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HOW DO YOU K NOW WHAT YOU K NOW? Or at least what you think you know?

?. ?. ?. HOW DO YOU K NOW WHAT YOU K NOW? Or at least what you think you know?. ?. ?. ?. 1-1. Short Review. Questions. Answers. The 6 days of creation are really 6,000 years, right? Did God use evolution to create anything? Is Evolution science or religion?.

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HOW DO YOU K NOW WHAT YOU K NOW? Or at least what you think you know?

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  1. ? ? ? HOW DO YOUKNOW WHAT YOU KNOW? Or at least what youthinkyou know? ? ? ? 1-1

  2. Short Review • Questions • Answers • The 6 days of creation are really 6,000 years, right? • Did God use evolution to create anything? • Is Evolution science or religion? • WRONG! They are just Normal Days!!! • NO!!! • Religion

  3. There are Only 2 Slides of Review Questions!!! Smile!

  4. Last Questions • Which two are Non-Repeatable: Science History Belief • Which two must have Eye Witnesses Science History Belief • Which is history and which is only belief? Evolution Creation = Only Belief!!! = History!!!

  5. IS IT LOGICAL TO BELIEVE IN EVOLUTION? Page 9 IF man evolved from apes, Your brain evolved from an ape brain. IF your brain evolved from an ape brain, Your logic evolved from ape logic. How do you know it evolved right? Maybe you’re not even asking the right questions! Evolution is logical ONLY if you are a modified ape. 1-14

  6. How do they know that? • When we hear the Discovery Channel say a new missing link that proves evolution has been discovered! • We ask: How do they know that? • When we read in our science books, “this animal has been evolving for millions of years to fine tune its ability to survive” • We ask: How do they know that?

  7. What do we ask? • When we hear Elmo say, “Elmo is glad dinosaurs haven’t been around for millions of years!” • We ask: . . . • When we hear Pastor or Mrs. Kim say, “the earth is less than 4,000 years old" • We ask: . . .

  8. PAGE 10 How do people “know” anything?

  9. People “know” through personal experience • This method relies on the five senses • I “know” touching a stove burns me because I touched one once and it burned me • However, the five senses can mislead • I saw the ghost of my dead grandmother last night with my own two eyes!

  10. People “know” what leading authorities tell them • This method usually relies on humans • I “know” poinsettias are poisonous because a nurse told me so • However, authorities can mislead • The leading authorities of his day told Columbus that he would sail over the edge of the world if he went too far

  11. People “know” through logic • This method relies on the human brain • I know, “what goes up must come down” – the law of gravity always wins! • However, logic can mislead • When one goes outside of our atmosphere, nothing ever has to come down • Everyone dies, so I’ll die someday • Not if Christ comes back first

  12. People “know” through feeling or intuition • This method relies on emotions • I just “know” this is the job God wants for me! • Emotions can mislead • What if it takes you away from spending time with God in His Word and prayer?

  13. People say they “know” when they are really just wishing • This method relies on nothing • I just “know” that cute boy was looking at me in third period • Wishful thinking obviously misleads • You were probably blocking his view of the mirror

  14. People say they “know” when they are simply lying • This method relies on our ignorance • Like the boy I worked with, “I KNOW evolution is true because I believe in SCIENCE!” • Lies can be hard to see through when they sound true • He finally admitted, “I believe in evolution because I don’t want to believe in a God I have to answer to.”

  15. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO “KNOW” SOMETHING? 1. Personal Experience through the five senses. I know a bee sting hurts; I know how to ride a bike. UNRELIABLE UNRELIABLE Except Bible 2. Reliance on Authority. I know the sun is 93 million miles away; Jesus loves me, this I know, for the Bible tells me so. 3. Logic. I know 2 million + 2 million = 4 million, even though I’ve never counted that high. I know I have a brain, even though I’ve never seen it. 4. Feeling or Intuition. I know she’s the one for me; I know God has called me to the ministry. UNRELIABLE UNRELIABLE 6. Bluffing (lying) - you try to persuade others for an ulterior motive. You should buy these tickets from me because I know this team is going to the Super Bowl this year; I know evolution is a fact! 5. Wishful Thinking (you really want it to be true) I just know I’m going to win the lottery! UNRELIABLE UNRELIABLE 1-16

  16. PAGE 11 REASONS TO BELIEVE OTHERS WHO TRY TO PERSUADE US OF WHAT THEY “KNOW” IS IT BECAUSE: (1) They claim to havepersonal experience, OR (2) They appeal to an authority we trust, OR (3) We have checked out their logic and found it trustworthy? OR are we willing to trust their (4) intuition, (5)wishful thinking, or (6)lying? 1-17

  17. THE PREHISTORIC PAST: 1. No living person haspersonal experience. 2. There are no eyewitness accounts except theBible, which is unacceptable to skeptics. SO HOW DO WE “KNOW” ABOUT THE BEGINNING? ThroughLOGIC ONLY? 1-18

  18. Converse in Logic • Take an “if, then” : • Original “IfI am listening to the pastor of West Side, thenI am listening to Pastor David Pearson” • Reverse the positions of the two statements • Converse “IfI am listening to Pastor David Pearson, thenI am listening to the pastor of West Side”

  19. Must work in “if and only if” form backward and forward • If I am talking to the tallest man in the room, then I am talking to Uncle Henry • Does it fit the “if and only if” form? • I am talking to the tallest man in the room, if and only if I am talking to Uncle Henry • I am talking to Uncle Henry, if and only if I am talking to the tallest man in the room. TRUTH!!!

  20. Converses are often false TRUTH? • If the statement and its converse cannot fit the “if and only if” form • “If I am talking to one of the shortest women in the room, then I am talking to Mama G” • Does it fit the “if and only if” form? • “I am talking to one of the shortest women in the room, if and only if, I am talking to Mama G” FALSE!!!

  21. PAGE 12 PROPER LOGIC FLOW TALKING TO ONE SHORT WOMAN TO MRS. CHRISTAL TO MRS. KIM TO MAMA G TO MARCIA TO MRS. BECKY 1-21

  22. IMPROPER LOGIC FLOW If you’re Talking to A short Woman You must be Talking To me! TALKING TO ONE SHORT WOMAN There are Other short women TO MAMA G 1-21

  23. Evolution rests on Logic • In school evolution is taught as truth • As the only truth possible • They started by saying: • Universe exists = evolution could be true • Now they say: • Evolution is true = the universe exists

  24. Evolution rests on Logic • Evolution is true, if and only if the universe and life exist - True logic! • Universe doesn’t exist = evolution can’t be true • Universe exists = evolution could be true BUT . . .

  25. Is Logic Ever Misleading? • Converse: If the universe exists, then evolution must be true • The universe exists = evolution is true

  26. If and only if Test TRUTH? • “If and only if” test • Evolution could be true, if and only if the universe and life exist. • Universe exists = evolution could be true • The universe and life could exist, if and only if evolution is true. • Evolution is true = the universe exists FALSE!!!

  27. “POSSIBLE” EXPLANATIONS FOR THE UNIVERSE UNIVERSE EXISTS THEISTIC EVOLUTION CORRECT YOUNG-EARTH CREATION CORRECT ATHEISTIC EVOLUTION CORRECT OLD-EARTH CREATION CORRECT SOMETHING ELSE CORRECT 1-23

  28. IMPROPER LOGIC FLOW UNIVERSE EXISTS If you exist, I must be true There are Other possibilities TO MAMA G 1-21

  29. Even if something sounds true!!!It could be false!!!

  30. EVEN WITH CORRECT LOGIC, FALSE PREMISES CAN LEAD TO FALSE CONCLUSIONS. All dogs bark. (Or, “If an animal is a dog, then it barks.”) Fido is a dog. Therefore, Fido barks. Not if Fido is a Basenji! Basenjis do not bark. If any oneof our premises is wrong, then our conclusion is unreliable. 1-24

  31. PAGE 13 HOW TO TELL SCIENCE FROM STORYTELLING 4. HOWcould I test this to see if it’s true? 1. WHO said they saw it? Can I trust them? WHAT NOT? HOW? WHAT? GOD? 2. WHAT did they actually see? WHO? 5. What does GOD have to say about it? HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? 3. WHAT are they NOTtelling me? 1-25

  32. PAGE 14 MATERIALISM: NO GOD ALLOWED! WE BELIEVE IN NATURAL PROCESSES BECAUSE WE DO NOT WANT A GOD!!! "We take the side of sciencein spite ofthe patent absurdity of some of its constructs, in spite of the failure to fulfill many of its extravagant promises of health and life, in spite of the tolerance of the scientific community for unsubstantiated just-so stories, because we have aprior commitment, acommitment to materialism. It is not that the methods and institutions of science somehow compel us to accept a material explanation of the phenomenal world, but, on the contrary, that we areforced by oura priori adherence tomaterial causesto create an apparatus of investigation and a set of concepts that producematerial explanations, no matter how counterintuitive, no matter how mystifying to the uninitiated. materialism. Moreover, that materialism is anabsolute, for wecannot allow a Divine Foot in the door." Richard Lewontin, The New York Review, Jan. 1997 1-26

  33. GOD MUST BE INVISIBLE SUPERNATURAL ETERNAL OMNIPRESENT OMNIPOTENT SELF-EXISTENT 1. Only seen by what He does - 2. Established natural laws, so is not subject to those laws - 3. Preceded the universe - 4. Influence extends throughout the universe - 5. Directly or indirectly responsi- ble for everything that has ever happened - 6. Nobody made Him - 1-27

  34. IF THERE IS NO GOD, THEN WHAT? What if there is no God? Then the universe would have to be the result of a series of forces, processes, and events operating with no particular purpose for billions of years. We could call the whole series “evolution,” “quantum fluctuation,” or “accident.” Let’s use the term “Random Chance,” with the under-standing that it represents the whole multibillion year series of forces, processes, and events. What characteristics would Random Chance have to have? 1-28

  35. PAGE 15 NECESSARY CHARACTERISTICS GOD RANDOM CHANCE 1. Only seen by what it does - INVISIBLE. 1. Only seen by what He does - INVISIBLE. 2. Established natural laws, so is not subject to those laws - SUPERNATURAL. 2. Established natural laws, so is not subject to those laws - SUPERNATURAL. 3. Preceded the universe - ETERNAL. 3. Preceded the universe - ETERNAL. 4. Influence extends throughout the universe -OMNIPRESENT. 4. Influence extends throughout the universe - OMNIPRESENT. 5. Directly or indirectly responsi- ble for everything that has ever happened -OMNIPOTENT. 5. Directly or indirectly responsi- ble for everything that has ever happened - OMNIPOTENT. 6. Nobody made Him -SELF- EXISTENT. 6. Nobody made it -SELF- EXISTENT. There is no possibility that God does NOT exist. 1-29

  36. PAGE 16 GOD OR RANDOM CHANCE? The Bible says that God loves you so much that He gave His only son to die for your sins. 1. If you believe in the God of the Bible and you are right, you at least have the potential to spend eternity in heaven with Him. 1. If you believe in the God of the Bible and you are right, you at least have the potential to spend eternity in heaven with Him. 3. If you believe in Random Chance and you are right, nothing matters anyway. 3. If you believe in Random Chance and you are right, nothing matters anyway. 2. If you believe in the God of the Bible and you are wrong, you’ll never know -- so it doesn’t matter. 4. If you believe in Random Chance and you are wrong, you are headed for an eternal hell. 2. If you believe in the God of the Bible and you are wrong, you’ll never know -- so it doesn’t matter. Which step of faith makes more sense? 1-30

  37. USEFUL IDEAS WITH STRANGE ORIGINS The Sewing Machine - DREAM Structure of Benzene – DREAM Fiber Optics – OCEAN INSPIRATION Self-Starting Electric Motor – SUNSET INSPIRATION Breakthroughs in Astronomy - ACCIDENTS etc. 1-31

  38. WHERE DID SCIENCE COME FROM? Eastern Religions Western Religions 1. The physical universe is real. 1. The physical universe is a deception. 2. There is such a thing as objective reality. 2. There is no such thing as objective reality. 3. It is possible to accu- rately measure the uni- verse and know things about it with varying degrees of certainty. 3. Because of this, it is not possible to accu- rately measure the uni- verse or know things about it with certainty. RESULT: There isno pointin studying nature. RESULT: The Scientific Method. Science owes its very existence to Western religious belief. 1-32

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