History Hound Travels

The first chapter speaks of Creation. It begins with startling simplicity by stating that there was once no time. Each day of Creation is examined, and Beechick draws wonderful word pictures with her words. This book is based in the Bible, and while you can certainly recognize where she gets her inspiration, the added detail is breathtaking. One can almost see God’s smile as He beholds what He has done. The colors in the mind as one “sees” the picture she is painting are richer, deeper, sharper, truer, unfiltered by dust, vivid. The chapter concludes with God declaring the seventh day holy and resting as Adam and Eve begin their honeymoon.

~Are you baffled by the theory of Creation or comforted by it?

Beechick’s book begins with a preface that embraces what is typically called the “young earth” viewpoint, and this is the view point with which I agree as well. Many authors have researched and written about both viewpoints, and even laying issues of faith aside, the young earth explanation just makes sense to me. When I do take matters of faith into account, it makes even more sense. God is a God of order, not disorder. Even the most basic experiments indicate that things tend to fall apart rather than coalesce into greater and more complex things, and so the whole idea of evolution is laughable to me.

Given that this is my viewpoint, it should now be clearer why I chose to begin with Adam and His Kin. It only makes sense to begin at the beginning, does it not?

~What are your views on the actual age of the earth?
~Why do you think as you do?