Sometimes, it is just hard not to totally reject anything that comes from someone who is in the academic community, especially after reading articles like the one found today in the Telegraph. A professor in the Netherlands has allegedly "discovered" that God God did not create the heavens and the earth, rather God just created the animals. Apparently, the earth was already here, God just separated the heavens and earth and created a few things.
One must be careful to understand what is at stake when a person sets out to deny the creation account. To assert that God did not create all that exists has two huge implications in our world. First, it denies who God is as revealed in Scripture. If a person can convince others that the creation account in the Bible is false, it diminishes God in the eyes of those who believe the lie. "If the Bible is untrue about God about creation, what else is the Bible lying about?" is one way to think of this issue. Additionally, if God didn't create the universe and all that is in it "then maybe He's not really in control of it now."
The other implication of denying God as creator is it lessens man's view of man. One must not look hard to see the results of devaluing people from being created in the image of God to man being an accidental result of monkeys evolving. Names like Hitler, Stalin, and Mao should remind us that to devalue mankind as anything less than created in God's image leads to death, destruction, and misery.
I would encourage you to read the article to see how people go through the mental gymnastics to ignore the Bible. You should know what you believe, and know why you believe what you believe.
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