The image of God indicates the ability to personally relate to someone else, especially to God himself.

Being able to know Him, being able to love Him, being able to obey Him, being able to worship Him.

Welcome to Grace To You with John MacArthur. I'm your host, Phil Johnson. Back in 1999, a team of scientists first mapped a human chromosomes genetic code, calling their breakthrough the first chapter in the book of life.

The truth is, the real first chapter in the book of life has been around for millennia. I'm talking about Genesis 1, and today John MacArthur shows you why every verse of this opening chapter and all the rest of Scripture is absolutely trustworthy.

John is continuing his study titled The Battle for the Beginning. And now here's John looking at the sixth day of creation.

In our study of Genesis, we have come now to day six in God's creation, the pinnacle of God's creative work, creation of man, in spite of the clear teaching of the Bible, the clear teaching of Genesis and other passages of Scripture, evolutionists, some of them calling themselves Christians and therefore theistic evolutionists, that is that God caused evolution to bring man into existence.

These evolutionists have tried against the clear testimony of Scripture that God created all these things in a day, tried to prove that man evolved, that everything evolved from a one-celled creature through water animals, amphibians, apes to finally the erect man who was then the pinnacle of creation.

But scientists, though they deny the Bible, have found it impossible to find proof for the evolution of anything, including the evolution of man.

The reason they can't find proof for it is because there isn't any. You can't find proof for something that didn't happen, and evolution never happened, and that's why they can't find any proof for it.

In six, 24-hour or solar days, God made the entire universe the earth and all its living creatures, and as we've been saying, He did it about six or seven thousand years ago.

Now that does bring up the issue of fossils, and I have to address this, I know many of your students, and even in elementary school in the later grades, certainly in junior high and high school and on into college,

you're faced with a supposed fossil record that proves that man evolved from some kind of a four-legged ape-like creature.

How do we deal with the supposed fossil testimony that is used to prove evolution?

Don't scientists actually have missing links? It seems like every few years or every a few months, some scientist claims to have found some transitional ape man form.

Do they have missing links? The answer absolutely not, absolutely not.

A most interesting scientific book called In the Beginning is written by Walter Brown, who is a PhD from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

For 21 years, Walt Brown was the chief of science and technology studies at the Air War College and professor at the Air Force Academy, the very fine scientist.

He has exposed, as have many others, the lies of evolutionists trying to make their case.

He writes that stories claiming that fossils of primitive ape-like men have been found are grossly overstated.

For example, it is now universally acknowledged that pilt-down man was a total hoax, and yet it exists and has existed in textbooks for more than 40 years.

Prior to 1978, the evidence for Ramapithecus consisted of a mere handful of teeth and jaw fragments.

Ramapithecus was one of the largest categories of transitional ape man.

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