In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. There was a man sent from God, whose name was John. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the
world. He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. He came unto his own, and his own received him not. But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name: Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. (John 1:1-14)
As we have been and will continue looking at Creation, we need to remember that when God said “Let there be” this was the Word of God. The Word of God created all things and the Word was Christ. The Old Testament is as much about Jesus as is the New Testament. There is no Old Testament God nor New Testament God. There is but one God in three Persons: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him. (1 Corinthians 8:6)
Jesus, The Word, is the alpha and omega, there in the beginning and there at the end of this world as we in Revelation 21:11-13:
He was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. (Revelation 21:11-12)
We left off in the last chapter on Day Four of Creation, when God made the sun and moon. On Day One God said “Let there be light”, but there was no sun until day four. How could that be? It be because God is the light. God will eventually do away with the sun and moon and the stars when He creates the new earth and heavens. Even though in the new creation there will not be any sun, there will be light and there will never be darkness.
And the city [Jerusalem] had no need of the sun, neither of the
Let us now move on to Day 5 of Creation, but reflect on the logic so far.
Day One the planet and light so it could be seen, and the rotation so we had 24 hour days going forward.
Day Two climate.
Day Three, the appearance of dry land separated from the seas. Then covering the dry land with vegetation. Now you had the appearance of food for what would soon be coming.
Day Four the creation of the Sun and moon to create time for humans, but also photosynthesis that provides food for the plants, carbon dioxide and water.
Day Five God called for birds of the air and the sea life in the seas.
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.
And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. Genesis 1:20-23
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing Darwinthat creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:24-25
On Day Six He made the land animals, including the creeping things such as bugs, and even those teeny tiny microscopic cells we can’t see with the naked eye, such as germs, and the great beasts, such as dinosaurs and all the animals in between, all after their kind.
Such as dinosaurs?
Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox. Lo now, his strength is in his loins, and his force is in the navel of his belly. He moveth his tail like a cedar: the sinews of his stones are wrapped together. His bones are as strong pieces of brass; his bones are like bars of iron. (Job 40:15-18)
And what determines their kind? Is it evolution as a random selection? Or is it an intelligent design coded into each thing, something we now call DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid)?
Darwinism says it was random chance.
In the 1850s, Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace
I was taught in public school that all the creatures came from one sea animal, which at some point crawled onto the land, developed legs and turned into an amphibian, such as a salamander that became a gecko, which turned into a dog or something.
Even as a young person I had problems with evolution. I had fished as a boy and I knew what happened when you pulled a Sunfish out of the water and put it on land. It flip-flopped about a bit and died. It wasn’t going to survives the thousands of years the evolutionists required for it to grow legs and lungs.
I have read that Evolutionists are in trouble today and they need a deep rethink of the theory. Why? Because Darwin and Wallace knew knowing of genes, let alone DNA. So, don’t be shocked when I tell you I believe in evolution. I do because I understand the mechanics required for evolution as put forth by todays scientists, and these mechanics are still going on and don’t take millions of years to do what they do.
- Mutation. I have blue eyes. Blue eyes are a mutation, at least according to scientists. At one time everybody had brown eyes. Somewhere one of my ancestors had a mutant in their gene that caused blue eyes. Again according to scientists, everybody who has blue eyes are related to one single person somewhere in history, the one who got that mutant gene. Blue eyes proved to be dominant, so that ancestor gave birth to a child or children and they carried the mutant gene and they had blue eyes. Both my parents had blue eyes, as did their parents, thus both my wife and I have blue eyes. Guess what color eyes my three kids have? Blue, they had no choice; and blue eyes became more common in the population once they first appear as a mutation.
- Migration: If you suddenly have a population of long-horned beetles integrated into a population of short-horned beetles, it would make genes for long-horns more prevalent in the short-horn population than before. Scientists don’t really know how long-horned beetles came about. I would guess either a mutant gene or they have just always been here.
- Genetic Drift: Suppose on a prairie there are a herd of Buffalo and a herd of Cattle. Both herds are of equal number. The Cattle have several calves that survive, but Wild Bill Cody rides through and kills a lot of the buffalo. (By the way, Cody got the metal of Honor for killing the buffalo.) The next generation of these animals would have more cattle than Buffalo. This is genetic Drift.
- Natural Selection. Polar Bears came from mutant genes in the Irish Brown Bear. Because of mutation and migration a large number of Polar Bears developed in the group. Probably a bunch of Brown Bears traveled north and adapted to both the snowy environment and the available food source, seals. Hunters came and the Brown Bears were more visual against the snowy background that the White Bears and the hunters killed a lot more of the brown bears. Now there survived many more white bears in the region, which further adapted to the climate, and got called Polar Bears. This is Natural Selection.
Remember when Scripture said God created the plants and then the animals it always said after their kind. These creations did not evolve into some new species not created by God, they simply changed through the mechanics, also created by God. Genes, thus genetics played a large part in this, or how the wolf became all the dogs in the world today. Whether wolf or Jojo, the Dachshund, they are still in the family Canine.
God had developed the rules of Genetic when he created the living things of His world. These were little understood in the past. Darwin did not know about genes or DNA, nor did Jacob when he made a bargain with his Father-in-law Laban in Genesis 30 and 31. Jacob made a deal that he would take all the speckled, spotted and discolored of Laban’s flocks as his wages and when Jacob departed he left with the majority of the flocks.
31 And he [Laban]said, What shall I give thee? And Jacob said, Thou shalt not give me any thing: if thou wilt do this thing for me, I will again feed and keep thy flock.
32 I will pass through all thy flock today, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and of such shall be my hire.
33 So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.
34 And Laban said, Behold, I would it might be according to thy word.
35 And he (Jacob) removed that day the he-goats that were ringstraked (had circular stripes) and spotted, and all the she-goats that were speckled and spotted, and every one that had some white in it, and all the brown among the sheep, and gave them into the hand of his sons.
36 And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Haven: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
That was their agreement. Jacob would take all the marked of the flock. Rickstraked means circular stripes.Most likely when the deal was struck these spotted and discolored animals were the lesser of the flocks. It seemed fair to Laban because he believed he would get the most when Jacob left. Neither man understood the nature of genes and mutation.
We actually see that Jacob followed current superstition. Jacob
37 And Jacob took him rods of green poplar, and of the hazel and chesnut tree; and pilled white strakes in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.
38 And he set the rods which he had pilled before the flocks in the gutters in the watering troughs when the flocks came to drink, that they should conceive when they came to drink.
39 And the flocks conceived before the rods, and brought forth cattle ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.
40 And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban's cattle.
41 And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.
42 But when the cattle were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban's, and the stronger Jacob's.
43 And the man increased exceedingly, and had much cattle, and maidservants, and menservants, and camels, and asses.(Genesis 30:31-43)
Genesis 31 King James Version (KJV)
1 And he heard the words of Laban's sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father's; and of that which was our father's hath he gotten all this glory.
2 And Jacob beheld the countenance of Laban, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
3 And the Lord said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.
4 And Jacob sent and called Rachel and Leah to the field unto his flock,
5 And said unto them, I see your father's countenance, that it is not toward me as before; but the God of my father hath been with me.
6 And ye know that with all my power I have served your father.
7 And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
8 If he said thus, The speckled shall be thy wages; then all the cattle bare speckled: and if he said thus, The ringstraked shall be thy hire; then bare all the cattle ringstraked.
9 Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.
In this Jacob was correct. God had taken Laban’s flocks and given them to Jacob, but the outcome had nothing to do with Jacob’s shenanigans; it did have something to do with some husbandry by God.
10 And it came to pass at the time that the cattle conceived, that I [Jacob] lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and, behold, the rams which leaped upon the cattle were ringstraked, speckled, and grisled.
11 And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
12 And he said, Lift up now thine eyes, and see, all the rams which leap upon the cattle are ringstraked, speckled, and grisled: for I have seen all that Laban doeth unto thee.
13 I am the God of Bethel, where thou anointedst the pillar, and where thou vowedst a vow unto me: now arise, get thee out from this land, and return unto the land of thy kindred. (Genesis 31:10-13)
God shows Jacob what he had directed to happen. Only the speckled and spotted and discolored rams impregnated the ewes and the mutated patterns of stripes, spots and colors in the genes did the trick.
Let’s consider some supposed evolution. I’ll begin with the Fig Wasp, some of you may remember these from a year ago in the lesson, “Figs and Wasps & Foolish Genius”. We saw the necessary and symbiotic relationship between the fruit tree and the insect, neither could reproduce without the other. For these fig trees to reproduce they had to share pollen with another fig tree. There are fig trees with no male organs. These cannot produce the needed pollen, it must be brought into its fig to make the fruit fertile for reproduction. This is where the fig wasp comes into the picture.
When the female fig wasp enters a fig tree containing both male and female parts, she is prevented by the length of the stylus from laying her eggs. All she can do is collect the pollen and fly off looking for a fig tree with only the female part and in here she can lay eggs within the figs. Getting into the fig and laying her eggs usually results in the female wasp dying from exhaustion, but she still delivers the pollen she carries. After a while, her eggs hatch . The male wasps then tare tunnels out of the figs for the new born females and they fly off to begin the cycle again.
Yes, the fertilized fig when it is harvested does contain one or more dead wasp carcasses, but never fear. A fig enzyme called ficin breaks down the dead wasp into protein, making it part of the ripened fruit perfectly safe for us to eat.
Evolutionists say it took millions of years for this system to evolve. I say if it took millions of years for this reproduction cycle to develop, we would have neither figs or fig wasps today.
When I was young and learning zoology for a Boy Scout Badge, the books said the giraffe got their long necks for survival reasons. You see, they said, the giraffes ate these particular tree leaves, but after awhile all the lower leaves were devoured and the giraffe grew longer necks to reach the higher leaves.
I thought this was silly. Again, evolving the longer necks took millions of years or at least many thousands. If that was the case they would have all died of starvation from not being able to reach the higher leaves. That didn’t seem logical, besides wouldn’t the trees have grown back the lower leaves in the spring?
A number of years ago the scientists changed the story. The giraffes supposedly got their longer necks for necking, that is, sex. Not that the neck was used for sex, but for fighting over the female. Two giraffes wanted the same mate they had a battle and giraffes fight by swinging there necks and heads into each other until one is battered into submission. Thus, over thousands or millions of years, the male giraffes grew longer and longer necks, because somehow size mattered.
There are questions. If the giraffes once had small necks, why didn’t they fight by kicking or butting, afterall, they do have horns atop their heads? Also, why did the female giraffes evolve long necks when they didn’t engage in fighting. See they really don’t know why giraffes have these long necks. The latest idea is a combination. The giraffes started out getting long necks to reach higher food, then after the necks were a certain height the males discovered they could be used for clubbing each other.
Actually, they don’t really know and they keep changing their theory about the giraffe’s long neck. You know what I think? I think God just made them this way.
One thing I have noticed when the experts tell how something has evolved, they always make it sound as if the creature made a conscious choice to do it. You know, “Hey if our necks were longer we’d have a better weapon, so let’s grow longer necks.”
So on that sixth day, “And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.”
Now there was air to breath and water to drink and land to live on. And there was food to eat, but it wasn’t meat, even though the King James translation uses that word.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. (Genesis :30)
That’s right, in the beginning everything was a vegetarian. The word meat used in this verse is just the old English for food. So, all that green stuff was given by God as food to the animals (and to humans as well). There were no steaks, no fried baloney, no hot wings. There was kale. The idea that everything was Vegan, though, is bogus.
Abundance was represented by the term “milk and honey”. God promised to take the Israelites to a land of milk and honey; And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large; unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites. (Exodus 3:8)
After all, it is said in Proverbs 24:13 —“My son, eat thou honey, because it is good; and the honeycomb, which is sweet to thy taste:
We will find, though, that God changed the diet after Adam and Eve fell and sin entered the world. We’ll touch on this later.
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:25)
Take note that all was created after it’s kind. This did not mean there could not be changes in a kind, but that it would remain a kind and not evolve into something else. A cow through mutation, migration and breeding may become Angus, Holstein, Jersey, Guernsey, and dozen of other types, but never a new kind, each remains a cow, none becomes a horse.
Early on, before all these devisions and breeds it probably was an advantage to Noah when the animals boarded the ark.
They, and every beast after his kind, and all the cattle after their kind, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind, and every fowl after his kind, every bird of every sort.
And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein is the breath of life. (Genesis 6:14-15)
Then God decided to make one more thing:
And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat.
And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.
And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. (Genesis 1:25-31)
A summary overview of Creation is given at the end of Genesis 1. Everything God made had been declare good, and here it is pronounced very good. It is a perfect world and there is not yet any sin within it.
So what happened?
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