By Mike Riddle
Mike’s research on the subject of origins and his background in education has
allowed him to speak to thousands of children and adults nationwide on a wide
range of topics.
Children’s Programs
The Origin of Life
Creation/Evolution: Does It Matter What We Believe?
The Origin of Humans
The Age of the Earth
The Genesis Flood
Carbon-14 Dating
Astronomy and the Bible
Examining Our Foundations
Winning the War of the World Views
Dinosaurs
The Origin of Man
The Genesis Flood
Scientific Evidence for Creation
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Spontaneous generation
Modern attempts to create life
Misleading and inaccurate information in school textbooks
The cell and complexity
Probability and the origin of life
The myth of the “primordial soup”
The Second Law of Thermodynamics and the origin of life
Four scientific evidences that are detrimental to the origin of life
Information and specified complexity
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Overview of the creation and evolution models
Seven biblical truths that confirm creation and evolution are not compatible
Science and why it matters what we believe
Evolution and natural selection
Empirical laws of science
The fossil record
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Why the issue of origins is important
School textbooks
A history of counterfeit science
Ramapithecus
Piltdown man
Nebraska man
Java man
Neanderthals: Who were they?
Lucy and the australopithecines
Rearranging the data to fit the model
Homo erectus
Mutations: a case study
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Why the age issue is important
Different views on creation and age
The Bible and the age of the earth
Radioisotope dating
The myth of long ages
Why long ages are not necessary
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The Bible and the Genesis Flood
The geologic column
Geologic processes
Mount St. Helens
Yellowstone National Park
Eastern Washington State
Polystrate fossils
The fossil record
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Basic overview of the atom
What is carbon-14 (C-14)?
How C-14 is produced and how it decays
The half-life of C-14
Understanding the C-14 dating process
The underlying assumption
Why the dating process is not reliable
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The issue: two worldviews
Big bang cosmology
Evidences used to support the big bang theory
Stellar evolution
The Bible versus the big bang theory
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Creation as the foundation for the Christian faith
Nine biblical truths
- The process for creation
- The order of creation events
- The cause of physical death
- The Genesis Flood
- The length of the creation days
- The origin of life
- Jesus, the Gospel, and creation
- Biblical consistency
- The reliability of the Bible
Conclusion: The key
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How did life begin?
Probability
Natural selection – evidence for creation
Mutations – evidence for creation
The battleground – education
A solution
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