Part
One ? Fact vs. Faith
I.
What is Science?
Science
has to do with facts.
The word "science"
means, "to know," from the
Latin word scire.
The New Standard Encyclopedia
says,
"Science" is the
systematic and unbiased study of the
world, including everything that can be
seen or detected in nature, man, and
society, and the knowledge that grows
out of such study."
To
fall into the category of science, you
must be able to observe it, test it, and
demonstrate it (reproduce it in the
laboratory).
Science
is supposed to represent a search for
the truth.
It is a way of finding out about
the world around us.
Today many evolutionary
scientists have changed the meaning of
"science" from a "search
for the truth," to
"naturalism."
Therefore anything supernatural
is automatically ruled out, and they
seek only naturalistic answers to their
problems.
II.
What a Scientist does.
The
Scientific Method:
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Stating
or defining the problem.
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Gathering
information on the problem.
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Forming
a hypothesis (or trial answer).
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Performing
experiments to test the hypothesis.
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Recording
and analyzing data.
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Stating
a conclusion.
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Repeating
the work.
The Nature of Science,
Prentice Hall, 1993.
If
there is no way to test a theory and
possibly prove it false, it is not a
theory of science.
It is really philosophy or
religion.
(No theories should be protected
from criticism, because it may some day
be proved wrong.)
III.
The limitations of science.
Science
has certain limitations.
A. You can only observe the
present.
B.
You cannot repeat the ancient past.
C.
Science cannot discover
absolute truth because science is always
changing.
An evolutionist once said to me,
?You creationists are not willing to
change what you believe, that's why
creationism should not be considered
science.?
IV.
The beginning of modern science.
Modern
science began with the work of such men
as Galileo, Kepler, Newton
, Linnaeus, Ray, Clerk-Maxwell, Faraday,
Pasteur, and Virchow.
All of these men were theists who
believed that the earth and universe
were created by God, and that they, as
created in the image of God, had the
abilities for observation, search, and
reasoning whereby they could learn about
this earth and universe.
Early
scientists counted on the fact that this
universe was here for a purpose, and
there were laws in operation that could
be depended upon.
Kepler once said that modern
science began as a venture to
"think God's thoughts after
Him."
V.
The nature of religion.
Religion
is a system of belief and worship that
involves a belief in something or
someone that does not have to be based
on anything that can be seen or proven.
It involves trust and faith.
Hebrews
11:1, ?Now faith is the substance of
things hoped for, the evidence of things
not seen.?
If you can see it or hold it in
your hand, that doesn't require any
faith.
Evolution
is a religious belief based upon the
words of some men who were not there, do
not know everything, occasionally make
mistakes, whose theories change all the
time.
Creation
is a religious belief based upon the
Word of Someone Who was there in the
past, Who gave us a written record of
how this world began and why, Who never
makes a mistake and never changes.
Notice
the terms used in the textbooks:
"swirling
in the waters of the oceans is a
bubbling broth of complex
chemicals"
Holt Earth Science 1994, p. 282.
(They
are still teaching bacteria came from
soup)
"The
first self-replicating systems must
have emerged in this organic soup."
Biology - The Unity and diversity
of Life - Wadsworth
1992, p. 301.
("must have emerged" in
the "soup")
"It
is in these oceans, "scientists believe
the first living organisms
appeared."
Glenco Biology 1995, p. 398.
"humans
probably evolved from bacteria."
HBJ Earth Science 1989, p. 356.
"Your
time of arrival is about 4.6 billion
years ago, which is when scientists
believe Earth first came into
being." - "All the many
forms of life today are descended from a
common ancestor, found in a population
of primitive unicellular organisms (simple
single cell - no such creature exists).
What were those first cells like?
What events led up to their
formation?
No traces of those events
remain, and scientists can't travel
backward in time to witness what
happened.- Glencoe Biology 1994, p.
324.
"The
first living cells emerged between 4
billion and 3.8 billion years ago.
There is no record of the
event.
The rocks from that period melted
and solidified many times, and heat and
pressure altered any clues they may have
held."
Biology The Unity and diversity
of Life -
Wadsworth
1992, p. 300.
So
what the textbooks are saying is,
"We believe it did, it must have,
and it probably did, but there is no
evidence that it did."
Faith is based on what you can't
see, but still believe.
Any belief about origins has to
be accepted by faith.
Part
Two - The Laws of Science
I.
The Law of Biogenesis
Evolutionary
scientists used to believe in spontaneous
generation, which meant: "life
came from non-life."
At one time they believed that
rats evolved from garbage, maggots
evolved from meat, and bacteria evolved
from broth.
Louis
Pasteur proved that wrong, so they made
it a law of science, called the Law of
Biogenesis, which means: "life
comes only from other life."
Today
the evolutionists have changed the name
from "spontaneous generation"
to "chemical evolution," and
put it back in the textbooks when we
weren't looking.
Both terms mean, "life came
from non-life", which Pasteur
already proved wrong.
The
word "Evolution" has many
meanings, only one of which is
scientific.
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Cosmic
evolution - the origin of time,
space, matter, and energy.
Big Bang
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Chemical
evolution - the origin of higher
elements from hydrogen.
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Stellar
and planetary evolution - the
origin of the stars and planets.
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Organic
evolution - the origin of life.
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Macro-evolution
- the origin of the major kinds of
organisms.
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Micro-evolution
- variations within kinds of
organisms.
Only
the last meaning has ever been observed,
the other 5 are just believed and
assumed to have happened.
Children
in public school are told that there are
different kinds of dogs, and different
kinds of roses (micro-evolution), which
can be observed, is scientific, and it
is scriptural (the Bible says things
will reproduce after their own kind).
Then the kids are told that the
dog and the rose had a common ancestor,
and it was a bacteria (or maybe a
complex chemical or a rock, depending on
how far back you want to trace your
family tree).
Teachers
show the kids things they can see (dogs
and roses), then try to get them to
believe in things they can't see (a
common grandpa that was a bacteria), and
try to convince them they are part of
the same theory.
Has anyone ever seen a dog
produce a non-dog?
No, nor a non-anything else
either!
In
advertising this is called "bait
and switch," and it is illegal.
Advertise a new Mercedes for $10,
then once you get them down there, try
to sell them the $40,000 car, the one
you actually had on the lot in the first
place.
Some
people make good observations and still
come to the wrong conclusions.
After studying finches on the
Galapagos Islands
, Charles Darwin said, "It is a
truly wonderful fact" that all
animals and all plants
throughout all time and space should be
related to each other"" Origin
of Species 1859, p. 170.
(I thought the finches had a
common ancestor and it was a bird!
Not a tomato or a pine tree!)
III.
The Law of probability
Probability
has to do with something happening by
chance, and estimating what the
percentages would be.
If
there were 3 Styrofoam cups turned
upside down, and I had placed a marble
under one of them, you would have one
chance in three of finding the marble
the first time.
If there were 10 cups and still
only one marble, you would have one
chance in ten.
It has been estimated if you have
one chance in the number 10 with 50
zeros after it, it will never happen,
the chances are too remote.
It
has been determined that for a single
protein to form itself by accident,
would be one chance in 10 with 191 zeros
after it.
For a single cell it would be
40,000 zeros after it.
For DNA the number 10 would have
119,000 zeros after it.
To put this into perspective, the
amount of seconds in 4.6 billion years
would be 10 with 25 zeros after it.
II.
The Laws of Thermodynamics
"Thermo"
means heat, "dynamics"
means energy.
A.
The First Law of Thermodynamics
"Matter
(and/or energy) cannot be created or
destroyed."
This is also called the law of
energy conservation.
The total amount of energy in the
entire universe remains the same.
It can be transformed into other
forms, but the total amount will remain
the same.
Where
did all the matter and energy come from?
Evolution offers two proposals
for the existence of matter and energy:
It created itself, or it has
always existed.
If it created itself, which means
at some point in time, although it
didn't exist yet, it had a mind of its
own and decided to create itself.
The
first law dealing with matter and energy
says that it doesn't work that way.
This is a LAW of science!
In
the very first verse of the Bible it
says, "In the beginning, God
created the heaven and the earth."
Genesis 1:1.
"In the beginning"
has reference to TIME.
TIME has three dimensions:
Past - present - future.
"God
created the heaven" has
reference to SPACE.
SPACE has three dimensions:
Length - height - width.
"and
the earth has reference to
MATTER.
MATTER has three dimensions:
Solid - liquid - gas.
To
"create" requires energy,
which God has an infinite supply of.
The
first verse in the Bible contains a
trinity of trinities, which explains the
existence of time, space, matter, and
energy.
"If
you could run the life of the universe
in reverse, like a film, you would see
the universe contracting until it
disappeared in a flash of light, leaving
nothing. "Not only matter
and energy would disappear, but also
space and time.
However, physicists theorize that
from this state of nothingness
the universe began in a gigantic
explosion - the Big Bang""
HBJ General Science 1989, p. 362.
Evolution
says nothing exploded (the BIG BANG) and
created space, time, matter, and energy.
Can
you have an explosion without energy?
And if you had no matter, what
exploded?
The
Bible says, "although the works
were finished from the foundation of the
world."
Hebrews 4:3.
There was no First Law of
Thermodynamics until day six of the
creation week when God's work was done.
B.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
The
Second Law of Thermodynamics says,
"Everything tends toward disorder
and decay."
This is also called the law of
energy deterioration.
This says that everything is
going downhill, wearing out, and running
down.
Most
astronomers believe that about 18
to 20 billion years ago all the matter
in the whole universe was concentrated
into one very dense, very hot region
that may have been much
smaller than a period on this page.
(That's a pretty packed period!)
For some unknown reason, this
reason exploded.
This explosion is called the big
bang.?
Prentice Hall General Science
1992, p. 61.
This
is evolution's second proposal, matter
and energy has always existed.
How could it always exist?
If it is deteriorating, why
hasn't it reached equilibrium yet?
Evolutionists have even estimated
when that will happen.
But it has always been going on
and hasn't happened yet?
It must have had a beginning!
The
Bible says, "the heavens are the
works of thine hands: They shall perish;
but thou remainest; and they all shall wax
old as doth a garment;"
Hebrews
1:10
-11.
There
was no second law of thermodynamics
until Adam and Eve sinned.
That's when things started to
decay and die!
That's just the extent of the
curse.
Part
Three - Putting it all into perspective.
If
you were to add up all the verses in the
Bible, and you went to the very center
of the Bible; you would come to Psalm
118:8 which says, "It is better to trust
in the Lord than to put confidence
in man."
Who
would you rather believe?
Some men who: were not there, do
not know everything, make mistakes, and
their theories change all the time.
Or Someone Who: was there, does know
everything, never makes a mistake, and
His Word doesn't change.
I'd rather take the Word of the
Person who was there.
The answer's in Genesis.
Dr.
Colin Patterson, Senior Palaeontologist
at the
British
Museum
of Natural History in
London
,
England
was speaking to a group of evolutionary
scientists in this country a number of
years ago, when he made this statement:
"Tell me one thing about Evolution
that we know for sure.
Anything we know is true."
The answer he got was dead
silence.
Some
time later he was speaking to another
group of scientists when he made the
same statement.
"Tell me one thing about
Evolution that we know for sure."
This time after a long silence,
one man raised his hand.
He said, "I know one thing
for sure about Evolution.
It shouldn't be taught in high
school."
Dr. Patterson said, "You
might believe it is a good theory, you
have absolutely no right to teach it as
a fact."
Dr.
T.N. Tahmisian of the Atomic Energy
Commission,
USA
said this, "Scientists who go about
teaching that evolution is a fact of
life are great con-men and the
story they are telling, may be the
greatest hoax ever.
In explaining evolution we
(scientists) do not have one iota of
fact."
The
Bible says, "O Timothy, keep that
which is committed to thy trust,
avoiding profane and vain babblings, and
oppositions of science falsely so
called."
I Timothy 6:20.
WHY
DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION?
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That
is all they have been taught.
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Their
job depends on it.
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They
hope there is no God to answer to.
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They
have social-political reasons.
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They
have too much pride to admit they
have been wrong.
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