1. For information on why the days of the Creation Week were literal, see the non-technical paper "God Did It in Six Days" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1993). For a technical treatise on the six days of creation, see Studies in Genesis One by Edward J. Young (Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing Co., 1976).
2. There has been a lot of publicity about the idea that millions of years ago, a huge asteroid crash-landed on earth, spewing tons of dust and debris into the upper atmosphere. Supposedly this debris then blocked the sun's heat and light, causing plants to die, leading to the death of dinosaurs by starvation. Despite all the media attention surrounding this "asteroidal impact" scenario, no one has located a crater large enough to match the size of an impact sufficient to kill all the dinosaurs. Since 1979 when this scenario was first proposed, crater after crater has been nominated as the "smoking gun," only to be discarded later as unsatisfactory. (The crater currently favored, the Chicxulub Crater in the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico, was attributed to underground volcanic activity before the "asteroidal extinction" idea became popular!) Furthermore, new dinosaur-extinction scenarios having nothing to do with asteroidal impact continue to appear. For example, a recent idea proposes that the dinosaurs died because of an oxygen shortage (see "Did the Dinosaurs Suffocate?" by Tom Yulsman, Earth, Volume 3, March 1994, page 12). It is obvious that evolutionists do not agree on how the dinosaurs died.
3. Some Biblical critics have claimed that this three-fold grouping of animals is primitive and prescientific. However, the modern system of biological classification has many uncertainties, and experts frequently disagree about how organisms should be classified. In other words, the modern system is no more problem-free than the simple Biblical system. Furthermore, the Biblical system is actually environmentally oriented, based as it is on the ecological habitats of the three groups of animals (cattle being domesticatible and typically living near man; creeping things living near the ground; and beasts being large creatures towering over all others).
4. Scores of such artifacts are documented in Ancient Man: A Handbook of Puzzling Artifacts by William R. Corliss (Glen Arm, MD, The Sourcebook Project, 1978). See also the paper "History of Science" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1985) which also discusses many of these artifacts.
5. For more information on the Nampa image, see the book by Corliss mentioned in the preceding note, pages 457-460. The Nampa image is also discussed in the paper "Fossils and the Flood" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1984).
6. The remains of ancient life preserved as fossils show that life on earth was once much more abundant than it is today. This means that the global climate was once more congenial than today's climate. Evolutionism, however, cannot explain why this is so. The following statement is typical of evolutionary discussions of ancient conditions on earth: "There is little evidence that climatic belts existed in the earlier history of the earth, yet climatic zonation, both latitudinal and vertical, is clearly apparent in all parts of the earth today. This anomalous situation is difficult to explain. . . . Climatic conditions in the past were significantly different from those in evidence today." Quoted from "Should We Teach Uniformitarianism?" by Edgar B. Heylmun (Journal of Geological Education, Volume 19, January 1971), page 36. For a fuller discussion of global climate changes, see the paper "Residual Catastrophism" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1984).
7. Most dinosaurs never ate meat, only plants. Presumably they were never fierce. See "Man's Dominion Over the Earth" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1985).
8. For example, the Sahara Desert in North Africa did not exist before 2000 B.C.: "Around 2000 BC there began a long and eventually disastrous natural change. The climate gradually became much drier. The Sahara received less and less rain. Its rivers began to fail and, little by little, its farming peoples had to move away and find new homes. . . . By about 500 BC this complicated movement of peoples was already in the past, and the Sahara had become the dry and stony wasteland that we know today." Quoted from A Short History of West Africa to the Nineteenth Century by Basil Davidson (Garden City, NY, Anchor Books, Doubleday and Company, 1966), pages 12-13.
9. See The Doheny Scientific Expedition to the Hava Supai Canyon, Northern Arizona by Samuel Hubbard (Oakland, CA, Oakland Museum, 1927).
10. The paper "Extinct Animals in the Bible" by J.F. Henry (Chattanooga, TN, Center for Creation Concepts, 1985) traces the extinction of animals in history.