01 A Created Universe

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In the beginning

God Created

the Heavens and the Earth.

In the beginning

God Created



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Genesis 1:1-10Genesis 1:1-10


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In the beginning

God Created


In the beginning

God Created



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In the beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth.In the beginning God Created the Heavens and the Earth.

How did we get here?"

Is the universe simply a phenomenon of matter andenergy?

Did life just 'arise' spontaneously from the primordial

soup, or was life designed and created by a

great intelligence?

Are we simply the product of random forces?


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If God created everything, then who created God?

Every cosmology has a beginning point

somewhere. In other creation stories the gods rise up out of

the waters of the deep.

Atheistic scientists believe the 'big bang' just

happened, that it is an uncaused effect.

"Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather

than nothing, why the universe exists, why we exist.

Stephen Hawking Is it reasonable to believe all was created by nothing?


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The modern myth:

In the primaeval soup of the early Earth's atmosphere,

lightning and perhaps volcanic heat caused methane,ammonia, water and other chemicals to produce organic

compounds. Nucleotide bases and amino acids, combine to

form polynucleotides, and they combine to form RNA. This

becomes surrounded by fatty lipids to eventually form proto-cells. The RNA morphs slowly to DNA which makes the first

living cell. Then living cells group together for survival

advantage to become multi-cellular organisms, all the way up

to human beings. Is it reasonable to believe all this happened by itself?


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If life could be spontaneously generated, how many

things would have to come together?"

The simplest peptide is about 32 amino acids

long.

The simplest cell has more than 2 million

individual components.


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Artificial Life?

They mixed chemicals to create the 4 nucleotide bases

that make up the chain of DNA. They used Yeast cells and went through three cycles of

multiplication.

They put the resulting genetic material into a cell.

They claimed 'artificially created life'.

Using intelligence to copy the design.

Using technology and life to multiply and amplify

the material.

Using a living container!


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If life could be spontaneously generated, how many

things would have to come together?"

The simplest peptide is about 32 amino acids

long.

The simplest cell has more than 2 million

individual components.

Let's (just for the sake of argument) assume that it

takes 200 steps to build a simple living cell.


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Chance 200 things happen just right: approx 1 in 10375

1:1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000


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Chance 200 things happen just right: approx 1 in 10375

Surface of the earth is about 1029 mm2!

or about 1035 m2!

The number of electrons that could be jammed in

the whole universe 10176.

1000 tries a second for 13.7 billion years! 1020

tries.


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Chance that just one cell might form?

1 in 10177

1:1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,

000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000

More than a Googolplex of universes! (10100)


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Michael Denton:

To grasp the reality of life as it has been revealed by

olecular biology, we must magnify a cell a thousand millionimes until it is twenty kilometers in diameter and resembles aiant airship large enough to cover a great city like London orew York. What we would then see would be an object onparalleled complexity and adaptive design. On the surfacef the cell we would see millions of openings, like the portoles of a vast space ship, opening and closing to allow aontinual stream of materials to flow in and out. If we were tonter one of these openings we would find ourselves in a

orld of supreme technology and bewildering complexity...


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Michael Denton:

s it really credible that random processes could have

onstructed a reality, the smallest element of which aunctional protein or gene is complex beyond our own

reative capacities, a reality which is the very antithesis o

hance, which excels in every sense anything produced by the

ntelligence of man?


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In the beginning

God Created


In the beginning

God Created


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