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May
22
Traces of What Man Once Was?
Genesis 1:27
"So God created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."
What was man like as originally created – before sin started taking its toll on his mind, body and the world in which he lives? Are there hints around us of the original capabilities of the human...
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Frequently Asked Questions About Creationism | Short Answers to Big Questions

Was Noah's Flood Global or Local?

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The most detailed account of Noah's Flood is given in the Book of Genesis. Here there seems little doubt that the Flood had to be truly global and not just "global" in the minds of one minor tribe of people:

All the high hills under the whole heaven were covered…the mountains were covered. And all flesh died…All in whose nostrils was the breath of the spirit of life, all that was on the dry land, died. So He destroyed all living things…the waters were on the face of the whole earth (Gen. 7:19-23; 8:9).

Where Do All Those Billions of Years Come From in Darwinian Thinking?

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The history of an idea is always revealing. In the 16th century, the Europeans began to discover the colored peoples of the world. They assumed that Noah and his family were white, so for the colored peoples to have survived the Genesis Flood, it must have been local. The Church regarded this as heresy.

Doesn't Radiometric Dating Prove the Billions of Years?

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The chemical elements of matter consist of very stable atoms, such as silicon, carbon, iron, uranium, etc. However, certain elements also have an unstable or radioactive form that, under natural conditions, decays or breaks down into "daughter" products at a very uniform rate.

Does the Carbon-14 Dating Method Prove Millions of Years?

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The carbon-14 method is slightly different from other dating methods. Normal carbon has an atomic weight of 12. Carbon-14 is the unstable form produced by cosmic ray bombardment of nitrogen in the earth's upper atmosphere. The C-14 combines with oxygen to form carbon dioxide, which then takes its place in the great carbon cycle. That is, the carbon dioxide becomes the food for plants and trees, and these in turn become food for animals and humans. The net result is that every living thing contains normal carbon (C-12) and some C-14.

Don't Distant Stars Prove an Old Earth?

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This has been a puzzle to many people. If light from the most distant stars has taken millions of light years to reach us, how can the earth be only thousands of years old? The belief that "light from the most distant stars has taken millions of years to reach us" is based on two major assumptions: (1) the distance and (2) the speed at which light travels.

Was the Genesis Flood worldwide or was there really a series of local floods?

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Evolutions believe that the Earth is billions of years old and that the Genesis Flood was local. The arguments used to claim these unimaginable eras of time are based upon early geological speculations of the history of the Earth and are seldom, if ever, made clear even to students of geology. Seventeenth century observers noted that layers of similar types of rock could be traced continuously from country to country across Europe. These rocks were correctly perceived to consist of sediments deposited from flood waters.

What do you think of Hugh Ross and his "progressive creation"?

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Dr. Hugh Ross, who has a genuine PhD in astronomy, published his book The Finger of God in 1989. In this he attempted to reconcile Scripture with the theory of evolution. He heads up a ministry called Reasons to Believe and, while he has appeared on many Christian TV talk shows, his message is aimed principally at university students. Many of these students are young Christians.

Has mankind evolved upward from the ape or has he devolved downward from some higher being?

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In our increasingly technological world we might become convinced that we are evolving to "supermen." People like Hitler thought so. However, both Scripture and the historical facts show that far from evolving ever upward, mankind is "devolving" downward, both physically and mentally. According to Scripture, God declared that everything He had created was "very good", and we can reasonably assume that Adam and Eve were perfect until their Fall and thus had no genetic defects.

Did Adam and Eve commit incest?

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The Genesis account of Creation provides mankind with just the bare facts we need to know about our origin; we wish we knew more! Nevertheless, the account concludes with, "Then God saw everything that He had made and indeed it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). From this we infer that every detail was perfect including the bodies of Adam and Eve. This would mean there were no genetic defects and no mutations when the very first commandment was given "to be fruitful and multiply" (Genesis 1:28).

When Jesus turned water into wine, was the wine alcoholic?

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The gospel of John gives a brief description of the first miracle performed by Jesus – changing water into wine at the wedding in Cana (John1:1-10). The actual site of Cana is contested, but it is no more than a half day's walk north of Nazareth. The extended family of Joseph and Mary may have included, say, a cousin who lived at Cana or possibly it was a sister of Jesus (Matthew 13:55-56) who was being married to a man of Cana. In any case, the Jewish wedding was essentially a family affair and could have lasted several days.

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