Carl Wieland - The Creation Answers Book

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ISBN: 978-0-949906-62-5

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First printing: December 2006

Second Edition: June 2008

Third Edition: March 2009

Fourth Edition: May 2012

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Acknowledgments

Many people helped in the production of this book. Dr Andrew Snelling, one of the authors of the original Answers Book , made helpful suggestions at various points in the expanded edition. Dr Werner Gitt provided much of the text of . Dr John Baumgardner helped with parts of the chapter on continental drift. Michael Oard also contributed significantly to the chapter on the Ice Age. Dr Russell Humphreys helped with various aspects of the chapters on distant stars in a young universe and carbon dating.

Dr Len Morris, Rev. Jock Butterss and Warren Nunn checked the first draft and made many helpful suggestions. Russell Grigg and Dr Tas Walker proof-read a later pre-publication draft and made helpful suggestions and corrections. We also appreciated Dave Whites checking of the revised parts of the updated edition (2006).

Brendon OLoughlin created many of the special figures and images used in the book. Special thanks to Robert Smith for his charcoal drawings. Other people who have helped with advice on various points are: David Jolly and Professors Douglas Kelly and David Menton.

Abbreviations

Note: Journal of Creation has previously been published as TJ, CEN Tech.J., and Creation Ex Nihilo Technical Journal.

Metric conversions

Contents

Is there objective evidence that God exists? What are the consequences of atheism? Where did God come from? Can we know God personally?

Are the days of creation ordinary days? Could they be long periods of time? Why six days? Is Genesis Poetry? Does the length of the days really affect the gospel? How can there be days without the sun on the first three days? Does Genesis 2 contradict Genesis 1? What about the framework hypothesis?

What is the ruin-reconstruction theory? Is the soft gap idea better?

How does the carbon clock work? Is it reliable? What does carbon dating really show? What about other radiometric dating methods? Is there evidence that the earth is young?

If the universe is young and it takes millions of years for light to get to us from many stars, how can we see them? Did God create light in transit? Was the speed of light faster in the past? Does this have anything to do with the big bang?

If Gods original creation was very good, why is nature red in tooth and claw now? Did God create animals with defence-attack structures? Or were they re-designed after the Fall? Wouldnt there be a population explosion if animals did not eat each other?

Do similarities between creatures prove that they had a common ancestor (evolved)? Is human and chimp DNA very similar? Do human embryos go through animal stages as they develop? Do we have useless left-over bits of animals in us? What about ape-men?

It is now not lawful to marry your sister. So if Adam and Eve were the only two people God created, how could their son Cain find a wife? How is this important to the Gospel?

Has Earth been visited by extra-terrestrials? Could life exist out there? What about UFOs and government cover-ups?

Does it matter? Does the Bible say that Noahs Flood covered the whole earth? Is there any evidence outside the Bible for such a Flood?

Have the continents really moved apart? How could this relate to the Bibles account of history? Could it have had something to do with the Flood?

Where did all the water come from for the Flood? Was there a water vapour canopy? How was Mt Everest covered with water? Where did the water go after the Flood? How could this have happened?

What animals went onto the Ark? Where did they store all the food? How could the Ark be big enough? What about all the animal wastes?

How did saltwater fish survive dilution of the seawater with freshwater, or how did freshwater types survive in saltwater? And how did plants survive?

Why are human fossils not found with trilobites, for example? If humans and dinosaurs lived at the same time, why arent their fossils found together? How could the Flood produce the order in the fossil record?

How many ice ages were there? Where does an ice age fit into the biblical account? How much of the earth was covered by ice? How long did it last? What about the frozen mammoths? How were people affected?

How did the animals get from remote countries to the Ark? After the Flood, did kangaroos hop all the way to Australia? What did koalas eat on the way?

What is a race? How did different skin colours come about? What are the consequences of false beliefs about race? Are black people the result of a curse on Ham?

Was there an age of dinosaurs long before people came on the scene? What does the Bible say about dinosaurs? What do dinosaur fossils tell us? What happened to the dinosaurs?

always be ready to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect

1 Peter 3:1516

Is there objective evidence that God exists?

What are the consequences of atheism?

Where did God come from?

Can we know God personally?

T HE Bible begins with the statement: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Gen. 1:1). Gods existence is assumed, self-evident. In Psalm 14:1 we are told, The fool has said in his heart, There is no God! They acted corruptly; they have done abominable works, there is none who does good.

Here we see that the Bible connects corrupt thoughts about Godespecially denying His very existencewith corrupt morals. And it is true that, if there is no God, no Creator who sets the rules, then we are set adrift morally. When the children of Israel forgot their Creator in the times of the Judges, when they had no one leading them in being faithful to God, every man did that which was right in his own eyes (Judges 21:25), and chaos reigned.