Welcome to Verity. I'm your host, Felicia Masonheimer, an author, speaker, and Bible teacher.

This podcast will help you embrace the history and depth of the Christian faith,

ask questions, seek answers, and devote yourself to becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ.

You don't have to settle for water down Christian teaching. And if you're ready to go deeper,

God is just as ready to take you there. This is Verity, where every woman is a theologian.

Hello, and welcome back to Verity, my friends. Thank you for your patience in me getting this episode

out to you. Full disclosure, I'm currently working on a new book manuscript, and it is very

research heavy. I promise it's going to be worth the wait. But in the meantime, it has taken up so much

of my research time for the podcast. So some of these episodes are coming out a little bit later

than usual. But I'm excited to be back. And my plan currently is to continue doing these more

in-depth theology question episodes followed by every few weeks a short rapid fire Q&A episode.

And so that's what you can be looking forward to. Next week answering a few extra questions

from my weekly Instagram, ask anything Monday. So today, we're going to be looking at

creation theories. And what these are are theories about how God created the world. Now, pretty much

all Christians know that in Genesis 1 and 2, we have a depiction of the creation story. But within

Christianity, there are a variety of views on how God went about creation specifically,

and how science and the Bible can be reconciled, and how these two work together, how God used

science to create the world. And so we're going to look at four different views on this topic.

And most of you are probably familiar with young earth creationism, which is popular in

evangelical circles. And I have a very large evangelical audience. And so I'm going to, of course,

cover that one. But I am going to also talk about a couple of other view points that you may not

be as familiar with. If you're new to my podcast, I introduce some of the primary views on major

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