Sample Chapters:

• The "Fact" of Evolution

• The Question of Days (Proof of  Six Literal Days in the Hebrew)

• The Day Men Saw Dinosaurs

• Epilogue: Knowing the Creator

• Appendix 2: The Last Years of Time

Contents

Introduction 

• Questions of Origins

• How Long Were Those Six Days?

1 The Importance of Genesis

• God’s Word is Above His Name

• Genesis is Foundational

  • The Origin of Sin and Death

• Genesis Contains the Promise of the Redeemer

2 Evolution Plus God

• What is Evolution?

  • The Changes in Language and Culture

  • From Micro to Macro to Abiogenesis

  • According to Its Kind

  • Dogs Are Still Dogs

• Views of Biblical Creation

  • Theistic Evolution

  • The Gap Theory

  • Progressive Creationism

• How Much Time Does God Need?

3 The Fact of Evolution

• What is Science?

• Evolution Sunday

  • The Clergy Letter Project

  • What Kind of Truths Are the Biblical Promises?

  • Darwin Didn’t Want God’s Help

4 Interpreting Genesis

• The Method of Interpreting the Bible

  • Scripture Interprets Scripture

• Hermeneutics

  • What Do We Mean By Literal?

  • What is Allegory?

  • Striking the Rock

  • Daniel

  • Jeremiah’s 70 Years

  • Daniel’s Understanding of the 70 Years

  • The Chronicler Agreed

• Interpreting Literary Genre

  • What is Meant By Literary Genre?

  • Scholars Believe in Literal Days of Genesis

• Final Thoughts Concerning Biblical Interpretation

5 The Question of Days

• Meanings of Day in the Old Testament

• 24-Hour Days

  • Days With a Cardinal Number

  • Days with Ordinal Numbers

  • Days in Hosea 6:2

• The First Day

  • Bara and Asa

  • The Heavens and Earth

  • Tohu Vavohu

  • Tehom, The Deep

  • Merachefet, God’s Energizing of His Creation

  • God Speaks

• The Days in Genesis 1

  • God Defines the Days for Us

• The Days in Genesis 2

  • Genesis 2:4

  • Genesis 2:5 – 2:7

  • Genesis 2:19

• A Final Objection

  • With The Lord

  • A Little Word with Big Meaning

  • Psalm 90:4

• Summary of the Days in Genesis 1 and 2

6 Days According to Ancient Jewish Commentators

• The Use of Ancient Interpreters

• Targumim

  • Targum Onkelos

  • Targumim Jonathan

• Josephus

  • From The Creation

  • In Just Six Days

• Rabbinic interpretation

  • The Talmud Comments on the Mishna

  • Rashi

  • Other Rabbis

• Philo

  • Philo’s Paraphrase

  • Philo’s Allegorical Treatise

  • Philo and the Number Six

7 Days According to the Church Fathers (click to see quotes from Church Fathers

• The Early Church Fathers

• Twisting the Words of the Early Fathers

• Barnabas

• Irenaeus

• Theophilus of Antioch

  • God Finished in Six Days

  • Theophilus’ Simple Arithmetic

  • To Theophilus, The Earth Is Young

• Clement of Alexandria

• Hippolytus

• Origen and Methodius

  • Origen’s Disturbing Doctrines

  • Methodius Opposed to Origen’s Teaching

• Fathers of the Third and Fourth Centuries

  • Victorinus

  • Lactantius

• Augustine

  • Creation Was Less than Six Thousand Years Ago

  • Augustine’s “Literal” Interpretation

  • Spontaneous Generation a Fact For Augustine

• The Fathers Believed in a Young Earth

8 What Did Adam Know On His First Day?

• Naming the Animals

  • Parallelisms

  • Etymologies

• Replenish the Earth and the Gap Theory

  • Replenish/Malu

9 The Day God Created Dinosaurs

• Dinosaurs Were Real

• Where Are the Dinosaurs in the Bible?

• Tanninim

  • The Origin of the Word

  • Three Root Letters

  • Dragons in the Septuagint

• Behemoth

  • God’s Description of Behemoth

  • Elephant or Hippo?

  • It’s a Tail and Nothing Else

  • The Bones

• Leviathan

  • A Dragon/Snake-Like Creature

  • God’s Description of Leviathan

  • Not An Ordinary Creature!

  • Invincible

  • Fire Breathing

  • A Shining Wake

  • Impenetrable Armour

  • Where is the proof?

  • Soft Tissue and Red Blood Cells

10 The Day Men Saw Dinosaurs (click for pictures and text)

• Challenging the Paradigm

  • Needed Skepticism

  • Nazca Graves

• Sophisticated Drawings

• Possible Hoaxes?

  • Expert Analysis

  • The Rocks in the Laboratory

• The Ica Stones Are Not Unique

• Three Possible Answers

11 Are Six Days Enough?

• Starlight and Time

• The Rocks Speak

  • Polonium Radiohalos

  • Radioisotopes and the Age of the Earth

• The Grand Canyon and Mount St Helens: Keys to Geology

  • Cataclysmic Change

  • The Canyon Formed Quickly

  • Footprints in the Ash

• The Testimony of the Fossil Record

• Six Days Are Enough

12 In Six Days

Epilogue (Knowing the Creator)

Appendix 1: The Last Years of Time

Appendix 2 Resources

Notes

Bibliography