Dealing with Doubts - Why I Believe in Creation, Part 2
May 7, 2025
Dive into the fascinating debate of creation versus evolution, where science and faith can actually coexist. Explore the four major positions on the origin of life, from classic creationism to intelligent design. Uncover the complexity of DNA and hear a former skeptic's journey to belief after scientific exploration. Plus, discover how scientific discoveries, like the Big Bang, can harmonize with theological beliefs. It's an engaging conversation that encourages dialogue and challenges traditional views.
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Francis Collins' Faith Journey
Francis Collins, a medical doctor and scientist, changed his views on faith after reading C.S. Lewis's Mere Christianity.
Inspired by patients' peace and creation's beauty, he accepted Jesus as his Savior.
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Worldview Shapes Morality
Your worldview profoundly influences morality, purpose, and values.
Believing in a purposeful Creator contrasts sharply with seeing life as random chance.
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Contrasting Origins of Life
Darwin's theory suggested simple cells evolved via natural selection from spontaneous generation.
Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation, while Scripture attributes creation to God's deliberate act.
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In this book, Dr. Henry Cloud leads readers through his personal journey of faith, sharing his early struggles with illness and depression and the miraculous experiences that healed him. Written in the vein of books like 'An Unquiet Mind', 'When Breath Becomes Air', and 'On Being Mortal', 'Why I Believe' is a masterwork in spiritual exploration. Dr. Cloud combines masterful storytelling with a nuanced understanding of the human mind to explore the great questions of life, suffering, and faith, making it a groundbreaking and uplifting read.
Mere Christianity
C.S. Lewis
In 'Mere Christianity', C.S. Lewis argues for the existence of God and defends Christian theology. The book is divided into four parts: the first argues for the existence of God based on the 'law of human nature'; the second defends Christian theology, including the 'Liar, lunatic, or Lord' trilemma regarding Jesus Christ; the third explores Christian ethics, including the cardinal and theological virtues; and the fourth discusses the Christian conception of God, particularly the Holy Trinity. Lewis also addresses topics such as free will, morality, sexual ethics, and the institution of marriage. The book is known for its clear and logical presentation of Christian apologetics and has been praised for its straightforward and humorous writing style[1][2][4].
God and the Astronomers
God and the Astronomers
Robert Jastrow
The Language of God
A Scientist Presents Evidence for Belief
Francis Collins
In 'The Language of God,' Francis S. Collins advocates for theistic evolution and describes his conversion to Christianity. The book addresses the long-held belief that science and faith are mutually exclusive, arguing instead that they can complement each other. Collins draws on his experiences as a scientist, including his work on the Human Genome Project, and cites influential thinkers like C.S. Lewis and Augustine of Hippo. He discusses the concept of Moral Law, the universal human longing for God, and how science and religion can coexist without conflict. The book also explores the reconciliation of evolutionary theory with Christian beliefs and warns against using God to fill gaps in scientific knowledge[2][4][5].
Creation versus evolution: the never-ending debate, right? So many want us to believe that science and faith are incompatible. But what if they’re not? What if science actually supports faith and what if faith actually informs science? Chip provides helpful insight to the current debate, in a time when the disagreements are more intense than ever.
Main Points
Defining our terms:
Microevolution: The small changes that only happen within a species. Some examples of microevolution are the mosquito’s ability to resist DDT after years of exposure, and the ability of different bacterial strains to resist penicillin.
Macroevolution: The vertical transition between species (from one kind of species to another kind) evolving to account for all animal and human life.
Creation: The belief that God created all things out of nothing, as described in the Bible in the book of Genesis. All of life in its rich complexity happened as the result of the all-powerful, all-knowing, sovereign God of the universe who is Maker of heaven and earth, of all things visible and invisible.
Today's four major positions:
Group 1: Classic Creationism - The literal biblical account
Group 2: Classic Evolution - Random change and natural selection
Group 3: Theistic Evolution - God-supervised evolution
Group 4: Intelligent Design - A designer of some kind
How did life begin?
Evolution: Life’s beginning was unsupervised, impersonal, unpredictable, a natural process. The beginning of life was random, undirected without either plan or purpose.
Creation: Defined by the Bible. God spoke.
Why did life begin?
Evolution: Life began as a pure accident. It was random chance. There was no design, no plan, no meaning, no emotions, no purpose, and no value.
Creation: You are the special creation of a good and all-powerful God. You are the climax of His creation. Not only is your kind unique, but you are unique among your kind.
How did various plants and animals develop?
Evolution: A simple cell evolved to more complex plants and animals through the process of time, chance, natural selection, mutations, and survival of the fittest over a period of billions of years.
Creation: God created various plants, animals, kinds, and species in a harmonic balance to reflect His attributes and character.
Complexity of Life
Cells: Thanks to today’s more powerful microscopes, we know that a single-cell organism, the most basic unit of any living thing, is incredibly complex.
DNA: Is like the software of the cell, the computer program that makes it work. In fact, if you took a tablespoon and filled it to the top with this DNA, your tablespoon could contain the precise instructions to build every single species of organism that has ever existed on the planet.
Astronomy: “Astronomers now find they have painted themselves into a corner because they have proven, by their own methods, that the world began abruptly in an act of creation to which you can trace the seeds of every star, every planet, every living thing in this cosmos and on the earth. And they have found that all this happened as a product of forces they cannot hope to discover. That there are what I or anyone would call supernatural forces at work is now, I think, a scientifically proven fact.” - Robert Jastrow
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