Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church - Practice Flashcards

Flashcards covering the Introduction and Chapter 1 of 'Six Days' by Ken Ham, focusing on biblical authority, exegesis vs. eisegesis, apologetics, and worldview foundations.

Who is the author of Six Days: The Age of the Earth and the Decline of the Church?

Ken Ham

What researcher and writer is specifically thanked in the acknowledgments for spending hundreds of hours helping assemble the book?

Steve Golden

According to the secular timeline described in the Introduction, how many years ago is the big bang claimed to have occurred?

$15\,\text{billion}$ years ago

According to the secular timeline presented in the text, when did water supposedly form on the earth?

$3.8\,\text{billion}$ years ago

What is the key distinction between exegesis and eisegesis as defined in the book?

Exegesis is reading Scripture to glean answers directly from the text, whereas eisegesis is reading man's outside ideas into Scripture.

Which verse from 1 Corinthians is quoted to warn against giving an 'uncertain sound' to believers?

1 Corinthians 14:8 ("For if the trumpet makes an uncertain sound, who will prepare for battle?")

According to Genesis 3:1, what initial question did the serpent use to introduce doubt into the Garden of Eden?

"Has God indeed said, 'You shall not eat of every tree of the garden'?" (or "Did God really say…?")

What primary focus defines Answers in Genesis (AiG) beyond simply being a creation ministry?

An evangelistic biblical authority ministry dedicated to calling the Church back to the Word of God.

According to research conducted by America's Research Group for Already Gone, what percentage of church-leaving youth had doubts about the Bible by the end of high school?

$85\%$ ($40\%$ by the end of middle school and an additional $45\%$ by the end of high school)

Approximately what percentage of children from Christian homes attend public schools, according to Chapter 1?

Around $90\%$

What Greek word is the term 'apologetics' derived from, and what does it mean?

It comes from the Greek word apologia, meaning an "answer" or a reasoned defense.

Which New Testament passage commands believers to 'always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you'?

1 Peter 3:15

Which Old Testament verse asks, 'If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?'

Psalm 11:3

Who authored the 2012 book The Evolution of Adam, which asserts that evolution demands Adam is not literally historical?

Peter Enns

Which Westmont College professor stated that Genesis 1 and 2 are 'high style literary prose narrative' and that Adam does not need to be a historical individual?

Tremper Longman III

What age does Point Loma Nazarene University professor Dr. Darrel Falk state for the earth when asked by a student?

$4.3\,\text{billion}$ years old (and $13$ or $14\,\text{billion}$ years old for the universe)

In Ken Ham's 'castle diagram' model, what do social issues like abortion and same-sex marriage represent?

They represent symptoms of an underlying problem, which is the foundational shift from God's Word to man's word.

How does the second 'castle diagram' illustrate the proper strategic response for Christians fighting secular worldview shifts?

It demonstrates re-aiming efforts away from symptom-level social issues directly at the foundation of man's word to restore biblical authority.

Which passage in Proverbs states, 'For as he thinks in his heart, so is he'?

Proverbs 23:7

According to Ken Ham, how has the primary 'Genesis 3 attack' manifested in the first century, during the Reformation, and in the modern age?

In the first century it attacked Christ and the Cross; during the Reformation it attacked justification by faith; in the modern age it attacks the first 11 chapters of Genesis.

What promise of restoration is given in 2 Chronicles 7:14 if God's people humble themselves and turn from compromise?

"if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land."