1. Evolution and the Bible
What Is Science?
Science = gnosis
Gnosis (gnwsis) = Knowledge
Science Definition Today
A branch of knowledge or study dealing with a body of facts or truths systematically arranged and showing the operation of general laws.

2. Evolution and the Bible
Qualifications for a Scientific Theory
Observable
Demonstratable
Capable of Falsification
Can you set up an experiment for your theory so that if the experiment fails it would prove your theory wrong?
*** If a scientific theory has no exceptions, it becomes a Scientific Law

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Development of a Scientific Theory
Observation: Place soap in water
Hypothesis: “Soap floats”
Demonstration: Place another bar of soap in water
Refined Hypothesis: “Ivory soap floats”
Demonstration: Place soap in another liquid
Refined Hypothesis: “Ivory soap floats in water”

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Demonstration: Place soap in different “types” of water in different locations
Theory: “Ivory soap floats in water on the earth”
Falsification: Use liquid ivory soap
Refined Theory: “A bar of Ivory soap floats in water on the earth”
Many additional demonstrations…
Scientific Law is established

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Are Creation and Evolution Scientific Theories?
Neither is observable
Neither can be demonstrated
Neither is capable of falsification
Both are scientific models only

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What is Evolution?
Definition
All living things have arisen by a naturalistic, mechanistic, evolutionary process from a single source, which itself arose by a similar process from a dead, inanimate world.
Microevolution vs. Macroevolution
Microevolution = Increasing variety
Macroevolution = Increasing complexity

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What is Creation?
Definition
All living things were brought into existence by acts of God using supernatural processes.
Is There a Third Model? No

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The Evolution Model
In the beginning there existed a primordial atom (cosmic egg)
Where did matter come from?
First Law of Thermodynamics
Second Law of Thermodynamics
Assume that matter existed
Newton’s First Law of Motion
Newton’s Third Law of Motion

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15,000,000,000 years ago (15 bya) the cosmic egg exploded
Do explosions produce order?

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4.7 bya the earth formed in a molten state
3.0 bya life evolved in the primitive oceans

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The Evolutionary Tree

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Contradictions Between Evolution and the Bible
Genesis 1:1-3 – The earth was created before light
Genesis 1:2 – The earth was created with a cool surface covered by water
Genesis 1:11, 20 – Life was created first on land

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Genesis 1:14ff – The earth was created before the sun and the stars
Genesis 1:20-24 – Birds were created before land animals
Genesis 1 (various) – Life reproduces only after its own kind
Genesis 2:7 – Man was created from dust
Genesis 2:21-22 – Woman was formed out of man

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Conclusion
The Bible and Evolution cannot be harmonized!
There is no primordial atom mentioned in Genesis
But there is an historical Adam mentioned!

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