Always Be Prepared to Give an Answer - Chris Ashcraft

by Chris W. Ashcraft, MS., M.Ed., MTMS.
Cedar Park Church, April, 27, 2014.

In 1 Peter 3:15 we are instructed to "Always be prepared to give an answer," and yet most Christian are unable to reconcile the conflicts that exist between scientific naturalism and the Bible, and defend their faith through logic, reason, and empirical evidence. Using recent surveys to demonstrate the impact of the worldviews conflict on young people, this message hopes to inspire apologetics education to stem the loss of faith. 

This message will also address the conflict that exists between the scientific age of the Earth and the Biblical age. Was Adam not a real man, or was he created by God from some evolved ancient ape-man. Many Christians hold to one of these views to reconcile naturalism with the Bible, and presume the flood of Noah was merely a local event. Succinct answers to these questions are provided, along with an encouragement to trust in the Bible as authoritative on early Earth history.

This sermon was recorded during the Sunday evening service at Cedar Park Church in Bothell Washington (http://cedarpark.org) on April 27th, 2014.

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About the Speaker:

Christopher Wayne Ashcraft, M.S., M.Ed., MTMS is a creation scientist, speaker, and educator. He obtained the Bachelor of Science in biology from Wayland Baptist University in 1989, a Master of Science in biology from Texas Tech University in 1996, and a Master of Education from the University of Washington in 2008, and is currently a fulltime graduate student at Seattle Pacific University.

Chris was a research technician for 12 years specialized in plant tissue culture and genetic transformation technology, and is now a high school science teacher at Cedar Park Christian Schools where he teaches Biology, Chemistry, Human Anatomy and Physiology, and Creation Apologetics. 

He moved from research into teaching in response to serve God in creation science missions. He is firmly committed to researching and teaching creation apologetics and speaks periodically at churches, schools, and creation organizations in the Northwest United States. He is the founder of the Northwest Creation Network and the CreationWiki internet encyclopedia where he serves as senior administrator. He also organizes the Seattle Creation Conference

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Evolution: Science or Religion? Dr. Terry Mortenson on Origins

http://cvtn.org | Dr. Mortenson shows how evolution is a worldview, based on religious faith and is not science.

Dr. Terry Mortenson

Systematic Theology, History of Geology
Lecturer/Researcher, AiG (USA)

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Biography

Like most people, Dr. Mortenson grew up in an education system that taught evolution as fact. During his first year at the University of Minnesota (where he majored in math) and shortly after becoming a Christian, he began to see the fallacy of the idea of millions of years of evolution.
With a PhD in history of geology from the Coventry University in England and an MDiv from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Chicago, Dr. Mortenson has lectured on the creation-evolution controversy in 22 countries since the late 1970s.* He has spoken in homes, churches, schools (primary, middle and secondary), secular universities, Bible colleges and seminaries. Several of his popular lectures have been produced as DVDs and as TV programs. He has also participated in seven formal debates with PhD evolutionary scientists in secular venues in four countries.
He is the author of numerous magazine and journal articles and several book chapters. The revised version of his PhD thesis was published as The Great Turning Point: the Church's Catastrophic Mistake on Geology—Before Darwin (Master Books, 2004). With a deep burden for seminary professors and students, he co-edited and contributed two chapters to the scholarly 14-author book, Coming to Grips with Genesis: Biblical Authority and the Age of the Earth (Master Books, 2008).
He is a member of the Evangelical Theological Society, has presented six creation-related papers at ETS annual meetings, and spear-headed the formation of the "Creation" study group sessions at the ETS annual meeting beginning in 2008. He has also helped to lead six by-invitation-only seven-day rafts trips down the Colorado River through Grand Canyon for seminary and Bible College professors and other key Christian leaders.
He and his wife, Margie, have been happily married since 1976 and have five daughters and three sons.

Born

• 1953 in Minnesota, USA

Converted to Christ

• April 1972, first year in the university

Family

• Married Margie in 1976, together they have five daughters and three sons

Education

• 1975, BA in math, Univ. of Minnesota, USA
• 1992, MDiv in systematic theology, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Illinois, USA
• 1996, PhD in history of geology, Coventry University, UK

Selected Publications and DVD Lectures

Books

• 7 Reasons Why We Should Not Accept Millions of Years
• Answers Academy - The Rocks Cry Out: The Earth Is Young!
• Coming to Grips with Genesis
• The Great Turning Point: The Church's Catastrophic Mistake on Geology—Before Darwin
• Millions of Years: Where Did the Idea Come From?
• Millions of Years & the Downfall of the Christian West
• Noah's Flood: Washing Away Millions of Years
• The Origin of Old-Earth Geology and Christian Compromise (Parts 1 & 2)
• Origin of the Species: Was Darwin Right?

Professional Society Papers

• Boundaries on Creation and Noah’s Flood: Early 19^th Century British Scriptural Geologists, paper given at the annual meeting of the Evangelical Theological Society in Colorado Springs, CO, on Nov. 14, 2001, and posted on Zondervan's website: http://www.zondervanchurchsource.com/convention/parallel.htm#DB.

Articles

• Philosophical Naturalism and the Age of the Earth: Are They Related?
• Systematic Theology Texts and the Age of the Earth
• Christian Theodicy in Light of Genesis and Modern Science
• Genesis According to Evolution
• Evolution vs. Creation: The Order of Events Matters!
• Why Shouldn't Christians Accept Millions of Years?
• Why Don't Many Christian Leaders and Scholars Believe Genesis?

*Some evolutionists have questioned Dr. Mortenson's academic training, especially the validity of his PhD. Please see Dr. Mortenson's blog post "Regarding My Academic Training" for his response. Back

Can We Trust the Bible? Creation Today with guest Tim Chaffey of the Ark Encounter Project

Are All Religions Bad? – Season 3 Episode 26

Today’s show features special guest Tim Chaffey who answers some top questions concerning the Ark Encounter Project. Eric Hovind and Ben Schettler trudge through today’s “political correctness” and answer the tough questions, “Are all religions bad?” and “How do you communicate to Atheists and affirm the truth of the God’s Word?” Watch what happens when Eric and Ben experiment with fire!

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Microbiologist Loses Faith In Evolution (Dr. Rick Oliver)

Rick Oliver explains his background as a micro-biologist and evolutionist and how he eventually came to Christ.

Rick Oliver has a B.S. in Biology from the University of California, Fullerton and a M.S. and Ph.D. in Biology from the University of California, Irvine. He is a member of the American Federation of Herpetoculturalists, the California Science Teachers Association, and the New York Academy of Science. He is now the Founder/CEO of Confound the Wise Ministries.

Read Dr. Oliver's blog at ConfoundTheWise.org.

J. Richard Oliver, Ph.D. CEO and Founder, Confound The Wise Ministries

Dr. Richard “Rick” Oliver is currently the CEO and founder of Confound the Wise Ministries based in Tonto Basin Arizona. Confound the Wise Ministries is a unique Creation based Ministry dedicated to spreading the unerring Word of God through science education. In June, 2008 Dr. Oliver stepped down from his full time position as superintendent of the Mount Hermon Outdoor Science School which he founded. 

Dr. Oliver served in this position for over 15 years at Mount Hermon Christian Conference Center located in the beautiful Santa Cruz Mountains in California.He designed and developed a science curriculum based on the California state science framework for middle school students (grades 5-8). The Creation centered experiential learning based curriculum not only allowed students to become more knowledgeable about their environment, but developed an appreciation, respect and responsibility for it as well.

Dr. Oliver earned his undergraduate degree in science at the California State University in Fullerton California. He later was granted his M.S. in life science with a minor in geology and went on to earn a Ph.D. in evolutionary biology with an emphasis in herpetology from the University of California. Dr. Oliver has participated in numerous scientific research projects over the course of his academic career including working with the Veterans Administration Hospital on extensive research on rattlesnake venom, major research projects involving both biology and geology at the Grand Canyon in Arizona and at the volcano at Mount Saint Helens in Washington State as well as several Dinosaur research projects in Wyoming and Montana.

Dr. Oliver became a Christian in 1987 and began lecturing on science regarding the origin of life from a Creationist point of view. As a gifted communicator affectionately known as “Ranger Rick” by both his colleagues and students his enthusiasm and knowledge of both biology and geology make him a popular speaker throughout the country. 

Dr. Oliver is an adjunct faculty member a several colleges, both secular and Christian and has been invited to speak at churches and schools both in the United States and overseas.Dr. Oliver’s professional organizations include:

• California Science Teachers Association
• American Federation of Herpetoculturalists
• California Academy of Sciences
• New York Academy of Science
• Board of Directors, U.C. Santa Cruz, Longs’ Marine Laboratory
• Military Officers Association

Origin of Life - Mike Riddle

In this presentation Mike discusses why the origin of life is a major problem for people holding to a belief in evolution. By showing that there is no scientific evidence for how life could start by naturalistic processes it must ultimately be accepted by faith. Mike also talks about the fact that the teaching of evolution has replaced the teaching of good science in classrooms. Mike finishes by reading from Scripture (Romans 1:19-20) to show that God has given all the evidence for believing in a Creator God and no one has an excuse for not believing.

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The Relationship Between Faith and Science - Creation Magazine LIVE!

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What is the nature of the relationship between faith and science? Can the apparent separation between science and faith ever be eliminated? Many scientists are convinced that evolution happened, does that mean it did? Join the discussion.

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Evidence vs. Faith | Creation Today Season 3, Episode 8

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Evidence or faith? Upon which are your beliefs and your witness based? Paul and Eric discuss what people say, and what the Bible says, about these two terms. Gain understanding of real evidence and real faith to boldly and effectively witness to others!

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Students, remember, your professors sound like they really know evolution works, until they are in the ring with an expert who really knows evolution is false! These videos will enable you to refute your university professors with information they refuse to allow to be taught in your classroom!
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The Descent of Darwin - Pastor Joe Boot - Creation Super Conference 2011

See Joe Boot's article on this topic on page 9 at http://www.ezrainstitute.ca/ezrainstitute_ca/bank/pageimages/jubilee_2010_spring.pdf or down below.

Summary
Darwin was a product of his time, nurturing, at best, a deistic conception of God and a naturalistic view of mechanical

laws operating on the world. Second, he presented what we might call an evolution theodicy, which distanced a Creator from natural evil. Darwin, consequently, accelerated a movement rather than starting one. God is simultaneously absolved and made irrelevant by being reduced to a cause of causes or first cause, remote, unknowable, a God who has not spoken nor revealed Himself.

This self-regulating universe operating in terms of impersonal laws in a chain of being was a revival of Gnosticism. God's work and His words are separate; the moral and the physical are completely independent -- alien to one another. Thus religion and "science" are to be kept separate: the evolutionary worldview deals with the problems of moral and natural evil by having God appear and disappear as required.

Go to the 10th page of the PDF below for Pastor Boot's article on this topic.