What is the Gospel? 1. God sent His son Jesus Christ to earth, to become one of us, and to die on the cross in our stead for forgiveness of sins. All have sinned and fall short of the glory of God (Romans 3:23). 2. As it is written: “There is no one righteous, not even one; there is no one who understands; there is no one who seeks God. All have turned away, they have together become worthless; there is no one who does good, not even one." Romans 3:10-12 3. The wages of sin is [eternal] death (Romans 6:23). 4. The free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord (Romans 6:23b). 5. Confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead (Romans 10:9). What is sin, and where did it come from? 1. It comes from the story of Adam and Eve in Genesis. 2. God created the world to be perfect, with only one stipulation: not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 3. The serpent tempted Eve who ate from the tree and gave the fruit to Adam who was with her, who also ate. 4. They were told by the serpent that their eyes would be opened and that they shall be as like gods, knowing good and evil. 5. That choice, multiplied today with that kind of temptation, drives the propagation of evil in the world. How does evolution destroy the power of the gospel? 1. Lyell in his Principles of Geology, made it clear that he intended to refute the authority of the Bible by proposing millions of years of earth history as a refutation of the timeline of the Bible. 2. Darwin was angry at God because his favorite daughter died at 10 years old. His motive for proposing the theory of evolution was a means to kill God. 3. Because the founders of evolution theory were ardent opponents of Christianity and the Bible, we should not regard them as scientific authorities, nor should we attempt to reconcile the Bible to their theories. 4. Bible scholars should not have to apologize for the Bible contradicting scientific error and lies. What are some of the compromise positions? 1. Day-age theory 2. Gap Theory 3. Theistic Evolution 4. Framework Hypothesis https://answersingenesis.org/creationism/old-earth/whats-wrong-with-the-framework-hypothesis/

This is a historic argument by Creationists used by Henry M. Morris in The Genesis Flood. Walter Lammerts in the 1960’s documented a long list of out of order strata that didn’t fit the traditional geologic column proposed by evolutionists. In 2001, we set out to explore the scope of the strata mix-up in Glacier National Park. First identified by Willis in 1901, the rock strata on top are identified as Precambrian, but the layer underneath is Cretaceous. The Cretaceous has dinosaur fossils, but the Precambrian is supposed to be the age before life evolved. Geologists call this an “overthrust” but the evidence for rock movement doesn’t exist Many years ago, John Read produced a film strip called Rocks, Strata and Evolution, showing the research done at Glacier National Park by Clifford Burdick. They excavated the contact between the two layers and found that it was like a knife edge. If there was a substantial amount of movement that shoved the Precambrian mountain on top of the Cretaceous rock, there would be evidence of that movement. That evidence would be slickensides, fault gouge, breccia, and rubble resulting from movement. One of the prominent features of the park is Chief Mountain, where the out of order sequence is clearly visible all around the mountain. To move an entire set of mountains 300 miles long 50 miles to the east would take tremendous earth forces. These layers instead appear to be water deposited on top of each other with no signs of movement.

Interviewing James Perloff, author of Tornado in a Junkyard, about his interest in the various Bible manuscrip;ts that led to the different versions we have today. He is a proponent of the Septuagint version used by the Orthodox church versus the Masoretic text which has a shorter timeline for the history of the Bible. The Septuagint has a chronology that is longer which matches archaeological discoveries and extra biblical history better.

This is a review of the Dalai Lama's book "The Universe in a Single Atom." The beginning of his book deals with his life in isolation in Tibet, his exile, and encounters with scientists in the world. "The Universe in a Single Atom" is self-contradictory. How can the universe be contained in a single atom if the atom is part of the universe? The Dalai Lama admits that Buddhism must be willing to adapt the rudimentary physics of atomic theories despite longstanding authority and tradition. Early Buddhist theory of atoms proposes that matter is constituted by four elements: earth, air, water and fire. Then there are derivative substances: form, smell, taste and tactility. (Pg. 52-53). These foundational Buddhist ideas are in direct opposition to what we know to be true about the elements today. Central to Buddhism is the theory of emptiness. (Pg, 66) (Pg 68). Buddhism rejects essentialism: a belief that things have a set of characteristics which make them what they are, and that the task of science and philosophy is their discovery and expression; the doctrine that essence is prior to existence. This is contrary to absolute truth. Tibet had complex myths of creation that originated in the pre-Buddhist religion of Bön. Shouldn’t a religion have an account that goes back to the very beginning? It brought order out of chaos, light out of darkness, existence out of nothingness. (Pg 76-77). Buddha really didn’t bother to explain origins. The Pali canon lists fourteen unanswered questions (Pg 78). Early Buddhist Abhidharman cosmology invokes a flat earth around which celestial bodies revolve. (Pg. 79). Buddhist thought allows you to question the literal truth of any cosmology. There is a Kalachakra cosmology that allows for the evolution of celestial bodies within multiple universes. The Buddhist view asks the question if the big bang is the origin of everything or just our universe. They also reject an ultimate cause. Luther Townsend’s book "The Bible and the Nineteenth Century" makes an important point in that pagan religions and philosophies espouse at their foundation blatant unscientific origin theories and cosmologies. The Bible writers were aware of these ideas but chose by divine revelation not to incorporate those errors into the Bible. This validates the Bible as the word of God. The Bible does not need to compromise with error, and that holds true with modern evolutionary cosmology.