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CREATED OR
EVOLVED?
What about
Life?
ALL LIFE IS FRAGILE !
IT NEEDS -
water, food
temperature
temp
energy source
protection
WHY JUST
A START
RIGHT
?
. . . . . but ended easily !
Why is Earth Suitable for life ?
Design or Accident?
LIFE’S GREAT VARIETY
Vegetable - - - animal
 Invertibrate - - vertibrate
 Birds - - - - - - mammals
 Elephant - - man
 African - - - European
 Male - - - - - female
 YOU
- - - - - ME
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KINGDOMS
CLASSES
FAMILIES
SPECIES
RACES
GENDERS
INDIVIDUALS
No two are exactly the same!
Living Things have
7 specific Characteristics
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Move
Breathe (respiration)
Feed - obtain and use energy.
Excrete (remove waste)
Grow & develop
Respond/adapt to environment (sensitivity)
• Reproduce
Also - all Living Things are made up of
cells which can replicate.
What is Life?
 “Property
which distinguishes a living
thing from dead / non-living matter”
 “Animate existence”
 “Period from birth to death” [OUD]
 Something temporarily added to
physical matter
 Spiritual quality – recognisable
- specially in humans
WHAT HAPPENS AT DEATH?
 Physical
components remain the
same, but soon decompose
 7 characteristics no longer seen
 change is dramatic – no response
 Spiritual component vanishes –
where?
Where / How did Life originate?
 Law
of Biogenesis It did NOT come from dead matter
(Big Bang  total sterility!)
 Science has NO other clear answer!
Several guesses!
 Someone must tell us!
How do life forms change?
Do they evolve?
Do they adapt?
What is natural selection?
How does it happen?
Changes in living things
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Produced by - adaptation to hostile conditions
or “survival of the fittest”
= “natural selection”
This is MICROEVOLUTION
- always WITHIN SPECIES
Also selective breeding – directed!
Does not / cannot cross
the boundary of the species

Ancestral source
Natural selection cannot cause one
kind (species) to become a new kind.
Can only select from existing
information already in the genes
 Cannot start off evolution when there
is nothing to select from
 Can cause a loss of information
 Cannot plan ahead - has no foresight
into the future

Evolution’s History of Life
Over billions of years all species evolved (upwards)
- from a common ancestor
more new information needed
The Bible and the History of Life
God made the beast of the earth after his
kind, and cattle after their kind, and every
thing that creeps upon the earth after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:25
Opposite views of Evolution and
Creation on changes in living creatures
Re-assortment
of existing
information
More
complex
Kinds
Kinds
Genera?
Genera?
Kinds
Kinds
Complex
Less
simple
Species?
Simple
Requires the
addition of new
complex genetic
information
Genera? Genera?
Species? Species? Species?
Sub-species?
Sub-species?
Sub-species?
Sub-species?
Evolutionists – bottom up
Creationists – top down
What do current
laboratory studies tell us
about genetics and change?
- in the cell?
Complexity of the Cell
Boeing 747
Billions of
non-living parts
4.5 million
non-flying parts
A Simple(?) Cell
To produce 1 protein in a
cell requires 75+ different
proteins and RNA
molecules.
An average protein of
about 500 AA is produced
in cells every 4 minutes provided they contain all
75 components in the
right place, at right
concentration, in the right
proportions at the right
time!
DNA
Results of laboratory experiments Experiments to induce changes in rapidly
reproducing organisms (e.g., microbes, small
insects) show that virtually all induced changes are
harmful.
These changes are not the result of adding new
information (required for evolution) into DNA
but of deleting (losing) or changing existing
information already in the DNA.
THE DNA OF EACH SPECIES
IS DIFFERENT
- gives different features & behaviour
= recognisable characteristics
CANNOT CHANGE DNA OF ONE KIND
INTO DNA OF ANOTHER KIND BY
MUTATIONS
- changes are - limited
- usually harmful
- repaired quickly in DNA
- easily “bred out”
Adaptation √

Rearrange, change or
remove information
- from existing huge
store there from “the
beginning” in “kinds”
- gives “subspecies”
suited to habitat
- eg – finches
- polar bears
- brown bears
Evolution x

Provide information,
or add extra & new,
- to supplement what
is there
- doesn’t happen with
no outside input!
- doesn’t match what
is there already!
Different Authority Sources For Belief
Evolution
Creation
1. Man’s reasoning
1. God’s revelation
2. Not there at the beginning
2. There at the beginning
3. Knowledge incomplete
3. Source of all knowledge
4. Known to distort and
manipulate the truth
4. Cannot lie (Titus 1:2)
Evolution is NOT  Supported
by the laws of science
 Shown in the fossil record anywhere
 Demonstrated by experiments on
living things
 A fact!
 Probable! (or sensible!)
 Believed by all scientists (and others)
Creation is NOT  Contradicted
by science
 Incompatible with common
experience
 Difficult to understand
 Wanted by most people
- because they do not want God
- Why ?
Since the creation of
the world, God’s
invisible qualities His eternal power and
divine nature - have
been clearly seen,
being understood
from what has been
made, so that they are
without excuse.
Romans 1: 20
What is
YOUR life?
 Important
 Significant
 Precious
 Short
-- WHY?
 “The wages of sin is death …”
 “but the gift of God is eternal life –
through Jesus Christ our Lord”
(Romans 6.23)
“For God so
that He gave
loved the world
His only Son …
… that whoever believes
in Him should not perish
but have everlasting
life.”
John 3.16