In Institute for Creation Research Graduate School v. Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, (WD TX, June 18, 2010), a Texas federal district court upheld the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s refusal to grant the Institute of Creation Research Graduate School a certificate of authority to offer a Master of Science degree with a major in ...
The avoidance of this question about the age of the universe will come at the cost of our own credibility. But disaster ensues when the book of natural revelation is used to trump the book of special revelation. We would not be having this discussion today if these questions were not being posed to us ...
“And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent. And Ham, the father of Canaan, saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. And Shem and Japheth took a garment, and laid ...
If we deny the historicity of Adam, “then the question will never allow itself to be finally suppressed: Is not Christ in his resurrection also a ‘teaching model’…?” (6) If the historicity of the first Adam is considered irrelevant to us, why then should the historicity of the second Adam not also be irrelevant to ...
Theophilus was a Christian in the second century. We are blessed to have some of his writings with us today. Here are his comments concerning the flood and the age of the earth. Chapter 19 (Click here for online version.) Accurate Account Of The Deluge And neither does he make out that there was a ...
It seems fashionable today for a person to state that creationism is of recent origin. In fact, those who claim this often take their claim further and state that it began with E.G. White and the Seventh Day Adventists. Is this so? What does history tell us about this? Consider: We know from Moses that ...
As scholars, teachers, preachers, professors, et al discuss the Genesis creation account there are varied perspectives. An age old joke asks “What do you get when you put three Baptists in a room?” Answer: “Five opinions.” The opinions concerning Genesis chapters 1-2 (and sometimes expanding to chapter 11) are proliferating in like manner. In fact, ...
The Existence of God “The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Day unto day uttereth speech, and night unto night sheweth knowledge. There is no speech nor language, where their voice is not heard. ” (Psalm 19:1–3, KJV) The Scriptures begin not with an argument for the existence of ...
It seems that the going thing for many is to draw parallels between the Genesis Creation account and various myths from the ancient Near East. I have not read much from the ancient Near East, but what I have read seems to be more dis-similar than similar. Why the parallelism/parallelomania? Are there truly parallels to ...
Popular opinion has it that most people, even Christians- ESPECIALLY Christians- believed in a flat earth until the time of Columbus. For Columbus Day 2009 the flat earth myth is shown for what it is-MYTH. Read it here. Download it here. Popular opinion has it that most people, even Christians- ESPECIALLY Christians- believed in a ...