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Summary: The Answer Book Confirms the Reliability of Scripture
Review: The revised and expanded "Answers Book" takes on twenty of the most asked questions about creation, evolution, and the book of Genesis. It is written by examining the Bible using a literal hermeneutic and with a mind for scientific explanation. Strongly contending for a "young earth" model, most of the material centers on the Genesis creation account and on the flood of Noah. The book challenges some of the older scientific theories, based on new research. The authors also do a good job of separating theories and assumptions from clear Biblical declarations. The book typically gives the reader the simple answer to the questions and then digs in deeper to give more information to students desiring details. For those who believe the Scripture is the infallible Word of God, the text will confirm the reliability of the Biblical account. Skeptics are given ample reason to be challenged in their assumptions and to reconsider what the Bible says about origins. The book answers the following questions. Does God exist? Did God really take six days to create everything? What about the gap theory? What about carbon-14 dating? How can we see distant stars in a young universe? How did "bad things" come about? What about arguments for evolution? Cain's wife-who was she? Were the "sons of God" extra-terrestrials? Was Noah's flood global? What about "continental drift?" Noah's flood-what about all the water? How did all the animals fit on the ark? How did fresh/saltwater fish survive the flood? Where are all the human fossils? What about the Ice Age? How could animals get to places like Australia? How did the different "races" arise? What happened to the dinosaurs?
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Summary: Well-documented answers to tough questions about Genesis
Review: This book has been helpful to me and thousands of others. It is very faith-strengthening, giving rational answers for 12 common questions. And it shows that the Bible can withstand the strongest attacks of the Sceptics. Christians also need to realise that consistent Christianity requires belief in a creator who created the world 'very good' (Gen. 1:31), and that disease and suffering is the result of sin. Failure to take Genesis at its plain meaning will put death, 'the last enemy' (1 Cor. 15:26) into a 'very good' creation. The six-day creation is not a mere 'side-issue', but a watershed one for the key doctrines of the authority and perspicuity of Scripture. As shown by Dr Douglas Kelly's book _Creation and Change_ (also available from Amazon), if the days of Genesis are not ordinary days as is plainly stated, then how can we understand anything else in the Bible? Billions of years/evolution can only be 'consistent' with Genesis if the text is emptied of all meaning. _The Answers Book_ does an excellent job demolishing compromise views like the 'Day-Age' theory and 'Gap' theory, thoroughly answers the old 'Where did Cain get his wife' chestnut, and shows that all different 'races' could come from a single human couple -- just the sort of message that our society needs to combat the virulent racism in some circles. The Flood is also well covered, except that a future edition would greatly benefit from an expanded section on fitting all the animals in. This is well-covered by John Woodmorappe's book _Noah's Ark: A Feasiblity Study_ (available from Amazon). He points out that only about 16,000 kinds of land vertebrate animals needed to be on board; plants, invertebrates and marine creatures are not included in the Hebrew words for the Ark's cargo, and could have survived off the Ark. He also points out that the there are many cases where animals of different species and even in different genera can actually interbreed, showing that they are really just one biological species. Thus the number of pairs is much smaller than sceptics assert.
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Summary: funny and clever
Review: This book is funny and clever. It is funny because of some of the very basic errors in logic. For example, "The moon is moving away from the earth at a speed of 4cm a year, therefore it can't be more than x years old, even if it had started off touching the earth." It is clever because it puts enough actual science in, that readers without a science background might be lulled by the genuine science and not notice the glaring errors and logical fallacies. I advise everyone to read this. It is an excellent introduction to the rhetorical devices used by some to attempt to fool others. It would be good material for a class in logic. "Find 10 errors in this chapter. Bonus marks for any ad hominen arguments found."
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Summary: Excellent overview of creation and interpreting evidence
Review: This book is highly recommended for anyone who wants to know how creationists interpret the evidence in the 21st century. I have read books by Hugh Ross and other compromising creationists who really have no idea what creationists who accept the plain interpretation of the Bible(commonly called young earth creationists)actually teach. For instance in Hugh Ross's book the Genesis Question he calls young earth creationists young earth macro-evolutionists. This is absurd. This book demonstrates the creationists position on speciation is change from information already present not information increasing required for macro-evolution. Creationists also accept what the Bible plainly teaches that after the fall God cursed the Earth which resulted in carnivorous activity of nephesh animals. This resulted in God either turning on information in certain animals or adding new information for the defense attack structures in certain animals not macro-evolution. It also demonstrates that creationists do not deny plant death before the fall as Ross claims but the Bible clearly states in Genesis 1:29-30 that God commanded humans and nephesh animals to only eat plants. It was sin that cursed the animal kingdom and humans that brought death to them. This book also covers the assumptions in dating methods and these dates alone cannot prove an old earth. In fact there are several examples where these dating methods have given erroneously high age results to samples that were known to be young. The book also establishes the position that creationist accept the plain interpretation of the Bible that the flood was a global catastrophe. The flood has made a huge impact on the fossil record and the earth's geology and shows the evidence is actually consistent if we take into consideration how devestating this event would have been and much of what we interpret as taken long periods of time would actually form rapidly in a flood of this magnitude. It was also this event that would account for contential drift and plate tectonic modeling is introduced. After the flood a great ice age was caused and the evidence indicates it lasted about 700 years. The flood makes an excellent catalyst for the ice age where evolutionists have trouble defining one. This book also covers starlight in a young universe, what happened to the dinosaurs, how the fish survived the flood, origin of races, alleged ape men, animal migration after the flood and much more. Nobody should misrepresent the creationists teaching anymore. Read this book and find out what they actually teach.
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Summary: Is Scientifically Valid and True to Scripture
Review: This book is packed with worthwhile information. I am amused by the rationalists who denigrate it. To begin with, anyone with even the most cursory familiarity with the Bible knows that it does not teach an old earth but teaches a young earth. For example, Jesus Christ said that, from the beginning, God had created humans male and female. This only makes sense if the earth is young: If the earth is old, then humans only appeared recently relative to the 4.5 billion years' age of the earth. And far from distorting science, as that reviewer Merde says, the book is scrupulous in staying close to valid scientific facts. Finally, it is compromises with evolution that are a shame to Christianity, not the works of those who uphold the truth of Scripture and of true scientific information.
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Summary: A Good Book vs. The Frightful Ignorance of its Critics
Review: This book provides a wealth of information relevant to basic questions about science, the Bible, the imagined fact of organic evolution, etc. Some of the negative reactions against it tell us far more about the abysmal ignorance of its critics than they tell us about this book. Thus, neither Ken Ham nor any of the AIG leaders is a Seventh-Day Adventist, nor is this book patterned after Adventist theology. I have yet to see a single reference to Ellen White in any AIG publication! Furthermore, the young-earth Creation-Flood view espoused by this book was in fact the mainstream Christian view in past centuries, not some sort of recent aberration of theology. The notions about a literal Biblical reading requiring acceptance of a metal-domed sky and a flat earth are totally ludicrous. Such notions are not required by the Hebrew text at all, but were dreamed up by 19th-century rationalists bent on discrediting the Bible. Nor can scientific issues be avoided in favor of ones dealing with morality, etc. Jesus Christ taught that if we cannot believe Him when He speaks of earthly things, how can we believe Him when He speaks of heavenly things. This book gives us a balanced introduction to both.
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