Science and Christian Apologetics JOHN OAKES, PhD
Chaos vs Cosmos God vs the “gods”
Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274 )
Roger Bacon
William of Ockham
Nikolai Copernicus
Galileo Galilei “The Bible was written to tell us how to go to heaven, not how the heavens go”
Sir Isaac Newton
Statue of Joseph Priestley Founder of the Unitarian Church
Voltaire Creater of Modern Religious Skepticism
David Hume Says the skeptic: “Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.”
LaPlace About God: “I have no need of that hypothesis”
How Old is the Earth? Hutton Lyell
“It is mere rubbish to think at this point of the origin of life “It is mere rubbish to think at this point of the origin of life. One might as well think of the origin of matter.” Charles Darwin
“Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.” A. Einstein
Creationism: Bad Science!
table 1 Chimpanzee 100% 98% Dog 99% 52% Mouse 40% Chicken 75% 4% Gene sequence that codes for protein Random DNA segment between genes Chimpanzee 100% 98% Dog 99% 52% Mouse 40% Chicken 75% 4% Fruitfly 60% ~0% Roundworm 35%