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Last week, I shared with you, the Heavens Declare.

I wholeheartedly believe the Bible is the truth.

God does not lie.

When it says, In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth, and spells out how He did it in 6 days, and rested on the seventh, that is exactly how He did it.

I believe, like Moses, the people of Israel, David, the prophets, Jesus, and the apostles who all refer to God’s creation of the world in six days, the creation of a literal Adam and Eve, the flood and other events in Genesis that it is literally true.

And, I believe, like the Psalmist who praised God saying, the Heavens declare the glory of God.

I know many of you already believe this as well.

So, why last weeks sermon, and this weeks sermon on the Earth By These Waters?

Satan has long been at work attacking God’s word.

In you find him questioning Eve about what God said.

He seeks to cast doubt on God’s word, and to deny it is true.

He is continuing that two-fold attack today

Sadly, many Christians are listening to these lies.

Many Christians have been raised hearing about the billions of years.

And many Christians have bought into this, believing when they are told that science has proven the universe to be 14.5 billion years old, and the Earth to be 4.6 billion years old.

For these Christians, and many young people today who grow up in the church, Genesis cannot be true because ‘science’ has proven it wrong.

Worse yet, many young people who grow up in the church today walk away after they graduate because they don’t really believe the bible can be trusted.

I am addressing this topic last week and this week because I believe this is a major concern for the church.

You likely know young people or others who do not believe because ‘science’ has proven.

Think of your children, your grandchildren, your nieces and nephews, neighbors.

They are all being taught day-in and out that they cannot trust the Bible.

Science has proven...

My hope is that this church family will be strong in the faith.

That this church family from the oldest to the youngest will know that the Heaven’s Declare the glory of God!

That they and the Earth display his handiwork.

That science has not proven billions of years.

They have not disproven God’s account of how He created all of this.

We need to be strong for those around us both within the church, and without.

Last week, I focused on the Heavens.

I showed how there are flaws in the theories about the universe coming into being from a big bang 14.5 billion years ago.

I shared with you the problem of the young faint sun, the problems with uniform temperatures throughout the universe, the problems with inflation, the graceful exit problem, the problem of stars forming from nebula, the problem of our moon’s change in orbit, and the problem of spinning galaxies with arms.

These problems should be enough to say we need a new theory.

These problems do not exist when we listen to God’s account.

The evidences from what we observe in this universe does support what God says about creating the heavens and the earth.

They do declare His glory if we will listen!

This week, I will be focusing on the Earth.

We just finished our study of 1 Peter.

Peter wrote a second letter, and in that letter he warns of people who will deny the Lord.

Let’s read together.

Pray

The title of this weeks sermon is By These Waters… Taken from .

Scientists recognize that water is crucial for life.

That is why there is a constant search for water on Mars and other distant planets.

Water not only makes up a large portion of our bodies, is necessary for waste removal, and transport of nutrients in plants, among many others purposes.

Water in liquid form is necessary for balancing temperature on this planet.

Water has a high heat capacity, meaning it takes a lot of heat to raise its temperature.

Planets without water suffer huge temperature swings like on Mars where temperatures can change as much as 180°F.

Where did water come from on Earth?

Secular scientists generally believe the earth started as molten rock which cooled.

So, where did water, which is crucial for life come from?

They used to teach that oceans came from meteorites (we discussed them last week, they are ice) colliding with the Earth.

Scientists are now making new discoveries where water can from from combinations of Hydrogen and Silicon in the Earth’s mantle, specifically quartz.

They have come up with computer models where hydrogen and quartz react unter pressure with extreme heat to form water.

They also found that much of the water stays in the quartz under high pressure, which can be released and cause earthquakes deep under ground.

Lydia Hallis at the University of Glasgow says this “study highlights how the minerals that make up the Earth’s mantle can incorporate large amounts of water, and how Earth is probably ‘wet’ in some sense all the way down to its core.”

This is confirmed in diamonds which have been found from deep in the Earth that have water in them.

Some scientists back in 2014 suggest that huge reservoirs of water up to many times the volume of our oceans lie deep below the Earth’s surface.

Back in 1997 Lou Bergeron wrote “Deep Waters,” in the New Scientist and claimed that there may be enough water to replace the surface oceans more than 10 times!

Secular scientists view this as a potential for where the Earths water came from.

However, Creation Scientists view this as evidence that what God said is true.

The Earth was formed out of water, and the ground was once watered by water flowing out of the ground.

Then, when the flood came,

Genesis 7:

What scientists are discovering are the springs of the great deep!

Where once they theorized about meteorites, they now recognize ‘springs of the great deep’.

Secular scientists and Creation scientists view the same evidence.

However, they are viewing them from different worldviews.

Secular scientists will not have God’s Word be true.

So they will come up with theories for how it could be apart from what God has said.

Creation Scientists say, God has created.

Let’s look at creation and find out ‘what are the springs of the great deep!’

Creation scientists also believe when God separated the waters above from the waters below that the atmosphere was created.

Oxygen, which would sustain life.

However, secular scientists cannot have oxygen in the early earth.

They have oxygen being produced later by bacteria.

Why?

Secular scientists need life to evolve from non-organic materials found in the cooling earth.

How can you get organic materials from inorganic?All life is built from Amino-acids which are the basic building block.

So, in the 1950s came the Miller-Urey experiment.

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Oxygen is a poisonous gas that oxidizes organic and inorganic materials.

So, to avoid this problem, they assume the earth had no oxygen.

Rather, they used water, methane, ammonia and hydrogen mixture for the atmosphere.

These compounds do not react.

So they added electricity (to simulate lightning)

The experiment did produce amino acids.

By re-creating the early atmosphere (ammonia, water, hydrogen and methane) and passing an electric spark (lightning) through the mixture, Miller and Urey proved that organic matter such as amino acids could have formed spontaneously.

- Kenneth Miller and Joseph Levine, Biology, 5th ed.

(Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2000).

However there are some problems that they do not tell you about in the textbooks...

However there are some problems that they do not tell you about in the textbooks...

Problems:

“There is no scientific proof that Earth ever had a non-oxygen atmosphere such as evolutionists require.

Earth’s oldest rocks contain evidence of being formed in an oxygen atmosphere.” - H. Clemmey and N. Badham, “Oxygen in the Atmosphere: An Evaluation of the Geological Evidence,” Geology 10 (1982): 141.

If there is not oxygen, there is no ozone.

Ultraviolet rays would destroy the biological molecules.

What we have is sort of a “Catch 22” situation.

If we have oxygen we have no organic compounds, but if we don’t have oxygen we have none either.

- M. Denton, Evolution: A Theory in Crisis(Bethesda, MD: Adler & Adler, 1985), p. 261.

So the theory is that life began in the oceans.