CREATION MOMENTS: 11.3.18

“Thy hands have made me and fashioned me: give me understanding, that I may learn thy commandments.”

 

Genes carry the biological information to make specific living things. Evolution says that simpler living things evolved first, and more complex life evolved later. This would lead us to believe that more complex living things would have developed more genes. The creation approach suggests that each creature was designed with the genetic material necessary for its survival in its intended environment. As a result, the genetic complexity of living things would be related to the way it lives, not to its place in a supposed evolutionary hierarchy.</p>

<p>Evolutionary scientists today are puzzled with the publication of the completed genome of the common fruit fly. The fruit fly has a nervous system, complex body plan and even an immune system and is the first animal to have its genome mapped. The puzzle arises with the discovery that the fruit fly has between 13,000 and 14,000 genes. The lowly roundworm, said by evolution to be among the first land creatures, should be genetically simple-yet, it has over 18,000 genes. The genetic differences between the worm and the fly speak of design. The sightless worm relies on smell to make its living, so it has about 1,000 genes involved in its olfactory system. The sighted fly relies much less on smell and has less than 100 genes for detecting scents.

 

 

 

Hath in these last days spoken unto us by his Son, whom he hath appointed heir of all things, by whom also he made the worlds;

 

By the time she had returned from her adventures in Oz, Dorothy had learned that “There’s no place like home.” As we discover more planets outside the solar system, we are learning that there’s no place like Earth or even the solar system. While we usually think of planets orbiting a star, astronomers are now finding planets that simply float through space without a home star.</p>

<p>Of the 15 known homeless planets, 13 of them were recently found in the Orion Nebula. These most recent discoveries were made using a specialized camera that examines the heavens for infrared and near infrared light. Scientists speculate that the planets might have escaped from orbit around some star. Others speculate that the planets are failed brown dwarf stars. To become a brown dwarf, a body has to be at least as big as 13 Jupiters. The smallest of these planets is as big as 8 Jupiters, making its gravity far too strong for any life as we know it. To make matters worse, temperatures on these planets would not support life, either. Analysis of the light coming from these planets reveals that their surface temperatures are nearly 5000° F.</p>

<p>These homeless planets are part of God’s illustration to us of how He specially designed our solar system and Earth just for us. The Bible tells us that the Word made flesh, our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ Who gave His life for us, was also the Instrument God used to create the entire universe.

 

 

 

“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day God ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made.”  

 

One of the most important reasons given by biblical creationists, such as myself, as to why we accept the creation week as six literal days of creation, is that the word yom – Hebrew for day – always means a regular 24-hour day when accompanied by a number. But there are some who raise an objection to this, stating that the word day is accompanied by a number in Hosea 6, but refers to an inexact period of time.</p>

<p>The verse in question is Hosea 6:2. “After two days he will revive us; on the third day he will raise us up, that we may live before him.” The argument is put that this phrase is not exact because we do not know whether it refers to two days or three.</p>

<p>This is an unusual construction in Hebrew, but it occurs elsewhere. For example, in Proverbs 6:16-17, we are told: “There are six things that the Lord hates, seven that are an abomination to him.”</p>

<p>In English, we similarly use exact numbers to mean something inexact. We might have referred to two or three days, six or seven things, and so on. Clearly, “six or seven” means more than “two or three”. Although these phrases are inexact in total, they only make sense because the portion referring to the day or the object must be exact. Two days is exact, three days is exact, two or three days inexact. So the rule that a day is always a 24-hour day when accompanied by a number still holds, and the creation week must be six literal days.

 

 

 

“And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.” 

 

We take the sky for granted. It is just there. Yet, whether it is covered with cloud, or clear, we do not consider the fact that, during the daytime, all of the sky is somewhat light. In particular, on a clear day, the sky appears blue. The blueness itself is remarkable, given that the sun is yellow, but why is the sky any color at all?</p>

<p>Having seen photographs from the Moon, taken by the Apollo Astronauts, we know that even when the sun is out, the rest of the sky is black. Sunlight comes from the Sun, so the blueness of the sky on Earth must be because of light coming from elsewhere.</p>

<p>Of course, all the light is from the Sun originally. But that light has been scattered. So there is scattered light coming at us from many different directions when we look at the sky. The reason for this scattering of light is a phenomenon known as Raleigh scattering – named for British physicist Lord Raleigh.</p>

<p>Sunlight is scattered by molecules and particles in the atmosphere. It turns out that the mix of molecules and particles that we have in Earth’s atmosphere scatters light more strongly at shorter wavelengths than at longer wavelengths. Of the colors of visible light, blue has a shorter wavelength than red. So it appears to us that blue light is coming to us from all directions of the sky because that light has been scattered.</p>

<p>When we learn the mechanism for something, it should not spoil our wonder at it but should cause us all the more to praise our Creator.

 

 

 

“These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens,”

 

Genesis appears to have been compiled, or edited, by Moses – under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit – from inspired documents or family records attributed to various patriarchs in Genesis. For example, in Genesis 5:1, we read the beginning of the section ascribed to Adam, which continues until Genesis 6:8. Jonathan Sarfati has suggested that these account introductions could justifiably be read as “What followed from Adam”, etc.</p>

<p>The first time the phrase, referring to “generations”, appears is in Genesis 2:4.</p>

<p>These are the generations of the heavens and the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.</p>

<p>Unlike the other toledots, this one does not name a person as being responsible for it. But it is giving an account of what followed from the creation of the heavens and the earth. There are those who think that Genesis 2 gives a different creation account from that in Genesis 1. It does not. What we do see, however, from Genesis 2:4 onwards, is the creation from the perspective of the people living in it – the Garden in which God placed them, the temptation and their sin, and the subsequent multiplication of sin in chapter 4.</p>

<p>Genesis 1, on the other hand, is not part of a toledot. That is because it follows from nothing. It is God’s record, given directly to us, of creation from nothing, and therefore following from nothing other than the creative mind of God.

 

 

“Hast thou entered into the treasures of the snow? or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,” 

 

 

As I write this particular Creation Moment, the weather in Washington state is very wintry. The falling snow has been a constant source of conversation. Are the roads going to be clear, or will they be dangerous for driving? Will outdoor faucets freeze, and what can we do to protect them? And are the schools closing today?</p>

<p>Coupled with these conversations will be the usual comment that no two snowflakes are the same shape.</p>

<p>Now, we cannot prove that this common assertion is true. Snowflakes frequently, though not always, grow in a hexagonal manner, and this is because of the hexagonal arrangement of water molecules in an ice crystal. But the great variation seen in snowflakes cannot be proved beyond doubt to be unique. Even if it is not unique, however, the chances of finding two identical snowflakes in any given fall of snow seems to be very remote, so uniqueness of design, while not absolute, is certainly sufficient to give pause for thought.</p>

<p>Snowflakes are formed when tiny water droplets form crystals around particles of dust. The actual shape of the snowflake seems to depend on weather conditions, such as temperature and humidity. If the air is fairly humid, and above -40ºC (-40ºF), then the snowflake formation is at its best, as far as the attractiveness and variety of design is concerned.</p>

<p>Whether or not snowflakes are unique, they certainly give us good reason to stop and consider the greatness of God, who has made everything so well.

 

 

And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself. “

 

In a previous Creation Moment, we discussed how some modern theistic evolutionists, such as those represented on the BioLogos website, maintain that Genesis would have been understood by its original readers as being an allegory of the expulsion of Israel from the Promised Land, reflected in the expulsion of Adam from the Garden. This interpretation presupposes that the original readers of Genesis would have been exiled Jews living in Babylon. However, as biblical creationists, we deny this presupposition.</p>

<p>Taking the view that Scripture is best interpreted by Scripture, we notice that Jesus had something important to say about Genesis. He believed Genesis was written by Moses. For example, after His resurrection, Jesus, speaking to those disciples on the road to Emmaus, said “Beginning with Moses and all the Prophets, he interpreted to them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself.”</p>

<p>So the original readers of the entire book of Genesis would have been contemporaries of Moses – long before the Exile. In fact, the original readers of portions of Genesis could have been even earlier. Many scholars suggest that Moses edited Genesis from a series of so-called Toledoths handed down. These are the sections in Genesis, beginning with the words “these are the generations of…” – in Hebrew, the Toledoth of Adam, Seth, etc. Genesis should not, therefore, be interpreted as a Babylonian myth, as the earliest readers predated even the Tower of Babel.

 

 

 

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