The Creation Account
In today's world, the issue of what the Biblical Creation account in Genesis 1:1-31 actually means can sometimes be controversial and confusing. Its meaning as a foundational requirement to understanding the Bible and to the success of every Christian's spiritual growth is often under-rated. Understanding the Creation Account, now more than ever, is vitally important to understand in an ever-increasing world of skepticism and doubt.
Noah's Flood
With the opening of the Ark Encounter theme park by Answers in Genesis, an ever more prevalent debate on just how all the geologic layers all over the earth, along with all the fossils were deposited. This question is fundamentally important to our understanding of scripture, and the history of the earth because how we answer the question of origin of the geology, fossil record, and the age of the earth is how we view ourselves in the light of scripture, and whether or not we view scripture as the authoritative Word of God.
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs! The very topic brings to mind ancient forests filled with these larger than life now extinct reptiles. Every youngster knows about dinosaurs! The idea of dinosaurs being extinct isn't a new one, neither is the cultural stigma that automatically connects dinosaurs and "millions of years" together. But is this really true? Evidence has emerged over the last few decades that indicates dinosaurs and humans actually coexisted, that ancient legends of dragons may actually be ancient accounts of humans interacting with dinosaurs.
Astronomy and Physics
The issue of distant starlight and time has been a thorny one for biblical creationists for some time. The question: 'How do we fit approximately 14 billion years of processes we see in the universe, with a biblical age of the earth in the thousands of years? Also a major problem for Christians has been whether or not we should accept the Genesis historical account of Creation, or if we should try to make Genesis fit with the Big-Bang theory?
Fossils and Geology
The phenomenon of soft dinosaur tissue has been around now for a little more than a decade, and yet, evolutionists, like the person who first discovered this, self professed 'Christian evolutionist' Dr. Mary Schweitzer, have yet to find an evolutionary-based explanation for the soft tissue. The soft tissue, organic molecules that can't last more than (by evolutionist thinking) a few hundred thousand years, is far more abundant than first believed, and has literally sent evolutionists into a panic (see 60 Minutes video below).
Why Biblical Creation is Important
The question has often been raised in Christian circles as to why the issue of biblical creation versus evolution, or origins, is important to the Body of Christ. Quite frankly, while being more than just an interesting exercise in how science relates to the Bible, it's a divine command given under inspiration by the Holy Spirit, by the Apostle Peter to Christians (1 Peter 3:15). So, the reason it's important is because it defines who we are as a species and our relation with our Creator. Are we just "highly evolved primates", or are, as Scripture tells us, created "in the image of God?"
Debunking Evolution
The question of the just how we got here, and if Darwin's theory of evolution had anything to do with it has been hotly debated for over 100 years by Christians, among each other (see theistic evolution), and versus atheists who reject the Genesis account of Creation.