Really Saved? Wednesday – How Does a Person Live for Christ in this Fallen World? 1 Friday Is There a God? How did everything get here? Where did life come from? Is Darwinian evolution true? Are all living things descended from one cell? Do organisms mutate into totally new organisms? These are questions most people think about sometime during their lives. The public-school system and public universities promote that they know for sure the answers to these questions. But do they really know the answers or are they “pushing” ___________ ______________, (a religion)? 1. Atheist Charles Darwin writes The Origin of the Species Through Natural Selection in 1859. Proposes all life evolved from a _________ organism, because cells were thought to be just bags of chemicals. 2. Atheist Aleksandr Oparin proposes in 1924 that life on Earth developed through a gradual chemical evolution of carbon-based molecules in the Earth's ______________ soup. He writes The Origin of Life in 1938. 3. Atheist John Burdon Sanderson Haldane proposes in 1929 that the first cells would have formed by _______ synthesis in the oceans – “primordial soup.” 4. Atheists Harold Urey and Stanley Miller assemble a model testing Oparin & Haldane’s theory at the University of Chicago in 1953. 2 5. Sidney Walter Fox, a Jew, duplicates Miller & Urey’s experiments and adjusts ingredients to produce 12 essential amino acids. *But later in life, admits that this could not be the way life formed on the planet, for no ______ or ______ could be formed by this system. *A result of a personal conversation during dinner at SIU-C in 1990. He also admitted that He thought God made life in some way that is unknown to science. Scientific problems with this religion. 1. _____________ _____________ (Abiogenesis) has been scientifically proven to be false! Louis Pasteur, a Christian, proved in the 1880’s that Darwin’s idea that life could have just erupted from _______________ chemicals was not true. Nearly all Biology textbooks today state that the theory of Spontaneous Generation or Abiogenesis is _________. 3 In nearly all Biology textbooks, the authors state that it did happen ______ – the origin of life on this planet. Darwin’s “religion” consists of two gods: 1. The god of __________ The god of Time in this religion states, “If enough time is given, ___________ can happen!” That is why supporters of this religion insist that the earth is billions of years old. How do you test this? 4 The only test available is _____________ dating, invented by the Curies. Using the radioactive decay rates of known radioisotopes, the Curies stated that it may be possible to obtain an idea of the date of a specimen or rock. But to be accurate, ____________ must be used, as in any scientific inquiry, to make sure that the dates would be accurate. Controls are used to establish a baseline to compare the results of the testing. Having a control group rules out any environmental variables from affecting the conclusion of the experiment. Today, we know that __________________ factors do alter the radioactive decay rates of specimens. Rock from cooled lava flows Rocks from the cooled lava known to have occurred dome of Mount St. Helens between 1949 and 1975 were (which at the time were about sent to several standard labs to 10 years old) were sent to a be dated - without telling the reputable lab to be dated - labs where the rocks had come without telling the lab where from or that the actual age of the rocks had come from. The the rocks was already known. lab (using K-Ar) dating The labs (using K-Ar) dating returned results ranging returned results ranging from from <0.27 million years old to 3.5 ± 0.34 ± 0.06 million years old to .2 million years old! 2.8 ± 0.6 million years old! Dr. Andrew Snelling, Creation Keith Swensen, Creation, ex nihilo, December 1999 - June - August 2001, Vol. 23 February 2000, Vol. 22 No. 1, No. 3, p.23-25 p.18-21 Shells from living snails were carbon dated as being 27,000 “One part of the Vollosovitch years old. (Science Vol. 224, mammoth carbon dated at 1984 p. 58-61) 29,500 years old and another part at 44,000 yrs old.” (Troy L. Pewe, Quaternary A freshly killed seal was Stratigraphic Nomenclature carbon dated as having died in Unglaciated Central 1300 years ago! Alaska, Geological Survey Professional Paper 862) (Antarctic Journal vol. 6 Sept-Oct. 1971 p. 211) 5 2. The god of _______________. Darwinian Evolution is defined as random chance mutations adding new genetic information to the genome that benefits the organism. “Genes, the carriers of inheritable characteristics, are also the source of the random variation upon which natural selection operates…Once in a while a mutation may be beneficial to an organism.” Biology, Miller & Levine, Prentice Hall. There are ________! Yet, that is what is relied upon to produce all of the organisms on this planet, living and extinct. The first cell formed, and a random mutation occurred ____________ new DNA and genes to the genome. This resulted in the organisms ____________ into various classes, phyla, kingdoms, etc. Darwin believed that scientists would find billions of fossils connecting all of these organisms through these transitions. This is called Darwin’s __________. 6 But after ______ years of searching for these billions of transition fossils, hardly any have been discovered, and what has been found does not support the theory. “The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our textbooks have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.” Stephen J. Gould. Evolution’s Erratic Pace. “Natural History, vol. 86, no.5, May 1977, page 14. “We are now about 120 years after Darwin and the knowledge of the fossil record has been greatly expanded. We now have a quarter of a million fossil species but the situation hasn’t change much. The record of evolution is still surprisingly jerky and, ironically, we have even fewer examples of evolutionary transition than we had in Darwin’s time.” David Raup. Director of the Field Museum of Natural History as quoted in David Nobel’s Understanding the Times. Atheist George Wald, wrote, “Spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are, as a result. I believe in spontaneous generation.” The Origin of Life. What is the alternative? Intelligent Design or a ___________. But they do not want to go there, even though the _____________ points directly in that direction! DNA is a ______________. It is found in all living things. Sidney Fox said that it could not be formed in a primordial soup. Yet, it is the basis for life. How is DNA evidence of a Creator? It is a language. Languages always must form from _______________. An intelligence must design it and an intelligence must be able to ________ it. Atheist Francis Crick wrote, “An honest man, armed with all of the knowledge available to us now, could only state that in some sense, the origin of life appears at the moment to be almost a miracle, so many are the conditions which would have had to have been satisfied to get it going.” Life Itself: It’s Origin and Nature. Christian Louis Pasteur stated, “Darwin did not base his ideas on experimental proof. Charles Darwin’s writing’s owed too much to imagination and too little to hard scientific facts.” 7 If there is a design, there is a designer. If there is a plan, there is a planner. If there is a creation, there is a Creator. Psalm 19:1-3 (ESV) The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork. Day to day pours out speech, and night to night reveals knowledge. There is no speech, nor are there words, whose voice is not heard. Job 12:7-10 (ESV) "But ask the beasts, and they will teach you; the birds of the heavens, and they will tell you; or the bushes of the earth, and they will teach you; and the fish of the sea will declare to you. Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this? In his hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind. Discussion Questions: 1. What impacted you the most from this lesson and why? 2. Look at nature. Does it look like it came about by random chances, or do you see a design? Should this influence your opinion? 3. Why do you think Dr. Sidney Fox’s or Louis Pasteur’s comments on the origin of life are not included in science textbooks or T.V. shows? 4. Miller and Urey found a few essential amino acids in their “soup.” But they also manufactured formaldehyde, cyanide, and other poisonous materials. Why are these facts left out of the science textbooks? 8 Saturday Can God’s Word be Trusted? Is it inaccurate and foolhardy to place our trust and faith in the Word of God? How accurate is our Bible? Has the Word of God changed? Let’s examine quickly, what evidence states that the Word of God is the same and does not change.