What is Biblical creation and why is it important?
Introduction by guest professor: Donald E. Chittick (used with permission) I will first consider the question, What is biblical creation? and then consider why it is important. The bottom line, though, is a conflict between religious worldviews. Literal, direct creationism is in conflict with what Phillip Johnson has termed theistic naturalism. That, in summary, is why the issue is important. Now let me try to amplify that by providing a few details. What is biblical creation? Biblical creation is supernatural. In plain language it was a miracle. Creation was by direct acts of the Creator as opposed to some naturalistic process. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth (Genesis 1:1). Creation took place in the beginning and was finished and complete. Creation was not spread out over a major portion of the supposed evolutionary vast time history of the universe. Creation was by the word of the Creator. The Creator spoke things into existence. In Genesis 1, we read of a seri
