1. Book: =>Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe (Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee)
  2. Book: =>Alone in the Universe: Why Our Planet Is Unique (John Gribbin)
  3. Book: =>The Privileged Planet: How Our Place in the Cosmos Is Designed for Discovery (Guillermo Gonzalez and Jay W. Richards)
  4. DVD box set: =>The Intelligent Design Collection – Excellent! Includes the three DVDs listed here (each DVD linked to buy separately):
  5. Book: =>The Creator and the Cosmos: How the Greatest Scientific Discoveries of the Century Reveal God (Hugh Ross)
  6. Book: =>Thousands not Billions: Challenging the Icon of Evolution, Questioning the Age of the Earth (Donald DeYoung)
    • Includes Chapter 10: Extremely detailed analysis of the Hebrew language and how to tell if word usage is primarily historical (narrative) or allegorical (poetic) [13 pages] – Here are three charts from this chapter that are interesting and informative:
99.99% sure Genesis 1 & 2 is Narrative
Preterite verbs typically are narrative – that is the front gray bar – note that Genesis 1 & 2 is very high for narrative and very low for poetic
Scatter Plots definitely show Genesis 1 & 2 as Narrative and not Poetic

Where to find resources on the various perspectives? (I am leaning towards #1 and #4… there are valid reasons for each view and there are issues with each view as well)

  1. Young Earth Creationism
    1. Answers in Genesis
    2. Got Questions
    3. Book: Thousands not Billions: Challenging the Icon of Evolution, Questioning the Age of the Earth (Donald DeYoung)
    4. Creation Science / Creation Museum in Kentucky
  2. Theistic Evolution (God got everything started and let it just happen)
    1. C.S. Lewis
    2. Catholic Church (the church has no official position other than people are created with souls)
    3. Intervarsity Press’s book (Language of God)
  3. Day/Age Theory (God sized days aka “ages”, but not “evolution”)
  4. Gap Theory (Genesis 1:1 is an actual event that happened, not just an introduction)
  5. Still Working On This (need more time:)

Here are just a few of the books that I have (not saying they are the best, just that I chose to buy them):