This short tract explains why Christians should not compromise on what the Bible teaches about creation and the age of the earth. It is argued that …

• the supposedly ‘scientific view’, that the rocks record millions of years of disease, violence and death prior to man’s sin, is incompatible with Scripture and a God of goodness and love
• acceptance of Darwin’s theory relegates the biblical account of creation to myth and this inevitably undermines the authority of the whole of Scripture
• Genesis is foundational to the faith and is not in conflict with true science.