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Refuting Compromise (updated & expanded)

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Creation, Fall, Restoration

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Creation Without Compromise

by Donald D Crowe

The Gap Theory (tract)

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Creation Compromises

Editor’s note: Creation Ministries International (CMI) stands firmly on the authority of Scripture, which entails that Creation occurred in six normal-length days about 6000 years ago, and a planet-wide Flood followed about 1600 years later. Many Christians who disbelieve the straightforward interpretation of Genesis admit that they are motivated mainly by ‘science’, or rather the uniformitarian interpretations of science. This page deals with only conservative compromisers; outright liberals are addressed in Q&A: Countering the Critics: Alleged contradictions

Key articles

• Are you a young-earth creationist?
• Is Genesis poetry / figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history?
• What about the ‘gap’ and ‘ruin-reconstruction’ theories? (Chapter from Creation Answers Book)
• Some questions for theistic evolutionists and ‘progressive creationists’
• Response to the evolution appeasers
• Did God create over billions of years?

How long was the seventh day?

• Is the seventh day an eternal day?
• God’s rest in Hebrews 4:1–11

Framework Hypothesis

• History and pseudo-history
• Problems in methods of interpretation—Genesis 1–11
• An understanding of Genesis 2:5 (PDF)
• Is Genesis poetry? and Who was the father of hermeneutics?

Gap Theory

• Replenish the earth: Were Adam and Eve supposed to fill the planet with their descendants—or to refill it?
• Gap theory revisited
• From the beginning of Creation: Does Genesis have a gap?
• What does ‘Replenish the Earth’ mean?
• ‘Soft gap’ sophistry

Progressive Creationism

• Analysis of the Ross–Hovind Debate, John Ankerberg Show
• More false claims by Hugh Ross
• The dubious apologetics of Hugh Ross
• Exposé of The Genesis Question
• Ten major differences and similarities between Calendar-Day and Day-Age Creationists—According to Dr Hugh Ross
• Trilobites on the Ark?
• Critique of the introductory chapter of A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy
• Retroactive death! What’s wrong with that?
• Critique of Gerald Schroeder’s variation on the ‘Day-Age’ theory—Part 1 and Part 2

Theistic Evolution: why is it dangerous for Christians to believe?

• Evolutionary syncretism: a critique of Biologos
• Chamberlain and the Church
• The future: some issues for ‘long age’ Christians
• A response to Timothy Keller’s ‘Creation, Evolution and Christian Laypeople’
• Paying homage to the stork
• Churches celebrating the ‘Year of Darwin’
• Did the Creator use evolution?
• Did God create over billions of years?
• Is evolution ‘anti-religion’?
• The horse and the tractor—Why God and evolution don’t mix

Is it possible to be a true Christian while believing evolution?

• Is it possible to be a Christian and an evolutionist?
• Can Christians believe evolution?
• Do I have to believe in a literal creation to be a Christian?
• From (theistic) evolution to creation

Related Q&A pages

• Genesis Questions and Answers
• Noah’s Flood Questions and Answers

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