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2. This “cute” boy experienced the amazing scientific and technological

3. His sons can now transplant a kidney from one person to another Or Repair a crushed foot with screws, wires, metal plates and cadaver bones This boy almost died of diphtheria because antitoxins and antibiotics were not yet available

5. The boy grew up with these… Today he lives with these…

6. He learned to write with this Today, he works with this Graphite Slate

7. The advances in Science and Technology are enormous but T h e r e is a n o t h e r s i d e

8. Michelangelo, Creation of the Sun and Moon Ptolemaic Universe

9. The EARTH was in the center of the universe Ptolemaic Universe

10. The Supreme Maker said of Man: “ I have placed you at the very center of the world,.” Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man . (Chicago: Gateway Edition, 1956), p.7

11. Michelangelo The Creation of Adam 1519 Created in God’s image. Genesis 1:26 MAN was a special creation

12. The First Shock to GOD and MAN The Scientific Revolution

14. Isaac Newton

17. The Second Shock to GOD and MAN The Biological Revolution

18. There is no Creator “ We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy,tailed quadruped, probably arboreal” The Descent of Man (Darwin 1871) All Life evolved without God

19. DARWINISM CHAMBERLAIN ROSENBERG HITLER “ Nature is cruel, therefore we too may be cruel… I have a right to remove millions of an inferior race that breeds like vermin “ If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do- if not they should die.” Herbert Spencer

23. Today God is totally absent There is only emptiness Man is Alone Once there was God and Man with Dignity in the Arts You can observe this void in Art, Literature & Philosophy... Creation of Man, Sistine Chapel, MICHELANGELO

24. Alberto Giacometti Giacometti's sculptures are meditation on the emptiness of modern life. His figures are lonely and isolated even when arranged together. Giacometti expresses existential angst , modern man's isolation from his fellows, and the impossibility of certainty in our troubled age. ... Inter Varsity Press review of Francis A. Schaeffer’s, Art & the Bible

25. The Scream (or The Cry) Edvard Munch, 1893 (Expressionism) Lonely, alienated

26. Wassily Kandinsky, Composition VIII, 1923 Piet Mondrian, Composition A, 1923 Rothko – Blue, Orange, Red (1961 ) Roy Lichtenstein

28. Irrational, instinctual forces constitute the essence of human nature

29. Thomas J. J. Altizer

30. “ Every existent is born without reason, prologs itself out of weakness and dies by chance.” Roquentin in Nausea “ There is no ultimate meaning or purpose inherent in human life; in this sense life is ‘absurd.’” Existentialism

31. Summary:

33. In a Universe without God and Human Life without Purpose

34. 12 “But where shall wisdom be found? And where is the place of understanding? 13 Man does not know its worth, and it is not found in the land of the living... 28 And he said to man, ‘ Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom, and to turn away from evil is understanding.’” Job 28. The ultimate wisdom about the meaning of life and the universe comes from God, Science can not provide it