History and Genesis
Genesis describes the creation of the world, the universe, and every living creature kind in just six days only thousands of years ago. Evidence from history, archaeology, astronomy, biology, and geology matches the Genesis account. If the Bible is right about its history, then its words deserve our attention.
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Where did Cain get his wife?
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Out of Africa—or into Africa?
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Could we really have come from Babel?
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Is Genesis merely poetry or fully factual?
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Why difference would a historical Genesis make?
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Articles on history and Genesis
Genesis Is History, Not Poetry: Exposing Hidden Assumptions about What Hebrew Poetry Is and Is Not
"Why are you guys so literalistic about Genesis? Don’t you know that it’s just Hebrew poetry? There’s no need to treat it like real history!" This was the smug comment of a young English literature teacher at a recent Christian educators’ conference where the Institute for Creation Research was conducting seminars.
Preaching Genesis
We are immersed in a secular culture, bombarded with an ever-increasing vitriol and hatred. In bestselling books such as The God Delusion, God Is Not Great, Breaking the Spell, and The End of Faith, well-known atheists are advocating an all-out culture war to remove any vestige of Christianity from the public arena. Christians are blatantly branded as the enemy, a scourge to be eliminated.
Genesis Prophecies
A young traveler recently picked up my book Dinosaurs and the Bible from a convenience store and read the introduction to his friends. The group included Christians and atheists, so the topic sparked quite a discussion. Some objected to my statement “In studying creation materials, I found real evidence that the Bible, not the words of fallible humans, conveys truthful world history.”
Genesis in Chinese Pictographs
Ancient Chinese pictographs are silent witnesses, like fingerprints, of historical events reported in Genesis. In particular, the details of these word-symbols are clues that point to how the earliest Chinese must have known basic facts of Genesis 1–11 at the very time their pictographs were invented.
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