CREATED OR EVOLVED?

What about Life?

ALL LIFE IS FRAGILE !

IT NEEDS water, food temperature temp energy source protection

Why is Earth Suitable for life ?

Design or Accident?

LIFE’S GREAT VARIETY

       Vegetable - - - animal KINGDOMS Invertibrate - - vertibrate CLASSES Birds - - - - - - mammals FAMILIES Elephant - - - man SPECIES African - - - European RACES Male - - - - - - female GENDERS YOU - - - - - ME INDIVIDUALS

No two are exactly the same!

Living Things have 7 specific Characteristics

• Move • Breathe (respiration) • Feed - obtain and use energy.

• Excrete (remove waste) • Grow & develop • Respond/adapt to environment (sensitivity) • Reproduce

Also - all Living Things are made up of cells which can replicate.

What is Life?

     “Property which distinguishes a living thing from dead / non-living matter” “Animate existence” “Period from birth to death” [OUD] Something temporarily added to physical matter Spiritual quality – recognisable - specially in humans

WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH?

    Physical components remain the same, but soon decompose 7 characteristics no longer seen change is dramatic – no response Spiritual component vanishes – where?

Where / How did Life originate?

 Law of Biogenesis It did NOT come from dead matter (Big Bang  total sterility!)  Science has NO other clear answer!

Several guesses!

 Someone must tell us!

How do life forms change?

Do they evolve?

Do they adapt?

What is natural selection?

How does it happen?

Changes in living things

 Produced by adaptation or “survival of the fittest” = to hostile conditions “natural selection”  This is MICROEVOLUTION - always WITHIN SPECIES Also selective breeding – directed! 

Does not / cannot cross the boundary of the species

Ancestral source

Natural selection cannot cause one kind (species) to become a new kind.

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Can only select from existing information already in the genes Cannot start off evolution when there is nothing to select from Can cause a loss of information Cannot plan ahead - has no foresight into the future

Evolution’s History of Life

Over billions of years all species evolved (upwards) - from a common ancestor more new information needed

The Bible and the History of Life

God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creeps upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.

Genesis 1:25

Opposite views of Evolution and Creation on changes in living creatures Re-assortment of existing information More complex Kinds Kinds Kinds Kinds Complex Less simple Genera?

Genera?

Genera?

Genera?

Simple Requires the addition of new complex genetic information Evolutionists – bottom up Species?

Species?

Species?

Species?

Sub-species?

Creationists – top down

What do current laboratory studies tell us about genetics and change?

- in the cell?

Complexity of the Cell

Boeing 747 Billions of non-living parts 4.5 million non-flying parts

A Simple(?) Cell

To produce 1 protein in a cell requires 75+ different proteins and RNA molecules. An average protein of about 500 AA is produced in cells every 4 minutes provided they contain all 75 components in the right place , at right concentration , in the right proportions at the right time !

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Results of laboratory experiments Experiments to induce changes in rapidly reproducing organisms (e.g., microbes, small insects) show that virtually all induced changes are harmful.

These changes are not the result of adding new information (required for evolution) into DNA but of deleting (losing) or changing existing information already in the DNA.

THE DNA OF EACH SPECIES IS DIFFERENT

- gives different features & behaviour = recognisable characteristics

CANNOT CHANGE DNA OF ONE KIND INTO DNA OF ANOTHER KIND BY MUTATIONS

- changes are - limited - usually harmful - repaired quickly in DNA - easily “bred out”

Adaptation √ Evolution x

 Rearrange, change or remove information - from existing huge store there from “the beginning” in “kinds” - gives “subspecies” suited to habitat - eg – finches - polar bears - brown bears  Provide information, or add extra & new, - to supplement what is there - doesn’t happen with no outside input!

- doesn’t match what is there already!

Different Authority Sources For Belief

Evolution 1. Man ’s reasoning 2. Not there at the beginning 3. Knowledge incomplete 4. Known to distort and manipulate the truth Creation 1. God ’s revelation 2. There at the beginning 3. Source of all knowledge 4. Cannot lie (Titus 1:2)

Evolution is NOT -

 Supported by the laws of science  Shown in the fossil record anywhere  Demonstrated by experiments on living things  A fact!

 Probable! (or sensible!)  Believed by all scientists (and others)

Creation is NOT -

    Contradicted by science Incompatible with common experience Difficult to understand Wanted by most people - because they do not want God - Why ?

Since the creation of the world, God’s invisible qualities His eternal power and divine nature - have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that they are without excuse.

Romans 1: 20

What is YOUR life?

 Important  Significant  Precious  Short -- WHY?

 “The wages of sin is death …”  “but the gift of God is eternal life – through Jesus Christ our Lord” (Romans 6.23)

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son …

… that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.”

John 3.16