Answers with Ken Ham

When God placed Adam in the garden of Eden, he told him to eat freely from any tree except one or he would die. Adam and his wife rebelled against God and ate from that tree. God’s judgment was swift: they were kicked out the garden, creation was cursed, and eventually they died. God didn’t overlook their sin—he judged it, just like he said he would.

Whenever we see death, we should remember that God judges sin and the judgment is death. Just as surely as God judged Adam and Eve’s sin, so he will judge our sin. But he’s made a way of salvation through Jesus Christ. I urge you today—repent and trust in Jesus and be saved!

For many evolutionists today, we’re the only hope for our planet. That’s why they really worship the earth—to them, this is all there is and we’re the only hope to save the planet from ourselves.

But in a biblical worldview the ultimate problem isn’t pollution or climate change or extinction. The problem is sin. It’s because of our sin that the world groans, that people exploit creation, and ultimately why we die. But we’re not the answer! Our hope is in Jesus Christ. He came to take our penalty of death for us. He’s the answer.

This week we’re looking at some of the teachings that come from believing Genesis as written. You see, believing we were created has consequences, and so does believing we’re just products of evolution.

In the evolutionary view, we’re just highly evolved animals so human lives don’t have unique value and there’s no Creator God who we’re accountable to.

But starting with God’s Word, we’re uniquely created in God’s image, and our lives have value simply because we’re human. So, things like abortion, euthanasia, and eugenics are wrong and we’re accountable for our sins to God.

Your starting point has consequences!

Picture this: a deer grazes in the sunshine, birds sing, and a rabbit nibbles grass. Beautiful, right? But what you don’t see are the ticks feeding on the birds, the fox crouching to pounce on the rabbit, and the parasite eggs hiding in the grass, waiting to invade the unsuspecting doe.

It’s beautiful, but it’s also ugly. And Genesis explains why. God’s original creation was very good—no bloodthirsty ticks, no carnivores, no parasitic worms. But Adam’s sin changed everything. It brought death and creation was cursed. Now we see beauty and ugliness.

The history in Genesis is foundational to all our Christian doctrines. So, what you believe about creation impacts your view of other biblical teachings.

For example, Scripture clearly teaches we’re all descended from Adam. Originally, God’s creation was perfect, with no sin or death. But Adam rebelled against God and we sinned in Adam. We continue to sin, so the whole human race is in rebellion against God.

The doctrine of creation is foundational to the doctrine of original sin. Get rid of a historical Genesis, and you undermine the truth about sin and salvation. Instead of twisting Scripture, we must start with God’s Word.

The planet Saturn has at least sixty-two moons, including one called Titan. This moon is larger than ours and the only one known to have an atmosphere, which is partly methane. Titan’s surface features lakes of what’s probably liquid methane. The small amount of methane surprised evolutionary astronomers who believe the planet is billions of years old.

Evolutionists also thought Titan would be covered with thousands of craters from billions of years of asteroid hits. But photos showed only sixty craters on half of Titan.

Research is showing our universe isn’t old! It’s young.

The spacecraft Cassini was launched on a twenty-year mission to study our solar system, particularly the planet Saturn.

Cassini gathered data about Saturn’s core and gravitational forces to try and explain how Saturn can have such a strong magnetic field. You see, magnetic fields lose energy over time, and Saturn is thought to be billions of years old, so it should have a weak magnetic field. Evolutionists thought maybe something called a dynamo kept it working but Cassini showed that won’t work.

Saturn’s magnetic field is strong because the planet’s young, created by God just a few thousand years ago.

The sixth planet in our solar system, Saturn, is surrounded by thousands of intricate rings. One spacecraft, Cassini, passed through these rings at the end of its mission.

As it passed through, it measured the gravitational pull of the rings and confirmed they’re too light to have lasted for billions of years. Cassini also measured dust coming from outer space, and found the rings are too clean to be old. Researchers were forced to conclude Saturn’s rings must somehow be young.

This doesn’t surprise those who start with God’s Word. We know Saturn’s rings are just a few thousand years old, created by God for his glory.

Saturn’s thousands of rings are the most spectacular of any known planet. They’re made of ice, dust, and rocks ranging in size from a sand grain to a building. The rings and their gaps are so stable each has its own name. And the rings are very intricate—some are even braided!

Many astronomers think these rings formed billions of years ago from the debris of a crashed asteroid or that Saturn’s tidal forces tore apart one of its satellites, arranging the debris into rings. But the rings are way too intricate for either of those origin stories.

These beautiful rings were handmade by God.

The giant planet Saturn is made almost entirely of liquid and gas. It’s seven hundred and fifty times the volume of earth. But it’s density’s so low, you could throw it in a giant bathtub and it would float!

Saturn’s very different from earth, obviously. Our planet is solid, and so are Mercury, Venus, and Mars. This is a puzzle to secular astronomers. If our solar system formed from a spinning cloud of dust and gas, why do we have both kinds of planets? Other solar systems only have one or the other.

Our solar system has such diversity because God created it that way.