Ken Ham. Green Forest, Ark.: Master Books, 2013. 271 pp. (Paperback).
I remember the first time I heard a seminary graduate — from a Southern Baptist Convention seminary — opine that the first 11 chapters of Genesis were a fable and not to be taken literally. That was quite a few years ago and the seminary has changed quite a bit since then, but the concept that the Genesis creation story is not literally true has continued to gain ground, even among conservative Christians.
Ken Ham has written quite a few books, some of which I have reviewed here. When this one came in the mail I nearly put it aside thinking it would contain the same information as the others. On closer examination, it did not. This book makes the strongest case I have seen yet for the young Earth theory. Ham has made it his life’s work to study the opening chapters of the Bible and share what he believes to be the truth: that it is all literally true, that there is no “gap” between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 and that the earth is around 6,000 years old.
So who cares whether the Earth is 6,000 or a few billion years old? How can we know when the word “day” means a literal day in the Bible? Should we just reject scientific discoveries and ignore the findings? Ham answers these questions and many more — questions you might not have thought there were answers for.
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