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Life Did Not Begin by Itself
The First Three Days of the Earth
Reconciling Science and the Bible
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Precise Science Confirms the Bible
Moses Foresaw Three Discoveries
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First Discovery
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Mass and Weight of Energy
Transformations and Materialization
Different Kinds of Rays and Materialization in Empty Space
Was Energy the Source of Material
Second Discovery
Third Discovery
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The First Light
Separating Light from Darkness
Early Ideas about the Beginning
An Up-to-Date Ancient Cosmology
The Confirmation
A Challenging Question
Cycles of Darkness and Light
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Teaching Children
The Idea the Word “Day” Expresses
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A Day, Not “The First Day”
Not “Literal, 24-Hour Days”
How Long Did the First Three Days Last?
The Earth’s Rotation and the First Two Days
The Duration of the First Day
The First Three Cycles of Darkness and Light
Was There a Beginning?
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An Uncreated, Unchanging Universe
Evidence for a Beginning
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Elements in the Stars
Natural Radiation from Space
Stars Consume Their Fuel
Cosmology and Relativity
Instability, Determinism, Uncertainty, Predestination
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Instability
Stability and Determinism
Predestination, Indeterminacy, Uncertainty
Einstein, Science, and Philosophy
Predestination versus Timely Intervention
Simple Elements and Morning Stars
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First Evening: Energy and Particles
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The Energy of Different Kinds of Rays
The Most Energetic Rays
Natural Particle Production
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Simulating the Process
Particles from Darkness
Darkness in the Bible
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Why Darkness Comes First
Isaiah’s Insight on Darkness and Light
First Morning—Simple Elements
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Doppler Shift, Expansion, and Cooling
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The Beginning of Nucleosynthesis
Four Forces
Forces Present in Empty Space
Nucleosynthesis
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The First Elements
The First Halt in Nuclei Production
Insufficient Complexity
The First Light Was Good
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The Immediate Cause of the First Light
Forming the Light
The Confirmation of Darkness and Light
Stars that Formed Complex Elements
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Second Evening—Expansion
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The Expanding Universe
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The Giant Atom that Exploded
Expansion, Not a “Big Bang” Explosion
Expansion Preserves Order
Expanding Now But Later What?
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Expanding but Uncreated
Continuous Creation
The Cyclic Version of Continuous Creation
The Expanding Universe Prevails
Second Morning—Heavy Elements
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Heat and Light Make Heavy Elements
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Differences in Stellar Composition
Nuclear Binding Energy
Energy from Fusion and Fission
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The Proton-Proton Reaction
Nuclear Stability
Different Kinds of Fission
Burning Helium and Heavier Elements
Forming the Sun and Earth
>
Third Evening—A Dusty Yellow Star
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Supernovas Begin the Third Evening
Extraterrestrial Water
Lighting the Sun’s Fire
The Carbon to Oxygen Reaction
The Darkness of the Third Evening
Third Morning—The Earth Forms
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The Search for a Planet Suitable for Life
How Does God Create?
>
Conditions at the Very Beginning
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Creation from Nothing
Can We Create Energy?
>
God Works to Create Energy
The Work Necessary to Create the Universe
Denial of Creation
The Simplest Explanation
Creation in a Singularity
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Can We Investigate the Instant of Creation?
The First Light Has Fluctuations
The Next Three Days
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Structure in the Genesis Narrative
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Examples of Parallelism
Parallel Structure in the Creation Narrative
Day Four
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Not All Stars Formed on the Fourth Day
When Did the Stars and Sun Start to Shine?
Signs for Animals and People
What Is the Origin of the Universe?
Appendices
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Appendix A
Appendix B
Design or Luck?
Creative Design
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Darwin and Adaptive Variation
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Finches and Form Adaptation
Adaptive Behavior and Structure
Intelligence and Autonomy
Biological Structure and Reproduction
Adaptive Form
Darwin’s Idea Extrapolated to Darwinism
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The Development of the Sciences
Contrasting Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Darwinism Today
The Limits of Automatic Design
Why Aren’t All Darwinists Rich?
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Automatic Design: Artificial and Natural
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The Automatic Lens-Design Program
Company Top Secret
Comparing Evolution and Lens Design
My Colleagues’ Reaction
Conclusion: Darwinism Doesn’t Work
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Can Design Be Automatic?
Darwinism and “Automatic” Design
How Far Can Small Steps Take Us?
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Small Improvements Are Merely Engineering
The Vastness of Hyperspace
Primordial Alphabet Soup
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Wide Coding Overcomes Noise
DNA is a Natural Language
Common Ancestry
Accepted Words Span the Space
Is Creative Design Consistent with Darwinism
>
Engineering Design
A Challenge for Darwinists
Thermodynamics
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Thermodynamics, Information, and Creation
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The First Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
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Entropy
Perpetual Motion
Information and Order
>
Entropy, Probability, and Information
Multiplying Probability and Adding Entropy
Probability and Information
Structure, Design, Intelligence, and Creativity
>
Structure and Breakdown, Death and Decay
Perfection and Beauty
Earth-Sun Thermodynamics
>
A Simple Example of a Thermodynamic Process
The Example Applied to the Sun and Earth
Another Error about Thermodynamics
>
A Darwinist Argument about Thermodynamics
Sunlight and the Earth’s Temperature
What Makes Sunlight Suitable?
The Night Sky Is Dark
>
Olbers’ Paradox
A Black Forest and the Stars
>
Seeing to the Far Limit of the Universe
The Limit of the Known Universe
Ordinary Darkness
A Planet Suitable for Life
The Thermodynamics of Life
>
Living Organisms and Heat Engines
>
The Thermodynamics of Life without Sunlight
Entropy, Thermodynamics and Prigogine
>
Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics and the Universe
>
Formless and Dark but Energetic and Orderly
>
Entropy and Penrose
Creative Agencies and Their Characteristics
Complex Order, Life, Intelligence
>
Random Action and Complexity
Does Matter Organize Itself?
Complexity Can Be Specified
Information and Physical Laws
Did Our Life Begin Elsewhere?
Discovering Alien Life Will Change Nothing
Creative Design Suits the Universe for Life
The Quest Continues
Creationism that Scientists Can Accept
About
Contact
DVD
Booklet
Home
Life Did Not Begin by Itself
The First Three Days of the Earth
Reconciling Science and the Bible
>
Precise Science Confirms the Bible
Moses Foresaw Three Discoveries
>
First Discovery
>
Mass and Weight of Energy
Transformations and Materialization
Different Kinds of Rays and Materialization in Empty Space
Was Energy the Source of Material
Second Discovery
Third Discovery
>
The First Light
Separating Light from Darkness
Early Ideas about the Beginning
An Up-to-Date Ancient Cosmology
The Confirmation
A Challenging Question
Cycles of Darkness and Light
>
Teaching Children
The Idea the Word “Day” Expresses
>
A Day, Not “The First Day”
Not “Literal, 24-Hour Days”
How Long Did the First Three Days Last?
The Earth’s Rotation and the First Two Days
The Duration of the First Day
The First Three Cycles of Darkness and Light
Was There a Beginning?
>
An Uncreated, Unchanging Universe
Evidence for a Beginning
>
Elements in the Stars
Natural Radiation from Space
Stars Consume Their Fuel
Cosmology and Relativity
Instability, Determinism, Uncertainty, Predestination
>
Instability
Stability and Determinism
Predestination, Indeterminacy, Uncertainty
Einstein, Science, and Philosophy
Predestination versus Timely Intervention
Simple Elements and Morning Stars
>
First Evening: Energy and Particles
>
The Energy of Different Kinds of Rays
The Most Energetic Rays
Natural Particle Production
>
Simulating the Process
Particles from Darkness
Darkness in the Bible
>
Why Darkness Comes First
Isaiah’s Insight on Darkness and Light
First Morning—Simple Elements
>
Doppler Shift, Expansion, and Cooling
>
The Beginning of Nucleosynthesis
Four Forces
Forces Present in Empty Space
Nucleosynthesis
>
The First Elements
The First Halt in Nuclei Production
Insufficient Complexity
The First Light Was Good
>
The Immediate Cause of the First Light
Forming the Light
The Confirmation of Darkness and Light
Stars that Formed Complex Elements
>
Second Evening—Expansion
>
The Expanding Universe
>
The Giant Atom that Exploded
Expansion, Not a “Big Bang” Explosion
Expansion Preserves Order
Expanding Now But Later What?
>
Expanding but Uncreated
Continuous Creation
The Cyclic Version of Continuous Creation
The Expanding Universe Prevails
Second Morning—Heavy Elements
>
Heat and Light Make Heavy Elements
>
Differences in Stellar Composition
Nuclear Binding Energy
Energy from Fusion and Fission
>
The Proton-Proton Reaction
Nuclear Stability
Different Kinds of Fission
Burning Helium and Heavier Elements
Forming the Sun and Earth
>
Third Evening—A Dusty Yellow Star
>
Supernovas Begin the Third Evening
Extraterrestrial Water
Lighting the Sun’s Fire
The Carbon to Oxygen Reaction
The Darkness of the Third Evening
Third Morning—The Earth Forms
>
The Search for a Planet Suitable for Life
How Does God Create?
>
Conditions at the Very Beginning
>
Creation from Nothing
Can We Create Energy?
>
God Works to Create Energy
The Work Necessary to Create the Universe
Denial of Creation
The Simplest Explanation
Creation in a Singularity
>
Can We Investigate the Instant of Creation?
The First Light Has Fluctuations
The Next Three Days
>
Structure in the Genesis Narrative
>
Examples of Parallelism
Parallel Structure in the Creation Narrative
Day Four
>
Not All Stars Formed on the Fourth Day
When Did the Stars and Sun Start to Shine?
Signs for Animals and People
What Is the Origin of the Universe?
Appendices
>
Appendix A
Appendix B
Design or Luck?
Creative Design
>
Darwin and Adaptive Variation
>
Finches and Form Adaptation
Adaptive Behavior and Structure
Intelligence and Autonomy
Biological Structure and Reproduction
Adaptive Form
Darwin’s Idea Extrapolated to Darwinism
>
The Development of the Sciences
Contrasting Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Darwinism Today
The Limits of Automatic Design
Why Aren’t All Darwinists Rich?
>
Automatic Design: Artificial and Natural
>
The Automatic Lens-Design Program
Company Top Secret
Comparing Evolution and Lens Design
My Colleagues’ Reaction
Conclusion: Darwinism Doesn’t Work
>
Can Design Be Automatic?
Darwinism and “Automatic” Design
How Far Can Small Steps Take Us?
>
Small Improvements Are Merely Engineering
The Vastness of Hyperspace
Primordial Alphabet Soup
>
Wide Coding Overcomes Noise
DNA is a Natural Language
Common Ancestry
Accepted Words Span the Space
Is Creative Design Consistent with Darwinism
>
Engineering Design
A Challenge for Darwinists
Thermodynamics
>
Thermodynamics, Information, and Creation
>
The First Law of Thermodynamics
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
>
Entropy
Perpetual Motion
Information and Order
>
Entropy, Probability, and Information
Multiplying Probability and Adding Entropy
Probability and Information
Structure, Design, Intelligence, and Creativity
>
Structure and Breakdown, Death and Decay
Perfection and Beauty
Earth-Sun Thermodynamics
>
A Simple Example of a Thermodynamic Process
The Example Applied to the Sun and Earth
Another Error about Thermodynamics
>
A Darwinist Argument about Thermodynamics
Sunlight and the Earth’s Temperature
What Makes Sunlight Suitable?
The Night Sky Is Dark
>
Olbers’ Paradox
A Black Forest and the Stars
>
Seeing to the Far Limit of the Universe
The Limit of the Known Universe
Ordinary Darkness
A Planet Suitable for Life
The Thermodynamics of Life
>
Living Organisms and Heat Engines
>
The Thermodynamics of Life without Sunlight
Entropy, Thermodynamics and Prigogine
>
Darwinism and Thermodynamics
Thermodynamics and the Universe
>
Formless and Dark but Energetic and Orderly
>
Entropy and Penrose
Creative Agencies and Their Characteristics
Complex Order, Life, Intelligence
>
Random Action and Complexity
Does Matter Organize Itself?
Complexity Can Be Specified
Information and Physical Laws
Did Our Life Begin Elsewhere?
Discovering Alien Life Will Change Nothing
Creative Design Suits the Universe for Life
The Quest Continues
Creationism that Scientists Can Accept
About
Contact
DVD
Booklet