“Enemies of the Gospel don’t aim at the cross – they aim at the foundations of the cross, the Book of Genesis,” he said. “The Psalmist asks, if the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?

They may differ on the exact age of the universe and planet Earth, but they do agree on one thing: A transcendent creator is responsible.

As guest speakers at the 2010 National Conference on Christian Apologetics Oct. 15-16 in Charlotte, N.C., scientists Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. Terry Mortenson offered scientifically-based proof for the creation story as outlined in the Bible.

New scientific evidence for the God of the Bible

Dr. Hugh Ross, an astronomer and president of the Reasons To Believe ministry, challenged the audience to take a scientific approach to creation. He started with two questions:

“Is the scientific evidence for the creator, the God of the Bible’s existence shrinking or growing as we learn more and more about the record of nature?” and

“Has the scientific evidence accumulated to a point that we can we eliminate some or all of the alternate explanations?”

Ross said he tested the various theories on the universe beginning when he was a youth and contends that the Bible has 10 times more to say about cosmology than all the world’s holy books combined. He shared long lists of Scripture passages that point to a transcendent creator, the expansion of the universe and the cooling down of the universe’s temperature.

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