Where It All Started……

I. Creation

A. Popular Views             

1. Atheists: Evolution

 a) Bang

 b)Oscillating

2.Fundamentalist view: Young earth

3.Biblical View: Bible can match the scientific record

4.Application

B. Uncaused Cause          

1. Infinite regression?

2. Who could have created God?  They would be greater than God?  What is the evidence of that?  God has to be God

3.What is not a problem is for an infinite God to created a finite universe

4. Application

  a)Come to know him personally

  b)If he is the first cause, wouldn't you trust your life with Him?

C. Teleological argument:  Design

1. The world has design, therefore, human race has a designer

2. Chances are so small for this to happen by chance

3. Romans 1 teaches that creation points towards a creator.

4. Example, you find a watch in middle of the rain forest.  You realize it didn't just happen by chance,

it had a creator--a watch maker.

5. Application

 a) He has a design for your life.  Will you blow it and ignore his plan or will you follow his design for your life.

D. Moral argument

1. Mankind has a moral dimension.

2. How could the big bang produce that.  How can you get morality out of non-life particles?

  a) Atheists claim that humans get their moral dimension from the evolutionary process--the survival of the fittest.  They say its all pragmatic. In other words, we are moral so that we don't annihilate ourselves.  It's survival of the fittest, just like in the animal kingdom.  But Lewis suggests that the atheist is putting a moral value even on survival.  He question them--"Why is survival such a good thing?"  In this argument, he defeats the atheist on their own ground.  Read 1^st 1/4 of "Mere Christianity"

   b) It is clear that our morality comes from a moral creator

3. Briefly summarize all 4 teachings and give some application