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God has placed within the heart of every person a sense of something eternal and a desire to know the eternal significance of what we do. Learn how created beauty gives meaning to our existence and helps us understand how everything fits together beautifully.  Only God can create something that is both functional in an engineering sense but also beautiful.

When I was in junior high school, I was taught a tall tale about where the moon came from.  Since that time, I have been fascinated with the variety of secular scientific theories that purport to answer the question of how the moon originated.  What are the different theories of moon formation and why do they all fail?  Why did God make the moon the way He did?  How does the moon glorify the Creator?

Few things strike fear into the heart of man more than thunder and lightning. Are those fears overblown? Discover God’s many purposes for lightning. What should be our response to God’s lightning and thunder spiritually? Several science demonstrations can be included.

How exactly do the heavens declare God’s glory? Three ways: through transcendence and awe, universal testimony, and order and design. The sun, moon, and stars are used as examples illustrating each of these ways. Topics covered include, how long it would take to get to the closest star, six problems with the secular fairy tale of the sun’s formation, and God’s purpose for the moon. Includes some of the content in The Moon.

In what ways does the Earth resemble a precision machine? What does the design of nature highlighted in Psalm 148 teach us about God and His creation? Subjects include the earth’s energy balance and the solar system’s dynamic balance. Includes several science demonstrations.

Scientific foreknowledge is scientific information that was revealed in the Bible long before mankind discovered or verified it through extra-Biblical means. Subjects include the number of stars, expansion of the universe, suspension of the earth, blood-sustaining life, and thermodynamics. The Bible is not a science textbook, but when the Bible speaks of science, it is always extremely accurate.  Includes several science demonstrations.

Our experience has been that church folk often have questions about science because of things they hear or read.  George taught a university course on science and society issues and enjoys interacting with congregations.  What works best is to have questions written out ahead of time.  After those are answered, questions will be taken from the floor, time permitting. 

The Book of Job has more science in it than any other book in the Bible. The seven lessons reveal the order and grandeur of all that God has made, detailing how the intricacies of nature are a powerful testimony to the Creator’s care for mankind.  Each of the lessons is applied to the common spiritual needs of man.

When a person accepts Jesus Christ as Savior, he becomes a new creature right away, but his mind may still be conformed to the world in the way he thinks about origins and the age of the earth. The mental halfway houses discussed in this message are Theistic Evolution, The Framework Hypothesis, Progressive Creation, and Intelligent Design.

Peter has an urgent message for Christians living in the 21st Century.  He warns that scoffers will emerge, elevating science to cast doubt on the very existence of God. Believers must navigate a world where such skepticism and blasphemy are normal.  This message is a plea to those faithful in their service during these last days to not get discouraged and compromise their message to please the scoffers.  

Which is true? God is all-powerful but doesn’t care or He does care but He’s not all-powerful. The first thing we need to understand is that the world has not always been the way that it is now.  The earth has been cursed. The fall of man altered God’s perfect creation. When natural disasters occur, people either question God’s power or His love. God’s purpose in natural disasters is revealed.

Sometimes I’m asked to do one message that encompasses what the Bible teaches about Creation in a logical simple way that connects the Bible and science together from a young earth creation perspective. The universe is the WHAT, the eternal Trinity is the WHO, the HOW is by the Word of God in six solar days, the WHEN is 6 or 7 thousand years ago and ends with WHY did God create man?

Paul in his message on Mars Hill is speaking to a pre-Christian society. We are speaking to a post-Christian society that has many of the same questions about the Creator God. How can we convince people in a post-Christian society that God created? How can we prove that God did not use the process of evolution to create? How can we use the teaching of creation to win people to Christ? How does Creation prove to us that God has our best interests at heart? 

It’s easy for people to either be scared and alarmed as the bad news keeps rolling in or just chalk all of the climate alarmism up to “fake news.”  Christians want to know answers to basic questions about global warming.  How serious is it? What causes it? What, if anything, should we do about it from a Biblical Worldview? Includes some content from The Universe’s Precision Design. A few science demonstrations can be included.

Scientific knowledge today is a mixture of truth and social constructs. The aspect of science that is not a social construct must be based on observation, but observation is limited in what it can tell us. We need to be clear about the limitations of science to avoid the trap of scientism.  How has living in a society in which technology is deified affected us as Christians?

For thousands of years, people have shown a great interest in these dirty snowballs in the heavens. Comets will be discussed in their historical, Biblical, and scientific contexts. What problems do comets pose for secular scientists? How do comets bring glory to God?

Discover how the Creation Mandate, as illustrated in Genesis 2, was supposed to operate before Adam sinned and messed everything up.  Learn how to faithfully fulfill the Creation Mandate in your life. Appreciate how aspects of Creational Law, like the Laws of Sowing and Reaping and Giving and Taking, can impact everyone in their jobs. Understand how making use of Creational Wisdom can prepare us for what we will be doing in eternity.

Why do people doubt that there was a universal flood? What do people believe about the Flood who do not accept the Biblical account as a literal historical narrative? What scientific evidence do we have that a universal, planet-covering flood did occur? What can we learn from Noah’s Flood that should affect our thinking?

One of the most vexing and divisive questions that have arisen among Christians is, “How old is the Earth?”  Many sincere Christians hold to an old earth that is millions or billions of years old. But the Bible teaches that the earth is young, and this is also supported by scientific evidence such as natural processes that occur on earth and in the heavens. There is a great deal of evidence for a young Earth if you know where to look for it. Radiometric dating techniques including carbon-14 will also be discussed.

The center of the evolution debate has shifted from asking whether we came from earlier animals to whether we could have come from one man and one woman. What is the biblical and scientific evidence for a literal Adam and Eve? What are the points of agreement between modern secular geneticists and Bible believers and where do we disagree? What lessons for life can we learn from Adam & Eve?