Genesis and Science – A Parallel
INTRODUCTION
I will briefly attempt to demonstrate how Genesis 1 agrees with the modern understanding of the creation of the universe, the development our planet, the creation of plants, animals, and lastly, humans. In reading all the creation literature in the Bible in Genesis, in Job (Chs. 37, 38, 39), and in Psalms, I use the only definition of the word “day” that fits a literal and consistent interpretation of the scripture, “a long but finite period of time.” The ancient Hebrew word for day is Yom, which had four meanings depending upon context; all of the daylight hours, part of the daylight hours, a 24 hour period, or a long but finite period of time. Also, note that there are 6 days in total and that we are still in the 7th day of God resting from or ceasing creation. Is this why we have seen no new created species since man came to earth? For more on this read my article Age and Evolution.
DAY 1
1.1. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.
GOD SPOKE THE UNIVERSE INTO EXISTENCE FROM NOTHING, WHICH TODAY WE CALL THE BIG BANG. PRIOR TO BIG BANG COSMOLOGY, “STEADY STATE” WAS THE PREVAILING THEORY (THE UNIVERSE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AND WILL ALWAYS BE WHAT IT IS). STEADY STATE WAS ANTITHETICAL TO GENESIS, THEREFORE ANTITHETICAL TO THE BIBLE, THEREFORE PREFERRED BY NON-CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS. BUT NOW SCIENCE SAYS THERE WAS A BEGINNING TO TIME AND SPACE, A FACT WHICH WAS RECORDED IN THE BIBLE OVER 2,000 YEARS AGO, THE ONLY RELIGIOUS TEXT TO GET IT RIGHT. NOTE THAT THERE WAS NO WORD FOR UNIVERSE IN ANCIENT HEBREW SO READ HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AS THE UNIVERSE.
1.2. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters.
CONTEXT IS CRITICAL. IN THIS VERSE FIRST IMAGINE YOU ARE VIEWING EARTH FROM THE VANTAGE POINT OF SPACE LOOKING AT OUR GLOBE, PERHAPS GOD’S VIEW. THE ATMOSPHERE ON EARTH IS THICK AND OPAQUE. THERE IS NOTHING TO BE SEEN. UNDERNEATH THIS VEIL THE EARTH IS A WATER PLANET DEVOID OF LAND MASS. AND THEN THE VIEWER DESCENDS TO WITHIN THIS OPAQUE ATMOSPHERE TO HOVER OVER THE WATERS.
1.3. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.
1.4. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness.
1.5. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day.
THE ASMOSPHERE HAS TRANSFORMED FROM OPAQUE (DARK) TO TRANSLUCENT. A TRANSPARENT ATMOSPHERE IS YET TO COME. THE SUN’S LIGHT BECOMES VISIBLE SO THERE IS A NIGHT AND A DAY. AND ALTHOUGH YOU SEE LIGHT, YOU CANNOT YET SEE THE SUN, MOON, OR STARS THROUGH THE TRANSLUCENT SKY. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE.
DAY 2
1.6. And God said, “Let there be a vault between the waters to separate water from water.”
1.7. So God made the vault and separated the water under the vault from the water above it. And it was so.
1.8. God called the vault “sky.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the second day.
THESE VERSES DESCRIBE THE CREATION OF THE WATER CYCLE INCLUDING CLOUDS, SURFACE WATER, SUBSURFACE WATER, AND OVER A DOZEN DIFFERENT KINDS OF PRECIPITATION AS DESCRIBED IN JOB 37-38. THE VAULT, ALSO CALLED FIRMAMENT IN OTHER BIBLICAL TRANSLATIONS, IS THE ATMOSPHERE WITH ALL ITS FORMS OF PRECIPITATION WHICH SEPARATES THE LIQUID WATER FROM THE CLOUDS.
DAY 3
1.9. And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so.
1.10. God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
CONTINENTS ARE CREATED. TECTONIC ACTIVITY SHAPES THE LANDMASSES THEREBY CREATING SEAS AND ESTABLISHING THE CYCLING OF PLANETARY NUTRIENTS. THIS OCCURS QUICKLY AND VIOLENTLY AT ABOUT 2 BILLION YEARS AFTER OXYGEN CONCENTRATION BEGINS TO CLIMB FROM 1% TO 8%.
1.11. Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so.
1.12. The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and tress bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds: and God saw that it was good.
1.13. And there was evening, and there was morning – the third day.
SEEDED PLANT LIFE IS CREATED. THIS IS RECENTLY SUPPORTED BY THE FOSSIL RECORD WHICH FINDS PLANT LIFE 200 MILLION YEARS PRIOR TO THE APPEARANCE OF ANIMAL LIFE.
DAY 4
1.14. And God said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark sacred times, the days and years,
1.15. and let them be light in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth.” And it was so.
1.16. God made two great lights – the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
1.17. God set them in the vault of the sky to give light on the earth,
1.18. to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And god saw that it was good.
1.19. And there was evening, and there was morning – the fourth day.
HERE WE SEE THE ATMOSPHERE GO FROM TRANSPARENT TO TRANSLUCENT SO THAT THE SUN AND MOON AND STARS WOULD BE VISIBLE IF THERE WERE EYES TO SEE. THIS IS AGAIN DUE TO THE OXYGENATION OF THE ATMOSPHERE GOING FROM 1% TO 8%.
DAY 5
1.20. And god said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”
1.21. So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living thing with which the water teems and that moves about in it, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
1.22. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water and the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.”
1.23. And there was evening, and there was morning – the fifth day.
NOW THAT WE ARE AT 8% OXYGEN AND CLIMBING, SEA LIFE AND BIRDS ARE CREATED. THIS OCCURS ESSENTIALLY INSTANTANEOUSLY IN GEOLOGIC TIME WITHOUT ANY FOSSIL EVIDENCE OF SPECIES EVOLUTION. ENTIRE ECOSYSTEMS ARE FORMED COMPLETELY INTACT. SINCE IT IS ASKED OFTEN, IT WOULD BE DURING THIS PERIOD AS OXYGEN LEVELS ARE CLIMBING THAT THE DINOSAURS WOULD EXIST, WHICH STUDIES SUGGEST LIVED DURING A PERIOD WITH 10-15% OXYGEN.
DAY 6
1.24. And God said, “Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: the livestock, the creatures that move along the ground, and the wild animals, each according to its kind.” And it was so.
1.25. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.
AS OXYGEN CLIMBS TO 21% DINOSAURS GO EXTINCT AND GOD CREATES SHORT LEGGED LAND MAMMALS (RODENTS), HERBAVORES, AND CARNIVORES.
1.26. Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”
1.27. So God created mankind in his own image, in the image God he created them; male and female he create them.
2.28. God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground.”
1.29. Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.
1.30. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds in the sky and all the creatures that move along the ground – everything that has the breath of life in it – I give every green plant for food.” And it was so.
1.31. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning – the sixth day.
CREATION OF ADAM AND EVE. SET MAN AS STEWARD OF THE EARTH
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