Genesis for Today: The Relevance of the Creation/Evolution Debate to Today's Society
Overview
Professor McIntosh is a scientist who sees no contradiction between science and the events of creation in the book of Genesis. He believes that all Christian doctrine, directly or indirectly, has its basis in the literal events of the first eleven chapters of the Bible, and that these foundations of the faith have been undermined in the church by the fallible theories of evolution. This book argues for the complete accuracy of Genesis and the Bible. All fundamental Christian doctrine is found in Genesis 1–11. It provides key support in the creation/evolution debate and is written in such a way that non-scientists can understand it easily. The burden of Professor McIntosh is that creation is no periphery issue. True revival of Christianity in the decadent West today will never be known unless we get back to believing God’s Word from the very beginning.
Top Highlights
“Thus it is vital to recognize that sedimentary rock of itself cannot be dated directly and neither can the fossils they contain. Even indirect dating of sedimentary rock is impossible when it contains no fossils.” (Page 211)
“A pamphlet is published by Chapman2 which very clearly demonstrates that leading evolutionists acknowledge the very serious lack of transitional forms: from single-celled life to invertebrates, from invertebrates to fish, from fish to amphibians, from amphibians to reptiles, from reptiles to birds and mammals, from land animals to sea mammals, from non-flying mammals to bats, and lastly from apes to human beings. The gaps are so vast that experimentally the evidence is stacked against Darwinian evolution.” (Pages 201–202)
“The aim of this chapter is to show that if we take the Bible as our starting point as the inerrant Word of God, we must accept that the Genesis creation account is to be taken at face value and cannot be reconciled with creation over long periods of time.” (Pages 34–35)
“‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth’; So read the American astronauts—Anders, Lovell and Borman—as they gazed in awe at the earth from their orbit round the moon on Christmas Eve, 1968. For them, there was a deep conviction that what they saw then could only be explained by creation. Many would not only agree but also argue further, that the careful balancing of all the ingredients necessary for life could not have arrived here by chance. It was none other than Albert Einstein who wrote that ‘the harmony of natural law reveals an intelligence of such superiority that all the systematic thinking of human beings is utterly insignificant’. Yet we are living today in an age when a large majority of people doubt that intricate design means there is a great designer.” (Page 20)
I appreciate Andy McIntosh’s obvious love for the Bible and his conviction that God’s Word will always triumph over every falsehood. He shows in simple language why many of the evolutionists’ claims are demonstrably false. In the process, he allows the Word of God to speak plainly for itself. For those who have eyes to see, here is ample proof that God’s revealed truth is as trustworthy as ever—and infinitely more certain than every human speculation.
—John MacArthur, Pastor-Teacher, Grace Community Church, California
- Title: Genesis for Today: The Relevance of the Creation/Evolution Debate to Today's Society
- Author: Andy McIntosh
- Publisher: Day One Publications
- Publication Date: 2006
- Pages: 240