Believing in 6 Days of Creation Is 'Litmus Test' on Biblical Authority
Young Earth Creationist Ken Ham said in a speech at Cedarville University, a private Baptist school in Ohio, that believing God created the world in six days serves almost as a "litmus test" on biblical authority, and warned that disagreeing with it is taking man's word over God's.
Ham said in his presentation on why it is important for Christians to believe in six literal days of creation that in a way it is "almost a litmus test on biblical authority."
"Talking about the six days, what we're really talking about is does it really matter what God says. It's an authority issue," he said on Thursday.
Ham argued that there is a "major problem in the Church right now," pointing to statistics that suggest there is a mass exodus of faith in America. He said that one of the major problems is that people no longer believe that biblical authority is relevant, and instead are trusting in theories like...