Here’s a new idea—aliens exist but we can’t find them because they were all killed . . . by climate change! This is an actual theory proposed by some scientists.

The lack of aliens in our universe is a big problem for evolutionists. After all, if earth is the only planet that hosts life, out of thousands in our massive universe, it makes us pretty special. But earth can’t be special in their view. If life evolved here, it must’ve evolved somewhere else too.

Well, according to God’s Word earth is special and it was “formed to be inhabited.” Instead of looking for non-existent aliens, these scientists should look to their Creator!

According to the evolutionary story, everything evolved—including our belief in God. Supposedly early cultures invented a divine being and this belief helped their society flourish, so it got passed along.

Well, the Bible gives us the correct view. We’re all descendants of Adam and Eve—people who talked with God. After the global flood, Noah’s descendants took this knowledge of God with them as they spread around the earth. Sadly, sin perverted this knowledge and people invented their own gods.

The Bible also tells us God has put knowledge of himself in all hearts. Everyone knows there’s a God and he calls all to repent.

Neanderthals have long been considered not quite as human as we are. But the more we study them, the more obvious it becomes that they were humans just like us.

Did you know Neanderthals made fish hooks, musical instruments, rope, jewelry, make up, and even glue? They even practiced dental hygiene and cared for each other’s medical needs.

This doesn’t surprise those who start with God’s Word. Neanderthals were descendants of Adam and Eve, made in God’s image, just like us. They may have looked a little different from us, but this just highlights the incredible variety in human DNA that God created in the first place.

Creationists and evolutionists both agree that natural selection is a real process—we observe organisms changing over time. But these changes aren’t the same as evolution. Natural selection only works on what’s already there. It can’t add brand-new genetic information. But you need lots of brand-new information to turn a fish into a frog!

While we can agree natural selection happens and organisms do change, we disagree on how much they can change. Creationists believe organisms can only reproduce according to their kind—and that’s exactly what we observe. Cats produce cats, dogs produce dogs, and finches produce finches.

If we could time travel back to the pre-flood world it would look a lot different! Originally, there weren’t seven continents. There was just one landmass that broke apart during the flood. This explains why there are sediment layers that stretch between continents.

Now, evolutionists also agree with creationists that there was only one landmass in the past. But they believe it took millions of years for the continents to drift apart.

Creationists and evolutionists observe the same world, but we come to totally different conclusions because of our different starting points. It’s not a battle over the evidence! It’s God’s Word versus man’s opinion.

The earliest fossils are marine ones, then amphibians and reptiles, and finally birds and large mammals. There are exceptions, of course, but that’s the basic order we observe.

Evolutionists believe this basic order is because life supposedly arose from a common ancestor and gradually got more complex. But the Bible offers another interpretation. The global flood would’ve buried creatures, starting in the oceans and moving farther inland. The order in the fossil record doesn’t represent different times—it represents different environments. Of course we’d see marine fossils before birds as the floodwaters rose to cover the continents.

Humans and apes have similarities: five fingers, opposable thumbs, and even some similarities in DNA. Of course, we also have massive differences! Creationists and evolutionists agree there’s similarity but not why we have similarities.

Evolutionists believe apes are our closest living relatives. They think the similarities point to a common ancestor. But we know from God’s Word that humans are created in the image of God distinct from all animals—including apes. We share common features because we have a common Designer. The different interpretations are because of our different starting points.

Creationists and evolutionists can agree on some things such as, well, we don’t know everything. But being a creationist doesn’t mean we just say “well, God did it” and move on. Knowing the Creator makes us want to learn more about what he’s made.

Starting with God’s Word, we know there are absolutes such as the creation of earth and the universe by God from nothing, the age of the earth, or the global flood. We use the true history from God’s Word as a framework for interpreting the world around us. So, with that framework in place, we study God’s creation to find answers to some of those things we don’t yet know.

Evolutionists say that evolution sometimes happens so fast that we can actually observe it. Is this “rapid evolution” the smoking gun? Not at all!

What these researchers are observing is natural selection. God created each organism with an incredible amount of genetic variability so they could adapt to new environments. But this process of adaptation, or natural selection, usually causes organisms to lose genetic information.

We see organisms changing all the time. But finches remain finches and lizards remain lizards. What we’ve never observed is new information being added to change one kind into another kind.

Earlier this year radar scans in Greenland revealed an abandoned Cold War military base, buried under one hundred feet of ice in just over fifty years! This is a great reminder that it doesn’t take thousands and thousands of years to accumulate the ice sheets. They can form really quickly!

After the global flood of Noah’s day, the conditions were perfect for an ice age. This ice age, and the massive snowstorms it would’ve caused, would’ve formed hundreds of layers very, very quickly.

The ice sheets aren’t the result of slow and gradual processes over long ages. They’re the result of the flood and its aftermath!