Get Answers: History

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
• Chronology Conundrums
• Dating the Pyramids
• Doesn’t Egyptian Chronology Prove That the Bible Is Unreliable? (From The New Answers Book 2)
• Egypt or Israel? The Firm Foundation of Biblical Chronology (Webcast by David Down)
• The Egyptian Problem (Biblical Chronology 6(1), January 1994; PDF)
• 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 pyramids of ancient Egypt
• Searching for Moses [The Bible and Egyptian chronology] (Semi-technical)
• The World: Born in 4004 BC?

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

• In the Days of Peleg
• Some Remarks Preliminary to a Biblical Chronology (Technical)
• Get Answers: 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!
• Casting Stones at the Pyramids
• 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
• 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
• 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
• Get Answers: Scopes Trial

Where did evolutionary ideas come from?

• Darwin and the search for an evolutionary mechanism
• 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)