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King David and his fellow psalmist lived between 1000 before Christ and the date of the last Psalmist is unknown. According to many today, those people lived in the dark ages and had no idea of creation, God, preservation or even science. This would make many of the Psalms as much as 3,000 years old. We need to remember they were probably 3,000 years closer to the original creation. With that in mind, let’s see what they have to say about God’s Creation.
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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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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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devotion on Psalm 147:4-5 He counts the number of the stars; He gives names to all of them. Our LORD is great, vast in power; His understanding is infinite.
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Most Americans mistakenly consider their country’s space agency, NASA, to be an impartial reporter of what they discover. These Americans misunderstand science.
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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.
Principal Conclusions
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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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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In summary, everyone, both the creationist and the evolutionist, is biased in his examination of the evidence. The creationist has a religious belief that there is a Creator God. The evolutionist has a religious belief that there is not a Creator God. Scientific investigation can be used to examine evidence in light of the creationists’ faith-based world view or in light of the evolutionists’ faith-based world view. The creation/evolution debate is a competition between two incompatible faith-based world views.
Vegetation, Fish, Sun, Moon, Stars: Were they created directly from nothing, or from previously created material?
Let’s examine the words God uses to describe His creative acts starting with His words describing the creation of people. Note that Genesis chapter 1 often gives a more general description, while Genesis chapter 2 reveals additional details to us.
Evolutionists Say: No Experiment Can Disprove Big Bang
Evolutionary models are often presented as being accepted by all scientists. A 2017 Scientific American article pulls back the curtain, letting us see that evolutionists debate whether the standard inflationary Big Bang model should be discarded, and some “new idea” found as a replacement. Prestigious evolutionists wrote this quote in Scientific American magazine. Their words echo the creationist claim that some evolutionary models cannot be falsified. See article for the complete quote.
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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.
Description Can Witnessing a Miracle Lead to Faith? No —Luke 16:27-31. Yes —Matthew 11:20-24. A scriptural case for defending the faith using extra-biblical arguments (claims from history, science, logic, etc.)
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.
Dating Methods
Dinosaurs
Bill Nye Video
Ape to Man?
Noah's Flood
Fossils and Rocks
Natural Selection
Old Earth Creationism
