1. In six days God created the heavens, the earth, and all that is in them from nothing each part is designed to work with all the others in perfect harmony. When God completed his work of creation, He called it all "very good." There was no death. People and animals were all vegetarian, and the earth appears to have had a mild climate from pole to pole, an ideal underground nutrient rich watering system, and no storms.

2. However, we no longer live in the world God originally created. Because our first parents placed human opinion above Gods Word (as we continue to do), struggle and death entered the world, and God cursed the creation. Charles Darwin called this struggle to the death "natural selection" and offered his theory as a substitute for the Creator. Evolutionists later added accidental changes in heredity (mutations) to their theory. But death and accident do not create: instead they bring disease, defects, and decay into the world God created.

After mankinds sin and rebellion (the Fall) the earth became so filled with violence and corruption that God destroyed that world with a flood and gave it a fresh start with Noah, his family, and the animals in the ark. Fossils billions of dead things buried in rock layers which were laid down by water all over the earth remind us of Gods judgment on sin.

3. After the flood, we find that the earth is again filled with violence, corruption, and death because of human sin putting mans opinion above Gods Word. Christ came to heal and restore, and by his death and resurrection, He conquered death. We may be born again into eternal life as new creations in Christ. Thus, as surely as God created the world and judged the world with the flood, our ungodly world will be destroyed by fire. For those who trust in Jesus, however, there awaits eternal life in the new heavens and new earth. There will be no more corruption because Gods curse will have been removed.

The Bible claims that God knows everything. He has all knowledge. If this is true, then the Bible is the word of someone who knows everything there is to know. If we want to come to right conclusions about anything, the only sure way would be to start with the word of the One who has absolute knowledge. We Christians must build all of our thinking in every area on the Bible. We must start with Gods Word, not the word of finite, fallible man. We must judge what people say on the basis of what Gods Word says not the other way around.