Creation Moments

Jonathan Cotton: Did man see mammoths in North America? Examining the evidence next on today's Creation Moments. And now, here's our Creation Moments host, Ian Taylor.

Ian Taylor: One of the most important differences between man's word and God's word is that man's words can sometimes be true while God's word is always true. When a scientist finds the fossil imprint of a fish, he usually says that he has found a fish and will even give it a name. But what has he really found? Well, just the flattened and deformed imprint of what used to be a fish's dead body. Everything else the scientist says about the imprint is storytelling. The stories might be true, but the important thing is that stories are not facts. The uncertain nature of such storytelling was recently illustrated when scientists decided that the holly oak pendant, a whelk shell with an engraving of a woolly mammoth on it, is not really evidence that man saw mammoths in North America.

According to theory, mammoths disappeared from North America long before the arrival of man. One dating method supported an ancient age for the holly oak pendant, but another dating method gave an age of about 1,000 years. Scientists have now decided that the carving is modern. In other words, evidence has been selected to support the theory that mammoths disappeared from North America long before the arrival of man. God's word about ancient history is completely trustworthy. Man's storytelling about ancient history has always been subject to change.

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