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I have just finished writing several articles for http://GeoCreationism.com discussing death and Original Sin. For reference, here are the articles:

Our Death in Adam
Genesis 3:6-7
1 Corinthians 15:21-22
Romans 5:12

The common message is that death entered the world through the sin of Adam. However, there appears to be more than one meaning for the word death. This is commonly overlooked in discussions on original sin, regardless of one’s perspective. For example, when it comes to Original Sin, many YECs (Young Earth Creationists) always interpret “death” as physical, while many OECs (Old Earth Creationists) always interpret “death” as spiritual. Either extreme leaves any interpretation of scripture wanting.

There are three kinds of death in scripture, when it comes to sin. They …

As we discussed in Genesis 11:9 - The Tower of Babel - Young Earth Interpretation Supports an Old Earth (Part 1), Genesis 11:9 uses the word eretz two times. According to a Young Earth interpretation of the verse, the first usage of eretz is a reference to all of the people in the world, who were all in Shinar. The second usage refers to the world beyond Shinar. 
 9 That is why it was called Babel—because there the LORD confused the language of the whole world. From there the LORD scattered them over the face of the whole earth.
An Old Earther would agree that “whole world” refers to the people of Shinar, but does this usage really mean there are no other people on the …

Every now and then I go searching for other Old Earth bloggers. I just found one that looks really good. I like how it’s organized, and like the variety of topics. Also importantly, he’s still posting.  I can’t tell you how many bloggers I find whose last post is 6 months ago, or longer… not that there’s any lack of old material worth reading there!

The site is The GeoChristian… with my own site being Geocreationism, I had to check it out.

Joseph at Always Have a Reason requested a few guest posts about Geocreationism. In response to my first guest post, Geocreationism- Introduction, he suggested I check out the book by Walter Brown, entitled In the Beginning: Compelling Evidence for Creation and the Flood. The preceding link is to an online copy of the book, so I have decided to take up the challenge.
The last Young Earth Creation book I reviewed was “Evidence for Creation” by Tom DeRosa. It was a rather painful review in many ways, where valid points are made about the attitude secular scientists have toward God, but then their work is completely misunderstood and miscast. To date, I have tended to …

Thought I’d take a break from Noah’s family this morning.  There is a blog entry I found a few years ago called, Wrestling with Evolution, by Tim Challies. I like his article, because he is a Young Earther with an air of civility toward us Old Earthers… something I appreciate very much.  He opens with the following…
Christians are accustomed to treating evolution as an account of the world’s origins that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and something that a person could only believe in the absence of God or in the absence of faith. But this is not quite fair. There are now many Christians—Christians who treasure the Bible and who affirm the truths of the historic Christian faith—who …

One of the unfortunate arguments that Young Earth scientists make is that carbon dating is not accurate much beyond 5,000 years.  One of their arguments is that the ratio of C14 to C12 is not constant, and that scientists know it is not but conveniently ignore it.  Here is one such article: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/nab/does-c14-disprove-the-bible.  In it, the author makes several reasonable-sounding statements, which taken together would seem to be an indictment of radio-carbon dating.

The author accurately explains the basics of carbon dating before going into his criticism of the method.  In making the criticism however, he gets into trouble almost right off the bat…
A critical assumption used in carbon-14 dating has to do with this ratio. It is assumed that the ratio of …

 1 Then God blessed Noah and his sons, saying to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the earth. 2 The fear and dread of you will fall upon all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air, upon every creature that moves along the ground, and upon all the fish of the sea; they are given into your hands. 3 Everything that lives and moves will be food for you. Just as I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
The verses complement the following excerpts in the Creation account:
Genesis 1:
  28 God blessed them and said to them, “Be …

Genesis 7:6…
 6 Noah was six hundred years old when the floodwaters came on the earth.
This is an interesting verse.  It doesn’t say much, but it says a lot.  Floodwaters came on the earth.  What does this mean?  Well to get a feel, let us go back to God’s warning to Noah of what was to come, in Genesis 6:13,17…
 13 So God said to Noah, “I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.”

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 17 I am going to bring floodwaters on the earth to destroy all life under the …

One of the problems with biblical interpretation is the apparent assumption that what the Bible says is all there is to know.  “The Bible says it. I believe it. That settles it.” is a common mantra… and I agree with it, as far as it goes.  The problem is that we do not always realize what is with which we agree.  The Bible makes it seem like the Earth is at the center of the universe.  Well, it isn’t.  However, it is at the center of God’s plan for the universe.  So, Christians then and now still believe the Bible, and yet believe different things.  It makes arguing against unbeliever rather difficult, but that aside, we need only acknowledge that …

As I wrote in Problems with Interpreting the Flood - Part 2 - Evidence for Global Catastrophe, any physical evidence for The Flood used by Creation Scientists generally points at the KT Impact 65 million years ago, or at the global ocean that first formed on the earth around 4.5 billion years ago.  Furthermore, these two global events are strong evidence for God’s sequence of Creation recorded in Genesis 1.  This tells us that whatever else is true, The Flood was not a global event.  Otherwise, there would be evidence of it, and there is not.  However, this also tells us something else: …