Imagine you are on a TV quiz program. What would be your answer

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1 A publication of Answers in Genesis, USA 1 VOLUME 9 ISSUE 12 Hocus pocus, President, AiG-USA A monthly newsletter equipping Christians More than 24 hours in a day. Imagine you are on a TV quiz program. What would be your answer to this question: What famous person made this statement? Now creation science is really pretty bogus. I think there s a lot of hocus pocus in that stuff. You might think of a leading evolutionary scientist, but you would be wrong. So imagine the TV host giving you another chance and offering you the following hint: This well-known person also said, concerning what he called creation science : Some of that stuff just doesn t meet the smell test. You might now be thinking of some leading secular humanist. Wrong also. Imagine if you were then given one final chance: This famous person is a Christian leader who also scoffs at those who believe the Earth was created in six literal days. He is the president and chancellor of what is described on the Web as America s premier Christian graduate school Regent University? Yes, you would be right if you answered Pat Robertson. AiG received a number of letters and s from people dismayed and shocked by Pat Robertson s recent comments on a couple of 700 Club TV programs about those who believe in the six literal days of Creation. I certainly wasn t surprised by these statements. You see, I visited Regent University a number of years ago and discovered that a number of its professors were teaching theistic evolution. And over the years, we ve had contact with a number of students who have confirmed this (although there may be some literal-genesis professors at Regent). Because Pat Robertson has made some very public statements (to literally millions of people) about this, I felt we should answer them. In particular, let s examine a couple of statements that he has included in a form letter he has been sending to those who have inquired about his TV comments. Robertson: According to the Holy Bible, the creation of life was accomplished in ascending order from to uphold the authority of the Bible from the very fi rst verse DECEMBER 2002 THIS ISSUE Museum construction! Resource specials Evolution in schools Upcoming exciting events Did you know? continued on page 2 AnswersInGenesis.org

2 2 Your site (www. AnswersInGenesis.org) is so helpful. I love the VBS material and free overhead illustrations. Mentoring teens and having such great resources to draw from is wonderful. Thanks. C.B. (by ) Creation Museum gifts *Figure does not include See pp pledges for more and gifts info on in these kind. meetings. continued from page 1 the more simple creatures to man himself. Answer: First, not even a single-celled organism can be described as simple. This idea of an ascending order is consistent with the traditional Darwinian idea of moleculesto-man and of course fits with a theistic evolution position. In fact, the whole order of creation in Genesis contradicts old-earth teaching at over 20 points. For example, the Bible says fruit trees were made before fish the millions of With the holidays and the end of 2002 approaching, we want to take a look back and share how the Lord has graciously moved the Creation Museum project forward this year: years view puts fish before fruit trees. Pat Robertson: The Bible records that this was accomplished in six days. I stated that a solar day was different from an Earth day; a galactic day is different from a solar day; and a universal day is different from a galactic day. Answer: Such statements are, quite frankly, gobbledygook, and have nothing to do with the real meaning of the word day in Genesis. The Bible was written, of course, Tell of the mercies of the Lord forever The foundation walls of the Creation Museum are beginning to take shape! Site-plan approval finally granted marking the end of the battle with the Sierra Club and others over wastewater treatment issues! Foundation permit granted and foundation work started! Volunteers donated over 52,000 hours of labor in 2002 equivalent to 25 full-time employees! Vacation Bible School and children s Sunday school special offerings totaled over $1,800! Many non-cash gifts donated, including warehouse storage equipment, tools, fossils, minerals, in a language. Therefore, we must go to the words in that language, look at the context and, on the basis of the rules of grammar for that language, work out what it means. The word day in Hebrew, when used with a number or with the word evening or morning just as in Genesis chapter one means an ordinary day. After all, Christians don t read the New Testament and say about the Resurrection: A physical resurrection is continued on page 6 taxidermy and more! Capital campaign picking up speed! Nearly $5 million of the total $6.2 million donated so far came within the last two years! Significant progress on the exhibit plan the sequence of the major exhibit layout is complete! Space is simply not sufficient to tell about the many ways the Lord has blessed the museum project. We anticipate an exciting year in 2003 as the building goes up and exhibit construction begins in earnest! (For updates, go to

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6 6 Evolution in public schools the latest spin In the fall, the state school board in Ohio added a controversial amendment to its proposed science standards (read the words carefully): Students should be able to describe how scientists continue to investigate Forgot to renew? Missed the latest issue of Creation magazine? Renewing your subscription is easier than ever! Just call , visit swersbookstore.com, fax , or mail us! We d be happy to assist. Creation magazine is the lifeblood of this ministry, and it s a proven resource on Biblical issues and evangelistic outreach! and critically analyze aspects of evolutionary theory. If the science standards get final approval this month, Ohio will become the first US state to officially encourage teachers to teach controversies about evolution. But what does the amendment really mean? Evolutionists think that it encourages students to learn the different views about how evolution works, but leaders in the intelligent design (ID) movement believe it lets students learn alternative views to evolution. Read the full story at InGenesis.org/ohio For more on intelligent design, see Hocus pocus continued from page 2 In the early 60s, our Sunday school teacher said we couldn t believe Genesis because it was a lot of simple stories made up for ancient man and that scientists now knew that we evolved. I realized that if we didn t have to believe Genesis, then how would you know where to start believing the Bible? It was not until my mid 40s that I was given Creation magazine to read we built a fi rm foundation. I began to read the Bible and fi nally received Christ this year. T.W. (by ) different from a spiritual one is different from a resuscitation one therefore we don t know what sort of resurrection it was! No! We read the words in context according to the type of language, and then we can dogmatically state that Jesus Christ rose bodily from the dead, according to the Scriptures. Besides which, as soon as you allow for millions of years of Earth s history, then death, diseases (like cancer), suffering and pain, etc., existed before sin which destroys the foundation of the Gospel. Pat Robertson: In short, a day does not have to be 24 Earth hours. The Bible itself says, One day with the Lord is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as a day. Answer: This is one of the most common but inconsistent and errorladen applications of Scripture (in this case 2 Peter 3:8) that I hear in Christian circles. This phrase from the New Testament has nothing whatsoever to do with defining a Hebrew word in Genesis. Not only this, but people who use this verse to question the meaning of the word day apply this only to Genesis 1. But the word day is used over 2,000 times in the Old Testament why don t they apply it to all the times it s used? Maybe Jonah was in the great whale for 3,000 years, not three days! Sadly, the views of Pat Robertson are also held by many Christian leaders in America today. While these same leaders have a heart for fighting America s culture war, Christians are losing the battle. The problem is that the culture war is being lost because Biblical authority has been lost. And this has happened because the majority of Christian leaders have rejected the literal history in Genesis in order to compromise with millions of years and evolutionary ideas. Until Christian leaders get back to accepting God s clear Word beginning in Genesis, and thus reestablishing Biblical authority, Christians will not be able to fi ght the culture war at a foundational level where the real battle is largely being won by the secular humanists.

7 Please pray that recent AiG Bible teaching in Russia, Ukraine, Jamaica and Colombia will be effectively followed up. that the shell of the Creation Museum and new headquarters (see p. 2) will be fi nished by the spring, and that funding for this debt-free project will come in well ahead of the construction bills. Closed for the holidays AiG speakers and Devon Linton (inset) recently spoke to 500 Jamaican pastors and laypersons. AiG wishes you a blessed holiday season! During the upcoming holidays, AiG staff will be taking a break as we conclude a busy year. The AiG offices will be closed December (Monday-Friday), reopen December and closed January 1 (Wednesday). The AiG staff wishes you a blessed Christmas and a wonderful New Year! Upcoming Events For details, visit San Antonio, TX January Michael Oard Cincinnati, OH January 19 (859) ext. 482 Dayton, OH January 19 (937) Santa Clarita, CA January 29 February 1 (661) Sun Valley, CA January 30 (818) Riverside, CA February 1 (909) Deckerville, MI February 1 2 (810) Carl Kerby Sun Valley, CA February 2 (818) (818) Burbank, CA February 2 Quincy, CA February 9 10 Dr Terry Mortenson, Michael Oard Anchorage, AK February 19 Modesto, CA February (209) , Buddy Davis Dunlap, TN February Dr David Menton Oswego, IL February 23 (630) Carl Kerby Waukesha, WI March 1 TO LEARN MORE 7 For further details on all AiG events worldwide, visit To host an event or invite an AiG speaker to your church or organization event, visit requestevent All events are subject to change. For more information, please call ext Your company might double your gift! PLANNED GIVING few weeks ago, we got a A call from David, an AiG supporter, who s employed by a major US corporation that matches employees gifts to nonprofit organizations. David wanted to make a gift of $600 to AiG s Creation Museum, so we fi lled out his company s matching gift form, thereby doubling the size and effectiveness of the gift. Each year, hundreds of employers match the contributions of their employees to Christian ministries. Answers in Genesis has received numerous such matching gifts over the past few years. If your employer will match contributions, we d be happy to answer questions or assist you in completing any forms. As we approach the end of the year, you may already be thinking of giving to the Lord s work, and this giving method is one that you may want to pursue. For more information on matching gifts or other useful planned giving methods, please call John Pence at (800) ext. 483.

8 8?8 DID YOU KNOW? Descendants of alleged pre-adamites couldn t have salvation through Christ! Humans before Adam? Did you know that Christians who accept man s fallible methods of dating have a real problem? You see, these dating methods wrongly date human skeletons back nearly 2 million years. Now the Bible lists genealogies to show that Christ became a descendant of the first man, Adam. A strict Bible chronology places the creation of Adam about 6,000 years ago. There s no way that millions of years could be added into these genealogies it would destroy them. So what do compromising Christians do with these human skeletons that supposedly date back hundreds of thousands or millions of years? Well, they believe God must have created humans without souls before Adam and Eve. They call these pre-adamites. A number of Christian leaders believe this. They claim that God made Adam and Eve after these supposed soulless humans. But the secular dating methods these Christians accept indicate that the Australian Aborigines and American Indians supposedly lived 40,000 to 60,000 years ago. This would mean they couldn t be descendants of Adam and Eve. They couldn t have salvation through Christ! Can you see what distortions happen when people try to add man s theories to the Bible? (Taken from the 19 December broadcast of Answers with, now heard on more than 575 radio stations worldwide.) The Answers Update is published monthly at no charge by Answers in Genesis, a non-profit, tax-exempt 501(c)(3) evangelistic organization. WHO ARE WE? AiG equips the church to uphold the authority and accuracy of the Bible from the very first verse, thereby enabling it to more effectively present the Gospel in our increasingly secular, evolutionary society. PO Box 6330 Florence, KY Industrial Rd Florence, KY Phone...(859) Fax...(859) Donations & book orders only... (800) Museum information line...(859) x360 President: Editors: Mark Looy & Mike Matthews Production: Dan Zordel & Diane King Visit our popular international Web site: PO Box 6330 Florence, KY NONPROFIT ORG. U.S. POSTAGE PAID ANSWERS IN GENESIS MINISTRIES