These apparent rational assumptions based on the laws of nature lack spiritual discernment. All scripture is spiritually discerned. Genesis does not give specific details, but this study is trying to fill the details by scientific analysis. These events could not be analyzed in such a way, since the physical universe, including the sun, moon and earth were created not from physical things or within laws already existing, but from and by an invisible spiritual Supreme being with miraculous powers. I must admit, I only read through the 1st day, but there was too many flaws to bother with the rest.
“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers. All things were created through Him and for Him. And He is before all things, and in Him all things consist.” Col. 1:16, 17
“in Him all things consist” or are held together. That means, in Christ, all the elements, forces, from sub –atomic to the out universe is held together IN HIM. Therefore, God is not confined to physical laws, or time which is a physical dimension, nor did He need material to form the earth.
Water requires oxygen, hydrogen and gravity, electromagnetic energy to keep it together, in form. But The Bible claims the earth was without form and void. Void means nothing, it means it didn’t exist. There was no form, nor anything else – that was the point. It was a thought in God’s mind and He spoke it into existence WITHOUT ELEMENTS OR FORCES. He created these things simultaneously as needed within each consecutive day.
“Let there be light” says a bunch. It did not exist in the physical realm. Particles and waves are very complex but physical. Prior to the sun created on Day 4, the light came from the Lord. He just made it visible in the physical realm at that moment. And btw, after He created the sun, moon and stars, the light was given us instantly, it didn’t take billions of years to get to us. If light did not exist prior to when He said, Let there be light, how could any of the stars (that you presume also existed) exist since they give off light. That’s a big one this study overlooked.
The paper addresses water, the surface, the deep, the atoms, heat and gravity as if they were necessary for God to do something with it, as if He needed them prior to Him forming the earth. He created them together.
These claims that heaven and earth weren’t created in Genesis but prior to and God just formed it from things already existing is merely leaning on your own understanding, void of spiritual discernment! It’s not even good scientific thought. But science to this day lacks the knowledge of powers outside the physical realm which they cannot be tested or examined by physical means.
The paper concludes that we do violence to Scripture to suggest that the laws of nature were changed as a result of the Fall or the Flood. This again lacks understanding of SIN itself and the consequences it had on all life and nature. Paradise represents a perfect environment (with the exception of Satan lurking about to tempt us and the potential of sin). Our current laws of nature include the consequences of sin that causes death, distortion, mutations, illnesses, diseases, etc. Paradise did not have death, corruption of any kind until sin came. As far as the conditions prior to the Flood, “… For the Lord God had not caused it to rain on the earth and there was no man to till the ground; but a mist went up from the earth and watered the whole face of the ground.”Gen.2:5
