Creation & Scientific Arguments for God

Believes the Earth is less than 10,000 years old and interprets the Genesis narrative literally.

• Old Earth Creationism

• Young Earth Creationism

• Evolutionary Creationism

• Darwinistic Evolution

Believes the Genesis accounts of creation are true spiritually, but not literally, and that God initiated & guided natural processes to form all living organisms.

• Old Earth Creationism

• Young Earth Creationism

• Evolutionary Creationism

• Darwinistic Evolution

Believes the Genesis accounts of creation are true literally, but interprets certain words or phrases to allow for an understanding of the universe's age as billions of years, in accord with many modern scientists.

• Old Earth Creationism

• Young Earth Creationism

• Evolutionary Creationism

• Darwinistic Evolution

The primary differences between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2 accounts are:

• 1) the order that plants and people were created

  2) the scale of what is covered between all of creation and mostly just humans

• 1) The creation of mankind as evil to begin with vs. innocent

  2) The presence of multiples gods in the beginning

• 1) The "seeding" of Earth by another species

  2) The support for a multi-verse

• 1) The personality of God as kind or cruel

  2) The nature of creation as good or evil

What is the anthropic principle?

• The truth that all usable energy is running out in the universe

• The scientific fact that time is relative

• The reality that the universe seems finely tuned to support life

• The ability of the Earth to adjust to various conditions to support the ecosystem

The Cosmological Argument could best be summarized as:

• Complex things don't happen accidentally

• Without God, nothing matters

• If we desire goodness, and imagine a good God, then there must be a God that put that desire within us

• Something had to create this universe

The Teleological Argument could best be summarized as:

• Complex things don't happen accidentally

• Without God, nothing matters

• If we desire goodness, and imagine a good God, then there must be a God that put that desire within us

• Something had to create this universe

Which is NOT an example of an anthropic constant?

• Earth's oxygen level

• Gravity's pull

• Earth's atmospheric transparency

• The relative location of the Milky Way galaxy to the rest of the universe

Which of the following is NOT scientific evidence (that we discussed) that the universe has a beginning?

• Newton's law of conservation of matter

• Einstein's theory of relativity

• the law of entropy

• the continued expansion of the universe

The most difficult question to answer for those supporting Darwinian Evolution is:

• How apes evolved into humans

• How life came from nonliving things

• How aliens brought life to Earth

• How organisms evolved from single-celled to multicellular