Creation, the age of the earth, and the Word of God
Genesis opens with the most important sentence ever written:
"In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth."
Genesis 1:1 ESV
Adam's Daily Bread holds that God created everything in six ordinary days, and that the earth is young: thousands of years, not billions. That is a plain reading of Genesis 1-11, of the genealogies, and of the Lord's own words when He gave the Ten Commandments.
"For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day. Therefore the LORD blessed the Sabbath day and made it holy."
Exodus 20:11 ESV
Death did not come through long ages before man sinned. Death came through Adam's sin.
"Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned—"
Romans 5:12 ESV
"For as by a man came death, by a man has come also the resurrection of the dead. For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive."
1 Corinthians 15:21-22 ESV
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them."
Genesis 1:27 ESV
Where we stand, and how others differ
Our position: a young earth
We read the days of Genesis 1 as ordinary days, and the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 as real family lines. That puts creation thousands of years ago, not billions. We also read Noah's flood as a global event. Ken Ham's Answers in Genesis is a helpful ministry that teaches this from Scripture.
Old earth views
Some Christians who love the Bible, and who affirm a real Adam and a real Fall, hold that the earth is old. They are our brothers and sisters in Christ. We disagree with them on the age of the earth and on how to read the days of Genesis. Some go further and accept evolution, which this site rejects.
Why it matters
The question reaches past the rocks. It is about whether we read Genesis on its own terms, and whether death existed before sin. Jesus treated Adam, Eve, and Noah as real people (Matthew 19:4-5; Luke 17:26-27). Start with what He believed.
Go deeper
Creation vs evolution
Scripture presents creation by God's word, not by chance and long ages of death. This site rejects evolution.
Dinosaurs
Dinosaurs were real animals God made. We hold that they lived alongside people, and that many died in the flood.
Noah's flood and geology
Genesis describes a flood that covered the whole earth. Creation geologists argue that much of the rock and fossil record fits a global catastrophe.
Radiometric dating
Dating methods depend on starting assumptions that can't be observed directly. We question those assumptions.
Age of the earth
Why we read Scripture as teaching a young earth.
The Younger Dryas
A sudden cold period near the end of the last ice age, well known in mainstream science. Some creation writers connect its evidence to the flood and its aftermath. This page does not treat that connection as settled.
Scripture first. Science arguments link to their sources. No numbers on this page are invented.