1. Apologetics
Defending your faith

2. 4 Misconceptions
“Christianity must be proven scientifically”

3. Scientific Method: - Controlled Environment - Experiment - Repeateable

4. Legal/Historical Method: - Written - Oral - Physical

5. Misconception #2
“There is not enough evidence for me to be 100% sure”

6. “ There is enough evidence to convince anyone who is not set against it, but not enough to bring anyone into the kingdom who will not come” Blaise Pacall

7. Misconception #3
“Truth is relative. If you believe something than that is truth to you”

8. Misconception #4
“It does not matter what you believe as long as you are sincere”

9. Is there a God? – Chp. 3
Apologetics

10. Can anyone know there is NOT a God?

11. Pascal’s Wager:
Either God exists or He doesn’t. What would be wiser – to believe He does exist or to believe He doesn’t?

12. The Cosmological Argument:
Everything must have an explanation
Universe could not have come from nothing
Universe could not have always existed as it is
Universe could not have come from impersonal energy

13. The Teleological Argument:
All of the intricate design in the universe argues for a purposeful first cause.

14. The Human Eye

15. The Anthropic Principle:
The earth has exactly the right conditions for human life.

16. The Moral Argument:
We all have a sense of right and wrong – must be from a supreme law giver.

17. The Great Objection:
If there is a good and omnipotent God, then why is there evil and suffering in the world?

18. Answer to the Objection:
The problem of Evil shows that there is a God.
There is Evil because humans abused their freedom.
God made humans because He wanted them to love Him.
The amount of suffering shows how serious sin is.

19. #4 – Creation Apologetics
August 6, 2017

20. Creation Apologetics
Both the claim for evolution and the claim for creation are propositions that have to be taken by faith.

21. Creation Apologetics
Does what we see around us best fit the expectations of evolution or creation?

22. Which approach is most consistent with the evidence?
Creation Apologetics
Which approach is most consistent with the evidence?

23. Life only comes from Life
The Law of Biogenesis
Life only comes from Life

24. Law of Biogenesis
A few evolutionists propose that life was transported from another planet to the earth.

25. Law of Biogenesis
Evolution is not scientific when it comes to the Law of Biogenesis vs. Spontaneous Generation.

26. The Law of Probability
Is there enough time in the universe for Chance to produce the intricate Design we see around us?

27. The Law of Probability
What is the ‘chance’ of getting a ‘Head’ and throwing a six at the same time?

28. The Law of Probability
Half of the time the die lands showing a six, the coin will show a tail, the other half of the time we throw a six, the coin would show a head. So the probability of throwing the head and the six together, must be one half of the sixes, or put mathematically, ½ x 1/6. This, of course, is 1/12.

29. The Law of Probability
Statisticians have made this into a rule called the MULTIPLICATION rule of probability.

30. The Law of Probability
Chance requires 10 Billion attempts, on average, to count from 1 to 10.

31. The Law of Probability
‘Chance’ will, on average, spell ‘the theory of evolution’ correctly only 1 in outcomes.

32. The Law of Probability
The computes to one success in 8.3 hundred quadrillion quadrillion attempts.

33. The Law of Probability
If, as evolutionists would have us believe, the earth has been in existence for approximately 5 billion years, then ‘chance’ could take 5 times this to spell out “the theory of evolution”, even at one billion attempts per microsecond, a phenomenal rate of experimentation.

34. The Law of Probability
According to Dembski, if anything has had less than 1 in chance of happening, it just could not have happened by chance.

35. The Law of Probability
Evolutionist Julian Huxley said that the odds that the horse evolved was 1 chance in 10 3,000,000, but that it still happened thanks to natural selection.

36. 5 – More Creation

37. Laws of Thermodynamics
If the universe has always existed with a fixed amount of energy, and more and more energy has become unusable, then by now the universe would be completely “run down” and we wouldn’t be here.

38. The Fossil Record
If evolution were true, then you would expect to see thousands of transitional forms in the fossil record. But after more than 150 years of digging, there are fewer examples of so-called transitional forms than in Darwin’s day.

39. The Fossil Record
Creationists predict there would be distinct kinds of organism, based on what God made on Day 3, Day 5, and Day 6 of Creation Week. Distinct kinds of plants and animals are what we see in the fossil record.

40. The Fossil Record
The fossil record suggests that the biblical creation is a much more reasonable proposition than evolution.

41. The Law of Genetics
Evolutionists argue that the variations among the kinds of animals, such as all the different kinds of dogs, are proof of the evolution that occurred through mutations and natural selection.

42. The Law of Genetics
But most of the changes we see within different kinds of animals are not due to mutations, but to different combinations of genetic information that has always been in their DNA.

43. The Law of Genetics
The various breeds of dogs that we see today actually have less genetic information than the original dog kind, not more information.

44. The Law of Genetics
A mutation can change existing genes, and thereby change (corrupt) the information of the DNA, but a mutation cannot add new information to DNA.

45. The Law of Genetics
Creationists would expect there to be limits to change within the various kinds of organisms. The observations of life around us indicate that there are limits to change.

46. The Law of Genetics
Evolutionists would expect to see evidence of change from one major kind of organism to another. The evidence the evolutionist want is not there.

47. The Young Earth
90% of the dating methods used to determine the age of the earth argue for a young earth.

48. The Young Earth
The Young Faint Sun Paradox: Life could not have evolved on earth billions of years ago since the sun would have been fainter in the past and thus the earth would have been too cold for life.

49. Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some dinosaur bones.
The Young Earth
Red blood cells and hemoglobin have been found in some dinosaur bones.

50. The moon is slowly receding from earth at about 1 ½” per year.
The Young Earth
The moon is slowly receding from earth at about 1 ½” per year.

51. The Young Earth
Salt is pouring into the sea much faster than it is escaping. The sea is not nearly salty enough for this to have been happening for billions of years.

52. 6 – Argument for Christianity

53. Arguments for Christianity
Premise A:
The New Testament is historically accurate; it is a reliable and trustworthy document.

54. Arguments for Christianity
Premise B:
On the basis of this reliable document, we have sufficient evidence to believe that Jesus rose from the dead as He predicted He would, and that He fulfilled dozens of other Messianic prophecies.

55. Arguments for Christianity
Premise C:
Jesus’ Resurrection and fulfillment of prophecy show that He was who He said He was: the Messiah, the Son of God – God in the flesh.

56. Arguments for Christianity
Premise D:
Because Jesus is God, He is infallible – What He says is absolutely trustworthy.

57. Arguments for Christianity
Premise E:
Jesus Christ taught that the Bible was the Word of God.

58. Arguments for Christianity
Conclusion:
If Christ said it, we must believe it – The Bible is the Word of God, and Jesus is the only way to God. Therefore Christianity is true.