Big Picture

Genesis Objections

• Age Objection: The first several chapters of Genesis document average human lifetimes up to 10 times longer than those reached by modern man. These ages are often dismissed as fairy tails. Entropy is one reason to predict shorter lives over time, but the main factor is climate change. The biblical account provides only limited information, but it does suggest a very different water cycle from what we see today. It is likely that much less radiation reached ground level. A number of other climate related factors may have also contributed to the greater longevity.

• Incest Objection: Where did Seth and Cain get their wives? If the biblical account is accurate, the only reasonable explanation is that they married their sisters. By the third generation they could have married cousins. The biblical law against marrying a sibling (Lev 18:11) seems to prohibit the only plausible way Adam’s children could have procreated. This would not have been a problem for Seth or Cain for several reasons. First, the gene pool was both small and untainted by mutations in previous generations. Their children would not have been plagued by the same genetic problems often encountered with the children of incest today. For another, the command to “go forth and multiply” was of prime importance. For another, there were no other choices. Only eight people survived the flood on the ark. Three couples (the three sons of Noah and their wives) are credited in scripture with repopulating the earth. Their children would have had to marry either siblings or first cousins. In very ancient cultures we know that brothers would marry sisters to maintain “purity” of the bloodlines of their kings. When the taboo against incest was put against the taboo of impurity or failure to reproduce, the demand to bare children took priority over concern about how genetically close the couple was. Finally, the first biblical objections to sibling sexual relations are seen in Abraham’s time and the first formal law against sibling incest was not codified until after the Exodus.

• Genealogical Gaps Objection: Genealogies are preserved in the bible from Adam to Jesus. The details generally match, but on close examination, particularly of the New Testament genealogies (Mt 1:1-17, Lk 3:27-38), there appear to be some skipped generations. Part of the reason could be errors carried over from the New Testament’s dependence on the Septuagint translation rather than the Hebrew as the source document. It is also possible that writers relied on memory or may have chosen to skip certain generations to for idiomatic, symbolic or poetic reasons. Whatever the case, the technical questions about the New Testament genealogies are minor at best. There are more significant problems, however, with the Septuagint itself. Several ages and names were incorrectly translated by the early Greek writing Jews. Those translators were seeking to make the Word of God available to the people in the common language and were more concerned with making it readable than with its accuracy. A number of modern English translations suffer from a similar effect. Hebrew to English is bad enough, but Hebrew to Greek to English is worse and Hebrew to Greek to Latin to English is worse yet. Even the our understanding of the New Testament suffers from direct Greek to English translation. The problem isn’t that a name or two got omitted, it is a wonder that the lists survived as well as they did over thousands of years to reach us through at least two to three language translations.

• Biblical Timeline: Creation to the flood was 1656 years according to the ages given in Genesis 5. Except for Enoch, average ages were over 900 with more than a century of life before “begetting” the next generation. Noah’s father, Lamech, could easily have personally known Adam. Noah could easily have personally known Enosh, his great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather and the grandson of Adam. In the ten generations from Noah to Abraham the average life expectancy dropped to less than 200. Lifetimes continued to decrease through the Egyptian captivity and very few lifetimes longer than 100 years are recorded after the time of Moses. The dates for the lifetime of Saul, David and Solomon are relatively solid in reference to our modern dating system. From this, the biblical accounts give us a reliable date for the Exodus of about 1446 BC (within a decade). English translations of the bible have traditionally led scholars to believe the house of Israel was physically in Egypt for 400 years. Close examination of the original language texts, however, make a strong argument for a period of 400 (or 430) years from the date of God’s original covenant with Abraham to the Exodus. This puts Abraham’s birth at roughly 1949 BC. From there we can use the early Genesis genealogies to compute an approximate earth age of a little less than 6000 years. The Jewish calendar is based on years since creation. As of Rosh Hashanah 2008, the Jewish year is 5769. It is not known for certain when the Jewish people began numbering years this way because the bible itself does not number years this way.

Review

• Science: The scientific method observes, measures, and requires repeatability of falsifiable theories to confirm or deny conceptual models. Science is limited to material reality. Science is useful to describe material reality so that we can make the best possible use of our material world as well as enjoy a greater appreciation of it.

• Belief: Models of science are subject to change for both evolutionists and creationists, but the beliefs these models are built on are not. With such uncertainty inherent in science alone, evolution can never be a certainty because theories can always be revised and new information found. Acceptance of evolution is a belief just as creation is a belief. Creationists and evolutionists both have the same evidence to work with. Beliefs determine how we interpret the evidence.

• Philosophy: Philosophy attempts to answer the questions raised by observation. The purpose is to appeal to and attempt to satisfy the rational human mind. Materialism is a type of philosophy that attempts to satisfy the questions with purely material answers. Materialism suggests that science can provide the answers as well as the questions because reality is limited to the material universe. Evolution as a flawed theoretical scientific model because it is not falsifiable and it is flawed as a philosophy because it fails to satisfy the rational mind by answering the most basic question: why? As dogma, Darwinian evolution cannot satisfy because it refuses to accept the possibility that science is inadequate precisely because it is restricted to material reality only. Materialism is atheistic. Non-materialism is the general philosophy that observes the material universe and concludes that there is more. Pantheism, Hinduism, and any number of other philosophical constructs suppose there is more to reality than nature. In fact, most such religions are built on the philosophy that material nature is not reality. Biblical theism is a non-material philosophy that says the material world is completely real, but it is only the creation and is not in and of itself spirit, nor is nature its own creator. There is a Creator and nature is material creation. Creation is real and it is good.

• Religion: Religion is the outward expression of internal belief. Where science observes and philosophy forms belief, religion is the inevitable action we take in response to the philosophy we believe. Atheism is technically as much a religion as pantheism, deism, theism, or any expression of any other belief system. Judeo-Christian biblical religion, though it takes many forms, is unique in its belief in a non-material mind apart from yet intimately involved with the material universe. This belief is revelational because it is based on accepting that information received from the divine Creator was recorded in texts handed down from ancient times. This belief is further based on acceptance of continued revelation from this divine mind. Christianity alone accepts the fulfillment of divine purpose in the life, death and resurrection of the person Jesus Christ. While man is flawed by sin, creation is good and worthy of a better fate than destruction at our hands. We are redeemed not by our pitiful attempts at goodness, but by the promised divine gift of forgiveness and restoration through a supernatural change in our nature. Thus, our philosophy (beliefs) determine how we treat each other and creation around us.

• Earth Age: Cosmology, geology, and nuclear sciences do not contradict and generally support the biblical proposition of a young earth. Genesis 1 reveals what man cannot know, the very fast creation of everything. The fourth commandment (Ex 20:11), written with God’s finger in rock tablets, confirms the Genesis account of a six day creation. The ages of patriarchs from Adam to Joseph are given in Genesis. The flood occurred 1656 years after creation. Israel entered Egypt 2217 years after creation. Israel came out of Egypt at about 1446 BC, 3454 years ago. The debated period is the duration of the time Israel spent in Egypt. It was either 400 or 430 years in Egypt or 400 or 430 years from the promise being given to Abraham (Gen 15:16).  At the high end, this puts the age of the earth at about 2217+430+3454=6001 years and at the low end about 2023+400+3454=5877 years. Due to uncertainties in both the biblical record and in extra-biblical dating of events since the Exodus, the exact figure is impossible to know with absolute certainty. Regardless of these uncertainties, point remains that the biblical model requires an earth age of roughly 6 millennia.

Things Christians Should Remember

• Purpose: The creation model is built on the premise of divine purpose. God designed the material universe from subatomic particles to galactic clusters with exacting standards. Reality consists of more than the material universe. Individual lives have purpose and the free will to accept or turn from that purpose. Man was designed for life, but death came upon man through sin. Eternal life is the gift God seeks to give to all who will seek Him, accept His love and repent of their sin.

• Six Days: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy. (Ex 20:11, ESV)

• Be Ready: But in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect. (1 Pe 3:15, ESV)

• Know and Be Approved: Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth (2 Tim 2:15, ESV)

• Ease of Belief: If I have told you earthly things and you do not believe, how can you believe if I tell you heavenly things? (Jn 3:12, ESV)

• Beware of Scoffers: “…scoffers will come in the last days with scoffing, following their own sinful desires. They will say, “Where is the promise of his coming? For ever since the fathers fell asleep, all things are continuing as they were from the beginning of creation.” (2 Pe 3:3-4, ESV)

Belief Choices

• Evolution: Faith is placed in the material world only. Life is temporary. Hope exists in the present only. Trust is placed in self. Only the fittest survive. There is tendency to be hedonistic and fatalistic. Morality is relative to self or local culture. Death is the ultimate expectation and the ultimate fear.

• Intelligent Design: There is belief in at least the possibility of a superior non-material mind. There is not a firm commitment to Judeo-Christian revelations of God, but there is also not a flat denial of the possibility. Intelligent Design is a belief that allows unlimited scientific exploration of the material universe without deifying the material or de-deifying the non-material. Evolution is rejected as a purely material mechanism. Natural laws like energy conservation and entropy require more than material reality.

• Genesis Creation: Definite belief in a Creator who is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. The Creator is personally involved with His creation now as in the past. The Creator established very finely tuned order to structures observed in nuclear physics to chemistry to biology to cosmology. God created the universe with a purpose and both God and His purpose are knowable. Faith in God is rational as well as personally satisfying. Trust is placed outside of self, morality has absolute standards set by an absolute mind who has established division between good and evil. Death is not the ultimate expectation and the Creator is to be feared above death because God controls death – not the other way around.

Is an Old Earth Necessary?

• Classic Darwinian Evolution: Yes. It must take millions of years to evolve since we observe such “slow” progress toward evolution today. Fossils prove the earth is old because fossils were formed over millions of years of countless little local catastrophes all over the world. The earth itself must be far older to allow for stabilization of conditions conducive to life. The universe itself must be vastly older than the earth to allow our solar system to form and for stars galaxies to get so far away from what must have been a singular giant explosion at the very start of it all.

• Intelligent Design / Theistic Evolution: Not required, but probable. Non-material reality is acknowledged, but the plain language of Genesis is not accepted at face value. Unable or unwilling to argue against the prolific “proofs” of the great antiquity of fossils and the earth and cosmos. Believes God directed formation and evolution of life over an unknown time. The creative days of Genesis are accepted as “spiritual truth” only; illustrates that God is orderly but does not accept the account as materially accurate.

• Creationism: No. Accepts Genesis as truth, both literally and spiritually. Creation was finished in 6 ordinary days. Man is part of creation, yet unique in his relationship with the Creator. All animal life was created with and has lived concurrently with man, including dinosaurs. Fossils, geological formations, and ocean trenches are evidence of a massive planetary water catastrophe. Evidence discovered through various science disciplines supports the possibility if not the requirement for a relative young earth. All “proof” of an old earth (millions or billions of years) can be rationally explained and scientifically supported in a young earth context.

Applications

• Problem Solving: Whether we approach sciences with the idea of discovering or using engineering principles is profoundly important. Assuming nature is engineered means our approach to problem solving will be logical, rational, and ultimately productive. Assuming everything is the result of randomness will cause us to take a radically different and often unproductive approach to problem solving.

• Medicine: How we value life determines how we approach care for our fellow man (and our animal friends). The evolutionary approach leads to more “convenience” which, roughly translated, means a culture of death. It is more convenient to euthenize the unproductive or undesired. This philosophy brought about the eugenics experiments of the late 19^th and early 20^th centuries that led to the Nazi ideals of a superior race and Margaret Sanger’s goal of aborting African American and other “undesirable” children though Planned Parenthood.

• Biological Research: The design approach has proven the most effective approach over and over. Assuming normal biology is already ideal allows researchers to approach cures as engineering problems where the goal is to restore the normal, not to design something “better” (eugenics).

• Psychiatry/Psychology: Looking at the mind as if it were purely biological leads to taking a pharmacological approach to solving mental illness. While there are very real biological problems with the brain that can be addressed with medications, there are many more mental conditions that require a non-material approach. Laughter, placeboes, and mental training to overcome phobias are just a few examples of non-material solutions.

• Anthropology: Without the revelation of Genesis, studying artifacts from ancient civilizations can provide us with only a very limited understanding of history. The evolutionary approach allows all sorts of wild speculation and little meaningful explanation. Evolutionary anthropology fails to explain why languages and race are so diverse while other striking similarities, like pyramids and mythology, prevail.

• Paleontology: Evolution sets up a model that supposes and even requires vast antiquity for the rise and extinction of many creatures such as dinosaurs, mammoths, and trilobites. The relative time periods are based on human guesswork. By disregarding the biblical account, we may loose completely our ability to understand now extinct creatures fit into the ecosystem.

• Geology: Geology is a very broad natural science that deals with nearly anything non-living in or on the earth. The evolutionary uniformitarian model predicts conditions that simply do not fit the facts. A planetary flood far better explains the breaking up of Pangea, the formation of vast oil, coal, and fossil rich sedimentary rock. Geologic phenomena from the motion of tectonic plates to ocean chemical content to earth’s immense collapsing magnetic field fit far better in the creation model than the evolution model. Dogmatically accepting the evolutionary model requires untenable explanations.

• Astronomy: Our understanding of how celestial bodies interact depends on the model we use to try and grasp what we observe. An incorrect model of the universe leads us to greater and greater error in our understanding. Erroneous theories lead to impossible experiments which in turn result in unexpected or meaningless results.

• Physics: Classical physics, like chemistry, provides us with very practical understanding of our world. Classical physics and chemistry are sciences that allow us to engineer things from the internal combustion engine to bridges to airplanes. While this level of physics is very practical to our day to day world, when we begin to look at nuclear and sub-nuclear matter we begin to reveal qualities far more curious and miraculous. The old law that two things cannot exist in the same place at the same time is false at the subatomic level. We now know that light is both energy and matter. The more we learn, the more amazingly designed the universe seems to be.

• Technology: The useful outcome of science is technology. We study the material universe and what we learn allows us to construct more useful products. Could anyone have designed an MRI to find and treat cancer without several sciences working in concert? All that science can help us to save lives, but it cannot answer the question: why should life be preserved? For that we must go beyond science and materialism to seek the divine.

• Law: Physical laws are absolute. Gravity, electrical charge, motion, magnetism and so forth have known characteristics that simply do not change. We call those characteristics physical laws. To suppose these physical laws arose from nothing is absurd, yet that is exactly what atheistic materialism supposes. If caused, there must be an all-powerful self-existent eternal mind behind the design and implementation of the universe. That mind is called God. Morality is a sort of non-material code of law that governs human behavior. This code is based on the knowledge of good and evil. If God does not exist then good does not exist and so evil cannot exist. If there is no good and evil then there is no right and wrong. Morality is then at best an illusion that keeps the general population from destroying itself and at worst a hindrance to personal pleasure. If there is no God then there are certainly no absolutes when it comes to morality. If there is a God who established absolute physical laws there might also be absolute moral laws. If that is true then it stands to reason we should seek that God and learn His moral law with as much zeal as we seek to learn His physical laws.

Education

• Evolution Assumed: In most public schools and universities in the US and other western countries evolution is simply assumed as fact. Students are indoctrinated from an early age with the idea that they are the product of chance. From there it is a short step to the conclusion that life is brief and meaningless that faith in the supernatural is naïve at best and potentially very dangerous. Evolution is mandated in most state education curricula for graduation from high school. Public descent is not tolerated among instructors or the instructor is removed from the class. Managers of academia, popular media, and liberal courts present a united front in support of materialism against both Intelligent Design and Creationism.

• Romanticism: Evolution provides all the elements of high drama: vast time, intense struggle to rise up, death and conquest, chance, and ultimate progress toward victory. Beyond the “facts” of evolution presented in classrooms, the theory itself is often dressed in the psychological negligée of romantic philosophy. Evolution is highly compelling when presented by a true believer in love with it.

• Philosophy Vs Fact: Evolution is a philosophy rather than a science. It is a premise predicated on antiquated assumptions that happens to alleviate a guilty conscience while simultaneously condemning that mind to error. Scientific facts stand up for themselves without regard to evolutionary or creation theory. In the classroom, however, the facts are presented which may be used to support the dogmatic philosophy and those facts which present a problem are generally ignored where possible and explained away with unscientific philosophy where they cannot be so easily ignored.

• Information Vs. Morality: Because evolution is materialism, materialists avoid the moral implications of their beliefs in favor of bombarding its followers with information. The information may be scientific or it may be philosophy disguised as science, but either way information is viewed in stark contrast with morality. This is why ethics and morality are becoming increasingly forbidden subjects in public schools and universities. The highest ethical morality in this brave new world is tolerance, so long as it only tolerates ideas which conform to materialism.

Evolutionary Morality

• Absolutes Vs Relativism: Good and evil are either absolute or relative. If absolute, then the standard must be knowable by being revealed by God. By disregarding God and His revelation of moral absolutes, individuals or groups can establish arbitrary standards to suit their own purposes. Evolution gives evil the opportunity do exactly that. The concepts of good and evil or right and wrong become meaningless when evolution and its necessary atheistic philosophy become accepted. This leads to social breakdown in a host of ways. Ultimately, when absolutes are discarded, might determines right.

• Abortion & Euthanasia: Convenience trumps life when absolutes are discarded. Abortion and euthanasia become acceptable because weakness is viewed as evil. Those who cannot contribute or who are otherwise a burden have less value and are more easily discarded. The value of life is diminished when it is thought to be the result of chance rather than divine purpose. The definition of life itself becomes a variable on a scale shifting in the wind of convenience. Since death is the ultimate end, death itself becomes a thing of worship.

• Animal Order: Atheistic evolution draws no distinction between human life and animal life. Relativism allows some to be cruel toward animals because they consider man superior while others make animals equivalent to humans. Both extremes are wrong when viewed from the Biblical perspective. God endowed both humans and animals with souls, but humans alone were created in God’s image. God made man distinct from animals and gave him the job of stewardship. Dominion does not mean cruelty or neglect. Those who consider animals equal to man lobby for animal rights arguing moral and civil equivalence. Relativism results in two extremes who fight one another.

• Racism & Eugenics: If evolution is true, then it is ongoing. If it is ongoing, then it stands to reasons some humans are more highly developed than others. This means some people are more human than others. In order for the fittest to survive it stands to reason that the less fit be eliminated. This line of evolutionary thinking led directly to the rise of eugenics and the resulting horrors of Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan. Hitler believed in the “master race” and exterminated millions of people in the name of survival of the fittest. Evolution was also prominent in Japanese thinking. They believed that the hairy Europeans were inferior. Had the Allies not defeated both enemies they would eventually have faced off against one another for ultimate racial superiority. Evolutionary belief has likewise fueled the fires of racism in the United States. In Australia, the native Aborigines were thought to be a subhuman missing evolutionary link. They were hunted down and murdered with state sanctioned support. In reality their physical differences are entirely superficial. Likewise, the Pygmies of central Africa are just as human as anyone else, but due to their social and genetic isolation their appearance and culture is recessive.

• Murder: In a culture of death where life has less value, it stands to reason that murder is far more easily justified and punished far less. As the value of life and the punishment for taking it is reduced, the number of occurrences naturally rises.

• Sexual Deviance: A number of acts fall into this category including homosexuality, pedophilia, incest, rape, bestiality, and adultery. When the barriers of moral absolutes are removed, whatever form of pleasure a person desires becomes permissible to indulge in. God established standards for sexual behavior. He commanded humanity to go forth and multiply. Most of the forms of deviancy mentioned here run counter to procreation and the rest are destructive to human relationships and personal health.

• Nakedness: After the fall, one of the first things Adam and Eve realized was their nakedness. In their shame the sought to cover themselves. When atheism’s relativism replaces right and wrong, the human conscience gets seared away. That’s when shame ceases to hold us back. Today we have a thriving pornography industry, sex on TV, and  bikinis serving hot wings. Evolution gives us an excuse to go naked and a reason to take advantage of it..

• Family Destruction: While sexual deviance has been part of humanity since before Noah’s Flood, in recent decades the family institution has been under a powerful Satanic attack. Evolution, because it quietly attracts people to disbelief in God, is a powerful weapon in this war against marriage. Marriage and traditional family are under attack precisely because they are established by God. First, the homosexual movement strives to convince the broader population that their behavior is acceptable and they have a right to choose their sexual behavior. Once homosexual rights are established, the next step is to redefine marriage. By opening up marriage to relationships other than one man and one woman, marriage looses its value and ceases to have meaning. God established marriage in Eden before the fall. Marriage is for the purpose of safe and healthy human relationships resulting in procreation. Men and women are created with unique and special roles. The confusion of these roles is only to be expected when all standards erode in the chaos of relativism. The collapse of family and the trend toward reduction and death of humanity closely follow.

• Radical Youth: The bible gives clear instructions to both parents and children. Parents are to set proper boundaries, teach their children, encourage them, and lead by example. Children are to honor and obey parents. It is natural for teenagers and young adults to assert their independence. Belief in atheistic evolution erodes any reason to obey authority including parental authority. Some youth become depressed and suicidal. Others become defiant and openly rebellious. Evolution destroys the foundation for the objective boundaries and sound reasoning needed by young minds.

• Lawlessness: One who is lawless is one who disregards law. There are consequences when you try to disregard the laws of physics. Likewise, attempting to ignore the laws for morality established by God has consequences. Belief in evolution is so deceptive because evolution cannot be held directly responsible for any of the forms of lawless mentioned above. Yet, evolution teaches atheism. When God becomes a fairytale, so do the standards that God established for our benefit. Refusal to accept God’s laws eliminates neither the law nor the consequences of lawlessness.

Jesus Confirms Genesis

• Jn 2:1-11: Jesus’ first miracle was a creative act – turning water into wine.

• Mt 19:4-6, Mk 10:6: Jesus quotes from Genesis in support of marriage as the sacred joining of a man and a woman into one flesh with the divine purpose of procreation.

• Lk 11:51: Jesus refers to Abel as a real person.

• Mt 24:37-38 &  Lk 17:26-27: Jesus confirms the flood is fact and Noah was a real person.

• Jn 5:45-46: Jesus said we should accept the “books of Moses” because Moses wrote about him. Jesus also frequently quoted Moses in all of the gospel accounts.

• Jn 8:56-58: Jesus refers to Abraham as a real historic person.

• Mk 13:19: Jesus confirms God created everything.

Additional New Testament References

• 2 Tim 3:14-17: Be confident in your faith. To do this, be confident in what you believe. Be assured your faith is rational.

• 2 Tim 3:1-7: In the last days there will be those who creep in and start convincing people the creation account is fiction.

• 1 Pe 3:15: People will ask what you believe. Arm yourself with support for your faith. Answer questions about your faith with respect.

• Jas 1:12,17: God is good. He does not change. It is a blessing to be steadfast in this belief.

• Jn 12:42-43: If you don't know what you believe then you can be deceived and not only fall away yourself, but drag others down with you.

• Mt 12:26: United we stand, divided we fall. There is only one truth and only one bride to Christ.

• Ro 1:24-25: Paul gives us a very clear warning that we must put our faith in the Creator, not the created. The former have hope of eternal life, but the latter are allowed to do as they will to their own demise. You must know what you believe and why.

• Jn 1:1-3,14: John testified to the involvement of Anointed One (Christ) as the Son of God in Creation. In fact, it declares the person of the Son was, as Son of God, with God and it was through the Son that Creation was made.

• Rev 10:5-6: An angel who spoke to John declared that Jesus was in fact the one by whose hand all was created.

• Ro 5:12-15: Paul considered Adam to be a real individual and personally responsible for the fall of man. Here he speaks of sin being universal, with or without a written law. He also indicates Jesus has authority to forgive sin by the free gift of grace. If God set the standard for righteousness then only God can forgive sin (through Christ).

• Gen 1:27: Regardless of whether this means anything about appearance, it definitely means character. Man was created sinless and perfect of character. It was only after man sinned that death came as a result of the sin.

• Heb 1:1-4: Jesus is God’s image. He did what Adam could not, and that was to live his life without disfiguring the character (image) of God. This one short passage says a great deal about Jesus, crediting him with Creation, purification for sin, and superiority over creation.

• Gen 3:22-24: Following Creation, as a result of sin, man was rejected and sent away from the garden and the tree of life.

• Rev  22:1-5: The final event of creation is the restoration of man to God's image in personal community with God. Our hope is life eternal without the pain and suffering from the curse of Adam.

Other Creation Related Passages (Beyond Genesis)

• Ex 20:11: God said He created everything in six days and rested on the seventh in the Ten Commandments.

• Nu 23:19: God is not a man and does not lie.

• Dt 4:19: We are not to worship creation, not the sun or moon nor stars.

• Dt 4:29-35: By great signs God shows He is not only the Creator, but He loves His creation and is jealous for the love of His creation.

• Job 4:19: We are made of dust.

• Job 9:7-9, 38:31: God stretched out the heavens and made the constellations.

• Ps 8:3: God set the stars in place.

• Ps 89:11: God created the heavens and earth.

• Ps 90:2: God is eternal, the earth had a beginning.

• Ps 94:9: God designed the eye and ear.

• Ps 95:5: God made the sea and dry land.

• Ps 147:4: God numbers and names the stars.

• Ps 148:5: Creation came about by the command of God.

• Pr 8: Wisdom was present throughout the creative process.

• Eccl 3:11: God placed the hope of eternity in men’s souls but prevented him from knowing the details.

• Eccl 12:1: Remember the Creator.

• Is 40:12-31: God is the Creator. He is eternal and above human understanding. He is all powerful and all knowing. He will take care of those who trust Him.

• Is 42:5: God stretched out the heavens.

• Is 43:7: People were created for God’s glory.

• Is 45:5-12: God formed the earth and created man on it, created fruit, stretched out the heavens, and created righteousness.

• Is 45:18: The earth was created to be inhabited.

• Is 50:11: Evolutionists are hell bound.

• Is 65:17-18: God will create a new heavens and new earth.

• Jer 1:5: God knows us before He even forms us in the womb.

• Jer 33:2: God formed the earth.

• Amos 4:13: God made the mountains and the wind

• Amos 5:8: God made constellations and controls sunrise and water.

• Zech 12:1: God made the earth and made man’s spirit.

Bibliography & Other Suggested Resources

• AnswersInGenesis.com: Answer In Genesis

• ICR.org: Institute for Creation Research

• Creation Museum: Cincinnati, OH.

• The Genesis Flood: James Whitcomb and Henry Morris

• Case for a Creator: Lee Strobel

• Spiritual Brain: Beauregard & O’Leary

• Starlight & Time: Russell Humphreys

• The Lie - Evolution: Ken Ham

• After the Flood: Bill Cooper

• Evolution – Challenge of the Fossil Record: Duane Gish

• The World that Perished: James C. Whitcomb

• The Early Earth: James C. Whitcomb

• The Remarkable Record of Job: Henry Morris

• Scientific Creationism: Henry Morris

• One Blood: Ham, Wieland, Batten