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, which entails that Creation occurred in six normal-length days about 6000 years ago, and a planet-wide Flood followed about 1500 years later. Many Christians who disbelieve the straightforward interpretation of Genesis admit that they are motivated mainly by “science,” or rather the uniformitarian interpretations of science. This page deals with only conservative compromisers; outright liberals are addressed in Q&A: Countering the Critics: Alleged contradictions

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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 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
• Morning has broken … but when? (Was Creation’s first day the beginning?)
• 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)

What about the soft gap theory?

• ‘Soft gap’ sophistry

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)
• Refuting Compromise: A biblical and scientific refutation of ‘progressive creationism’ (billions of years) as popularized by astronomer Hugh Ross (book introduction) (Semi-Technical)
• Cosmic breakthrough
• Critique of the introductory chapter of Hugh Ross’ new book A Matter of Days: Resolving a Creation Controversy (Semi-Technical)
• Hugh Ross lays down the gauntlet! (Semi-Technical)
• Answering some Hugh Ross supporters
• Analysis of the Ross–Hovind Debate, John Ankerberg Show
• Pre-Adamic man: were there human beings on earth before Adam?
• Hugh Ross Exposé (Refutation of his article on the Christian Leadership Ministry website)
• Jason Lisle vs. Hugh Ross debate: annotated transcript
• Ten major differences and similarities between Calendar-Day and Day-Age Creationists — According to Dr Hugh Ross
• Trilobites on the Ark?
• Shame on Charisma! Leading Pentecostal magazine promotes Hugh Ross compromise and denigrates biblical creationists

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
• Curse and Catastrophe
• The future: some issues for ‘long age’ Christians
• 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 Skeptics and their Churchian Allies
• The horse and the tractor — Why God and evolution don’t mix
• Evangelical compromise misses the essentials
  (Semi-technical, review of The Essence of Darwinism by Kirsten Birkett)
• 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?