The Argument from ScienceThe Argument from Science(Intelligent Design)(Intelligent Design)

If the earth shows evidence of design, there must be a designer.

For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God. (Hebrews 3:4)

Scientific Scientific DebateDebate

William Paley popularized the concept by using the analogy of a pocket watch.

Unbelievers have responded that the design we see in the universe is only apparent and that everything can be explained by chance random mutation and natural selection.

Darwin’s Darwin’s AdmissionAdmission

‘If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down.’ (Natural History, April 2002)

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Cells contain numerous ultra-sophisticated molecular machines that are “irreducibly complex” and which point to intelligent design.

Irreducible ComplexityIrreducible Complexity

Examples in NatureExamples in Nature

Cilium

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CiliumBacterial flagellum

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complexity abound, including aspects of protein transport, blood clotting, closed circular DNA, electron transport, telomeres, photosynthesis, transcription regulation, and much more.

The Argument from The Argument from ScriptureScripture

If God has been seen, If God has been seen, then God exists.then God exists.

The apostles of Jesus report that The apostles of Jesus report that Jesus claimed to be God’s Son and Jesus claimed to be God’s Son and that He had been sent by God into the that He had been sent by God into the world to reveal God to us. world to reveal God to us.

They revealed that Jesus worked They revealed that Jesus worked miracles as proof of His claims to be miracles as proof of His claims to be the Son of God, including the ultimate the Son of God, including the ultimate proof, His resurrection from the dead.proof, His resurrection from the dead.

Therefore, God exists because He has Therefore, God exists because He has been seen by men.been seen by men.

What was from the beginning, what we have heard, what we have seen with our eyes, what we beheld and our hands handled, concerning the Word of Life—and the life was manifested, and we have seen and bear witness and proclaim to you the eternal life, which was with the Father and was manifested to us—what we have seen and heard we proclaim to you also, that you also may have fellowship with us; and indeed our fellowship is with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ. (1 John 1:1-3))

If God exists, then He knows If God exists, then He knows how the universe originated. how the universe originated.

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. (Genesis 1:1)

And He answered and said, “Have you not read, that He who created them from the beginning made them male and female, (Matthew 19:4)

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things came into being by Him, and apart from Him nothing came into being that has come into being. (John 1:1-3)

Thus by faith we can know Thus by faith we can know how the universe originatedhow the universe originated

By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. (Hebrews 11:3)

Intelligent design reveals the Intelligent design reveals the difficulties of seeking an origin for difficulties of seeking an origin for life in naturalism and points to the life in naturalism and points to the possibility of a Creator. God’s own possibility of a Creator. God’s own self-revelation completes the self-revelation completes the argument as God comes to man in argument as God comes to man in the person of Christ and reveals the person of Christ and reveals what He did in the creation of the what He did in the creation of the world.world.

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