Yesterday we learned dinosaurs and man were both created on day six of creation. So, yes, dinosaurs and people once lived together. But wouldn’t dinosaurs like T. rex have been a terror in the garden of Eden?

Genesis 1 tells us that God originally gave people and the animals the plants to eat. This means originally T. rex would’ve been vegetarian, snacking on fruits and plants. But what about those huge teeth?

Just because something has big teeth doesn’t mean it eats meat. Even today, fruit bats and grass eating monkeys have sharp teeth, but they eat fruit and grass.

It wasn’t until after sin that creatures started eating meat.

Many Christians struggle to answer questions about dinosaurs. But these creatures aren’t a mystery if we use the Bible as our starting point.

Genesis 1 says God created all the land animals on day six of creation. Dinosaurs, by definition, are land animals, so they must’ve been created on day six, the same day as Adam. Adding up the genealogies, we know there were two thousand years from Adam to Abraham, and it’s been four thousand years since Abraham. So, dinosaurs were created around six thousand years ago, with the rest of creation.

Dinosaurs are only mysterious if we ignore God’s Word. Tune in all this week to learn more.

Secularists claimed that petrified wood is evidence of millions of years. But researchers have found a way to make instant petrified wood.

Many labs can make petrified wood using a certain mix of chemicals. With the right formulas, scientists can petrify wood quickly—and they’ve been doing it for decades!

And the chemicals needed for this process can be found near volcanoes and in sediment. It’s likely that petrification in a very short time occurs in these places, too.

Petrified wood doesn’t prove millions of years. It can form quickly, which is what we’d expect starting with the Bible’s history of a young earth.

Whenever a new planet’s discovered orbiting a distant star, there’s a great deal of excitement, especially if the new planet is thought to be earth-like. Researchers and the media quickly declare it might hold life. Why?

Well, in an evolutionary view, earth can’t be special. In the billions of years since the universe began life simply must’ve evolved somewhere else too. So, any planet that’s even slightly earth like becomes a primary candidate for evolution to have brought life forth on that planet too.

But, when we start with God’s Word, we know it was earth that was formed to be inhabited and life was created here.

Yesterday, we learned we don’t actually share 98% of our DNA with chimps. That number’s been shown to be false. And that should be obvious because we’re so different from apes!

First off, they’re huge anatomical differences. Our knees face forward so we can walk upright but chimps’ knees, along with their wrists, fingers, and hips are shaped very differently for climbing trees and walking on all fours.

Humans can design skyscrapers, write music, and discuss philosophy. Apes, while smart, rely solely on instinct.

Humans have a conscience, something no ape has.

And, most importantly, we alone are made in the image of God.

You’ve probably heard that chimps and humans share 98% of their DNA. Now, this kind of DNA comparison is complicated. To simplify it, researchers ignored the large mismatched sections, totaling 1.3 billion DNA letters. The remaining 2.4 billion were 98% similar.

So researchers left out huge chunks of DNA in their comparison. And yet this number is used as proof that we’re related.

Our DNA isn’t 98% similar to chimps. Yes, we share some DNA similarities—that’s no surprise. We need to make similar things like muscles, bones, and hair. It makes sense the Creator used the same basic instructions throughout his creation.

You’ve probably heard we share 98% of our DNA with chimps, our supposed closest living relatives.

But that 98% number has a lot of problems. It’s based off old data that used human DNA as a framework because the researchers assumed common ancestry. When a true ape-only genome was sequenced, the number of similarities dropped dramatically to only about 85% similar.

This similarity in DNA doesn’t suggest a common ancestor. In the same way a computer programmer uses the same basic commands to design many different programs, the Creator used the same basic instructions to code for a variety of different organisms.

How do we make sure God’s Word is the authority in our church?

Yesterday we looked at igniting a new Reformation by encouraging the church to stand on the authority of God’s Word. But how do we do that at home?

We need a generation who’ll start their thinking with God’s Word in all areas.

This week we’re looking at the Reformation. Well, it’s time to ignite a new reformation for this generation!

As we’ve seen this week, the Reformation was all about a return to the authority of God’s Word. And we need to do this again! Instead of trusting God’s Word, many Christians are compromising with man’s ideas. This is especially evident in how many Christians treat Genesis. They take millions of years and evolution and change God’s Word to fit these ideas. And the compromise doesn’t stop in Genesis! We’re now seeing it throughout the Bible.

We need to get back to the authority of God’s Word in all areas!