Adam's Lost Dream: Global Flood

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Saturday, May 14, 2022

Another Inconvenient Truth 2: Defending Young Earth Creationism by Justin Derby (Review)

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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Thursday, May 31, 2018

Was Francis Schaeffer a Creationist?

Francis Schaeffer and former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop made a groundbreaking video series Whatever Happened To The Human Race? on abortion, euthanasia and related topics. There is also a book version of this shocking documentary. Life issues are critical, but what about the origin of life itself?

Francis Schaeffer (d. 1984) helped popularize the importance of worldview. Schaeffer, looking at his teachings overall, falls into the creationist camp. Schaeffer held to a non-tranquil Universal Flood, the possibility of man-dinosaur coexistence and that nuclear decay rates may not be constant. [1] Schaeffer said this in his commentary on Romans:

There is a tendency in our day to view the first three chapters of Genesis as merely myth or parable, an idea or an allegory. But considering that both Paul and Christ accepted those chapters as real history, if we reject them we are rejecting the authority not only of Paul but even of Christ Himself. ... There was a historical Fall, bringing death to all people, even those who lived before the giving of the law. [2]

That sure sounds like traditional creationism. Genesis is indeed history. Schaeffer was weak on certain points of the Biblical chronology, but if one takes the time to read his complete works, he clearly took a very conservative view on the book of beginnings.

Biographer Colin Duriez states that Schaeffer was "undoubtedly a creationist" but the term itself has a number of shades of meaning. [3] Sadly, theistic evolution is still popular among Christian academics. A better term would be “Theo Evo.” Francis Schaeffer said Theo Evo is not an option,

… I will now mention two limits that seem to me to be absolute. … The Bible gives a specific limitation: Adam was created by God, and then Eve was made from Adam by God. … I have never heard anyone holding any form of theistic evolution who follows these two limitations [the 1st was that bara means original creation]. …even if I were still an agnostic, as once I was, I would not accept the concept of evolution from the molecule to man in an unbroken line. …this concept is weak and certainly has not been proven … [4]

Frank Schaeffer, who worked on the fantastic animated film The Great

Evangelical Disaster, in contrast, should not be tagged as a creationist.

For another interpretation of Schaeffer's vision for understanding origins, see the creation statement straight from L'abri itself (last page).

Notes:

1) Complete Works of Francis Schaeffer by Francis Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, IL, 1982), Vol. 2, pp. 94, 95, 132, 134.

2) The Finished Work of Christ by Francis A. Schaeffer (Crossway, Wheaton, IL, 1998), p. 141

3) Francis Schaeffer: An Authentic Life by Colin Duriez (Crossway, Wheaton, IL, 2008), p. 201.

4) The Complete Works of Francis A. Schaeffer, Vol. 2, 2e (Crossway, 1996), pp. 136, 137.

Monday, May 23, 2016

The Chicago Statement, ICBI, Walter Bradley & Henry Morris (Pt. 2)

The inerrancy movement led to the Chicago Statement generated by the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy (ICBI). To get the background read Part 1.

Walter Bradley, former Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M, wrote a very influential paper “The Trustworthiness of Scripture in Areas Relating to Natural Science” which abandons Creation In Six Days (CISD), Young Earth Science (YES) and the Global Flood. Unfortunately, Bradley claimed in another work (Three Views on Creation and Evolution) that bacteria death is a problem for traditional creation. Not so, as Andrew Kulikovsky explains:

However, this is a straw-man argument. To be frank, it is common courtesy to learn what people actually teach before criticizing them (but to be fair, the choice of creationist spokesmen might not have given him the chance, at least as far as the book was concerned). The major creationist organizations like Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research have never taught that plants, microbes or individual cells didn’t die before the Fall, but only nephesh (soul) creatures.

Our review of Three Views on Creation and Evolution can be found here.

The companion book to the Chicago Statement on Hermeneutics was Hermeneutics, Inerrancy, and the Bible (1984). In that book, Bruce Waltke states, "... many Evangelicals err egregiously against the text [Gen. 1:1 - 2:3] by reading it as a scientific treatise. ... it is not history in the proper sense of that term because no man was present to record the events at the time of creation." [1] This is not a real stumbling block for Orthodox Protestants who take Genesis as Historical Narrative (OPGHN, "opgane"). God was present and active during Creation Week. The Lord communicated with Adam in the cool of the evening (Gen. 3:8). [2] Furthermore, it's very reasonable that Adam himself wrote the early part of Genesis with Moses as editor. In 2001 Waltke said this,

The days of creation may also pose difficulties for a strict historical account. Contemporary scientists almost unanimously discount the possibility of creation in one week, and we cannot summarily discount the evidence of the earth sciences.

Now we can clearly see that the Slippery Slope Syndrome is real. Bruce Waltke (formerly at Reformed Theological Seminary - Orlando) now favors theistic evolution and warned evangelicals that rejecting evolution earns the label “cult.”

Once believers see that the Deluge really happened, a young earth is obviously the best option. Consider these timely words from Henry Morris:

... the whole geological-age system is based squarely on the philosophy of uniformitarianism ... the actual data of the geologic column can be explained at least as well in terms of recent catastrophism ... [3]

Morris also points out that widely accepted dating methods deserve closer scrutiny:

... the few physical processes that seem to point to an old earth (e.g. uranium decay) in terms of the uniformitarian assumptions on which they are based will show that these assumptions are not only unproved but are also untestable and unreasonable. All the real history we have (that is, written human records) goes back only a few thousand years. [4]

YES - Young Earth Science is a great book that defends a youthful planet from History and Science. This work documents numerous natural processes that indicate a young earth.

A Biblical WorldView requires us to take a strong stand on Genesis because Jesus did as well (Mk. 10:6, Mk. 13:19, Lk. 11:50,51). Genesis and true Geology do not contradict!

Beloved, while I was making every effort to write you about our common salvation, I felt the necessity to write to you appealing that you contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all handed down to the saints. ... It was also about these men that Enoch, in the seventh generation from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with many thousands of His holy ones" ... In the last time there will be mockers ... But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit ... And have mercy on some, who are doubting ... (Jude vv. 3, 14, 18, 20, 22)

If you have not read The Genesis Flood by John Whitcomb and Henry Morris, I highly recommend it!

Notes:

1) Hermeneutics, Inerrancy, and the Bible ed. by Earl Radmacher and Robert Preus (Zondervan, Grand Rapids, MI, 1984), p. 108.

2) Bing Crosby even sang a song about it, "Shore! said the dinosaur."

3) Radmacher and Preus, p. 345.

4) Ibid., p. 346, emphasis in original.

Monday, March 14, 2016

The End of Free Speech?

Stop the dialog on climate change (~global warming), just put people in jail! Twenty climate scientists favor the use of RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations) to attack climate skeptics.

These climate change activists include Paul Dirmeyer (George Mason), William Lau (Univ. of MD), Vasu Misra (Florida State), Robert Dickinson (Univ. of Texas) and Lisa Goddard (Earth Institute) among others.

We have been burning fossil fuels for hundreds of years yet global temperature clearly tracks with solar activity.

A paper that appeared in Physics Letters A in 2014 showed a clear correlation between the temperature of the Pacific ocean (blue) and solar activity (red).

RSS (Remote Sensing Systems satellite) data indicate that there has been no global warming since 1997.

A great video resource on this controversy is Global Warming - A Scientific and Biblical Exposé of Climate Change featuring Calvin Beisner (Cornwall Alliance), Jason Lisle, Michael Oard, Larry Vardiman and Jay Wile.

A great book that deals with climate change, intelligent design, the reality of the soul, the Global Flood, gay marriage and other hot worldview topics is Sacred Cows In Science: No Objectivity Allowed, edited by Norbert Smith (Ph.D. Zoology, Texas Tech). Smith appeared in the BBC's A Smile for the Crocodile.

As long as the earth endures,

seedtime and harvest,

cold and heat,

summer and winter,

day and night

will never cease.

- Gen. 8:22

Adam's Lost Dream

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Evolution of Evolution (Part 2)

Saturday, May 14, 2022

Another Inconvenient Truth 2: Defending Young Earth Creationism by Justin Derby (Review)

Thursday, May 31, 2018

Was Francis Schaeffer a Creationist?

Monday, May 23, 2016

The Chicago Statement, ICBI, Walter Bradley & Henry Morris (Pt. 2)

Monday, March 14, 2016

The End of Free Speech?

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