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Jun
19
Should the Sun Spin Faster?
Psalm 74:16
“The day [is] thine, the night also [is] thine: thou hast prepared the light and the sun.”
According to evolution, some explanation for the sun, stars and planets must be found which does not include God as Creator. One of the most popular theories today is that the sun and the planets of...
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Frequently Asked Questions About Creationism | Short Answers to Big Questions

Did Adam and Eve's children practice incest?

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The Genesis account of Creation provides mankind with just the bare facts we need to know about our origin. Further facts are revealed progressively throughout Scripture. The Creation account then concludes with, "Then God saw everything that He had made and indeed it was very good" (Genesis 1:31). Since Eve was made from one of Adam's ribs [Genesis 2:21-22], she would have been a clone of Adam and, had there been any genetic mutation in Adam, this would have been reproduced in Eve and expressed in their offspring.

Who was Cain's wife?

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Cain was Adam and Eve's first son [Genesis 4:1] and as he grew it became evident to his father that Cain's interests were more earthly than heavenly. Adam, the priest of the family, gave Cain the task of "tilling the ground" to provide vegetables for the only human beings on earth. In the meantime, a second son, Abel, had been born, and he was given the task of looking after his father's sheep. The sheep – or goats, since they are related – were not used for food.

Why did Cain kill Abel?

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God created Adam and Eve on the same day; thus, they were the same age. Following their disobedience and Fall, God cursed the serpent, placed a curse on Eve and cursed the ground for Adam's sake [Genesis 3:14-19]. While they were still in the Garden, we are then given the cryptic words: "For Adam and his wife the Lord God made tunics of skin, and clothed them" (Genesis 3:21). "Tunics of skin" tells us that a lamb or a goat was killed and, while unstated, what else could this mean except that God instructed Adam in the matter of the atonement sacrifice?

Where did our moon come from?

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In 1848 Édouard Roche [1820-1883] at the Paris Observatory wrote a paper that became known as The Roche Limit. It is still valid today and is defined as the distance between a planet's center and its satellite within which the satellite cannot approach [or leave] the planet without breaking up. This is caused by the difference in gravitational attraction that produces tension between the far side and the near side of the smaller satellite body.

Three theories have since been proposed for the origin of the moon:

Did dinosaurs live in the Garden of Eden?

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Dinosaurs and all the other animals – but not the great sea creatures or the birds – were created in the early morning of Friday, the sixth day of Earth's first week [Genesis 1:24-25]. The word "dinosaur" immediately brings to mind a fearsome T. rex or a mega-ton diplodocus, but those first created on the sixth day did not have to be full-sized. The dinosaurs were part of the reptile family, and fossil discoveries have shown that they hatched from eggs and were thus initially about the size of a kitten.

What's wrong with thinking that each day of Creation Week was 1,000 years?

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Genesis chapter one is a summary of God's creation and begins in verses one and two with the creation of space, then the Earth with the waters. Later that same day [YOM], God created light [OR], saw that it was all good and declared that the evening and the morning were the first day [YOM]. The chapter progresses with the creation of the Earth's atmosphere and seas on the second day [YOM], the grasses and fruit trees on the third day [YOM], then the sun, moon – and, in that greatest of all understatements: "He made the stars also" – on the fourth day [YOM].

Is the light from distant stars proof for millions of years?

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One of the prime evidences claimed for an old universe and, by implication, an old Earth is that light from the most distant stars can be observed on Earth today. It is argued that at the known speed of the velocity of light, it will have taken a great deal longer than, say, 6,000 years for it to have traveled from the distant stars to Earth. There is an inherent assumption in this seemingly rational argument that flies in the face of real science.

What is the Local Flood Theory, and how did it come about?

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For eighteen centuries after the introduction of Christianity, Christians and most non-Christians believed that there had been a great earth-destroying flood in the long distant past. The account of one man and his family having been saved from this flood along with many animals in a large vessel was usually part of this story. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries – when world exploration on behalf of the British government was underway – care was taken to record the verbal history, beliefs and customs of each tribe and nation not yet touched by western civilization.

How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?

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Genesis chapter one provides the account of God's creation of the heavens and the earth while, at the end of that chapter, the creation of man and woman is introduced. The second chapter is more specific about the man – now named Adam – while, at the end of that chapter, some details are given about the making of woman, later named Eve. As the reader passes from chapter two to chapter three, we find in the very first verse Eve being tempted by the serpent at the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.

Can we trust the theories of creation scientists?

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Aren't they as susceptible to biases about the subject of origins as evolutionists? 

Yes, creationists are as biased about the subject of origins as are evolutionists. They'd better be!

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