Transcript Cosmogony.ppt

Cosmogony
Genesis Chapter One
Fundamental Questions
Can we believe:
 the Bible Account of Creation?
 Other accounts of creation?
 in God?
 the Bible?
Cosmogony
Alternative Accounts of Creation
 Evolution – The big bang theory
 Early Creation accounts
 Modern Creation accounts
 Types of creationism
 Why believe the Bible Account
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Evolution?
The Rose
Evolution
Other gods
The title, meaning "when on high" is the incipit. The first tablet begins:
Enûma Eliš (Babylon)
e-nu-ma e-liš la na-bu-ú šáma-mu
šap-liš am-ma-tum šu-ma la
zak-rat
ZU.AB-ma reš-tu-ú za-ru-šuun
mu-um-mu ti-amat mu-al-lida-at gim-ri-šú-un
A.MEŠ-šú-nu iš-te-niš i-ḫi-quú-ma
gi-pa-ra la ki-is-su-ru su-sa-a
la she-'u-ú
e-nu-ma dingir dingir la šu-puu ma-na-ma
When the sky above was not
named,
And the earth beneath did not
yet bear a name,
And the primeval Apsû, who
begat them,
And chaos, Tiamat, the mother
of them both,
Their waters were mingled
together,
And no field was formed, no
marsh was to be seen;
When of the gods none had
been called into being.
Egypt
Remarkable Ancient Egyptian
Technology ?
Satellite Dish &
Submarine ?
Helicopter ?
Jet Aircraft ?
Maya religion
Ainu creation (Japan)
P'an Ku (China)
Norse gods
Aztec - Five Suns
Hindu
Buddhism
Islam
“Verily in the heavens and the earth are signs
for those who believe. And in the creation of
yourselves, and the fact that animals are
scattered (through the earth), are signs for
those of assured faith. And in the alternation
of night and day, and that fact that Allah
sends down sustenance from the sky, and
revives therewith the earth after its death,
and in the change of the winds, are signs for
those who are wise" (Quran 45:3-5).
Types of Creationism
Young earth creationism
 Progressive creationism
 Day age creationism
 Gap creationism
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The earth a globe
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Knowledge about earth prior to
discovery by man.
Copernicus, Nicolaus
(1473-1543)
Earth's Water Canopy
•Abrupt change after flood
•Semitropical climate
•Vegetation at the Poles
•Filtered out Radiation
•Methuselah lived 1000 yrs
•Dinosaurs - large reptiles
•200 ft long reptiles
Light
Our Galaxy
Louise Pasteur (1822-1895)
Conclusions
Many creation accounts mention events
recorded in the Bible
 The Bible account fits with modern
scientific findings
 The Bible was way ahead of its time
 No other creation account compares to
the Bible
 I believe the Bible creation account to
be a true record of creation
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