Creation Questions

- Creation Questions-

1. Why does the Bible start by assuming God instead of arguing for God’s existence?
2. Why should I trust Genesis 1-11 as actual history?
3. What is meant by ‘the heavens’ in 1:1?
4. Does the ‘darkness’ in 1:2 imply something sinister?
5. How was there ‘light’ in 1:3 before the creation of the sun in 1:14?
6. Should we interpret the term ‘day’ literally?
7. How can a ‘day’ be a 24 hour period w/o the sun?
8. If creation is ‘young,’ how can we see starlight from millions of light years away?
9. What is or what happened to the ‘water above’ the expanse of 1:7?
10. Was there, originally, one super-continent (1:9)?
11. Is a biblical ‘kind’ the same as a scientific ‘species’ (1:21)?
12. Who is the ‘Us’ in 1:26?
13. What is meant by mankind’s ‘rule’ in 1:26 and ‘subdue’ in 1:28?
14. Doesn’t 1:27 imply that God made male and female at the same time?
15. Were Adam & Eve commanded to be vegetarians as per 1:29?
16. Did all animals eat only plants (1:30)? What about the food chain?
17. Is it significant that God said ‘very good’ in 1:31?
18. How could God need rest (2:2-3)?
19. What was the earth’s early topography like (2:5-6)?
20. Is 2:7 describing the first stages of evolution?
21. Where was the Garden of Eden (2:8, 10-15)?
22. What was the purpose/usage of the tree of life (2:9)?
23. Why did God create a tree they weren’t supposed to eat from (2:9, 17)?
24. Does 2:17 refer to physical, spiritual, or both types of death?
25. Doesn’t the ‘not good’ of 2:18 contradict the ‘very good’ of 1:31?
26. Was it really possible for Adam to name all the animals in 1 day (2:20)?
27. Did God really think one of the animals would be a suitable helper (2:20)?
28. Is their significance to the idea that woman was taken ‘out of man’ (2:23)?
29. Is 2:24 the origin of marriage?
30. If a ‘very good’ creation included nakedness, why do we wear clothes (2:25)?
31. Did the serpent really talk (3:1)? If so, how?
32. Did Eve mis-quote God’s word in 3:3?
33. Why does this serpent oppose God (3:4)? Where did it come from?
34. What can we learn about temptation from Eve’s experience in 3:6-7?
35. Why did they immediately cover themselves in 3:7?
36. Did God really walk through the Garden of Eden as described in 3:8?
37. Why did they hide from God in 3:8?
38. Did God really not know where they were in 3:9 or who had told them in 3:11?
39. Why did God punish all serpents for this one act? Was more going on here (3:14-15)
40. Does ‘increase’ in 3:16 imply that Eve had already had children?
41. What are the implications of man’s ‘rule’ over woman in 3:16?
42. Does 3:17-19 show that ‘work’ is a consequence of sin?
43. Is there significance to the fact that Eve is the mother of ‘all’ living (3:20)?
44. What is the significance of God clothing the couple in 3:21?
45. Had man really become like God (3:22)?
46. Why didn’t God want the couple to ‘live forever’ (3:22-23)?
47. Why can’t we find the cherubim and flaming sword today (3:24)?
48. Why didn’t God look with favor on Cain’s offering (4:5)?
49. Who was Cain afraid of if only 3 people existed (4:14)?
50. Who was Cain’s wife (4:17)?
51. Why did men begin to call on the name of the Lord in 4:26?
52. How could men live as long as is described in chapter 5?
53. What does it mean when it says God ‘took’ Enoch away in 5:24?
54. Who were the ‘sons of God’ referred to in 6:2?
55. What is meant by the 120 years in 6:3?
56. What were the Nephilim of 6:4?
57. Does the word ‘grieved’ imply that God made a mistake in creating man (6:6)?
58. Can God really experience pain, as mentioned in 6:6?
59. Was the flood in Noah’s day local or worldwide?
60. Why was their a differentiation b/w clean and unclean animals (7:2-3)?
61. How could they possibly fit all ‘kinds’ of animals into the ark?
62. Were dinosaurs on the ark? What happened to them?
63. How did fresh/saltwater fish survive the flood?
64. Where did all that water come from?
65. Wouldn’t a worldwide flood leave an enormous amount of evidence?
66. If the flood was worldwide, where did all the water go?
67. Does 8:1 imply that God had previously forgotten?
68. Why did God now allow man to eat animals (except w/lifeblood, 9:3-4)?
69. Does 9:6 establish capital punishment?
70. If the flood was local, what are we to make of God’s promise in 9:11?
71. Had it ever rained prior to the flood (2:5 & 9:13)?
72. Do all people/races really come from the eight people of Noah’s Ark?
73. Does 10:25 describe the beginnings of continental drift?
74. How did land animals get to other continents?
75. Was God afraid of mankind’s abilities in 11:6?
76. Isn’t God the author of confusion in 11:7?
77. Doesn’t modern geology prove that the earth is extremely old?
78. Doesn’t modern biology prove that life evolved over time?
79. Didn’t they already find the missing link?
80. Don’t a variety of dating methods prove ‘millions’ of years?
81. What’s the difference b/w ‘macro’ & ‘micro’ evolution?
82. Is there scientific evidence for a young earth?
83. Is there scientific evidence for intelligent design?
84. Can I ask a question about creation/evolution not listed here?