According to God’s Word, all humans are descended from just two people: Adam and Eve. And did you know there’s scientific evidence to support what the Bible says about our origins?

Genetic studies have shown there’s only a tiny difference between the DNA of any two people when it comes to their external features—only a tenth of a percent. If humanity were hundreds of thousands of years old, we’d expect there to be huge differences between people groups. But there’s not! This confirms the young ages and starting population of only two described in the Bible.

You know, as always, the evidence confirms God’s Word.

Almost nine years ago, we had Bill Nye, “the Science Guy,” visit the Ark Encounter. During his visit, he said, “it’s not crazy to suggest . . . you and I are descended from Martians.” Of course, and he even admitted this, there’s no evidence that we are descended from Martians, and yet, he still thinks its “not crazy” to believe that.

But he does think we’re betraying our intellect to believe we’re descended from Adam and Eve like the Bible describes, even though there’s solid scientific evidence, such as we’re all one race, to back this up.

You know, the problem with skeptics like Nye isn’t the evidence—it’s the heart.

God’s original creation was “very good.” Living in a fallen world, it’s hard to imagine everything—including mosquitos—as “very good.”

In our fallen world, they’re pests that can spread deadly diseases. What good purpose could they serve?

Well, mosquitos are excellent pollinators. They largely feed on nectar and spread pollen from plant to plant.

And not all mosquitos feed on blood. Males survive exclusively on plants and microbes. It’s the females in some species that eat blood to get proteins for reproduction. You know, before the fall, these proteins came from somewhere else.

In the original creation even mosquitos were “very good.”

Many people think the first two chapters of the Bible contradict one another. They claim Genesis 1 has the animals being created before people, but in Genesis 2 animals are created after Adam? So, which chapter’s right?

Well, both are. You see, this is just an example of a supposed contradiction that’s easily resolved. When the Bible was translated into English some translations, such as the King James, chose to say, “the Lord God formed every beast of the field.”

But other translations chose “had formed.” In Hebrew this is correct. So the two chapters don’t contradict each other at all.

Many people think science is neutral. A scientist just follows the evidence where it leads. But science isn’t neutral.

What you believe about the past determines how you interpret the evidence. For example, what you believe about how old the earth is or how life got here will influence how you view the evidence and your conclusions.

As biblical creationists, we start with God’s Word and interpret the evidence through that lens.

But evolutionists also have a starting point—millions of years and evolution. No one approaches the evidence from a neutral point. We all have starting assumptions that influence our interpretation.

Over the years we’ve heard the claim that the Bible teaches a flat earth. But that’s simply not true. The prophet Isaiah says God “sits above the circle of the earth” and in the book of Job we read that God “hangs the Earth on nothing.”

Now, sometimes people say poetic passages where the Bible talks about the sun rising or setting show the Bible teaches a flat earth. But this is silly. No one would accuse a meteorologist giving the weather report who mentions the sunrise or sunset of believing the earth is flat!

Observational science confirms that the earth is a sphere. Science always confirms God’s Word.

Have you ever read through the whole Bible?

Well, sadly, many Christians rarely actually read their Bibles. And if they do, they normally only read the New Testament, thinking it’s more important or at least easy to understand. But did you know the Old Testament is foundational to the New Testament? It provides the history we need to understand what happens in the New Testament.

You see, Jesus’ coming, dying on the Cross, and rising again is the grand culmination of Old Testament history and prophecy. Without this history you can’t understand why Jesus came to die and rise again.

So read God’s Word—all of it!

The Bible and evolution provide two very different histories of the earth. According to the Bible, God created the universe, and everything in it, in just six days a few thousand years ago.

Evolution says the universe is billions of years old and that life is the result of millions of years of evolution. Both can’t be right!

Well, it should come as no surprise to Christians that the evidence confirms God’s Word. The example we looked at this week was soft tissue in fossils. It shouldn’t be there if these fossils are millions of years old, but it’s no problem in a biblical timescale. You know, as always, the Bible got it right.

The most popular example of soft tissue in the fossil record is collagen that was found in a T. rex femur that was supposedly 65 million years old. Of course, collagen can’t last nearly that long. But that’s not the most amazing example of soft tissue in supposedly old fossils.

Precambrian rocks are considered some of the oldest rocks on earth. Well, scientists uncovered some tube worm fossils in this rock layer. These fossils had proteins that were still flexible! And they were dated at half a billion years!

There’s no way these proteins remained intact and flexible for that long. Soft tissue in fossils confirms a young earth.

How long does DNA last? Scientists experimented on some fossil bones to see how fast one kind of DNA, called mitochondrial DNA, decays. They discovered this DNA couldn’t last more than 650,000 years before it’s totally destroyed.

Well, scientists have reported finding DNA in some insects that were preserved in amber. Supposedly these insects died 30 million years ago. And yet we can still find their DNA even though it lasts far less than that!

This is powerful evidence for a young earth. Those insects aren’t that old because our earth was created by God just a few thousand years ago.