Creation and Time book

Introduction	9
Who is Hugh Ross?	10
A brief summary of Dr. Ross's Book	12

A Key Tactic of Progressive Creationism	15
CLAIM: The age of the earth is "a trivial doctrinal point."	15

Dual Revelation	25
The "facts of nature" versus Scripture	25
CLAIM: Single Revelation is the belief of many young-earth creationists.	28
CLAIM: The facts of nature are like a 67th book of the Bible.	30
CLAIM: Observation of the universe (general revelation) is sufficient to discover the
gospel.	36
CLAIM: The universe is billions of years old.	39

Other Theological Considerations	41
CLAIM: God created many carnivorous animals in the beginning -- long before Adam's
sin.	41
CLAIM: Plants were killed before Adam's sin, so there clearly was death before the Fall.	44
CLAIM: Nowhere does the Bible say that animal death did not exist before the Fall.	45
CLAIM: The death that came through sin was spiritual, not physical.	47
CLAIM: Creation was subjected to futility from its very beginning.	51
CLAIM: Isaiah and "Church father" Origen supported pre-Fall "bondage to decay"	52

Biblical Considerations	55
CLAIM: The Flood was local, not global	55
CLAIM: The Creation account is told from the perspective of an observer on earth.	60
CLAIM: Most stars and planets were created before the first day.	61
CLAIM: The simplest, most natural reading of Genesis 1 is that the days were long ages.	63
CLAIM: The Bible says the earth is very old.	65
CLAIM: God's days are not our days Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8	67
CLAIM: The use of "morning and evening" in Genesis 1 does not indicate literal days. The
Hebrew word for "morning" in Genesis 1 is metaphorical.	68
CLAIM: Because the word "day" in Genesis 2:4 refers to the entire creation week, there
is more reason to believe the first six days were not literal.	69
CLAIM: The "uniqueness" of the seventh day indicates the days of Creation were not
normal days.	69
CLAIM: Genesis 1 is different than other chapters, therefore the days can be long.	73
CLAIM: The Creation days do not have to be literal because not all numbered days in the
Bible refer to 24-hour periods.	74
CLAIM: God could not have used different wording in Genesis 1 to more clearly indicate
long "days."	76
CLAIM: Genesis 1 is a chronology. Therefore, the days were not 24-hours.	77
CLAIM: Because Adam used the word "happa'am" when he saw Eve, the 6th day was a
long period.	78
CLAIM: The events of the sixth day prove that it must have been longer than a normal day.	80
CLAIM: The Hebrew word "toledah" (Genesis 2:4) indicates old universe.	84
Hebrew words -- more examples of inaccurate claims	86
CLAIM: Nephesh = birds and mammals	86
CLAIM: Chayyah = long-legged, wild quadruped	89
CLAIM: Behema = long-legged, domestic mammals	90
CLAIM: Remes = short-legged land mammals (in Genesis 1)	90

History of Creationism	93
CLAIM: The early Church Fathers supported long Creation days	93
CLAIM: Even those Church Fathers who did not write about this subject rejected 24-hour
days.	100
CLAIM: Church Scholars of the Dark and Middle Ages would probably also disagree
with literal days.	101
CLAIM: Lightfoot and Ussher ignored Hebrew scholarship.	101
CLAIM: Young-earth creationists are "Ussherites."	102
CLAIM: God would naturally take billions of years for Creation because He is a master
craftsman.	104

More on Progressive Creationism's Billions-of-Years	105
CLAIM: Science has conclusively proven earth is old.	105
CLAIM: The universe has to be billions of years old, otherwise life could not exist.	108
CLAIM: God used the Big Bang to create the universe.	109

Denouncing Young-Earth Creationists	111
An affinity for secular evolutionists over young-earth Christians	111
CLAIM: The motivation of young-earth creationists is fear	111
CLAIM: Young-earth creationists have no scientific support; they are operating on blind
faith.	113
CLAIM: Young-earth creationists deny physical reality, and they are arrogant, too.	114
CLAIM: Young-earth creationists are divisive.	115
CLAIM: The Bible-Science Association said that Hugh Ross rejects Christ's Atonement.	117
CLAIM: Young-earth creationists say salvation depends on belief in 24-hour-days and
recent Creation.	117
CLAIM: Wendell Bird "is not committed" to a young universe.	118
Conclusion	119
For Further Information	121
Index	123
About the authors	128