• The Bible stands or falls on the reliability of Genesis
    • The Bible describes Creation as six literal days
      • Hebrew “yom” = “day”
      • Morris: “Yom” with a numeric or ordinal modifier always means a literal day.
      • Rogers: “These days have gone so quickly.” vs “These five days have gone so quickly.”
    • Bible genealogies reveal Adam lived roughly 6,000 years ago.
      • Genesis 5
      • Present à Christ: 2,000 years
      • Christ à Abraham: 2,000 years
      • Abraham à Adam: 2,000 years
      • Total: 6,000 years
    • The rest of the Bible refers to Genesis as real, historical fact.
      • Matthew 19:4
    • So what’s the problem?
      • Long periods of time required for evolution.
  • Radioisotope dating methods are wildly unreliable.
    • Based on assumptions
      • Initial conditions
      • No outside interference
      • Rate of decay always the same.
    • Hulalai Basalt (AD 1800-1801) – dated at 1.4-1.6 million years old
    • … many other examples of known incorrect dates
  • Mount St. Helens proved that catastrophes can make huge geological changes (… so think about a global flood!)
    • Geologists leaned how quickly canyons can form!
      • Genesis 7:11
    • The Yellowstone Petrified Forest was reinterpreted.
      • Spirit Lake after Mount St. Helens
  • Original tissue is being discovered in dinosaur bones (and it shouldn’t be there if they are 65 million years old)
  • II Peter 3:3-7 – Good science and the Bible are not enemies!