Creation by Chance
Renewing Your Mind
Ligonier Ministries
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🗓️ 12 June 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The idea that our world came into existence by chance isn't just faulty theology--it's also an abandonment of science. Today, R.C. Sproul debunks the modern myth of creation by chance.
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Meet Today's Teacher:
R.C. Sproul (1939-2017) was known for his ability to winsomely and clearly communicate deep, practical truths from God's Word. He was founder of Ligonier Ministries, first minister of preaching and teaching at Saint Andrew's Chapel, first president of Reformation Bible College, and executive editor of Tabletalk magazine.
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Nathan W. Bingham is vice president of ministry engagement for Ligonier Ministries, executive producer and host of Renewing Your Mind, host of the Ask Ligonier podcast, and a graduate of Presbyterian Theological College in Melbourne, Australia. Nathan joined Ligonier in 2012 and lives in Central Florida with his wife and four children.
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| 0:00.0 | Chance has no being. |
| 0:03.8 | Chance is not a thing that operates and works upon other things. |
| 0:11.1 | It is simply a mental concept that refers to mathematical possibilities. |
| 0:18.0 | But in and of itself has no ontology. It has no being. |
| 0:30.0 | If you've looked into how unbelievers try and explain our existence, you'll hear some of them |
| 0:36.6 | speak about the universe coming into existence |
| 0:39.2 | or being created by chance. Perhaps they'll say that we evolved by chance, and that's why you |
| 0:46.2 | and I exist today. But there's one major problem with attributing that power to chance. And that |
| 0:53.1 | will be what R. C. Sprole considers on today's edition of renewing your mind. |
| 0:58.9 | Christianity is not afraid of objections or historical investigation. Because it is true, |
| 1:05.8 | biblical Christianity can withstand the scrutiny. And in Dr. Sprole's series, defending your faith, he walks you through |
| 1:13.4 | objections to belief in God and also outlines the case for God to help you as you seek to defend |
| 1:20.0 | the faith and share the good news of the gospel with those around you. So to encourage you to request |
| 1:25.9 | the complete series today for your donation of any |
| 1:29.2 | amount at Renewing Your Mind.org. Well, here's R.C. Sproll to discuss and respond to the idea |
| 1:37.0 | that the universe was created by chance. In our last lecture, we were looking at the concept of self-creation, and I looked at it with respect to several varieties of it in terms of spontaneous generation, gradual spontaneous generation, universes exploding into being, and so on. |
| 1:59.9 | But I ended that session by saying that in the contemporary |
| 2:03.5 | scene, the alternative to theism is most often described in terms of some kind of an appeal |
| 2:12.9 | to what we call chance creation. |
| 2:22.3 | And so I want to look at that in some detail in today's session. |
| 2:28.6 | I mentioned in passing in the last session that I had written an entire book on this subject, |
| 2:31.1 | and I'll explain the reasons for that. |
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