An Inclusive Science and Faith Message for the Media Dr. Hank D. Voss, [email protected] Taylor University, Upland, IN (Please email or talk with me during conference Cell 765 618 3813) Note: Taylor University and ASA not responsible for content. American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) conference, July 21, 2012, San Diego, CA The Heavens Declare the Glory of God! Psalm 19:1 The Greatest Question: Origins…Where did we / everything come from??? • Problem and Background • A Converging Baseline Creation (BC) Message Using Gen. 1 • Exo-planets and early earth without “form and void” • First Day 1 Light and Giant Impact • Days 0-6 and Mainstream Science • Huge Media/Society Implications Voss, ASA, 8/21/2012 2 Origins Problem (Secular) Random Evolution (RE) 25% 25% Theistic Evolution (TE) Old Earth Creation (OE) 25% 25% Young Earth Creation (YE) General Adult Belief Origins Poll surprising considering strong promotion of RE (>Billions $/yr.) by: RE • Media (video, radio, news, …) TE • Government Science and Education 48% • Professional Societies (bylaws, journals) OE • Public Universities YE • K-12 Education • Museums, Zoos, National Parks A Large Market for Connecting Mainstream Science to Bible/Belief? 3 “Limitations of Science” Mainstream Speculations: Pseudoscience Attempts to substitute “God” (Science as a Religion) • A Quantum Fluctuation creates the Universe • Multiverses to explain our fine-tuned Universe • Godless Grand Unified Theory of Everything (GUT) • Abiogenesis of Life in Galaxy (Drake Equation) • The Higgs Boson: The “God Particle” (SM particle) • And more presented in our classes and textbooks fanpop.com Good Science follows the Data (Points to a God! or?) • The Universe has a young 13.7B beginning (was repulsive to secular scientist) • The Universe will expand forever without contraction (Only one beginning) • Our universe is specially crafted/fine tuned (Anthropic Principle: Multiverse?) • The Earth-moon formed with a highly improbable collision (Catastrophe) 4 1 Cor. 13:12 For now we see through The Plumb line a glass darkly but then face to of Truth face. For now I know in part... Interpretation Interpretation of science of the Bible False ideas, False Interpretations Steady State, (hermeneutics), Cults, Eternal cosmos, Geocentric, thunder, Uniformity (No medicine/ surgery, Y2K, Catastrophes: relativity, time not Continental Drift, variable, Size of Universe, Asteroid Impacts ), Age of Universe, Gen 1?, Moon Origin, All Hominids, …?? Mechanistic, No Dimensions/other Christian Worldview encouraged search realms, …?? for order in Science Renaissance 5 RE, TE, OE, and YE Reference (see ASA web site for definitions) Interpretation Age Other Genesis 1/Secular Associations Key Advocates Young Earth Creation YE <10 K Schroeder Time, Time Acceleration, Appearance of Age ICR, AIG, CRS Literal Genesis 1 Physical Creation Old Earth Creation OE 13.7 B Progressive Creation, Day-Age, Gap theory, ID RTB, ASA, CRC Literal Genesis 1 Physical Creation Theistic Evolution TE 13.7 B Framework, Cosmic Temple, Poetic, Myth, ID ASA, Bio-Logos, CRC Non literal Genesis 1 Physical Creation, Functional Random Evolution RE 13.7 B Exogenesis, Panspermia, Extraterrestrial Implant Secular, Academic, SETI (Secular) • Is it not better if Genesis 1 describes BOTH a literal sequence of physical creation events and a more abstract layer of spiritual, poetic, and ancient cultural meaning? • Genesis 1 sets the foundation for Biblical Interpretation and shows God’s attributes (omniscience, omnipotence , omnipresence, and omnibenevolent). In addition, our fundamental cultural Worldview is shaped by the reality of God and scripture. Genesis 1 is stronger if it is Both literally and functionally correct (Inspiration). • Baseline Creation (BC) Message Objectives: • To humbly understand truth with harmony. Eph. 4:25, “Speak truth each one of you with his neighbor”, Ps. 19:1-4 “The Heavens declare the Glory of God” • Motivate Christian students to pursue geoscience and STEM Fields • Motivate the public to understand that mainstream scientific data can strongly underpin Creation • For Media Impact need a unified cohesive theme (Exciting Storyline Script)6 25 parallels between Genesis 1 “Storyline” and Mainstream Science Rev. Main (Gy BP) Mainstream Science Genesis/Bible Events Bible/Old Commentary Image 8/4/12 Ref Events Other realms or dimensions, Gen 1:1,2 Gen 1:1 In the beginning God (Before time) Other Dimensions, 1 One Creator God before Tim 1:9, Tts created the heavens and earth. Numerous universes ("bubbles"), The cosmos (transcendent) 1:2, 1 Cr 2:7 2 Tim 1:9 This grace .... before the Multiverse beginning of time Ex nihilo beginning of universe (13.7B) Big Bang, Beginning out of Gen 1:1 Nahmanides Commentary, 1250 2 made out of nothing (Novel AD: The initial creation produced an nothing, Ancient view) Heb 11:3 entity so thin it had no substance Singularity, Quantum Fluctuation, ? Beginning of Space, Time, to it. It was the only physical General Relativity, "Big Bang" (Note that Gen 1:1,2 Pet creation ever to occur and was all Bang was not chaotic but a highly 3 Forces, (Nahmanides 3:5, Heb 11:3 concentrated within the speck of crafted and low entropy controlled Commentary, NC) space that was the entire universe expansion) Beginning of Mass and Gen 1:1, Heb just following its creation. As the 4 universe expanded from the size of E=mc^2, General Relativity, Big Bang, Energy, (NC) 11:3 the initial miniscule space, the Laws of Physics: Instant Gen 1:1, Col 5 primordial substanceless substance Unknown? First Cause? Creation 1:16 changed into matter as we know it. Initial Conditions, Time starts with the appearance of Gen 1:1, Col Unknown? Where did the information 6 Information, Low Entropy, matter. 1:16 Heb 11: 3 What is seen was not come from? controlled expansion made out of what was visible. ZAP! Instant creation, No Col 1:16 For by him all things were Inflation to explain CBR and flatness, 7 universe to relatively large Gen 1:1 created: ... visible and invisible Instant increase of size of universe by 60 universe orders of magnitude Expansion, stretched out like Ps 104:2, Jer. Isa 40:22, 42:5,45:12 , He stretches out 8 10:12, 51:15, the heavens like a canopy, and spreads Hubble Law plus vacuum acceleration a tent Zech. 12:1 them out like a tent to live in. Universe CreationUnfoldingand Gen 1:2 And the earth was without (4.57B) Exo-planets, Chaos, Wasteland 9 Earth without form, void Gen 1:2 form, and void. probability Water on face of earth, The Gen 1:2 And the Spirit of God was Spirit of God located on the hovering over the waters. 2 Pet 3:5 "Day 0" Creation and Unfolding of Cosmos "Day Unfolding Creationand 0" Watery and Ocean Planets (Super 10 Surface of Earth gives a Gen 1: 2 the heavens existed and the earth Earths) viewing reference point for was formed out of water and by understanding Creation Days water. 11 Darkness on face of earth Gen 1:2, Job Gen 1:2 And darkness was upon the Exoplanet thick first atmosphere-clouds, Earth 38:9 face of the deep. Job 38:9 "when I Ocean Hadean Period; H2, He, H2O, CO2, N2, made the clouds its garment and Voss, ASA, 8/21/2012 Planet NH3, CH4, CL, S, About 100+ atm. like7 wrapped it in thick darkness" Venus with clouds 25 parallels between Genesis 1 “Storyline” and Mainstream Science Continued (4.5 B) Giant Impact, Earth Brighter than Gen 1:3 And God said, "Let there be 12 Day 1 First Light on earth Gen 1: 3 the Sun for few days, earth structure light," and there was light. reborn, moon created with stability Hadean Day 1 Day Gen 1:4,5 and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the Earth Spin Rate increased rapidly to 5hrs 13 Day 1 Beginning of days Gen 1:4,5 light "day," and the darkness he giving the First Day, called "night." LIGHT Day 1 First evening and Gen 1:5 And there was evening, and 1st Evening (thick darkness) to morning 14 Gen 1:5 morning there was morning - the first day. with new day/night periods 4.5-3.8 B Early icy asteroid impacts, Late 15 Day 2 Atmosphere Water Gen 1:6 2 Peter 3:5 .....the earth was formed out of water and by water, early bombardment, lunar cataclysm Day 2 Atmospheric balance, Gen 1:6-8 And God said, "Let there (3.8B) New Atmosphere with Water, Archean 16 Water Cycle, Clouds Above Gen 1:6 be an expanse between the H2O Habitable Zone established for life, (translucent) waters to separate water from Clouds, First life, Extremophiles water." Day 2 Livable Atmosphere (3.2 B), Cyanobacteria for Atmosphere 17 Gen 1:8 So God made the expanse and Water Day 2 Day Water created separated the water under the O2 generation, Stromatolites, expanse from the water above it. 18 Day 2 Global Ocean Gen 1:7 (1.8 B) Convection causes uplift, one Gen 1:9 And God said, "Let the water Proterozoic 19 Day 3 one land mass Gen 1:9,10 under the sky be gathered to one land mass Colombia/Rodina place, and let dry ground appear." Supercontinents, Plate Tectonics Gen 1:11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed bearing (1B) Eukaryotes, Protista, Green Algae, 20 Day 3 plants on land Gen 1:11,12 plants and trees on the land that bear Plants on Land begin fruit with seed in it" Land/Plants Day 3 Day Land/Plants Gen 1:16 God made two great lights - (530M) CO2 sequestered, Transparent Paleozoic Day 4 Observe sun, moon, the greater light to govern the day 21 Gen 1:14-18 atmosphere, Cambrian Explosion, Day 4 Day stars and the lesser light to govern the night.