Scientifically, the Theory of Evolution is seen by more and more scientists as having major weaknesses. Future sermons will support that fact. The real problem with evolution is that it presents students with a worldview that eliminates the possibility of God in creation. More than a few Christians have had their faith weakened or destroyed by the sole teaching of evolution to the exclusion of Intelligent Design which is just as or more reasonable as evolution. Nexxt week's message is called, Three Scientific Facts That Challenge Evolution" Vidoe of this is at https://youtu.be/B4FPn01_vnY

1. Welcome to God’s Time with you!
He Enjoys you! Come and Enjoy Him Today!

3. Challenging
Evolution
Why This is Critical for
Christians
❖ “We tear down arguments, and every presumption set up against the
knowledge of God…” (2 Cor. 10:5)

4. Nature Reveals God
❖ "For since the creation of the
world, God's invisible
qualities—his eternal power
and divine nature—have been
clearly seen, being understood
from what has been made, so
that men are without excuse.”
(Rom 1:20)

5. The Theft of a Father’s Love
Evolution is a Thief A Parable

6. Evolution Steals
God’s Glory
“The heavens declare the
glory of God; the skies
proclaim the work of his
hands.” Ps. 19:1

7. Scientific Facts
❖ Do not speak for themselves
❖ Always interpreted to fit within a framework
❖ The framework of the Theory of Evolution: Naturalism
❖ Things made themselves without the influence of any
intelligent outside source
❖ Evolution is a deduction from this philosophical assumption!
❖ Nothing eventually gave rise to everything…by itself!!
❖ Protozoa became professors—all by chance over time

8. Consequences of This Theory
❖ God’s glory as Creator is denied
❖ Belief in God and the Bible is weakened by “experts”
❖ Human life = just accidental animal life.
❖ Abortion is fine! Euthanasia is great! Eugenics is good!
❖ The spiritual purpose and destiny of human life is lost
❖ There is no absolute basis for morality or legal laws
❖ No God. No sin. No sin, no need for a Savior.
❖ We can so do as we please. Sexual morality is whatever we like.
❖ Life is just about being the “fittest” to survive. Some people are not valuable

9. No Absolute Morality
❖ Your concept of origins greatly determines your self-
worth, the purpose of life and how you live that life.
❖ If there is no God, there is no basis for morality except
what we make it. Man becomes the sole judge of what
is right and wrong at any given time.
❖ Historically, human behavior has been largely
controlled only by one of two things: by religion or
by force.

10. No Trustworthy Bible
❖ Denies God as Creator: Genesis, Psalms 104, Job 37-40,
Isaiah, Mark 10:6, Luke 3: 23-38
❖ Denies Jesus as Creator: John 1:3, Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:3
❖ If God is not Creator, what else in the Bible is not true?
❖ College & High School kids get confused about their
faith when “experts” prove that God did not create us.

11. ❖ Teachers and professors who
try to teach origins by
Intelligent Design are
persecuted by our schools &
government agencies.
❖ Students are ridiculed and not
allowed to discuss alternate
theories.
Persecution of Non-Evolutionists

12. The Bible is Reliable History
No Fact in the Bible Has Ever Been Proven Wrong
by Science

13. Main Points of Evolution
❖ All life on earth descended from one prehistoric cell
❖ Small, random mutations over time produced every living
thing. All mutations happened by pure chance, pure
accidents.
❖ After random chance created these increasing complex
organisms, Natural Selection (survival of the fittest, those
most able to reproduce) weeded out the weaker organisms
to give us the organisms we have today.
❖ Therefore, no Intelligent Designer, no God created all

14. The Theory of Evolution
❖ “The theory of evolution by natural selection, first formulated
in Darwin's book "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, is the
process by which organisms change over time as a result of
changes inheritable physical or behavioral traits. Changes
that allow an organism to better adapt to its environment will
help it survive and have more offspring.
❖ Evolution by natural selection is one of the best substantiated
theories in the history of science, supported by evidence from
a wide variety of scientific disciplines, including paleontology,
geology, genetics and developmental biology.” https://www.livescience.com/
474-controversy-evolution-works.html

15. Darwin Predicted
❖ "I can see no difficulty in a race of bears being rendered, by
natural selection, more aquatic in their structure and habits, with
larger and larger mouths, till a creature was produced as
monstrous as a whale," he speculated.
❖ The idea didn't go over very well with the public. Darwin was so
embarrassed by the ridicule he received that the swimming-bear
passage was removed from later editions of the book.
❖ Scientists now know that Darwin had the right idea but the
wrong animal: Instead of looking at bears, he should have
instead been looking at cows and hippopotamuses.” https://
www.livescience.com/474-controversy-evolution-works.html

18. A Clash of Worldviews
❖ Not science vs religious views
❖ Real science is testable, duplicatable, falsifiable
❖ It is scientific philosophy vs. religious views & Intelligent Design
views
❖ The Theory of Evolution seems to be a necessary scientific
philosophy that atheistic scientists require in order to support their
worldviews and lifestyles.
❖ Only 33% of US scientists believe in a personal God
❖ Only 20% of National Academy of Scientists might believe in God

19. Dr. D. M. S. Watson–, noted evolutionary biologist and science writer in
the magazine“Nature”: vol.124: p.233, 1929
“Evolution is a theory universally accepted not
because it can be proven by logically coherent
evidence to be true, but because the only
alternative, special creation, is clearly incredible.”

20. Orthodox Darwinism Demands Atheism
❖ “Evolutionary theory weakened one of the most intuitively
compelling arguments for the existence of God: the argument from
design.”
❖ “Professor Nigel Williams wrote that Darwin “destroyed the strongest
evidence left in the nineteenth century for the existence of a deity”
❖
“Darwin said that atheism “is best promoted by the gradual
illumination of men’s minds, which follow from the advance of
science [i.e. evolution]” https://answersingenesis.org/charles-
darwin/darwinism/why-orthodox-darwinism-demands-atheism/
❖ Similar to why German princes followed Luther!

21. Why German Princes Followed Luther
❖ Church was corrupt and over-
controlling of politics & money
❖ German princes could take
church lands and money once
they as revolt Rome as
Lutherans
❖ German princes became more
wealthy and powerful as
Lutherans.

22. Man’s Quest to Replace God
❖ Human rebellion against God
began with man’s quest for
knowledge that would
eliminate the need to get that
knowledge from God
❖ “The tree was desirable to
make one wise” ( Get. 3:6)
❖ And “knowledge puffs
up” (1Cor. 8:1)

23. The Renaissance and The Enlightenment
❖ The Renaissance ( 1400-1600) rediscovered Greek & Roman books and
the unbiblical, humanist pattern of thinking they communicated.
❖ The Enlightenment ( 1600-1800) intensified the distrust of the Bible,
religion and made human reason the main yardstick for truth. It is also
called The Age of Reason. Church abuses over centuries were partly
responsible for the rejection of Christianity and its God. (Haiti’s history!)
❖ The Scientific Revolution ( late 1500’s-1700’s) strengthened man’s
reliance on human reason alone.
❖ People could find truth themselves about the world without relying
on the Catholic Church, which had often abused its position.

24. Love God by Thinking
❖ "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE
LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL
YOUR HEART, AND WITH
ALL YOUR SOUL, AND
WITH ALL YOUR
MIND.’” (Matt. 22:37—spoken
by Jesus)

25. ❖ “We tear down arguments, and
every presumption set up against
the knowledge of God…” (2 Cor.
10:5)
❖ “…we will speak the truth in love,
growing in every way more like
Christ.” (Eph. 4:15)
❖ “Always be prepared to give an
answer to everyone who asks you
to give the reason for the hope
that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter
3:15)
Our Job Today As Christians

26. Christian Apololgetics
❖ The ministry of giving a defense of the Christian faith
❖ Ravi Zacharias, Norm Geisler, Lee Strobel, Josh
McDowell, C.S. Lewis, Michael Brown, Hank
Hanegraaff, Gary Habermas, J. Warner Wallace, Mike
Licona, R.C. Sproul, Wayne Grudem, NABEEL
QURESHI ( Pray for Nabil. He has cancer!)

27. Christians Schools Offering Apologetics Degrees

28. NT Creation Apologetics
❖ Paul’s creationism argument on Mars Hill in Athens!!
❖ Some mocked, some wanted to hear more and some
believed in God on the spot!
❖ “He is the God who made the world and everything in
it…
❖ He himself gives life and breath to everything, and he
satisfies every need.
❖ From one man, He created all the nations throughout the
whole earth…” (Acts 17:24-26–Paul to Greek Pagans)

29. NT Creation Apologetics
❖ “…for he (Apollos)
powerfully refuted the
Jews in public,
demonstrating by the
Scriptures that Jesus was
the Christ.”
❖ Acts 18:26—speaking of
the Apostle Apollos

30. Be Careful!
Ideas Have
Consequences
Truth Matters

31. The Theory of Evolution
❖ Robs God of His Glory as Creator
❖ Demeans the value of human life
❖ Eliminates the divine basis for moral law and legal laws
❖ Questions and mocks the Bible
❖ Supports abortion, eugenics, euthanasia and racism
❖ Supports immorality of every kind. Sin is irrelevant.

32. Anti-semitism & Evolution: A Terrible Combination
Luther, Nietzsche,
Hilter
Ideas that Killed Six Million

33. Famous Evolutionists
❖ Adolf Hitler killed 42 million in WWII
❖ Stalin: Killed 20 million Russians
❖ Mao Zedong killed 45 million Chinese
❖ Margaret Sanger: Racist, eugenicist, Founder of
Planned Parenthood and free-love advocate, anti-
Christianity leader. (1879-1966)
❖ Richard Dawkins: passionate atheist, biologist/author

35. Turkey just canceled Evolution teaching in HS

37. Churches Make Mistakes
❖ The Inquisition: 1100-1550
❖ Burned Bible Translators: 1500’s
❖ Swiss Presbyterians Drown
Anabaptists in 1527
❖ “Avoid Protestants” 1950’s
❖ Deliberately skip Mass once and
go to hell if not confessed to a
priest before you die.” 2017
❖ Hide 3000 pedophile priests &
bishops from the law. 1950-2017

38. Government Make Mistakes
❖ Slaves: just property: Dred Scott, 1857
❖ Unborn children are not people 2017
❖ 500 treaties with Native Americans be
broken or changed without consent
❖ The Tuskegee Study: 40 years of
Federal Lies against poor Black men.
❖ Native Americans in Virginia are not an
ethnic group: 1924-54
❖ Mixed marriages in VA are a crime:
1924-1967
❖ Poor, mentally challenged people can
be compelled to be sterilized in VA
1924-1979

39. Science Makes Mistake
❖ 1983, astronomer Carl Sagan coauthored an article in
Science that shook the world: "Nuclear Winter: Global
Consequences of Multiple Nuclear Explosions”. In 1990,
he said he was way off in his calculations.

40. Fooled Scientists for 40 years
Piltdown Man, 1912
Thought to be THE missing link
40 years later, it was discovered to be a
complete fraud by a a amateur
archeologist in search of fame.
Evolutionary scientists concluded: “The
Piltdown hoax stands as a cautionary tale
to scientists not to be led by preconceived
ideas”

41. “The Piltdown Chicken”
❖ 1999 fossil from China
allegedly showing a dinosaur
with birdlike plumage was
displayed triumphantly at the
National Geographic Society
and written up in the society's
November magazine.
❖ Was later proved to be a fraud.
❖ Desperate for “proof”, the
evolutionists are fooled.

43. ❖ Then you will know the truth,
and the truth will set you free.”
❖ (John 8:32—spoken by Jesus)
Truth Sets People Free

44. "Darwinism is a trivial idea that has been elevated to the status of the
scientific theory that governs modern biology.”
Dr. Michael Egnor,
Professor of Neurosurgery and Pediatrics at State University of New York, Stony Brook

45. ❖ “We tear down arguments, and
every presumption set up against
the knowledge of God…” (2 Cor.
10:5)
❖ “…we will speak the truth in love,
growing in every way more like
Christ.” (Eph. 4:15)
❖ “Always be prepared to give an
answer to everyone who asks you
to give the reason for the hope
that you have. But do this with
gentleness and respect.” (1 Peter
3:15)
Our Job Today As Christians

48. Romans 1:21-22
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship
Him as God or even give Him thanks.
And they began to think up foolish ideas of what
God was like.
As a result, their minds became dark and
confused.
Claiming to be wise, they instead became utter
fools.”