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 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. — Genesis 1:20-23 
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 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. — Genesis 1:20-23
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 20 And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky.” 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” 23 And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day. — Genesis 1:20-23
Day 5 was not straightforward to date.  As described …

Recently, I discussed several common scientific misunderstandings that YECs have when arguing against Evolution.  One of the misunderstandings was that many Evolutionists are so invested in Evolution that they ascribe almost a mystical cause to it all.  I suggested that Theistic Evolutionists do exactly that, but the “mystical” influence they ascribe it all to is God.  I then made the point if that YECs can believe God created the world, then why shouldn’t Theistic Evolutionists believe it?  Well, here is an article that tries to answer that question.  It is an article by Werner Gitt entitled 10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution.  Such articles are important to understand, because if a Christian reads it, they could be convinced that …

My friend Cory wrote a critique of Geocreationism over at http://josiahconcept.org/articles/founding-principles-geo/.  Usually, I like to respond to his articles on his own blog, but I believe he has brought up something that I should cover here.

Part of Cory’s review is in response to my use of Romans 11 as a model for Evolution.  Though I have not developed the theory on this blog as fully as I should, I have mentioned it:
Romans 11 illustrates Israel as an olive tree that grows as it will, while God grafts in branches that please him, and chops off branches that do not. This is how Geocreationism believes God exercised providence over evolution.  Also, 1 Chronicles 14:15-16 illustrates where an independent physical agent achieved an …

A few years ago, I spent some time on a website that debates Christianity.  It’s a great website, run by a Christian, for debating with atheists the logic behind believing in God.  I say it’s a great site, even though such debates can be harmful to a person’s walk with God, or at least harmful to mine.  The reason it is harmful is because God has gone to all this trouble to win your soul, and then you expose yourself to Satan’s arguments to persuade you otherwise.  Exposing yourself to Satan is never good, and while a single debate might not scathe you, continuous exposure will, and you might not even detect it, until one day you talk to God and cannot tell if He’s really …

I disussed (http://geocreationism.com/2007/10/08/was-jesus-a-young-earth-creationist/)how the following scriptures are often offered as proof of a young a earth:
Mark 10:6, Mark 13:19-20, Luke 11:50-51, Isaiah 45:18
Perhaps instead this proves that God did not consider creation to be over until the end of Day 6, even though it took billions of years.  Rather than telling us why billions of years is too long to be a beginning, perhaps these scriptures reveals why evolution appears to have occurred until the end of creation, but no longer!

An article by Dr. Terry Mortenson, which is found at http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v2/n3/jesus-and-the-age-of-earth, argues that Jesus believed in a young earth. I have not read the article yet in much detail.  So, what you read below will be my thoughts and blow-by-blow analysis as I go through it.  Mortenson states his purpose:
It will be argued that Jesus clearly was a young-earth creationist and that if we call Him Lord we should follow Him rather than the contemporary scientific majority, which primarily consists of unbelievers.
 The writer argues for Jesus’ belief in the scriptures.  I agree with him.
All these above-mentioned statements reflect some aspect of Jesus’ attitude toward or belief about the Scriptures. But far more frequently Jesus reveals his conviction about the authority …

One of the difficulties with discussing an old earth is that people tend to think that it requires placing science over scripture.  In discussing Day 4 for example, a familiar argument is that scripture clearly records the creation of the sun, moon, and stars occurring on Day 4.  Therefore, as the argument goes, any theory to the contrary, using science to back it up, is setting aside the plain meaning of the scripture in favor of man’s “scientific” wisdom.  I would like to convince you otherwise. 

As explained in my post “http://geocreationism.com/2007/08/24/biblical-difficulties-for-a-young-earth-part-3-the-sun-is-not-in-the-sky/“, there is no requirement in the text that requires creation of the celestial bodies to occur on Day 4, though I admit a plain reading appears otherwise.  To be specific, …

Genesis 1:14-19
14 And God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, 15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so. 16 God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, 18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light …