Lesson 5: Hard Questions on Creation
All scripture is taken from the New International Version Zondervan Bible Publishers unless specified King James.
Did dinosaurs really live with people?
The answer to that question is yes. Since we know that land animals and man were created on day 6, then we know that dinosaurs lived with people.
Watch short video clip.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/animals/dino-dragon-legends/
Many people believe that dinosaurs died out 60 million years ago, but history tells of examples of people living at the same time as dinosaurs. There are historical records from Europe in the 1500’s of dinosaurs in their science books and in China at the time of Jesus there are written records of dinosaurs. Even in the Bible dinosaurs are mentioned; they are, however, called dragons, Behemoth and Leviathan. The word dinosaur is a fairly new word and started being used in the 1800’s to describe the huge reptile bones that were discovered. The word used before dinosaur is dragon. The word dinosaur means terrible lizard and correctly describes many of these creatures. The following Bible verses are taken from the King James.
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons
in the waters. Thou brakest the heads of leviathan in pieces, and gavest him to
be meat to the people inhabiting the wilderness.
Psalms 74:13-14
Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt
thou trample under feet.
Palms 91:13
In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish
leviathan the piercing serpent, even leviathan that crooked serpent; and
he shall slay the dragon that is in the sea.
Isaiah 27:1
And I will make Jerusalem heaps, and a den of dragons and I will make
the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant.
Jeremiah 9:11
Download www.creation.com/australias-aborigines-did-they-see-dinosaurs.
Watch short video clip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlY5hFSaxdo&feature=youtu.be
The Ica stones of Peru were found in a cave that was hidden for hundreds of years. A flood exposed the entrance and inside were discovered many stones which were named Ica stones. These stones were studied carefully and found to be authentic. They show clearly pictures of numerous dinosaurs.
The Greek philosopher, Aristotle, wrote that during his own life there were common reports of winged serpents in Ethiopia. The Jewish historian, Josephus also wrote of flying serpents at the time of the Exodus from Egypt. About 200 years after the Flood a family of people went to live in a certain valley in what is now China. The men had to go first to kill off the dragons that were living there.
Read article:
www.genesispark.com/exhibits/evidence/historical/ancient/plesiosaur/
There have been many finds of dinosaur bones that are not fossilized, but have been found with soft tissue, blood vessels and dried blood. These dinosaur bones have been “dated” at 65 million years old. But scientific studies show that these soft tissues would last at most 600,000 years under the very best conditions.
Watch short video clip.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/evolution/humans-evolve-apelike-creatures/
Is there any evidence of apes evolving into man?
The answer to that question is no. There are many scientists that have spent years looking for old human or ape skeletons trying to find one that would prove that man evolved from an ape like creature. No one has been successful. Here are some examples of failed attempts: Peking Man – A group of researchers found a large number of apelike skull fragments including some parts of lower jaws in a cave near Peking China next to a fire pit and tools. It was assumed that since the skull and tools were found together, this was an ape-man link. However, students are seldom presented with a more plausible explanation. Monkey meat is very tough, but monkey brains are still considered a delicacy in that part of the world. Since only the skull fragments were found, it is quite likely that Peking Man was somebody’s meal… not man’s ancestor.
Java Man – In 1892 Eugene Dubois found a thick boned skull cap in the same area as a human thigh bone. This is still presented as evidence of an early man that evolved from an ape. However, many years after this supposed creature was widely accepted as an ape to man link, Dubois admitted that the skull cap and leg bone were separated by 46 feet. When a scientist who is looking for that ape to man link finds a modern man’s skeleton with a skull that is broken into pieces he will, because of his beliefs, put together that modern man’s skull and give it an ape like appearance. Because of their belief in evolution, what they believe is an ape to man link in reality is not.
Picture of Java Man. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Java-man
The pictures are in the imagination of the person who found only the top part of a skull and 2 inches of a jaw. This person told an artist what to draw based on what he believed Java Man may have looked like.
God has some words about people who take what they believe and try to make it fact.
…but a fool is consumed by his own lips. At the beginning his words are folly;
at the end they are wicked madness-
Ecclesiastes 10:12b-13
What should the children of God be shouting?
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
Psalms 139:14
Why do some Christians believe in evolution as part of God’s creation process?
There are Christians who want to believe in what the Bible teaches, but they also want to believe what the scientists tells us of evolution. But these Christians are wrong. Jesus made this claim.
“Haven’t you read,” he replied, “ that at the beginning the Creator made them
male and female…”
Matthew 19:4
There were no millions of years before man; God created man on the 6th day of creation.
For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes
also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive.
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
Adam brought death to creation; evolution did not bring death long before Adam. If we believe that God used evolution we must believe that there was death before Adam and Eve sinned. How could a God of love allow such a horrible process as disease, suffering and death for millions of years as part of His “very good” creation? We need to accept Genesis as literal history; to understand it as it is written. Many of the New Testament’s teachings like sin, come from a literal historical reading of Genesis.
Where did the races come from, or why do we have all of the people groups?
Watch short video clip.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/bible/origin-of-races/
Are natural selection and evolution the same thing?
No. Natural selection helps animals adapt to a certain environment. Example: The Artic Fox has an excellent white winter coat that keeps out freezing cold that can go down to -70 below zero. Natural selection can give that fox what it needs to survive the artic climate because its genes contain the information for that change. Only 6% of their body weight is fat in the summer months, but that amount increases to 30% in the winter. Also, in winter the Artic Fox’s fur increases 140% in multiple layers on their bodies and extra fur grows on their feet. Natural selection cannot change that fox to a higher animal. That fox will always be a fox. Evolution states that all animals change from a lower form of animal and we know that evolution cannot happen in a world of observable science.
Watch short video clip.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/evolution/natural-selection-evolution/
If this Creator God is so loving, then why did he create a world that is so full of pain and suffering?
Watch short video clip.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/god/pain-and-suffering-check-this-out/
What is the Big Bang?
The Big Bang is a belief about how the universe began. Many people believe that billions of years ago the universe began as a tiny, very hot and dense point about the size of a pea. This point contained all the mass and energy of the universe. It is supposed that over billions of years, the energy from the big bang cooled down as the universe expanded. Some of this energy formed stars and the matter clumped together to form planets. To think that a random expansion could provide us with a planet that is just the right size for its’ gravity to hold an atmosphere and is the perfect distance from the sun for heat and energy. The earth’s rotation is also perfect in stabilizing heat; if the earth did not rotate, one side would be a permanent deep freeze and the other side would be too hot. Did the big bang just happen to give us a magnetic field to protect us from the sun’s deadly radiation and give us the right amount of numerous gases so that we can breathe? Sorry, but no. To think that all this started with a point no bigger than a pea is a bit foolish.
Watch short video clip. www.icr.org/thatsafact. Scroll to Big Bang?
You alone are the Lord. You made the heavens, even the highest heavens,
and all their starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that
is in them. You give life to everything, and the multitudes of heaven worship
you.
Nehemiah 9:6
Does the fossil record show that evolution is true?
Click on http://darwiniana.org/horses.htm
Horse evolution – Evolutionist have developed a chart that shows how horses evolved. This chart, however, was proven wrong 50 years ago. In some places where horse fossils were found, two or more of the horse series have been found buried together in the same layer of rock. This indicates that they lived at the same time and were not distantly related transitions. Scientist found what they claimed to be a fossil of a 15 million year old bat. A few years later they found another fossil of a bat that they dated at 70 million years old. Both fossils look exactly like a modern bat. If evolution were true the 70 million year old bat would have been in a stage of evolving into a modern bat, but it was not. Think about it; as a bat was evolving and had smaller wings, it could not fly and it could not run. There is no possible way it could find food or escape predators.
Watch short video clip. www.icr.org/thatsafact. Scroll down and find whale evolution.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/science/fossils-and-the-flood/
Did birds evolve from dinosaurs?
The answer to that question is no. Dinosaurs are land animals that were created on day 6 and birds were created on day 5 of creation week. Dinosaurs and birds were created as fully developed, 100% dinosaurs and birds by an all-powerful Creator God who shared what and how he created as real history in the first book of the Bible, Genesis. Plus, there are too many physical differences for evolution to possibly occur. Dinosaurs are cold blooded while birds are warm blooded and have a much higher metabolic rate. Bird’s lung and oxygen intake are vastly different than dinosaurs. Feathers are very different from scales in both their structure and growth. There is no way possible that new information could be added to the DNA to change a dinosaur (or any reptile) into a bird. Information can be scrambled or lost, but new information cannot be added to the DNA.
Many biology textbooks and museums make the claim that Archaeopteryx was the perfect transitional fossil, being the perfect intermediate between reptiles and birds. As proof they point to the fact that this ancient bird had teeth, claws on the wings and a long tail. While no modern birds have teeth, there has been another ancient bird fossil with teeth. The ostrich and a South American bird called the hoatzin have claws on their wings. The long tail is a fully feathered tail that you would see on a bird. Most evolutionists now realize that the Archaeopteryx is a true bird after finding more fossils that show a far greater details of its feathers.
What about pictures of dinosaurs with feathers?
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/11/1120021120raptor.html
Scientists that believe in evolution are frustrated because they can’t find fossils of animals that are between reptiles and birds. Because there are no intermediate fossils, they want you to believe that some dinosaurs had feathers. It’s all a lie; dinosaurs are 100% reptile and birds are 100% birds.
Doesn’t chimp DNA prove evolution prove evolution?
Watch short video clip. www.icr.org/thatsafact. Scroll to Chimp DNA, found on “next page”.
What is the perfect evidence for Biblical Creationism?
There is no “magic” evidence to convince a person that strongly believes in evolution to change his belief to that of a Creator God. Yes, there have been people that in their past did not believe in God but have since believed, but that was more of the working of the Holy Spirit than any evidence. People have the same evidence but look at that evidence based on our beliefs. If you study the amazing structure of the cell, a person that believes in a Creator God will praise that God for his wonderful creation. A person that believes in evolution will be amazed that such a complex cell could evolved from a pool of chemicals. Each person is looking at the same cell, yet coming to very different conclusions as to its’ origins. Any evidence you as a believer in Creationism presents to a person who believes in evolution will be looked at as an error on your part. Your evidence is either a lie or you were mistaken in your interpretation of the evidence.
Even though there is no perfect evidence, the best evidence would probably be the information in the DNA. You know that the information in our DNA is incredibly vast and you know that mutations only scramble existing information or lose information. Information has to come from information. God is the beginning of information. Evolution cannot make new information; a Creator God is the only way we can have a creation.
What about “junk” DNA?
Watch short video clip. www.icr.org/thatsafact. Scroll to junk DNA.
Were there really cavemen?
Were there men living in caves? Yes. Were these men dumb brutes grunting around trying to invent fire? No. People were just as intelligent back in ancient times as people are today. We have more things like cars and computers, but that is an accumulation of skills that one generation will pass on to the next, not people getting smarter over time. People would find shelter in caves when they first settled an area or if they were displaced by war or famine. Caves make lousy housing, but if that was the only thing available until more sturdy houses could be built, then living in a damp cave was better than nothing.
We need to get rid of the caveman stereotypes of what we see in textbooks. We need to look at history from a Biblical perspective. For example, it did not take long for people to work metal. Read about advances there were just a few hundred years after creation.
His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who played the harp and
flute. Zillah also had a son, Tubal-Cain, who forged all kinds of tools out of
bronze and iron.
Genesis 4:21-22b
How does the ice age fit in?
Watch short video clip. www.icr.org/thatsafact. Scroll to Ice Age found on “next page”.
Are there two separate creation stories in the book of Genesis, one in chapter 1 and the second in chapter 2?
There appears that in Genesis 1:26-27 God created man and woman together, but in Genesis 2:19-22, God created woman at a certain time after man. Also it appears that in Genesis 2:19, God created man before animals, but in Genesis 1:20-25, God created animals before man. Both can’t be right, or can they? Here is the explanation: In the 1st chapter we read a quick “fly by”, a summary of creation. It gives us a chronological order of events. In chapter 2, God fills in the details of creation that were not given in chapter 1. Chapter 2 is not meant to be read chronologically but simply to give the reader added information regarding the creation account.
I see nature as having similar designs. Doesn’t that point to evolution?
Watch short video clip.
https://answersingenesis.org/media/video/creation/common-designer/
creationminute.com
Click on video. Then click on Don’t suppress the truth.
Is “Survival of the fittest” part of evolution?
Yes it is. Animals do not have a problem wiping another animal into extinction if it can. On many South Pacific islands the Asian Brown Tree Snake which was brought to these islands on ships are in the process of eating the native birds into extinction. If people are only evolved animals, why should we care for weaker people? If evolution is taken to its logical conclusion the weaker people and people groups should be allowed to die. Many evolutionist will make the claim that we evolved into a kind and compassionate people. But then they are embracing the Bible of the Christian faith, a book that they believe is foolish.
Can young earth creationist be real scientist?
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How do we respond to people who believe in evolution?
Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the wave and blown
here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of
men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in
all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ.
Ephesians 4:14-15
But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer
to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But
do this with gentleness and respect, keeping a clear conscience, so that those
who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed
of their slander.
1 Peter 3:15-16
Simply put… we have to study to be knowledgeable and we need to be gracious and gentle in our answers.