Rev. Clinton Chisholm, Contributor
HEAR a few scientists on the issue.
Geologist, John Wiester: "It is truly remarkable that Genesis 1 is written in virtually the same chronological order as geology textbooks which address the history of the Earth." (The Genesis Connection, 1983, p. 205).
Scientist and theologian, Dr. E.K. Victor Pearce: "Many doubters have been surprised when I have shown them the British Museum book, The Succession of Life Through Geological Time, by Oakley and Muir-Wood. I've put the chapter and verses of Genesis down the margin of this science book. They see that the order of events are the same. Genesis sets it out simply, starting with matter, light, then with green things, then marine creatures, next the land animals and, finally, man." (Evidence for Truth: Science 1998, 27-28).
Astronomer, Dr. Hugh Ross, speaking of Genesis 1 and 2 after examining the scientific credentials of statements in the holy books of the world's major religions: Instead of another bizarre creation myth, here was a journal-like record of the earth's initial conditions correctly described from the standpoint of astrophysics and geophysics followed by a summary of the sequence of changes through which Earth came to be inhabited by living things and ultimately by humans. The account was simple, elegant, and scientifically accurate.
Spong, by blind faith or credulity, swallows hook, line and sinker the Darwinian view that human beings are derived from non-human or sub-human ancestors (p.34). The more research is done on human origins the more scientists are forced to reclassify fossils and modify their earlier theories concerning the alleged ancestors of human beings.
Regrettably, misleading pictures abound in text-books, popular magazines like Time, National Geographic or Newsweek and even in museums, of a series of ape-like creatures on knuckles and progressively becoming more upright in posture until we reach modern humans, walking on two feet.
Other scientists are: Biologist, Jonathan Wells in his devastating book of 2000, Icons of Evolution: Science or Myth; Constance Holden writing in Science, 1981; Henry Gee, Chief Science Writer for Nature, 1999:
It would seem that the author of Genesis, who contends that God directly created the first human pair, Adam and Eve, may be much more scientific than we moderns care to believe.
I encourage you to watch with interest the advances in the study of mitochondrial DNA (inherited from the mother) suggesting that all human beings descended from an original woman dubbed 'African Eve' and similar studies of the human Y-chromosome (inherited from the father) possibly hinting at a corresponding original man.
