Former old-earther Justin
Derby has forcefully argued for
the traditional interpretation of Genesis in his latest tome
Another Inconvenient Truth 2: Defending
Young Earth Creationism.
He
unabashedly confronts the compromising teachings from the likes of William Lane
Craig, Frank Turek, John Lennox and Mike Licona.
Derby is the creator of Creation.Social - a
pro free speech platform.
Derby takes the chronologies from Genesis chapters five
and eleven to lay out the timeline from Adam to Abraham. He also takes 1 Kings 6:1 which tells us that
the interval from the Exodus to the fourth year of Solomon's reign encompasses
480 years. These facts imply that our
wonderful planet is 6133 years old in 2022.
The young earth position is evidenced by Scripture and
science. One easy to understand example
in the book is the discovery of soft tissue in dinosaur remains discovered by
Mary Schweitzer (pp. 45-49). Soft tissue should not
be present after 65 million years.
Derby has a helpful discussion of debate strategies
regarding origins. He details the advice
and methods of Eugenie Scott, Bill Nye and Duane Gish. I sat next to Gish at a Creation meeting as a
teen.
Frank Turek seems to think that the rotation of the earth
poses a problem for how the Bible relates to science (p. 137). Consider this: "You have commanded the morning ... That it might take
hold of the ends of the earth ... It is turned as clay to the seal ..."
(Job 38:12-14). Henry Morris (d. 2006),
the founder of modern creationism, comments: "This figurative expression
refers to God’s initiation of the earth’s rotation ... like a rotating clay
cylinder exposing the impressions of the seal, the earth turns to the sun ...
exposing the wicked and their works of the night." Turek should read more books from the young
earth aisle.
If the earth is relatively young, then evolution must
go. Derby quotes a lesser known section
of Darwin's Origin of Species (pp.
76,77). At first, Darwin says that we may have started with five
basic kinds of animals in the beginning.
Would that mean five essential types of plants too? Later, Darwin posits that all life came from
one primordial form.
If you read Genesis in a forthright manner, it is very
clear that Creation took place over six normal days, Noah's Flood was global
and our world is only thousands of years old (not billions). Derby brings out a key verse to prove this
point (p. 143): "When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal
myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he
is faithful in all my house. With him I
speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles ..." (Num. 12:6-8).
Derby shares his take on the "slippery slope"
(doctrine downgrade), alternative media platforms, net censorship, inerrancy,
James Hutton - who "discovered" deep time, Erwin Lutzer, why folks
reject evolution and tons of other engaging issues.
Derby holds that denying the young earth position is
heretical (pp. 57-64).
Some of the
historic creeds and confessions define creation in six real days, but none make
a six thousand year old earth a salvation issue.
John Calvin's
Institutes of the Christian Religion is a systematic survey of essential
doctrine.
Regarding "profane men,"
Calvin stated (Inst., Ch. 21, Sec. 4): "Nor will they abstain from their
jeers when told that little more than five thousand years have elapsed since
the creation of the world.
For they will
ask, Why did the power of God slumber so long in idleness?"
Derby provides a list of helpful young earth resources at
the end of his book such as the Northwest Creation Network and Adam's Lost
Dream. If you want to learn more about
the young earth stance, get this book.
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