Hi Fred--

Thanks a lot for the reference to the Refuting Compromise book. Sounds like Hugh Ross bugs you to. A couple of years ago I started questioning this issue - creation v. progressive creationism and skimming through a couple of Ross's books. Seems like something's wrong to me with where he's coming from and I have deep reservations about his materials. Then it bothered me too that leaders like John Ankerberg, Ravi Zacharias, and Norman Geisler (who I like a lot of their materials) apparently beleive in progressive creationism. I have wanted to read up more on this whole issue. Now I'm going to add that book from Sarfati to my long, long list of books and articles to read also. I have always just beleived more or less in the literal creation story and theologically it doesn't seem to make sense if there was death before Adam. What bothers me is why are there so many Christian leaders like those listed above that are apparently not believing this?? And even some good Christian friends I have say well it doesn't really matter which creation story you believe, etc. etc. But it does!! I started thinking then which one do we teach to our children if it doesn't matter? (this is what really got me thinking about the whole thing).
Again thank you very much. This site continues to be such a valuable source for me and I really appreciate it.