Creation Science Book Review

The Answers Book

First Published 2003

The Answers Book is published by Master Books, and is written by Ken Ham, Jonathan Sarfati, and Carl Wieland. The editor is Don Batten. The book reviewed is the Revised and Expanded Version, Twenty-Seventh Printing, in October 2002.

This book takes what the young earth creation science authors consider to be the twenty most asked questions, and responds to them from a young-earth perspective. The book is offered for sale, or you may view it online at Answers In Genesis by clicking here.

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40 pages). Most chapters also have printer-friendly versions.

In several of the chapters, the conflict between old earth/young earth is nonexistent, thus the review is short. Probably the most important chapters here are the chapters dealing with Noah's Flood and the Dinosaur chapter (19).

Chapter 1 – Does God Exist?
Chapter 2 – Did God Really Take Six Days?
Chapter 3 – What About the Gap Theory?
Chapter 4 – What About Carbon Dating?
Chapter 5 – How Can We See Distant Stars in a Young Universe?
Chapter 6 – How Did Bad Things Come About?
Chapter 7 – What About Arguments for Evolution?
Chapter 8 – Cain’s Wife – Who Was She?
Chapter 9 – Were the Nephilim Extraterrestrials?
Chapter 10 – Was Noah’s Flood Global?
Chapter 11 – What About Continental Drift?
Chapter 12 – Noah’s Flood – What About All That Water?
Chapter 13 – How Did the Animals Fit on Noah’s Ark?
Chapter 14 – How Did Fish Survive the Flood?
Chapter 15 – Where Are All the Human Fossils?
Chapter 16 – What About the Ice Age?
Chapter 17 – How Did Animals Get to Australia?
Chapter 18 – How Did All the Different “Races” Arise?
Chapter 19 – What Happened to the Dinosaurs?
Chapter 20 – What Can I Do?

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