This is being written for the fourteenth annual Question Evolution Day, which is something that any biblical creationist can support. Involvement levels can be very basic, such as simply sharing a post online with a #questionevolutionday hashtag. More involved: writing weblog articles, having an event at a church, etc.
Don't be riding off in a cloud of dust, hear me out. The Bible records how Joshua led the Israelites as directed by God to destroy Jericho. It must have seemed like a massive undertaking, as a siege could have taken months or years. The Israelites were obedient to God's instructions, the walls fell, and the Israelites were victorious.
One big reason to get involved at all is to support intellectual and academic freedoms, and especially freedom of speech. We show that atoms-to-atheist evolution is not supported by evidence, which instead supports special creation. There is a surprising similarity between that day and the walls of Jericho.
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| Jericho, Unsplash / Valdemaras D. |
Years later, scoffers said all sorts of things: It never happened at all, the Bible was wrong on the timing, the city was uninhabited, and other things. Part of the problem was that even though archaeology has never shown Scripture to be wrong, some people took it as a book of myths and legends instead of a book of history. With their faulty assumptions and insufficient evidence, they came up with faulty conclusions.
People were told, and believed, many false things about the conquest of Jericho. Another goal of Question Evolution Day and of biblical creation science is to help remove stumbling blocks so that people can seriously consider the gospel message. They have been told all sorts of false things about their intellectual Jericho of evolution. They believe those things and reject the truth of the Word of God. We need to take a stand!
Now, as for the archaeology of Jericho, here is something quite interesting.
The name ‘Jericho’ brings to mind Israelites marching, trumpets sounding and walls falling down. It is a wonderful story of faith and victory, but did it really happen?The skeptic would say no, it is merely a folk tale to explain the ruins at Jericho. The main reason for this negative outlook is the excavations at the site carried out in the 1950s under the direction of British archaeologist Kathleen Kenyon. She concluded,
To read it all and see how galactically wrong Kenyon was, journey to "The walls of Jericho Archaeology confirms: they really DID come a-tumblin’ down." Also, if you're so inclined, someone didn't quite grasp the subject, and also some information about Jericho in later years. You can read about that at "Jericho after Joshua’s destruction."