Faith, Evidence, And Proof
There is a strange attitude toward faith in the minds of many of our brethren today. They believe that words such as faith and evidence, or faith and proof are mutually exclusive, that is, one cannot exist with the other. Tonight our topic is faith, "the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. - Heb. 11:1.
Religion: Oh.
Evolution: Yes, I just can't bring myself to believe in miracles.
Religion: I thought you believed life spontaneously began as a amoeba which decided without a brain to have a brain, arms, legs, gender, and to change species millions of times to become man.
Evolution: I DO! I BELIEVE THAT!
Religion to self: And he doesn't believe in miracles!
- Faith in the creation account: "Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word God, so that things which are seen were not made by things which do appear"-Hebrews 11:3
- The existence of matter itself is the greatest argument for the existence of God.
- Psalm 19:1 "The heavens declare the glory of God, and the firmament showeth..."
- Romans 1:20 "For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and his divine nature, so that they are without excuse."
- The theory of evolution:
- Begins with the existence of matter- Matter is insufficient to explain itself- Law of Causality
- Denies the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics = greater order to lesser order over time
- Drop a few pieces of paper a short distance, then from a long distance; which makes a bigger mess?
- Similar to the production of a dictionary from an explosion in a print shop.
- Isaac Newton's scaled replica of the solar system- "it just happened"
- Teaches that the order of the universe came about by accident.
- Sun is 93 million miles away- if it were 10% closer we would incinerate, 10% further and the earth would be a giant ball of ice. Its just right- by accident
- Moon is 238,000 miles away, controlling the tides. 20% closer and each tide would bring tidal waves 35 to 50 feet over most of the earth's surface. Its just right- by accident
- The earth rotates on its axis at 1000 miles per hour at the equator; the earth is rotating around the sun at over 70,000 miles per hour, encircling the sun every 365 1/4 days; while the sun and its solar system are orbiting through space at a speed of over 600,000 miles an hour in an orbit so large it would take 220 million years to complete one rotation. All just right- by accident
- halve the earth's rotation cycle and most of the earth would scorch through the 6 months of summer, and not enough food could be grown to feed everyone thru a 6 mo. winter
- double the rotation and the growing seasons would be too short, and we would starve.
- the earth rotates around the sun in an orbit that deviates only 1/9th inch from a straight line every 18 miles! 1/8 inch and we incinerate, 1/10 inch and we all become frosty the snowman. All of this is just right- by accident.
- All these things came together in an atmosphere which is 78% N, 21% O, .9% Ar, and .1% traces of H, He, Ne, Xe.
- Out of this primoidal soup life spontaneously generated, survived long enough to duplicated itself, and evolved into plankton, fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, monkeys, and man over the course of 4.6 billion years.
- I don't have enough faith to be an evolutionist!
- Theistic evolution- tries to draw God into this ridiculous theory. John Clayton, Jack Sears
- "The days of Genesis 1 were not literal, 24-hour days", thus denying Exodus 20:11
- Jesus said he that made them "from the beginning made them male and female"- Matthew 19.4-8
- "Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts, and saying, 'Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.'" II Peter 3:3-4
- Theistic evolution seeks to appease an atheistic community that has no intent to ever believe in God. "Buy the truth, and sell it not; also wisdom, and instruction, and understanding." Proverbs 23.23 Don't sell out the truth to appease anyone, especially godless men!
- Science and the Bible working together
- Spontaneous generation
Religion: Oh.
Evolution: Yes, I just can't bring myself to believe in miracles.
Religion: I thought you believed life spontaneously began as a amoeba which decided without a brain to have a brain, arms, legs, gender, and to change species millions of times to become man.
Evolution: I DO! I BELIEVE THAT!
Religion to self: And he doesn't believe in miracles!
- Francesco Redi- Italian biologist proved that maggots are not spontaneously generated by rotting meat in 1668.
- Louis Pasteur- French biologist proved that microorganisms come from other living micro-organisms after their own kind in 1862. Quote: "From nothing- comes nothing."
- By the Bible: Genesis 1:20-25 (READ)
- Heliocentric solar system "sun-centered"
- Galileo proposed it in the 16th century
- David proposed it over 2000 years earlier- Psalm 19:1-6
- A spherical earth
- People feared Columbus would sail off the edge of the earth in the late 15th century
- God "sitteth upon the circle of the earth" Isaiah 40:22
- True science confirms the Bible every time!