Get Answers: Creation Compromises

Gap Theory, Theistic Evolution, Progressive Creation

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Editor’s note: AiG stands firmly on the authority of Scripture. From our study of the Bible, we are persuaded that Creation occurred in six normal-length days about 6000 years ago, and that God destroyed the earth with a global Flood about 1600 years later. Many Christians who profess to believe that the Bible is God’s Word do not accept the straightforward interpretation of Genesis and accept millions of years (and sometimes evolution also). They often admit that their interpretation of Scripture is controlled by the findings of “science,” which, in reality, are the naturalistic, uniformitarian interpretations of scientific data. This page deals with only conservative compromisers. Theological liberals are addressed in Get Answers: Countering the Critics: Alleged contradictions

Some young-earth creationists are persuaded by Bible-based arguments that there are gaps in the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11. They therefore believe the creation is up to 10,000–12,000 years old. While AiG does not agree with this view, we do not break fellowship with such creationists but stand shoulder to shoulder with them in opposing the evolutionary idea of millions of years.

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Days of Creation

• See Q&A:Genesis — How long were the days mentioned in the Biblical creation account?

Framework Hypothesis

What is the Framework Hypothesis? Is it Biblical?

• A Critique of the Framework Interpretation of the Creation Account (Part 1)
• A Critique of the Framework Interpretation of the Creation Account (Part 2)
• A critique of the literary framework view of the days of Creation (Technical, PDF, by Andrew Kulikovsky)
• Futile Compromises: Let the Bible Speak (Refutation of Framework and Polemic views, and touching on the day-age and gap compromises, by Dr Noel Weeks, Sydney Supercamp 2001, 1 hour)

Gap Theory

How is the Gap Theory refuted by the Bible?

• What About the Gap & Ruin-Reconstruction Theories? (from The NEW Answers Book)
• The Gap Theory (Webcast by Geoff Stevens)
• Can evolution’s long ages be squeezed into Genesis?
• Gap Theory — An Idea with Holes?
• The Gap Theory—Part A
• The Gap Theory—Part B
• What does ‘Replenish the Earth’ mean?
• Genesis unbound (critique of John Sailhamer’s sophistic version of the gap theory)
• Replenishing the Earth (ICR Back to Genesis article)

Progressive Creationism

Hugh Ross and ‘progressive creationism’: why is it wrong to add billions of years to the Bible?

• Why Shouldn’t Christians Accept Millions of Years? (from The NEW Answers Book)
• What’s wrong with progressive creation? (from War of the Worldviews)
• What’s wrong with Progressive Creationism?
• The Dubious Apologetics of Hugh Ross (Semi-Technical)
• Cosmic breakthrough
• Hugh Ross Exposé (Refutation of his article on the Christian Leadership Ministry website)

Gerald Schroeder and his new variation on the ‘Day-Age’ theory

• Part 1
• Part 2

Did God rest on the seventh day for a literal 24 hour day, or for millions of years?

• Is the Seventh Day an Eternal Rest?

Theistic Evolution

Why is evolution so dangerous for Christians to believe?

• 10 Dangers of Theistic Evolution
• Feedback: Young Is the New Old
• ‘A child may see the folly of it’
• Biblical problems for theistic evolution
• The big picture
• Bryan on theistic evolution
• God and evolution: do they mix?
• Is it possible to be a Christian and an Evolutionist?
• Theistic evolution: future shock
• Theistic Evolution and the Future of Humans
• Theistic evolution: what difference does it make?
• What Should a Christian Think about Evolution?

Did God use evolution to create the world?

• Couldn’t God Have Used Evolution? (from The NEW Answers Book)
• The Atheists Know … Why Christianity has to Fight Evolution
• Did the Creator Use Evolution?
• Evolution incompatible with Christianity
• The god of an old Earth
• Jacques Monod vs Theistic Evolution
• Is evolution ‘anti-religion’?
• The horse and the tractor — Why God and evolution don’t mix
• Theistic Evolution and the Creation-Evolution Controversy (ICR Impact article)

How has theistic evolution harmed the faith of scientists who professed Christianity?

• From (theistic) evolution to creation (article about Prof. John Rendle-Short)

The Genesis Flood: Global or Local

• See Q&A:Flood — Does the Bible really claim that Noah’s Flood was global?