1. creation vs evolution.

2. arguments for evolution. micro into macro. presumed. creation is a cop out.

3. Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. genesis 1.11 evolution doesn’t disprove God.

4. arguments for creation. macro from micro?

5. arguments for creation. irreducible complexity.

7. arguments for creation. fossil records. Darwin wrote in his Origin of Species that "innumerable transitional forms must have existed" in order for evolution to be true. blank spots for grandparents. transitional forms.

8. arguments for creation. cambrian explosion. diversity cone. 98% of the species found are now extinct.

9. arguments for creation. Richard Dawkins, comments, "... [W]e find many of them already in an advanced state of evolution, the very first time they appear. It is as though they were just planted there, without any evolutionary history." “There is another and allied difficulty, which is much more serious. I allude to the manner in which species belonging to several of the main divisions of the animal kingdom suddenly appear in the lowest known fossiliferous rocks.” (Darwin, The Origin of Species, p. 348)

10. young earth. easy biblical interpretation. genealogy consistency. no death before the fall.

11. young earth. 3 And God said, "Let there be light," and there was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light "day," and the darkness he called "night." And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

12. old earth. consistent with scientific consensus. plausible with genesis. fossil records.

13. old earth. 11 Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.

14. questions?