This is a slideshow (with notes) of the Creation-Evolution Controversy presented to Calvary Coastal Fellowship in Auckland. DISCLAIMER: Appropriate acknowledgement of copyright material has been made. However, information to rectify any oversight is welcomed.

1. By Victor Meyer,
PhD
© National Geographic

2. 
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In short, science is the physical description of
our world, which may or may not lead to
beneficial technology.
By formal definition (Collins English Dictionary),
science is the systematic (testable and
repeatable) study of the nature and behaviour of
the material universe, based on observation,
experiment and measurement, including the
formulation of laws to describe these facts in
general terms.

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Creationism is not science (Christian worldview)
Evolutionism is not science (Secular worldview)
Both are philosophical interpretations of the scientific findings.
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Colossians 2:8 (King James Version)
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy
and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the
rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Evolutionism = Naturalism

4. CREATION
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The biblical account is
the inerrant Word of
God inspired by the
Holy Spirit.
EVOLUTION
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Everything came into
existence
out
of
nothing through sheer
chance effects.
“All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable
for doctrine, for reproof, for correction [even of false science],
for instruction in righteousness.”
2 Timothy 3:16, KJV

5. 
The word evolution, in its simplest terms, means
development, e.g. evolution of the car.
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INORGANIC SCENARIO:
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Chassis + engine/systems + body/trimmings = motorcar

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ORGANIC SCENARIO:
Skeleton + muscles/organs +
skin/hair = human being
Clearly design is present!
I praise you [LORD] because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; your works are
wonderful, I know that full well.
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Psalm 139:14, NIVV

7. CREATIONIST
THEISTIC
EVOLUTIONIST
EVOLUTIONIST
God-centred view
Compromised view
Atheistic view
And God said...
And God used...
And I say...
Young earth
Old earth
Old earth
Global flood
Local flood
No flood
Thus,
God is almighty
Thus,
God interferes
Thus,
God does not exist
Theistic evolutionist = Progressive creationist
Atheistic view = Humanistic view

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The blogger Lane Chaplin once said,
If you're a follower of Christ, you'll defend
His doctrine.
1 Peter 3:15 (New International Version 2010)
But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always
be prepared to give an answer to everyone who
asks you to give the reason for the hope that you
have. But do this with gentleness and respect.

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Creationist Sure, microevolution is observable. But where is your
evidence of ‘bears’ turning into whales and ‘cattle’ into dolphins!? LOL
Evolutionist First, there is no such evidence and no such claim made
by modern evolution. Evidence for “macroevolution” (and only
creationists make such a distinction) exists in the fossil record.
Without even getting into the fossil record, let me just ask you this.
What mechanism do you propose that would prevent speciation, given
your admission that microevolution occurs?
Creationist Microevolution is speciation in action. So why would I
present a mechanism against it? Point is, one kind of animal or life
form hasn’t, doesn’t and cannot change into another kind.
Systematics is not always clear on where the boundaries occur and the
taxa can be quite arbitrarily assigned in this regard. As for the fossil
record, it is poignant evidence of a catastrophic event/mass mortality
that took place as a result of a global flood. That’s all.
Evolutionist Speciation has been observed many times. Global flood?
Nonsense.

15. Click picture for online video clip
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Divine creation or not
[Macro]evolution - fact or fiction
Theistic evolution: old earth & local flood
Possibility of limbs becoming vestigial but not forming fins, due to
lack of information in Pakicetus DNA to code for fins.
CREATIONIST
THEISTIC
EVOLUTIONIST
EVOLUTIONIST
God-centred view
Compromised view
Atheistic view
And God said...
And God used...
And I say...
Young earth
Old earth
Old earth
Global flood
Local flood
No flood
Thus,
God is almighty
Thus,
God interferes
Thus,
God does not exist

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Divine creation or not
[Macro]evolution - fact or fiction
Theistic evolution: old earth & local flood
If evolution (gradual and substantial change over time) is true,
life is supposed to be functional only, for example:
 Giraffes growing longer necks and legs to relieve
feeding pressure/competition and browse available food
higher up in trees;
 Apes leaving their arboreal (tree-dwelling) lifestyles and
becoming bipedal (i.e. walking upright) to exploit savanna
niches.
But evolution has no foresight!

17. © National Geographic

18. Homo
erectus
H. ergaster
H. habilis
Australopithecus
africanus
A. afarensis
A. anamensis
Ardipithecus
ramidus
Homo spp. – possibly pre-Flood humans NOT ‘ape-men’
© J.M. Clark

19. © National Geographic

23. Greta oto

24. Trichomonas
Trichonympha
Mutualistic symbionts: Flagellates in the termite gut
© Wim van Egmond

25. Homology
EVOLUTION: GOO TO YOU
Microbes to Man (Prokaryotes to Eukaryotes)
Homology = sameness
Probability of life arising by chance = 0

26. Pongo pygmaeus
Gorilla gorilla
Pan troglodytes
Pan paniscus
?*
Homo sapiens
Prob. Australopithecus
afarensis
* However, 6MY is not enough time to produce
the differences between man and chimp.
?
How would a common ancestor, which humans
supposedly share with chimps, etc., look like?
Slime-to-Sue evolution!

29. Sex chromosomes of humans are different to those
of birds in terms of sex determination (in fact, quite
the opposite). Yet, it is claimed that we share a
distant common ancestor with birds!

30. © Pamela Gore

31. CREATIONIST
THEISTIC
EVOLUTIONIST
EVOLUTIONIST
God-centred view
Compromised view
Atheistic view
And God said...
And God used...
And I say...
Young earth
Old earth
Old earth
Global flood
Local flood
No flood
Thus,
God is almighty
Thus,
God interferes
Thus,
God does not exist
© Pamela Gore

32. Darwin, 1837

33. Darwin's friend, the biologist T.H. Huxley, wrote,
"Evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of
supernatural intervention."
The geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once wrote,
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of
evolution."

34. Darwin's friend, the biologist T.H. Huxley, wrote,
"Evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of
supernatural intervention."
The geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once wrote,
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of
evolution."
Brown's Ken Miller said, "Despite the extraordinary
diversity of life, all living organisms share a nearly
identical set of essential genes, reflecting their
evolutionary development from a common ancestor."

35. Darwin's friend, the biologist T.H. Huxley, wrote,
"Evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of
supernatural intervention."
The geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky once wrote,
"Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of
evolution."
What he should've said, "Despite the extraordinary
diversity of life, all living organisms share a nearly
identical set of essential genes, reflecting their
supernatural creation from a common Creator ."

36. Part B
CASE FOR DESIGN: The incredible ‘rete mirabile’ (localised
buffering network of veins/arteries) in upper neck and unusually
thick leg skin (g-suit) of giraffes prevent high blood pressure
(double that of other ungulates) from bursting capillaries in brain
© Zefa Picture Library
when drinking and in legs when upright.

37. The Stoic philosophy
The Epicurean philosophy
“It was characteristic of
Epicureans to emphasize
chance, escape and the
enjoyment of pleasure and of
the Stoics to emphasize
fatalism, submission and the
endurance of pain.” – John Stott
© Zefa Picture Library

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Now while Paul was waiting for them at Athens, his
spirit was being provoked within him as he was
observing the city full of idols.
So he was reasoning in the synagogue with the Jews and
the God-fearing Gentiles, and in the market place every
day with those who happened to be present.
And also some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers
were conversing with him. Some were saying, "What
would this idle babbler wish to say?"
Others, "He seems to be a proclaimer of strange
deities," - because he was preaching Jesus and the
resurrection.

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Romans 9:20 (New International Version 2010)
But who are you, a human being, to talk back to
God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who
formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’”
Remember, any design or engineering feat
involves a trade-off between function and
aesthetics.
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www.Creation.com
 www.ICR.org

40. Monarchs
A larva hatches from egg within 3-12 days temp. dep.

41. Monarchs are holometabolous – meaning they undergo a complete metamorphosis...

42. Final larval stage/instars

43. After munching on milkweed or swan plant for about 2 weeks, it stops. Note its little claws or tarsi – 3 pairs.

44. Having found a suitable spot to pupate, it secretes a sticky substance from the posterior/distal end of its abdomen. Note 5 pairs of pseudopods – ‘false feet’.

45. Pupation to start: perfect ‘J’ of at-rest caterpillar left; on right, after almost a day (more or less), caterpillar chrysalises within minutes (effectively its last moult).

46. Fresh chrysalis (left); leaf-like appearance for camouflage (right).

47. Note the ‘glue’ attaching chrysalis to plant. Also note ‘golden’ thread and spots!

48. Chemical dismantling of caterpillar and rearrangement of pupa into adult take approx. 2 weeks.

49. The applicable pupal form is ‘pupa obtecta’
Scholtz & Holm, 1989

50. Translucent chrysalis splits open ventrally along a seam just behind butterfly’s head.

51. Haemolymph (insect blood) is pumped into the wings.

52. Sucking mouthparts consist of a coiled tongue or proboscis (siphoning tube). Note the split tongue like two ‘straws’ fused together (right).

53. Wings are still shrivelly.

54. Wings straightening out under tension.

55. Readying itself for first flight.

56. Danaus plexippus
Adult monarch butterfly (male has scent glands); stage duration: 2-6 weeks / 6-8 months (4th gen. to migrate – not in NZ)
Rapid transformation of monarch’s metamorphosis speaks of instantaneous creation as opposed to tardy evolution
© Debbie Meyer

57. Species 1
Species 2
Species 1
Species 2
after Odum, 1971
Speciation/Microevolution/Low-level variation
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A species is a group (taxon) of organisms
capable of interbreeding.

58. Click picture for online video clip...
Example of variation dubbed ‘proof of Darwinian evolution’ over millions of years!
After all that hoo-hah,
we still have salamanders!

59. Canis lupus

60. Canis lupus familiaris

61. Moa (extinct)
A common ancestor could have gone into the ark with Noah!

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Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed,
and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in
itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the
herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit,
whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw that it was
good. (Genesis 1:11-12, NKJV)
So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with
which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged
bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. (Gen. 1:21)
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every
creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you [Noah] to keep them alive. (Gen. 6:20)

63. 
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, EVOLUTIONIST
the herb that yields seed,
CREATIONIST
THEISTIC
and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in
EVOLUTIONIST
itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the
herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit,
God-centred view
Compromised view Atheistic that
whose seed is in itself according to its kind. And God saw viewit was
good. (Genesis 1:11-12, NKJV)
And God said...
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And God used...
And I say...
So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with
Young earth
Old earth
Old earth
which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged
Global flood
Local God
No flood
bird according to its kind. Andfloodsaw that it was good. (Gen. 1:21)
Thus,
Thus,
Thus,
Of the birds after their kind, of animals after their kind, and of every
God is almighty
God interferes
God does not exist
creeping thing of the earth after its kind, two of every kind will come to
you [Noah] to keep them alive. (Gen. 6:20)

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And Noah did according to all that the LORD commanded him. 6 Noah
was six hundred years old when the floodwaters were on the earth.
7 So Noah, with his sons, his wife, and his sons’ wives, went into the ark
because of the waters of the flood. 8 Of clean animals, of animals that are
unclean, of birds, and of everything that creeps on the earth, 9 two by two
they went into the ark to Noah, male and female, as God had commanded
Noah. 10 And it came to pass after seven days that the waters of the flood
were on the earth. 11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the
second month, the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the
fountains of the great deep were broken up, and the windows of heaven
were opened. 12 And the rain was on the earth forty days and forty nights.
13 On the very same day Noah and Noah’s sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth,
and Noah’s wife and the three wives of his sons with them, entered the
ark— 14 they and every beast after its kind, all cattle after their kind, every
creeping thing that creeps on the earth after its kind, and every bird after
its kind, every bird of every sort. 15 And they went into the ark to Noah,
two by two, of all flesh in which is the breath of life. 16 So those that
entered, male and female of all flesh, went in as God had commanded
him; and the LORD shut him in.
5

66. Life-size replica (c. 1:2 scale) of Noah’s ark in Holland (built to the specifications of Genesis 6).

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Genesis 7:17-19 (King James Version)
And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and
the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it
was lift up above the earth.
And the waters prevailed, and were increased
greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the
face of the waters.
And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the
earth; and all the high hills, that were under the
whole heaven, were covered.

68. CREATIONIST
Genesis 7:17-19THEISTIC
(King James
EVOLUTIONIST
EVOLUTIONIST
Version)
 And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and
God-centred view
Compromised view the ark, and
the waters increased, and bare up Atheistic view it
was lift up above the earth.
And God said...
And God used...
And I say...
 And the waters prevailed, and were increased
Young earth
Old earth
greatly upon the Old earth
earth; and the ark went upon the
face flood
Global of the waters.
Local flood
No flood
 And the waters prevailed exceedingly upon the
Thus,
Thus,
Thus,
earth; and all
high hills,
God is almighty theGod interferesthat were under the
God does not exist
whole heaven, were covered.
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69. “With regards to an apparent stratification of various life forms, it
is also possible that the dinosaurs and ‘more primitive’ creatures
could have sunk or been buried in reverse proportion to their
buoyancy, i.e. denser life forms, such as reptiles and amphibians
sank before less dense mammalian life forms. Alternatively, as
the fountains of the deep broke open and etched the crack
through which they exploded wider and wider, the copious water
movement and movement of soils could have ‘sloshed’ back and
forth over certain areas, leaving stratified sediment. This might
explain the general stratification of various life forms in
sedimentary rocks, but it does not exclude the possibility that a
horse and dinosaur could be buried together by some other
means. Footprints of horses and people have been discovered
next to those of dinosaurs. Evolutionary scientists have a hard
time explaining this evidence.”
– Walter T. Brown

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Many erect fossil trees in Nova
Scotia were found “throughout
2,500 feet of geologic strata,
penetrating
20
geologic
horizons. These trees had to
have been buried faster than it
took them to decay. This
implies
that
the
entire
formation was deposited in less
than a few years.” – D. Russell Humphreys
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© Richard Milton
Fossil tree at Natural History Museum
excavated from Carboniferous rocks
near Edinburgh.
Yet uniformitarian science advocates that layers were
deposited over millions of years.

71. Click picture for
online video clip...
The half-life of a radioisotope is the time required for half the
atoms in a given sample to undergo radioactive/nuclear decay.
Organisms living prior to the Flood would
have absorbed little or no C-14 during
their lives since there was little or no C-14
in the air that they breathed. Thus using
current
dating
methods,
pre-flood
organisms would give the appearance of
being much older than a few thousand
years.
BiblePlus.org
Accuracy depends upon assumptions concerning the past
intensity of cosmic radiation (Oxford Science Dictionary).

72. The earth is quite old – several thousand years!
BiblePlus.org
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Some sources suggest creation year to be 4004 BC (Ussher & Lightfoot).

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In Genesis, the word ‘day’ (yôm) has certain
grammatical contexts, any of which alone point
strongly to 24hr days (Sarfati, 2004):
 with a numeric
 with evening and morning
 associated with night
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Exodus (Sh’mot) 20:11 (Stern's Complete Jewish Bible)
For in six days, ADONAI made heaven and earth,
the sea and everything in them; but on the seventh
day He rested. This is why ADONAI blessed the
day, Shabbat, and separated it for Himself.

74. Fall into
sin
•
‘Big
Bang’
Point of collapse!
Entropy = tendency of a system to run down. Best fit is assumed linear – trend remains downward.
Evolutionary thinking is contrary to fundamental/first principles. Although new traits can be gained, new information cannot.
Cosmological models, e.g. Big Bang -> Big Crunch, are in need of revision.
In general, earth will yield its produce with difficulty (Gen. 3 curses)...
There are limits to change (Dr Rob Carter, pers. comm.) – too much tweaking of a complex
system leads to its collapse, thus long-term evolution is impossible.
Meyer, 2010

75. CREATIONIST
THEISTIC
EVOLUTIONIST
EVOLUTIONIST
God-centred view
Compromised view
Atheistic view
And God said...
And God used...
And I say...
‘Young’ earth
Old earth
Old earth
Global flood*
Local flood*
No flood*
Thus,
God is almighty
Thus,
God interferes
Thus,
God does not exist
* Noahic
I have shown that the earth is reasonably young.
Yôm does not mean age!
Considering the stark pre-Flood and post-Flood differences, which invalidate any
radioisotope dating beyond c.4500yrs, the earth is certainly not billions of years old.

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2 Corinthians 10:5 (New International Version 2010)
We demolish arguments and every pretension that
sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and
we take captive every thought to make it obedient
to Christ.
Acts 17:11 (New International Version 2010)
Now the Berean Jews were of more noble character
than those in Thessalonica, for they received the
message with great eagerness and examined the
Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was
true.
The meticulous and accurate recordkeeping of the Jewish people (verbal/written
information passed down; rote memorisation) is made clear in the saying: To what
shall we liken a disciple? He's like a cistern that loses not a single drop. AMEN

77. ‫השהה ו בשלווה לחשוב כי‬
Παύση και ήρεμα σκεφτείτε ότι
1 Corinthians 1:22-24 (King James Version)
For the Jews require a sign, and the Greeks seek after wisdom:
But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks foolishness;
But unto them which are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God, and the wisdom
of God.
Romans 1:20 (Amplified Bible)
For ever since the creation of the world His invisible nature and attributes, that is, His eternal
power and divinity, have been made intelligible and clearly discernible in and through the things
that have been made (His handiworks). So [men] are without excuse [altogether without any
defense or justification].
Romans 6:23 (Amplified Bible)
For the wages which sin pays is death, but the [bountiful] free gift of God is eternal life through
(in union with) Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 10:13 (Amplified Bible)
For everyone who calls upon the name of the Lord [invoking Him as Lord] will be saved.
John 1:12 (Amplified Bible)
But to as many as did receive and welcome Him, He gave the authority (power, privilege, right) to
become the children of God, that is, to those who believe in (adhere to, trust in, and rely on) His
name.
Isaiah 55:6 (New International Version 2010)
Seek the LORD while He may be found;
call on Him while He is near.

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