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accurate and concise.

2: -- Verifiable structural design at various levels which proves that moving or omitting even one

letter would render it unreliable.

3: -- Accurate integration of information in codes that are relevant at all times and describing

people, events and various subjects as they occur throughout history without fail.

4: -- Accurate usage of models in history which point to events, situations or people still to be at

the time of penning the books which would eventually make up the Bible.

D: -- The Bible even validates itself and states that all scripture was inspired by God and what it

should be used for:

2Ti 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for

reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

If we keep all these aspects in mind, what conclusions should we then draw from these

provable facts? We are dealing here with a Book that is unlike any other book on earth. Each

letter on each page in the original languages has been placed exactly in its position with the

utmost accuracy and intent. We know that this Book contains many prophecies, which have

been fulfilled, down to the last letter, for every event that was predicted and occurred in our

past. With this track record of absolute accuracy, how should we approach information that is

provided in the Bible with regards to events that will only happen in the future or information

about the Creation account? Should these be treated differently? Are we supposed to apply

our own interpretation of information contained in the Bible for which we are unable to provide

verifiable evidence? Especially when we know that for all cases in which we are able to collect

data, the Bible‟s accuracy is proven to be 100% true. Are we not being arrogant in our attempts

to interpret the information in the Bible to suit our beliefs, or even calling it false?

Looking at the table below, we consider two sets of data. Both are found in passages from the

Bible and form part of the supernatural aspects as discussed. For Information Set A, we may

have current evidence or well preserved historic accounts through which we can validate the

statement. We also find that in all cases where we do have the ability to verify the s tatement, it

is always found to be 100% accurate. How then should we treat those statements or sections

from the Bible which we are unable to verify authenticity? Would it be accurate to assume that if

we can prove 100% factual truth in all cases, would it be fair to treat the sections or passages

for which we lack the evidence or foresight into the future, with exactly the same attitude?

Would it be stretching it too far to think that we can demonstrate scientifically that the Bible as a

whole is a supernatural unity and that we can accept with certainty that it contains true

information on all aspects - even on subjects that we are unable to validate, due to our

limitations? If we know that the information contained in this Book, predicted events that would

happen in the future with 100% accuracy and continue to predict future events which we cannot

assess from our point in time, should we not pay serious attention to what it says about those

future events?

Information Set A

Passage contains supernatural text structure? Answer: Yes

Passage forms part of numeric patterns? Answer: Yes

Passage contains hidden codes? Answer: Yes

Passage contains specific statements for verification? Answer: Yes

Humanly possible to validate? Answer: Yes

Findings of validated statement: Statements always 100% true.

Information Set B

Passage contains supernatural text structure? Answer: Yes

Passage forms part of numeric patterns? Answer: Yes

Passage contains hidden codes? Answer: Yes

Passage contains specific statements for verification? Answer: Yes

Humanly possible to validate? Answer: No

Findings of validated statement: ???

In my opinion, one has a decision to make. On the one hand you can select to side with the

Evolution Theory. It emerged officially, about 200 years ago, when technology was still primitive

and where proponents of the theory were unable to test some of their hypotheses. A theory,

where the scientists themselves expressed doubt in the validity of their own theory about the

origin of life and the complexities they encountered and where we now have ample evidence

mounting against the validity of the theory. There is also no supernatural evidence that can be

found within the Evolution Theory and the promoters of the Theory want people to exclude any

ideas of the supernatural. On the other hand, one can decide to choose to accept the

information as it is presented in the Bible. In my opinion, the choice one has to make is a simple

one, given the facts on both sides. One can choose to rely on people‟s philosophical

interpretations of what they saw around them, which we know is subject to human limitations,

not only in space-time, but also the human quality of being prone to making mistakes. Or one

can choose to rely on a document, which is scientifically proven to be far above human

capability to construct, both in its structure and content, and which is proven to be 100% true in

the information that it conveys. We have to consider that the information contained in the Bible

also addresses our origins in the creation account in which it describes how God created

everything and that it was a deliberate choice and action from God to perform his creative work.

It did not happen by chance as modern day opinion would have you believe.

If one is to rely on the information as it is provided in the Bible and compare it with what

Evolution depicts, can one find similarities where the two viewpoints meet or are they opposing?

From the Internet, the fol owing description of the Universe‟s formation after the Big Bang

occurred is given:

―The earliest phases of the Big Bang are subject to much speculation. In the most

common models, the Universe was filled homogeneously and isotropically with an

incredibly high energy density, huge temperatures and pressures, and was very rapidly

expanding and cooling. Approximately 10-37 seconds into the expansion, a phase

transition caused a cosmic inflation, during which the Universe grew exponentially.

After inflation stopped, the Universe consisted of a quark-gluon plasma, as well as all

other elementary particles. Temperatures were so high that the random motions of

particles were at relativistic speeds, and particle - antiparticle pairs of all kinds were

being continuously created and destroyed in collisions. At some point an unknown

reaction called baryogenesis, violated the conservation of baryon numbers, leading to

a very small excess of quarks and leptons over antiquarks and antileptons - of the

order of one part in 30 million. This resulted in the predominance of matter over anti-

matter in the present Universe.‖

The Universe continued to grow in size and fall in temperature; hence the typical

energy of each particle was decreasing. Symmetry breaking phase transitions put the

fundamental forces of physics and the parameters of elementary particles into their

present form. After about 10-11 seconds, the picture becomes less speculative, since

particle energies drop to values that can be attained in particle physics experiments.

At about 10-6 seconds, quarks and gluons combined to form baryons such as protons

and neutrons. The small excess of quarks over antiquarks led to a small excess of

baryons over antibaryons. The temperature was now no longer high enough to create

new proton-antiproton pairs (similarly for neutrons–antineutrons), so a mass

annihilation immediately followed, leaving just one in 1010 of the original protons and

neutrons, and none of their antiparticles. A similar process happened at about 1

second for electrons and positrons. After these annihilations, the remaining protons,

neutrons and electrons were no longer moving relativistically and the energy dens ity of

the Universe was dominated by photons (with a minor contribution from neutrinos).

A few minutes into the expansion, when the temperature was about a billion (one

thousand million kelvin) and the density was about that of air, neutrons combined with

protons to form the Universe‗s deuterium and helium nuclei in a process cal ed Big

Bang nucleosynthesis. Most protons remained uncombined as hydrogen nuclei. As

the Universe cooled, the rest mass energy density of matter came to gravitationally

dominate that of the photon radiation. After about 379,000 years the electrons and

nuclei combined into atoms (mostly hydrogen); hence the radiation decoupled from

matter and continued through space largely unimpeded. This relic radiation is known

as the cosmic microwave background radiation. Over a long period of time, the slightly

denser regions of the nearly uniformly distributed matter gravitationally attracted

nearby matter and thus grew even denser, forming gas clouds, stars, galaxies, and the

other astronomical structures observable today. The details of this process depend on

the amount and type of matter in the Universe. The four possible types of matter are

known as cold dark matter, warm dark matter, hot dark matter and baryonic matter.

The best measurements available (from WMAP) show that the data is well-fit by a

Lambda-CDM model in which dark matter is assumed to be cold (warm dark matter is

ruled out by early reionisation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang - cite_note-41),

and is estimated to make up about 23% of the matter/energy of the Universe, while

baryonic matter makes up about 4.6%. In an "extended model" which includes hot

dark matter in the form of neutrinos, if the "physical baryon density" Omega-bh2 is

estimated at about 0.023 (this is different from the ―baryon density‖ Omega-b

expressed as a fraction of the total matter/energy density, which as noted above is

about 0.046), and the corresponding cold dark matter density Omega-ch2 is about

0.11, the corresponding neutrino density Omega-vh2 is estimated to be less than

0.0062.

Independent lines of evidence from Type Ia supernovae and the CMB imply that the

Universe today is dominated by a mysterious form of energy known as dark energy,

which apparently permeates all of space. The observations suggest 73% of the total

energy density of today‗s Universe is in this form. When the Universe was very young,

it was likely infused with dark energy, but with less space and everything closer

together, gravity had the upper hand, and it was slowing the expansion. But

eventually, after numerous billion years of expansion, the growing abundance of dark

energy caused the expansion of the Universe to gradually begin to accelerate. Dark

energy in its simplest formulation takes the form of the cosmological constant term in

Einstein‗s field equations of general relativity, but its composition and mechanism are

unknown and, more generally, the details of its equation of state and relat ionship with

the Standard Model of particle physics continue to be investigated both observationally

and theoretically.

All of this cosmic evolution after the inflationary epoch can be rigorously described and

model ed by the ΛCDM model of cosmology, which uses the independent frameworks

of quantum mechanics and Einstein‗s General Relativity. As noted above, there is no

well-supported model describing the action prior to 10-15 seconds or so. Apparently a

new unified theory of quantum gravitation is needed to break this barrier.

Understanding this earliest of eras in the history of the Universe is currently one of the

greatest unsolved problems in physics.― 30

Evolution goes on to say that the Earth finally formed some 4 billion years ago and life emerged

by chance about 2.3 billion years ago, starting with the simplest life form and evolving over time

into the diversity we see around us today. This gives us a good idea of the progression through

time and sequence of events according to the Evolutionary Theory.

The Bible says God created everything and performed his creation work over a period of 6 days

and confirms this twice in Exodus. Many people will argue that the days, as mentioned in

Genesis 1, were ages or periods of time in which God gradually allowed the development of

everything through the process of evolution. Is this something that we can accept as true? If we

look at the order in which things were created, according to the creation account in Genesis 1,

we find that God tells us that he began his creative work by creating Heaven and Earth. He also

tells us that the Earth was empty when he started his work and that Earth was covered in water

and in darkness. He then created light and divided light from darkness, also on the first day.

Whether these two events happened on the same day, or describes different events altogether

is debated by many people; but we will see how the Bible interprets itself on this subject. On

the second day he created the firmament which he called Heaven and which w ould divide the

waters above Heaven from the waters below heaven. On the third day he gathered the waters

under Heaven together in one place and created dry land. The waters he called Seas and the

dry land he called Earth. He also created plants, grass and all herb-yielding seeds and trees on

the third day. On the fourth day he created the Sun, the Moon and the stars and set them in the

sky for seasons and signs and to divide the light and the darkness on earth. On the fifth day he

created the sea-living creatures, as well as birds, and on the sixth day he created land animals

and humans as his representatives on Earth – humans being the only creation made in the

image of God.

Before we continue, we have to remember that our understanding of God‟s works is and will

always remain limited at best. To try and fully explain exactly how God worked and what He

did, will always result in failure, errors or misunderstanding on our side. What we do know

however, is that God left us enough information in the Bible to understand certain facts clearly

and that he also provided clarifying information in the Bible in anticipation of questions we may

have about certain aspects unclear to us. We also know from previous chapters that the Bible

contains the ultimate truth and that it will anticipate any relevant question that you could ask and

also provide the answer to it, either in the surface text or hidden in a code that one could search

for with the proper software.

If we therefore compare the sequence of events, as prescribed by Evolution to that of Creation,

we see an immediate problem relating to plants that were created on day 3, while the Sun,

Moon and stars were only created on the fol owing “day” – day 4, according to the sequence in

the Bible. Even if we do not understand all the mechanics and processes that God used to

perform his creative work, we know, based on the provable accuracy of the Bible, that the

sequence of events as recorded in the Bible, has to be accurate. If we think about this carefully,

what scenario, as far as periods of time are concerned, would allow for plants to be created in

one period of time and survive long enough without the essential source of photosynthesis that

is needed to maintain them, until a source for photosynthesis becomes available? The only

logical answer in this case would be a relative short period of time such as a single day as the

Bible describes. If this era was longer than a year, there would be very few plants left alive, if

any at all, when the Sun finally arrived. Looking at the Sun, Moon and stars we can also identify

some peculiar properties: Have you ever noticed that the Sun and the Moon, although at

different distances away from the Earth are exactly the same visual size when observed from

the surface of the Earth? This becomes most apparent during a full solar eclipse. The

observers of the eclipse will see the Moon moving between the Earth and the Sun and cover the

Sun exactly. What are the chances of these relationships being perfect and this happening by

chance? The relationships between the Earth, the Moon and the Sun, the rotation speed of the

Earth, the tilt of the Earth‟s rotational axis, the exposure time of the different hemispheres to

light and darkness (and many other critical factors that are related to the movements of the

Earth, Moon and Sun to provide a life supporting environment) are far too perfect to have

happened by chance. Scientists cannot explain how the Moon came to be where it is today.

Although there are numerous theories, none of them properly fits or explains the fact that we

have a rather large celestial body orbiting us and are unable to explain through scientific

observations how it came to be there and has remained there over millennia. 31

Why did God create the Sun, Moon and stars only on the fourth day? Is it perhaps because

people would one day adopt the Theory of Evolution? Did God in anticipation of this, have an

order and sequence in his creation work, that would provide insight into the fact that it happened

over a short period of time and was completed within 6 actual days, as opposed to Evolution‟s

billions of years? How can we be sure that everything was in fact created in 6 days and that

these days are not to be interpreted as ages? If we look at Exodus, we have the following two

passages:

Exo 20:11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is

in them, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day,

and hallowed it.

Exo 31:17 It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days

the LORD made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was

refreshed.

Here, God clearly confirms directly to Moses twice; by giving him the Ten Commandments, as

well as a clear affirmation in Exodus 31 of the fact that everything, including Heaven and Earth,

was created over a period of six days. These timeframes or periods are set equal to each other

in both affirmations and are meant to be recognised and understood as 24-hour periods. With

this information available and considering the fact that the Bible contains truthful facts, there is

really no valid reason why one would assume that the Author of the Bible would intend the

reader to understand a time period that is different to what was written, or to apply special

interpretations to the information as presented in Genesis 1. The Bible is clear about the topic

and elaborates on the statements in Genesis 1 through additional passages elsewhere in the

Bible - answering the question with clarity and putting aside any confusion one may have about

the topic. Some people wil argue that the words used for describing God‟s creative work in

Genesis 1 point to new creations that did not exist before in some instances, and re-creation in

others. This argument is usually combined with the Gap Theory where people believe that

Genesis 1 points to two separate events in verse one and two. The Gap Theory proposes that

God created a first Heaven and Earth, that these were somehow destroyed and became empty

and that he then had to recreate it in the 6-day period as described from verse 2 onwards. In

the process of recreation, he then recreated pre-existent life forms and also new life forms that

previously did not exist. This argument is based on the two words that are used in Genesis 1 to

describe the creation work: “Bara” – which means to create and “Asha” – which means to make.

In fact, the two Hebrew words that are used for God‟s creative actions are used interchangeably

throughout the first chapter of Genesis. It is similar to saying God “made” in some instances

and God “created” in others. The Bible does not provide any substantiating evidence, which

would support the theory that God performed any creative work prior to the 6-day creation as

described in Genesis 1. Some sceptics will point to Isaiah, where the Bible clearly states that

God did not create the Earth to be empty and void, and compare that with the second verse of

Genesis 1, in which the Bible states that the Earth was void and empty. Based on these two

verses, they imply that something needed to have happened to cause the Earth to become void

and empty. For clarification the two verses are given below:

Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the fac e

of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

Isa 45:18 For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that

formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he

formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.

In the two verses above, the words “void” and “in vain” share the same Hebrew word “Tohoo”,

which means empty. To answer the question above, it is clear that the passage from Isaiah

indicates that God is addressing his purpose for the Earth and that his intentions would be for it

to be inhabited. This does not in any way relate to the sequence of events in Genesis, where

God describes his creative works to us, but specifically the purpose of the Earth. Also, if the

Earth was not to be empty before God started describing his creative work to us, would there be

any sense in describing it at all, if we assume that it should all have happened on the first day?

To demonstrate this more clearly: When an artist describes how he goes about creating a

painting, we would not find it strange that he would start by telling us that he would need a clean

canvas mounted on an easel. He would then prepare the canvas for oil paints and mix different

colours of paint in different ratios to obtain the colours he wants and only then commence

painting a scene with the various levels of detail. It would