Creation answers (frequently asked questions)

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• Why did Jesus die?
• Genesis: Missing piece of the puzzle
• Did God create over billions of years?
• How old is the earth?
• Created or evolved? How the evidence everywhere supports creation, not evolution.
• It’s not science! (Is it valid to categorize evolution as science and creation as non-science?)
• 15 Questions for evolutionists (See also the Question Evolution Campaign)
• Atheism

§ Topics arranged by subject category

Astronomy

• Astronomy and Astrophysics (evidence for design, big bang problems, dark matter, seeing distant starlight)
• Solar System and Extra-solar planets (evidence for design, age, the Sun, planets, moons, comets, extra-solar planets)
• Aliens/UFOs (are extra-terrestrial aliens visiting us?)
• Galileo, Geocentrism, and Flat Earth

Bible, God, theology

• Bible (is it the Word of God? How are we to understand it?)
• Genesis (real history or mythology/polemic?)
• God (does God exist? what is He like?)
• Jesus Christ (the ‘Son of God’? Why did He die? Resurrection?)
• Atheism, agnosticism and humanism: godless religions

Biology (creation vs evolution)

• Origin of life (origin of life theories critiqued, including life-from-space)
• Design features (dozens! ID, biomimetics, ‘bad’ design, astronomy, irreducible complexity)
• Natural selection (yes, it happens but it is not the same as evolution)
• Mutations (yes, they happen, but they can’t change microbes into microbiologists)
• Speciation (yes, it happens, but it is limited to variation within the created kind)
• Genetics (‘mitochondrial Eve’, ape vs human DNA, gene duplication, genetic engineering, cloning, longevity of patriarchs)
• Information theory (including DNA) (information defined, claimed new information)
• Probabilities (could life arise by chance? What about computer simulations of evolution?)
• Quantum Mechanics and Thermodynamics (how the laws of thermodynamics contradict naturalism)
• Vestigial organs (including ‘junk’ DNA)
• Homology and Embryology (Haeckel’s fraudulent concept, plus similarities due to common design)
• Charles Darwin (his religious views, contribution to human suffering, natural selection vs evolution)

Creation: relevance to Christianity, society and science

• Creation: Why It matters
• Death and suffering (Why? Origin of bad things such as poisons, carnivory, Satan)
• Creation compromises (theistic evolution, gap theory, progressive creation, framework, etc.)
• Apologetics defending the faith (proof & presuppositions, New Age, postmodernism, hell)
• Philosophy (logic and faith, proof of God, evolution and materialism)
• Countering the Critics (anti-creationists, ‘bad’ design, probability, ‘proof’ for an old earth)
• Bible skeptics answered (answering attacks on the Bible)
• Communism and Nazism (the evolution connection)
• Science (what is it? Is creation or evolution science?)
• Arguments creationists should NOT use
• Arguments evolutionists should not use
• Creation Scientists (and other biographies)

Geology, the Flood, the Ice Age and the age of the earth

• Young Age Evidence (astronomy, botany, geology, fossils, caves, coal, glaciology, human history, oceanography)
• Radiometric Dating (radiometric dating problems, flaws, rapid decay? radiohalos)
• Flood (global? fish survival? Black Sea flood? flood legends).
• Noah’s Ark (size, construction, stability, feasibility, care for animals, diseases, biogeography)
• Geology (Flood evidences, coal formation, limestone caves, rapid rocks, age of fossils?)
• Ice Age (post-Flood Ice Age, ice core dating, multiple Ice Ages? mammoths)

History

• Archaeology (archaeology and the Bible, from the Flood to New Testament times)
• History (including biblical chronology, genealogies, origin of deep time beliefs)
• Linguistics (languages point to the Tower of Babel, animals talking?)

Paleontology

• Fossils (rapid formation, missing links, living fossils, dino-birds?, whale origins, tetrapods)
• Anthropology (human ancestry, alleged ape-men)
• Dinosaurs (humans coexist with? evidence against millions of years, birds from dinosaurs?
• Mammoths (how they fit with the post-Flood Ice Age)

Social and ethical issues

• Family/Marriage (origin in Genesis, Cain’s wife? monogamy? Raising godly children)
• Human Life: Abortion and Euthanasia (the evolution connection)
• Cloning and Stem Cells
• Morality and Ethics (evolution and immorality, eugenics, moral relativism, homosexuality)
• Environmentalism (the Bible’s perspective on environmental issues)
• Education (the battle for the schools, how to answer assignments, homeschooling)
• Racism (evolution connection, where did the ‘races’ come from, ‘inter-racial’ marriage)

§ Topics arranged by alphabetical order

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