Those who believe in evolution speculate that as man evolved he first had to learn to grunt, then he had to learn to write. He had to use stone tools and learn about farming before he could develop what is called "advanced technology." However, the Bible tells us Adam was not "primitive" but a highly developed individual. For instance, we note in Genesis 2:20, "And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field." Adam could obviously speak; he had a complex language.

Further, in Genesis 3:20 we are told that, "Adam called his wifes name, Eve; because she was the mother of all living." In Genesis 5:1 we read that: "This is the book of the generations of Adam." Presumably, Adam wrote down all the details that God had given him concerning the original creation. He would have recorded the other events under Gods direction, and Moses later obtained this material and compiled it into the Book of Genesis. If this is so, then Noah must have taken on board the precious documents that Adam had written, in whatever form they existed.

It should also be noted that Adams descendants made musical instruments and worked with brass and iron. Genesis 4:21–22 states: "And his brothers name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ. And Zillah, she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain was Naamah." They were not primitive savages in the evolutionary progression.

18. NOAHS FLOOD WORLDWIDE, NOT LOCAL

Those Christians who accept the evolutionary view of earths history believe that the billions of fossils found on earth are the result of the processes occurring over millions of years. These processes are said to have involved the slow formation of sedimentary layers associated with the trapping of organisms and their subsequent fossilization. Therefore, when it comes to the section in Genesis chapters 6 through 9 concerning Noahs flood, they have a problem. If there really was a worldwide flood, it would have ripped up this record from supposedly millions of years ago and destroyed it. On the one hand, the Bible teaches that there was no death before Adam sinned. Therefore, fossils couldnt have formed millions of years preceding Adams sin.

However, there has to be an explanation for the millions of preserved animals and plants laid down by water in layers all over the earth. A worldwide flood such as that of Noahs time certainly is an excellent explanation. Christians who accept the fossil record as a result of millions of years of slow processes usually say Noahs flood was only local in extent, not worldwide. The Bible teaches clearly that "all the high hills, that were under the whole heaven, were covered." (Gen. 7:19).