Study guides and online quizzes for Creationism (interim curriculum)

These articles from the Answers in Genesis ministry are part of the interim curriculum. They are however a bit technical. We have therefore prepared these study questions which you can use in two ways: (1) Read the study questions first so you can have an overview of the article; and (2) After reading the article, try answering the questions to test your comprehension. Interactive, online quizzes on terms and definitions in Creationism (with automatic scoring) are also available.

Index of study guides

1. Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years?
2. Couldn’t God Have Used Evolution?
3. Don’t Creationists Deny the Laws of Nature?
4. What About the Gap Theory and Ruin-Reconstruction Theories?
5. Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible?
6. Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days?
7. Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?
8. Was there Really a Noah’s Ark and Flood?
9. How Did Animals Spread All Over the World from Where the Ark Landed?
10. What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?
11. Why Don’t We Find Human & Dinosaur Fossils Together?
12. Can Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Explain Flood Geology?
13. Don't Creationists Believe Some “Wacky” Things?
14. Where Does the Ice Age Fit?
15. Are There Really Different Races?
16. Are ETs and UFOs Real?
17. Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe Is Old?
18. Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Literal Days?
19. How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About?
20. Is Natural Selection the Same Thing as Evolution?
21. Hasn’t Evolution Been Proven True?
22. Did Dinosaurs Turn into Birds?
23. Does Archaeology Support the Bible?
24. Why Does God’s Creation Include Death and Suffering?
25. How Can I Use This Information to Witness?
26. How Can We Use Dinosaurs to Spread the Creation Gospel Message?

Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years?

1. For the first 18 centuries of church history, what was the prevailing belief about the Genesis days of creation?
2. What are the views that some Christian leaders have proposed to fit the millions of years into the Bible?
3. Does the Bible teach that God created in six literal, 24-hour days a few thousand years ago?
4. What does the context of Genesis 1 show about the days of creation?
5. What do the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 prove with regards the creation days?
6. How do Exodus 20:9–11 prove that the creation days were literal 24-hour days?
7. How does Noah’s Flood disprove millions of years?
8. What did Christ believe and teach about the creation accu8nts of the Old Testament?
9. What effect does belief in millions of years have the Bible’s teaching on death and on the character of God?
10. Where did the idea of millions of years come?
11. Do radiometric dating methods prove millions of years?

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Couldn’t God Have Used Evolution?

1. What was the Scopes Trial in 1925?
2. According to Thomas Huxley (1825–1895), the leading humanist of Darwin’s day, if we are to believe the New Testament doctrines, then we must believe the historical account of Genesis as historical truth. According to Huxley, what are the inconsistencies of reinterpreting Scripture to fit with popular scientific thinking?
3. What did 1800s theologians B. B. Warfield and Charles Hodge believe about the days of creation – literal 24 hour days or millions of years?
4. Why should not we compromise on this issue of the days of creation as literal 24 hour days?
5. Why is a belief in millions of years of evolution un-Biblical?

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Don’t Creationists Deny the Laws of Nature?

1. What does the Bible say about the “laws of nature”?
2. How is God’s logic shown in the universe?
3. What is the law of biogenesis?
4. How do the laws of chemistry affect our bodies, living beings and nature?
5. Who was Johannes Kepler? What are his three laws of planetary motion?
6. What was Sir Isaac Newton’s discovery about how Kepler’s laws could be derived mathematically from other laws of physics?
7. What are some laws of physics? How are they derived?
8. What are “universal constants”?
9. What is the “anthropic principle”?
10. What are some mathematical laws and principles that affect the laws of physics?
11. Are mathematical laws something that people invented or discovered?
12. How do the laws of nature, from physics and chemistry to the law of biogenesis depend on the laws of logic?
13. Explain why science would be impossible if the laws of nature were not uniform.

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What About the Gap Theory and Ruin-Reconstruction Theories?

1. Why have many Christians tried to place a gap of indeterminate time between the first two verses of Genesis 1?
2. Where did the Gap Theory (also known as ruin-reconstruction) come from?
3. Who was G. H. Pember and why was his struggle with long geologic ages also a struggle for Christians today?
4. How did Pember, trying to reconcile the long ages with Scripture, try to justify the Gap Theory?
5. What are the three strands of thought in the Gap Theory?
6. How can the Gap Theory be summarized according to Weston Fields?
7. What are the seven problems and inconsistencies with the gap Theory for a Christian?
8. Discuss the five major challenges to the gap theory in interpreting Scripture.

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Doesn’t Carbon-14 Dating Disprove the Bible?

1. What is radiometric dating used for?
2. How has radiometric dating affected some Christians’ belief about the Genesis account of creation?
3. What is the popular misconception about carbon dating?
4. What are atoms, protons, neutrons and electrons?
5. What are isotopes?
6. What is “radioactive decay”?
7. What is atomic number? How is it different from atomic mass?
8. What is the use of Carbon-14 (radiocarbon) dating?
9. Explain why we should never reinterpret the Bible when a scientist’s interpretation of data does not match the clear meaning of the text in the Bible.
10. What are the four questions we must ask to examine the validity of the standard interpretation of radiocarbon dating?
11. Why is the use of Carbon-14 dating often misunderstood?
12. If Carbon 14 is constantly decaying, will the earth eventually run out of Carbon 14?
13. How does the Carbon-14 dating process work?
14. What is half-life?
15. In Carbon-14 dating, what is the critical assumption regarding the ratio of Carbon 14 to 12C?
16. Who is Dr. Willard Libby? What were his assumptions with regards the ratio of Carbon 14 to Carbon 12 and the equilibrium of the atmosphere?
17. How can the magnetic field of the Earth affect the production rate of Carbon 14 in the atmosphere?
18. What role might the Genesis Flood have played in the amount of carbon?
19. Who were the scientists-members of the RATE group (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) team? What was their purpose?
20. What was the significant discovery made by the RATE group as to the coal samples from the U.S. Department of Energy Coal Sample Bank?
21. What important observation did the RATE team make about the amount of Carbon 14 found in diamonds?
22. Based on the findings of the RATE team, what could be an alternative interpretation of the Carbon-14 data?

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Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days?

1. Why is it important to believe that the days of creation are not geologic ages of millions of years?
2. How Does God Communicate to Us?
3. How did most of the church fathers treat the “days” in Genesis – as literal 24 hour day or as millions of years?
4. What did Martin Luther say about the days of creation?
5. What did Charles Haddon Spurgeon, the renowned “prince of preachers,” in 1877 say about molding our religious beliefs with the views of scientists?
6. What did systematic theologian Berkhof say about the study of nature and the Scriptures?
7. How is the Hebrew word for “day,” yom, used in the context of Scripture?
8. What did Martin Luther and John Calvin teach about the nature of the days of creation?
9. How does the seven-day week described in Exodus 31:12 help argue about the literal 24 hour day of Genesis?
10. The phrase “heaven(s) and earth” in Scripture is an example of a figure of speech called a “merism”. How does this argue against the view that “the heavens and the earth” is just earth and perhaps the solar system, but not the whole universe?
11. How can we refute the objection that “Science” has shown the earth and universe are billions of years old; therefore the “days” of creation must be long periods (or indefinite periods) of time?
12. How can we refute the objection that “According to Genesis 1, the sun was not created until Day How could there be day and night (ordinary days) without the sun for the first three days?”
13. What are the contradictions between the order of creation in the Bible and evolution/long-ages?
14. What is the gap theory?
15. What is “theistic evolution”?
16. What is “progressive creation”?
17. Does it really matter whether the creation days were literal 24 hour days or millions of years in duration?

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Does Radiometric Dating Prove the Earth Is Old?

1. How old is the earth according to radioactive dating?
2. What is radioisotope dating? Why is it important?
3. How does radioisotope dating work?
4. What is “historical science” and how does it relate to dating methods?
5. What are some assumptions used in radioisotope dating?
6. How does an hourglass with sand falling from one end to another illustrate how the calculations can be correct but the result wrong?
7. How do the findings of the RATE group (Radioisotopes and the Age of The Earth) prove that radioisotope dating does not always work?
8. What is isochron dating? What was the conclusion reached by RATE with regards this dating method?
9. What were the RATE findings with the samples from Beartooth Mountains of northwest Wyoming near Yellowstone National Park, and the Bass Rapids sill in the central portion of Arizona’s Grand Canyon?
10. What are some possible explanations for the different and conflicting results obtained by isotope dating in the samples taken from places mentioned above?
11. What are radiohalos?
12. One of the RATE studies is the amount of helium found in granite rocks. What does it say about the Biblical account of the literal six days of creation and Noah’s flood?

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Was there Really a Noah’s Ark and Flood?

1. How large was Noah’s ark?
2. How could Noah build the ark?
3. How could Noah round up so many animals?
4. Were dinosaurs on Noah’s ark?
5. How could Noah fit all the animals on the ark?
6. How did Noah care for all the animals?
7. How could a flood destroy every living thing?
8. How could the ark survive the Flood?
9. How was Noah’s ark described in Genesis different from the account in the Epic of Gilgamesh?
10. Could there have been tsunamis during the Flood? How could they have affected the ark?
11. How could the ark survive the Flood?
12. Where did all the water go?
13. Was Noah’s Flood global?
14. Where is the evidence in the earth for Noah’s Flood?
15. Where is Noah’s ark today?
16. Why did God destroy the earth that He had made?
17. How is Christ like the ark?

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How Did Animals Spread All Over the World from Where the Ark Landed?

1. How is the worldwide distribution of animals used to discredit Biblical creationists?
2. What is the difference between the Bible and science textbooks?
3. Is there a Bible-based model that we can use to help explain how animals might have migrated from where the Ark landed to where they live today?
4. What are the four pertinent facts we can glean fro Genesis as to the biblical model of animal migration?
5. How can dogs be used to explain the recolonization of the Earth?
6. Why do some people say that kangaroos could not have hopped to Australia?
7. What did Encyclopædia Britannica has to say about Surtsey Island and Krakatoa and the multiplication of species?
8. How could nonflying animals have traveled to the outer parts of the world after the Flood?
9. How could the Flood have triggered the Ice Age?
10. How could land bridges have facilitated the worldwide distribution of animals?
11. Why are creationist scientific models of animal migration rejected?
12. What is the Recolonization Theory developed by creationists in UK and Europe?
13. What is the principal error of the Recolonization Theory?

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What Really Happened to the Dinosaurs?

1. Are dinosaurs a mystery?
2. What is the Bible’s account of dinosaur history?
3. What is “historical or origins science” and how does it differ from “operational science”?
4. What lies at the root of many disputes over historical science?
5. What are the two ways of thinking or worldviews?
6. Where did dinosaurs come from?
7. What did dinosaurs look like?
8. Who discovered dinosaurs?
9. When did dinosaurs live?
10. Does the Bible mention dinosaurs? Why doesn’t the KJV use the word “dinosaur”?
11. Who coined the word “dinosaur”?
12. What Bible passages may refer to dinosaurs?
13. Are there other ancient records of dinosaurs?
14. What physical evidence is there that dinosaur bones are not millions of years old?
15. What did dinosaurs eat and how did they behave?
16. How did fangs and claws come about?
17. Why do we find dinosaur fossils?
18. How did dinosaurs fit on the ark?
19. Why don’t we see dinosaurs today?
20. Are dinosaurs really extinct?
21. What is the dinosaur-to-bird theory? Do all evolutionists support this idea?
22. Why does the issue of dinosaurs matter today?
23. How does the teaching that dinosaurs lived and died millions of years before man attack the foundations of the Gospel?

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Why Don’t We Find Human & Dinosaur Fossils Together?

1. What do old-earth proponents use to prove that humans and dinosaurs are separated by millions of years of time?
2. What do we actually find in the fossil record?
3. Were pre-Flood humans completely obliterated?
4. Do humans fossilize like other creatures?
5. Were pre-flood humans few in number?
6. Were humans concentrated in high density pockets that have not been discovered?
7. What are the two prominent factors why we haven’t found human fossils in pre-Flood sediments?
8. What are coelacanths?
9. What are some living fossils?
10. Does the Biblical creationist view suffer if human and dinosaur fossils are not found in the same layers?

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Can Catastrophic Plate Tectonics Explain Flood Geology?

1. What is the Earth’s crust composed of?
2. What are “plates” and “plate tectonics”?
3. What are the general principles of plate tectonics theory?
4. Describe the history of plate tectonics; what was Antonio Snider’s view about continental drift?
5. What is continental drift?
6. What four factors have made geologists to accept plate tectonics, incorporating continental drift, as the ruling perspective?
7. What are the eight observations and lines of evidence have convinced geologists about plate tectonics theory?
8. How can the catastrophic plate tectonics model for earth history16 be able to explain geologic data that slow-and-gradual plate tectonics over many millions of years cannot?
9. Is catastrophic plate tectonics Biblical?

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Don't Creationists Believe Some “Wacky” Things?

1. How do you refute the claim that “Biblical creationists believe the Earth is flat”?
2. How do you refute the claim that “Biblical creationists don’t believe there are “beneficial” mutations”?
3. How do you refute the claim that” you can’t be a Christian if you don’t believe in a young earth”?
4. How do you refute the claim that “Biblical creationists take the whole Bible literally”?
5. How do you refute the claim that “Biblical creationists don’t have any evidence for their position”?
6. How do you refute the claim that “Biblical creationists believe the Earth is the same now as it was at the beginning of creation”?
7. How do you refute the claim that “Biblical creationists are anti-science and anti-logic”?

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Where Does the Ice Age Fit?

1. Does the Bible have a mechanism to explain the Ice Age?
2. Define the terms glacier, moraines, uniformitarianism, interglacial, ice cores and Ice Age.
3. How many Ice Ages were there according to secular/uniformitarian scientists?
4. What difficulties are there for secular/uniformitarian scientists in explaining any recent ice ages?
5. What do the terms “snowball earth” and “freeze-fry” hypothesis mean?
6. Did the Flood trigger the Ice Age? Was there an Ice Age after the Flood?
7. Is the Ice Age Biblical?
8. How are “ancient Ice Ages” explained?
9. What were the woolly mammoths and how did they die?
10. Is the glacial lake Missoula related to the Ice Age?
11. What are ice cores and what is their Biblical explanation?

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Are There Really Different Races?

1. How does the Bible look upon inter-racial marriages?
2. What did ABC News state about race?
3. What did the scientists and researchers working on mapping the human genome say about race?
4. What dies the Bible say about race?
5. Can the Bible be used to justify racist atitudes?
6. Why was there slavery in the Old Testament according to Dr. Walter Kaiser, former president of Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary and Old Testament scholar?
7. What does the Book of Job say about the treatment of slaves?
8. What does Peter H. Davids say about slavery during the New Testament times?
9. If there is only one race, how do you explain the racial differences like eye shape and skin color, etc?
10. “If the Bible teaches and science confirms that all are of the same human race and all are related as descendants of Adam, then why are there such seemingly great differences between us (for example, in skin color)?”
11. What is melanin? How does it influence the color of the skin, eye and hair?
12. What is DNA?
13. How does DNA affect the basic shape of the eye?
14. “Those with darker skin tend to live in warmer climates, while those with lighter skin tend to live in colder climates. Why are certain characteristics more prominent in some areas of the world?”
15. How does the Tower of Babel event described in Genesis 11 help explain the “differences” among people groups?
16. Can the Tower of Babel event described in Genesis 11 be used as a basis to ban interracial marriage“Since those with darker skin need more sunlight to produce vitamin D, they may not have been as able to survive as well in areas of less sunlight.” How can the darker-skinned Inuit tribes live or survive in cold northern regions where there is less sunlight?
    What is the purpose of marriage?
17. What are the special roles and responsibilities of fathers, mothers and children according to the Bible?
18. How do the stories of Rahab and Ruth prove that interracial marriage is not banned in the Bible?
19. How do cross-cultural differences affect marriage?

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Are ETs and UFOs Real?

1. What is SETI?
2. Where does the idea of extraterrestrial life stem from?
3. Does the Bible support the idea of extraterrestrial life?
4. What is the conflict between the salvation message and the notion of alien life?
5. What is the “Fermi paradox”?
6. What objects have been mistakenly identified as “UFOs”?
7. Why is there so much hype or interest about UFOs?

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Does Distant Starlight Prove the Universe Is Old?

1. How do critics of biblical creation use distant starlight as an argument against a young universe?
2. “Some Christians have proposed that God created the beams of light from distant stars already on their way to the earth.” What is the problem with this view?
3. What are the Assumptions of Light Travel-time Arguments?
4. Is the speed of light constant?
5. Why is the view that “time flows at the same rate in all conditions” false?
6. How has Relativity of time shown that synchronization is not absolute?
7. How could the difference cosmic universal time and cosmic local time explain distant starlight?
8. What is naturalism and why is it anti-Biblical?
9. What is the “horizon problem” for the Big Bang Theory?

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Did Jesus Say He Created in Six Literal Days?

1. What was Jesus’ view of the days of creation? Did He say that He created in six literal days?

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How Did Defense/Attack Structures Come About?

1. What was William Paley’s belief about “red in tooth and claw” or features that animals possessed to kill prey or defend themselves”
2. What difficulties with Paley’s work did Charles Darwin see?
3. Why does David Attenborough of the British Broadcasting Corporation believe in evolution?
4. How are defense/attack structures exhibited by the Venus Flytrap?
5. How are defense/attack structures exhibited by the spider?
6. How are defense/attack structures exhibited by the Bombardier Beetle?
7. How are defense/attack structures exhibited by cats and reptiles?
8. How are defense/attack structures exhibited by chameleons, alligators and anaconda?
9. What is the biblical response to defense/attack structures?
10. How does the New Testament explain the inseparable connection between the world’s state and man’s condition?
11. According to Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, what was the extent of the Curse?
12. What are the six clear teachings from a truly biblical theology about defense/attack structures?
13. Did God create man and animals originally as vegetarians or as carnivorous?
14. What is the difference between plant life and human and animal life based on Genesis 1:20-21, 30 and genesis 2:7?
15. What changes did the Curse in Genesis 3 cause in animals and plants?
16. When did God allow man to eat meat?
17. According to the prophet Isaiah, will the Curse be reversed?
18. What does the Book of Revelation say about the Curse?
19. What are the two primary alternatives can easily explain defense/attack structures from a biblical perspective?
20. First alternative: The present features used in defense and attack were not originally used for that purpose. Questions: How could have teeth and claws been used? What about viruses and bacteria? How do thorns and thistles argue against this alternative view?
21. Second alternative: DAS design features were brought in by God as a result of the Fall. What are some arguments in favor of this alternative?
22. What should a proper understanding of why there are defense/attack structures in the world today should be a reminder of?

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Is Natural Selection the Same Thing as Evolution?

1. What are some definitions evolutionists use to define “natural selection”?
2. From a creationist perspective, what is “natural selection”?
3. What does the expression “natural selection is nondirectional” mean?
4. What are some recent notable definitions of evolution?
5. What does the expression “evolution is directional” mean?
6. Who was Edward Blyth and how did his work influence Charles Darwin?
7. What was Blyth’s view with regards natural selection?
8. Is natural selection Biblical?
9. How does natural selection work to preserve the genetic viability of the original created kinds?
10. What can natural selection accomplish and not accomplish?
11. Discuss/illustrate the possibilities and limitations of natural selection using the example of varying fur length of dogs.
12. Why is natural selection of designed variation within the dog kind not an example of evolution?
13. How does natural selection apply in antibiotic resistance in bacteria?
14. What are the two primary ways a bacterium can gain resistance?
15. What is speciation? How long does it take?
16. How does creationism explain the tremendous diversity of species seen in the living world today?
17. Why can’t speciation be used as a mechanism for molecules-to-man evolution?
18. Is the creationist view of natural selection supported biblically and scientifically?

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Hasn’t Evolution Been Proven True?

1. What has the word “evolution” come to mean today?
2. What are the dominant mechanisms of evolution?
3. What are the three major forms of evolution?
4. Why does the story of evolution leave no room for a supernatural Creator?
5. What is relative morality?
6. Does the Bible teach evolution?
7. How do you refute the view that Genesis 1 is a simplified account of evolution?
8. Some people argue that God “made” some things and “created” other things based on the supposed difference between “make” and “create” (the Hebrew words are asah and bara, respectively). How do you refute this?
9. What is the Big Bang theory?
10. What is the difference between what the Bible says and the Big Bang theory?
11. What are some philosophical implications of the big bang hypothesis?
12. What is chemical evolution?
13. What was Stanley Miller’s famous experiment in 1953? Why was his experiment hailed as proof that life had evolved by chance on the earth millions of years ago?
14. What are the objections to the evolutionary conclusions from Miller’s experiment?
15. What are “right-handed form and the left-handed form of amino acids” and how do they affect the conclusions from Miller’s experiment?
16. What is the witty observation, with regards the tremendous amount of information found in the human genome, made by the late Professor Sir Fred Hoyle and his colleague, Professor Chandra Wickramasinghe of Cardiff University about what evolutionists want people to believe?
17. What is comparative anatomy and how is it supposed to be an evidence for evolution? Can it be used as evidence of creation?
18. What is one of the classic examples often used in biology textbooks to illustrate comparative anatomy?
19. What are homologous structures?
20. Evolutionists teach that structures are homologous when they are similar in structure and origin, but not necessarily in function. This is based upon what single assumption?
21. How can the presence of homologous structures be interpreted as evidence for a common designer?
22. What could be another logical reason why things look alike?
23. One discovery that appears to make the evolutionary view of descent from a common ancestor look illogical and flawed. Structures that appear homologous often develop under the control of genes that are not homologous. How does this discovery support belief in a common Creator?
24. What is hemoglobin and how do evolutionists use it to prove biological evolution? How can hemoglobin prove belief in a common Creator?
25. What are fossils?
26. What are missing links?
27. What did Charles Darwin admit in his book “Origin of Species” about the lack of transitional forms in the fossil records?
28. What are the many places in the fossil record where it is expected that plenty of intermediate forms should be found, yet they are not there?
29. What are the three categories of missing links in the supposed human evolution?
30. What should we expect from the clear teaching of the Bible – variation or evolution?
31. What was Charles Darwin’s observation about finches on Galapagos Island?
32. What kind of animals have natural selection (done in the wild) and artificial selection (as done by breeders) produced?
33. What can we conclude from the hundreds of different varieties of dogs in support of Biblical creation?
34. What is the so-called “kind barrier”?

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Did Dinosaurs Turn into Birds?

1. What does the bible say about the origin of birds?
2. What do evolutionists claim about the origin of birds?
3. How does the difference between cold- and warm-blooded animals discount the claim that birds originated from reptiles?
4. What is an “ectothermic animal”?
5. How are dinosaurs divided into two major groups based on the structure of their hips”
6. How is the “three-fingered “hand” found in both birds and theropods” used by evolutionists to prove that birds originated from theropod dinosaurs?
7. How does the structure and process of the lungs of birds disprove the theory that they originated from dinosaurs?
8. Are there feathered dinosaurs?
9. Are bird feathers and reptile scales similar?
10. What is the “Archaeopteryx” and how does it disprove the claim that birds originated from reptiles?
11. How does the origin of flight disprove the theory that birds originated from dinosaurs?

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Does Archaeology Support the Bible?

1. What are the major evidences in Genesis1–11?
2. What are the major evidences in Genesis 11–36?
3. What are the major evidences in Genesis 37–50?
4. What are the major evidences regarding Exodus to Deuteronomy?
5. What are the major evidences regarding Joshua to Saul?
6. What are the major evidences regarding David to Solomon?
7. What are the major evidences regarding the Assyrian Period
8. What are the major evidences regarding the Babylonians and Nebuchadnezzar?
9. What are the major evidences regarding Cyrus and the Medes and Persians?
10. What are the major evidences regarding Ezra and Nehemiah?
11. What are the major evidences regarding the Dead Sea Scrolls?
12. What are the major evidences regarding the person of our Lord Jesus?
13. What are the major evidences regarding the New Testament, the early church, and the early years of Christianity?
14. Does Archaeology Prove the Bible?
15. What is the value of archaeology for the Bible student?
16. What is the S-C-A-L-P-S memory aid showing the relevance of archaeology to the Bible?

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Why Does God’s Creation Include Death and Suffering?

1. How did media mogul Ted Turner lose his faith?
2. How was Charles Darwin affected by the death of his daughter Annie?
3. Were humans and animals vegetarians at the time of creation?
4. What does the Hebrew word “nephesh” mean?
5. If there was no animal or human death when God finished His creation and pronounced it very good, why do we die now?
6. If it was Adam’s decision to disobey God that brought sin into the world, why do we all have to suffer punishment?
7. How do evolutionists explain death and suffering?
8. The Bible says that death came as the result of man’s sin. Evolution says that death has always been a part of nature. Can both be true?
9. Will there be a restoration of a world without death and suffering?
10. What is “Theistic evolution”?
11. Where do caring and mercy come from?
12. How do you explain the issue of individual suffering?

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How Can I Use This Information to Witness?

1. Why has Australia’s culture (and other Western cultures) been continuously declining in regard to Christian morality, despite numerous evangelistic campaigns?
2. In Acts 2, some 3,000 people responded to Peter’s preaching. In Acts 17, the Greek philosophers taught Paul’s teachings were foolishness. What possible reason could there be for the difference in the response?
3. How did Paul in Acts 17 counter the Greeks’ evolutionary ideas?
4. Why do the last two generations in Australia have little or no knowledge of the Bible?
5. How can we reach today’s “Greeks” then?
6. If we want to evangelize the once-Christianized Western world today, what understanding into the culture do we need to have?

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How Can We Use Dinosaurs to Spread the Creation Gospel Message?

1. Why should Christians use dinosaurs to teach the true history of the universe?
2. What does the Bible say about the origin and history of dinosaurs?
3. What are the two groups of dinosaurs according to scientists?
4. What are some of the most well-known and popular dinosaurs and their characteristics?
5. How can Christians use dinosaurs to explain the origin of death?
6. How can Christians use dinosaurs to discuss the global Flood that occurred in Noah’s day?