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Critical Considerations of Your Origin and Existence
This article will compare how creation and evolution view the world around us and show how evolution consistently rejects explanations based on a creator god.
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The evolution story is a mixture of reality and fabrication. Natural selection is a great example of this truth.
Reality: Natural selection produces new species of plants and animals. Fabrication: The claim that natural selection produces new kinds of plants and animals.
There are many species in most Biblical kinds. Every kind of plant and animal which exists today, or which has gone extinct, was created by God thousands of years ago during the six days of creation. No new kinds ever develop. New species develop all the time, but always within their own kind. Birds did not descend from dinosaurs, they descended from birds. People did not descend from apelike creatures, they descended from people.
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Books Creationists Should Own -David Stove’s Darwinian Fairytales; article by Jeffrey Stueber
Stueber writes: Evolution by natural selection, Stove says, is a general theory that applies to all species including humans, and if it is not true of humans it is not true. Stove is also blunt in noting that if Darwin’s theory were true, the human race would never exist and does so only because, contrary to Darwinian belief, cooperation was always stronger than competition.
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How about starting each day by reciting out loud a positive passage from Scripture? A great choice would be, This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it. These words are packed with so much meaning. The Psalmist starts by declaring God to be our creator. God created everything, including time itself. God made today!
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Let’s compare evolution and creation, look at a few of the logical problems evolution faces, and learn why evolution is incompatible with the Christian faith. We will then consider the question, “Why do some believe in millions of years?”
Modified from a 2013 LSI video used for confirmation class, adult Bible studies, and in high schools. The video includes additional review and discussion questions. www.LutheranScience.org/video
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The Nazi German military had developed a code system, called Enigma, for sending information and directions to its field units and ships. ...Alan Turing and the team of codebreakers successfully developed a machine to decode the Germans’ messages. The breaking of Enigma is considered among the top accomplishments leading to Allied victory in the War. Consider now that the field of code-making and code-breaking, formally called cryptography, unveils fundamental evidence of intelligence.
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There is a narrow Lutheran middle road regarding Creation. Let’s travel that narrow road while not falling into the ditches on either side. The ditch on one side incorrectly sees arguments from reason as able to aid in creating or sustaining faith. The ditch on the other side incorrectly sees no place at all for arguments from reason in our apologetic (in our defense of the faith).
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This Lutheran Science Institute (LSI) survey was taken by 978 pastors, teachers, and laity between September 3 and November 28, 2015. Below is a chronologically sorted list of the textual responses of all 773 respondents who wrote something (79% of the 978 total respondents). This is a complete set of unedited responses, except words identifying the respondent have been removed.
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Nearly 1,000 WELS pastors, teachers, staff ministers, and lay Sunday School teachers completed a creation apologetics survey in fall 2015. The WELS consistently and correctly teaches the Biblical position of a recent creation and a world-wide flood. That said, we do hold various thoughts on how to approach the lie of evolution.
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1. Many or most WELS called workers see evolution as a significant issue for the church. 2. WELS called workers overwhelmingly agree that our schools should teach some of the scientific problems faced by evolution. 3. Many WELS called workers see a need for good creation apologetic materials. 4. There is a wide diversity of creation apologetic methods used by our WELS called workers. 5. Our WELS called workers are split on how to define “science.” One definition sees evolution as science. The other definition sees the exact opposite: evolution is not science. 6. Many WELS called workers have misconceptions about science and evolution. 7. WELS called workers are solidly young earth creationists (YEC). 8. WELS laity who teach Sunday School share these attributes. 9. Many WELS teachers view the effect of science on faith differently than many WELS pastors.
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Survey Questions: This Lutheran Science Institute (LSI) survey was taken by 978 pastors, teachers, and laity between September 3 and November 28, 2015.
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What the video does is show that people who believe in evolution can’t necessarily give answers to simple questions about their beliefs. Often they demonstrate that their beliefs are based on faith in teachers or scientists who are presumed to have those answers. These “experts” do not have those answers, though, and faith in them is nothing but a cop-out and excuse to evade thinking about questions about creation and evolution.
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This article series discusses the use of reason in apologetics (i.e., defending the faith) when ministering to Christians and when witnessing to unbelievers, particularly regarding creation/evolution.
Part 1: Why Confront Evolution in Your Witness? Part 2: Handling Evolution in Your Witness. Part 3: Evolution/Creation - Two Starting Points. Part 4: Evolution is Incompatible with the Christian Faith.
Witnessing In A World Where Evolution ...ALL parts
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This article series discusses the use of reason in apologetics (i.e., defending the faith) when ministering to Christians and when witnessing to unbelievers, particularly regarding creation/evolution.
Part 1: Why Confront Evolution in Your Witness? Part 2: Handling Evolution in Your Witness. Part 3: Evolution/Creation - Two Starting Points. Part 4: Evolution is Incompatible with the Christian Faith.
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This article series discusses the use of reason in apologetics (i.e., defending the faith) when ministering to Christians and when witnessing to unbelievers, particularly regarding creation/evolution.
Part 1: Why Confront Evolution in Your Witness? Part 2: Handling Evolution in Your Witness. Part 3: Evolution/Creation - Two Starting Points. Part 4: Evolution is Incompatible with the Christian Faith.
Modern Biochemical Genetics - What it Tells Us ...
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"So also our God works our genetics, experience, and environment into a beautiful tapestry. He arranges history and circumstance to reach out to each of us with the energizing power of the Gospel. Our sins have indeed caused damage that will result in our death. But God gives us new life that grows out of the death and resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ."
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The term comes from a medieval English philosopher and Franciscan monk named William of Ockham who held to the principle that “plurality should not be posited without necessity.â€1 In other words,one should avoid adding additional steps or parts to an explanation when fewer steps or parts would suffice as well or better. Occam's razor is sometimes called the law of parsimony, which means “the simpler the assumption, the more likely it is correct.†This principle was often used in medieval philosophy, and neither the name nor the idea originated with William, but he often made use of it in his work.
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This article series discusses the use of reason in apologetics (i.e., defending the faith) when ministering to Christians and when witnessing to unbelievers, particularly regarding creation/evolution.
Part 1: Why Confront Evolution in Your Witness? Part 2: Handling Evolution in Your Witness. Part 3: Evolution/Creation - Two Starting Points. Part 4: Evolution is Incompatible with the Christian Faith.
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This article series discusses the use of reason in apologetics (i.e., defending the faith) when ministering to Christians and when witnessing to unbelievers, particularly regarding creation/evolution.
Part 1: Why Confront Evolution in Your Witness? Part 2: Handling Evolution in Your Witness. Part 3: Evolution/Creation - Two Starting Points. Part 4: Evolution is Incompatible with the Christian Faith.
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Summary: We have seen that evolution is a lie, because it is contrary to Scripture. We have looked at the nature of evidence, and found that false things like evolution can have evidence. We have considered how science is sometimes wrong, and how evolution is one of the places where science is wrong. Next we surveyed several of the countless pieces of evidence for evolution, and the weaknesses of that evidence. Creationists see similar weakness in all evidence for evolution. Finally, we evaluated who defines science, and that the scientific community overwhelmingly accepts evolution as having evidence.
Evolution will never make any progress at reaching any truth, wherever it is attempting to explain the result of a miracle through natural means.
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Historical vs. Operational Science: Why Knowing the Difference Between the Two Matters
When one considers the major accomplishments by scientists today, Historical science seems to play little if any role. What do medical researchers, rocket scientists, automobile engineers, nutritionists etc. need to know about radiometric dating, abiogenesis, macroevolution or the Big Bang when it comes to new breakthroughs in their fields? And only Operational science and not Historical science can make full use of the acclaimed scientific method
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I claim that, using current evolutionists’ methodology, many of their claims cannot be validated as true or false. This is because they claim that specific evidence validates the truth of evolution, but when contrary data appears they claim that is evidence as well. Cornelius Hunter explains the problem well: "There is nothing wrong with a theory that is comfortable with different outcomes, but there is something wrong when one of those outcomes is then claimed as supporting evidence. If a theory can predict both A and not-A, then neither A nor not-A can be used as evidence for the theory." Evolution, as it is promoted today, does exactly this as I show below.
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If the title sounds familiar, there is a reason. It was the official theme of the debate in February between Ken Ham of Answers in Genesis and Bill Nye, the “Science Guy.” Ham did a credible job in defending Genesis but was limited in the time he had available to cover all the bases. So, I have become brave enough to try to accomplish the task of answering in more detail the question the debate theme poses.
Views expressed in LSI Journal articles are those of the author or editor and not necessarily the view of LSI. Articles published in the LSI Journal have been committee reviewed for accuracy since 2010.
Classroom
Dating Methods
Dinosaurs
Ape to Man?
Noah's Flood
Fossils and Rocks
Natural Selection
Creation Apologetics
Bill Nye Video
