Answers to the Top 50 Questions About Genesis, Creation, and Noah's Flood
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ANSWERS TO THE TOP 50 QUESTIONS ABOUT GENESIS, CREATION, AND NOAH’S FLOOD Daniel A. Biddle, Ph.D. Copyright © 2018 by Genesis Apologetics, Inc. E-mail: [email protected] www.genesisapologetics.com A 501(c)(3) ministry equipping youth pastors, parents, and students with Biblical answers for evolutionary teaching in public schools. The entire contents of this book (including videos) are available online: www.genesisapologetics.com/faqs Answers to the Top 50 Questions about Genesis, Creation, and Noah’s Flood by Daniel A. Biddle, Ph.D. Printed in the United States of America ISBN-13: 978-1727870305 ISBN-10: 1727870301 All rights reserved solely by the author. The author guarantees all contents are original and do not infringe upon the legal rights of any other person or work. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the permission of the author. The views expressed in this book are not necessarily those of the publisher. Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Print Version November 2019 Dedication To my wife, Jenny, who supports me in this work. To my children Makaela, Alyssa, Matthew, and Amanda, and to your children and your children’s children for a hundred generations—this book is for all of you. We would like to acknowledge Answers in Genesis (www.answersingenesis.org), the Institute for Creation Research (www.icr.org), and Creation Ministries International (www.creation.com). Much of the content herein has been drawn from (and is meant to be in alignment with) these Biblical Creation ministries. “Guard what has been entrusted to you, avoiding worldly and empty chatter and the opposing arguments of what is falsely called ‘knowledge’—which some have professed and thus gone astray from the faith. Grace be with you.” 1 Tim. 6:20–21 “This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.” Psalm 118:23 v Contents About the Author ....................................................................... 9 Introduction .............................................................................. 10 How to Be Effective in Creation Apologetics.......................... 10 Age of the Earth: Does the Bible Really Say That God Created Everything in Six Days Just 6,000 Years Ago? .................................................................................... 14 Aliens ....................................................................................... 27 Antibiotic Resistance ............................................................... 27 Archaeopteryx .......................................................................... 27 Asteroids: Did a Massive Asteroid Kill off the Dinosaurs? ........................................................................... 29 Babel Dispersion and Human Genetics.................................... 30 Behemoth ................................................................................. 30 Cain (mark of) .......................................................................... 40 Cain (wife of) ........................................................................... 41 Carbon-14 Dating ..................................................................... 42 Civilizations before the Flood .................................................. 49 Climate Change ........................................................................ 50 Creation Days ........................................................................... 51 Dendrochronology (Tree Ring Dating) .................................... 52 Dinosaurs: Were They on the Ark? .......................................... 52 Dinosaur Soft Tissue ................................................................ 53 Dragons .................................................................................... 66 Flat Earth .................................................................................. 68 Fossils—Do They Support Creation or Evolution? ................. 69 Gap Theory .............................................................................. 79 vii Genesis 1 and 2: Do They Provide Two Different Accounts of Creation? .......................................................... 81 Genetics Part 1: Recent Variations Match Recent Creation ................................................................................ 84 Genetics Part 2: DNA Clocks Exactly Confirm Recent Creation ................................................................................ 86 Gilgamesh (Epic): Which Came First–Noah’s Flood or the Gilgamesh Epic? ............................................................ 88 Human and Chimp DNA: Is It Really 98% Similar? ................ 91 Human Fossils: Why Don’t We Find Humans Buried with Dinosaurs? .................................................................. 114 Human Hearing System .......................................................... 116 Ice Age .................................................................................... 117 Ice Cores ................................................................................. 118 Kangaroos: How Did They Make It All the Way to Australia from Where the Ark Landed? ............................. 120 Languages from Babel ............................................................ 126 Leviathan................................................................................. 127 Lifespans Before the Flood: How Did People Live to Be 900 Years Old Before the Flood? ....................................... 130 Moses: Did He Really Produce the Torah (the first five books of the Bible)? ........................................................... 132 Nephilim (Giants) ................................................................... 136 Noah’s Flood: Catastrophic Plate Tectonics ........................... 137 Noah’s Flood: How Could All the Animals Fit on the Ark? .................................................................................... 160 Noah’s Flood: How Could the Ark Have Been Seaworthy? ......................................................................... 162 Noah’s Flood: How Did People and Animals Disperse Around the World after the Flood? .................................... 164 Noah’s Flood: How Did Vegetation Spread Rapidly after the Flood? .................................................................. 164 Noah’s Flood: Where Did All the Water Come From? .......... 167 Noah’s Flood: Worldwide or Local? ...................................... 167 Pre-flood World—What Was It Like? ................................... 170 Races: Where Did They Come From? ................................... 178 Radiometric Dating: Doesn’t it Show that the Earth is 4.5 Billion Years Old? ....................................................... 189 Red in Tooth and Claw: If Animals Were First Created to Be Vegetarian, Why Do Many Look like They Were Designed to Be Carnivores? .................................... 202 Science: Does Evolution Theory Hold up to the Rigors of “True Science”? ............................................................ 204 Starlight: Doesn’t Distant Starlight Prove Creation Is Billions of Years Old? ....................................................... 206 Sun Day 4: How Can Light Exist During the First Three Days of Creation When the Sun Was Not Created until the Fourth Day? ......................................................... 211 Theistic Evolution: What’s Wrong with the Idea That God Used Evolution to Create Everything? ...................... 212 Tiktaalik & Coelacanth .......................................................... 220 Water: When was it Created? ................................................. 224 Wisdom Teeth: Are they Leftovers from Evolution? ............ 224 Helpful Resources .................................................................. 229 Prayer of Salvation ................................................................. 230 Endnotes ................................................................................. 234 ix About the Author Dr. Daniel A. Biddle is president of Genesis Apologetics, Inc., a 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to equipping youth pastors, parents, and students with Biblical answers for evolutionary teaching in public schools. Daniel has trained thousands of students in Biblical Creation and evolution and is the author of several Creation books and other publications. Daniel’s experience and qualifications include a Ph.D. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant University in San Francisco, California, an M.A. in Organizational Psychology from Alliant, and a B.S. in Organizational Behavior from the University of San Francisco. Daniel has worked as an expert consultant and/or witness in over 100 state and federal cases in the areas of research methodologies and analysis. About the Ministry Genesis Apologetics is a non-profit 501(c)(3) ministry that equips Christian students and their parents with faith- building materials that affirm a Biblical Creation worldview. We are committed to providing Christian families with Biblically and scientifically accurate answers to the evolutionary theory that public schools propagate. Our doctrinal position on Biblical Creation aligns with Answers in Genesis and the Institute for Creation Research (ICR), which take Genesis at face value, including its testimony of a miraculous creation and Flood that occurred thousands, not millions of years ago. Genesis Apologetics offers the following free online training