We are not trapped on a flat, geocentric earth by an inflexible, outdated book. The inspired text is adaptable whether we are or not. For example, we live on a planet scientists date to about 4.6 billion years, and the Bible will concord with that. Notwithstanding, there are some who reckon our habitat was created instantly no earlier than 10,000 years ago. That s a whopping difference, but a living Bible is ready to move into the modern era with those who believe in a young earth the minute they pick up a geology book.
Biologists believe the fossil record expresses a sequence of life forms that evolved through time.
Meanwhile, some Bible expositors have ventured that a world-wide catastrophic flood sequenced the dead animals, burying the simplest creatures first, thereby leaving a contrived data trail with increasing complexity merely a happenstance caused by some mystical sorting action. Archaeologists have traced hominids back beyond four million years. We may not know who the first anthropoid to walk on two legs was, but with a high degree of certainty we can rule out Adam of Genesis. Still, some insist Adam was the first mammalian biped on earth. This book examines these controversies and shows they can finally be put to rest.