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    God Said It and Bang! It Happened: The UnBelievable Explanation of Creation
    God Said It and Bang! It Happened: The UnBelievable Explanation of Creation
    God Said It and Bang! It Happened: The UnBelievable Explanation of Creation
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    God Said It and Bang! It Happened: The UnBelievable Explanation of Creation

    By Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz

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    In this fun and entertaining look at the world and how we came to be, authors Stan Jantz and Bruce Bickel will answer the basic questions about life: Where did I come from? And why am I here? Filled with humor, this creative book is illustraed wiith line drawings from somewhat-crazy-himself autho/illustrator Bill Ross (Hey, That's Not What The Bible Says!) and includes chapters such as:

    Why Begin at the Beginning?

    What's the Big Deal about God?

    Long, Long Ago in a Galaxy Far Away

    Earth Wind and Fire

    The Matrix

    What if God was One of Us?

    I Want to Live Forever

    If Creation is True Why Isn't It in School?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 13, 2001
    ISBN9781418535322
    God Said It and Bang! It Happened: The UnBelievable Explanation of Creation
    Author

    Bruce Bickel

    Bruce Bickel quickly abandoned pursuing standup comedy because he wasn't funny enough, opting instead to become a lawyer—a profession in which he is considered hilarious. His previous books with Stan Jantz include Knowing the Bible 101 and God Is in the Small Stuff.

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      Book preview

      God Said It and Bang! It Happened - Bruce Bickel

      God

      Said It...

      and Bang!

      It Happened

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      The UnBelievable Explanation of Creation

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      You may contact the authors via e-mail at

      guide@bruceandstan.com or send letters to:

      Bruce & Stan

      P.O. Box 25565

      Fresno CA 93729-5565

      Text copyright © 2001 by Bruce Bickel and Stan Jantz

      Illustrations copyright © 2001 by Bill Ross

      All rights reserved. No portion of this book may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher, with the exception of brief excerpts in reviews.

      Published in Nashville, Tennessee, by Tommy Nelson®, a division of Thomas Nelson, Inc.

      Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation,

      copyright © 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.,

      Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved.

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Bickel, Bruce 1952–

      God said it and—bang! it happened / Bruce and Stan.

      p. cm.

      ISBN 0-8499-7613-8

      1. Creation—Juvenile literature. 2. Theology, Doctrinal—Juvenile literature.

      [1. Creation.] I. Jantz, Stan, 1952- II. Title.

      BT695 .B45 2000

      231.7’65—dc21

      00-048947

      Printed in the United States of America

      01 02 03 04 05 PHX 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

      Contents

      Introduction

      1. Why Begin at the Beginning?

      2. What’s the Big Deal about God?

      3. Long, Long Ago in a Galaxy Far Away

      4. Getting Down to Earth

      5. The Making of Jurassic Park

      6. Monkeys, Cavemen, and You

      7. Why It All Matters

      So What?

      Introduction

      Questions. Life is full of them, and you’ve probably got a lot of your own.

      1 Some are frivolous: If you stick a bean up your nose, will it grow roots into your brain?

      1 Some are practical: Should you keep buying VHS tapes, or will DVD soon make them all obsolete?

      1 And, some are a bit fanciful: How do you decide between your competing career ambitions of professional soccer player, Internet business tycoon, and pop music star?

      For most of the questions that you have, the answers turn out to be pretty insignificant (except bean roots in your brain could be somewhat painful). Your worries about VHS will be forgotten when your new DVD collection becomes outdated. And you’ll have a little different perspective on career goals when you discover that your parents— when they were your age—hoped to be astronauts or professional disco dancers (and you probably want to avoid that last mental picture).

      We’ll admit that we don’t know you very well (after all, we’ve only been acquainted with you for about 179 words or so), but we suspect that you have a few other questions—questions that are much more than just frivolous, practical, or fanciful.

      If you’re intelligent (and we suspect that you are because, hey, you’re reading this book), you probably have a few philosophical questions. Like questions about whether the Bible makes sense. Oh sure, you’ve heard the Sunday school lessons about God creating the world in six days, but you’re probably curious about a lot of stuff that isn’t mentioned in the creation story. You’re probably wondering:

      1 Why aren’t dinosaurs mentioned in the Bible? (After all, they’re the stars in a few blockbuster movies, so why isn’t there a single verse about them in the Bible?)

      1 What about the cavemen? Is that what Adam really looked like, all hairy and slouched over? (And does that mean Eve was really hairy, too?) If the cavemen were some form of sub-humans, why doesn’t the Bible talk about them?

      1 And, is there life on other planets? Did God only create us humans, or is there intelligent life somewhere else in outer space? Does the Bible give any clues about space aliens?

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      See, we told you there are lots of questions. But there’s more. What about:

      1 Does science agree or disagree with the Bible? Why do some Bible teachers say the world is 10,000 years old but most scientists say the earth is about 10 billion years old? Who is right? Who is wrong?

      1 What should you do in science class if the teacher starts talking about how the world began? Do you start reciting Genesis 1:1 (In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth), or do you just keep your mouth shut? What if someone says that humans evolved from the monkeys?

      Doesn’t it boil down to this one simple question:

      Is the Bible’s explanation of creation believable?

      Now, you might not want to ask that question in church (because you’re afraid the pastor would hit you on the head with a hymnal), but it is an honest question. God won’t get mad if you ask it. In fact, we think He wants you to ask questions like that.

      We’re writing this book to help you go behind the scenes of the creation story. Sort of, Creation: Up Close and Personal. We’ll be covering some awesome stuff:

      1 Outer space! (planets and solar systems and asteroids and meteors)

      1 The earth! (volcanoes and earthquakes and floods)

      1 Where humans came from! (Don’t confuse this with the Where do babies come from? question. We won’t be talking about the mechanics of human reproduction.

      In this book, we’re looking at how humans got on the earth. If you have questions about human sexuality, you’ll have to look in another book. Or, you can ask your parents about it—but be prepared for them to act kind of nervous and weird.)

      We’re going to be talking about some serious stuff, but we promise you that it won’t get boring. (We hate to write dull stuff as much as you hate to read it.) So, nothing boring; just the really cool facts. They might seem unbelievable at first, but when you put them all together, it’s totally believable!

      Oh, by the way, we are biased. (Most authors won’t admit that. They all want to seem objective, but all writers work from their own viewpoints, and their opinions influence them. But we’ve had this growing friendship with you—up to about 771 words now—so we want to be completely honest with you.) Here is our bias:

      We believe the Bible is absolutely and entirely true.

      That means we’ll be going to the Bible as our #1 source of information about the creation of the world and the human race.

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      Now, we aren’t two brain-dead, nonthinking Christian morons who believe the Bible just because some screaming preacher in a white polyester suit on cable TV told us to. We believe the Bible because we put it to the test and found it to be true. We’ll take the same approach with you. We’ll tell you what the Bible says, we’ll compare it to history and to modern science, and we’ll let you decide for yourself. (You won’t hear any screaming preaching from us. And the only white polyester suit you’ll find is in your dad’s closet with his old disco clothes.)

      We’ve got one final confession to make: We are going to be telling you a lot about the Bible and a lot about science. But we didn’t get all of this information from our own minds. We aren’t that smart because our brain capacity is rather limited. (Hey, we had to learn the answer to the bean in the nostril question the hard way.) But we have done a lot of research to learn what other people—with larger brains—have discovered. We have talked to a lot of scientists and religious folks, and we have read the books by the ones we didn’t get a chance to talk to. (We’re sure they wanted to talk to us, but they must have been too busy in their laboratories and their pulpits.) We digested a lot of information, and we have regurgitated it in this book. We won’t be asking you to believe what we say; we’re just giving you the information so you can decide for yourself.

      Now, before you begin reading Chapter 1, we just want to make this one last point:

      Your life is

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