Introduction
1925 Scopes trial pitted lawyers William Bryan against Clarence Darrow to determine the guilt of a teacher named John Scopes for teaching Darw...
- Introduction
- 1925 Scopes trial pitted lawyers William Bryan against Clarence Darrow to determine the guilt of a teacher named John Scopes for teaching Darwinism in schools. The defense won and Darwinism became a standard in school curriculem as a result. One of the turning points of the trial was when Darrow asked where Cain obtained a wife and the theologians could not answer the question.
- The Arguments for God
- Cains Wife
- Adam was the first man (Gen 2:7)
- Adam and Eve were commanded to FILL the earth (Gen 1:28, replenish means fill)
- If they were given this command, why would God create others besides them?
- If they obeyed this command, God would not need to.
- Eve was the mother of ALL living (Gen 3:20)
- Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters (Gen 5:4)
- Adam lived 930 years (Gen 5:5)
- 930 years averaging even 1 child every 2 years = 465 children
- Assuming 465 children each lived about 900 years then that is 465 pairing off to have 450 kids in each pair. That's 104,625 grandkids for Adam and Eve and using the same math gives us 23,540,625 great-grandchildren! This doesn't even consider the probable fact that poligamy was likely occurring in some instances. Even during Cains life these numbers would've easy been reached and the people surely did not all stay in the same location. It is not surprising that Cain finds
people (close kin) in Nod and pairs off with one of them (a sister or a neice).
- Brother-Sister relations were not forbidden until the time of Moses (2500 years later). Even Abraham married his half-sister.
- Genetic mutations of close relatives is caused by passing mutated genes through generations
- When two from the same gene pool share the same mutations, some of their offspring can malform
- The mutations have taken generations to multiply to the extent that this would occur.
- Darwin's simple cell
- As one author put it, "Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, each is in effect a veritable microminiaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up of 100,000,000,000 atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world."
- Starlight and Time
- Millions of lightyears
- If a star is even a million lightyears away (it takes light a million years to travel this distance), how can we see them if we've only been here for 6000 years?
- Genesis 1: 14-18 - The Bible teaches that they were made FOR the Earth. If the Earth is the center of creation, then everything would've originated here and gone outwards leaving that light as a trail during the process regardless of how far away it traveled.
- Orion and Pleiades - Job 38:31
- Binding... The stars in these constellations are unique because they are close enough to actually gravitationally effect each other whereas most constellations that we know are not truly "bound"
- Common Sense
- Big Bang simply put: First there was nothing, and then it exploded. How does this make sense without an intelligence behind it?
- If we made a trip to Mars and found a wristwatch in the Martian dirt, would we assume an intelligence created it or that it must've evolved into existence over millions of years? Yet the human machine is much more intricated and complex than a wristwatch and man assumes macro-evolution.
- "One can't believe impossible things," Alice laughed. "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." -Through the Looking Glass, by Lewis Carroll
- Questions for Evolutionists
- Where are all the transitional fossils to support macro-evolution?
- How did life start from non-living material?
- What are the odds that a human life could form from nothing? Even more what are the odds that every other creature on this earth spontaneously popped up in the same time frame on the same planet?
- Where did the information come from (instructions)?
- In creation of life, a cell divides, then they divide further and this cycle continues until cells start to become different. One is bone, another maybe blood, or skin, or any other number of cell types. What decides what becomes what? Where does direction and instruction come from?
- At conception a fertilized human egg contains 6 billion chemical letters in the size of a pinhead. That's about 1000 books 500 pages long each with microscopic print! If these letters were printed in legible form, one person could fill the grand canyon 50 times with books.
- Where do emotions come from?
- What are the odds that this planet can even support life?
- Life on this earth hangs by a thread of irreducible complexity.
- How did nature decide that 2 types of each creature (male/female) should exist for procreation?
- Where did the laws of physics come from? We know how they work, but never question how they came to be.
- How did the fossils we've found survive millions of years of erosion in only a few feet of dirt?
- How did a creatures make macro changes?
- Darwinism teaches that a creature's traits are slowly added based on natural selection because of their environment.
- So how did sea creatures develop into land creatures? Did they have lungs or gills when they emerged? If gills, how did they survive on land? If lungs, then how did they get them if they weren't in an out-of-water environment yet?
- The most insulting idol ever
- The 1st commandment says, "Thou shalt have no other gods before me. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; And shewing mercy unto thousands of
them that love me, and keep my commandments." (Exo 20:3-6)
- At least Baal and other false gods had some sort of form. The current idol that man serves is nothingness; random chance and accident. What a slap to the face of our almighty God!
- God defines pi and e
- Two major constants in the world of mathematics are pi (3.1416) and e (2.7183).
- If you take Genesis 1:1 in Hebrew and use Germatria (each letter has a set numeric value) and use this formula: the number of letters times the product of the letters' values and divide that result by the number of words times the product of the words' values you get pi to 4 decimal places
- If you do the same thing in John 1:1 in Greek you get the value of e.
- Coincidence or God's fingerprints?
- Conclusion - I Peter 3:15-16
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