Creationism vs Evolution: a Battle between Two Religions
1. Creation vs evolution, an overview
a. Facts, truths and the Truth;
b. Faith and truth
c. Christianity and Science
d. Science and Christianity
2. Christianity is the cradle of modern science
a. Sciences in ancient civilizations
b. Modern science in the “dark age”
c. The Catholic church in science
d. Christians in science
e. Christianity provides the fundamental theorems of sciences (e.g., Joule and the first law)
f. Persecution of science by the church
3. Don’t cross the line!
a. The rise and fall of the Copernican principle (mediocrity principle)
b. Conservation of matter
c. Conservation of energy
d. The second law of thermodynamics
e. Albert Einstein and Newton
f. Richard Dawkins: Biologist vs the Champion of Atheism
g. An earlier debate: Life from life vs the spontaneous generation
h. Darwin and Darwinism
4. Creationism vs Evolution: the battle between two religions
a. Darwin’s scientific research
b. The Origin of Species
c. Darwinism: hatred and killing
d. Ideologies leading to the world wars
e. The triumph of Darwinism: Communists taking over the world!
f. Darwinism inching into the textbooks in the west
g. The recession of Christianity from the “Public Squares”
h. It's in my textbook!
5. Creationism vs Evolution: Direct Scientific findings
a. Fossil evidences
b. Seawater salinity
c. Formation of big valleys
d. Geological evidences
e. Age of the earth/universe
6. Life from rock: what the evolutionists trying to sell you
a. The cosmological evolution: the origin of the universe
b. The element evolution: from hydrogen to the 108
c. The chemical evolution: from inorganic compounds to “the organic soup”
d. Cellular evolution: from unicellular to multi-cellular
e. Origin of species: from monkeys to humans
7. Life from rock? The biological evidences
a. The ecosystem
b. Complexity of organism
c. Complexity of cellular structure
d. Molecular biological evidences
8. Are we animals? The morality argument
a. The nature of humans
b. Moral principle
c. The origin of moral principles
d. What is right?
9. The first cause argument
a. The diversity vs uniformity of the nature;
b. The universal applicability of natural laws;
c. The design argument vs the argument of probability
d. The first cause
10. The biblical world view
a. Young earth vs ancient earth
b. Origin of life
c. Origin of human
d. The fall and fallibility of human
e. The flood
f. The earth before and after the flood
g. Human’s Sin vs God’s grace and justice
11. Conclusion remarks
a. The philosophical argument
b. The scientific argument
c. The moral argument
d. The biblical argument
e. The witness argument
1. Creation vs evolution, an overview
a. Facts, truths and the Truth;
b. Faith and truth
c. Christianity and Science
d. Science and Christianity
2. Christianity is the cradle of modern science
a. Sciences in ancient civilizations
b. Modern science in the “dark age”
c. The Catholic church in science
d. Christians in science
e. Christianity provides the fundamental theorems of sciences (e.g., Joule and the first law)
f. Persecution of science by the church
3. Don’t cross the line!
a. The rise and fall of the Copernican principle (mediocrity principle)
b. Conservation of matter
c. Conservation of energy
d. The second law of thermodynamics
e. Albert Einstein and Newton
f. Richard Dawkins: Biologist vs the Champion of Atheism
g. An earlier debate: Life from life vs the spontaneous generation
h. Darwin and Darwinism
4. Creationism vs Evolution: the battle between two religions
a. Darwin’s scientific research
b. The Origin of Species
c. Darwinism: hatred and killing
d. Ideologies leading to the world wars
e. The triumph of Darwinism: Communists taking over the world!
f. Darwinism inching into the textbooks in the west
g. The recession of Christianity from the “Public Squares”
h. It's in my textbook!
5. Creationism vs Evolution: Direct Scientific findings
a. Fossil evidences
b. Seawater salinity
c. Formation of big valleys
d. Geological evidences
e. Age of the earth/universe
6. Life from rock: what the evolutionists trying to sell you
a. The cosmological evolution: the origin of the universe
b. The element evolution: from hydrogen to the 108
c. The chemical evolution: from inorganic compounds to “the organic soup”
d. Cellular evolution: from unicellular to multi-cellular
e. Origin of species: from monkeys to humans
7. Life from rock? The biological evidences
a. The ecosystem
b. Complexity of organism
c. Complexity of cellular structure
d. Molecular biological evidences
8. Are we animals? The morality argument
a. The nature of humans
b. Moral principle
c. The origin of moral principles
d. What is right?
9. The first cause argument
a. The diversity vs uniformity of the nature;
b. The universal applicability of natural laws;
c. The design argument vs the argument of probability
d. The first cause
10. The biblical world view
a. Young earth vs ancient earth
b. Origin of life
c. Origin of human
d. The fall and fallibility of human
e. The flood
f. The earth before and after the flood
g. Human’s Sin vs God’s grace and justice
11. Conclusion remarks
a. The philosophical argument
b. The scientific argument
c. The moral argument
d. The biblical argument
e. The witness argument