Men and Women, Created in The Image of God.
Men and Women Created in the Image of God.
The Christian Holy Bible tells us that God created the Heavens and the Earth, all living creatures, and then God created Man and Woman in his own image. Genesis 1:26-27.
Yet some people still believe that humans are no more special than any other creature on Earth, and simply evolved from the apes.
The late Dr Victor E Pearce, writing in his book - Evidence for Truth: Archaeology. Writes about the lack of fossil evidence. The missing fossil evidence that links the so-called evolutionary journey from apes to humans.
He says that there is plenty of fossil evidence for apes, and plenty of fossil evidence for humans. Bu the fossil evidence linking apes to humans is still missing.
Also, in the past, whenever the media proclaimed the missing fossil evidence had been found, it always turned out to be a mistake or a hoax.
But if you visit museums of natural history, you often find pictures showing the evolution of stooping apes into humans - as though it were a scientific fact, which it isn't, its just how someone imagined it might be if it were true.
Scientists who disagree with Darwin
The website - www.DissentFromDarwin.org exists for scientists who disagree with Darwin's theory of evolution. Here is a statement on the Discovery Institute's website -
During recent decades new scientific evidence from many scientific disciplines such as cosmology, physics, biology, "artificial intelligence" research, and others have caused scientists to begin questioning Darwinism's central tenet of natural selection and studying the evidence supporting it in great detail.
Yet public TV programs, educational policy statements, and science text books have asserted that Darwin's theory of evolution fully explains the complexity of living things.
The public has been assured that all known evidence supports Darwinism and that virtually every scientist in the world believes the theory to be true.
The scientists on this list dispute the first claim and stand as living testimony in contradiction to the second.
Since the Discovery Institute launched this list in 2001, more than a thousand scientists have courageously stepped forward to sign their names. [end of statement].
Why were they courageous to sign their names? Because many scientists in the past and today, face hostile persecution from their employers, universities, other scientists, and militant atheists, when they say they disagree with Darwin's theory of evolution, when they say they believe the science proves Darwin wrong.
In Six 24-Hour Days
I’d like to read you an article from a book called – In Six Days: Why 50 Scientists Chose to believe in Creation. Why fifty scientists choose to believe in creation. Strand Publishing. Sydney.
This report if from Professor John M Cimbala.
I was raised in a Christian home, believing in God and his Creation. However, I was taught evolution while attending high school, and began to doubt the authority of the Bible. If evolution is true, I reasoned the Bible cannot be true. I eventually rejected the entire Bible and believed we descended from lower creatures, there was no afterlife and no purpose in life but to enjoy the short time we have on this Earth.
My college years were spent at Penn State University were spent as an atheist or at best an agnostic.
Fortunately, and by the grace of God, I began to read articles and listen to tapes about scientific evidence for Creation.
Over a period of a couple of years, it became apparent to me that the theory of evolution had no legitimate factual evidence, and that scientific data from the fossil record, geology, etcetera. Could be better explained by a recent creation, followed by a global flood.
Suddenly I realised that the Bible might actually be true! It wasn’t until I could believe the first page of the Bible, that I could believe the rest of it.
Once I accepted the fact that there is a creator God, it was an easy step for me to accept his plan of salvation through Jesus Christ as well. I became a follower of Christ during my first year of graduate school at Cal Tech.
Since then, I have devoted much time to studying the evidence for Creation and a global flood. The more I study, the more convinced I become that there is a loving God, who created this universe and all living things. God revealed some details about his creation in the book of Genesis, which I now believe literally – six days, a young Earth, and a global flood.
There are many pieces of evidence about which I could write. Here I have chosen one. The Second Law of Thermodynamics.
A formal definition of the second law of thermodynamics: In any closed system, a process proceeds in a direction such that the unavailable energy increases. In other words, in any closed system, the amount of disorder always increases with time. Things progress naturally from order to disorder, or from an available energy state to one where energy is more unavailable.
A good example. A hot cup of coffee cools off in an insulated room. The total amount of energy in the room remains the same (which satisfies the first law of thermodynamics). Energy is not lost, it is simply transferred (in the form of heat) from the hot coffee to the cool air, warming up the air slightly. When the coffee is hot there is available energy because of the temperature difference between the coffee and the air.
As the coffee cools down, the available energy is slowly turned to unavailable energy. At last, when the coffee is room temperature, there is no temperature difference between the coffee and the air, i.e. the energy is in an unavailable state. The closed system (consisting of the room and the coffee) has suffered what is technically called a ‘heat death’. The system is ‘dead’ because no further work can be done, since there is no more available energy.
The second law says that the reverse cannot happen! Room temperature coffee will not get hot all by itself, because this would require turning unavailable energy into available energy.
Now, consider the entire universe as one giant closed system. Stars are hot, just like the cup of coffee, and are cooling down, losing energy into space. The hot stars in a cooler space represent a state of available energy, just like the hot coffee in the room.
However, the second law of thermodynamics requires that this available energy constantly change to unavailable energy. In another analogy, the entire universe is winding down like a giant wind-up clock, ticking down and losing available energy.
Since energy is continually changing from available to unavailable, someone had to give it available energy in the beginning! In other words, someone had to wind up the clock of the universe at the beginning. Who or what could have produced energy in an available state In the first place? Only someone or something not bound by the second law of thermodynamics. Only the creator of the second law of thermodynamics could violate it and create energy in a state of availability in the first place.
As time goes forward (assuming things continue as they are), the available energy in the universe will eventually turn into unavailable energy. At this point the universe will have suffered a heat death, just like the coffee in the room. The present universe as we know it, cannot last forever.
Furthermore, imagine going backwards in time.
Since the energy of the universe is constantly changing from a state of availability to one of less availability, the further back in time one goes, the more available energy of the universe. Using the clock analogy again, the further back in time, the more wound up the clock. Far enough back in time, the clock was completely wound up. The universe therefore, cannot be infinitely old. One can only conclude that the universe had a beginning, and that beginning had to have been caused by someone or something operating outside the known laws of thermodynamics.
Is this scientific proof for the existence of a creator God? I think so. Evolutionary theories of the universe cannot counteract the above argument for the existence of God…
300 Pages of Evidence
You have just read how over a thousand scientists from around the world disagree with Darwin's theory of evolution, and the testimony from one scientist stating that scientific evidence proves Darwin's theory to be wrong.
In the book - In Six Days, there are 50 scientists, all with PhD's, sharing their discoveries of the science that disagrees with Darwin's theory of evolution.
The only alternative to the creation of our universe by evolution, is by creation of God. But is there any evidence to prove God created the heavens, the Earth and all forms of life, and any evidence that proves God created man and woman in his own image (created us special to God and different from every other animal)?
Yes, there is proof. That is why I wrote the book - This is The Meaning of Life. With over 300 pages of evidence it is true.
Evidence that not only proves God does exist, that God created all things, that since the beginning of creation the history of humankind has been unfolding according to the predetermined plan and purpose of God.
Evidence that also prove the meaning and purpose of your life here on Earth!