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“One of the authors of the latest and most potent of the space-time theorems, Alexander Vilenkin, wrote, ‘With the proof now in place, cosmologists can no longer hide behind the possibility of a past eternal universe. There is no escape, they have to face the problem of a cosmic beginning.‘ What is that problem? Space-time theorems imply that a Causal Agent must be present, and that this agent brought our universe of matter, energy, space, and time into existence [out of absolutely nothing]. Moreover, this Causal Agent matches the description and claimed mode of creation of the God of the Bible.”
https://salvomag.com/article/salvo38/creation-event-horizon
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“A common sense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with the physics, as well as with chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature. The numbers one calculates from the facts seem to me so overwhelming as to put this conclusion beyond question.”
— Fred Hoyle (PhD, Astronomy, Cambridge), Engineering & Science (November 1981)
https://salvomag.com/article/salvo46/the-miracle-element
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Why physicists can’t avoid a creation event
https://www.scribd.com/doc/77980709/Why-Physicists-Can-t-Avoid-a-Creation-Event
[The irony of that article is, it was published in New Scientist, an overtly anti-creationist journal. Also available here .]
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“When geologists unequivocally dismissed the idea of a global flood and recognized Earth’s antiquity, many conservative theologians acknowledged that there was more to the past than literally spelled out in Genesis, the opening chapter[s] of the Bible. But some Christians — those we now call [young-Earth] creationists [or YECs] — rejected this perspective and chose to see geology as a threat to their faith. In so doing, they abandoned faith in reason and cast off a long-standing theological tradition that rocks don’t lie.”
http://www.geosociety.org/gsatoday/archive/22/11/pdf/i1052-5173-22-11-4.pdf
[ASND would like to remind the Geological Society of America (if they would actually listen) that many scientists who also happen to be creationists believe that the most literal possible (i.e. author-intended) interpretation of Genesis actually fits a very old Earth and universe much better than it does a young Earth and universe.]
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Creation Ex Nihilo: Science vs. The Bible
Does Genesis 1 Conflict with Science?
http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/day-age.html
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Early Earth Atmosphere Affirms the Bible’s Account of Creation
https://salvomag.com/article/salvo47/seeing-stars
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Were They Real? The Scientific Case for Adam and Eve
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Biochemistry Supports Long Life Spans Described In Genesis
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The Age of the Earth (& Universe): What Does The Bible Teach?
Historic Age Debate: Overview
https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-overview-part-1-of-2
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https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-overview-part-2-of-2
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YECs almost universally claim that all OECs believe Genesis 1 is poetic, parabolic, or prophetic (or some other form of figurative) literature — anything other than historical narrative. That claim by YECs is patently and provably false.
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“In the debate over the age of the Earth, selecting the right [i.e. the most accurate, literal (i.e. author-intended)] translation makes a big difference… [For example] Genesis 1:16 does not require the Sun, Moon, and stars to be formed on the fourth day; they could, in fact, have been created as far back as ‘in the beginning‘ ( Genesis 1:1 )… [and] those who wish to truly understand Genesis 1 must overcome cultural barriers that separate modern perspective from ancient thought… For example, the [Hebrew] doesn’t have separate words for ‘son,’ ‘grandson,’ ‘great-grandson,’ and ‘descendent.’ All of these English terms are covered by the [single] Hebrew word ben. Similarly, [the Hebrew word] ab means ‘father,’ but also ‘grandfather‘ and even ‘ancestor.’ God refers to Abraham as Jacob’s ‘father‘ (ab) in Genesis 28:13 , when of course, he is Jacob’s grandfather. In English, this would be considered an error, but it is perfectly accurate and literal in Hebrew grammar. Hebrew genealogical terms are well suited for communicating ancestry, but, unlike English, remain ambiguous about the number of generations spanned. Consequently, Hebrew genealogies are typically telescoped (shortened by leaving out less important individuals)… The genealogy of Moses, which appears four separate times in Scripture ( Exodus 6:16-20 , Numbers 26:57-59 ; and 1 Chronicles 6:1-3; 23:6, 12-13 ), provides an excellent example of telescoping… [but] we can use other Bible passages to demonstrate that at least six names were likely skipped between Amram and Moses. Despite the biblical evidence, some [ YECs ] continue to [fail] try[ing] to explain away this gap… Many [YECs] assume that [the obviously abridged biblical genealogies] can be used to build an exact chronology from Adam to Abraham… [but those] attempts to use [the various, sometimes contradictory , biblical genealogies] to date the age of the Earth to around 6,000 years old are critically flawed… For those [YECs] who [choose] to [believe] these calculations anyways there is yet another problem – the ages given in the Septuagint [used by the translators of the old King James Version] differ from those in the original Hebrew. It seems [according to scholars cited in this article that the ages of historical figures reported in the Genesis genealogies] were altered [by the ancient Jewish translators of the Septuagint] to make the gradual decrease in life spans smoother… At the center of controversy over the days of creation is the ‘evening-morning-day‘ phrase, which appears six times in Genesis 1 . The KJV renders it, ‘And the evening and the morning were the Xth day.‘ This interpretation actually misrepresents the original Hebrew in multiple ways and in each case lends artificial support for a calendar-day view. First, the verb ‘was‘ appears twice in the Hebrew, but the KJV [omits] the second occurrence and so reduces it to a simple sentence… Second, the KJV reads ‘the first day‘ for Genesis 1:5, whereas the Hebrew actually reads ‘one day‘ or ‘day one‘ instead. Third, the KJV adds the definite article ‘the‘ before ‘day‘ even though it is not present in the Hebrew… Adding ‘the‘ makes the reading easier in English, but it implies that it is talking about a specific period of time (i.e., a solar day) rather than representing time generically. Given the dominance of the KJV for the last several centuries, this mistranslation has played a major role in popularizing the calendar-day [i.e. YEC] interpretation [of Genesis 1-3] among English speakers… [Clearly, then,] much of the controversy and confusion over [the] Genesis [creation dates] stems from the fact that theologians – going all of the way back to the earliest days of the church – have relied on Old Testament translations rather than the original Hebrew.”
https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-dependence-on-translations-part-1-of-5
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https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-dependence-on-translations-part-2-of-5
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https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-dependence-on-translations-part-3-of-5
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https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-dependence-on-translations-part-4-of-5
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https://reasons.org/explore/publications/articles/historic-age-debate-dependence-on-translations-part-5-of-5
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What Are the Scriptural AND Scientific Dates for the Starts and Ends of the Six Creation Days?
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From Noah to Abraham to Moses: Evidence of Genealogical Gaps in Mosaic Literature
https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2012/07/23/from-noah-to-abraham-to-moses-evidence-of-genealogical-gaps-in-mosaic-literature-part-1
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https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2012/07/26/from-noah-to-abraham-to-moses-evidence-of-genealogical-gaps-in-genesis-part-2
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https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2012/07/30/from-noah-to-abraham-to-moses-evidence-of-genealogical-gaps-in-mosaic-literature-part-3
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https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2012/08/02/from-noah-to-abraham-to-moses-evidence-of-genealogical-gaps-in-mosaic-literature-part-4
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https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2012/08/06/from-noah-to-abraham-to-moses-evidence-of-genealogical-gaps-in-mosaic-literature-part-5
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The Biblical Genealogies Revisited: Further Evidence of Gaps
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The Tower of Babel Confirms Genealogical Gaps in Genesis 11
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“No-gap proponents [of the biblical genealogies] note that a particular hiphil form of [the Hebrew verb] yalad [‘begat’] is used in Genesis 5 and 11 and cite this particular form as proof of no [geneaological] gaps… Yet if all uses of yalad in the hiphil [form] in the Bible are analyzed, it is clear that most of them lack a descriptive narrative to clarify a precise [father-son] relationship… Clearly the large majority of instances of yalad in the hiphil [form] in non-Mosaic literature are unknown or figurative… [These] data suggest that there probably are gaps [in the Genesis 5 & 11 genealogies].”
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The Genesis Genealogies [An extensive, scholarly examination of the facts.]
https://s3.amazonaws.com/reasonstobelieve/files/articles/The-Genesis-Genealogies.pdf
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YECs believe that if the Earth is very old then God must be lying to us in the Bible.
Why that is false, on multiple levels.
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Biblical Creation: Resolving the YEC vs. OEC Conflict Biblically [cf. 1Th 5:21]
http://godandscience.org/apologetics/creation.html
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The Sixth Creation Day: Biblical Support for Old-Earth Creationism
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Animal Death Before the Fall: What Does the Bible Say?
http://www.reasons.org/articles/animal-death-before-the-fall-what-does-the-bible-say
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Of Weevils and Wasps: God’s Good Purpose in Animal Death
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Was Evil Present in God’s “Very Good” World?
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Peril in Paradise: Theology, Science and the Age of the Earth
http://www.reasons.org/articles/peril-in-paradise-theology-science-and-the-age-of-the-earth
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Radiometric Dating – A Christian Perspective
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The low levels of carbon-14 detected in fossils and geological specimens by YECs actually argue against a young Earth, not an old Earth.
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Responses to the YEC “RATE” Project Critical of Radiometric Dating
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“While it is true that the scientific community lacks full understanding of the mechanisms involved, preservation of soft tissues in fossils does not stand as a ‘biochemical [self] contradiction.’ Instead, there are sound explanations for the persistence of soft-tissue remnants in fossils… Simply put, soft-tissue preservation in fossils is not a valid scientific argument for a young Earth, nor does it provide evidence that the fossil record was laid down as a result of a recent, global flood.“
https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/does-dinosaur-tissue-challenge-evolutionary-timescales-a-response-to-kevin-anderson-part-1
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https://reasons.org/explore/blogs/the-cells-design/does-dinosaur-tissue-challenge-evolutionary-timescales-a-response-to-kevin-anderson-part-2
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Young-Earth vs. Old-Earth Debate [Video]
Dr. Hugh Ross & Dr. Walter Kaiser vs Dr. Jason Lisle & Mr. Ken Ham
[Transcripts below.]
https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-1/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-2/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-3/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-4/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-5/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-6/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-7/
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https://www.jashow.org/articles/the-great-debate-on-science-and-the-bible-program-8/
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Young-Earth vs. Old-Earth Debate
Dr. Hugh Ross (Ph.D., Astronomy) vs. Kent Hovind (Ph.D., Education)
[ Nobody Important was reading through a Facebook blog and came across this question:
“Is the book of Genesis (particularly the story of Adam and Eve) historical or allegorical?”
ASND is happy to answer that question with a series of essays, beginning at the Beginning and passing though — and then beyond — Adam and Eve. ]
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How Long Was Creation Day Six?
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The Nature and Duration of Creation Day Six
https://www.reasons.org/explore/publications/rtb-101/read/rtb-101/2007/12/04/the-nature-and-duration-of-creation-day-six
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https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2014/02/24/how-long-was-creation-day-six
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The Biblical Creation Timeline
http://www.reasons.org/articles/creation-timeline
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“Having started with the assumption that evolution is true, these researchers conclude that evolution is true and that a literal Adam and Eve cannot be true.”
http://www.reasons.org/articles/assumptions-circular-reasoning-and-a-literal-adam-and-eve
[ Circular reasoning is the very foundation of evolutionary “research” .]
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Adam and Eve: An Actual Primordial Pair or an Allegorical “Population”?
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When Did the Genetic Adam and Eve Live?
https://www.reasons.org/explore/publications/rtb-101/read/rtb-101/2013/04/04/rtb-101-post-9-age-of-adam
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https://www.reasons.org/explore/blogs/todays-new-reason-to-believe/read/tnrtb/2013/08/16/update-when-did-the-genetic-adam-and-eve-live
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“An ice age date for the creation of Adam and Eve is consistent with the best scientific dates for the origin of modern humans.”
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Speaking of Adam and Eve: Study of Languages Supports Biblical Account of Human Origins
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“The mere assertion that humans could live more than 900 years — as Genesis 5:5 states [about Adam] — seems, for many people, nothing short of absurdity… [but r]ecent advances in the biochemistry of aging provide answers to these seemingly intractable problems… These discoveries point to a number of possible ways that God could have allowed long life spans and then altered human life expectancy –– simply by ‘tweaking’ human biochemistry. The recent progress of research in the biochemistry of aging, along with the cosmic radiation caused by the Vela supernova eruption, make the long life spans of Genesis 5 and the decrease of human life spans at the time of the Flood scientifically plausible.”
http://www.reasons.org/articles/long-life-spans-adam-lived-930-years-and-then-he-died
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Cosmic Inflation Confirmed and Why We Need It
“The thermal connectedness, vast size, and flat geometry of the universe that presently exist [and which are all essential for life to exist anywhere in the universe] would be impossible if the universe expanded from the cosmic creation event at a rate that never exceeded the velocity of light… An extremely brief inflation episode… [at] about a trillion trillion times faster than the velocity of light… when the universe [was] very young… solves all three problems…. These outcomes are not only what is needed to make life in the universe possible, but they’re also what astronomers have determined by their measurements to be true about the universe… The error (uncertainty) in the new measure… implies there is less than 1 chance in 6 quintillion (1 chance in 6,000,000,000,000,000,000) that the universe did not experience an inflation event very early in its history.”
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The Texas Dinosaur/”Human Footprints” Controversy
This web site provides a collection of articles reviewing the history of the Paluxy controversy and evidence involved, including several articles on other alleged anachronistic fossils and artifacts.
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy.html
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100-million-year-old slime mold found perfectly preserved in amber
In 2018, the fossilized remains of a 99-million-year old beetle were also discovered in Myanmar.
https://www.foxnews.com/science/slime-mold-trapped-amber
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