At the same time, it’s also important to know that God still has a remnant—a powerful, faithful remnant in this nation. There are many godly families and pastors who stand boldly on the authority of the Word of God. Let me just give you an example of two.

I speak at many AiG conferences held in churches across this nation. Recently we held AiG conferences in Blackshear Place Baptist Church in Flowery Branch, Georgia, and also First Baptist Church of Naples, Florida. The senior pastors of these churches wrote to us after the AiG conferences with these words:

Our recent “Answers in Genesis” conference, led by Ken Ham and his team, was one of the best attended and most enthusiastically received seminars in my 21 years here. First Baptist Church of Naples, Florida will not be the same, with many gaining a new trust in the authority of the Word, a stronger belief in the creativity of our universe, and a fresh passion for the glory of God. The use of multi-media, the speakers’ lively sense of humor, and incorporation of up-to-date data allowed Mr. Ham to captivate all ages for an extensive period of time. The resources of Answers in Genesis are practical and very popular with our folks. In Christ – Dr. Hayes Wicker.

Here is another from a church where I first spoke in 1997:

Answers in Genesis continues to be a blessing to Blackshear Place Baptist Church. Our recent Answers in Genesis conference with Ken Ham demonstrated, once again, the hunger people have for biblical truths. We saw thousands gather session after session to hear God’s Word taught. The resources they brought continue to be a blessing to our people. We thank the Lord for this vital ministry. – Pastor Jeff Crook, Sr. Pastor, Blackshear Place Baptist Church www.bpbc.com.

Here is a photograph taken of me with the senior pastor of Blackshear Place Baptist Church, Jeff Crook:

To give you just a little sense of what it’s like to be at these conferences, I’ve included a number of photographs from the AiG conference at Blackshear Place Baptist Church earlier this month. One of the most exciting aspects of these conferences is that we not only reach thousands of adults and young people with the truth of God’s Word beginning in Genesis, but also thousands and thousands of children. What a joy it is to see so many young kids walking out with resources in their hands! Over the years, millions of books, DVDs, and other resources have been distributed across this nation—and they are having a great impact on this generation.

Yes, hundreds of thousands of children and teens people have been equipped at our student meetings to stand boldly on God’s Word without compromise and to proclaim the gospel with authority. That’s because they believe the authority from which this message comes—the Word of God.

Make sure you and your pastor request an AiG conference for your church—we have a number of dynamic speakers who can equip adults and kids to be defend the Christian faith in today’s world. To request a faith-building conference, go to the outreach section of our website.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

“Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood. I know that after my departure fierce wolves will come in among you, not sparing the flock; and from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away disciples after them.” (Acts 20:28–30)

The article I link to below is an extension of what has been going on at Calvin College in Michigan. In previous blog posts and articles I have quoted professors from Calvin College who no longer believe in a literal Adam and literal Eve—or a literal Fall. Calvin professors have been teaching evolution as fact for years. Now, why would any Christian parent spend thousands of dollars to send their kids to a college that attacks and undermines the authority of God’s Word? Calvin College, by the way, is a college of the Christian Reformed Church of North America.

The Banner is the magazine of the Christian Reformed Church and is also located in Grand Rapids. The article I link to below references a 1991 Agenda for Synod document by the Committee on Creation and Science. This was a response to Howard Van Till’s The Fourth Day (1986) and the teachings of Clarence Mennigna and Davis Young, which kicked open the door all the way (partly opened by others) to accepting theistic evolution in the CRC denomination. (Van Till, Mennigna, and Davis were professors at Calvin College.)

The document actually traces this slide into evolution acceptance! The document is 71 pages long, so it’s not easy to summarize. But in brief, it seems to call for a literal Adam and Eve and a literal Fall, but the authors of the document accept the standard evolutionary timescale and seem to accept human evolution. As we have seen time and time again, once the door of compromise with evolution and millions of years is opened, the slide into unbelief will increase—as is seen in this article written by a retired Christian Reformed pastor.

Just one interesting but sad side note that pertains to this issue: John Loftus, a pastor turned atheist, credits Van Till’s book as turning him away from Christianity. He has written the following:

Howard Van Till wrote the book The Fourth Day, which was one of the books that put me on a course of study that eventually led me away from the Christian faith. On page 79 in a footnote he listed several works on Genesis 1-11 that I proceeded to read. These initial books led me to still others, and others. After reading them I came to deny Genesis 1-11 was historical. I concluded these chapters were mythical. Anyway, Van Till has now been led down the same path as I. He has moved away from his Calvinism, and taken a much more ambiguous position on religion [http://www.freethoughtassociation.org/images/uploads/pdf/ODoRs.pdf ]. That too is where I was for a time in my intellectual journey. But it eventually led me to atheism. (http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2007/02/howard-van-tills-intellectual-journey.html)

I have excerpted sections from this article for you to read and link to the entire article for you. As you read this article, think of the students in colleges and people in churches who will become the John Loftus types in the future because shepherds departed from the truth of God’s Word and exalted the teachings of fallible man.

Sadly, this is the sort of shocking compromise and undermining of God’s Word that is happening to one degree or another at Christian colleges, churches, and other Christian institutions across the nation. This article is a warning on where compromise with man’s religion of evolution and millions of years leads—ultimately a rejection of the basic doctrines of the Christian faith.

Well, here are excerpts from The Banner article:

I suspect that a thousand years from now Christians will look back at the 21st century and say, “How could Christians have let themselves think that?” They’d have in mind our theology—some of the doctrines that are so precious to us and that we consider to be the backbone of Christianity. . . .

So I wouldn’t be surprised if a thousand years from now, or even in 500 years, people look back at our cherished doctrines and exclaim, “How could they believe all that?”

Why do I say this? . . .

It’s an insight that began as a hypothesis in 1859, gradually developed into a scientific theory, and is fast becoming recognized as established fact. I refer to what we have been calling “the theory of evolution.”

Scientists recognize generally that the universe began with an enormous explosion—the “big bang.” They provide various scientific avenues to demonstrate the great age of the universe, perhaps as old as 15 billion years. The varied scientific disciplines provide convincing demonstrations of the continuous development of the universe since its beginning, such as producing over billions of years the vast reaches of space and the seemingly infinite number of stars and planets and galaxies that dot the heavens. . . .

Implications for Theology . . .

Creation: We have traditionally accepted the words of Genesis 1—that God created the world as we know it today in seven literal 24-hour days. . . . But there is no way we can possibly continue to hold that doctrine any more than we can hold the doctrines of a flat earth and a geocentric universe. . . .  So we have to find a better way of understanding Genesis 1, a way that embraces scientific insights. . . .

Adam and Eve: Traditionally we’ve been taught that Adam and Eve were the first human pair, Adam made out of dust and Eve from one of Adam’s ribs. But sustaining this doctrine is extremely difficult when we take seriously the human race as we know it today sharing ancestry with other primates such as chimpanzees. Where in the slow evolution of homo erectus and homo habilis and homo sapiens do Adam and Eve fit? We will have to find a better way of understanding what Genesis tells us about Adam and Eve. . . .

Fall into sin: We have traditionally understood Genesis to show the first human beings, in a state of innocence, living sinlessly in the Garden of Eden. They are then tempted. They yield to temptation and God sends them out of Eden. But if we take the discoveries of historical science seriously, where could we fit that story in? . . . We will have to find a much better way of understanding what sin is, where it comes from, and what its consequences are. . . .

Original sin: According to this doctrine, the fall of Adam and Eve is an actual historical event that plunged the entire human race into sin. . . . But if Adam and Eve are not understood as real historical people, then there can hardly be an inheritance of sinfulness from parent to child all the way back to Adam—in which case the entire doctrine of original sin falls by the wayside. We will have to find a better way of understanding not only what sin is . . .

Salvation: We have traditionally understood the work of Jesus as dealing with the two aspects of original sin: guilt and pollution.  Jesus removes our guilt by dying for our sins on the cross; he removes our pollution by sending us his Holy Spirit. This makes good sense, but if the doctrine of original sin needs to be revisited, theologians need to consider whether our understanding of Jesus also needs to be revised.

After reading this article from a church magazine, I thought, “Is it any wonder that two-thirds of young people are departing the church?” (See my book Already Gone.)

You can read the entire article from The Banner at this link.

I can’t see how any Christian reading this article would not call its beliefs heresy.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

We expect that visitors from all over the country will want to tour this new exhibit, plus see the many other stunning dinosaur-related displays we feature inside the museum, like animatronic dinosaurs, dinosaur eggs and bones, large well-sculpted dinosaurs, and more. The new exhibit will deal with an intriguing question: were dinosaurs dragons?

Let me give you just a glimpse of what has gone into this dragon exhibit and some of the things you can expect to see. Our extremely talented artist Jon Taylor produced the colorful and spectacular artwork shown below:

Want to see even more pictures? I wrote the lead article on our website today, which contains pictures of the new dragon billboards as well as even more information on this exciting new dragon and dinosaur exhibit opening inside the portico of the Creation Museum. I urge you to read the full article today.

Great things are happening at the Creation Museum! We praise God for the way He is using us to share the truth of His Word with many people. This new dragon and dinosaur effort will be noticed not only in our tri-state region of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana, but also nationwide.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Yes, as you can tell from the photos of two of the “Adopt-a-Highway” signs, a secularist group (which opposes the museum’s biblical messages) is adopting roads near the museum. Of course, we appreciate the group’s effort to tidy up the area. Over the next few months, tens of thousands of people will be visiting the Creation Museum, and through the efforts of this group and regular highway crews, guests to our museum will now see an even more attractive area.

At the same time, and though we are appreciative of any volunteer who helps out in the community in ways like this, we note two things. Obviously, these Freethinkers are, in their own way, trying to counter our message of biblical authority. One of the local Freethinker leaders has written that it is his hope that people passing by will note the Freethinkers’ “presence in the area,” as he wrote.

Second, and in something of an irony, I am aware that this local Freethinkers group is not just anti-Christian (even as they agree with us about being good stewards of the environment), but it is atheistic. As I reviewed some of their beliefs, I noticed some close-mindedness with them. They are not truly freethinking as the name suggest. Most secular activists are attempting to remove any vestige of Christian thinking in our public institutions and even go after private institutions like AiG and the Creation Museum (see this previous blog post, for example). And some of them will attack other private institutions, using horrible profanity and threats, like those received at this South Carolina Christian school recently.

But the more we have been attacked, the more God has blessed AiG and the museum. It makes me recall the verse Genesis 50:20:

“But as for you, you meant evil against me; but God meant it for good, in order to bring it about as it is this day, to save many people alive.”

Here is what a Freethinker is, according to an online dictionary: “a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief” (emphasis mine). All this means is that they are not really “Freethinkers,” of course!

As these secularist volunteers work in our community (for a good cause), we trust that they will rethink what a freethinker truly is. Why shouldn’t students, for example, be told about the evidence against evolution in public schools, if “freethinking” is the secularists’ core belief? Why do almost all natural history museums present evolution without question? In fact, the evolutionary belief system dominates our various establishments in America, and so much so, that the Freethinkers’ desire to challenge “established” thinking is actually redundant! They already represent the established thinking in most institutions of society!

For our part, we would be willing to meet with these local Freethinkers and chat with them. Let’s establish a dialogue and have a free exchange of ideas.

So even though they have selected to “Adopt-a-Highway” for cleanup near the Creation Museum and may not have all the right motives, we look forward to having clean roads around the Creation Museum as the summer crowds pour in beginning Memorial Day weekend. More than ever, we will do what we can to teach thousands of people at the Creation Museum to be equipped to answer the empty arguments of these people who are not really “Freethinkers” but are bound spiritually by the one the Bible calls the father of lies (John 8:44).

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

The dad wrote the following to us:

I took my family to the Los Angeles Natural History Museum for the first time. Before going, we talked about how the fossils were real, but not the evolutionary stories that accompanied them. We decided to take some of our Answers in Genesis materials to the museum with us, as well as sharing them with another homeschooling family that was attending. Here are a couple of family photos from our trip … along with some good AiG product placement!

Of course, as this dad also knows, do your best to spend two days at the Creation Museum, training yourselves and your children in the true biblical creation worldview. That way, when you visit these secular places, you will be equipped to correctly understand what you see.

And by Memorial Day weekend, our Creation Museum will feature (1) a world-class, highly evangelistic and high-tech insect exhibit, (2) a large, spectacular dragon exhibit, (3) a new program on comets for the museum’s Planetarium, and (4) the incredible Verbum Domini exhibit displaying Bible manuscripts and Bible-related artifacts from the famous Green Collection. Then, by June 15 the best zip line course in the Midwest will open here!

But AiG can help vacationers even more. We have developed a number of guides that can assist you. Click on one of the images below to learn more about that particular guide or to purchase a copy in our online store.

As you visit natural history museums, make sure you take this one with you.

This is our general zoo guide that can be used at any zoo.

Here is a great resource to take along to any aquarium.

In addition to our essential guides for museums, zoos, and aquariums, I also recommend these national park guides (click an image to learn more):

Finally, don’t go anywhere without the entire AiG pocket guide collection (14 books):

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Here is a photograph of my mother taken in March this year when Mally and I traveled to Australia for a quick visit to spend time with our remaining two parents—and to encourage them:

“Honor your father and your mother, that your days may be long upon the land which the Lord your God is giving you.” (Exodus 20:12)

The Answers in Genesis ministry, Creation Museum, and coming Ark Encounter are part of her legacy. I love you, Mum (Mom).

I encourage you to visit my Facebook page today and view the short video clip of an important message from my 85-year-old mother that I recorded this past March.

I also would encourage you to view these two video clips I recorded of my mother in March this year as she related to me many experiences she and my dad had over the years. (My dad went to be with the Lord 18 years ago.)

Video clip one: My father was a school principal, so we were transferred to many different towns in Queensland as he was promoted. Many of those towns had very few churches (some only one or two). In this first video clip, my mum tells of one church they had to leave because the pastor believed in millions of years and looked on the Bible as just a book of stories (i.e., that events like those in Genesis and the miracles weren’t historical events). My father argued with him for hours about the historicity of Noah’s Flood—so hear what my mother had to say about this:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Video clip two: At another church in another town, my mother relates the account of a liberal pastor that my dad challenged concerning the truth of God’s Word (on many occasions actually, as I was old enough to remember this). She then tells of meeting with that pastor many years later—and what a change had occurred in this pastor’s life:

Click here to view the embedded video.

Praise the Lord for a godly mum!

And I trust that through these videos, you have seen how the godly, bold, and uncompromising stand of parents has had a great influence on their children. What a spiritual legacy my parents passed on to the next generation.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Now, the big bang view teaches a concept of creation that is completely opposite of Scripture’s account. According to this view, the universe came into existence billions of years ago. The big bang eventually led to the slow origin of the earth and solar system, and the earth was a molten, fiery rock. But Genesis 1 clearly describes liquid water when God created the earth:

In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was without form, and void; and darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. (Genesis 1:1–2)

What’s more, evolutionary thinking says that the end of the universe will be accompanied by heat death. The sun will burn out and everything will freeze. But what does God’s Word say about the end of the universe?

But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in which the heavens will pass away with a great noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat; both the earth and the works that are in it will be burned up. (2 Peter 3:10)

Rather than a heat death, the Bible tells us that the earth one day will be destroyed by fire.

Furthermore, the Bible teaches that the earth was created before the sun (Genesis 1:2-9, 16), but the evolutionary ideas state the opposite. What more needs to be said about the fact that the Scriptures teach against these ideas?

The term “big bang” was coined by Sir Fred Hoyle in 1949. However, Hoyle was not the man who proposed the idea. Georges Lemaître, a Belgian physicist and Roman Catholic priest, first suggested in 1927 that the universe expanded, and in 1931 proposed that at one time all matter in the universe was concentrated into a single point. While Hoyle actually advocated a competing idea known as the steady state model, Lemaître’s big bang idea became more widely accepted as time went on.

The big bang idea comes out of explaining the world based on the laws of time and nature—basically, naturalism. Lemaître kept his religious beliefs and what he called his science clearly separated, saying that his big bang idea left the materialist free to deny God’s existence. Of course, the big bang is not operational science (i.e., testable, observable, or repeatable) but historical science (i.e., assumptions about the unobservable past). The big bang is really a religion that is used by most astronomers to explain away God.

In a recent Christian Post article (Big Bang Cosmology is Consistent with Scripture?), Wallace explains his position on the big bang:

It turns out that the primary proposal is absolutely consistent with what we see in Scripture—that God has created everything from nothing and that moment of Creation is something that I see as having good evidence to support such a thing from Big Bang Cosmology.

The problem with Wallace’s position is that the big bang view requires billions of years, which contradicts Scripture! Of course, Wallace claims that the issue of millions of years “is a separate argument.”

But if Wallace is truly advocating only “God created”—then why even mention the big bang? Why not simply believe the true account of creation in Genesis, given to us by the One who was there in the beginning?

But this is unsurprising coming from the group Stand to Reason. I wrote a blog post about Stand to Reason’s compromise on Genesis, which you can read at this link: Compromise Being Spread.

Wallace is doing something that has become all too common in the church today—he is attempting to mix man’s word with God’s Word, instead of trusting what God has told us and evaluating the claims of evolutionary scientists in light of Scripture.

What Wallace is doing is compromising man’s ideas with God’s Word and thus undermining the authority of Scripture.  Sadly, such compromise has greatly contributed to the increasing exodus of young people from the church. It’s sad that he is a speaker at an apologetics conference.  I would say the apologetics he is teaching is really a defense of a secular anti-biblical belief rather than of Scripture.  Sadly, this is the state of much of Christendom today.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Steve Golden assisted in the writing of this blog post.

Now, Christian parents should be concerned about whether their children are learning to critically evaluate the claims of millions of years and evolution. But they should also be aware of attempts by compromised Christian textbook publishers to indoctrinate their children into evolutionary thinking. The secular world is out to capture the hearts and minds of our children—and they’ll attempt this even through Christian publications!

The biblical creation movement calls God’s people back to the authority of God’s Word beginning in Genesis, and it’s interesting to note that as this effort has grown, we’ve seen an increasing number of groups (like the highly compromised BioLogos) set up to oppose this movement. Now we are seeing academics who are trying to infiltrate the homeschool movement with compromise teaching, which will undermine the authority of the Word of God and lead children away from the truth of the Bible and the gospel.

What’s the best way to handle this situation? Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell (AiG–U.S.) has written an in-depth feedback article on this recent movement within homeschooling to include more evolutionary thinking in  curricula and less evaluation based on biblical principles. Her article is the lead article on our website today, titled “Should Homeschoolers Let Children Decide on Evolution?” Below are the introductory paragraphs:

How should Christian homeschooling parents approach topics like biological evolution, big bang cosmology, and the age of the earth? Christianity Today’s recent article “A New Creation Story: Why do more homeschoolers want evolution in their textbooks?”¹ suggests that science materials that present “all viewpoints” about origins are becoming more popular.

Do modern homeschooling parents need to adopt “a new creation story” to ensure their children’s success? Do twenty-first-century children need to be taught to accept evolution to succeed academically? Will teaching them to accept evolution hurt their relationship with God? Or would accepting evolution, as some suggest, somehow make them better Christians by merging old ideas with new? Or to express the fear of many parents, “If I don’t teach them to accept evolution, will they grow up stupid and fail in life?”

We don’t need a “new creation story” because we have the true creation account (God’s historical record) in God’s Word. I urge you to read Dr. Mitchell’s full article so that you’ll be informed and equipped to respond to this issue within homeschooling.

Last Opportunity to Enter Photo Contest

This is the last week to enter The Lie photo contest. (See the description below.) Weekly winners receive two DVDs and two tickets to the Creation Museum. The grand-prize winner will get a free all-family, one-year pass to the Creation Museum, two nights at a nearby hotel, and over a dozen free DVDs and books—a $500 value!

Our last weekly winner will be announced this upcoming Wednesday, May 15. The grand-prize winner will be selected on Wednesday, May 22. Visit http://goo.gl/uCPTh for more information, including contest details.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Hanegraaff wrote a book on the issue of creation titled The Creation Answer Book. I previously published a review on my blog.

Sadly, The Creation Answer Book made it evident that Hanegraaff does not hold to a literal Genesis (but buys into geological and astronomical evolution), as he was unwilling to understand Genesis in its most natural form—historical narrative.

In this more recent article, called “Leviathan, Dragons, and Dinosaurs, Oh My!” (CRJ, vol. 36, no. 2), Hanegraaff denies that the Bible’s accounts of the sea creature leviathan and the large behemoth (that we think is an apt description of what could be a sauropod dinosaur) are literal. Working through Job chapters 38–41, Hanegraaff claims that of all the things God lists to Job, these two creatures are meant to be understood as metaphors. He writes the following:

In sum, Leviathan and Behemoth are not dinosaurs but personifications that illustrate a metaphysical reality. As such, the mythology of the dragon underscores the reality of the Devil.

Well, he’s right on one count—leviathan was not a dinosaur, because only particular land animals (possibly behemoth) were dinosaurs. Leviathan was a sea creature, and thus was created on Day Five of Creation Week (Genesis 1:21). Hanegraaff, though, seems to think that some Christians believe leviathan was a dinosaur. At AiG, we understand the technical definition of dinosaur is for a group of land animals, and so we have never suggested leviathan was a dinosaur. Leviathan was a real animal that lived in the sea. The description could fit something like the great Kronosaurus, but we don’t know for sure.

What’s more, every other creature (living or nonliving) that God mentions in Job 38–41 (e.g., lion, raven, donkey, wild ox, ostrich, horse, locust, hawk, or eagle) are literal objects that Job saw. Why would God suddenly mention two “personifications” (which means to give living traits to an inanimate object or idea) in the midst of literal objects?

In fact, leviathan is mentioned repeatedly in Scripture (Job 3:8, 41:1; Psalm 74:14, 104:26; Isaiah 27:1). There’s no denying this was a real creature that people were familiar with. Hanegraaff’s conclusion doesn’t make sense in light of all this, but it does reveal his denial of the fact that man lived alongside these great beasts (dinosaurs), which were also made on Day Six of creation along with man. God even pointed out to Job that behemoth was made along with you (Job 40:15).

Hanegraaff, however, relies on a “literary” understanding of Scripture. He says that means he reads God’s Word “in the most obvious and natural sense,” but his views on dinosaurs above clearly contradict that. In other words, he doesn’t believe that dinosaurs, which are land animals, were made on the same day as Adam.

But it actually gets worse: Hanegraaff also denies there was a literal serpent in the Garden of Eden that audibly spoke to Eve. He claims the following:

Eve was not deceived by a talking snake. Rather, Moses used the symbol of a snake to communicate the wiles of the Evil One who deceived Eve through mind-to-mind communication . . .

Now, Hanegraaff’s claim clearly contradicts the plain reading of Genesis 3, which has already been shown beyond doubt to be historical narrative. So how is his reading the “most obvious and natural”? Really, it isn’t. His view on the serpent here causes problems for how we’re to read 2 Corinthians 11:3, where the Apostle Paul clearly considers the serpent to be literal. Furthermore, Paul warns that just as the serpent (a real serpent) beguiled Eve, so Satan will use the same method on us. And that method was to get people to doubt God’s Word, which would lead to unbelief. Sadly, Hanegraaff, by his compromise position in regard to the serpent, is really getting people to doubt God’s Word in Genesis.

Because Hanegraaff holds to an old earth (and hence, also denies a global Flood), that in order to support his views, he has to explain away literal references to man and dinosaurs living alongside each other in Genesis—and that carries over into how he reads much of the creation account in Genesis.

It’s sad that influential Christians like Hanegraaff wholeheartedly accept many secular humanistic ideas like long-age geology and the big bang. When they accept these competing (anti-biblical)  claims and mix them with their Christianity, something always has to give. Most people give up what the Bible plainly says in light of the “secular religion” of long ages. I want to encourage you to stand strong on the authority of God’s Word and watch out for these secular ideas in the church. Don’t mix these two religions (Hebrews 10:23). To do so is really no different than the Israelites mixing with the Baal worship of their day. Man’s fallible word should never be used to reinterpret God’s clear Word. To do so is to attack and undermine the authority of the infallible Word.

Moreover, beyond the Bible’s many references to land-dwelling dinosaurs and great sea creatures, there are flood and dragon legends from around the world. It makes sense from these abundant accounts that many of the land “dragons” were actually dinosaurs and the sea dragons were sea creatures like the pliosaurs. Of course, Hanegraaff denies that there is any truth to these accounts, but at the Creation Museum, we actually have a new Dragon Legends exhibit opening soon that presents this compelling evidence. I doubt Hanegraaff will like this spectacular exhibit one bit, as it lays out—from historical records—many of the dragon legends.

Our high-quality Dragon Legends exhibit, opening later this month, contains amazing artifact models, artwork, and facts surrounding the dragon legends we have researched from around the world. And what’s our conclusion? The evidence that these legends provides actually confirms what the Bible says—man, dinosaurs, and sea monsters existed together since Creation Week.

Flood legends abound in cultures around the world because there was a real Flood—Noah’s Flood. For more information, see our book Dragons: Legends & Lore of Dinosaurs.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken

Steve Golden assisted in the writing of this blog post.

Many years ago when I was speaking in the United Kingdom, I had an interesting encounter with Steve Jones. I was interviewed by BBC television on a program that had three other people opposing me, including Jones. At one point in the interview I asked Jones to give the BBC television audience his best evidence for evolution. He then talked about fish, citing a new species of salmon. I then said something like, “But they are still Salmon.”

By the way, Jones has written a book that is supposed to be an update of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species. Here is what I wrote about that book and the BBC encounter with Jones back in 2000:

Professor Jones, author of a very popular pro-evolutionary book Almost Like a Whale—the Origin of Species Updated, came across to many viewers as “arrogant.” On the TV debate, when asked by Ken Ham to provide specific evidence for evolution, Professor Jones remarked “salmon speciation.” Ken pointed out that the salmon were still salmon, and would continue to produce only salmon, and that for macro-evolution to occur, new information would need to have been added to a creature’s genetic makeup.

Interestingly, in Professor Jones’ book Almost like a Whale, he said that the best proof of evolution—which is supposed to be progressive and upward—that we can see today is the AIDS virus! (http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/2000/03/27/british-tour-aig)

Now, Jones’s book The Serpent’s Promise was reviewed by a writer for the Guardian, a UK newspaper. The review is itself a shocking attack on Christianity. Below are some excerpts:

As the Serpent persuades Eve to pluck the forbidden fruit, the creature says: “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Scientists are no more qualified than anyone else to comment on those two abstractions, but they have gained insights into the physical world rather more dependable than those in the Scriptures. Or, to put it more straightforwardly: most of what is in the Bible is complete tosh . . . Genesis was the first biological textbook, a history of “begetting” with Judaism built on the assumption of a shared descent from Abraham. As if! For a start, Adam and Eve could never have met. A study of the male genealogical tree puts Adam in central Africa around 100,000 years ago. Tracking Eve’s birthday in the same way takes us back about 200,000 years. So unless Methuselah was a mere infant … Oh sod it, what’s the point? Let’s just riff about x and y chromosomes and Irish giants.

It began with a bang. Not a Word . . . But just take it from me, the Earth wasn’t created in six days . . . Methuselah: 969 years old? Who are you kidding?  . . . Was there a flood? Probably, but so what? There have been dozens of inundations in the course of the world’s history, and whoever wrote this bit of the Bible had probably experienced one. But Noah? I don’t think so . . . Leviticus is big on diseases, talking about illness as a punishment from God and the need for cleanliness. More rubbish. . . . Revelations are easily explained both by a genetic desire for belief and magic mushrooms. I once took some psilocybin. Made me feel very odd, I can tell you. Where was I? Ah yes, science is more reliable than the good book. But you knew that anyway.

You can read the entire article—if you want to—on guardian.co.uk, and you can watch Jones promote his new Bible-attacking book on telegraph.co.uk.

More and more, we are seeing atheists focused on attacking the Bible and Christianity. They have no new arguments. These atheists just continue to mock as they spend so much time fighting against someone (i.e., God) they don’t even believe exists. Ultimately they are fighting for a meaningless existence.

Notice, too, how often they concentrate on mocking Genesis. I would suggest that’s because they know that it is the foundational book of the Bible—foundational to the gospel and to all Christian doctrine. They also know that if this history is true (and it is), then they are sinners in need of salvation—and this truth is what they’re rebelling against.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken