Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: In the beginning, God created. Welcome to Creation Moments. I'm Jonathan Cotton. Today, we'll look at five thought-provoking topics on science and the reliability of God's word. Our topics today include after their kinds, the world's smallest computer. Can there be life without God? There is no simple life, and we see by faith. Listen and discover the evidence for our creator that is all around us. Then, after our program, visit creationmoments.com for articles, videos, FAQs, Bible studies, and so much more. First up, after their kinds. How wonderful. Your dog has just had puppies, but do you now have to sort through the litter and make sure there are no baby giraffes or kangaroos?

In God's account of creation in Genesis chapter one, we repeatedly read that both plants and animals were created to reproduce after their kind. Genesis one in speaking about the creation of plants repeats three times in just two verses that they are to reproduce after their kind. We see the same phrase repeated later in the chapter when animals are created. This is not just empty repetition. God is stressing a fundamental principle that all things reproduce after their kind. Mother dogs have puppies, and mother cats have kittens. You can count on it. Why does God stress this principle?

Even before creation, God knew that humans would eventually sin and then seek to hide their responsibility by trying to explain things without a creator. God knew that this idea of evolution would capture the faith of millions over the history of the world. God stresses what our experience shows so that he might be harder for us to hide from. All things do reproduce after their kind, and despite evolutionists' strong faith in evolution, they cannot offer one established scientific fact to explain how one kind of creature might eventually make a completely different kind. Genesis chapter one verse 12.

And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seeds 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. Would you pray with me? I thank you, Lord, that you have made it hard for men to deny you, yet men still do deny you, seeking explanations and excuses outside of your word. I know that I too can do this. I ask that you would correct me when I seek outside of your word what is already so richly provided to me in your word.

Amen. Our next topic is the world's smallest computer. The cells of all living things are filled with highly detailed information. The incredible system that is used for storing this information makes our best computer information systems look like a child's simple slate board. Believe it or not, it takes more information to make a complete human being than can be stored in the average city library. And all of this information is stored in less than a few thousand millions of a gram of material within each of our cells. You have literally billions of copies of it. Our most sophisticated computer system cannot even come close to being able to store information like that.

It's estimated that one billion species of plants and animals have existed since creation. The information storage system within the cell is so compact that all of the information to make everyone of those one billion species could be held in a teaspoon with room left over to hold all the books ever written if they too were stored with the same efficient system. Even more amazing is that this information storage system is not only able to store information like a computer, but unlike a computer, it can also copy itself and correct errors if any creep into the information.

How could anyone believe that this brilliant information storage, copying, and correction system could have come about by chance? To believe that this could be created by no one is certainly an act of faith, but it is clearly the wrong faith, and that highlights what the origins debate is really all about. Exodus chapter 15 verse 11 says, Who is like you, oh Lord, among the gods? Who is like you, glorious in holiness, fearful in praises, doing wonders? Let's pray together. Father, I believe in your forgiving grace to me in Jesus Christ. For this reason, help me to abandon all trust in myself for Jesus' sake.

Amen. And now, can there be life without God? Did life form all by itself without a creator in some warm little pool of water or a clot of mud many billions of years ago? Some scientists would like us to think so. Over the years, newspaper headlines have declared that life has been created in the laboratory. We are told that life is no mystery and that the chemicals that cause life are common. Such claims have a lot of hype and little science to them. There are some things you should know about these experiments. First of all, scientists don't end up with life.

They do end up with some simple chemicals that are like those found in our cells, but the chemicals they make called amino acids are a mixture that is quite worthless to form life. In order to get these amino acids which are supposed to show that life could form by itself, researchers use a special combination of gases that they believe formed the earth's atmosphere millions of years ago. They must also carefully control the kind of light that enters the experiment and protect in a special container anything that is produced. It is obvious that a lifeless earth did not offer all these advantages.

It seems silly to invest millions of dollars worth of equipment, dozens of years of specialized training, more years of research, and then say that we are proving that no intelligence or design was needed to create life. What these experiments do show is that life cannot happen by itself. It took a creator with much more power and wisdom than we have to create life. Job chapter 10 verse nine says, Remember, I pray, that you have made me like clay, and will you turn me into dust again? Please join me in prayer. In your wisdom, dear Lord, you have created life in such a way that even those who are most intent on denying you cannot comfortably do so.

Use my voice and my life to help them see that this is because you have loved them and would be their savior too. Amen. Next up, there is no simple life. We often hear people speak of simple life forms or the simple cell. Is there really such a thing as simple life? Although we often speak of the simple cell, there really is no such thing as a simple form of life. Even the single-celled creature is a highly complex organism. Let's imagine building a model of the cell using atoms each the size of a tennis ball.

The typical cell has about 10 million atoms. In our model, the cell would be over 10 miles in diameter. Now, let's look inside the cell and see whether it is simple or not. First of all, we would see lots of activity going on almost everywhere. This is because the single cell has to carry out all the same jobs that your body uses many different organs to accomplish. Inside the cell, we would see structures that digest food and others that carry off the waste from food. Other structures would be busy carrying off the waste produced by the cell itself.

The cell must also contain everything it needs to reproduce. And remember, while we have many complex and different organs to do all this, the cell must do it all without those organs. Humans have never even come close to creating anything like this. Surely the cell is not simple. Science cannot explain the cell by any natural laws it knows. Scripture is correct when it tells us that the origin of the cell and everything else is the superior power and wisdom of God. Job 37 verse eight. The animals enter dens and remain in their layers. Let's pray.

Dear heavenly Father, you are defamed when the world talks of even one living cell as simple. If someone spoke so of my best friend, I would speak in his defense. So let me boldly speak in defense of your truth, my only heavenly Father. Jesus name. Amen. At last, but not least, we see by faith. As Christians, we believe by faith. But did you know that even evolutionary scientists believe by their own kind of faith, scientists early in this century, like scientists today, had no evidence that humans had evolved from ape-like creatures? In 1922 in Nebraska, a tooth was discovered that was said to have belonged to a missing link between human and ape.

But what did this creature look like? As is done today, paleontologists began to reconstruct Nebraska man. They reconstructed what the jawbone around the tooth might have looked like, and then the bone touching those bones and well, you know how the song goes. The head bones connected to the neck bone, the neck bones connected to the backbone. Before long, they had constructed from that one little tooth not only what Nebraska man looked like, but also what his wife looked like. And they put this proof in museums and textbooks. Eventually, they discovered more parts of the animal from which the tooth had come.

It turned out to be the tooth of an extinct pig, but even this was wrong. In 1972, living herds of this very pig turned up in Paraguay. Anyone, including scientists, can make mistakes, but what this true story shows is how by rejecting God's account of creation, a pig could be made into a human. You see, even the evolutionist's belief is not based on scientific fact, but on his own faith in nature rather than in the creator. We Christians should not be ashamed to admit that we believe by faith because our faith is built on the solid statements of the uncontradicted scriptures.

Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. Now, faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Would you pray with me again? Dear Father, I thank you that you've allowed me to hear your word and that you've given me faith in your promises. Teach me through your word so that I'm better able to identify false religious beliefs and carry your witness in Jesus' name. Amen. In the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin said, He who rejects these views on the nature of the geological record will rightly reject my whole theory. He was referring to the lack of transition fossils in 1859.

Today, the fossil record is very thorough with millions and millions of fossil specimens cataloged, and transition species remain a dream of evolution, not a reality. Genetic science confirms the lack of transition fossils in the geological record. For example, dogs will always remain dogs because there's no information within their genes to become anything else. Darwin assumed that animals had an unlimited capacity to evolve into different species, but he was wrong. The fossils actually prove a core scientific principle of biological stasis, the creation and stability of animals within their distinct kinds. As Genesis chapter one verse 24 puts it, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind.

And it was so. The phrase after his kind is repeated seven times in Genesis chapter one for the various creatures. And the phrase, then God said, is repeated nine times. God's spoken word provided the information content for all genetic code and the vibrational energy that is at the root of all things. It's no wonder then that by our own spoken word of faith we are saved. Romans chapter 10 verse 10 says, For with the heart man believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. We were made in God's image. The words we speak have power just like our choices have consequences.

Our sinful actions will one day be judged, but God is love. His mercy triumphs over judgment. He sent his son, Jesus Christ, to be born into mankind, to live a perfect life and die a sinner's death so that we could be free from eternal judgment. No one loves you more than Jesus. Believe in him, confess him as your Lord and savior, and you will enter into salvation. Thank you for listening. If you'd like to learn more about creation science and biblical worldview issues, visit creationmoments.com or download the Creation Moments app to access a library of great resources.

I'm Jonathan Cotton. Be sure to join me next time for more Creation Moments, proclaiming evidence of God's truth.