Did Jesus, the early Church leaders and reformers believe the literal creation account given in Genesis?

• Jesus on creation
• Where did the idea of “millions of years” come from? (from War of the Worldviews)
• Jesus, evangelical scholars, and the age of the earth
• Did Jesus say He created in six days?
• Jesus Christ on the infallibility of Scripture
• The early Church defended creation science (ICR Impact 160)
• Genesis means what it says according to great Church Father, Basil of Caesarea (AD 329–379)
• British scriptural geologists in the first half of the nineteenth century: part 1
  (See the section on biblical interpretation which details various views on the days of creation.)
  
• Orthodoxy and Genesis: What the fathers really taught (A review by Dr Terry Mortenson of Genesis, Creation and Early Man by Fr. Seraphim Rose)
• The long story of long ages
• Luther on Evolution
• What was Martin Luther’s stand on Creation/Evolution? (Christian Answers Network)
• See also The 19^th Century Scriptural Geologists

How does Genesis explain the origin of death and suffering?

• See Q&A: Death and Suffering

How long were the days mentioned in the Biblical creation account?

• Could God Really Have Created Everything in Six Days? (from The New Answers Book)
• A Defense of Literal Days in the Creation Week (published in the Detroit Baptist Seminary Journal)
• Creation days and Orthodox Jewish tradition
• Genesis according to evolution
• Days of Revelation or Creation? (Semi-Technical)
• A Summary of Evidence for Literal 24-hr Creation Days in Genesis 1 (Andrew Kulikovsky, PDF; also refutes some of the arguments of Don Stoner, an old-earth progressive creationist)
• The Necessity for Believing in Six Literal Days
• Serpentine subtlety
• Six days? Honestly!
• Six days or billions of years?
• Professors: A day means a day!
• How could Adam have named all the animals in a single day?

Do Genesis 1 and 2 contradict each other?

Is there an irreconcilable difference in the order of creation (e.g. mankind, animals, plants) between Genesis 1 and Genesis 2?

• What is the order of events in the biblical Creation? (Christian Answers Network)
• Genesis 1 and 2: refutation of alleged contradictions (Semi-Technical) Tekton Apologetics Ministries

Should Genesis be taken literally?

• Eisegesis: a Genesis virus
• The Fall into Sin
• Genesis according to evolution
• Problems in interpreting Genesis (part 1)
• Problems in methods of interpretation—Genesis 1–11 (part 2)
• The Biblical Hebrew Creation Account: New Numbers Tell The Story (off-site, ICR Imapct)

Are the Genesis genealogies meant to be taken as strict chronologies?

• Who Begat Whom?
• Do the Genesis Genealogies Contain Gaps?

Can “millions of years” be added to the Genesis account?

• Get Answers: Creation Compromises (provides answers to ideas such as the framework hypothesis, gap theory, progressive creation, theistic evolution, etc.)

Who really wrote Genesis?

Documentary (JEDP, Wellhausen–Graf) Hypothesis

• The Mosaic Authorship of the Pentateuch by Prof. G.F. Wright, D.D., LL.D. (Semi-Technical—The Fundamentals: A Testimony to the Truth (1910–1915).
• The Tablet Theory of Genesis Authorship (True Origins site—overview and update of Wiseman’s colophon thesis)

Was Genesis copied from pagan mythology?

• Confronting the Copycat Thesis (Tekton Apologetics Ministries)
• Genesis and ancient Near Eastern stories of Creation and the Flood: an introduction (Christian Answers Network)
• Genesis and the lost tablets
• The Flood of Noah and the Flood of Gilgamesh (ICR Impact 285)

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What about the Garden of Eden?

• Did Eve eat an apple?
• The Tree of Life
• Worldwide traditions of a primordial paradise (ICR Impact)

What was Adam like?

• Man: the image of God
• Was Adam a UFO (unidentified figurative object)?
• What was Adam Like?

Was there a literal snake in the garden of Eden? Why did God curse all snakes for Satan’s sin in the Garden of Eden? Does it mean there was a time when they didn’t crawl on their bellies?

• What About the Snake in the Garden of Eden? (Semi-Technical)

What about the “firmament” created on Day 2?

• Is the raqiya’ (“firmament”) a solid dome?

Who was Cain’s wife?

• Cain’s Wife—Who Was She?