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Creation Basics & Beyond
Creation or evolution? This debate is one of the most vital issues of our time. It is extremely important for all people to know the truth about origins. The Christian especially needs to know the truth of the Genesis account of creation. After all, if the Bible is false on its very first page, then how can any rational person have confidence in what follows it?
Fortunately, you don't need a doctorate in science to understand the basic lines of scientific evidence that surround the creation-evolution controversy. Nor do you need a theological degree to understand the basic theology and moral implications of creation. Written and reviewed by experts, Creation Basics & Beyond offers a thorough, yet understandable, introduction to the basic questions involved in the creation-evolution debate.
Organized in short, readable chapters, this book demonstrates that not only does the scientific evidence not support evolution, it strongly confirms the biblical account of creation. Creation Basics & Beyond clearly shows that the Bible really is what it claims to be — the inspired Word of the living God.
Fortunately, you don't need a doctorate in science to understand the basic lines of scientific evidence that surround the creation-evolution controversy. Nor do you need a theological degree to understand the basic theology and moral implications of creation. Written and reviewed by experts, Creation Basics & Beyond offers a thorough, yet understandable, introduction to the basic questions involved in the creation-evolution debate.
Organized in short, readable chapters, this book demonstrates that not only does the scientific evidence not support evolution, it strongly confirms the biblical account of creation. Creation Basics & Beyond clearly shows that the Bible really is what it claims to be — the inspired Word of the living God.
352 pages, Paperback
First published July 1, 2013
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May 10, 2022
I first bought this book at an Institute of Creation Research hosted at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa back in 2013. I even got several panelists to autograph my copy.
It took me 8 plus years to read this book because the different contributors represented different disciplines. Some of them were easy to read and the logic also easy to follow for a layman. For example, talking about the fossil record (or lack of) was easy. By contrast, talking about drilling ice cores to date the age of the Earth went over my head. I know they were looking and finding/not finding things that show how evolutionary time was wrong. If you are a geologist and can understand their logic, great.
But because each chapter tends to be short - 6-8 pages max - the author doesn't fully develop their arguments. In some cases, it might be that they never researched that topic fully since their strengths and degrees lie elsewhere. Take UFOs. There are plenty of research on UFOs but the author of the UFO, Jason Lisle, is not a MUFON fan or researcher. At best, he can say that you can't do a "Giorgio" - "I don't know, I can't prove it, therefore aliens." Dr. Lisle would even use naturalistic explanations (mistaken for Venus), very human devices (satellites and planes), before going to the "alien" route. As for the actual videos provided by the US DOD or UK MOD, that's not for the Institute of Creation Research to answer. Much better to be human and say "I don't know but I can find out." Isn't that what a real scientist does?
It took me 8 plus years to read this book because the different contributors represented different disciplines. Some of them were easy to read and the logic also easy to follow for a layman. For example, talking about the fossil record (or lack of) was easy. By contrast, talking about drilling ice cores to date the age of the Earth went over my head. I know they were looking and finding/not finding things that show how evolutionary time was wrong. If you are a geologist and can understand their logic, great.
But because each chapter tends to be short - 6-8 pages max - the author doesn't fully develop their arguments. In some cases, it might be that they never researched that topic fully since their strengths and degrees lie elsewhere. Take UFOs. There are plenty of research on UFOs but the author of the UFO, Jason Lisle, is not a MUFON fan or researcher. At best, he can say that you can't do a "Giorgio" - "I don't know, I can't prove it, therefore aliens." Dr. Lisle would even use naturalistic explanations (mistaken for Venus), very human devices (satellites and planes), before going to the "alien" route. As for the actual videos provided by the US DOD or UK MOD, that's not for the Institute of Creation Research to answer. Much better to be human and say "I don't know but I can find out." Isn't that what a real scientist does?
January 1, 2016
I really enjoyed this book. It is set up so that if you want to skip a chapter is doesn't affect what you are reading. I like that. I can skip over the scientific words that I don't understand and I still understand what it is talking about.
I really like and understand the descriptions on how the Earth can be a young earth and not billions of years old. It makes sense to me especially now that we know more about the ways things can happen in a very short period of time and yet it looks very, very old. I believe the errors of the carbon dating system. I can see exactly how dinosaurs could have lived with man and how they could have been destroyed naturally without a giant asteroid hitting the Earth.
There is a basic history of the earth that has all areas of the world having a flood story/history. This is important to our earth today and I really no longer believe that the land on the earth is caused by continental drift.
It will be a very good tool for helping other see that there can be an explanation that makes perfect logical sense other than what the doomsday scientists want us to believe.
I really like and understand the descriptions on how the Earth can be a young earth and not billions of years old. It makes sense to me especially now that we know more about the ways things can happen in a very short period of time and yet it looks very, very old. I believe the errors of the carbon dating system. I can see exactly how dinosaurs could have lived with man and how they could have been destroyed naturally without a giant asteroid hitting the Earth.
There is a basic history of the earth that has all areas of the world having a flood story/history. This is important to our earth today and I really no longer believe that the land on the earth is caused by continental drift.
It will be a very good tool for helping other see that there can be an explanation that makes perfect logical sense other than what the doomsday scientists want us to believe.
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December 14, 2023
Great in depth introduction to origins science
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