Can We Reconcile God’s Word with Prehistoric Man? (Part 3 of 3, Final)

Can We Reconcile God’s Word with Prehistoric Man? (Part 3 of 3, Final)

Science’s ever-contentious battle with God is a losing proposition

Khen Lim

Diorama reconstruction of the Java Man at the Sangiran Museum of Ancient Man in Central Java (Image source: sk.aminus3.com)

Java Man

Known ‘scientifically’ by the name Pithecanthropus erectus to simply mean ‘erect ape man,’ the Java Man is supposedly an ape-like man that was capable of standing upright. Evolutionists later attempted to give the fossil further recognition, calling it Homo erectus. 

The Java Man was first discovered in some gravel bed somewhere on the island of Java, Indonesia in 1891 and then 1892 by Dr Eugène Dubois, a Dutch paleoanthropologist and an avid evolutionist looking to nail Creationism. With this discovery, he thought he had found the missing link.

What the huge expanse of gravel bed turned out to be were dozens of random animal and human bones. None of them seem to resemble anything unusual. Certainly, this wasn’t a burial site either. Yet, Dubois could pick three of the myriad bones and returned home to Europe declaring, “Here is our missing link!” 

Can We Reconcile God’s Word with Prehistoric Man? (Part 2 of 3)

Can We Reconcile God’s Word with Prehistoric Man? (Part 2 of 3)

Science’s ever-contentious battle with God is a losing proposition

Khen Lim

The so-called prehistoric Engare Sero footprints with the 'Mount of God' in the background (Image source: ZME Science)

Dealing with the pre-Adamaic days

The Bible is very clear on the premise that no humans came before Adam and Eve. In Genesis, Moses wrote:

“This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the Earth. When the Lord God made the Earth and the heavens, neither wild plants nor grains were growing on the Earth. For the Lord God had not yet sent rain to water the Earth, and there were no people to cultivate the soil. Instead, springs came up from the ground and watered all the land. Then the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man’s nostrils and the man became a living person. Then the Lord God planted a garden in Eden in the east and there, He placed the man He had made. …

“Then the Lord God said, ‘It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper who is just right for him. …

“So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening. Then the Lord God made a woman from the rib and He brought her to the man.” (Gen 2:4-8, 18, 21-22, NLT)

These verses offer us important cues in which we can establish a few incontrovertible facts.

Can We Reconcile God’s Word with Prehistoric Man? (Part 1 of 3)

Can We Reconcile God’s Word with Prehistoric Man? (Part 1 of 3)

Science’s ever-contentious battle with God is a losing proposition

Khen Lim

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For years, I’ve always wondered how God’s Word reconciled with all the evidences we have of prehistoric man. National Geographic is full of articles on all sorts of prehistoric skulls and bones found virtually everywhere around the world but they’re not the only ones reporting them. 

It seems everyone is convinced of two things – firstly we came from primate material and secondly, the human race is far older than the Bible tells us. And in both cases, man seems to challenge God in what we think is the truth. It seems that God might be withholding the reality of our history from us. Or is He?

Creationism Part Four (Final)

Uncovering the Earth’s True Age

How science and the Bible view it

Creationism Part Four (Final)

Khen Lim




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And now we come to the hugely complex part that continues to be a fiery debate today. It is even more divisive than Darwinism – which has already been successfully debunked, much to the displeasure of the liberals and evolutionists – and the Young Earth Theory has incurred the wrath of many leading universities throughout America to the point where lecturers have been known to threaten Christian students with expulsion or failure grades should then persist in their beliefs.

Why is this subject so controversial? Why can’t the progressives just ignore it and move on? Why the locking of horns that eventually hurt so many people? And why the denials and the threats as well? To gain some understanding in finding answers to such questions, some insight into the issue beforehand is useful:

Creationism Series Part Three

Unlocking Adam’s True Age

How old was Adam on day one?

Creationism Part Three

Khen Lim




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From biblical records, we know Adam lived for nine-hundred and thirty years. We assume that everyone’s age is always counted from a base of zero, meaning that from the moment we were born, our age begins. 

If a person dies at eighty years old, it means he had lived on Earth for all of eighty years. Mathematically, it simply means 80 minus 0 equals 0. But in Adam’s case, it might not be so simple.

Creationism Series Part Two

Adam and Eve’s Time in the Garden

How long were Adam and Eve before they were driven out?

Creationism Series Part Two

Khen Lim




Adam in the Garden of Eden (Image source: hopestillfloats.wordpress.com)

The question of how long Adam and Eve were in the Garden of Eden has wider implications as to how different people read into it. The liberal narrative rails against Young Earth Creationism, pushing the idea in schools, universities and colleges that millions or perhaps billions of years could have lapsed before the couple were banished from the Garden. 

At least that’s the view of once sworn atheist (but later a converted Christian and theistic evolutionist) John N Clayton who wrote the book, ‘All the Stupidity of the Bible.’

Creationism Series Part One

What We Know of Adam’s First Offspring

Was Cain born in the Garden of Eden?

Creationism Series Part Two

Khen Lim




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Virtually everyone who reads the Bible will believe, without any shadow of doubt, that the first two children born to Adam and Eve were Cain and Abel. But is that really the case?

Creationism Series Introduction

What Creationism Tells Us

Introduction to the Creationism Series

Khen Lim




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Introduction

One of the most telling questions that the Book of Genesis lures Christians with is, how old Adam actually was when God created him. In short, no one knows. If the Bible doesn’t explicitly tell us, the curious among us are left to guess. 

However, there is undeniably much interest in this subject. Even as we read the first Book in the Bible, there is enough intrigue in how everything shaped up originally before we join all the genealogical dots that bring us to where we are today.