Your Word is Truth JOHN 17:17b If there is any question of the authority and accuracy of Scripture, this should dispel it

Isaiah 45:18-19 For this is what the LORD says—he who created the heavens, he is God. he who fashioned and made the earth, he founded it; he did not create it to be empty but formed it to be inhabited—he says: I am the LORD and there is no other. I have not spoken in secret from somewhere in a land of darkness; I have not said to Jacob’s descendants, Seek me in vain. I the LORD, speak the truth; I declare what is right.

Jeremiah 29:11…Philippians 4:13 For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. I can do everything through him who gives me strength.

PROVERBS 30:5 Every word of God is flawless; he is a shield to those who take refuge in him. Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar. The Bible will not contradict itself. 66 books written over a 1500 year period by 40 different authors, yet in perfect harmony with each other

A QUESTION OF ORIGINS Billions of years through a chance random process…..Or Thousands of years by Divine Fiat….Or Somewhere In-between

RECORDED MIRACLES Miracles in Exodus: Chapters 7-16 Walls of Jericho: Joshua 6 Sacrifice Consumed at Mt Carmel: 1 Ki. 18 Sun goes backward: 2 Ki. 20 Preserved through the fire: Daniel 3 Lions Den: Daniel 6 Water into wine: John 2 Stilling the Storm: Mark 4

Who Cares About The Age Of The Earth The credibility of the book of Genesis is at stake. The credibility of Jesus is at stake. Jesus cited Genesis 25 times. Can the average person read and understand or do we need help? If Genesis one does not convey creation in six literal, consecutive, 24 hour days, how could God have written it differently to convey this? Nearly every book in the Bible refers to Genesis. Evolutionists care!!! Without billions of years, the “house of cards” that is evolution, collapses. Once you kick open the door to compromise, each subsequent generation opens it wider and wider.

If Evolution is True…. We would expect to discover a universal trend in science which leads to more complexity in nature Instead we discover the universal second law of science

We should discover some trend in nature which leads matter to a higher and higher degree of complexity.

The second law of thermodynamics, which applies in every process, mandates that over time all systems, including living systems, deteriorate.

Bible Predicts 2nd. Law Psalm 102:25-26: In the beginning you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands. They will perish, but you remain, they will all wear out like a garment. Like clothing you will change them and they will be discarded. How could the psalmist know that?

Proof From Logic Deductive Argument: Human sin brought death into the world (according to the Bible) The theory of evolution requires millions of years of death before humans were alive. Therefore, the theory of evolution and the Bible cannot both be true. Gen.1:29-31, Gen.2:15-17, 1 Cor. 15:21,22 With Evolution death plus time has resulted in all the variety we see around us.  If you believe the Bible, this argument disproves evolution.

Compromise Starting in the late 1700’s, in the name of science, some men started to claim that the Bible is wrong about  the age of  the Earth. Instead of theologians questioning the bases for these claims, most started looking for ways to place those theoretical timescales into the Bible.

Compromised Positions Theistic Evolution. This is the view that God used evolution to "create" the world by directing the process. It considers the Genesis account to be nothing more than a metaphor. This is held by the most liberal of theologians. Progressive Creation.  In this view God actually creates things, but He supposedly did it in steps that mimicked evolution but leaving definite gaps. The days of creation are viewed as metaphorically representing this process.

Compromised Positions The Day Age Theory. This view claims that the days of creation represent vast periods of time rather than real Earth days. It is basically a simplified version of progressive creation. You don’t have to take the word as written

Thomas Huxley ‘If divine authority is not here claimed for the twenty-fourth verse of the second chapter of Genesis, what is the value of language? And again, I ask, if one may play fast and loose with the story of the Fall as a “type” or “allegory,” what becomes of the foundation of Pauline theology?’ You cannot hold to divine authority of the Gospel and the Foundation of Paul’s works if Genesis is not real history.

Thomas Huxley ‘I am fairly at a loss to comprehend how any one, for a moment, can doubt that Christian theology must stand or fall with the historical trustworthiness of the Jewish Scriptures.