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How reliable is biblical chronology? Do any ancient writings mention historical events that are recorded in the Bible?

• The antediluvian patriarchs and the Sumerian king list
• Biblical chronogenealogies
• Chronology Conundrums: Is Joseph the son of Jacob or Heli?
• Evidentialism—the Bible and Assyrian chronology
• Extrabiblical Witnesses to Jesus before AD 200 (Christian Think Tank)
• False history: 'out with David and Solomon!'
• The forgotten archbishop
• The Lamb of God hidden in Chinese characters (2.2 Meg, PDF)
• The long story of long ages
• The Original ‘Unknown’ god of China
• The World: Born in 4004 BC?

Does Egyptian Chronology match with the history found in the Bible?

• The pyramids of ancient Egypt
• Searching for Moses (The Bible and Egyptian chronology)
• Fall of the Sothic theory: Egyptian chronology revisited
• The Egyptian Problem (Biblical Chronology 6(1), January 1994)
• Egypt or Israel? The Firm Foundation of Biblical Chronology (Webcast by David Down)

Are lineages (genealogies) recorded in the Bible historically accurate?

• Where are all the people?
• In the Days of Peleg
• The sixteen Grandsons of Noah
• Meeting the ancestors
• Some Remarks Preliminary to a Biblical Chronology (Technical)
• Genesis correctly predicts Y-chromosome pattern —
  Jews and Arabs shown to be descendants of one man! (Semi-technical)
• See also Genetics

What is the truth about the technology of ancient people? Why are they so often depicted as ‘cavemen’ when we can see remnants of civilizations that were very advanced (such as pyramids)?

• Ancient civilizations and modern man
• Ancient steelmakers
• The amazing cave people of Malta
• Axing evolutionary ideas—stone dead!
• Controversy over ‘early Paleolithic’ stone ‘tools’ in Canada continues (semi-technical)
• Did ‘Old World early Paleolithic’ people travel to North America? (semi-technical)
• Modern ‘Stone Age’ reconsidered
• The mystery of ancient man
• National Geographic and the Stone Age swindle?
• Neandertals ‘must have had advanced skills’
• New observations on North American origins
• The pyramids of ancient Egypt
• Savages and Ancestors
• Tale of ancient toothpaste
• Tasmanian aborigines—another example of cultural ‘devolution’
• Unravelling the knotty khipu code
• Why the electric battery was forgotten

Historically, what happened at the 1925 Scopes Trial? Does the movie ‘Inherit the Wind’ accurately describe these events?

• Inherit the Wind—an historical analysis
• See also Scopes Trial

Where did evolutionary ideas come from?

• Darwin and the search for an evolutionary mechanism
• Darwin’s illegitimate brainchild
• Darwinism: it was all in the family
• Evolutionary naturalism: an ancient idea
• History—Influence and Evolution (part 1)
• History—Influence and Evolution (part 2)
• History—Influence and Evolution (part 3)
• Pièrre Simon Laplace: The nebular hypothesis

Who were the men who opposed the idea of long ages in the early 1800s?

• Historical setting
• Granville Penn (1761–1844)
• George Bugg (1769–1851)
• Andrew Ure (1778–1857)
• Henry Cole (1792?–1858)
• Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846)
• Rev. Samuel Best (1802–1873)