Sermon Tone Analysis

SF545

 

*BACK TO THE BEGINNING*

 

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*Colossians 1:16-17; Genesis 2:4-7*

 

*INTRODUCTION*

 

*/Is evolution fact or fiction?/* -Are you the creation of God or a monkey’s uncle?

*/Evolution Defined - /**Darwin /The Origin of the Species/ p. 523*

/“analogy would leave me to believe that all animals and plants are descended from one prototype.

All organisms start from a common origin, from some such low and intermediate forms both animals and plants may have been developed.

All the organic things which have lived upon the earth may have been descended from some one primordial form.“/

*/This is a foundational question.../*

Did God make man or do man imagine God?

Is man just a clever animal?

An accident?

Or the creation of God.

 

*/James Merritt..../*

/Robert Ingersoll, the atheist, once visited the great preacher Henry Ward Beecher who took him into his study to show him some of his theological books.

In Beecher's study there was this magnificent globe of the world with all of the mountains and the valleys painted in.

It was a beautiful work of art./

/Ingersoll, who was a very bright man and very highly educated, looked at the globe and said, "Dr.

Beecher, that's one of the most beautiful pieces of work I have ever seen.

Who made it for you?"/

/Beecher smiled and said, "Oh, nobody made it, it just happened."/

*/Four Alternatives (Charles Ryrie)/*

 

*Theistic Evolution - God created all things through the process of evolution*

/You cannot have it both ways.

There are some who say, "Well, I believe God created the world, but He used evolution to do it."

Well, you don't have that choice because if Genesis 1 and 2 is literally true, you cannot believe in evolution./

/Harry Rimmer, a great scientist who loved the Lord Jesus, once said, "To try to believe in both evolution and the Bible is like trying to ride two horses going in different directions."

/

 

*Natural Evolution + Allegorize the Bible*

/Basically say that Genesis 1-11 is an allegory not to be taken literally.

Would also include most of the miracles throughout the Bible.

Classic liberal view./

*Atheistic Evolution* /Dr.

George Wall, Professor of Biology at Harvard /

/“There are only two possibilities of how life arose, one is spontaneous generation arising to evolution.

The other is supernatural creative act of God, there is no third possibility.

Spontaneous generation, that life arose from no living matter, was scientifically disprove 120 years ago by Louis Pasture and others.

Than leaves us with only one possible conclusion that life arose by a supernatural creative act of God.

I will not accept that philosophically.

Because I do not want to believe in God.

Therefore, I choose to believe in that which I know is scientifically impossible.”/

/Nothing times nobody equals everything/

 

*Creationism*

/Accept the Bible fully and plainly.../

*1A.

A BAD THEORY*

 

*/1B.

Scientific Reasons/*

 

*1C.

The problem of Origin*

/Life only arises from life.

The law of biogenesis/

 

*/Dr.

Robert Jastrow, geologist, physicist/*

/"...It happened this way: now and then in the primordial seas of the earth collisions occurred between neighboring molecules; in some of these collisions, two small molecules  stuck together to form a larger one; then another small molecule collided and stuck; and then another.

Eventually after count‑less millions of chance‑encounters a molecule was formed that had the magical ability to divide into two copies of itself.

This was the start of parenthood; it was the start of life./

/From generation to generation parent molecules produced daughters; their numbers multiplied; today their descendants are on the earth; they are the molecules called DNA which lie in the center of every living cell..../

/What concrete evidence supports this remarkable theory of the origin of life?

There is none."/

*2C.

The problem of Mutation*

/Organism will bring forth after its kind (Gen 1:11-12)/

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/“After his kind” appears 10 times/

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/Mutation not transmutation - variety of roses but they are still roses./

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/If evolution is true one species has to evolve into another species.

You would expect to find transitional forms.

NOT ONE HAS BEEN FOUND!/

*Curt Dodd...* /“...Mutations are the raw material for natural selection.

That is that a new species is created out of mutations; however, it is mathematically illogical for that to happen.

Why?...only one in ten‑million DNA replications involve a mutation.

Most mutations only require a small effect on the  whole creature and therefore to substantially change a trait in that creature requires a series of related mutations and the odds of this are quite high.

In fact, it takes 10 to the 14th power DNA replications to get two (2) related mutations.

Ten to the 21th power to get three (3) related mutations.

Now follow this, scientists teach us that there are only 10 to the 80th power molecules in the entire universe.

Evolutionist say that 10 to the 17th power seconds have elapsed since the formation of the earth and in that time it would be virtually impossible to obtain more than a few tens of related mutations.

The evolutionary model requires tens of thousands processed.

In other words it is  mathematically impossible for a mutation to be the foundational process by which a specie changes”./

*/Sir Fred Hoyle/*/, an internationally recognized astronomer and mathematician, and one of Great Britain's foremost scientist, conducted a computerized study of the chance that the first living cell could have developed by a random process in some primordial ooze, and he calculated that the  chances of random chemical shuffling in some primordial soup that could produce the complex basic enzymes of just one cell of life, is only one in ten to the fortieth power.

That is, there is only one chance in ten followed by forty zeros that life just  happened.

Hoyle went on to say, "There is about as much chance of evolution being true as a hurricane going through a junk yard and building a Boeing 747."/

*3C.

The problem of the Second Law of Thermodynamics*

 

/The amount of organization or complexity in an isolated system must decrease with time.

In other words, random events produce chaos, not order.

Things move in a downward trend.

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*/(Romans 8:22)/*/  We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time./

/The evolutionists will say that is true in our observable time you need more time./

/Drop parts of a car from 5,000 feet would they become a car?

No, the evolutionist would say you need to drop them from 30, 000 feet.

They will just spread farther!/

 

*4C.

The problem of fossils - No intermediate forms ever found.*

*/E.

R. Leach/*/, ("Nature") said:  "Missing links in the sequence of fossil evidence were a worry to Darwin.

He felt sure they would eventually turn up, but they are still missing and seem likely to remain so."  /

 

/There's strong evidence, even today, that dinosaurs and man existed side by side in the Biloxi River in Glen Rose Texas.

They have found dinosaur tracks and the amazing thing is they found human tracks right along side of the dinosaur tracks in the same sediment, in the same mud./

/The dating procedure is circular in nature.

“The actual pragmatic approach of geology is to date the strata bye the fossils found in them and to date the fossils by the strata in which they are found.”