Yesterday, we watched 2 videos from Dr. Hugh Ross:
Here is the notes page that was passed out to follow along:
Long Creation Days Apologetics Class Lesson – 11 February, 2018 – Kevin Bronson
Creation Miracles – Hugh Ross Lecture
How do we reconcile Genesis 1 with findings of Natural Science?
Genesis 1:1 No Hebrew word for “universe”. Old Testament uses “heavens and earth”
Space-time did not exist until Genesis 1.
Space-time theorem (Einstein’s Special Theory of Relativity). If space-time had a beginning, then there must be an outside Agent that created space-time/everything.
Genesis 1:2 Frame of reference changes to surface of the waters
Job 37:9. Thick clouds, dark earth. Ps 104 waters over the earth. Global sea.
Yom, Hebrew, no word for age for epoch.
Creation Day One: Light gets through the atmosphere
Creation Day Two: Water above and below. Water cycle begins. Job 37
Creation Day Three: Land forms. Plate tectonics. Plants appear
Creation Day Four: More atmospheric clearing. Moon, sun and stars visible. Oxygenation by plants.
Creation Day Five: Small seas animals appear. Cambrian explosion.
Creation Day Six:
Creation of birds and mammals. Soulish creatures.
Long legged mammals – easy to tame
Long legged mammals – hard to tame
Urbanization increases à Atheism increases
God creates human beings. The only spiritual beings
Who Was Adam – Human Origins by Hugh Ross
The fossil tree is more of a bush, not a tree
Bipedal primates go back 6 million years.
New bipedal specie discovered every year.
Who is Homo sapiens?
Who is Homo sapiens Neanderthal?
We have Mitochondrial DNA (Maternal line) of Nean. 11 specimens, from Spain to the Caucus, 150,000 to 35,000 ya. Not evolving, nor related to humans.
Human Mit DNS back 40,000 years. Not evolving.
Y chromosome (nucleic DNA from fathers) from humans. No evolution.
In comparing Great ape Y chromosomes: Mountain gorilla different from orangutans
Not evolving and not related to humans.
Bible and natural science record says no new species appearing since humans appeared.
Insects
Soulish creatures (Job 39 nephesh created to relate to us/benefit
Humans
Abraham 4000 ya.
Genesis 11: Peleg when earth was divided
Bering Straight grain C14 age 12-13,00o y.a.
30,000 ya Noah
50,000 ya Adam
Big Bang of Antropology
Jewelry with Homo sapiens 40,000 ya – None with Neanderthal, no clothing
Tools with Neandethal – primitive
Cave art in France and Spain – 33,00 ya
Mitochondrial DNA Eve – 150,000 ya, divide by 3 to account for male contributions = 50,000 ya
Y chromosome – male line – 42 to 50,000 ya
References
Hugh Ross.
Creation and Time
Who Was Adam?
Navigating Genesis
Origins of Life
Why the Universe is the Way it Is.
Improbable Life
Gerald Schroeder. Genesis and the Big Bang.
Alan Hayward. Creation and Evolution.