This Book in PDF - Gary North

xIS THE WORLD RUNNING DOWN?What I present in this book is a Bible-based case against the prevailingapologetic 1 approach of most scientifically trained six-day creationists.Their arguments have yet to convince more than a fewsporadic evolutionists, and not one of the prominent ones; but moreimportant, this methodology has simultaneously weakened the casefor biblical Christianity, for they have relied on a weak reed: an appealto the second law of thermodynamics, sometimes referred to intextbooks as the law of entropy.This is a book on theology, meaning applied theology, or practicaltheology. Before we begin, we must ask ourselves: What are the fundamentaldoctrines ofChristianity? They are these: God the Trinity;God's creation of the universe out of nothing by the power of Hisspoken word in six consecutive and contiguous 24-hour days; God'screation of man as His image; God's covenant with man to exercisedominion over the earth as His lawful covenantal representative; thetemptation of Adam by Satan; the ethical Fall of Adam; God's subsequentcursing of both man and the earth; God's judgment of theearth by a universal Flood; the preservation of mankind and landanimals by means of an ark; God's scattering of rebellious mankindat the Tower of Babel through the confusion oflanguage; God's covenantaladoption of Israel as a nation in history; God's giving toIsrael His law for the establishment of a covenant law-order; the incarnationofJesus Christ, born of a virgin; the death, bodily resurrection,and bodily ascension ofChrist; the establishment ofChrist'skingdom in heaven (definitively) and on earth (progressively);Christ's issuing of the "great commission" of world discipleship; thesending of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost; the second coming ofChrist;the resurrection of all people at the final judgment; God's casting ofSatan and his followers, including resurrected human covenantbreakers,into the eternal lake offire; and the entrance ofresurrectedcovenant-keepers into the sin-free, eternal new heavens and newearth. Remove anyone of these doctrines, and you emasculateChristianity. Christians have long debated about the chronologicalorder of the events after Pentecost, but to deny any ofthese doctrinesis to abandon God's Bible-revealed plan for the ages.Scientific Creationism 2 has openly emphasized four of these doc-1. By "apologetics," I do not mean "saying we're sorry." I mean apologetic in thesense of the academic discipline of defending the Christian faith philosophically.2. I use capital letters when referring to "scientific creationism" because it is a spe~cific movement with an identifiable set of presuppositions and methodologies. Therecould be other six-day creationists who are scientific who do not share some of thesepresuppositions.