The Creation of the World
It's interesting to note that there are no arguments given for the existence of God; it is taken as fact. And when it comes to arguments of origins, the view you have all depends on your assumptions. If you assume that the supernatural does not exist, then the belief in evolution is your only recourse. However, if you accept that the God of the Bible is real and that He did what He said He did, then a supernatural creation roughly 6,000 years ago is the inevitible route. A plain reading of Genesis 1 is that it took God six literal days to create the universe and all it contains; a discourse on the age of the earth will take place later.
The first thing we are told God created is light. We aren't told what the light was (other than in verse 14 when God created the sun, moon and stars, which indicates that the light in verse 3 was *not* the sun, moon or stars). The light may have been the glory of God Himself. After the creation of the light, time was able to be marked by the cycle of light and dark.
Speaking of the sun, moon and stars, this is just one example of how evolution and the Bible are incompatible. We are told that on Day Three God created plant life, then on Day Four the sun, moon and stars. This is reversed from evolutionary thinking, where the stars formed first, followed some time later by plant life. The order in which God created the plants and the sun, moon and stars is further evidence for the days of creation being literal, twenty-four hour days instead of long periods of time as some have suggested as plants need the sun to survive.
On Days Five and Six God made animal life, and since nothing existed besides God before Day One, this means He created the dinosaurs at this time. The last act of creation on Day Six was to create Adam and Eve. So, people and dinosaurs lived at the same time.
Initially, all of creation was vegetarian (vv. 29, 30).
Finally, at the end of Day Six God looked on everything He had created and called it "very good." If evolution were true, this would mean that God would consider death, disease and suffering to be "very good," for you can't have evolution without these things.
For additional information on origins, here are two great websites to check out:
www.answersingenesis.org
www.icr.org
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