Creation and Change is a good general exegetical, scientific and theological introduction into the whole Young Earth Creation worldview, covering a surprising large array of topics in relatively few pages.

The author does a marvellous job in addressing and refuting the major forms of compromise between the millions of years of evolution and the Genesis account of history.
He also does away with the common assertion that “Genesis is merely poetry and thus the events in it can be ignored at will”. He discusses the use of the word “day” in the creation week and addresses the various misinterpretations of it intended meaning. The author also discusses the events of each day of creation and the implications and significance that they have on a young or old earth interpretation.

While the author has clearly endeavoured to keep the book to a surprisingly small size considering the breadth of topics that it addresses, he counterbalances this lack comprehensiveness with many references to other more thorough works for those readers who may wish to delve deeper into each topic.

I think that this work would have been far better off had it been more comprehensive in its coverage of most topics, even if this meant the book being 400-500 pages. I just felt that the author barely even skimmed the surface of each topic and really failed to give an appropriate amount of coverage to most topics. Maybe it was the author’s intention to only give the reader a “bite size” piece of each topic, but I fear that this may instead have the unintended effect of giving the impression that there really isn’t much to Young Earth Creationism.

All in all, even though this book is geared toward the “neophyte”, I think that readers with any knowledge level of Young Earth Creationism would glean some information from this book.

Four stars

Reviewed by: The Old Wise Man