Shalom everyone,
Here is a Biblical and scientific explanation of the Six Day Creation history. The weight of Biblical and scientific evidence reveal several important facts.
First, the universe was already there with all the heavenly bodies.
Second, planet earth was rotating and revolving around the sun just as it is today. But the land mass was submerged in water, and there was a dark envelope over it.
Third, each day of creation sketches a 24 hour normal day or a short period of time.
Fourth, Moses does not describe the creation of the whole universe, but he only illustrates what happened on the surface of the earth during the creation week.
Fifth, Moses described the events of creation using the language of visual appearance rather than the language of precise scientific description from the visual perspective of the earth's surface. Thus, we must apply the scientific method to Moses' visual description of the events of the creation week to understand how these events unfolded.
Day 1: The first Creation act was the admission of light (not the creation of light). The light that hit the earth was sunlight! But the sun was not visible because the atmosphere was overcast and still very cloudy. It is possible that the darkness was due to a heavy and thick envelope of water vapor (or frozen ice), but it is also possible that hydrocarboniferous vapors released from the earth's interior during its formation was also responsible. God did not create Planet Earth just before the Six day Creation. Planet earth could be a few billion years old.
Day 2: In order to create land on the third day, God had to remove the waters surrounding the land mass. We can assume geological activities that released much heat, causing the waters to boil and evaporate, creating the 'waters above the firmament'. A primitive sky was formed with much rain clouds hanging from it. I do not believe there was a water vapor canopy around the earth from this time onwards. If there was one, it had to be extremely thin, because to see the sun and the moon and the faint stars, the sky had to be clear by the fourth day.
Day 3: God caused the land masses to rise and this caused the waters to recede into one large ocean around it. The earth's crust is a shell of rock, and land masses are granite 'blocks' imbedded in the basaltic rocks beneath. The usage, 'Let the waters gather to one place' indicates there was only one ocean. In other words, all the fragmented land masses joined together into a single land lass, forming a Supercontinent. This was the Good Earth God had created. The earth (land) was wet, so God created only Plant life. How God made these plants is not told, but God could have supernaturally placed the seeds in the soil and let them grow in an instant at His command. Therefore, there existed only one gigantic super-continent during the third day of creation called PANGEA by geologists.
Day 4: The sun and the moon and the stars appeared in the sky. They were not created on the fourth day. 'Made to appear' is the correct rendering, not 'created'. Until the fourth day, the sky was very overcast, but the continuing action of the wind cleared the sky so much that even the faint stars could be seen. These stars were there for millions and even billions of years ago, and the fact that their light reached on the fourth day alone testifies to the fact that they were in existence for a very long time. It takes millions and even billions of years for light to reach the earth from the distant stars.
Day 5: Now the ocean and the atmosphere were both clean and filled with breathing air, so oceanic life and aerial life could be introduced. These life forms were probably supernaturally formed out of the waters or out of the earth underneath the ocean during a single day.
Day 6: Land animals, reptiles and finally man were created. The earth was dry enough by the sixth day. God probably formed the animals out of the dust of ground during a single day. Man's creation is given more coverage in Genesis 2 which I will examine later on this discussion board.
In conclusion, we see the biblical phrase, 'after its kind' used each time a major branch of living things is introduced. In modern terminology, the word 'Species' would be appropriate. Evolution has never shown that one species would transform to another. All scientific evidence suggests that such major jumps are impossible. We do see minor variations within a species, and evolutionists make the assumption that given millions of years, one species would convert to another. The fossil record does not warrant anyone to make that assumption. All living systems existing today originated from an originally created genetic kind. After the creation of these originally created genetic kinds, all living systems went through a devolutionary process of micro-evolution. This is why the fossil record contains so many extinct species of animals and why animals living today appear a little different from animals of the prehistoric past.
Here is a Biblical and scientific explanation of the Six Day Creation history. The weight of Biblical and scientific evidence reveal several important facts.
First, the universe was already there with all the heavenly bodies.
Second, planet earth was rotating and revolving around the sun just as it is today. But the land mass was submerged in water, and there was a dark envelope over it.
Third, each day of creation sketches a 24 hour normal day or a short period of time.
Fourth, Moses does not describe the creation of the whole universe, but he only illustrates what happened on the surface of the earth during the creation week.
Fifth, Moses described the events of creation using the language of visual appearance rather than the language of precise scientific description from the visual perspective of the earth's surface. Thus, we must apply the scientific method to Moses' visual description of the events of the creation week to understand how these events unfolded.
Day 1: The first Creation act was the admission of light (not the creation of light). The light that hit the earth was sunlight! But the sun was not visible because the atmosphere was overcast and still very cloudy. It is possible that the darkness was due to a heavy and thick envelope of water vapor (or frozen ice), but it is also possible that hydrocarboniferous vapors released from the earth's interior during its formation was also responsible. God did not create Planet Earth just before the Six day Creation. Planet earth could be a few billion years old.
Day 2: In order to create land on the third day, God had to remove the waters surrounding the land mass. We can assume geological activities that released much heat, causing the waters to boil and evaporate, creating the 'waters above the firmament'. A primitive sky was formed with much rain clouds hanging from it. I do not believe there was a water vapor canopy around the earth from this time onwards. If there was one, it had to be extremely thin, because to see the sun and the moon and the faint stars, the sky had to be clear by the fourth day.
Day 3: God caused the land masses to rise and this caused the waters to recede into one large ocean around it. The earth's crust is a shell of rock, and land masses are granite 'blocks' imbedded in the basaltic rocks beneath. The usage, 'Let the waters gather to one place' indicates there was only one ocean. In other words, all the fragmented land masses joined together into a single land lass, forming a Supercontinent. This was the Good Earth God had created. The earth (land) was wet, so God created only Plant life. How God made these plants is not told, but God could have supernaturally placed the seeds in the soil and let them grow in an instant at His command. Therefore, there existed only one gigantic super-continent during the third day of creation called PANGEA by geologists.
Day 4: The sun and the moon and the stars appeared in the sky. They were not created on the fourth day. 'Made to appear' is the correct rendering, not 'created'. Until the fourth day, the sky was very overcast, but the continuing action of the wind cleared the sky so much that even the faint stars could be seen. These stars were there for millions and even billions of years ago, and the fact that their light reached on the fourth day alone testifies to the fact that they were in existence for a very long time. It takes millions and even billions of years for light to reach the earth from the distant stars.
Day 5: Now the ocean and the atmosphere were both clean and filled with breathing air, so oceanic life and aerial life could be introduced. These life forms were probably supernaturally formed out of the waters or out of the earth underneath the ocean during a single day.
Day 6: Land animals, reptiles and finally man were created. The earth was dry enough by the sixth day. God probably formed the animals out of the dust of ground during a single day. Man's creation is given more coverage in Genesis 2 which I will examine later on this discussion board.
In conclusion, we see the biblical phrase, 'after its kind' used each time a major branch of living things is introduced. In modern terminology, the word 'Species' would be appropriate. Evolution has never shown that one species would transform to another. All scientific evidence suggests that such major jumps are impossible. We do see minor variations within a species, and evolutionists make the assumption that given millions of years, one species would convert to another. The fossil record does not warrant anyone to make that assumption. All living systems existing today originated from an originally created genetic kind. After the creation of these originally created genetic kinds, all living systems went through a devolutionary process of micro-evolution. This is why the fossil record contains so many extinct species of animals and why animals living today appear a little different from animals of the prehistoric past.
