CREATIONISM VS EVOLUTION

MAJOR TOPIC TABLE OF CONTENTS

I) INTRODUCTION

A) ONLY TWO POSITIONS TO CHOOSE FROM: CREATIONISM OR EVOLUTION

B) BOTH IDEAS HAVE RELIGIOUS IMPLICATIONS

C) DEFINING TERMS IS CRITICAL IN ORDER TO DETERMINE THE TRUTH ABOUT ORIGINS

1) VARIATION WITHIN A SPECIES IS NOT THE SAME AS EVOLUTION

2) SCIENCE'S DEFINITION OF DIFFERENT SPECIES DOES NOT ALWAYS REFLECT REALITY

D) SCIENTIFIC PROOF DEMANDS OBSERVABILITY, EXPERIMENTABILITY, REPEATABILITY AND FALSIFIABILITY

II) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF RECENT CREATION

A) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM THE UNIVERSE

1) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF A RECENTLY CREATED UNIVERSE:

2) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENTLY CREATED UNIVERSE

B) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM EARTH WHICH TESTIFY TO A RECENT CREATION

1) INTRODUCTION

2) INITIAL CREATION ACT EFFECTED THE BEGINNING OF PROFOUNDLY SIGNIFICANT GEOLOGICAL FORMATIONS ALL OF WHICH ARE RECENT

a) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE INITIAL CREATION STAGE OF THE EARTH

b) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE FROM EARTH SUPPORTING INITIAL CREATION

3) FINAL WORK OF CREATION PRODUCED ALL LIFEFORMS & ORIGINAL FORMATIONS IN DAYS - ALL OF WHICH ARE RECENT

4) THE PREFLOOD PERIOD - AFTER THE FALL

a) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE EFFECT OF THE FALL

b) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE EFFECT OF THE FALL

5) PERIOD OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD

a) INTRODUCTION

b) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD

c) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF THE WORLDWIDE FLOOD

6) THE POST FLOOD PERIOD

7) CONCLUSION: TODAY'S GEOLOGY EXPLAINED BY A CATASTROPHIC UNIVERSAL FLOOD NOT EVOLUTION

8) METHODS OF AGE MEASUREMENT INDICATE A YOUNG EARTH

C) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENT CREATION OF LIFEFORMS

1) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY OF A RECENT CREATION OF LIFEFORMS

2) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A RECENT CREATION OF LIFEFORMS

III) SCRIPTURAL TESTIMONY & PHYSICAL EVIDENCE OF A DESIGNED AND ORCHESTRATED CREATION

A) THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX DESIGN OF THE UNIVERSE POINTS TO A SUPREME DESIGNER: THE GOD OF THE BIBLE

B) THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX DESIGN OF THE EARTH POINTS TO A SUPREME DESIGNER: THE GOD OF THE BIBLE

C) THE INCREDIBLY COMPLEX DESIGN OF ALL LIFEFORMS POINTS TO A SUPREME DESIGNER: THE GOD OF THE BIBLE

IV) PHYSICAL EVIDENCE REFUTES EVOLUTIONARY 'THEORIES'

A) EVOLUTIONARY 'THEORIES' OF THE ORIGIN OF THE SOLAR SYSTEM REFUTED

1) INTRODUCTION

2) NEBULAR HYPOTHESIS

3) FISSION 'THEORY'

4) CAPTURE 'THEORY'

5) ACCRETION 'THEORY'

6) PLANETARY COLLISION 'THEORY'

7) STELLAR COLLISION 'THEORY'

8) GAS CLOUD 'THEORY'

9) CHEMICAL EVOLUTION 'THEORY'

10) EXPANDING UNIVERSE: BIG BANG THEORY

V) CONCLUSION: CREATIONISM VS. EVOLUTION

A) EVOLUTIONISTS' CLAIMS SUSPECT EVEN AMONG EVOLUTIONISTS

B) SUMMARY

1) BANKRUPTCY OF UNIFORMITARIANISM

2) TWO MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE WORLD VIEWS: ONLY ONE IS RIGHT