History Questions and Answers

How reliable is biblical chronology? Do any ancient writings mention historical events that are recorded in the Bible?

• Real history: the timeline of the Bible
• The antediluvian patriarchs and the Sumerian king list
• Archbishop's achievement (The Annals of the World now available in English!)
• Biblical chronogenealogies
• Evidentialism: the Bible and Assyrian chronology
• False history: 'out with David and Solomon!'
• The forgotten archbishop
• The Egyptian problem (Biblical chronology 6(1), January 1994)
• Extrabiblical witnesses to Jesus before AD 200 (Christian Think Tank)
• The Lamb of God hidden in Chinese characters (2.2 Meg, PDF)
• The long story of long ages
• Old-Earth or young-Earth: Which belief is the recent aberration?
• The Original ‘Unknown’ god of China
• The pyramids of ancient Egypt
• Searching for Moses [The Bible and Egyptian chronology] (Semi-technical)

Are lineages (genealogies) recorded in the Bible historically accurate?

• Where are all the people?
• In the Days of Peleg
• The sixteen Grandsons of Noah
• Meeting the ancestors
• Exposé of NavPress’s new Hugh Ross book: The Genesis Question: Genealogies
• Some Remarks Preliminary to a Biblical Chronology (Technical)
• Genesis correctly predicts Y-chromosome pattern —
  Jews and Arabs shown to be descendants of one man! (Semi-technical)
• See also Genetics

What is the truth about the technology of ancient people? Why are they so often depicted as ‘cavemen’ when we can see remnants of civilizations that were very advanced (such as pyramids)?

• Ancient civilizations and modern man
• The amazing cave people of Malta
• Culture clash
• The mystery of ancient man
• The pyramids of ancient Egypt
• Savages and Ancestors
• Tale of ancient toothpaste

Historically, what happened at the 1925 Scopes Trial? Does the movie ‘Inherit the Wind’ accurately describe these events?

• Inherit the Wind—an historical analysis
• See also Scopes Trial

Where did evolutionary ideas come from?

• Evolutionary naturalism: an ancient idea

Who were the men who opposed the idea of long ages in the early 1800s?

• Historical setting
• Granville Penn (1761–1844)
• George Bugg (1769–1851)
• Andrew Ure (1778–1857)
• Henry Cole (1792?–1858)
• Thomas Gisborne (1758–1846)
• Rev. Samuel Best (1802–1873)