The Bible is a unique book because it’s the only book that was written by both human authors and God himself. But does the Bible contain errors because it was written by humans?

The writers in the Bible describe the Scriptures as flawless, enduring forever, and God-breathed. And the Bible says that God knows the end from the beginning and cannot lie so we wouldn’t expect his Word to have errors.

And it doesn’t! The Bible’s been shown to be amazingly accurate about archaeology, it’s accurate about science, and it’s right when it talks about history.

You can trust God’s Word from the very first verse!

When describing life, the Bible doesn’t use the modern term “species.” Instead it describes God creating “kinds” that reproduce within their kind. This gives us a hint at what a kind is—a group of animals that can reproduce with one another. Creation biologists have determined that “kind” is at about the same level as “family” in our modern taxonomy.

God built a huge amount of variety into each kinds’ DNA so that they can diversify as they fill the earth. This leads to new species forming but only within a kind.

What we observe is exactly what the Bible says—kinds only reproduce within their kinds.

Over the last few days we’ve seen that the Bible is abundantly clear that Adam was historical—the gospel is even founded on this fact! So why do so many Christians deny his historicity?

Because they’ve chosen to accept the wisdom of the world over God’s wisdom. Instead of trusting that God accurately recorded for us in his Word what happened in the past, they’ve put their faith in man’s sinful, fallible ideas and adjusted the Bible to fit them. But when man’s ideas inevitably change yet again, they’ll have to change the Bible again!

Our faith shouldn’t lie in man’s ideas. We need to trust the “God-breathed” Scriptures.

Could Adam have been a descendant of some ape-like ancestor?

Well, Genesis tells us God formed Adam from the dust of the earth. And that can’t be a metaphor for “ape-like creature” because, after sin, God tells Adam that work will be hard until “you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken; for you are dust and to dust you shall return.” We don’t return to an ape-like creature when we die!

And Paul even mentions that we came from dust when he contrasts the corruption of Adam’s body with the resurrected body of Jesus.

Adam was a historical person just as described in Genesis.

Have you ever heard the claim that Adam was just a mythological figure or tribal leader? But a historical Adam, as described in Genesis, is foundational to the gospel.

Because there was a first Adam who literally sinned and brought physical death into creation, we need the Last Adam, Jesus Christ. Think about it. If Adam wasn’t a historical person, then death isn’t the punishment for sin because death has always been a part of creation in an evolutionary view. And if death isn’t the consequence for sin, why did Jesus have to come and die a physical death?

For Christians there can be no doubt Adam was a historical person.

According to evolutionists, the ice cores formed slowly over a long time, with each layer supposedly representing one winter/summer cycle. But during one winter there can be many cycles of melting and snowing. These layers actually represent the weather patterns of the ice age a few thousand years ago.

We know many of these layers can form in one year because, during World War II, a fleet of airplanes were abandoned in Greenland. Fifty years later the planes were recovered under 250 feet of ice! Clearly more than one layer can form during one season.

Ice cores don’t show long ages. They’re a remnant of the ice age.

How did people get around the world from where the ark landed in the Middle East? Well, the flood was followed by the dispersion at Babel. God confused the peoples’ language, spreading out over the earth. This got people moving.

And the flood was also followed by the ice age. This dramatically lowered ocean levels, exposing land bridges, including a bridge between Russia and Alaska. This allowed people to walk to the Americas. And land bridges and island-hopping allowed people to get to Australia. Other groups took boats to explore the new world.

Starting with the history in God’s Word, we can explain human migration.

Evolutionists assume cavemen were early, primitive relatives of mankind. But the Bible gives us a different perspective.

After the flood, mankind gathered together to build a city and tower. But God divided their languages, forcing them to spread out. As these family groups travelled, they met a wide variety of challenges—including an ice age. Trying to survive in the harsh, unstable post-flood world people did what people in challenging environments do: they made use of whatever they could find for food and shelter. Caves made an ideal place to set up a temporary camp.

Cavemen were simply men who lived in caves!

Yesterday we learned that there was only one ice age in earth’s history and it was caused by the effects of the flood of Noah’s day. This flood occurred around 4,350 years ago. Relatively soon afterward, the ice age began. It lasted a few hundred years before it peaked and declined.

Interestingly, Job, who lived before the time of Abraham, mentions slow, ice, and hail frequently throughout his book. But this isn’t weather he would normally see based on his location. Perhaps Job was describing the ice age!

When we start with the history recorded in God’s Word, we can explain what we see in the world.

Secular scientists believe there’ve been many ice ages throughout history, but they don’t have a mechanism to start or stop one!

But the Bible’s history explains why there was an ice age. During the global flood of Noah’s day there was intense volcanic activity. This warmed the oceans but threw ash into the atmosphere, blocking the sun. Warm water means lots of evaporation, but cool air means it comes down as snow and doesn’t melt. Snow built up, forming glaciers. As the earth settled back down these glaciers retreated to the poles where they are now.

Yes, the Bible’s history explains what we see.