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The Film Study Guide – Episode 3

Only God Can Design Us

No life that exists has ever come from dead material! Life cannot come from non-life is an important scientific principle to remember, Colossians 1:17!

Random chance or theories about mutation are all mathematically impossible to creative life! Stanley Miller tried working with the theory that if you can create life by mimicking conditions of the early earth and it has always failed, you cannot get life from non-life.

This Episode presents several important points from science. By observing DNA, the film shows its incredible complexity, Psalm 139:14. The following two are prominent atheists and non- believing -scientists like, Anthony Flew Oxford Philosopher and Frances Collins who led the Human Genome Project came to the Faith in Jesus Christ by seeing the overwhelming design of the incredible small complex designed molecular world. What do you think of the pictures of this Molecular World and its massive amount of intelligence?

If DNA within one human cell were stretched out, it would be a thin thread about three meters in length. All the DNA in an adult human strung together would stretch from Earth to the Sun and back almost 70 times. The complexity of this micro world is inconceivably small but out performs any man made super computer. DNA is the God given blueprint for life. DNA contains our personal code of life. Each cell houses a miniature factory at the cellular level. What fascinates you about the design of a cell with its amino acid, protein molecules and DNA?

Biologist Dean Kenyon wrote briefly who sought out abiogenesis (the theory that dead matter, gases, amino acids, etc. under certain conditions can produce life from non-life) and could not explain the origin of life. Many of his academics then and today do not believe nature needed God. However, Kenyon changed his mind as scientists discovered how complex the information storage and processing systems are in even the simplest cells. In his words, this is “the most compelling evidence of design on the earth.” How do you perceive God as you study the molecular world? Colossians 1:15-16

What would you say to your young son or daughter who found a coloring book full of pictures of trees, mountains, and animals on a park bench, if they asked, where did this come from? You would not say the coloring book came from nowhere, if you did you would sound silly. No, someone made the Coloring Book. In the same way God to great designer and creation made the Earth! Where did it all come from?

In this film Young Earth and Old Earth positions are presented. The author does not take a position but believes we should be informed. Old Earth proponents have been accused of adopting current science, but the fact is some Bible teachers like Origin and Augustine in the early church held to an Old Earth position long before science give it attention. Please discuss the old, young Earth positions with constructive dialogue. What do you think of Lewis Pasteur’s statement, “The more I study nature, the more I am amazed at the Creator.”?

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