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The Creator God of the Bible spoke the universe into existence. This great miracle is supported by the conclusions of science, logic, and history. Key reasons why God did not use evolution are summarized in this episode.

God pronounced judgments on the serpent, Eve, and Adam. Because of sin, the serpent would crawl on his belly and eat dust, Eve and all women after her would have pain in childbirth, and Adam and all of his descendants would experience painful toil on the earth until death. But in the middle of these terrible pronouncements, there is a glimmer of hope.

Christians do not need Hawking’s elusive ‘grand unified theory’ of the universe to know the mind of God or to know who they are, why they exist, and where they are going. As matters stand at present, there is no better astronomic theory for the origin of the universe than the inspired explanation of the Bible.

Christians believe the Bible is the Word of God, but how do we know that’s true? How did we get the collection of books we call the Bible, and can we trust them?

Are Christian deluding themselves? How do we know there is a God, and specifically the God revealed in the Bible?

Natural selection should be part of any creation model. It is not proof of evolution. It is not even good support for evolution. Natural selection is not a threat to the Bible or to biblical history. It was a factor that would have been in play if struggle had not entered the world, but its importance only increased when it did.

Evidence for evolution from many fields has been thoroughly refuted but continues to be taught. We summarize key refutations from areas including: Vestigial organs, Junk DNA, Humans and chimp DNA 99% similar, Homology, Human embryos go through evolutionary stages, Transitional fossils, Pakicetus, Tiktaalik, Ape-men, Human evolution, Radiometric dating, Distant starlight.

In the search for a way out of this uncomfortable position, I have found that most atheists seem to gravitate to one particular explanation for consciousness: that it is an emergent property of matter which is ‘activated’ by the particular complex arrangement of our brains. The atheist wants to believe that this mysterious ‘emergent property’ of our brains is able to free us from the stark nature of matter that it behaves according to only rigidly predictable ways—according to the laws of physics and chemistry.

Dawkins professes to find himself highly disturbed that anyone at all accepts young earth or creationist views, and is even more despairing that despite years of evolutionary indoctrination in our schools, creationism just doesn’t seem to be going away. He would be well advised to remove the log cabin from his eyes prior to giving creationists advice on extracting the mote he thinks he sees in their eyes.

Altogether the waters were receding for more than seven months before the earth was dry and Noah could open the door of the Ark. The Wollomombi Gorge at the edge of the large plateau near Armidale, Australia, is a good example of the sort of geologic signatures that the receding waters of Noah’s Flood carved onto the earth.

Why are some people talking about ‘simulation theory’ (the idea that all of our universe is an illusion and we are living in a matrix)? Elon Musk said “there is a one in billions chance that this is base reality” as opposed to us living in a simulation. All of this simply presupposes evolutionary naturalism and extrapolates from that presupposition. A related assumption is that consciousness is just a product of matter (or algorithms), but the Bible and our experience indicate that humans are not reducible to our physical brains, let alone computer code.

Before we can hope to understand creation we need to be sure of the literary style of Genesis. Is Genesis poetry or does it record actual historical events? We compare the structure of biblical poetry with historical narrative and see which form of literature Genesis matches.

The standard source of the new information needed in evolutionary theory has long been mutations—inherited changes in the DNA which until recently have been assumed to be almost exclusively random, i.e. genetic copying mistakes. An obvious implication is that any purposeful adaptation system would have been intelligently designed to generate the variety needed for creatures to be able to survive and adapt in this fallen world.

Neither racism—nor the idea of evolution—started with Darwin. However, Darwin’s writings greatly fueled racism, providing a ‘scientific’ justification for it. The origin of the earth’s different ‘races’ has long caused unnecessary confusion among both Christians and non-Christians. The truth is surprisingly simple.

Living things change genetically, but those changes will not evolve a single cell into a human. Today we explain why.

Were the ten plagues of Egypt, as recorded in Exodus chapters 7–11, all overt miraculous acts of God? No, according to the natural-cause-and-effect theory of Greta Hort. Concerning the miraculous, a god who cannot work miracles is not a god worth following.