The purpose of Uncle Bill’s book isn’t to give you all the little details on everything that’s in the Bible.  That’s for future Bible studies (Lord willing) where we can break it all down verse by verse.  For my book, I am just hoping that it gives you some simple Bible truths you can rely on because you trust and love the guy who wrote it.  Having said that, trust but verify by reading and studying it for yourselves. 

In case you’ve haven’t heard the creation story,  here is some basic info about how we all got here.  I’ll start off by telling you what the Bible actually says, then I’ll go into what the world thinks happened.  I’m hopeful that you will see it takes a lot more “faith” to believe the world’s view than the Biblical account.   “Faith: is believing something is real even though you have never seen it.  Just like believing in what happened in the distant past is faith, because no human witnessed it.

It doesn’t take faith to know the Bible is real, but it does takes faith to believe the words and promises in it are.  Same goes for your science books when it comes to our origins.  No matter how many times evolution is promoted and taught biasedly in your classes, no one can “prove” it is true.  It will take faith to believe in either creation or evolution. 

Let’s get started.  The Bible tells us plainly that God created the heavens and the earth in 6 literal-24-hour days.   (See Genesis chapter 1)

In days 1-3, God created “spaces”.   These spaces would later be “filled” with what God created in days 4-6.   Days 1-3: spaces.  Days 4-6: filling the spaces.  (Check out the chart below) 

CREATED	FILLED
Day 1 All matter, energy, light, and time in the universe	Day 4 Sun, moon and stars
Day 2 The atmosphere & water/seas	Day 5 Sea Creatures & birds
Day 3 Land & plant life	Day 6 Land animals and mankind.

There is nothing from the past, present, or future, that ever existed, in all the universe, that God didn’t create. This means everything you can see and don’t see, over all eternity past and future. This includes stuff you don’t even know exists.  The Bible is very clear on this, and God alone takes credit for bringing it all into being.    

Everything God created in days 1-3 (the spaces) were designed specifically for our benefit.  They weren’t random.  God made them for our use and daily needs.  Just look at what we use the spaces for.  We have an atmosphere that allows us to breathe outdoors and protects us from the sun.  We have light & dark repeating every day after day, month after month, year after year,  giving us a way to count time.  We have the land we walk on and the plants we need for oxygen and food.  All of it created with purpose and order.  Nothing God does is random.

God then filled the spaces with the sun to light the day, and the moon & stars to light the night. Did you know God named all the stars?  Astronomers can’t even count them all, yet God created them all and named them in one day.   God also made the sea creatures, birds, and land animals that are vital for food and our eco-system.  (All the stuff science tells you they are great for.)  God knew what He was doing when He created this place. He was making a home for us.   

I have found that the majority of Christians agree with all I have told you so far. They know God created everything.  Exactly how God did it, and how long it took Him, are what many disagree on.  The Bible tells us everything came from nothing and was created in an instant.  Trees, plants, fish, birds, and even man all created in a flash, and in a mature state as if they had been there for years.  God needed these things to be ready for man when he got there on day 6.  He wouldn’t have created a process for life that took billions of years. 

Adam didn’t start off as a baby.  The fish were swimming; they weren’t eggs sitting on the sea floor.  Birds could fly right away, cattle were fully grown so they could help work the ground, and the chicken definitely came before the egg.  If God could create it at all, why couldn’t He create it all fully grown?  Why would God make Adam wait until all the trees and plants were grown before he could eat from them?  Animals were not part of Adam’s food source, so he would have starved if God didn’t make everything ready to eat and use.    

Unbelievers, and many Christians, think God used evolution to bring His creation into being. They won’t accept simple Biblical answers and instead believe that life came into existence very, very, slowly through survival of the fittest.  They try to marry the Bible and science books together so they don’t have to go against what the world thinks is true.   

Remember this for a later study:  Evolution tells us that death after death created new stronger and different species over a lot of time, until we reached the pinnacle, man.  The Bible tells us death did not exist before man.  In fact, death did not exist until Adam and Eve ate the apple God told them not to. Death came as the penalty for Adam’s sin.  If death existed before sin, then God is a liar and Jesus died for nothing.  You can’t believe the Bible and evolution.  It is impossible to reconcile the two.

Wait, what about the dinos?  Everyone says the Bible isn’t real because dinosaurs aren’t mentioned.  Many Christians freak out when someone asks them to explain what the Bible says about Dinosaurs.  It’s the craziest thing!  All this doubt about the creation story over something easy to explain.   

Dinosaurs were real., we have proof of that.  It doesn’t take faith to believe it.  Fossils are everywhere; unlike the fossils the evolutionists are still looking for.  So, what is all the hysteria about in Christian circles?  It all comes down to laziness and fear.  Too lazy to go find the answers, and too afraid to go against the world.

For one, the word “dinosaur” is a relatively new word.  It wasn’t around back when the Bible was written.  Two, there are several mentions in the Bible of large animals that seem to resemble dinosaurs, but called by different names.  Three, there are lots of animal species that are not mentioned in the Bible.  God, during creation week, lumped all animals into just a few different “kinds”.  From these few “kinds” we get all the different variations of birds, fish, and animals that have ever existed. This is opposite of the evolutionist view.  They believe we started with millions of species over billions of years and by survival of fittest we are down to a much lower amount than we started with. 

Scientists and textbook authors would like you to believe that most dinosaurs were huge like the t-rex,  brontosaurus, and pterodactyl.  In reality, the fossil record shows us that the vast majority were normal sized or smaller sized animals. They always fail to mention the average size of a dinosaur was around the size of an American bison. That’s not anywhere near t-rex size or the other huge dinosaurs found in the Hollywood movies.  Why is this important?  Because one of the popular ways people try to disprove the Bible is by saying no dinosaurs could have fit on the ark.  The ark is what God had Noah build before He flooded the earth.  (More to come on Noah and the flood down the road)

Are you seeing a pattern here?  Scientists didn’t just come up with all their theories out of thin air.  They took the creation story and then made up their own theory(s) to try and debunk the Bible. Every time the Bible proved true over time and discovery, they tweaked their theory to try and overcome it. Every time one of their theories was later proven wrong, they just pivoted to the next BS theory and the unbelieving world gladly accepted it.  That’s not science, that is a blatant attempt to silence Truth. There are many Christian scientists who believe the creation account in the Bible.  You just don’t hear from them as they are often silenced or shunned for going against their colleagues.    

As to how Noah could have fit dinosaurs on the ark, you know the answer.  They were average size or smaller.  They could have even been very young and small when they boarded the boat.  The next question is where did all the dinosaurs go?  Why aren’t they around today?  We will save that for a little later.   

Now, let’s look at the timing of creation week.  Did you know that God had a specific reason why He created everything in 6 days and then rested on the 7^th?   He didn’t need the rest, he wasn’t tired.  Even though the Bible tells us the answer, many Christians still struggle with the fact that such a complex and vast universe could be made in only 6 days. They say it’s just too impossible to believe and they think science backs their beliefs.     

Part of the struggle for Christians is that everything we are taught in school, everything we see on tv or socials,  even words we hear in some churches, all teach that this place was created billions of years ago. Evolutionists and big bang theorists need these billions of years to be true so that they can explain why there are no signs anywhere of evolution in our world today.  Scientists explain it by saying fossils don’t last billions of years and the evolutionary process is really slow.  That is why no one has, or ever will, see anyone changing  from “the goo, to the zoo, into you”.     

So, because of all the outside influence to believe in evolution, many Christians look for ways to fit long periods of time in between days 1-6. They take words and whole paragraphs out of context.  They make up stuff and ignore what is written.  Many just live with the confusion and contradictions that come with trying to hold both views as true.  They then become useless to God for spreading His Word.  They do all of this just to support a theory that is harder to believe than the truth the Bible teaches. No one wants to question science, but they are fine with questioning God’s Word.  Go figure….

In summary, you have a choice to make.  Believe the world, or believe the Bible.  Over the centuries, the world has changed its opinion on how the universe and everything in it came into existence, more times than you can count.  The Bible has not changed since it was written 2,000+ years ago.  I’ll believe the God who created everything over the people trying to study everything He created.   

The real question every good Bible student should ask instead of “how could God do all that in 6 days?” is:  “Why did He take so long?”  If God could do it at all, He could certainly have done it in a split second, all at once. He didn’t need 6 days.  He didn’t even need a minute.  You’ll have to wait for the answer on this one. It takes a little more detail than I plan to go into in this book.  In the meantime, rest assured God had very specific reasons why he created everything in 6 literals days.   

There is so much more detail in the Bible about the creation account than I could possibly discuss in this chapter.  This is just the milk, remember?  I’ll end chapter one with this question: 

“If God could create everything, is there anything He can’t do?  You should think about that anytime a doubt or question comes into your mind about what God is capable of.