The Genesis Debate: Three Views on the Days of Creation

Are the Genesis creation days 24 hours long? Ages of time? Or a literary framework? In The Genesis Debate, three teams of evangelicals committed to the infallibility and inerrancy of Scripture tackle this question head-on by presenting and defending their respective views in a lively, yet friendly, forum.

J. Ligon Duncan III and David W. Hall defend the view that the Genesis creation days are six, sequential days, each 24 hours long (the 24-hour view). Hugh Ross and Gleason L. Archer defend the view that the Genesis creation days are six sequential ages of time of unspecified but finite duration (the day-age view). And Lee Irons with Meredith G. Kline defend the view that the Genesis creation days are presented as normal days, but that the picture of God's creating in six days and resting on the seventh is figurative (the Framework view).

Whether you are new to the creation-day debate or have followed it for some time, The Genesis Debate will deepen your understanding and strengthen your faith.

J. Ligon Duncan III (B.A., Furman University; M.A. and M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary; Ph.D., University of Edinburgh) is Senior Minister of the historic First Presbyterian Church in Jackson, Mississippi (PCA), and Adjunct Professor of Systematic Theology at Reformed Theological Seminary in Jackson, Mississippi. He is the author of Covenant in the New Testament, co-author of The Westminster Assembly, and has written several articles for publications such as the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology, Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society, Christian Observer, Tabletalk, Modern Reformation, Premise, and The Presbyterian Witness.

David W. Hall (B.A., University of Memphis and M.Div., Covenant Theological Seminary) is Pastor of The Covenant Presbyterian Church in Oak Ridge, Tennessee (PCA), editor of and contributor to Did God Create in Six Days?, and author of several scholarly works, including The Arrogance of the Modern, Paradigms in Polity, Evangelical Hermeneutics, and Evangelical Apologetics. He also has written articles for publications such as The Presbyter's Review, Premise, Antithesis, and The Journal of Biblical Ethics in Medicine.

Hugh Ross (B.Sc., University of British Columbia; M.Sc., and Ph.D., University of Toronto) is President and Director of Research with Reasons To Believe), and author of five best-selling books, including, including The Fingerprint of God, including Creation and Time, The Creator and the Cosmos, Beyond the Cosmos, and The Genesis Question. He also has written articles for publications such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal, Die Sterne, World Magazine, Christianity Today, Moody Monthly, Eternity, Decision, and Philosophia Christi.

Gleason L. Archer (B.A., A.M., Ph.D., Harvard University; B.D., Princeton Theological Seminary, and L.L.B., Suffolk University Law School) is Professor Emeritus of Old Testament and Semitic Studies at Trinity Evangelical Seminary. He translated the Old Testament of the New American Standard Bible, is the co-author of A Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament, and is the author of several scholarly and popular volumes, including A Survey of Old Testament Introduction, and Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties.

Lee Irons (B.A., University of California, Los Angeles, M.Div., Westminster Theological Seminary in California) is Pastor of Redeemer OPC, and author of several scholarly essays for Always Reformed and Creator, Redeemer, Consummator. He also has written articles for publications such as Modern Reformation, Reformation and Revival, Kerux, Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith, and Ordained Servant.

Meredith G. Kline (A.B., Gordon College, Th.B. and Th.M., Westminster Theological Seminary (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) and Ph.D., Dropsie University) is Emeritus Professor of Old Testament at Gordon Conwell and Professor of Old Testament at Westminster Theological Seminary and author or several scholarly books, including Treaty of the Great King, By Oath Consigned, The Structure of Biblical Authority, Images of the Spirit, and Kingdom Prologue, and several articles, including "Because It Had Not Rained" in the Westminster Theological Journal and "Space and Time in the Genesis Cosmogony" in Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith.