THE ORDER OF CREATION

By Gary Ray Branscome

The words, “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth,” tell us that God first created time, space, and matter (Genesis 1:1). The words, “God said, Let there be light: and there was light,” tell us that God created light before He created the sun (Genesis 1:3). The words, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, plants yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after its kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so,” tell us that God filled the earth with plants before He created the sun, moon and stars (Genesis 1:11). The words, “And God said, Let there be lights in the expanse of the heaven to separate the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years,” tell us that God created the light between the heavenly bodies and earth at the same time He created the heavenly bodies, otherwise we would not even know that most of them were there (Genesis 1:14). The words, “And God said, Let the waters team with living creatures that have life, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven,” tell us that God created sea creatures and birds before He created land creatures (Genesis 1:20). The words, “And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so,” tell us that God made land animals (Genesis 1:24). And, God created man on the sixth day, the same day that He created the land animals (Genesis 1:26-31).

It should be obvious that the order of creation taught in Scripture is totally incompatible with the evolutionary scenario. According to the Bible the land was created under water, not in a molten state. The earth and plants were created before the sun. Birds and whales were created before land animals, and man was created on the same day that land animals were created. Furthermore, because it is God, not man, who decides what is true and what is not true, the words, “To the law and to the testimony: if they do not speak according to this word, it is because there is no light in them,” tell us that all truth will agree with the written Word of God (Isaiah 8:20). In other words, the opinions of men may contradict what the Bible says, but the facts never do.

The Bible tells us that, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked,” and one way Satan uses the deceitfulness of the human heart to blind people to the truth of God’s Word is by causing them to confuse their own fallible opinions with fact (Jeremiah 17:9). And, glaring confusion is obvious when it comes to the evolutionary delusion. When Darwin observed that different finches had different beak sizes, that was observable fact. When he assumed that given enough time small differences (such as beak size) could change one kind of animal into an entirely different kind of animal, that assumption was science fiction, not observable science. When Darwin observed warm ponds full of bacteria, that was observable fact. When he assumed that life originated from non-life in a warm little pond, that was science fiction, not observable science. In fact, the entire evolutionary scenario consists of science fiction, not fact. Evolutionists simply interpret the facts to make them fit their science fiction scenario in the same way that cult people interpret the words of Scripture to make them fit their cultic beliefs. So forget the interpretations and stick to the facts.

The assumption that life could originate from non-life has been tested experimentally and rejected. Experiments by Francesco Redi (1660), and Louis Pasture (1859) coupled with the invention of a dust-free box at the end of the nineteenth-century, convinced the scientific community that life does not come from non-life. Likewise, research into genetics has shown that the amount of change possible in any living organism (such as change in beak size) is limited by the genes. Nevertheless, those who have made evolutionary science fiction their religion could care less about the facts. When Atheist professor Richard Dawkins (who knows that life does not come from non-life) was interviewed by Ben Stein for the movie “Expelled,” he attempted to get around the scientific evidence by suggesting that space aliens brought life to earth (more science fiction), and that interview is in the film. Therefore, do not be intimidated by the assertiveness of those who reject the Bible. Their entire worldview is a house of cards, consisting of one assumption stacked on another, and their seeming confidence is the result of satanic delusion.