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VOLUME 33:07 JULY 2022 SCRIPTURE AND SCIENCE FOR KIDS IN THIS ISSUE: TRUSTING the ULTIMATE WITNESS THE EARTHLY THE BIBLE'S THE TRUE WITNESS WITNESS WITNESS

ULTIMATE EYEWITNESS Do you recall what God said to Job when He spoke to him (near the end of the book of Job)? The Lord said: “Who is this who darkens “I have uttered what I did counsel by words without not understand, things too wonderful for me, knowledge?... Where which I did not know.” were you when I laid the foundations of the Job 42:3 earth? Tell Me, if you have understanding.” Job 38:2,4 In response to these questions, Job confessed: Human beings certainly can know that God exists, even without having the Bible to tell us. The physical, created Universe demands a Creator. Complex, functional design in nature demands an ultimate Designer. As Paul wrote, God’s “invisible attributes are clearly seen, being un- derstood by the things that are made” (Romans 1:20). Or, as King David stated, the heavens demand a heavenly Maker (Psalm 19:1-4). Logically speaking, there must be a Builder of the physical realm (Hebrews 3:4). 50   Discovery • July 2022 DiscoveryMagazine.org © COPYRIGHT, APOLOGETICS PRESS, INC., 2022, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

However, one thing that everyone should confess is that, since no human beings were alive to see the Creation of the Universe (and “the foundations of the earth” being laid), the only way we can know any details about Creation is if the Creator chose to reveal them to us. For example, “How long did God take to create the Universe?” “Did He make a mature creation, or a ‘baby’ creation (with only seeds, eggs, and infants)?” And, “What did God create first, second, third, etc.?” A second thing we must confess about the past is that, since the lone human sur- vivors of the Genesis Flood were the eight souls in the ark, the only way we can know with certainty some of the specific details of the Flood is if God chose to reveal those details to us. For example, “Was it really a global flood?” And, “Was it a calm, gradual rising of the waters which allowed people and land-living creatures to survive? Or, did ‘all in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, die’—all peo- ple, land animals, and birds?” DiscoveryMagazine.org 51July 2022  •  Discovery   © COPYRIGHT, APOLOGETICS PRESS, INC., 2022, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Atheistic evolutionists say a lot of things about the Earth and the Universe that they simply do not know and cannot prove. They claim the Universe came from nothing. Yet, such a claim defies both logic and science. Even Dr. Richard Dawkins, arguably the most famous “Of course common atheistic scientist in sense doesn’t allow you the world, admitted, to get something from nothing.” VS. Atheistic evolutionists contend that a tiny ball of matter exploded 13.8 bil- lion years ago. Supposedly, this Big Bang led to our current Universe. Some claim to “know” these things, and that this “is exactly what happened at the start of the Universe.” Yet, no evolutionist (nor creationist) was present at the very start of the Universe. The only way we could know “what” happened (and “when”) is if someone was there to witness the beginning and tell us what happened. Was anyone “In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the in existence “in Word was with God, and the Word was God. He the beginning”? was in the beginning with God. All things were made through him, and without Him nothing was Absolutely! made that was made.” John 1:1-3 52   Discovery • July 2022 DiscoveryMagazine.org © COPYRIGHT, APOLOGETICS PRESS, INC., 2022, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Did the eternal One (Isaiah 9:6) Who created all things have ULTIMATE EYEWITNESS anything to say about the foundations of the Universe? He certainly did. In various places throughout the Bible He talks about His works of Creation (Genesis 1-2; Exodus 20:11; Psalm 33:6,9), and His eyewitness details are the opposite of what the man-made-up theories of cosmic and biological evolution teach. Atheistic evolutionists contend that all life evolved from non-life and that the first life evolved into all the different forms of life we see on Earth today—that we all go back to a common ancestor. Once again, this teaching is merely an un- proven story by evolutionists. No one was there to witness life come from non-life, nor a “common ancestor” evolve into fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and humans. What’s more, the scientific Law of Biogenesis contradicts this godless theory. “In nature, all life comes from previous life of its own kind.” So what actually happened at the beginning with life? The eternal Creator revealed in Gene- sis 1 that He supernaturally created the various forms of life on Earth “according to their kind” (Genesis 1:21) on days three, five, and six of Creation. These various kinds of life were also able to reproduce after their own kind since their “seed is in itself according to its kind” (Genesis 1:12). That is, a peach tree produces peaches with peach seeds, which can then grow into more peach trees. Chickens lay only eggs that produce more chickens. DiscoveryMagazine.org 53July 2022  •  Discovery   © COPYRIGHT, APOLOGETICS PRESS, INC., 2022, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

NOTICE: GOD SAID WHAT HE DID, AND WHAT WE SEE THROUGH “A STUDY OF THE NATURAL REALM” (“SCIENCE”) IS PERFECTLY CONSISTENT WITH GOD’S STATEMENTS ABOUT CREATION. But don’t the rocks of the Earth show evolution to be true? Are they not dated by scientists as being billions of years old? Actually, no human being has ever prov- en the Earth’s rocks are mil- lions or billions of years old. In truth, all dating methods are based on unproven and unproveable assumptions. “But if one element in a rock breaks down into another element over an ex- tremely slow, long period of time, then surely we can know the ages of the rocks…and know they are millions or billions of years old.” Not true. As we have discussed in other issues of Discovery, a person would have to assume (1) the rate of decay has always been the same, (2) the elements have not been affected by outside forces, (3) no “daughter element” existed at the beginning. Furthermore, different dating methods often give vastly different, contradictory ages for the same rock sample. Obviously, such dat- ing methods can never give us an actual age of Earth’s rocks or the Earth itself. “But surely there never was a worldwide Flood. Where is the evidence for such a catastrophe?” First, we have eyewitness testi- CLICK QR code to watch a video mony from God—Who (like at Creation) was “at” titled HOW DID LIFE BEGIN? the global Flood and revealed various things that happened during the year-long event. Second, nothing on Earth (no real, scientific investigation) contradicts the Genesis Flood. And third, many scientific evidences point to the fact that the Flood happened (as we have discussed in other 54   Discovery • July 2022 Discovery issues). (Cont. on p. 56) DiscoveryMagazine.org © COPYRIGHT, APOLOGETICS PRESS, INC., 2022, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

ACTPIVAGITEY True or False WANT MORE? SCAN THE QR 1. ___ No human CODE FOR A beings were DETAILED EARTH alive to see the COLORING SHEET. Creation of the Universe. Crossword Challenge 2. ___ No spiritual being was in 1 existence when the physical Universe came into being. 23 3. ___ Atheistic evolutionists say a lot of things 4 about the Earth and the Universe that they do not know and cannot prove. 6 5 7 8 4. ___ Rocks on Earth have been proven to be bil- lions of years old. 5. ___ An honest investigation of the natural world is often contradictory to the Bible. 6. ___ Different radioisotope dating methods often give contradictory ages for the same rock sample. 7. ___ A “common ancestor” evolved into fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and humans over many millions of years. 8. ___ In six billion years, God created the heavens and the Earth. 9 7. “Who is this who darkens counsel by words with- out knowledge?... Where were you when I laid the _________ of the earth? Tell Me, if you have under- standing.” Across: 9. Both science and the Bible agree that, for example, chickens lay only eggs that produce only more 2. Famous atheistic scientist who admitted, “Of course common _______. sense doesn’t allow you to get something from nothing.” Down: 4. Book of the Bible that says, “In the beginning was the Word [Jesus], and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 1. “In nature, all life comes from previous life of its own He was in the beginning with God. All things were made kind.\" through him, and without Him nothing was made that was made.” 3. God supernaturally created the various forms of life on Earth “according to their ______.” 5. Man who confessed to God: “I have uttered what I did not un- derstand, things too wonderful for me, which I did not know.” 6. The ultimate Eye Witness of Creation and the Flood 8. Pointed out that the heavens demand a heavenly Maker DiscoveryMagazine.org 55July 2022  •  Discovery   © COPYRIGHT, APOLOGETICS PRESS, INC., 2022, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

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