God’s creation declares his wisdom and glory—even in the mundane. Consider earthworms. The average acre of soil has over three million earthworms in it. These worms swallow huge amounts of soil and digest nutrients from it. This process helps to oxygenate and loosen up the soil, as well as transport minerals and nutrients for plants.

Earthworms also help decompose leaves in the fall. It’s estimated they’re responsible for the breakdown of ninety percent of fallen leaves!

In the earthworm, we praise God for providing Earth with an efficient system of enriching the soil. Yes, God’s glory is seen everywhere we look!

Secular scientists tell us that the ice cores show tens of thousands of years of Earth’s history. They assume millions of years and that the slow, gradual processes of the present have produced the ice layers. But they can’t know this because, well, they weren’t there.

But the eyewitness account of history in the Bible gives us a different perspective. We know there was a global flood just a few thousand years ago. This flood brought about an ice age which was responsible for laying down a large part of today’s ice cores in a very short amount of time. The ice cores—they are not tens of thousands of years old at all!

The ice age, which came after the global flood, provided the perfect conditions for mankind to spread around the Earth. The cooler global temperature would’ve allowed people to pass through places like the Sahara Desert.

The ice age would’ve also lowered ocean levels, exposing land bridges allowing people to easily move around.

But those who settled North would’ve had a hard time growing crops in the cool climate, so they would’ve relied on big game. And they would’ve used the most powerful, practical shelter available—caves! Cavemen were not primitive brutes. They were our relatives dispersing around the earth during the ice age.

There was only one ice age, and it came after the flood. The break-up of the fountains of the deep, as described in Genesis, would’ve caused massive volcanic activity. Underwater volcanoes would’ve warmed the oceans from pole to pole. Warmer oceans mean lots of evaporation.

And all of that volcanic activity would’ve filled the atmosphere with ash and small particles. These would reflect some of the sunlight back into space, cooling the Earth. Warm oceans and cool air result in lots of snow that doesn’t melt during the cool summers. Soon, ice sheets built up around the world. So, the Bible’s history—it explains the ice age!

The idea of an ice age with mammoths and saber-toothed tigers fascinates people. But where does it fit into biblical history?

Those who believe in an old earth say there were many ice ages over tens of thousands of years. But they don’t have a mechanism that could cause even one ice age, let alone dozens.

When we start with the Bible’s history, the ice age makes sense. The global flood of Noah’s day and its aftermath would’ve radically changed the climate. After the flood, there would’ve been warm oceans and cool summers. These conditions were perfect for tons of snow with little melting. And the result, well, was an ice age!

What are zonkeys, ligers, and wholphins? Well, zonkeys are the offspring of zebras and donkeys, ligers come from lions and tigers, and wholphins come from false killer whales and dolphins.

Scripture tells us that God created everything to reproduce according to its kind. Creatures like these show us that kind isn’t the same thing as species. It’s usually at around the family level in our modern system.

God created these original kinds with the potential for lots of variety. But, when we start with God’s Word, we know a kind won’t produce anything other than its own kind. And that’s what we observe.

Suppose you find a coin with foreign figures inscribed on it. Even if you couldn’t read it, you’d know it came from an intelligent mind. We know this because information only comes from other information.

DNA is a language system that tells your body how to make you. So where did this information come from? Evolutionists say that DNA is the result of millions of years of naturalistic processes. But there’s no known natural process that produces information! It only comes from other information.

The information in DNA, it was written by our Creator. It’s a powerful testimony to the One who made us in his image.

All over the world, there are massive deposits of coal. This week, we learned that it doesn't take millions of years to make it. It’s the result of Noah’s flood burying huge amounts of vegetation under miles of sediment. But where did all this vegetation come from?

There aren’t enough plants on the earth today to produce all our coal. But the fossil record shows us that the world before the flood was nothing like our world now. We believe there was one continent, and plants thrived in lush lands.

There was more than enough vegetation before the flood to produce all the coal that we have today.

You’ve probably heard that it took millions of years to produce all the coal we have today. But is the evidence consistent with this idea? Not at all!

Carbon-14 dating is often used to date things that are supposedly many thousands of years old. But carbon-14 decays quickly, so anything allegedly older than thousands of years shouldn’t have any carbon-14 in it. But there’s carbon-14 in coal deposits! So this coal can’t be millions of years old.

The Bible provides the true age for coal. Most of these deposits were formed during the year-long global flood just over four thousand years ago.

Why do we have coal deposits around the world? Well, coal is the result of thick piles of vegetation being exposed to intense heat and pressure. You’ve probably heard it forms over millions of years. But when scientists copy these natural processes in a lab, it only takes a few months!

The Bible’s history provides an answer to where all this coal came from. The global flood described in Genesis would’ve buried trillions of tons of vegetation beneath miles of sediment. Heat and pressure then converted the vegetation into coal over a matter of months.

The true history found in the Bible and that explains why we have coal today.