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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Family Camp - Get Lost for Fun & Prophet

Family Camp is a laugh-a-minute joy ride with a 16 ton punch line.  It opens FRI (5-13-22).  This film was beyond fantastic (★★★★★½) - you must go see it.

Note: this review may contain a few spoilers, but not spoiled tomatoes. ☺

Did I cry?  Yes.  Did I laugh out loud at Tinseltown Theater? ... dozens of times.  Can I relate to the serious family problems portrayed in the movie?  You bet.

Fave line: "I'm a fake."

Fave miracle: Bernie the Beaver loves honey.

Fave prayer: "Please God, give me another chance."

I thought it was super cool when Tommy's daughter pushed her "boyfriend" into the river.

I've spent some time in Eastern Oklahoma - it's God's country for sure.  I even have a t-shirt that says "Vote Squatch for President."

You won't regret watching this mega-hilarious film.  Unlike Murder by Natural Causes (1979), this movie does have a definite ending.  To all who are in the creative arts (movies, music, novelists etc.), I highly recommend "Art and the Bible" by Francis Schaeffer as a guideline for applying a worldview perspective to creationary projects.

This film has everything you always wanted to know about Intergalactic Chiropractic!  #LetsGoHarmonica

This work has "family" written all over it.  But how pro-family are you?  You may dig my take on saving the kids here (Zombie Remyx).

"A joyful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones" (Pr. 17:22).

Me & Tommy >>

 My nephew, who had a non-speaking role, and Tommy >>

 

BABIES (Zombie Parody)

BABIES by ice-j (Zombie Parody), 5-4-22 AD

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Another head gets crushed

Babies slowly taken

Come now hear the screams of silence

We are so mistaken

 

I've been stabbed, I'm not free

Torn from my family

Smashed my head, full-on Dead

We are fighting

With forceps and their vacs

And their pills and their guns

It's my head, so bloody Red

We are crying

 

Thou Shalt Not Murder, Thou Shalt Not Murder

Babies, Babies, Babies

I am Special, I am Human

Babies, Babies, Babies

 

Mothers' hearts breaking

Execution's over

Now I fear the sound of silence

Consciences are aching

 

My sister just screamed

No more Sweet Sixteen

In your womb, in your womb

I'm still fighting

With their salt and their bombs

And their misoprostol

We've been mislead, that's what I said!

I am dying‼

 

Thou Shalt Not Murder, Thou Shalt Not Murder

Babies, Babies, Babies

I am Special, I am Human

Babies, Babies, Babies

Get back Doc, get over there

This is my "No-No" square ‼ ‼

 

Children are a heritage from the Lord,

    offspring a reward from him.

Like arrows in the hands of a warrior

    are children born in one’s youth.

Blessed is the man

    whose quiver is full of them. ... (Ps. 127:3-5)

 

Children’s children are a crown to the aged,

    and parents are the pride of their children. (Pr. 17:6)

 

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Special thanks to the Skit Guys for the last two lines of my parody.  Their new movie Family Camp comes out next Friday (5-13-22).  I've met Pastor Tommy numerous times.  Jeff "Ninja Turtle" Durbin lays down some pro-baby truths before the Colorado legislature.  I met Bro Durbin last year.  You may be familiar with Skillet's pro-life song "Lucy."  John Cooper explains the song here.  They played in OKC recently, but I missed it.  

 

Bad Wolves does a superb cover of "Zombie."  Live Action offers a graphic description of the abortion procedure.

 

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Walt Not Wet (Wide Awake Dub Myx)

Have you ever gotten wet on the log ride?  Did that happen to Walt Disney (d. 1966)?  I have been to both Disneys.  We were rained out of the Dumbo ride a few years ago in Orlando.  I did enjoy the parade.  Disney's scandal regarding employees who committed child sex crimes has come under severe scrutiny lately.  Does this destroy Disney's reputation as being pro-family?

 

Dan Geffers wore a t-shirt to the Disney World park that read “Hello Boys and Girls, Ladies and Gentlemen” on the back and something like "Walt Not Wet" on the front (rhymes with "choke").  Sadly, Disney Television Animation executive producer Latoya Raveneau bragged about adding gender confusion to kids programming.

What would Mickey Mouse say?

   ♪ "M-I-C-K-E-Y U-R-Not-O-K" ♫

How would Goofy respond?  What was President Obama's take on the family?  Before he was President, Obama (b. 1961) said this during a Father's Day address,

 

... too many fathers ... [are] missing from too many lives and too many homes. ... [they] have abandoned their responsibilities, acting like boys instead of men.  And the foundations of our families are weaker because of it.  ... children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools and twenty times more likely to end up in prison.[1] 

 

Check out this chart on how the family has been portrayed in Disney films from 1937 to 2017:

 

The 1960 Disney film Swiss Family Robinson clearly portrays a nuclear family.  In the original story, Der Schweizerische Robinson, they are shipwrecked in the East Indies (Malaysia, Indonesia and the Philippines - been there 7x).  Remember the scene with Francis and the elephant?  All people groups around the globe are of one blood: "And he made from one man [blood, αίματος] every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place, that they should seek God, and perhaps feel their way toward him and find him. ..." (Acts 17:26,27).  All our ancestry diagrams go back to Noah and ultimately back to Adam.

Nathan Jeanson, who I met in 2010, has a Ph.D. in Cell & Developmental Biology from Harvard.  He shows in his latest book Traced that the spread of humans around the globe fits well with the Genesis as History timeline.  For instance, Scandinavians came from Arabs who came from Nubians who have connections to ancient Egypt.

Maybe Disney should consider the heroes of the Civil Rights era.  Martin Luther King (MLK) said, "We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love. ...We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."  Have you read The Autobiography of Malcolm X by Alex Haley (Roots)?  Have you seen Spike Lee's film Malcolm X starring Denzel Washington?  Late in life, Malcolm became a traditional Muslim.  Fewer than one percent of Islamic men have more than one wife in countries where it is legal.     

 

Alveda King (MLK's niece) has written King Rules: Ten Truths for You, Your Family, and Our Nation to Prosper.  Here are the chapter titles:

She speaks of the importance of the extended family and reunions: "This premium family interaction is something that was passed down through every generation and remains relevant in our lives now.  When I was young, the family branches often came together for big family dinners."[2]  When was the last time you went to a family reunion?  Do you still have the t-shirt?  Alveda describes her routine with her immediate family, "In the Birth Home there is another room where the family gathered every day, the dining room.  Harmony is good for the digestion, and differences were rarely aired in that room.  Instead, the dining room was a place where delicious meals for the body were served along with food for thought and development of the soul.[3]

 

Better a little with the fear of the Lord

    than great wealth with turmoil.

Better a small serving of vegetables with love

    than a fattened calf with hatred.

A hot-tempered person stirs up conflict,

    but the one who is patient calms a quarrel. (Pr. 15:16-18)

 

If you are looking for a Geffers style t-shirt, I thought this design was rockin' sharp.  Thx to AJC for the Alveda pic. I have been in the offices of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.  My father-in-law and sister-in-law used to work there.  I am a former journalist and had the privilege to interview Maya Angelou (d. 2014).

 

 

Notes:

1) quoted in Faultlines by Voddie Baucham (Salem Books/Regnery, Wash. DC, 2021), p. 160.

2) King Rules: Ten Truths for You, Your Family, and Our Nation to Prosper by Alveda King (Thomas Nelson, Nashville, TN, 2014), p. 10.

3) Ibid., p. 11.

 

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