“For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day” (Exodus 20:11). Currently returning to Germany from Klaipeda, Lithuania. The Lutheran Church in Palanga had invited me to teach a seminar on Six-Day Creation. This topic is dear to my heart, not only because it is the foundation of Holy Scripture, but because I used to be a geologist who believed that the Earth is billions of years old and everything on our planet came about by Darwinian evolution. Unlearning my naturalistic worldview was a difficult task, but from the 1990s on, the Lord gently guided me to a biblical understanding of these matters. In addition to teaching from the Bible and creation science in Lithuania, I shared the story about my former geology professor, to whom–years after graduating from university–I had confided that I had discarded my belief in an Old Earth and naturalistic evolution. I wrote him that I believed in Creation as taught in the Bible and asked his opinion, knowing that he was a Buddhist who had no dog in the fight regarding the account in Genesis 1 and 2. To my amazement, he replied: “I’ve always thought that any age of the Earth older than 10,000 years is nonsense. I state this not as a religious person but as a scientist. But I’m one year away from retirement, and I’m not going to stick my neck out and risk losing my pension.” There are many scientists who believe in Six-Day Creation, yet are afraid to speak out against the naturalistic establishment. Praise God for my Buddhist professor who—based on science—confirmed the Bible’s account that God created everything in six 24-hour days and that our Earth is actually very young. But more importantly, I pray that my Buddhist friend comes to know the Author of the Bible, Jesus Christ, whose Spirit caused Moses to write down exactly how Creation came about: in six 24-hour days.
The Tiews in Germany 