By Will Hall, Baptist Message executive editor This is the second installment of a 12-part series about evi­dence that the Bible is truth. ALEXANDRIA, La. (LBM) – When Bible crit­ics attack the creation ac­count, they almost always first argue that “every religion has a creation sto­ry” or make some similar dismissive statement that attempts to shut off discus­sion without looking at the facts. However, lumping the Bible’s creation account in with other religions’ creation mythologies is an act of sophistry (deliberate lie) or fallacy (unintention al deception) because it ignores the extraordinary differences that make the Bible’s record of events distinct in its trustwor­thiness. Outside of Christianity, regardless of the religion or the culture, creation stories tend to fall into one of several categories: (1) The world resulted because of fighting among various gods. (2) The world resulted from intimacy between a fertility goddess and another god. (3) Some creation myths describe their gods as emerging from the world (i.e. the world always existed, and their god was produced by nature – not the other way around). In stark con­trast, only Gen­esis 1 narrates an orderly process that is scientifical­ly plausible: … [Read more...]