About Creation

What is Creation?
It's sad to think that this question even needs to be addressed. To answer questions about Creation, we must start our thinking with the Bible, and from there we find the answers. If we trust that the Bible as true, and match theories with Scripture then we will never have a problem. Those who question creation have no faith in the Word of God. As Christians we must learn to treat God’s Word as the source of absolute truth and authority. Sometimes Christians are tempted to change the Bible to fit their theories. However, they fail to realize that scientific theories change, but God's Word remains the same and never changes.
Creation is life as we know it (people, plants, trees, animals) created by God.
Creation is taking God at His Word and believing it wholeheartedly.
Creation is trusting in God for the account of a 6-day creation and that the divine account God chose to reveal it to us in Genesis.
Creation means to trust God with the mysterious unexplained questions that our finite minds cannot grasp. 
Creation means to walk by faith with biblical foundations.

How Can A Scientist Determine Evolution To Be True?
The truth is no scientist knows the truth. No one was even on the earth when it was formed and created, so no one except God knows the truth. Any ideas they currently have are only educated guesses. The only way to learn the truth about how and when life began is to read the testimony of the only one who was there, God. The Bible contains the truth about when God created the world and below you will see that God created the heavens and earth in six days.

God's Creation - Day One
God Creates Heaven and Earth
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." - Genesis 1:1-2. This was the original state of the earth. There was nothing and no one here before us.

God's Existence
The Bible does does not attempt to explain where God came from, it simply states a fact that God exists. Scripture says that God has no beginning or end, meaning He created space and time, He is not confined to them as we and the universe are. "He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end. I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life. And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God. I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him." - Ecclesiastes 3:11-14.

We Are God's Witnesses:
God let it be known to all nations that we are to be His witnesses: "Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth. Ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, and my servant whom I have chosen: that ye may know and believe me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no God formed, neither shall there be after me. I, even I, am the LORD; and beside me there is no saviour. I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the LORD, that I am God. Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?" - Isaiah 43:9-13.

God Creates Light and Dark:
"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." - Genesis 1:3-5. God creates actual light and calls light day and dark night.
This acknowledges that the presence of evening and morning is a day just as we would understand it today. The word "Day" is translated from the Hebrew word "Yom", and is a literal period of 24 hours. This is the first time that the word "Day" is used in Scripture. It cannot be used here figuratively to mean anything other than a normal 24 hour day, because the first time a word is used, it must first be used literally to establish its normal meaning. It can only be used figuratively after establishing its literal meaning. People try to claim that one day to God is one thousand days, this is incorrect and only spoken as a relative term.

Light is merely a form of energy, not spiritual. It was non-existent in a world that was not yet energized. Dark is simply darkness, not spiritual darkness (evil). This is an important point, as energy cannot create itself and God is not the origin of spiritual darkness. "This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. If we say that we have fellowship with him, and walk in darkness, we lie, and do not the truth: But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us." - I John 1:5-8

Many scientists today say that the universe (including the earth and all life on it) was created with a "Big Bang" billions of years ago. They say that the sun came before the earth and that the earth was eventually formed as a hot molten blob. Molten means that the earth was so hot that its surface was melted. If the earth were so hot that its surface was melted, there could not have been any water on it. The Bible also says that God created light before He created the sun, and that the sun wasn't created until day four, which is totally the opposite of evolutionary teaching.

The world we live in is much too complicated to have happened by chance, it had to be created by someone. Think about the earth being created covered with water. That's pretty amazing since the earth is the only planet that has liquid water on it, and we can't live without water. It's easy to see that there is a Creator when we look around us. Everything we see tells us about God, and people who ignore God's creation really have no excuse.

God's Creation Day Two:
God Creates The Firmament (the sky)
"And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters. And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so. And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day." - Genesis 1:6-8.

On day two God put some of the water that was on the earth above the atmosphere. This made a layer of water very high above the earth. Many creation scientists believe that the water layer around the earth made a vapor canopy that sheltered or protected it from harmful radiation. The rays from the sun that cause you to get sunburn are an example of harmful radiation. The vapor canopy would have made the earth like a beautiful greenhouse. This may be one reason why the people before Noah's flood lived to be hundreds of years old, and why even animals, such as dinosaurs, lived for a very long time. However, the vapor canopy collapsed at the time of the flood, therefore it caused a genetic breakdown within our own bodies which has effected our health and shortened our lifespan.

God also made the atmosphere when He separated the waters. The atmosphere is the open space all around us with air that people and animals can breathe. The earth is the only planet with an atmosphere that we can breathe. The most important thing that we need in our atmosphere is oxygen. We can't see oxygen; it is something that is invisible in the air we breathe, but we can't live without it. Most other living things on our planet need oxygen, too.

God didn't put just any amount of oxygen in our atmosphere -- He put exactly the right amount. If we had less oxygen in our atmosphere, our bodies would have to work much harder, and we would be gasping for air all the time. There would also be less oxygen in the water, so living things in the water wouldn't survive. Also, oxygen is what makes things burn. So if there were less oxygen in our atmosphere, things wouldn't burn. But if we had more oxygen, things would be catching on fire too easily, and our earth would be a dangerous place to live.

To help us have just the right amount of oxygen, God also put nitrogen -- another invisible thing -- in the atmosphere. Nitrogen doesn't like to make things burn up like oxygen does, so nitrogen makes the oxygen more stable.

God's Creation Day Three:
God Created Dry Land
"And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good." - Genesis 1:9.

The first thing God did on the third day was to make the land surface rise up out of the water. Some scientists believe that there was only one large landmass, or continent, when God first made the dry land. The present day oceans were not the same as the seas (ocean). The borders of the oceans today formed after the waters receded from the flood. The day will come in the new earth when there will be no more sea, but there will still be waters above the heaven.

The Bible does not tell us how many continents there were when he Created the earth. It may be that there was just one large continent (Pangaea), that later separated at the time of the flood. This would have occurred quickly in a period of a few months, not over millions of years as evolutionists claim.

Christian's are often accused of believing that the earth is the center of the Universe, and that everything revolved around it, but it was Aristotle (384–322 BC) who taught this, not the Bible.

God Created Grass and Plants
"And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day." - Genesis 1:10-12.

God made the plants "after his kind". This is the first time this phrase is used, and it is repeated several more times in the first chapter of Genesis. This means that each group of plants were made uniquely, and that they were not made or evolved from other kinds of plants. Plants can never evolve into other "kinds" of plants. They can only produce variations of their original "kind". Plants are important to us for many reasons. One thing plants do is to make oxygen for us to breathe. Some plants also give us food to eat, some give us material to build things with, and some are for us to look at and enjoy. A plant with a beautiful flower could not have happened just by chance. Neither could a plant that gives us fruit to eat. It had to be design by a loving Creator.

God's Creation Day Four
God Created The Stars, Sun, and Moon
"And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. " - Genesis 1:14-19

God created the sun, moon and stars to light the sky and also to mark time. This means that the light from them had reached the earth by day 6, and also more importantly this verse tells us that Adam could conceive of not only days but "years". The stars have also been used for navigation. At the time of Jesus' birth, God sent a special star as a sign to the wise men. That star is what led the wise men to where they could find Jesus. "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him." -Matthew 2:1,2. Even animals use the stars for navigation. Some young birds, for instance, are able to 'learn' the pattern in which constellations of stars rotate and using it to tell which way is north. Constellations are groups of stars that have been given names, like Ursa Major, Ursa Minor, Bootes, and Orion.

Another reason God made the sun, moon and stars is for days and years. Think of the ways we measure time: day, month, year, and seven-day week. The first three all come from astronomical observations. One day is measured by the length of time it takes the earth to rotate on its axis. One lunar month is measured by the phases of the moon, which means from the new moon (invisible) to the full moon (round) and back to the new moon. A year is the time it takes the earth to orbit the sun (365 days, 5 hours, 48 minutes, and 45 seconds). Genesis does not say that the sun is not a star, it says it is greater than the moon, which we call a planet, and also that the sun is more significant than the other stars.

God also made the sun, moon and stars so that we could see His glory and attributes, but He did not put the stars or the sun in place for us to worship. God also did not want us to use the stars in astrology, but in astronomy. "Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail. Thou art wearied in the multitude of thy counsels. Let now the astrologers, the stargazers, the monthly prognosticators, stand up, and save thee from these things that shall come upon thee. Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm at, nor fire to sit before it." - Isaiah 47:12-14.

Creation Day Five:
God Created The Animals of The Sea And The Birds.

"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

On day five God made the water creatures and the birds. God filled the water and the air with uncountable sea creatures and birds of every size and description. The birds and sea creatures are incredible examples of the greatness of God's creation.

 The word "Bird" is translated in Hebrew as "Oph", but is sometimes translates as "flying creatures". So the animals created are not only birds, but all flying creatures. This would include flying reptiles (like the pterosaurs (dinosaurs), flying insects, bats and others. Those who believe in evolution claim that birds evolved from dinosaurs (or that they shared a common ancestor), but Genesis tells us that birds and flying reptiles (pterosaurs) were both created on the same day, and that dinosaurs (and other land animals) were created after birds (Day 6). This is yet another reason why you can not believe in both Creation, and Evolution.

God commanded the animals to create after "their kind", this means that birds would only produce other birds. This allows for variation within birds however. So the finches that Darwin saw were not evidence for evolution, but only evidence that birds produce a variety of other birds.

God's Creation Day Six:
God Created The Animals of The Land
"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 that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good." - Genesis 1:24,25.

God created all animals that live on land that are both living and now extinct, including dinosaurs. There are nearly thirty other places in the Old Testament that mention "dragons", these are creatures we would now call dinosaurs. Animals can only produce varieties of the created kinds (new breeds and species). But they can never produce new "kinds" of animals this in itself shows evolution is not biblical.

The people who believe in evolution, who don't believe that God made everything, also don't believe that dinosaurs and people lived at the same time. We know that's not true because God told us that He made land animals and people on the same day. The theory of evolution is very different from what God tells us in the Bible.

God made some other really neat land animals, two of which are really hard for Evolutionists to explain. They are called the Pangolin and the Platypus. Both the pangolin and the platypus are unique among mammals, and all the evidence shows that they were created that way. It looks like they didn't evolve from anything, but have always been much the same as they are now, examples of the wonderful design and variety of God's creation.

God Created Man
"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 the 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 1:26-31.

After making the land animals, God made man in His own image. How great a Creation must man be to be made in the very Image and likeness of God, clearly Man is fearfully and wonderfully made! Only man was created with some of the characteristics of God. Only man can think and plan and be creative. Man was created with a clear distinction between he and the animals, not from evolved apes, but in the very image and likeness of God himself. God separates man from the animals by giving him authority over them. This also says that at one time even large animals like dinosaurs, elephants and tigers all peacefully lived with man, and obeyed him.

God was pleased with the state of his creation. This implies that everything was still perfect. Satan had not yet been cast from heaven, and Adam had not yet sinned.

Some Evolutionists Believe Fossils Exist in Perfect Creation
Fossils can not exist in a perfect creation. Fossils are formed only when a creature has died, and no death occurred in the Garden of Eden until Genesis chapter 3. Even then it takes special circumstances for a creature to fossilize (they need to be buried rapidly before they can rot. The conditions that existed during the flood are perfect for fossilization, proving that fossils were formed in the years after Adam and Eve sinned and are not evidence of any prior judgment or inhabitants either from man or animal.

Everything that exists in this world, all plants, animals and humans alive and dead (or extinct) were created by God. There are no creatures alive or dead that God did not create. You don't need to see God to believe in him. He has given us enough evidence of his existence in the world that he created, that if we reject him we are without excuse.