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Category Archives for Creation

Have Dominion – Genesis 1:28-31

Were Adam and Eve, and what we today call the carnivorous animals, all vegetarians before sin entered the garden?  We’re told that God gave as food all the green plants and fruit to humans and animals. 

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Humans – Genesis 1:26-27

Do we just want to congratulate ourselves when we place ourselves above the animals?  Maybe, though we place ourselves readily beneath the angels.  God made the animals to be wonderful creatures, but

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Land Creatures – Genesis 1:24,25

Earth and World has come up with what they consider the top ten land animals in the world.  It is a mystery as to what the standards were for making their choices, but one choice that stands out is the

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Sea and Sky Creatures – Genesis 1:20-23

In terms of deep-water only creatures, there are an estimated 10,537 genera (plural for genus, a scientific category above species, so there are many more species of deep-water creatures).  There are

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Let There Be Lights – Genesis 1:14-19

Genesis puts the making of the sun and moon on day four, but light shines on day one.  Young earth creationists (see, for example, AnswersinGenesis.org) say the light on day one was a fixed light but

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Let the Dry Land Appear – Genesis 1:9-10

Water covers about 70% of the Earth’s surface.  97% of that water is salt water, found in the seas and oceans of Earth.  The other 3% is fresh water, water with less than 1% salt, and only a third

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Let There Be an Expanse – Genesis 1:6-8

The Natural Resources Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture describes Earth’s water cycle as a process that re-circulates Earth’s water through the stages of evaporation,

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There Was Evening and There Was Morning, the First Day – Genesis 1:5

Considerable controversy has developed over the meaning of “day” in Genesis 1.  These meanings correspond to several different interpretations of the content of Genesis 1, and to the way Genesis

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Let There Be Light – Genesis 1:3-5

Visible light is electromagnetic radiation, and can be analyzed as both waves and particles, a property unique, in physics, to light.  The speed of light (186,282 miles per second) is one of the basic

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