Answers on Genesis and Science | Andrew Brown | ISCAST-NZCIS Conversations 2024 S3 #7

Answers on Genesis and Science
The Bible tells an amazing story of how God makes the world and then reaches out to save it as people misuse the freedom, he gave them. Like any good book, it grabs the reader’s attention right at the start: “In the beginning,” say many Bible versions, “God created the heavens and the earth.” The very first chapter tells a grand story of a cosmic construction project. But for the modern reader, the problems begin straight away. Did this all happen in a week? How could the sun turn on only on Day 4? What does this have to do with the formation of our solar system and our planet? How could two human beings be shaped out of wet dirt and become the ancestors of all humanity? If these things are not literally true, isn’t “made up” the only other kind of literature there is? “History” and “make-believe”?
ANDREW BROWN
Dr Andrew grew up in the Port Stephens area of New South Wales, on the eastern Australian coast. He completed undergraduate degree studies in the USA before returning to Australia to undertake Bible college teaching and youth camp ministry along with further theological college studies. After Andrew married, he joined a pastoral team at a Baptist church and began research studies at the University of Queensland, both in Brisbane, Australia. Six years of country pastoring at Murwillumbah in rural north-eastern NSW followed. Soon after arrival at MST, he completed his PhD thesis in the reception history of the creation week in Genesis.
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