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Grudem’s quote from the intro to Should Christians Embrace Evolution? Biblical & Scientific Responses (2009): “Evolution is secular culture’s grand explanation, the overriding ‘meta-narrative’ that sinners accept with joy because it allows them to explain life without reference to God, with no accountability to any Creator, no moral standards to restrain their sin, ‘no fear of God before their eyes’.”

Chapter 16 Adam, Morality, the Gospel, and the Authority of Scripture

collapse of morality; assault on the Gospel (from theologians within the church); foundational issue of the age of the earth; origin of old-earth geology; the nature of the old-universe cosmology; assault on perspicuity of Scripture; church’s slippery side into error over time

Chapter 15 Humanity Shared History Reflecting the Truth of Genesis 1-11

After the flood Noah’s descendants would have taught the first generations the major events prior to the Flood (shared history); after the after scattering at Babel they would have (unique histories); The Creation; The Fall; giants, Nephilim, The Flood, Babel; speaking of languages; objections: coincidence, missionaries, borrowed; conclusion

Chapter 14 Ancient Man: Genius or Primitive?

Biblical vs evolutionary models; pre-Flood: was Adam a genius?, Noah, building the ark, more than just a builder; post-Flood: Joseph, Bezalel and the Tabernacle, Solomon, Hezekiah’s Tunnel; ancient civ of Sumer after Tower of Babel, the Minoans, Spain, Great Pyramid Egypt, Stonehenge England, China, Babylon, Mexico, Incas, ancient artifacts, “primitive” people myth

Chapter 13 Part 2

the Ku Klux Klan; American eugenics and Nazism; Marx: a leading follower of Darwin; Darwinism motivated Japanese racist sadism during WWII; an example pf Japan’s brutality: Rape of Nanking; the influence of Darwinism in Japan; justifying racism; mov’t back toward Biblical view; after-birth abortions; Planned Parenthood & Margaret Sanger; conclusions

Chapter 13 Evolution, Racism, and the Scientific Vindication of Genesis (part 1)

Biblical view of race; development pf racism; leaders of eugenic racism were academics; racism limit’s immigration; medical journal advocates inferiority of blacks; race and reason

Chapter 11 Human Anatomy: Unique Upright Design

strong big toes; arched feet; long legs; upright knee joints; angles femur bones; upright: hip joints, back, skull,; flat face; balance, unique abilities; purposeful design

Chapter 12 Human Anatomy: Unique Skills and Beauty

purposeful overdesign of man; unique: skillful hands, fine skin, facial expressions, ability of language & speech, brain; beautiful: hair, face

Chapter 10: Genetics Confirms the Recent, Supernatural Creation of Adam and Eve

how science works: exp types 1 (creation & evolution/origins head to head), 2 (useful in refuting one but useless in confirming either) and 3 (completely useless in the debate); ape-like primates or fully human people; 99% genetically identical?, chrom 2 fusion, nested hierarchies; population or pair; ancient or recent; is there bias?

Chapter 9 Neanderthals: Our Worthy Ancestors

DNA & fossil evidence (differences b/w humans and Neanderthals are the result of geography, not evolution); Neanderthal burial practice-Neanderthals and humans were buried together; Neanderthals (post Flood peoples) and their burial practice and the burial practice in Genesis; archeological evidence: as occupational hunters, art, bone tools, space allocation & technology