1. I Why Some People Embrace Atheism Foolishness of presumed spokesmen. Foolishness of presumed spokesmen. Jon.1:…9 False religions. False religions. Jn.17:20-22 Evil and suffering in world. Evil and suffering in world. Job 1-2  If no God, what’s wrong w. evil?  Objection implies standard ► Standard requires Standard-giver

2. Hell. Hell. Mt.25:41  What’s wrong w. it? Does it violate an objective standard?  May God punish Hitler for 2 minutes in hell? 3? 4?  Punishment inconsistent w. love?  Atheists don’t know love or holi- ness of God, law of God, what punishment sin deserves, effects of sin on world, condition of world w/o deterrent of hell, yet...

3. Media and educational system. Media and educational system. Ro.1:19-22…28  “Evolution is a fact that is accepted by all intelligent people” (Scientific American; USNWR)  David Quammen – Darwinism proof? 1. Equus horse evolution 2. Embryonic recapitulation 3. Archaeopteryx

4. ► Sin   Ps.14:1  Why people believe in evolution: Our conviction that the world is meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of erotic or political passion – Aldous Huxley

5. II Evidence For God 1. Order and complexity of the universe. 1. Order and complexity of the universe. Ps.8:1-3; 19:1-4  Movie: Contact... Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI)  Watch  Mona Lisa

6. 2. Complexity of human body. Ps.139:14 “In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God’s existence” – Sir Isaac Newton “The aim is to create a hand w. the sort of functionality a human hand has but also a sense of touch” – Dr. Paul Chappell

7. Eardrum is resonator Moves 1/10 diameter of Hydrogen atom Transmitted by three bones in cochlea Prov. 20:12

8. 3. Fulfilled biblical prophecy. 3. Fulfilled biblical prophecy. Dn.2:28  Prophesied hundreds of years prior to events; came to pass exactly as predicted 4. Accuracy of the Bible. 4. Accuracy of the Bible. Mt.24:35  Historians, archaeologists, and scientists find evidence that agrees with Bible

9. 5. Resurrection of Jesus. Ac.1:3   Many convincing proofs 6. Humanity’s moral sense of right and wrong. 6. Humanity’s moral sense of right and wrong. Ro.2:14-15 “There never has been a significant example of morality apart from belief in God” (Durant, The Lessons of History)

10. 7. Human personality. 1 Tim.1:9 “No one has presented an idea, let alone demonstrated it to be feasible, to explain how the impersonal beginning, plus time, plus chance, can give personality” – Francis Schaeffer

11. 8. Failure of other options. Ps.73:25; Jn.6:68 “Hard as the world is to explain with God, it is harder yet without Him” (Claude Montefiore) “It is absurd for the Evolutionist to com- plain that it is unthinkable for an admit- tedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into anything ” (G. K. Chesterton)

12. Richard Dawkins, Mother of all Atheists ► “Believing in a creator of the universe is no different from believing in fairies at the bottom of the garden” ► ► Debate with John Lennox:   A serious case could be made for a deistic God   Intelligent Design could explain life on earth: aliens from another planet