Creation Article Podcast

The concept of a ‘retroactive Fall’ (an event extending punishments backward), is unbiblical and is totally different from the pre-ordained salvation explained in Scripture. Like all compromise opinions, it is simply an attempt from the minds of men to blend man’s illusory deep time into the Bible.

The progressive creationists’ claim that the seventh day of creation is still continuing is without any exegetical foundation whatsoever, making it a worthless argument for non-literal creation days.

The belated push to preserve the wild varieties of our food plants highlights the fact that no amount of selection—artificial, by breeders, or natural—can generate information which is not there.

The ancient Greeks well before Christ had realized that the earth is a globe by observing lunar eclipses. The flat earth’s two main proponents were obscure figures in the third century named Lactantius and Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century. The flat-earth belief was extremely rare in the Church.

Scientists have searched for years for planets orbiting other stars. These are called extrasolar planets or ‘exoplanets’. Today there are research teams around the world searching for extrasolar planets with greatly refined research techniques. As of writing this article, there are over 450 objects catalogued in exoplanet lists.

If someone says the earth is old — you can agree with them, so long as you define what you mean by old — it’s really, really old, in fact it’s ancient. Some six entire millennia have elapsed since God made the world in six real days.

It surprises many that there are an increasing number of voices speaking out against evolution. They say we are not evolved, but created. It’s even more of a surprise to discover many of those voices are from leading scientists across a range of disciplines. Not only are they pointing out the flaws in evolutionary theory, but they’re also showing that the evidence around us fits with the Bible’s account of the past, not evolution.

In an age where people are reading less and less, they are getting their information about scientific ‘facts’ continually embellished in a cloud of associated ‘entertainment fiction’, such as modern science fiction.

Theistic evolution has enormous implications for one’s spiritual walk. If it were true that God kick-started evolution but relinquished control over the outcomes, then we should not trust the Bible since it speaks of God’s pre-creation intention to bring about mankind, to carry out the plan of salvation, and to call out the Church.

The doctrines of creation and evolution are so strongly divergent that reconciliation is totally impossible. Theistic evolutionists attempt to integrate the two doctrines, however such syncretism reduces the message of the Bible to insignificance.

In the last half century the Doctrine of Sin appears to have become a doctrine under attack in theological circles, but this has largely gone unnoticed. This podcast aims to show how in various ways the classical doctrine has been challenged.

The number of organs that once were believed to be functional in the evolutionary past of humans but are non-functional today has been steadily reduced as the fields of anatomy and physiology have progressed. Few examples of vestigial organs in humans are now offered, and the ones that are have been shown by more recent research to be completely functional, and in many cases critically so.

‘All those scientists’ can be wrong — and often have been! The reason hoaxes dominated textbooks for many decades as the chief evidence for man’s evolution is not because of a mistake, a small aberration somewhere along the line of a self-correcting march towards truth, but because of the strong influences of presupposition and prejudice.

Many in the general public will be duped into thinking that this undisputed example of natural selection is yet more evidence that fish turned into philosophers over millions of years. Beware the bait-and-switch.

Everyone will have an opportunity to accept or reject Christ, right? But down through history, and even today, there are people who have never of of the Bible, Jesus Christ, or had that opportunity. Here are a few principles which help us to think through this difficult issue.

Dr Hugh Ross believes in the same general sequence of events and the same order of appearance as evolutionists. Although he believes that God made Adam from the dust, he also accepts the evolutionists’ long-age interpretation of the fossil record. But human fossils are found ‘dated’ earlier than Adam’s genealogies could possibly allow.

Young-earth creationists believe that the biblical account of creation is incompatible with an earth history of billions of years. One reason is that if the fossil record represents millions of years of Earth history, it has to be said that God’s method of creation was both cruel and wasteful.

The next time you discuss this topic with an old earther or theistic evolutionist, try out this helpful parable to explain the relevance of Genesis 1:29–39 and Genesis 9:3–4 on the topic of pre-Fall death and carnivory.

Many evolutionists use ‘junk’ DNA as ‘proof’ of evolution, but the amazing design and complexity of living things provides strong evidence for a Creator. One aspect of this sustenance is that God has programmed the recipe for all these structures on the famous double-helix molecule DNA.

The scientists who discovered the fossils said that “a very special situation” had preserved them. The spiders were rapidly buried as part of a deposit of enormous depth and area. Nowhere on the earth are depositional events of such size occurring today.p

Walton’s ‘Lost World’ books offer such a radical rethink of the biblical text that one wonders how the church could have gotten it so wrong for so long. Longman and Walton say you can tell that a passage is figurative when you “have to work hard to take it any other way” but, concerning the historical Flood account, they are the ones having to dance around the plain sense of the text.

The agenda of the NCSE and the Australian Skeptics is to see everyone taught that evolution explains the origins of everything, so God is unnecessary in this scientific view. This totally contradicts the clear teaching of the Bible that God is clearly revealed in what He has created.

Only the powerful runoff of Noah’s Flood would provide the force needed to slam these boulders together and hammer the percussion marks. As in so many other parts of the world, the evidence for the global deluge is overwhelming.

Historical science gets progressively less reliable the further back in time it goes. It is for this reason that creationists are justified in being skeptical of the way forensic scientists make claims about the ultra-distant (alleged) past.

The warnings given to Noah’s generation are terrifyingly relevant today. When God's mercy is rejected, then His judgment must and will fall. But, as in the days of Noah, so now God has both given warning of the judgment to come and provided a way of salvation.

From a straightforward view of the evidence from these and other real-world examples, surely it’s obvious: natural selection can eliminate, but never create. And we see that mutations are no help to the microbes-to-man evolutionary storyline either.

Conflicting radioactive dating results are reported all the time and, on their own, there is no way of knowing what they mean. So geologists research how other geologists have interpreted the other rocks in the area in order to find out what sort of dates they would expect. Then they invent a story to explain the numbers as part of the geological history of the area.

We see Enoch mentioned three times in the New Testament. He is included in the genealogy of Jesus in Luke 3 [https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%203]. The author of Hebrews says, “By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and he was not found, because God had taken him.”

A total eclipse is a spectacular sight that draws people from hundreds (or even thousands) of miles away, for a phenomenon that lasts only a few minutes. David wrote, “The heavens declare the glory of God, and the sky above proclaims his handiwork” (Psalm 19:1 [https://biblia.com/bible/esv/Ps%2019.1]).

Perhaps you have seen a report in the media about a rock outcrop 800 million years old and wondered how that fits with the history of the Bible. We confront the same puzzle when we read about a fossil dinosaur that lived in Jurassic times. Once you have an idea of where a feature fits into biblical history you will be able to start thinking about the processes involved in forming that feature.

Pro-choice advocates like to frame the debate as simply a matter of ‘choice’. Men aren’t even supposed to have an opinion. But if evolution is true, can there even be freedom of choice if our thoughts are simply the result of chemical reactions? Freedom to choose comes from God, who allowed us this freedom so we could choose to love Him and do His will, not choose our own selfish desires.

Within a theistic evolutionary framework, and many other ‘old earth’ views too, all members of Homo sapiens who were alive prior to the point when God made them like himself were soulless. Actually, there is irrefutable evidence that human ancestors of the genus Homo—allegedly soulless ones, according to advocates of theistic evolution—were spiritually aware beings, that they had a concept of an after-life.

The question has been raised: have we learned our lesson? We are in a spiritual battle against powerful adversaries and the enemies of the Gospel are not going to stop. But we have the Creator of the universe on our side.

The Bible itself is a historical record that is often discounted, but over and over again it has been shown that it accurately speaks about people, places, and events in the ancient world. While we believe that as the Word of God it is more than a historical document, it is not less.

It is evident that beliefs stemming from antiquity regarding the existence of mythical creatures continued into the early modern period, despite clear statements of caution from Augustine. Popular superstition and mythology filtered into the minds of many academics when faced with new, but limited numbers of primate specimens from Africa and Asia.

The assumption that Darwin did not convert is relatively easy to reconcile with the available evidence. In contrast, the notion that he did become a Christian seems to me to be very difficult to reconcile with several aspects. In any case, the truth or otherwise of creation or evolution is not affected by whether or not Darwin changed his mind.

Scientific American: “in the lingo of evolutionary biology, natural selection favored those cats that were able to cohabit with humans and thereby gain access to the trash and mice.” In contrast, the supposed evolution pathway from primordial cell to Persian cats, pumas and panthers requires an increase in genetic information.

Genesis 11 implies that the Flood survivors set out westward from a camp not far to the east of the plain of Shinar in southern Iraq. A map shows that the camp must have been in the western part of the Zagros mountains.

Hell is a place of judgment and torment prepared for Satan and the angels who rebelled with him. But why do humans also go there? Really, the question that should boggle our minds is not “How can God send people to Hell?” but “How can God save people from Hell?” If this makes us uncomfortable to think about, it should, because every person outside Christ faces that penalty.

What are creationists to do with the word fossil? It seems there are two choices. Either creationists can redefine fossil to fit the creationary viewpoint every time we use it, or invent a new word.

The rainbow is a spectacular sight for man, the assurance we have that there will never be another global flood comes from God. He is the one who will ‘remember’ His covenant.

There is little doubt that the genuine discovery of certain objects would be both exciting and a powerful witness to the truth of the biblical record. However, we need to be careful not to become like some medieval pilgrims, keen to have relics to supplement (or supplant) the worship of the living God.

Dr Robert Gatenby has pioneered a move to change cancer treatment from eradication to management. Wired reports: “unlike your typical doctor, he is also obsessed with the evolutionary principles put forth more than 150 years ago by Charles Darwin.”

There is just no room for ‘billions and billions of years’ for life to evolve. And this life was not just the simplest type, but was advanced enough to photosynthesize.

Many things cause darkness in the world, and if the plants could not move toward the light, or capture the energy in it, they would not survive, and neither would we. It is all part of God’s clever design for our world.

Most Christians in the western world would admit that despite many Christian influences the culture is becoming less ‘Christian’ all the time. As God’s people we must make a united stand to affect those around us for Christ, but that stand can only succeed if it is based on the authority of the Word of God.

He seems more like a God-hater than a genuine atheist. In The God Delusion, Dawkins carries on about what he doesn’t like about the God he doesn’t believe in. He seems more like a God-hater than a genuine atheist.

It is clear that if we accept the authority of Scripture alone, we must believe that Genesis should be taken at its plain meaning. Christians who deny this are imposing outside ideas onto Scripture. Today the church needs a new Reformation to return to the authority of the Bible, the writte Word of God, rather than trusting the fallible conjectures of unbelieving scientists.

God has already placed a bent or set an inclination in our children toward whatever He has planned for them. We don’t have to know everything; we just facilitate the process and support our children in what God has called them to do. You can do this!

The evidence from breeding and the science of genetics actually presents a huge problem for evolution. In spite of much breeding and the generation of many varieties of dogs, from chihuahuas to Great Danes, dogs are still dogs. God created all kinds of living things with the genetic capacity for variation by the rearranging of the genetic information, the genes, through the reproductive process.