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Today we are bombarded at
every turn with evolutionary ideas about our planet. In newspapers, magazines, novels, TV shows, movies, university
textbooks…we hear secular theories both directly and subtly. One is the Big Bang, the theory of how our
universe came into being. Other
theories are woven into the fabric of our lives so that we begin to believe
them without question. Some theories
are the uniformitarianism idea of how the earth’s physical features (canyons,
deltas, etc.) slowly changed over eons of time, the length of time it takes for
fossils, stalactites, coal, diamonds, and oil to form, the age of the earth,
the primordial soup idea of how life began, and the Darwinian ideas of how it evolved. These theories are quite regularly disguised
as truth. When talking about these
things, the word theory has almost completely been dropped from our vocabulary
so most people regard it as “scientific” truth. Many Christians have used scientific theories to explain the
Bible instead of using the Bible to explain and understand the science and
world around them. In doing so, the
authority of the Bible has been abraded.
In God’s Word, we learn truth about our
beginnings. Read the book of
Genesis. God created the
universe. Reptiles did not change into
birds nor monkeys into men; all of creation was started and completed
during the first six days of earth’s history.
Creation scientists heartily disagree with evolutionary scientists about
many theories. There are many things we
know because God reveals them to us in His Word: salvation, justification,
sanctification as well as creation. The
Bible is not specific about all the details of creation. Christian scientist theorize, as do secular
scientists, but they also prayerfully consider God’s Word in the formation of
their theories.
The Bible does say, “in the last days scoffers,
walking after their own lust, and saying, Where is the promise of His coming?
For since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the
beginning of creation. For this
they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of
old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: Whereby the
world that then was being overflowed with water, perished…” 2 Peter 3: 3-6
Many of the earth’s features were formed quickly and
cataclysmically during the time of Noah’s Flood and not uniformly as the
majority of secular scientists speculate (with “everything going on as it has
since the beginning”). Fossils, coal,
and oil have been known to form in short periods of time not the millions of
years we’ve been taught it always takes.
About ten years ago after the eruption of Mount Saint Helen, a canyon
was formed in less than two weeks exactly like the Grand Canyon—which
evolutionists theorize took millions of years.
Creation scientists have other theories about changes after the Flood
based on Scripture: our deep oceans and high mountains, the Ice Age, climate
changes, extinction of plants and animals (including the dinosaurs), and
continental drift. If you haven’t
explored these theories before, do so now as you read Genesis and ask the Holy
Spirit to guide and teach you.
This journal will help you begin your
exploration. It is divided into three
parts: God’s perfect, created world, the world after Adam’s sin, and the world
after Noah’s flood. As your child
illustrates the Genesis story, be available to discuss and help research
questions. Ponder mysteries
together. When doing Part l, ask how is
it that God created light on the first day but didn’t create the sun until the
fourth day!? Talk about the curses of
the earth that God pronounced in the Garden as you child illustrates Part ll. God told Adam that he would die if he ate
the forbidden fruit, but what was the first physical death Adam
encountered? In Part lll consider the
drastic changes the once perfect earth underwent during and after the
Flood. If the protective water vapor
canopy was removed from the atmosphere after the first-ever rains, isn’t it
possible that the new climatic changes might bring on an Ice Age? How would life on earth change for Noah and
his descendants? Did people perhaps
shelter in caves? Our so-called “cave
men” would have been sophisticated and civilized. The Flood was not millions of years ago, nor is the earth
millions of years old.
May Elohim,
the Creator of heavens and earth, Who was in the beginning, bless you with
wisdom and direction as you begin this wonderful study!
Susan and Cindy
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Earth History Illustrated: the Genesis Story