History – Creation Moments

Thomas Chalmers’ Gap

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.” In 1814, Thomas Chalmers was a young Scottish clergyman with a...

George Stanley Faber

Exodus 20:11 “For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy.” 19th Century books had such memorable titles! Anglican vicar G...

Art for Cavemen’s Sake

Genesis 11:9 “Therefore is the name of it called Babel; because the LORD did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did the LORD scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.” The concept of so-called cave art is not new. ...

Human Evolution Dates Change Again

Psalm 8:4-5 “What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? For thou hast made him a little lower than the angels, and hast crowned him with glory and honour.” There are constant changes to the dates given for h...

Darwin’s Childhood Influences

Romans 8:5 “For they that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit the things of the Spirit.” There is an abiding myth that Charles Darwin began life as a Bible-believing Christian and only left the faith...

Darwin’s Deep Time

Genesis 18:14 “Is any thing too hard for the LORD? At the time appointed I will return unto thee, according to the time of life, and Sarah shall have a son.” There are a number of myths surrounding Darwin and his theory of evolution. One abiding m...

Darwin and Malthus

Ecclesiastes 3:20-21 “All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?” Social Darwinism, taken to the extreme, can m...

The Other Evolutionist

Job 38:4 “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou hast understanding.” Everybody knows that the modern theory of evolution was described in detail by Charles Darwin in his famous work, The Origin of Species, publishe...

A Race for Evolution

Romans 1:25 “Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.” Alfred Russel Wallace very nearly pipped Darwin at the post as the pioneer of evolution by natural sele...

Another 19th Century Creationist

Proverbs 2:6 “For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.” John Stevens Henslow was a highly respected scientist of the 19th century. He taught both botany and mineralogy at England’s Cambridge University. In...