Creation

It's not important that Moses wrote about the creation as a literal six day event. What is important is that Moses wrote about creation in the correct chronological order! If it took 60 billion years to accomplish through some sort of metamorphosis it is more compelling to me than if it occurred in six days while Moses was watching it.

While I don't agree entirely Darwin's theory, I do think some natural selection takes place. For instance in humans what is the outcome of the bonding of blacks and whites? In 20 million years (if Jesus doesn't come back) all humans on earth will be one race, get used to it! One race is no better than the other. One type of mountain lion is no better than the other. Some cellular structures are compatible and some are not. All this does not exclude the potential of God's intervention in creation. On the contrary it speaks to a ever more complicated design.

Some scientists, maybe most, believe that man began in southern Africa. There, many millions of years ago, (they claim) a type of Adam and Eve stumbled out of the swamp and began Homo Sapiens. I don't believe that. I think that the animal that is man had its start in what is now China and spread to Mesopotamia, the Americas, Africa, Australia and other places nearly simultaneously. Humans are herding animals so I think they originated where there are the most of them. The rest of us are cast-offs. If you hold Darwin as true, the building blocks for Homo Sapiens development would have been global. This would be true if you believe in Intelligent Design and it would certainly hold true of God creating a planet! Did all the plants on earth start in a single sprig?

The clue I think we overlook many times is in the Genesis record of creation. There are two records of the creation of "man" the first is where God created "man" in His image. This is what Genesis 1:27 says:

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.

So what is the image of God? What is male and female he created them? What is the life everlasting?

John 4:24
God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.

²⁹Jesus replied, "You are in error because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God. ³⁰At the resurrection people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; they will be like the angels in heaven. ³¹But about the resurrection of the dead—have you not read what God said to you, ³²'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? He is not the God of the dead but of the living."

The second record of the creation of "man" is found in Genesis 2:7. This is where the Human animal body was created that God made for a habitation of the "man" He had created in is own image in chapter one. This is what says:

⁷ the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.

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¹⁹Jesus answered them, "Destroy this temple, and I will raise it again in three days." ²⁰The Jews replied, "It has taken forty-six years to build this temple, and you are going to raise it in three days?" ²¹But the temple he had spoken of was his body. ²²After he was raised from the dead, his disciples recalled what he had said. Then they believed the Scripture and the words that Jesus had spoken.

⁴For while we are in this tent, we groan and are burdened, because we do not wish to be unclothed but to be clothed with our heavenly dwelling, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.

So why should we argue this point? We are animals and no different than apes if we have no spirit generated by God. If schools teach creation as a subject then there must be an understanding of the spiritual realm imparted to them. If they only recognize the physical then they do not have the authority to teach the spiritual for to the spirit they are dead. How can the dead teach the living how to live? Only the living may teach the creation of God's children for God Himself has seen fit to hide the spirit creation inside the animal carcass. Teachers who teach evolution as truth should be aware that the only thing they are doing is making themselves look silly. For in denying the possibility of divine intervention they have stepped outside the realm of science which stipulates the ultimate pessimism because it does not accept what can not be proved. Since evolution can not be proven as the sole means by which animals and plants change from one species to another the teacher who teaches evolution as the only possibility shows the narrowness of their comprehension. There are many things we have yet to discover.

Now, so that I do not loose all credibility as a scientific minded person, let me say that the theory of evolution is not without basis since it includes the observable processes by which animals (including man) adapt to their environment. However, if the theory is held as fact then what makes anyone think that an evolutionary species such as man can avoid having an impact on the remaining species and / or the planet? When fire ants build colonies do they not completely re-engineer the environment for their own purposes? Can humans avoid using resources? Can we avoid using them up? No. Can we, by an act of will, stop the forward march of the human evolutionary pattern? Again, regrettably, no. If there is no way for us to travel and spread and colonize on our own, we too will end up (like the ants) re-engineering the environment.