How did the universe get here? How did anything come to exist? This simple but huge philosophical question has plagued mankind for millennia. And, of course, they have tried to answer it in different ways. However, Christians believe that in the Bible, more specifically in Genesis, God gives an account of how He created everything in six days. Also, scientific evidence is consistent with the belief that the physical universe was designed by God. This evidence is shown by the Genesis flood with its lasting effects, by the beautiful and underlying design of an ultimate Designer, and even down to the very structure of atoms. This consistency is key to a Christian’s belief because, “If creation is really a fact, this means there is a Creator,
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God sent this flood as a punishment to the wicked people of the earth and to start over with Noah and his family. The Flood itself is probably ranked number one on the list of events that have shaped the earth physically since creation. It played a big role in the formation of mountains, valleys, and even continents! “Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed. Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.” (Psalm 104:8-9) Today people look at a natural wonder like the Grand Canyon and know that it was formed by water eroding the rock and soil away over time. But that is where the agreements stop. Non-creationists think that the Grand Canyon was carved out by water slowly over millions or even billions of years. This clearly goes against the Bible and its teachings. It has been researched and proven that the Biblical Creation would have had to happen around six thousand years ago. (Morris, “How Old Is The Earth”) Even with a thousand year margin of error, that number is still exponentially less than the now widely accepted billions. But to some, this lesser age raises the issue of how something like the Grand Canyon can occur in only thousands of years. And the answer is that it cannot. At least, not without a worldwide flood. Noah’s flood gives the explanation for this phenomenon as that much water over shorter period of time could certainly have the same effect. ("Creation Topic.") And on the other hand, the flood also laid down many layers of rock and soil and turned it into sediment rock. This could also be interpreted to have happened over an extensive time but the flood sped this process to an extreme extent. (Morris, Henry and John Morris 28) This rapid filling in of sediment is why scientists find anomalies like trees standing up through multiple layers of sediment which should have taken hundreds of thousands of years to
God sent this flood as a punishment to the wicked people of the earth and to start over with Noah and his family. The Flood itself is probably ranked number one on the list of events that have shaped the earth physically since creation. It played a big role in the formation of mountains, valleys, and even continents! “Mountains rose and valleys sank to the levels you decreed. Then you set a firm boundary for the seas, so they would never again cover the earth.” (Psalm 104:8-9) Today people look at a natural wonder like the Grand Canyon and know that it was formed by water eroding the rock and soil away over time. But that is where the agreements stop. Non-creationists think that the Grand Canyon was carved out by water slowly over millions or even billions of years. This clearly goes against the Bible and its teachings. It has been researched and proven that the Biblical Creation would have had to happen around six thousand years ago. (Morris, “How Old Is The Earth”) Even with a thousand year margin of error, that number is still exponentially less than the now widely accepted billions. But to some, this lesser age raises the issue of how something like the Grand Canyon can occur in only thousands of years. And the answer is that it cannot. At least, not without a worldwide flood. Noah’s flood gives the explanation for this phenomenon as that much water over shorter period of time could certainly have the same effect. ("Creation Topic.") And on the other hand, the flood also laid down many layers of rock and soil and turned it into sediment rock. This could also be interpreted to have happened over an extensive time but the flood sped this process to an extreme extent. (Morris, Henry and John Morris 28) This rapid filling in of sediment is why scientists find anomalies like trees standing up through multiple layers of sediment which should have taken hundreds of thousands of years to