How could the days of Genesis 1 be literal if the sun wasn’t created until
the fourth day?
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Eve created from Adam’s rib
Why did God make Eve from Adam’s rib?
Joshua’s long day
Wouldn’t people be flung into space if the world stopped rotating? What really happened?
Naming the animals: all in a day’s work for Adam
Adam, the world’s first zoologist, did the world’s first animal classification.
Did Darwin recant?
Did Darwin recant?
Regenerating ribs
This ‘bone’ of contention is actually a reminder of God’s creative genius.
Why did God prevent Adam from eating from the Tree of Life after he had sinned?
The last enemy to be destroyed is death. So wouldn’t it have been a good thing for Adam to live forever by eating from the Tree of Life?
The carnivorous nature and suffering of animals
Detailed biblical evidence shows that animals eating, hurting and killing each other is incompatible with the original ’very good’ creation. Therefore carnivory must have begun after the Fall.
The Second Law of Thermodynamics
Tree ring dating (dendrochronology)
Replenish the earth
How come Adam and Eve were told to ‘replenish’ the newly created earth
with their descendants if it had never been previously filled?
A response to Timothy Keller’s ‘Creation, Evolution and Christian Laypeople’
Timothy Keller offers some ways that Christians can accept a ‘literal’ Adam and evolutionary processes. But this compromise forces him to reinterpret key parts of Genesis.