Evolution Series: Evolution Myths

EVOLUTION SERIES BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE DEPARTMENT OF CHRISTIAN EDUCATION OF BTIC AND THE GOD OF ALL TRUTH. WHY EVOLUTION SERIES ? • “The seeds of my atheism were sown as a youngstar when Religious Authorities seemed unwilling or unable to help me get answers to my questions about God. My disbelief flowered after discovering that DARWINISM displaces the need for a DEITY” -----Lee Strobel OPENING THOUGHT • I Timothy 4:1 • I Timothy 6:20 • Romans 1:22. • Evolution is not a physical science (physics, chemistry and biology) • Evolution is , gradual changes in species over time (Darwin) • New species arise from evolution not creation (Darwin) INTRODUCTION • The General Assumptions & Icons of Evolution. • Acid Test of these Assumptions. • Some insightful quotes. • Goals of Evolution. • What the Bible says. • Conclusion. SOME ASSUMPTIONS OF EVOLUTION • The gulf between living and non living things can be filled. (blnd chance can produce life.) • Evolution (creation ) has no role for God; external pressure or blind chance directs creation !—Phillip Johnson and Darwin ACID TEST OF EVOLUTION ICONS • Ernst Haeckel’s diagram (presuming to show the early embryos of human and reptiles) is a ruse- a picture of a single embryo duplicated for deception • Piltdown Man fossil ( an attempt to an show intermediatet specie) turned out to be fake. • Miller & Uric experiment on origin of life was staged. SOME INSIGHTFUL QUOTES • The idea that undirected process could somehow turn dead chemicals into all the etraordinary complexity of living things is surely no more nor less than the great cosmogenic myth of our times (Michael Denton-Biochemist). • These amazing biological systems-which exceeds the capability of human technologypionts towards a transcendent creator. (Michael Behe-Biochemist) GOALS OF EVOLUTION • “To get people to reject irrational and supernatural explanation of the world , the demons that exist only in their immaginations , and to accept a social and iintellectual apparatus of science , as the ONLY begeter of TRUTH. ---Richard Lewontin. • “The more you understand the significance of EVOLUTION, the more you are pushed away from an agnostic position and towards ATHEISM.----Oxford evolutionist Dawkins. WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS • Revelation 4:11 • Psalms 104:24; 139:13 &14. • Jeremiah 1:5. • Genesis 1:21 & 27. 2:1-2 • etc CONCLUSION • Creation testifies to God’s power. (Romans 1:20) • Jesus, and not science, is the TRUTH – John 14:6. • Jesus has the responsibility of enlightening everybody that comes into the world.( John 1:9). • Jesus is the eternal true wisdom ( Proverbs 8: 22-31) • It is only a fool that denies the existence of God.(Psalms 14:1) • Evolutin is the demonic (1 Kings 16:34)