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1do You Have To Flush Your Brain Effects
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Session Outline
1. Science and Christianity in
conflict, or is this just a myth?
2. How do they really?
3. Laws of Nature or Acts of God
4. How do I respond
3. Creation and evolution
Reformation:
Calvin and two books of revelation.
Bible and Nature.
Both revealing Gods nature.
Both ordered and reliable.
Both books read and interpreted in
similar fashion.
Nature an aid to understand God.
Most natural philosophers clergy
Newton:
Natural world follows
predictable laws .
Laws of God in Nature sustained
by God at all times.
Later natural law and then laws of
nature.
Pre-Darwin:
If God is perfect and the perfect
Creator then species will be perfected
adapted to their environments. No
changes, no extinctions no problems.
Darwin:
Change does occur. Confusion
follows in some circles. Darwin
was actually worried about the
confusion.
Our response:
Have a genuine desire to
seek the truth.
Be open and aware of
criticism and humbly
respond
Be aware of peoples
assumptions.
ISSUES: (Cont.)
Be aware of limitations
to theories.
Seek the Truth
MOST IMPORTANT
The world was created for Gods
pleasure and we are designed to
enjoy it.
God acts in the world in Jesus for
our benefit.
Gods action is subject to God
acting to save us so that we might
know God.