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Evolution DebunkedIf evolution really works how come mothers only
have two hands? —Ed Dussault
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. —Spanish Proverb
That best academy, a mother's knee. —James Russell Lowell
All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his. —Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest, 1895
GETTING SOME ANSWERS TO NAGGING QUESTIONS OF LIFE
• OF COURSE IT MAKES A SOUND, IT’S A TREE
• THE GLASS IS ½ EMPTY
• THE CHICKEN CAME FIRST
• ½ TO ¼ CORD OF WOOD
• WHY DON’T PSYCHIC HOTLINES CALL YOU RIGHT BEFORE YOU CALL THEM?
THE Beginning
Journey toward Creation
Begin with the End in MINDThere’s no better time than now to investigate and
comprehend our surroundings. What are the odds that we humans would appear on the cosmic scene at the best possible time to witness the sweep of cosmic history, to study the universe’s beginning and attributes? Given that we humans also occupy the best possible location for viewing all of cosmic history (unblinded by the light of nearby nebulae, star clusters, galaxies, and our own galactic core and protected from multiple other cosmic hazards), it seems reasonable to conclude that the Creator intended for us to be here and to make Himself known.
We are on a journey, a fast one
• I present this evidence as a knowledge seeker, just like you. Phil 3:12-14 NASB
• I am a teacher– Checks for understanding or touchbacks
• Deer in headlights• Thumbs up• Fist of five
• Paradigms• Learned never to say never-
– We come to this later
dissonance• The brain is a sense
seeking organ• Augustine “There is a
god-shaped hole in each of us, and our spirits are restless until they find rest in HIM”
• Questions to ponder, those that keep me awake at night– (Ed look at your sheet-Hint
Hint)
What are the tools of a scientist?
QuotesResearch
CASE
Copy and Steal Everything
For Real, what do physicists use as tools?
• Light waves—ROY G BIV• Starlight and galaxy light• Numbers-Mathematics—Stats and
Probability • EMG• Time• History
– Defend theologically – Defend scientifically
• "A telescope is an astronomer's time machine," explained Fermilab researcher Huan Lin, a member of the discovery team. "The light from this galaxy took more than 11 billion years to reach us."
What does scripture indicate or infer?
• Dual Revelation the Creator’s attributes ensure harmony of his creative works and his inspired word (Bible)
• Creation Purposes—nature fulfills the Creator’s states an simples reason for creating
• Creation chronology—He transcends creation; the realm of nature has a beginning and end, a before and an after.
• Predictability of the divine—close and careful study of nature’s records can reveal evidence of the Creator’s miraculous interventions
• Gen 1:1 –In the beginning—we are passengers on a controlled and designed explosion for our benefit on this tiny planet.
• Job 38-39—the Lord speaks to and humbles Job about His creation.
• Psalm 104—God creates and maintains creation
• Pvb 8—The call of Wisdom—and its yearn for us to listen—with 4 ears not just 2 (old adage)
God has set before us
• This mystery of His universe unfolding continually—
• What an awesome thing it is– What is awe
• Grand Canyon• Supernumerary
Rainbows
Where is the journey going to take us?• 2 views or theories toward creation
Young Earth ID Old Earth– God is Honored by engagement in honest
debate and dialogue– Let’s lay some foundations and If when I’m finished
and my fingers are all colors, I’ve done my job.– Physics has lots of phenomena to demonstrate his
awesome power• Can I cut a hole in a piece of paper big enough form me to
walk thru?• What does your experience tell you when a ball is dropped?• Can I move the pong pong ball• What about this spinner—rattleback?
Young Earth• Biblical literalists --seven "days" of Genesis 1 = 24-hour days
of history during which • God created the world in eight divine acts, or "fiats" - hence
the view is also referred to as "fiat creation.• "[44] Young Earth creationism holds that the creation week
occurred a mere six to ten thousands years ago.[45]• Other literalists have attempted to reconcile their literal
reading with the findings of modern geology regarding the age of the Earth.
Old Earth• Gap creationism inserts a "gap" between Genesis 1:1
and 1:2 into which geologic time can be inserted, during which the world of a presumed pre-Adamite race was destroyed and then rebuilt – a position called the "Ruin-Reconstruction Interpretation".It states that life was immediately and recently created on a pre-existing old Earth. One variant rests on a rendering of Genesis 1:1-2 as:
• Progressive Creationism is the religious belief that God allows certain natural process (such as gene mutation and natural selection) to affect the development of life, but has also directly intervened at key moments in life’s history to guide those processes or, in some views, create new species altogether (often to replenish the earth).
• Day-age theory, holds that each "day" (Heb. yom) of Genesis 1 represents an "age" of perhaps millions or even billions of years.
Neo-creationism
• is a movement whose goal is to restate creationism in terms more likely to be well received by the public, policy makers, educators, and the scientific community. It aims to re-frame the debate over the origins of life in non-religious terms and without appeals to scripture.
• creationism is an inherently religious concept and that advocating it as correct or accurate in public school curricula violates the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.[1][2][3]
The Earth Is Round
• Consider Isaiah 40:22 which mentions the “circle of the earth.” This description is certainly fitting—particularly when the earth is viewed from space; the earth always appears as a circle since it is round.
• Another verse that indicates the spherical nature of our planet is Job 26:10. This verse teaches that God has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters at the boundary of light and darkness.
The Expansion of the Universe
• The Bible indicates in several places that the universe has been “stretched out” or expanded. For example, Isaiah 40:22 teaches that God “stretches out the heavens like a curtain, and spreads them out like a tent to dwell in.”
The Hubble Shift—Red ShiftThat means that the wavelengths of the light they
emit have been increased. The light has been stretched out since it was emitted—it is shifted toward the red end of the spectrum (since red light has a longer wavelength than blue).
Another piece of brain research• Once you or I have learned something, it’s hard
to go back to the time when we didn’t know anything about it…teacher’s face difficulty here…don’t forget parents are a child’s first teachers!
• Often times we present a jigsaw without the picture to put it together. Our minds like to frame everything on prior knowledge.
• When there is no prior knowledge we have to create new neurons frustration
What about this light thing
• Light travels fast, • 7.5 x around globe in a sec, • 8 mins from sun—• moon 2 sec, • 6 trillion miles in a year• Parsec -- is equal to 3.086x1016 metres, 3.26
light-years, or 206,265 Astronomical Units. In other words, quite a long way.
solar
What is our place in the physical and spiritual context?
This controlled explosion– The Sun travels around the center of the Milky
Way galaxy • at 487,383 mph or 135 miles per second. • local cluster 1,342,161 mph• Universe expanding at 80 kilometers per second
per megaparsec ~70- x 3 million light years=210 million light years
– 225 million years to make one circumference of the galaxy
– Sun is 4.6 billion years old, so it has made the trip 20.5 times.
-The circumference of the Earth at the equator is 25,000 miles –If we were to sit on a satellite above the Earth
-25,000 miles pass by in 24 hours, at a speed of 25000/24 or just over 996 to 1000 miles per hour or 18.55 mile per second
Numbers and a sense of their enormity
• A math problem• How many remember dimensional analysis?
– How big is a billion?
– If I gave you $1,000,000,000 and you spent a dollar per second, how many years would it take?
– I just purchased a 1.5 terabyte jump drive
How about other numbers
• Largest identified and usable number– asankhyeya = 10140 – Western –googol 10100 – So Ten raised to the power of one googol =
10 10 ^100
– so what, we are now so big that the number of atoms in the universe is only 1086
• How old is the universe 13.7…BILLLION YEARS
Infinity, real or conceptualis it both /and
• When we get that big, infinity becomes a concept not a number We try to wrap finite minds around this term
• Let’s look at a few things– Let’s take a journey back to when you were first
introduced to the term —
INFINITY– It probably started with a number that you could
always add one more to
Then things got weird
• Number line
• Negative Numbers—
• Now both directions
• Then what about between two numbers
• Fractions • Roots
• Imaginary
WHAT CHARACTERSITICS OF LIFE DO WE HAVE TO CONSIDER?
• THE Anthropic Principle-– Asserts physical and chemical theories
– Astrophysics and cosmology
– There is one form of life
– The only kind of universe we can occupy is similar to this one
– 200 characteristics have to be in place for life to exist
Planets let’s start close• Moons
– no double planets can form at the same time (we haven’t found any yet) moon is about 100 million years younger.
– 4.5 x109 yrs ago there was a big crash ~ 200,000 mph earth lost atmosphere thinner one allowing 4 life.
So what?
• Right size, right velocity, right angle (θ), right materials, right time or else– Diff atmosphere
• 2 thick• 2 thin barren
– correct life water in 3 states*-for stable water cycle Density of H20 as it freezes
– diff mass– Discover Magazine May 2009—solar system
simulations require gravitational stability
A Digression-our seasons
position in the solar system– rotation 4x more slowly than when life 1st
appeared
– atmosphere• burn up• Meteors hit and deposit mineral etc.
– –scientists agree--heavy bombardment changes mass minerals • vaporize oceans• melt crust + minerals
Let’s get out a little further
• Earth is brimming with life—did organisms come from Mars or Earth when bombarded? KEY question in class with other teachers
• Logic—asteroids can send earth rocks into solar system too—we think everything is hitting us?!
Jupiter and Mars
Saturn • 1/3 Jupiter mass, 1000 Earth volumes
Out further– Kuiper Belt of
asteroids– 2 more light
years Oort Cloud—100 billion comets delivery system for essential life elements
Further -24 trillion miles =Alpha Centauri
Timing of star formation
• Age• Rate of burn-radiation• Location• Composition• ancient stars needed—exhaust ashes for
elements– Heavy elements—9 billion years of ashes– Fluorine from white dwarfs– Larger than our sun—runs out of fuelsupernova C,
N, O, P, K, S, Fe, Cu, Ag…
Location, Location Location• we are in a just right location with an arm for
life and to be able to look out into the universe
• 14 billion yrs of enrichment for possibility of life
– probably decreases –life support position in galaxy
• edge too sparse• spiral arm—no formation
• Earth is not the geometric center but it is the bio-center of the universe
Galaxy shape– size of central
bulge• too much
radiation• too little not
enough planet gas
• lots of factors* -- planet, sun, location, galaxy, mass, bulge
• it’s a matter of numbers
Milky Way
Why so many stars anyhow
• 400 million light years—cosmic desert—info limited– 10^21 stars –enormity essential for life
formation
• ch 24—fewer—nuclear fusion decreases only H and He– More elements heavier than Fe, no C, O, N.– finely tuned cosmos
Andromeda
Big Bang = Big CollapseAha the Boomerang
– 2 factors• mass density –causes it to slow down
chance if off 1/10^60• space NRG density—speed up—1/10^120• delicate finely tuned balance— I tell of 2
decimal places in my class
– quasars—plasma reacts in galaxy nuclei –outshines by orders o magnitude
Earth is exceptional in every aspect—– Laws of physics have design evidence is
overwhelming – Supernatural agency Supreme Being– The universe was created out of nothing in
balance for life– Hawking—God intended to create beings like
us!– Probability—1 in 10215 –it gets more remote
with each new discovery– By chance—the universe is too young! 13.75
billion years of cosmological time
Where does this take us
• Dark energy-every 3 days over the past century new papers—nobody is admitting they have the answer
• Charles Duell, Commissioner of US Patent Office, 1899 "Everything that can be invented has been invented.“
• I am learning never to say never
No you don’t have to…
Engineering and Physics• Some predictions made in the past have proved to be
wrong:• "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, 1949 • "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." –
Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, 1943 • "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their
home." – Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
• "This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us." -- Western Union internal memo, 1876.
• "Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible." – Lord Kelvin, president, Royal Society, 1895.
BIOCENTRISM
• Since the advent of quantum physics in the 1920’s– Results do depend on the observer– The famous light -2-slit experiment,
• Goldilocks PRINCIPLE– Fine tuning of the cosmos– NOT “TOO THIS or Too That”– “just right’
4 explanations for Goldilocks
• Incredible coincidence
• God did it
• Anthropic Principle-right conditions for life in the universe
• Biocentrism—universe is created by life– Affects how we view space and time– Time does not exist independently of the life
that views it.
Look at the frames of a film• To take a picture,
– Sharpness of the object in view blurs that around it.
• Everything we perceive is being actively and repeatedly reconstructed in our head and organized in a whorl of information.
• There is intangibility in space and time according to this model
• It is a mode of interpretation about all the potential possibilities.
How can I keep this up???
Hang in there
We have a place in this universe
• Wrap infinity around finite minds• Isp-trips.org• Quote others often• CASE• One viewpoint and not authoritative• Paradigms• Confusing• Toys
– Eraser– Rattle-back– Shot glasses– Paper & hole
Milky way
Fundamentalist
• mean strong adherence to any set of beliefs in the face of criticism or unpopularity, but has by and large retained religious connotations.[6]
• movement within the Protestant community of the United States in the early part of the 20th century
• often used as a pejorative term
"five fundamentals
• The inspiration of the Bible by the Holy Spirit and the inerrancy of Scripture as a result of this.
• The virgin birth of Christ.
• The belief that Christ's death was the atonement for sin.
• The bodily resurrection of Christ.
• The historical reality of Christ's miracles.
The days1- God creates light 2- God creates a firmament 3- God commands the waters below to be
gathered together in one place, and dry land to appear (the third command). "Earth" and "sea" are named.
4- God creates lights in the firmament 5- God commands the sea to "teem with living
creatures", and birds to fly across the heavens 6- God commands the land to bring forth living
creatures 7- God, having completed the heavens and the
earth, rests from His work
Methods of Creation
Divine Action & Creation • Evolutionary Creation
– cleverly designed– Allowing natural evolution
• Progressive Creation • long history of nature spanning billions of years,
Young-Earth Creation -– miraculously created everything in the universe – 144-hour period less than 10,000 years ago. – earth's geology and fossil record were formed in a global flood.
• Secular & Atheist Views – Darwin—started as a theist, missionary, agnostic (suffering)– Sagan-the Christian God, is insufficient,
ID used by God• nature produced by:
• natural process because, before history began, the universe was designed so this would happen, or• natural process that was supernaturally guided by God to produce a desired natural-appearing result, or• design-directed action by God that was miraculous-appearing and is thus potentially detectable by observations.
• God is in control
How should we Investigate?
• With understanding and respect
• Competence and Character
• Appropriate humility
According to
GenesisAccording to modern
science
SunCreated after the
worldPresent before world
coalesces
Grass, land plants, trees
Created before the sun Evolved after the sun
First forms of life Land plants Marine organisms
BirdsCreated before
land animals Evolved from land animals
Fruit Trees Created before fish Evolved after fish
First Human Created from dirt
Evolved; higher apes and Homo Sapiens share a common ancestor
God's creation
• of the world by divine speech,• creation ex nihilo (English: out of nothing • culminating in the sanctification of the seventh
day as the Biblical Sabbath, the divinely-ordained day of rest.
• Man and woman are created to be God's regents over this new creation.
• Chapter 2 recounts God's planting a garden in which he places the first man, and from whose rib (or side[2]) he fashions the first woman; the chapter ends with an injunction on the sanctity of marriage.
Young earth
• holds that the earth and the universe are approximately 6,000 years old.[2][3]
• Creation science is science which sets out to show that supernatural creation of the material universe by God
• Young earth creationism holds that the scientific evidence is unreasonably interpreted by evolutionists and atheists/naturalists as supporting their point of view,
Positions• Young Earth creationism generally takes the following positions
regarding the biblical book of Genesis: • Creation took place over a period of six ordinary (solar/24-hour)
days, with God then "resting" on the seventh day. • This creation, described in Genesis as "good" and "very good", was
without flaw or defect. • All people are descended from the first couple, Adam and Eve. • Adam and Eve sinned, leading to their expulsion from the Garden of
Eden. • A global Noachian flood occurred, destroying all land-based, air-
breathing life, except that on the Ark. • The dispersal of humanity was caused by God after the Tower of
Babel