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Jonathan Cotton: Find out why the Bible is true. Next, on today's Creation Moment. And now, here's our Creation Moment's host, Ian Taylor.

Ian T. Taylor: Over the last couple of centuries, many Bible scholars have developed a skeptical approach to the Bible. Their treatment of the Bible as nothing more than a human document stems from their belief in evolution. According to them, Christianity has evolved from earlier religions just as man has evolved. As a result, critics reject the idea that the Bible is God's inherent, inspired, trustworthy word. Because they hold this low view of the Bible, they feel that they have found many errors in the Bible over the years. At one time, they said that the Hittites mentioned in the Old Testament never existed.

They said that the ancient biblical writers invented these people so that Israel could make up pretend victories over them. Eventually, the Hittites were discovered, one of the first proofs being hard to ignore six-foot-tall jars. Over the years, these critics have been consistently proven wrong by new discoveries. Likewise, critics have said that the Israelites could not have entered Canaan when the Old Testament says they did. They reason that because the Old Testament mentions the Ammonites, which critics said didn't live in Canaan until later, that the Bible's dating must therefore be in error. However, in the summer of 1989, biblical archaeologists proved that the Ammonites were in Canaan well before the Bible's date for the Exodus.

Again, Bible critics have been proven wrong. As one biblical archaeologist wrote, as usual, the absence of evidence is not necessarily the evidence of absence. When the Bible says something is true, there is no question of its truth.

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