Miscellaneous – Creation Moments

Is Michelangelo’s painting of the Creation of Adam scripturally correct?

Michelangelo’s fourth panel on the famous Sistine Chapel ceiling is the well-known depiction of God creating Adam. Both figures have one arm raised and forefingers almost touching. The moment is supposedly when God infused His just-created figure of...

Have remains of human giants been discovered?

The King James translation of the Bible speaks of there being “giants in the earth” in that pre-flood world: “There were giants [NEPHILIM] in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters o...

Did dinosaurs live in the Garden of Eden?

Dinosaurs and all the other animals – but not the great sea creatures or the birds – were created in the early morning of Friday, the sixth day of Earth’s first week [Genesis 1:24-25]. The word “dinosaur” immediately brings to mind a...

Have humans evolved or devolved?

Have humans evolved upward from the ape or have we fallen from some higher being? In our computer-driven world we might become convinced that we are indeed evolving to “superhumans.” Idealists such as Nietzsche and Adolf Hitler thought so. How...

Why did Adam have to name all the animals?

It was probably in the morning of the sixth day – that is, Friday of Earth’s first week – when God created Adam. God had spent the early part of that day overseeing the creation of the cattle, the beasts and the creeping things from the earth [G...

Is Hugh Ross’s “Progressive Creation Theory” credible?

Dr. Hugh Ross has a genuine PhD in astronomy and issued his book The Finger of God in 1989. In this he attempted to reconcile Scripture with the theory of evolution. His ministry in the U.S. is called Reasons to Believe and, while he has also appeared on ...

What color was Adam?

In western countries, nearly every imaginative painting of Adam and Eve depict two adult Caucasians with fair skin and blue eyes. These images, even used as Bible illustrations, tend to shape the reader’s mental image of the first man and woman. The...

How long were Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden?

Genesis chapter one provides the account of God’s creation of the heavens and the earth while, at the end of that chapter, the creation of man and woman is introduced. The second chapter is more specific about the man – now named Adam – while, a...

Is the “Gap Theory” a viable interpretation of the creation account?

As early as 1812, Thomas Chalmers [1780-1847], evangelical professor of theology at Edinburgh, proposed a gap of as many millions of years as geology then demanded between Genesis 1:2 and 1:3. He argued that initially there had been a Pre-Adamic age that ...

What is the Local Flood Theory, and how did it come about?

For eighteen centuries after the introduction of Christianity, Christians and most non-Christians believed that there had been a great earth-destroying flood in the long distant past. The account of one man and his family having been saved from this flood...