(From the Christian Heritage Home Educators of Washington Convention)
Bio on website: Tom Hoyle has a PhD in Christian Apologetics from California Graduate School of Theology, and is a full colonel in the United States Air Force Reserves. Dr. Hoyle is the founder of the Bible and Science Ministries which is headquartered in Tacoma, WA, and has been actively involved in creation science missions for over 20 years.
He has spoken over 3400 times in almost 500 churches, schools, home schools, and conferences in 47 states and countries, and also broadcasts often via Christian radio and television.
Dr. Hoyle is committed to the absolute authority of God’s Word, and to the crucial truth of Biblical creation. Consequently, his ministry is endorsed by numerous pastors, teachers, scientists, and laymen.
Miracles of Creation description: Dr. Hoyle’s best family program is also the MOST logical! Many intriguing examples of logical design and purpose in creation are given. Subjects include the earth, moon, plants (photosynthesis, symbiosis, and carnivorous), and insects (camouflaged varieties; e.g., mantises). Also included is Creation evangelism.
Dr. Hoyle presented a slide show on creation.
Design requires a designer; things don’t just happen. If someone built the model, someone must have built the original.
There are 22 different theories of creation.
Jeremiah 31:35 "Thus says the LORD, Who gives the sun for light by day And the fixed order of the moon and the stars for light by night, Who stirs up the sea so that its waves roar; The LORD of hosts is His name"
It the moon were 10% different in size and/or density, earth would either be swamped (no tides), or prone to massive earthquakes. The relationship betwwen the earth and the moon is just right (size, gravity pull)
If the earth were just 10% different, life as we know it could not be sustained. No other planets are the same in size, weight, or desnisty. Earth is just the right distance to maintian life (rotation in orbit, angle) We are at 23.5 degrees. If we were a half degree different, we could not maintain life.
A day on Venus is slower that a year on earth.
The ozone layer is a type of oxygen molecule that protects us from radiation in space. Too much ozone would not allow for photosythesis, which allows things to grow. Too little, and things burn.
Psalm 33:6 "By the word of the LORD the heavens were made, And by the breath of His mouth all their host."
There are 100 trillion cells in the body. (The possibility of this happening randomly is like a tornado in a junkyard building a 747.) Each cell in your boydy has enough DNA information to fill 400 library books.
"The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is one to a number with 40,000 noughts after it … It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution … if the beginnings of life were not random, they must therefore have been the product of purposeful intelligence."
(Sir Fred Hoyle, astronomer, cosmologist and mathematician, Cambridge University)
3 miracles of plant life:
-photosynthesis: life could not exist without it.
- carniverous plants (pitcher plants-some are large enough to eat birds and rats. Sun dew plant-strangles and crushes its prey. Venus fly traps- if someone designed a mouse trap, who designed the Venus fly trap?)
-symbiosis-the relationshop between flowers and bees, bats, birds, (How did all these come together to benefit each other?)
"As yet we have not been able to track the phylogenetic history of a single group of modern plants from its beginning to the present."
(Chester A Arnold, Professor of Botany and Curator of Fossil Plants, University of Michigan, An Introduction to Paleobotany (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1947, p.7)
Isaiah 40:8 "The grass withers, the flower fades, But the word of our God stands forever."
A dragonfly can fly 40mph. They have two wings to elevate and two wings to propel. They have 50,000 facets on each eye. L.E.V.- Leading Edge Vortex The helicopter design was inspired from the dragonfly.
As advanced as the "Apache" is, the dragonfly is even more so.
There is documentation in fossils that, before the flood, dragonflies had a wingspan of 2.5 feet.
The chemical complexity of the bombadier beetle-expels acid in defense. It is its own little chemical lab.
Ants can lift 50 times its own weight. They can build incredible colonies. they know how to do it upon birth.
Proverbs 6:6 "Go to the ant, you sluggard; observe its ways and be wise!"
Termites- produce rock hard castles 40 fet tall. Imagine how high that is for a bug! Their castls has water reservoirs and air conditioning. Ants and termites can metabolize cellulose, which is recycling.
They are born knowing how to do all of this.
Honeybee- wings made of keratin (nature’s plastic). Wings beat 250 times per second. The honeycomb is ideal in terms of wight and stress distribution with thimited space.
Nature by Design
Spider silk is a complex triple protein polymer. Little labs in their bodies. Spider silk ounce by ounce is stronger and more flexible than titanium. Spiders are born knowing how to spin a web. Spiders are expert in camoflauge.
Other experts in camoflauged-they were designed this way…
Stick bug
Thorn bug
Walking leaf
Dead Leaf Katydid
Praying Mantis-Stick, Twig, Leaf, Dead leaf, Orchid
Do any of these evolve by accident?
Some insects have fake pupils to deceive prey.
"Faith gives the courage to live and do. Scientists, with their disciplined thinking, like others, need a basis for the good life, for aspiration, for courage to do great deeds. They need a faith to live by. The hope of the world lies in those who have such faith and who use the methods of science to make their visions become real. Visions and hope and faith are not part of science. They are beyond the nature that science knows. Of such is the religion that gives meaning to life." Arthur H. Compton