Animal and Plant Baramins: 3 (Center for Origins Research Issues in Creation)

Mission statement - coresci.org Series Editor: Todd Charles Wood Core Academy of Science encourages young Christian scholars to explore the hardest problems in creation. Engineers sometimes classify problems as easy hard and impossible. Easy problems are trivial because they can be solved merely by applying known principles. Impossible problems cannot be solved no matter how hard we try. Hard problems are the problems in between that require the most work but yield the greatest rewards. Sometimes hard problems are accumulations of many easy problems and sometimes they turn out to be impossible. When a hard problem is solved though it is widely celebrated. For Christians and especially young-age creationists understanding creation has many hard problems. Evidences of the great age of the universe and earth can be difficult to explain. Likewise with evidences of evolution. Creationists reject the conventional explanations that involve millions of years and humans evolving from animals but alternative explanations that satisfy our scientific curiosity and our desire to remain true to the revealed Word of God are much rarer and not widely accepted. It is much easier to focus on the detection of error rather than the more difficult discovery of truth. This focus on error rather than truth pervades evangelical Christianity because its relatively easy. We all like the easy and impossible. We teach our children to recite verses from the Bible and answers to our catechisms but when they ask difficult questions we say Only God knows. We might even scold them for being impertinent or irreverent. Core Academy equips the next generation to tackle these great mysteries by first and most importantly helping young scholars to develop a bold confident faith. All too often scholars who face challenging puzzles become disillusioned and stray from the faith. Our first goal then must be enriching and nurturing strong faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Creator.