QUESTIONS

CREATED OR NOT?

THE VIEW OF THEATHEIST

THE VIEW OF THEAGNOSTIC

THE VIEW OF THECREATIONIST

IF CREATED, WHY?

IF CREATED, WAS IT 7 DAYS OF 24 HOUR

PERIODS?

CAN A PERSON BE SAVED AND NOT

HOLD TO A 7 DAYS 24 HOUR CREATION?

APPROACHES

INFORMATIONAL

AUTHOR

JEPD?MOSES

J - J (standing for what the documentary hypothesizes would term Jahwist) supposedly lived about 900–850 BCE -(standing for Elohist) supposedly lived about 750–700 BC in the northern kingdom (Israel), and wrote those passages where ’Elohim is used as the word for God.D - D supposedly wrote most of Deuteronomy, probably the book found in the temple in Jerusalem in 621 BCP - P supposedly represents a Priest (or priests) who lived during the exile in Babylon

MOSES•The author is obviously an eyewitness of the Exodus from Egypt, familiar with the geography,5 flora and fauna of the region;•The Pentateuch claims in many places that Moses was the writer•Many times in the rest of the Old Testament, Moses is said to have been the writer,•In the New Testament, Jesus frequently spoke of Moses’ writings or the Law of Moses, •Other New Testament speakers/writers said the same thing,

DATE

INSPIRATIONAL

TESTIMONIAL

GEOLOGICAL

MATHEMATICAL(This alone, if

quantified as a mathematical

probability, would likely exceed a

googolplex--or a googol raised to the googoleth power--a number that is so big that it cannot be written by a

human in an entire lifetime.)

MATHEMATICAL

MATHEMATICAL the purposes of today’s column I will go through the probability  calculation that a specific ribozyme might assemble by chance. Assume that the ribozyme is 300 nucleotides long, and that at each position there could be any of four nucleotides present. The chances

of that ribozyme assembling are then 4^300,  a number so large that it could not possibly happen by chance even once in 13 billion years, the age of the universe.

MATHEMATICALNow I will recall a classic experiment by David Bartel and Jack Szostak, published in Science in 1993. Their goal was to see if a completely random system of molecules could undergo selection in such a way that defined species of molecules emerged with specific properties. They began by synthesizing many trillions of different RNA molecules about 300 nucleotides long, but the nucleotides were all random nucleotide sequences.

HISTORICALCHINA

2500 BC

HISTORICALCHINESE

BOAT

HISTORICALCHINESEGARDEN

HISTORICALCHINESE

HAPPINESS

HISTORICALCHINESE

HAPPINESS

MEANINGFULSpirit hovered

God Spoke

God Breathed

It was Good!

NIVBeginnings: A Study of Genesis 1-11

GENESIS 1:2, 22; 2:7

and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.

22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”

7 Then the LORD God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

CHALLENGE Do the homework and research these

things. 

Don’t Miss the Point Allow God to Hover over you

Allow God to Speak into you

Allow God to Breathe in you