The Reason for God #8 Science Has Disproved Christianity (Part 2) Science Has Disproved Christianity NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ Sir Isaac Newton (1642 - 1727) "The most beautiful system of the sun, planets, and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being." Albert Einstein (1879-1955) "I want to know how God created this world, I am not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details." Robert Boyle (1627-1691) “From a knowledge of His work, we shall know Him” Sir William Herschel (1738 - 1822) “All human discoveries seem to be made only for the purpose of confirming the truths contained in the Sacred Scriptures.” “The undevout astronomer must be mad.” Samuel Morse (1791 - 1872) “What hath God wrought.” “Education without religion is in danger of substituting wild theories for the simple commonsense rules of Christianity.” Michael Faraday (1791 - 1867) “Speculations? I have none. I am resting on certainties. ‘I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep that which I have committed unto Him against that day.” Matthew Maury (1806 - 1873) “The Bible is true and science is true, and therefore each, if truly read, but proves the truth of the other.” Louis Pasteur (1822-1895) “The more I study nature, the more I stand amazed at the work of the Creator.” George Washington Carver (1864 - 1943) “Without my Savior, I am nothing.” “God is going to reveal to us things he never revealed before if we put our hands in his.” “Natural Selection is a real solution. It is the only workable solution that has ever been suggested.” “Maybe the psychological reason for this amazing blindness has something to do with the fact that many people have not had their consciousness raised, as biologists have, by natural selection…” Dawkins Stumped video “For the record, I think God guided some kind of process of natural selection…” – Timothy Keller NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ I. Embracing Evolution _________ Corrupts Christianity. NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ I. Embracing Evolution _________ Corrupts Christianity. Rise of man. The Bible A. Evolution teaches the _____ Fall of man (Romans 3:23). teaches the ____ “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God…” (Romans 3:23 NIV) NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ I. Embracing Evolution _________ Corrupts Christianity. Rise of man. The Bible A. Evolution teaches the _____ Fall of man (Romans 3:23). teaches the ____ Fell into sin, he has no need for B. If man never _____ Savior from sin. a ______ “…for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.” (Romans 3:23–24 NIV) Theistic Evolutionists are deluded – Dawkins clip NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ I. Embracing Evolution _________ Corrupts Christianity. Rise of man. The Bible A. Evolution teaches the _____ Fall of man (Romans 3:23). teaches the ____ Fell into sin, he has no need for B. If man never _____ Savior from sin. a ______ C. Death, disease and suffering did not occur until After the fall. _____ “The wages of sin is death.” (Romans 6:23 NIV) “The LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.” (Genesis 2:7 NIV) NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ I. Embracing Evolution _________ Corrupts Christianity. Millions of years don’t fit into the Bible. E. ________ “And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” (Genesis 1:5 NIV) “And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day.” (Genesis 1:8 NIV) “And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.” (Genesis 1:13 NIV) NOT Science Has Disproved Christianity ∧ Corrupts Christianity. I. Embracing Evolution _________ Millions of years don’t fit into the Bible. E. ________ Jesus has a big problem with evolution. D. ______ “1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of men. 5 The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness has not understood it.” (John 1:1–5 NIV) “6 …at the beginning of creation God ‘made them male and female.’ 7 ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, 8 and the two will become one flesh.’ So they are no longer two, but one.” (Mark 10:6–8 NIV) “26 “Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man. 27 People were eating, drinking, marrying and being given in marriage up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.” (Luke 17:26–27 NIV) Adam and Eve as the first married couple (Matthew 19:3-6; Mark 10:3-9) Abel as the first prophet who was martyred (Luke 11:50-51) Noah and the Flood (Matthew 24:38-39) Moses and the serpent (John 3:14) Moses and the manna (John 6:32-33, 49) Lot and his wife (Luke 17:28-32) Sodom and Gomorrah (Matthew 10:15) The miracles of Elijah (Luke 4:25-27) Jonah and the big fish (Matthew 12:40-41)