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God Created With Functional Maturity Oct 24, 2019

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There is an errant concept of ‘creation with apparent age’. A hypothetical modern observer who travelled back in time to see Adam and Eve at the end of Day 6 might infer that they were 20-year-old adults, but in reality they were less than a day old. Similarly, the trees on Day 3 would be mature trees, and a time-traveling observer might infer that they were hundreds of years old. So the question has been asked, “Why would God deceive us with apparent age of past events before the week of creation?”

Note: This article was originally extracted and adapted from the author’s landmark 2015 book The Genesis Account: A theological, historical, and scientific commentary on Genesis 1–11.

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Original article: God Created With Functional Maturity, Not ‘Appearance of Age’
Is Genesis poetry / figurative, a theological argument (polemic) and thus not history?
How can distant starlight reach us in just 6,000 years?
Age of the Sun
Tree ring dating (dendrochronology)
The 19th Century ferment—Charles Lyell, Thomas Chalmers, Henry Drummond, Philip Henry Gosse
Analogy and geology—the ‘science’ of Charles Lyell

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The Genesis Account
Creation Magazine
The Genesis Academy
Creation Answers Book

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A Detective’s Approach Oct 21, 2019

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There are several things we can learn from detectives like Colombo that we can apply to the enterprise of Christian apologetics in general, and creation apologetics in particular. The next time you’re in a discussion or debate with a skeptic, ask them The Big Question, and push for a real answer.

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Original article: A Detective’s Approach
Practical Evangelism: Taking the Roof Off
Faith and facts
Countering the Critics Questions and Answers
Bible Questions and Answers
Christian Apologetics Questions and Answers

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Creation Ministries International’s events
Creation Magazine
The Genesis Academy

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Isaac Watts: A Poet in Awe of His Creator Oct 17, 2019

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Before the use of hymnbooks in the 18th century, the main form of musical involvement by English congregations was to intone paraphrases of the Psalms. One Sunday, Isaac Watts opined that the way the Psalms were rendered lacked the dignity and beauty that he felt should characterize every part of Christian worship. His father challenged him to produce something better. In 1707, Watts published his Hymns and Spiritual Songs. These were set to music by a host of later composers, and came to be sung all over the English-speaking world. According to Watts, the systematic study of the heavens enlarged his understanding of the immense power of God and the magnificence of His creation.

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Original article: Isaac Watts: A poet in awe of his Creator
Music—evidence of creation
Music: A crucial gift
Does music have evolutionary origins?
Design Features Questions and Answers

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The Genesis Academy
Creation Magazine

🎵 Song heard in this episode, When I Survey The Wondrous Cross (Choir of Kings College, Cambridge)

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An Overview of the Denisovan Puzzle Oct 14, 2019

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The Denisovans are a fascinating subject. It is known from ancient DNA studies that the Denisovans interbred with ‘modern’ humans, and so by the biological species concept that makes them the same species, i.e., Homo sapiens. Hence, by logic the specimens in Homo erectus must also have been fully human, and part of the human kind.

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The article: An Overview of the Denisovan Puzzle
Not the Flintstones—it’s the Denisovans
Denisovans menace evolution
Making sense of ‘apeman’ claims

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The Puzzle of Ancient Man
Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels
Mitochondrial Eve and the 3 "Daughters of Noah”

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Liligers: A Testimony to the Created Kind Oct 10, 2019

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Liligers, ligers, and other cat hybrids are testimony to the fact that all 39 extant cat species alive today (including the domestic house cat) likely came from one original feline/cat kind on board the Ark, which rapidly diversified soon after the Flood.

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The article: Liligers: A testimony to the created kind
Cats big and small
Liligers and wholphins? What next?

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The Greatest Hoax on Earth?
Creatures Do Change but It’s Not Evolution
Creation Magazine

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Genesis: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle Oct 07, 2019

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With so many areas for the church to deal with we need to ask ourselves, how do we make a difference? Where do we focus our efforts? Many Christians believe the creation/evolution issue to be a side issue, an unprofitable area on which to focus. To many it seems divisive, and has little relation to proclaiming the Gospel. Far from being a side issue, the creation/evolution debate is at the forefront of the assault on the Christian worldview.

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The article: Genesis: The Missing Piece of the Puzzle
A candid admission
Ministry programs for your church or organization
Street preacher says creation ‘is the issue’
Genesis—the seedbed of all Christian doctrine
The importance of foundations
Why believe in God in an age of science?
Born connected

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Defending Genesis
The Genesis Academy
Evolution’s Achilles’ Heels
Creation Magazine

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Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science! Oct 03, 2019

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In an encouraging turn of events, a secular peer-reviewed paper published in eLIFE, written by a team from the NMBU Centre for Applied Philosophy of Science at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, backs up this understanding of the importance of worldviews. In their article, the authors make some very salient observations that few other secularists seem to like to openly discuss.

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Original article: Secular Researchers Agree: Worldviews Control Science!
Faith and Facts
Atheism Is More Rational?
Monkey Minds
Atheism
Philosophy Questions and Answers
Christian Apologetics Questions and Answers
Atheism, Godless Religions Questions and Answers

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The Genesis Academy
Christianity for Skeptics
Creation Magazine

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‘Watch a glasswing passing’ & ‘Nature’s self-cleaning marvels’ Sep 30, 2019

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In today’s episode I’m going to read not one but two articles about butterflies.

Glasswing butterflies have large clear patches on their wings. Many would claim they ‘evolved’ transparent wings (to minimize their visibility to predators). Christians might retort that only a Creator could have made these beautiful see-through wings. Who’s right?

And speaking of butterflies, their wings, it has now been discovered, employ two of nature’s tricks to help keep themselves clean: the ‘shark skin effect’ and the ‘lotus effect’.

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The article: Watch a glasswing passing
The second article: Nature’s self-cleaning marvels
The magnificent migrating monarch
‘Christmas Trees’ light up butterflies
Butterflies fly on designer wings

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By Design 2020 Creation Calendar
Metamorphosis (DVD)
Flight: The genius of birds (DVD)
Bugs: Big & Small God Made Them All

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Homeschool Conference: Great Encouragement and Some Concerns Sep 26, 2019

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We had a discussion with Tim Barnett from Stand to Reason, who was giving multiple presentations at the Great Homeschool Conference in Greenville, South Carolina. It turned out that Tim believes in an old Earth, implying that death, disease, suffering and pain all came before Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. We wanted to know more, so that’s why I attended his presentation titled “If God, Why Evil?” The main focus of this talk was to discuss the issue of why a loving and omnipotent God would allow suffering in the world.

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The article: Homeschool conference: great encouragement and some concerns
Hold on, Mr Holzmann
When did animals become carnivorous?
The carnivorous nature and suffering of animals
The Fall: a cosmic catastrophe

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Christianity for Skeptics
Why Does a Good God Allow Bad Things
Why Would a Loving God Allow Death and Suffering?
The Genesis Account
Refuting Compromise

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Did God Create Life on Other Planets? Sep 23, 2019

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Those who believe life evolved on the earth usually see it as virtual ‘fact’ that life has evolved on countless other planets. Many Christians think, ‘God must have created life elsewhere, otherwise this enormous universe would be an awful waste of space.’ The Bible’s ‘big picture’ seems to preclude intelligent life elsewhere in God’s universe. But what if we just found bacteria on other planets? What would that mean?