Creation Talk Podcast

Bad arguments and thinking rebound on the cause, and doesn’t honour Christ who is called the Truth and the Logos. It’s important to keep up with the latest CMI information not use outdated or downright bad arguments

Belief in alien life is predicated upon the evolutionary concept of a big bang. But even if true, where are all the alien races? And if there was no big bang what happens to the concept of intelligent, alien life.

The idea of genetic entropy is simple: species decay over time because mutations build up in populations over time. Yet, evolutionists strongly resist this idea and often use false arguments to try and explain it away. Keaton Halley and Dr Robet Carter discuss this important topic and show how evolutionists play fast and loose with the facts. In the end, genetic entropy is a strong refutation of darwinian evolution.

The little gecko can stick to ceilings because of intricate microstructure, and its skin’s microstructure repels water and kills bacteria. Humans are trying to duplicate both microstructures.

Gary Bates and Erin Hughes discuss the importance of having a biblical worldview as a family, and how attending CMI’s 2022 SuperConference in Myrtle Beach South Carolina will not only be beneficial to the spiritual health of your family, but it will also be a vacation your family will never forget!

Many Christians claim that the big bang theory and the Genesis 1 creation account are compatible, since both affirm that the universe had a beginning in time. Yet, this superficial agreement dissolves upon closer inspection. Keaton Halley and Lita Sanders discuss several contradictions between the big bang story and Genesis, and encourage Christians not to rely on the big bang as support for their faith.

Many skirmishes in the culture wars are really battles over the dictionary. We helpfully translate many evolutionary buzz-words.

What are we to make of supposed small-sized apeman? Are they human or ape? Are they ‘missing links’? Dr Robert Carter and Joel Tay discuss these unusual small sized beings: the Hobbit, Homo naledi, and H. luzonensis.

Who were the Neanderthals? Sub-human cave-dwelling brutes, or descendants of Adam and Eve, made in God’s image? The evidence from Neanderthal anatomy, culture, and DNA is consistent with a biblical worldview. Neanderthals were a fully-human post-Flood people group, not an evolutionary side branch.

Does everything revolve around the earth? What do the Bible and science say? Was the Galileo controversy really science vs religion? Why the Kepler–Newton barycentric model is great science.

The Apollo moon landings: triumph of operational science founded by creationists, especially Kepler and Newton. Conspiracy theories deny well known science.

How can we see stars over 6,000 light years away if the earth is about 6,000 years old? But the big bangers have their own distant starlight problem, and creationists have multiple working hypotheses.

Planets around other stars? Are they real and how do we know? Is there life on them? With all those planets and such a huge universe, why should God care so much about Earth?

If humans did not come from apes, then what are we to make of Lucy, Neanderthals, and Homo erectus?

Could life have arisen from non-living chemicals via chemical evolution? If life couldn’t start by itself, then Darwinian evolution could not have started, therefore it is a fiction.

Gary Bates and Robert Carter discuss an idea that is popular in some creationist circles: programmed filling. While the idea does have merits, it is limited in its scope, especially after the entry of death into the world. Programmed filling is also associated with a rejection of natural selection in general, to which CMI does not agree.

64 Natural Selection is Fact, & It Is NOT Evolution

What does “vestigial” really mean? Are alleged vestigial organs evidence of evolution or devolution? How the notion is a science-stopper by hindering research on these organs.

The Darwinian basis for eugenics in the UK, USA, and Germany, and how the ideas are still hurting people today.

Creation Talk #61 - Dinosaur Fossils: Upside Down and Bent Over Backwards

In the United States, activist groups such as Black Lives Matter have not only spoken out against racism, but they have also taken steps to pull down statues of those associated with slavery from the past. But could it be that Darwinism, and not slavery, was the justification for racism in the last century? Is the ‘cancel’ culture helpful? And what is the solution to racism?

Lita Cosner and Keaton Halley discuss the book ‘Evolutionists Say the Oddest Things’, and several quotations of renown evolutionists contradicting the foundation of all that they believe.

The resurrection is central to our faith, and it is a key part of the Bible’s ‘big story’. How does Creation and the Fall lay the foundation for the resurrection?

Two parts: Do the name and celebration of Easter have roots in ancient pagan goddesses? Could Jesus have been wrong when he said he would be “three days and three nights” in the tomb?

We have been living with Covid-19 and the virus that causes it for over a year, yet many questions about it still remain. For example, is it deadly, do masks work, do we really know how many people have died from it, are the vaccines safe? These questions can be answered, but from a biblical perspective, there is one overriding idea that many people miss: “Love thy neighbor.”

Creationists Dr Robert Carter and Keaton Halley discuss evidence for evolution, like changes in living things, human/chimp DNA similarity, and the fossil record. How do creationists account for these facts and answer evolutionary arguments?

Vaccination is an extremely safe and extremely effective means of preventing diseases that once killed millions, and is good operational science. The benefits strongly outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people. The Bible commends alleviation of the effects of the Curse, especially by Christ’s examples of healing the sick and disabled.

Polystrate fossils are those that extend through multiple rock layers. Learn how these fossils support the Bible’s teaching about Noah’s Flood.

Skeptics claim that the fossil record is a good and relatively complete picture of the development of life on earth with little or no exceptions. But is that the case?

The Paluxy tracks are a series of tracks in Glen Rose, Texas, that supposedly show dinosaur and human footprints in sedimentary rock. Is this good evidence that humans and dinosaurs once lived together?

The human genome is much more complex than anyone imagined. In fact, the level of complexity argues directly against any sort of evolutionary origin for the code that makes us.

How does our understanding of Adam’s sin affect our understanding of how Jesus saves us? Is it important that Adam is historical? What do the New Testament authors have to say?

What Is Atheism? Lack of belief in God or a denial that God exists? Can atheists explain the origin of the universe, life, rationality, or morality? Keaton Halley and Dr Jonathan Sarfati explain why the revisionist definition of atheism as a “lack of belief” is just a gimmick to shift the burden of proof. It’s not only mistaken, but a dishonest debate trick. Atheists have a burden of proof that they cannot sustain, because the evidence for God from creation is plain to all. In fact, it is so clear that those who deny it are “without excuse” (Romans 1:18–20).

The Trinity is central to our understanding of who God is. But many Christians struggle to explain or defend this central doctrine. What does the Bible have to say about this important subject?

Why did science flourish in medieval Europe while it was stillborn ancient Greece and China? What is needed for science to work in the first place? Were the Middle Ages really dark? How did the Reformation help further growth of science?

Many ‘New Atheopaths’ have pushed the Sunday-school argument “Who made God?”, although Christian apologists answered this long ago.

Some people say that the Gospels are not reliable accounts because they were not written by eyewitnesses and only committed to paper long after the events took place. How do we know we can trust the Bible’s accounts?

If we had a dollar for every chapter of the Bible where the meaning of “day” is questioned, we would have exactly $2. Why is there such a comprehension problem for Genesis 1:1–2:3 but nowhere else?

If the Ark landed on Ararat with the only surviving land vertebrates, why do we find kangaroos only in Australia, and other animals where they are?

Most people think creation is just a Genesis issue, but the New Testament has a surprising amount to say about how God created, what it means for us, and how creation and salvation are related to each other.

The modern educational environment is increasingly a place of spiritual warfare. Many parents and leaders today are unaware that their students are being inundated with more and more brazen attacks upon the Christian foundations that underpin our western civilization.What are some strategies for biblical creationists to handle these pitfalls?

Does the Bible’s chronology contradict what we know about history? One popular video claims that according to the Bible’s chronology, the pyramids would have had to be built before Noah’s Flood, is this true?

Many modern theologians reject the idea that Noah’s Flood surrounded the globe, and they confine the event to a small area in Mesopotamia. Scientist Dr Robert Carter and apologist Keaton Halley discuss what the Bible actually says about the scale of the Flood, the historical shift in the church’s interpretation, and the role that the sciences of geology and genetics play in the debate.

Genesis is NOT poetry. Rather, it is written as historical narrative, and affirmed by Jesus and the NT writers as true history, not myth.

Teaching our sons and daughters a biblical worldview is one of the most important things we can do as Christian parents. Even from a young age, our children are absorbing information about origins through storybooks, cartoons, and documentaries. It is important for parents to be proactive in presenting our children with a biblical answer in all aspects of learning. One of the primary audiences of the Scripture, “always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks for a reason for the hope that is in you” (1Peter 3:15), would be our children no matter how young or old.

How old does the Bible say the earth is? Can we trust biblical chronology, and how close to an exact ‘age’ can we get? Is the Greek translation of the Old Testament a better record of the Bible’s history? These questions can be answered, but we have to think through the issues.

Skeptics often say the account of Noah’s Flood is not credible, because it would be impossible to fit two of every creature in the world onto a single boat and sustain them for a year. But when one considers the size of the Ark and the number of animals Noah needed to take, this challenge turns out to be not so daunting. Further challenges are also raised and addressed as well, including how fish and insects could survive the Flood conditions despite not being present on the Ark.

Does the Bible rule out feathered dinosaurs? Is there any evidence for them? What are the obstacles to turning a dinosaur into a bird?

Does Carbon Dating prove millions of years? And why is carbon dating problematic for the idea of millions of years? Joel Tay and Scott Gillis discuss how all fossil and rock dating methods hinge on flawed scientific interpretations of data that point to a young age (thousands of years, not millions) of geological finds.

How can we answer this common skeptical objection? Does it prove there were other people when God created Adam and Eve? How do we explain the apparent moral and biological problems with the logical biblical answer?