#27.  Why doesn’t the Bible mention __________?   This question is a part of one of the more common arguments  many people use who defend their scientific methods which contradict what the Bible has said. The argument is usually used to justify or excuse sinful behavior as well. God is a God of practicality and if He mentioned every little thing He did, at creation, at the flood or even what all the main characters (for lack of a better word) did and said, then the Bible would be too big to pick up, let alone read. In the Gospel of John we read how if ‘all of Jesus’ works and words were recorded, there would not be enough books to contain those acts and comments.’ Plus no one would be able to afford to purchase such a large book and that would defeat its purpose in having it written. God wants people to own the Bible and read it or they will not hear the good news or grow strong in Him. Such omissions do not mean that the Bible is wrong, it just means that the omission of the extra details do not change the overall truth of the words or that God did everything through His power. #28.  What about mutations and disease? Many evolutionists or unbelievers (even theistic evolutionists) use these little facts to prove that the process of evolution exists. Sometimes it is called, ‘micro-evolution’.  Those that do, forget one very little but important detail that happened after creation. God created all things and they were good (perfect, very good etc.). There was not a blemish or corruption on or in anything until that day in the garden when Adam and Eve sinned.  At that point corruption and the effects of sin entered into the world and started to have its effect on what God has created. When people observe and study these mutations or diseases, all they are seeing in action is the result of the fall of man, not evolution at work.  Then when a germ or bacteria becomes impervious to measures designed to kill them, they are not developing  super bug status via the evolutionary process, they are just becoming IMMUNE to the drugs or chemicals. Just like humans who become immune to certain childhood diseases.  These people are not said to be evolving, they just cannot get sick by those germs anymore.  The same it  is with germs and bacteria, they cannot be hurt by the drugs or chemicals anymore.  #29. How old is the Earth? This is a question that goes back to the Babylonian times and I would not be surprised if the Sumerians did not discuss this question as well.  No one knows for it was created outside of human time thus it cannot be measured by human standards that are accepted by today’s scientists and evolutionists.  It just won’t work, because the human dating systems are looking for natural answers not  the correct ones and the present dating systems are not calibrated for the difference.  Yes these dating systems can find the approximate age of many things that came into existence after Adam and Eve were expelled from the Garden since human time but it cannot hope to discover what God has hidden. All the Bible says about the age of the earth is ‘IN the beginning…’; in other words there is no age that we can determine at this time.  God did not tell us and we will never find out while here on earth because it isn’t germane to the issue.  The issue is GOD created everything and that is what is needed to be focused on, not how old the earth is. #30. Can we use secular scientific models or methods to study creation? The quick answer is NO.  Why?  Because creation was a SUPERNATURAL act and secular science is designed to seek out NATURAL answers.  Not only is secular science looking in the wrong place, it is not even attempting to look for the right answers. Creation does not fit any secular scientific mold either as it was not done via secular science.  This is a point that people ignore, science was/is a creation of God and unbelieving people have taken the field over and allowed the devil to corrupt its work enabling him to lead many, many astray to destruction. Science is not science and all science is not good science.  It is fallible, corruptible, easily manipulated, subject to people’s beliefs, or lack of them and so on.  Science was not given a pass on the effects of the fall thus one cannot blindly accept its conclusions or theories nor can they conclude that just because the person is a scientist they are automatically correct.  THEY ARE NOT.  The world wants to elevate science to the status of ‘Final Authority’ for the secular world is looking for an alternative to God and the Bible in hopes of escaping the coming punishment for those who do not accept Christ as their Savior.  They do not want or need the Bible to be true so they will do anything they can to find fault with its words. If we want to study the creative act then we must do it under supernatural rules not the natural ones. #31. Why are there so many denominations in the Christian world? First, people cannot accept Christianity as laid out in the Bible and must have it their own way according to their own beliefs. So when their interpretation contradicts the Bible or another denomination, they either split and start their own church or are kicked out and still start their own sect. Not all denominations or sects are Christian and one must be careful comparing the beliefs of a church with what the Bible says it is to be. Second, not everyone who calls themselves a Christian, is one.  Do not be fooled because a person refers to themselves as Christian, they do so because they want to believe that they can find their own way to salvation and go to heaven on their own terms. This people just can’t bring themselves to accept God’s way to salvation.