
Please download these notes and follow along with the video lectures.
Examine the tension between biblical authority and scientific claims about reality. Consider whether the universe began, the origin of the big bang, and the idea of cycles versus evidence.
Explore the claim that nothing created everything, as Dawkins and others debate evolution and the big bang. Ray Comfort challenges atheistic reasoning, while the discussion touches on agnosticism.
Explore how about 250 proteins, built from 20 amino acids via peptide bonds, would have to self-organize into a living cell with odds near 1 in 10^164.
Question the biogenesis claim that life only comes from life and assess Miller-Urey experiments, which yielded limited amino acids and failed to form proteins.
Explore the four laws of thermodynamics, from zeroth to third, and see how entropy drives heat loss, energy conservation, and the fate of usable energy in the universe.
Explore how the second law of thermodynamics drives increasing disorder, illustrated by the Coliseum and aging, and note that reversal isn't possible, with implications for science and faith.
Explores what counts as observable evidence for Darwinian evolution, examining bacteria and Darwin's finches, adaptation versus change of kinds, and the debate with intelligent design.
Explore establishing a rational faith in the Bible by addressing prophecies, authorship, slavery, levitical laws, and why Christian kids walk away after high school, and how we know it's true.
This is a trial course to introduce students to what they can expect if they sign up for other Educate for Life classes. This particular course goes through four reasons belief in God is scientific and the lack of belief in God is un-scientific. The course includes follow along notes and a voluntary ten question quiz at the end of the lesson. The total course is around 1 hour and consists of video lectures along with detailed slide presentations. This course is meant to dispel the idea that belief in God is unscientific. And to demonstrate that atheism is not rational or scientific. MORE CLASSES WILL BE AVAILABLE BY SEPTEMBER 2014.