Chapters 8-10Presented by David M. HaszWritten by Charles Colson

Life in a Test Tube?A little science estranges a man from God. A lot of science brings him back. - Francis Bacon

Life in Test Tube Cont.All the tests produce the wrong kind of amino acids that sustain life.

Other ProblemsSidney Fox started with amino acids thus left handed acids.Amino acids not hooking up to form peptide bonds, needed to sustain living things.

Other ProblemsScientists have to cheat to get results.

Several Cheating scenariosFilter out the longer ultraviolet raysTrap amino acids as soon as they form to keep them from disintegrating

Cheating ScenariosAll the experiments that have produced so much excitement are artificial.

Not a ChanceThe computer revolution put evolutionary theory to death.In 1960s scientists started writing computer programs to test theory.

Not a chanceBy 1966 chance theories were being secretly burned.

No wayLife by chance - Same probability asLine up 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 blind people.

No WayGive them all a rubiks cube and have them all solve it at exactly the same moment.

Many are seeing the light - sort ofMany scientists are accepting the idea of an intelligent DesignerScience is not challenging the Christian faith it is proving it to be true.Lets look at DNA

DNAThis is the language in the heart of a cell.DNA is made up of chemicals but it has to be in exactly the right order.

DNAAll creation points toward an intelligent designer.Watch argument

Information TheoryA field of research that studies the ways information is transmitted.Is a message high or low content.DNA is high, who wrote it?

The declarationNABT - life is the outcome of an unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable, and natural processThis takes God out of the picture.

The DeclarationAll the pictures and no one has ever witnessed evolution in process

BreedingAt first there is a lot of change but eventually the changes level off and there is a line breeders cannot cross.

BreedingAs breeding is intensified the organism grows weaker, not stronger.

Breeding cont.When the organism is left to itself it returns to the original.Evolution through mutations?

BreedingMost mutations are harmful or lethal to the organism.The collection of mutations is devolution

Irreducible complexityThis is the concept used to argue that organisms could not have evolved piecemeal. They would have died.Darwin admitted it would be the end of his theory if we could find complex organs that could not evolve in slight modifications.

The BatHow could it get from rat to bat?It would be extinct along the way.The Eye - How would is slightly alter over time to become an eye?

The dangerMuch more at stake than scientific theory.Our origin determines our destiny.Ethics -what if there is a God?

The LawTraditionally, a nations laws were understood to be based on a transcendent moral order.

The LawThe belief was that men do not make laws. They do but discover them. Laws must rest on the eternal foundation of righteousness

WHAT?Where did that come from? Calvin Coolidge our thirteenth president.

WHAT?Education - Dewey argued that our brains are just evolving organs as well. Ideas are just hypothesis - thus the gutting of the academic and moral education today.

Why did they support it?Many of Darwins earliest and most ardent supporters were quick to spot the scientific weakness of his theory, yet they chose to champion it because they saw it as a useful means of promoting naturalistic philosophy.

It was riggedThe data proves evolution was not so much about scientific evidence is was more about rationale for naturalism.We should all be asking who is this guy

RiggedEveryone now realizes that everything stands or falls on the doctrine of creation.

Lets line up the evidenceFirst - cosmology has discovered not all matter is eternal as naturalist scientists once assumed.

EvidenceSecond - there are staggering coincidences that make the universe fit for life.

The evidenceThird - laboratory experiments touted as proof that life can arise spontaneously, turned out to prove nothing of the sort.

EvidenceFourth - Darwin did not succeed in demonstrating that life developed by natural forces.

ChristianityIs an objective perspective on all reality, a complete worldview.Only Christianity consistently stands up to the test of practical living.