How Evolution Flunked the Science Test!
EVOLUTION IS A MYTH!
False Dating
Archaeology is very important, for it provides us with information about ancient events, places, and peoples. Men dig in the ground in the Near East and learn about Bible times.
We are thankful for the many discoveries that have been made. But, unfortunately, men who dislike the Bible and those who believe in it, have tried to change the method of figuring out the dates of what is found in the ground.
The world and everything in it was created during Creation Week, a six-day creation period, followed by a one-day sabbath rest. They were literal 24-hour days. Just like ours today. Later, the worldwide Flood occurred for a whole year.
Creationists believe that Creation Week occurred somewhere between 4000 and 8000 B.C.
But, all the evidence indicates it may have occurred at approximately 4000 B.C. This is almost exactly 2,000 years before the birth of Christ in 4 B.C. The date of the Flood is variously set at 2300 to 4500 B.C. But 2348 B.C. may be the best date. These lower dates are in best harmony with Biblical records and non-Biblical evidence. The Bible is the most accurate ancient historical record known to mankind.
This would mean the Flood occurred about 1,656 years after Creation. Within a hundred years after the Flood ended, people may have entered Egypt and started its first kingdom.
There are many problems in archaeology. It takes a long time to dig in a small area. Some of the best information is never found; perhaps the site was anciently burned or rotted away. Those in charge of the dig are the ones to decide how to interpret what is found. That can be a problem. For all these reasons and more, archaeologists need the Bible. It is the oldest and largest history book in the world.
Yet most of the universities today, are controlled by liberals, who do not believe in God or the Bible. They have invented a dating theory that tries to disprove Bible events, but their theory is wrong. Archaeology, correctly interpreted, agrees with the Bible.
A good example is the walls of Jericho; mentioned in Joshua 6. When Joshua and his men marched around that city for seven days, about the year 1400 B.C., the walls fell down flat outward. Then the city was burned, without taking any of the clothing or furnishings out of it.
Four years of digging at Jericho convinced John Garstang, in the 1930s, that the outer wall on one of its levels had fallen flat outward, that the ash from the level was very thick, and that it dated to the time of Joshua (1400 B.C.)
But later, in the 1950s, another researcher came. He applied erroneous dating theories to those same walls and said they dated to several hundred years earlier. But that dating theory has been shown to be incorrect. It is based on hunches that have no basis in fact.
We can be thankful that the Bible is so very accurate in all that it tells us! It was the God of heaven who inspired that good book. As we read it, we learn how to live better lives. This is the final lesson of our "Evolution is a Myth" course. =^..^=
