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Chapter 19: Questions about the Bible and Science

Connect …

In the middle 1800’s a man in America named Charles Darwin wrote down ideas about how all life came
into being WITHOUT GOD in his book, “Origin of Species.” Many of his ideas were his grandfather’s
theories. It was his way of explaining the world without having to admit that a Creator made it. By
removing God from the equation, he also was able to remove man’s accountability to God. He coined
the term, “survival of the fittest.” From it, we understand that it is a “dog eat dog” society, and self-
centered mankind must look out for himself. His ideas had a tremendous effect on the thinking in the
fields of biology, paleontology, astronomy, chemistry, and philosophy.

Objectives …

1. The student should be able to explain what evolutionists believe and refute these beliefs.

2. The student should use the creation to refute Darwin’s false ideas.

3. The student should be able to show the evolutionists that design demands a Designer.

The Lesson …

Science has pretty much proved evolution to be true. Aren’t the Bible and Science in
conflict?

To determine if evolution is true, we first must understand what evolutionary science believes about
how the world came to be.

The word evolution (sometimes called Darwinism) has a variety of definitions, from simply “change” to
“the natural process by which all life derived from a single ancestor,” and is referred to alternately as
“hypothesis,” “theory,” “law,” and “fact.” Because of its imprecise nature, the term is often used
ambiguously to imply that the processes we can observe in the present (e.g.,
natural selection) “prove” that the processes we cannot observe in the past must
have happened as well (e.g., the change of dinosaurs into birds). In fact, the term
evolution can also be used to denote the philosophy of naturalism, which
depends upon unobserved events in the past (including in astronomy, chemistry,
and geology).

In scientific terms, evolution generally means the change in genetic material
between generations, which is also referred to as “descent with modification.” These changes are

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