April 27, 2025

The Bible does not give us a definitive age to the earth nor is it written in a way that lends itself to the kind of generational counting that has sometimes been used to determine an age. That said the Bible does reveal some things about creation and the origin or life and species. These conclusions are not always popular or even welcome in discussions of human origins. Often, we are told that modern science is at odds with the biblical creation account.

An excerpt from an article by Dave Miller is a good case in point. During a Southeast Asian expedition, retired Florida State University science professor, David Redfield, captured the first photos of the Laotian rock rat, once believed to have gone extinct more than 11 million years ago. The fossilized remains, collected previously from sites in Pakistan, India, Thailand, China, and Japan, were thought to verify this last known relative of a long-extinct family of rodents known as Diatomyidae (“Retired Professor Captures…,” 2006). Surprise, surprise—another alleged “ancestor” eliminated from the tattered evolutionary tree. Observe the two contrasting, conflicting, mutually exclusive approaches to the created realm: 

1. Evolution: All animals we see today are advanced forms of primitive precursors, and descendants of a single ancestor. As more advanced forms have evolved by means of adaptation, natural selection, survival of the fittest, and genetic mutation, the earlier forms were naturally displaced and disappeared. Fossils, millions of years old, represent life forms that were the evolutionary predecessors of present life forms, but which went extinct long ago. 

2. Creation: God created a spectrum of animals during the six-day week of Creation. While reproducing only after their own “kind” (an ambiguous Hebrew term that likely parallels the modern taxonomic classification “family”), these animals were created with the genetic potential for producing a variety of other species, giving rise to the diversity of animal life presently on the planet. Along the way, due mostly to environmental factors, many animals have become extinct. However, other species have escaped detection by humans for centuries, only to be rediscovered in some remote area. 

Which of these two viewpoints fits the actual physical facts? Obviously, the latter. Evolutionists repeatedly find themselves in the embarrassing position of discovering that the alleged evolutionary ancestors of current life forms, that supposedly went extinct millions of years ago, are in fact still living. They are forced to cover their tracks by inventing a self-contradictory, nonsensical term to identify these anomalies—in this case, “living fossils.” But that’s like a round square. Philosophers and logicians refer to such duplicitous posturing as irrational and “logical contradiction.” Evolutionists call it “science.”
REFERENCE “Retired Professor Captures a ‘Living Fossil’ on Video” (2006), Research in Review, June 13,

I have some reservation about the idea of speciation represented above as this has not been demonstrated through experiment. Overall the article is another interesting consideration that must be accounted for. At the very least we can say that in fact good science and scripture while addressing different things are not in conflict.

~ Kevin Cleary