Ron Rhodes makes the Case for Creation via the fossil record, lack of intermediate forms & the retarded theory of punctuated equilibrium to compensate for that lack of evidence, along with DNA, mutations, natural selection, and intelligent design.
Education
Th.D., Dallas Theological Seminary (1986). Major: Systematic Theology. Graduated with High Honors.
Th.M., Dallas Theological Seminary (1983). Major: Systematic Theology. Graduated with Honors. Elected to Dean's List.
B.A., Houston Baptist University (1979). Recipient of the Greek Excellence Award.
Books Authored by Ron Rhodes
Conviction without Compromise
5-Minute Apologetics for Today
Northern Storm Rising
Commonly Misunderstood Bible Verses
The Complete Guide to Bible Translations
The Popular Dictionary of Bible Prophecy
Find It Quick Handbook on Cults and New Religions
The Complete Guide to Christian Denominations
The Complete Book of Bible Promises
Answering the Objections of Atheists, Agnostics, and Skeptics
Why Do Bad Things Happen if God is Good?
The Ten Things You Need to Know About Islam
The Truth Behind Ghosts, Mediums, and Psychic Phenomena
Who Made God?
The Wonder of Heaven
What Does the Bible Say About...?
The Challenge of the Cults: Their History, Their Doctrine, and Our Response
The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a Jehovah's Witness
The 10 Most Important Things You Can Say to a Mormon
Reasoning from the Scriptures with Catholics
Reasoning from the Scriptures with Masons
What Did Jesus Mean? Making Sense of the Puzzling Sayings of Jesus
Find It Fast in the Bible: Your Complete Topical Reference
Miracles Around Us: How to Recognize God at Work Today
Alien Obsession
When Cultists Ask (co-authored with Norman Geisler)
Heaven: The Undiscovered Country
Angels Among Us: Separating Truth from Fiction
What Your Child Needs to Know About God
Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Jehovah's Witnesses
Reasoning from the Scriptures with the Mormons
The New Age Movement
The Counterfeit Gospel of Mormonism
The Heart of Christianity: What It Means to Believe in Jesus
The Culting of America
Origins is a TV show that has guests that are some of the best in their field come on and explain how modern science is proving that evolution is impossible and the bible is scientificly accurate. These programs offer a forum to use scientific evidence to validate the truth of creation. See http://OriginsTV.org
Many Christians believe that God may have used evolutionary processes to create. This episode summarizes some of the serious problems that arise in trying to fit evolution with Genesis that even atheists can see. Although evolution does fit with many religions (atheism, for example) it cannot be made to fit with Christianity.
Hosts Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith of CMI-Canada discuss and summarize the faith-building information found in Creation magazine. Creation magazine has been changing lives and building the faith of Christians in more than 140 countries for more than 30 years. Each issue contains dozens of articles (many by scientists) that refute evolution and support the Bible's account of creation.
Dr. Jonathan Sarfati is a former New Zealand national chess champion and creationist author with a PhD in chemistry. His Ph.D. in Chemistry was awarded for a thesis entitled ‘A Spectroscopic Study of some Chalcogenide Ring and Cage Molecules’. He has co-authored papers in mainstream scientific journals on high temperature superconductors and selenium-containing ring and cage-shaped molecules. He also had a co-authored paper on high-temperature superconductors published in Nature when he was 22. He works full-time for Creation Ministries International in Atlanta, GA. You can read a more complete bio at the Creation.com website. Some of the excellent Creation resources from Creation Ministries International that Dr. Sarfati has penned include Refuting Evolution, which now has over 400,000 copies in print, Refuting Compromise, and is the co-author of the popular Creation Answers Book.
Additionally, Dr. Sarfati serves as co-editor of the beautiful Creation magazine and also writes and reviews articles for the Journal of Creation.
By the way, Dr. Sarfati
has played chess against up to 12 different opponents while blindfolded and still won!
How did multi-cellular life originate? How did cells adapted to individual survival 'learn' to cooperate and specialize (including undergoing programmed cell death) to create complex plants and animals? See: Evolution of multicellularity: what is required?
Question 7 in CMI's '15 Questions for Evolutionists' flyer reveals yet another problem area for the story of evolution: How did cells adapted to individual survival 'learn' to cooperate and specialize (including undergoing programmed cell death) to create complex plants and animals? Richard Fangrad and Calvin Smith summarize some of the data. See the links below for details.
In The Dangers of Evolution, Dr. Hovind reveals the terrible effects that evolutionary beliefs have had on societies throughout history. Giving examples of evolution-based philosophies being used to rationalize the brutal acts of rulers such as Hitler, Stalin and Pol Pot.
Evolutionary teaching has been used support genocide, sterilization, eugenics, abortion, racism and all forms sexual immorality.
There are over 2,000 types of amino acids and only 20 are used in life.
Every experiment we have ever done has always ended up with an equal number of left handed and right handed amino acids.
A mixture of left handed and right handed amino acids is a poison to life.
Each body is full of only left handed amino acids. The tendency is always to bond the two and continue away from life; not toward life.
Evolution has ruled out the truth of a Creator God, so evolutionists will accept anything in the place of the truth of God.
In essence, evolutionists are saying that 3 plus 1 equals 7 because the real answer, in this case 4, is "too religious for them."
One cell in our body is more complex than any computer we have ever built.
Is it logical to conclude that a cell could evolve from natural processes?
"Give it enough time and it will happen" is not a scientific statement. It is a faith-based statement. It is saying that they don't know what happened, but if we give it enough time, then something will happen.
Scientists affirm that the law of probability states if the chances of something happening is over 10 to the 50th power, then it will "never" happen.
The chances are 10 to the 191st power that a single protein can occur by random chance.
The chances of a single cell forming by random chance is 10 to the 40,000th power!
To say that life could evolve from nothing defies science and logic.
A person can believe in evolution, but not because of the science. A person believes in evolution because of their belief system.
Anything that violates the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics could never happen. It states, "Energy goes from a usable to less usable state over time in an isolated system."
An open system is any system where you can add and remove energy. The Earth is an open system and so is nearly everything else we know.
An isolated system is one where no matter or energy can get in or out. The universe is an isolated system.
Four Required Conditions for Evolution
An open system (earth)
Available energy source (sun)
A way to capture and store raw energy
Energy conversion mechanism
We are all decaying. We began this decay at conception.
Where did the immense amount of DNA come from? The only tenable answer is in Genesis 1.
Things Detrimental to the Origin of Life
1) Oxygen in the atmosphere
2) Second Law of Thermodynamics (time)
3) Water (hydrolysis)
If I tell you only part of the evidence and you believe it, you have not been taught, you have been indoctrinated.
If I tell you all the evidence and you make a decision, then you have been taught.
Congress has said that we can teach both sides (e.g. evolutionism and creation). However, other agencies have tried to take away this right and scare creationists into being silent.
No scientist on this planet can tell you how life originated.
Why should we accept evolution when you cannot produce the evidence?
When evolutionists tell us about their faith, creationists should tell them about our faith.
Evolution has no foundation for the origin of information.
In favor of Theism:Steve Gregg founder of the Great Commission School, author, Bible teacher for over 40 years and radio host of The Narrow Path, which is broadcast live Monday through Friday. See TheNarrowPath.com. He has hundreds of free Verse by Verse and Topical MP3 teachings at his website. Steve has also had a radio show called The Road to Find Out specifically to reach out and answer questions of atheists and believers in religions other than Christianity.
In favor of Atheism: William Ramsey, Associate Professor: Philosophy of mind, Cognitive Science, Philosophy of science., Dr. Ramsey was awarded his Ph.D. from the University of California. San Diego . His areas of interest are Philosophy of cognitive science, Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy of science often rated among the best teachers at the University of Notre Dame during his 18 year tenure there, Ramsey won the Thomas P. Madden Award for outstanding teaching of freshmen 1999. He was also awarded the College of Arts and Letters Sheedy Award for excellence in teaching in 2005. He became part of the UNLV faculty in 2007.
John Byrne and Marvin Straus attempt to answer the question, "Does God Exist?" at Metro State Auraria Campus in Denver, CO.
John Byrne has been involved in youth ministry for more then 17 years. His ability to engage, challenge, and speak relevantly to his audience has led to speaking opportunities nationwide including camps, seminars, conferences, and training events. He has also been published in Group Magazine, Youthworker Journal, and contributed to Youth Ministry Lemonade: turning “sour” experiences into leadership success.
John knew he wanted to be a youth pastor at the early age of 13. While attending Oak Hills Bible College he met the woman of his dreams and convinced her to marry him. After a two year honeymoon in the great state of Colorado he returned to his home state of Minnesota to finish his Biblical Studies degree from Northwestern Bible College.
John’s passion is living The Cause (Great Commission) in his life and helping others do the same. He does this through his ministry in the local church as well as writing, speaking, and missional living in his own neighborhood and community.
John is currently the Pastor of Student Ministries at The Rock of Southwest. For the past three years John and his family have been living and ministering in Littleton, CO.
Marvin Straus cofounded the Boulder Atheists in 2001.
He is the coproducer of The Journey Of Life From The Nonbeliever's Point Of View, an 18-minute video documentary about atheism. (2,000 copies distributed).
The producer of The Last Presentation, a 40-minute educational video that has been distributed to 16,000 US high schools and 2,300 public libraries.
He activily supports the organizations in the Colorado Coalition Of Reason.
One of his great joys is making humor-filled presentations to high schools and colleges about atheism. He has appeared on many television interviews, talk-radio shows, and in newspaper articles about atheism
Living things look like they were designed, so how do evolutionists know that they were not designed? Richard Dawkins wrote, “biology is the study of complicated things that have the appearance of having been designed with a purpose.”4 Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, wrote, “Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved.”5 The problem for evolutionists is that living things show too much design. Who objects when an archaeologist says that pottery points to human design? Yet if someone attributes the design in living things to a designer, that is not acceptable. Why should science be restricted to naturalistic causes rather than logical causes? See:Is the design explanation legitimate?
4. Dawkins, R.,The Blind Watchmaker, W.W. Norton & Company, New York, p. 1, 1986.
5. Crick, F.,What mad pursuit: a Personal View of Scientific Discovery, Sloan Foundation Science, London, 1988, p. 138.
15 Questions for Evolutionists -- Question 6 Question 6 in CMI's '15 Questions for Evolutionists' flyer focuses on the fact that one of the greatest challenges for evolutionists is that living things show too much design! If (as Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the double helix structure of DNA, wrote) "Biologists must constantly keep in mind that what they see was not designed, but rather evolved" how do evolutionists know living things weren't designed?
