Creation Weekend

What caused an Australian, a Welshman, a Faroese, a few Scotsmen and about 250 Englishmen to meet together at Sunderland Free Church on the rain soaked weekend of 6th to 7th April 2001? The answer is very simple. The Australian, Ken Ham from Answers in Genesis, came to speak at a series of seminars entitled Creation and it Implications. One of the themes running throughout the seminars was the fact that 'The Bible is the History Book of the Universe.' Genesis 1 to 11 do not contain stories of mythical people and events, as Evolutionists would have us believe. Rather, they give the true account of God's Creation and the early history of man. Ken gave a warning against the scourge of evolution, which is even permeating the thinking of some evangelical churches. The Welshman was Dr Monty White, the Chief Executive of AiG(UK), who was accompanied by his wife, Irene, the Seminar Co-ordinator. The Faroese was a young bank employee, Ivand, who interviewed Ken and Monty for a Christian newspaper which is circulated in the Faroe Islands, with the vision of reaching people for Christ through Creation Evangelism.

Ken Ham spoke for two and a half-hours on the Friday evening with just a half-hour break. In the first seminar, Six days, Millions of years & the Authority of Scripture, he discussed the immense amount of evidence which is being collected by Christians to discredit the unscientific basis for the theory of evolution. The clear message was that the evidence is best explained through the Biblical account of Creation. Ken followed this up, in the second seminar, with a description of how 'The Bible makes sense of Dinosaurs.' The Biblical account of the Flood and Noah's Ark, together with common sense and the true application of scientific evidence, show the presence of Dinosaurs and their final possible extinction over the Earth's 6,000-year history. In reality, said Ken, the evolutionary teaching on Dinosaurs is an attack on the very foundations of Christianity. If we believe that they were extinct millions of years ago, death (the wages of sin) came before the fall of Adam. Throughout these two sessions, it soon became apparent why establishment scientists are frightened to discuss Evolution/Creation with Bible-believing scientists from Answers in Genesis and similar organisations in Britain and the USA. It is because the Bible, rather than the theory of evolution, gives the true explanation of the scientific evidence.

On the Saturday afternoon, Ken Ham spoke on 'The Origin of Races: Natural Selection, Cain's wife & the Tower of Babel,' demonstrating the fact that there is only one race, the human race. Many people today are confused about the origin of so-called 'races', because there appear to be major differences, such as skin colour and eye shape. However, scientific evidence shows that these 'differences' account for a mere 0.012% difference genetically. Listeners were left in no doubt that the Genesis account, as well as the accepted scientific principles of genetics, provides sufficient evidence for the true, Biblical, account of the origin of various people groups. Ken also demonstrated the effect the racist origins of the theory of Evolution has had in (a) humiliating Australian Aborigines and indigenous peoples from other countries, (b) exacerbating the problems which exist between peoples of different skin colour, and (c) increasing anti-Semitism to the point where the Holocaust was the nadir of humanity. He concluded by pointing out that, unless we believe the Genesis account of human history, we cannot logically accept the New Testament teaching about sin and salvation, based on the fall of the First Adam and the sacrificial death of the Last Adam.

In the evening seminar, Ken described the need for 'Using Creation Evangelism to reach a Secular World with the Gospel.' He explained his reasons with reference to Paul's evangelistic methods in dealing with Jews and Greeks. The secular society we now live in, with its evolution based system of education, its hatred of God, and its belief in relativism, has demonstrated the need for an evangelistic approach which begins with Biblical Truth concerning Man's origins and purpose. In other words, the same method Paul used to preach to the Greeks, a society without a Christian foundation. Christians can no longer assume that secular Britain understands preaching about sin and the need for Christ's sacrificial death. Therefore, we need to take them back to the basics in Genesis 1-11. We need to use what Ken calls 'Creation Evangelism', to explain how sin and death entered the world, with a view to laying the foundation for preaching New Testament doctrine.

The 250 people present were enthused with all that they saw and heard. Many took home books and videos, encouraging them to study the History of the Universe in the way God intended, through the Genesis account. Many are now looking forward to more meetings with other Bible-believing scientists who are coming to the North East every few months to continue on the path opened-up by Ken Ham. These meetings are being organised by the recently formed Creation Matters North East Group, an organization consisting of Christians from churches throughout the North East who are intent on making known scientific truth, which is being hidden from society by the atheistic media and their evolution promoting scientists.

Keep your eyes open for information concerning these future meetings.

John Miles & Richard Bulmer