Creation: Why It Matters

Is the doctrine of creation (in six normal-length days, 6,000 years ago) important?

• Genesis—the seedbed of all Christian doctrine
• Creation and the Cross (ICR website)
• Evolution or Creation: What difference does it make? (Christian Answers Network)
• Narrow Road
• New Testament Doctrine and the Creation Basics
• End-times and Early-times
• Quiz
• See also Q&A: Morality and Ethics
• See also Church censors biblical creation

How does the creation/evolution debate affect the church?

• ‘I don’t believe!!!’
• Are you a young-earth creationist?: Nine questions to ascertain whether your future pastor, youth group leader or Bible College principal takes a straightforward view of Genesis
• Creation/Evolution: What are the Issues for the Church? (CMI article on Christian Answers Network)
• The Darwinian earthquake
• Double trouble
• A Low View of Scripture
• Millions of Years and the Doctrine of Balaam
• Missing the mark (Louis Leakey biography)
• The slippery slide to unbelief (Charles Templeton)
• A tale of two graves
• Two World-Views in Conflict!
• Warning: Steep Descent Ahead
• When will the church wake up?
• Swaying in the breeze
• Paying homage to the stork
• Sickness in the Church!
• The elephant in the room
• Churches celebrating the ‘Year of Darwin’
• Do we still sin? The doctrine of sin in contemporary theology

• Death before Sin (Technical article by James Stambaugh on ICR website)
• The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe (Semi-technical)
  
• The god of an old earth
• Grotesque dinosaur cannibals
• Two histories of death

Can Christians accept ‘millions of years’ of history and also believe what the Bible teaches?

• See Q&A: Creation Compromises

Can Christians who don’t accept a literal view of Genesis still be effective witnesses for Christ?

• The god of an old earth
• Evangelism for the New Millennium
• The big picture

How have evolutionary ideas contributed to enormous violence, bloodshed and misery in the world?

• See Q&A: Morality and Ethics

What about movies and books that portray humanism and evolution as ‘good’; and the Bible and creation as ‘evil’. How should Christians respond to this?

• Antidote to Superstition
• Evolution and English Literature
• Reflections on the Emperor’s New Clothes

What is ‘Creation Evangelism’, and why is it so effective in reaching today’s evolutionistic, humanistic world with the Gospel?

• Street preacher says creation ‘is the issue’
• Revival? What is missing?
• Creation: timely tool for today’s evangelist
• An ‘impossible’ dream—for an atheist
• Discovering creation in a shopping mall!
• Evangelism for the New Millennium
• First Adam — Last Adam
• Genesis: Myth or reality?
• It’s a ‘Hard Knocks’ Life
• Job and creation
• Preaching the Gospel in today’s society
• Relevance of Creation — pt 2 (Creation Evangelism)
• Road Work Ahead
• Teaching and defending creation in the church (practical tips for today’s church leader)
• ‘Thought bombs’ and the ‘ripple effect’
• What can I do?
• Who is Jesus?
• ‘Go to hell, creationists!’
• ‘That’s it!’ (Creation evangelism testimony)
• Creation evangelism Testimony
• Creation evangelism: Cutting through the Excess
• Beginning with the beginning...
• Creation evangelism in Albania
• Creation evangelism in France
• Creation evangelism in Holland
• India — A Faulty Foundation
• The importance of Creation in foreign missions
• Beginning at the writings of Moses
• Bokos find answers in [the book of] Genesis
• ‘The people who walk backwards into the future’
• Conversions in the land of the rising sun
• Creation evangelism in the public school classroom
• Creation in the Crimea

What Biblical evidence for creation can be presented to a Christian who doesn’t accept Genesis?

• The Gospel Evidence for Creation