As Christians, why should we study God’s creation? Well, one scientist of the past put it this way. When we study God’s creation, we’re “thinking God’s thoughts after him.” The more we look at what God has made, the more we’re drawn to glorify him for his wisdom.

We can also get ideas for how to fight the effects of the curse in our world that is broken because of sin. Many of God’s designs hold the answers to cures for diseases or better technology and innovation.

But science won’t save us. Our hope shouldn’t be in technology or innovations but in Jesus Christ who solved our biggest problem—sin!

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• Is There Really a War on Science?
• Dr. Raymond Damadian—The Heart of a Healer

There was once a study that found people who reject evolution are still interested in science. The authors of the study were shocked. They didn’t expect those who rejected evolution to really care about science. Why? Because of this false idea that creationists “deny science.”

But nothing could be farther from the truth. Creationists love science!

Many people reject evolution on scientific and biblical grounds. They don’t do this because they deny science but because they recognize the major problems with evolution, and many choose to trust the eyewitness account of the Creator over man’s fallible interpretations.

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• Do Creationists Reject Science?
• Are We Anti-science?

As we’ve seen this week, science is knowledge about the natural world we gain from our five senses. But this definition has been hijacked so now many people think it’s the search for natural explanations. This excludes God and the supernatural completely.

But this isn’t a scientific idea. When people start with this idea that there must be natural explanations for everything, they’re appealing to naturalism—and that’s a religious starting point! They assume there’s no God or that he hasn’t intervened in the world.

You see, the creation/evolution battle isn’t about the evidence. It’s a battle of two foundations: God’s Word vs. man’s word.

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• Is There Really a War on Science?
• The Religion of Naturalism

People usually think about science as what we can learn about the natural world with the scientific method. But there are two kinds of science.

Observational science fits our definition of science very well. It’s done in the present and is directly testable, observable, and repeatable.

But historical science is very different. It deals with the past, so it isn’t directly testable, observable, or repeatable. You can’t practice the scientific method on the past! So your worldview determines how you’ll interpret that evidence.

With creation/evolution, the problem isn’t the evidence—it’s the interpretation of the evidence in relation to the past.

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• Science Fields and Methodology Came from a Christian Worldview
• What Is Science?

The most basic definition of “science” is “knowledge.” It’s usually defined as the knowledge we gain through the scientific method or using our five senses.

Now many people claim there’s a “war on science” in the West. When asked for examples, they’ll point to a rejection of evolution or man-made climate change. Denying or even questioning these things is considered a wholesale dismissal of all scientific knowledge.

This is a ridiculous claim. Those who reject evolution or man-made catastrophic climate change don’t reject science. What they do reject is a worldview-based interpretation that is imposed on the evidence.

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• Is There Really a War on Science?
• Doesn’t Science Disprove the Bible

Some Christians say the days of creation are millions of years each. But this doesn’t work as the days of creation are in a different order than the evolutionary timeline.

For example, God created plants on day three. God then created the sun, moon, and stars on day four. If these days are millions of years each, then how did the plants survive for millions of years without the sun?

If we take Genesis as history, there’s no problem. The plants only had to survive overnight before God created the sun. Instead of trying to fit man’s ideas into the text, we need to start with God’s Word and allow it to be the authority.

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• Did God Really Create Plants Before the Sun?
• Evolution vs. Creation: The Order of Events Matters!

One study of rocks from my homeland of Australia argues that algae were necessary for the evolution of almost everything. They claim that 650 million years ago the conditions were perfect for algae to bloom. This bloom allowed complex life forms to arise, eventually giving rise to humans. So, here we have algae to thank for our existence!

Of course, they don’t explain where all the information came from to form complex life! There’s actually no known scientific process that can create the brand-new information necessary for evolution.

So, no, we don’t thank algae for our existence. We have the Creator God of the Bible to thank!

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• Life Requires a Source of Information
• Inorganic Matter to Unicellular Life-Forms

A few months ago the media announced the nation of Canada would hit a milestone this summer—doctors would kill their one hundred thousandth patient through their medical assistance in dying program. Canada now euthanizes more people than dogs!

Human life is increasingly being treated across the West as of less value than a dog. But, as Christians, we must uphold the sanctity of every human life. We’re all made in God’s image, and we don’t have the authority to decide who lives and who dies.

Yes, because of sin we’ll all die but Jesus came and died in our place so we could have eternal life with him.

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• Euthanasia Activist: Doctors Should Get Paid More to Kill Their Patients
• Over 76,400 Adults Killed by Doctors in Canada

In our culture today, the unborn, disabled, elderly, or terminally ill are increasingly seen as burdens we must bear. For example, one article commenting on anti-aging research described people living to older ages as creating a “‘care home world’ full of decrepit people.”

But this isn’t how the Bible views people! We are fearfully and wonderfully made in the image of God. We have value and purpose because we’re made in God’s image, not because of our quality of life or what we contribute to society.

God sent his Son to give his life for us, that we might receive salvation. That’s how much value we have in God’s eyes!

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• An Unlikely Masterpiece
• Americans—Killing Their Own Children and Supporting the Death of the Elderly

In a millions-of-years worldview, comets are a big problem. You see, every time a comet orbits close to the sun, it gets smaller and eventually disintegrates. In just a few million years there wouldn’t be any comets left in our solar system. Yet there still are!

To explain this, secular scientists propose the Oort Cloud where comets are supposedly produced before they’re pulled into our solar system. But there’s absolutely no observational evidence for this Oort Cloud!

When we start with God’s Word, we don’t need to invent imaginary comet makers. God created the universe, including comets, just a few thousand years ago.

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• Oort Cloud—No Evidence Required
• Do Short-Period Comets Still Reveal Recent Creation?

Over the past few years I’ve heard so many tragic stories of young people taking their own lives with the help or encouragement of their AI chatbot. You see, technology hasn’t helped with the struggle for meaning and purpose so many are facing. It’s just made the problem worse!

The answer for a struggling culture is pointing them to the purpose, meaning, and value that is found in God’s Word—chatbots can’t give that!

The Bible says we are of such value that our Creator came to earth as the God-man. He chose to die in our place, taking the penalty of death that we deserve. And meaning and purpose are found in following him.

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• Who Am I Anyway?
• Humans: Purposely Designed

All this week we’ve been looking at a biblical view of technology. And technology is becoming quite amazing! Artificial intelligence is seemingly the way of the future—it can do so many things faster and better than a human.

Does this mean humans are becoming insignificant? Or that we aren’t unique? Not at all. You see, it’s not our intellect or our problem-solving abilities that set us apart from the rest of God’s creation. We’ve been made in the image of God! That’s what gives us value!

We’re unique because we bear the image of the Creator. And we are of such value that God sent his Son to die for us.

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• Apes Are Smart, Not Creative
• Neandertools

As we learned earlier this week, there’s a growing number of people who think artificially intelligent machines are the next step in human evolution—some think they might even replace us or rule over us.

But AI isn’t evolving and it’s not the next step in our supposed evolution. Artificial intelligence is an example of biomimicry. This is when humans copy God’s superior designs in their technology. By studying and trying to copy the way our brains learn, and programming machines to learn the same way, we’re simply copying God’s amazing design.

Life did not evolve—and it’s not evolving now!

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• God Invented It First
• A Whale of a Design

As Christians, God’s Word must shape our thinking in all areas—including technology!

You see, technologies like AI aren’t inherently bad—they’re just tools. They can be used for evil or to help us fight against the effects of the curse. In Genesis, we’re charged with ruling over God’s creation. Technology helps us develop new ways to care for creation while working for man’s good.

While technology has some great benefits, we shouldn’t put our hope in it. It can temporarily fight the curse, but the only permanent solution is faith in Jesus Christ who will someday create a new heaven and earth.

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• AI: Useful Tool or Existential Threat?
• Caring About Creation for the Right Reasons

Many people believe that AI is the next step in human evolution. They believe if we integrate with machines we can escape our biology—and maybe even death itself.

This kind of thinking flows from an evolutionary worldview. If we’ve evolved from lower life forms through naturalistic processes, maybe we can give nature a hand and control our future evolution.

But we didn’t evolve, and we aren’t getting better! We were created perfect, but because of our sin we now suffer and die. True hope of escaping death is only possible because Jesus died in our place and offers the gift of eternal life to all who will believe.

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• Evidence For Continuing Human Evolution Arguably Irrelevant
• Creation of Man: How Did We Get Here?

Many people believe Jesus came into being as the babe in a manger. But Scripture tells us that Jesus is the eternal God and our Creator. He’s always existed from eternity past and will always exist into eternity future.

When we teach the Old Testament, we need to show that the whole Bible is about God’s plan of redemption—it’s all about Jesus! The gospel and the person of Jesus are found all throughout the Bible, from Genesis to Revelation.

Jesus isn’t just the babe in the manger we celebrate at Christmas. Jesus is the eternal God who stepped into history as the God-man to die on the cross and be raised again.

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• The Power of Biblical Chronology
• The Divinity of Jesus Revealed in the New Testament

This week we’ve been looking at how teaching the Bible chronologically makes it come alive. It connects the dots and helps us understand the flow of biblical history.

But we also need to connect the Bible with the world around us. As we teach God’s Word, show how it connects with archaeology, geology, biology, and anthropology. People need to see that the Bible is not some story book full of just moral truths. It’s a book of history! It connects with real people, places, and events in history.

And this unleashes a powerful truth. If we can trust what the Bible says about history, we can trust what it says about the gospel!

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• The Power of Biblical Chronology
• More than Just Bible Stories

If you ask most people where we find Jesus in the Bible, they’ll point to the New Testament or maybe just the gospels. But Jesus is the theme and focus of the whole Bible!

Jesus is the “scarlet thread” woven throughout the Old Testament. It’s here we see the unfolding of God’s plan to rescue the world through his Son. What we learn about Christ in the New Testament fulfills much of what we read about him in the Old Testament.

Seeing Jesus from the beginning to the end highlights that the Bible—and history itself—has one author. It’s all about Jesus and what he came to do for sinners just like us.

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• The Power of Biblical Chronology
• Who Is the Focus of the Old Testament?

So, which came first, the Exodus or the Exile? Did David live before Daniel? Who was Isaiah’s prophecy directed toward?

So many believers know isolated accounts from Scripture. But they don’t understand how these events fit into the scope of history. So, the Bible seems like a mess of people, places, and events.

But when we teach the Bible chronologically it makes sense. We’ve been designed to understand the world in a sequential order, so why don’t we teach the Bible this way? When we do, we can easily see that the events flow in a logical way. We see what caused them, and we can see God’s hand throughout history.

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• The Power of Biblical Chronology
• The Scandal of Biblical Illiteracy

An astonishing number of young people can’t answer questions like, “Where is Genesis in the Bible?”, “what are the gospels?”, or “what is sin?” Even many kids raised in churches don’t have an understanding of basic biblical principles.

One way we can fight this growing biblical illiteracy is by teaching the Bible chronologically. Teaching Jonah one week and Jesus feeding the 5,000 the next makes the Bible seem like a confusing jumble of people, places, times, and events. But the Bible shouldn’t be confusing!

When we teach the events in Scripture in the order of how they happened, you know what, the Bible really does come to life.

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• The Power of Biblical Chronology
• Biblical Illiteracy in America—What Can We Do?

Even though the Bible presents “many infallible proofs” of Christ’s resurrection, skeptics still refuse to believe it. But the problem isn’t with the evidence—it’s our sinful hearts.

Jesus addresses this problem in one of his accounts where Abraham says of unbelievers, “If they do not hear Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded though one rise from the dead.” And when Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead, the religious leaders couldn’t deny it, so they plotted to kill him! The problem isn’t the evidence!

But Christ did come to earth as the God-man to die in our place and be raised to life. Will you believe?

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• Moses, God, and the Resurrection
• Christ’s Resurrection—Four Accounts, One Reality

Was Christ’s resurrection just a legend that grew for decades before it was written down? People say this to make the Bible appear untrustworthy.

But the Apostle Paul wrote that Christ appeared to over 500 people at once and that most of these people were still alive. If the church back then didn’t believe Paul’s testimony, they could’ve asked numerous eyewitnesses.

Paul also said that he’d received his message from Jesus and that it was confirmed by Peter and James. This was just five years after Christ’s resurrection, and that’s not enough time for a legend to develop. Yes, we can trust what the Bible says. Jesus is alive!

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• Did the Resurrection Really Happen?
• The Resurrection Matters More Than You Think! | The Great Jungle Journey VBS: Showcase

Yesterday we learned that the Bible’s infallible proofs of Christ’s resurrection are his appearances afterward. Some of his followers saw the resurrected Savior on at least ten occasions before he ascended to heaven. And they were willing to die to proclaim it.

Now, Christ didn’t just appear before people. His followers worshipped him and clung to his feet. Christ showed them the scars on his hands, feet, and side, and he even invited Thomas to touch them. He also ate with the disciples and taught them. The Apostle Paul tells us that Christ appeared to over 500 people at one time.

Yes, Jesus really did rise from the dead.

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• Resurrection—No Doubt About It
• Learn to Defend the Resurrection

In the book of Acts, Luke wrote that Jesus presented himself alive after his suffering by “many infallible proofs.” So, what were these proofs of Christ’s resurrection?

Well, think about what it would take to convince you that someone became alive again after dying. The best evidence would be to spend time with him. You’d want to see him walk and talk.

You know, that’s exactly what Luke tells us. These infallible proofs are Christ’s many visitations after his resurrection. He appeared first to his disciples, and then to many others. And in most cases Jesus did more than just appear to people—but that’s for tomorrow.

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• The Resurrection of Jesus Christ: An Introduction
• The Impropriety of Evidentially Arguing for the Resurrection