Introduction This is the fifth in a series of blog posts concerned with Christian questions about evolution. One of the biggest questions is what to do about Adam and Eve. In my last post I said the Bible teaches that God reveals himself to man in two ways. One is through Scripture (the Bible) and […]
Genesis 1
The Mechanism of Creation – The View from Science, Pt. 1
There are two main points of tension between the scientific account of natural history and the creation account in Genesis 1. In my last two posts I discussed the tension around the timing of creation events. In the next three posts I’m going to discuss the scientific view of the mechanism of creation. Then in […]
Timing of Creation Events – The View from the Bible
In my last post, we looked at the timing of creation events from the perspective of science. We saw that the scientific data indicate that the universe is 13.7 billion years old and the earth is 4.5 billion years old. In this post we are going to look at the view from the Bible. There […]
Timing of Creation Events – The View from Science
So far in this series we’ve seen that: there can be no real conflict between science and the Bible because Scripture and nature are both revelations from God (click here) the main message of Genesis 1 is that God is the creator and that man is the pinnacle of his creation (click here); Genesis 1 […]
Does Genesis 1 Teach Modern Science?
In my last blog post we saw that the main message of Genesis 1 is that God is the creator of all. Not only is this a central theme of Genesis 1, but it is also a central theme of the Bible which is reiterated over and over again throughout the Old and New Testaments. In […]