All too often young-Earth vs old-Earth creation debates on the internet begin and end with mudslinging. JD Longmire, for the young-Earth side, and Riley Barton, for the old-Earth side, have modeled a better way in their recent written debate. Each firmly defends their position, but does so with grace and respect. This does not mean …
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Let me tell you about everything I did yesterday. I woke up at 5:45 and read thirty-two chapters in my Bible. After that, I did my regular thirty-mile bike ride, then gathered eggs from the henhouse and butchered a pig so I could fix myself bacon and eggs for breakfast. After breakfast I went to …
"I therefore, a prisoner for the Lord, urge you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which you have been called, with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love, eager to maintain the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and …
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Makoshika State Park near Glendive, Montana, has a semiarid climate with hot summers and very cold winters, but a long time ago it had the perfect climate for dinosaurs. Lots of dinosaurs. And then they died. Makoshika badlands. Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons Makoshika (emphasis on the KO syllable) is known for its …
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One thing I’m self-conscious about in social interactions is when I am uncertain about whether I’ve already told someone a certain story. Like about the time I clipped the corner of a parked car while attempting parallel parking in Bucharest, Romania, and spent hours in the police station waiting to submit my paperwork. Or about …
Dr Walt Brown, the tireless promoter of hydroplate theory—one version of young-Earth creationist geology—died and went to be with his savior on September 27, 2025. I'll start by saying that though I think Walt Brown was wrong about many things, he was likely right about what is most important: Christ is the resurrection and the …
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Alexander, Denis, & McGrath, Alister (Eds.). (2023). Coming to Faith Through Dawkins: 12 Essays on the Pathway from New Atheism to Christianity. Kregel. https://www.kregel.com/biography/coming-to-faith-through-dawkins/ The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God.’ – Psalm 14:1 (ESV) This problem of meaning was what truly laid bare the poverty of atheism. – Sarah Irving-Stonebraker What …
Here's a video from the Institute for Creation Research, introduced by ICR with, "Did a Global Flood Really Happen? Here's the Proof!" Facebook Video — https://www.facebook.com/reel/879149367477349 TikTok — https://www.tiktok.com/@daystartv/video/7413878648874339615?_r=1&_t=ZP-8z953y7HFwk I know that Randy Guliuzza of the Institute for Creation Research (ICR) has good intentions. Like me, he believes the Bible is inerrant and authoritative, and …
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A major problem with young-Earth creationist (YEC) flood geology—aside from it not being taught in Genesis—is the sheer number of geological events that need to be squeezed into a very short period of time. When one considers the numbers and diversity of igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic rock bodies; the complex nature of the fossil record, …
Rethinking Radiometric Dating: Evidence for a Young Earth from a Nuclear Physicist by Vernon Cupps was published in 2019 and is part of the Institute for Creation Research’s “In-Depth Science” series of books. The book has 19 short chapters spread over 138 pages. Six of the chapters have only three pages of text, and none …
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Social media, such as Facebook, is replete with memes, which are captioned pictures that often rapidly spread from one user to another. Many of these are humorous; others seek to inform. I'll start with a fun meme to start things off: With memes like this, there is no need for me to point out that …
I was a young-Earth creationist (YEC) before I was a Christian. I'll qualify that statement a bit. I became a YEC at age 15, but did not understand the gospel of God's grace through Jesus Christ until age 19. That is when I came to a clear faith in Christ and began to experience real …
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Imagine that The Lord of the Rings ended with Frodo Baggins standing in the magma-lit cavern in Mount Doom and saying, "I have come, but I do not choose now to do what I came to do. I will not do this deed. The Ring is mine!" and then putting the ring on his finger. …
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Davidson, Gregg, and Turner, Kenneth. The Manifold Beauty of Genesis One: A Multi-Layered Approach. Kregel Academic, 2021, 210 p. There are many Bible-believing Christians who see no conflict between the opening chapters of Genesis and acceptance of an ancient Earth and universe. There are also many ways in which these old-Earth Christians interpret Genesis. A …
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When two people meet for the first time, it is common for them to get to know each other by asking questions about family and work. I am a husband, father, grandparent, church member, and employee. Outside of my family, church, workplace, and community I am best known as a science writer. I have authored …
My young-Earth creationist (YEC) friends often have misconceptions about how old-Earth Christians (OECs) such as myself interpret the book of Genesis. Sometimes they are simply a bit bewildered, wondering how any Christian could interpret Genesis in any other way than how they do. Some YECs, on the other hand, are much more blunt, accusing OECs …
All I got from Mt St Helens (MSH) in the days following its May 18, 1980 eruption was a few pretty sunsets. I was an undergraduate student in my first year at the University of Utah, and most of the ash cloud passed far north of Salt Lake City. MSH became more significant for me …
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One thing that makes Earth Science: God’s World, Our Home (now from Classical Academic Press) stand out from its competitors in the middle-school textbook market is its treatment of Earth stewardship. Earth care is not something we do just for pragmatic or emotional reasons but because stewardship of the creation is part of God’s mandate …
The Fool and the Heretic by Todd Charles Wood & Darrel R. Falk, Zondervan, 2019. Are young-Earth creationists intellectual fools? Are theistic evolutionists heretics? More fundamentally, can two Christians, one who is an ardent young-Earth creationist, and the other a committed theistic evolutionist, learn to respectfully dialogue and even love one another deeply as brothers …
This five-minute "Noah's Flood and Catastrophic Plate Tectonics" video was recently released by Genesis Apologetics. It has as shown up in my Facebook feed several times this week, so I decided to watch it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V68p75xhrSk I have no doubt that the producer(s) of this video mean well. They believe the Bible, and want to provide …
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