Mankind: Evolution vs. Creation

As for the plants and vegetation, the Bible account adds: “Let the earth cause the grass to shoot forth, vegetation bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds, the seed of which is in it, upon the earth. And it came to be so.” Genesis 1:11. So a period of time passed after the sun, the moon and stars were created. The land was formed and the vegetation was created. Since the vegetation needed the light for photosynthesis and carbon dioxide to grow. God was getting the earth ready for mankind and the animals. before God created man, the plants need to make oxygen for them to breath. On the first “day” diffused light evidently penetrated the swaddling bands, but the sources of that light could not bee seen by an earthly observer because of the cloud layers still enveloping the earth. Now, on this fourth “day,” things apparently changed. So up to this point when God created the heavens and the earth along with the plants, along with the day, night along with the season it took about 4 days, Peter wrote: “one day is with Jehovah a thousand years and a thousand years as one day (2 Peter 3:8) It took Jehovah four thousand of our years to create the heavens and the earth.

Now, had there been an earthly observer, he would be able to discern the sun, moon and stars, which would “serve as signs and for seasons and for days and years.” (Genesis 1:14) The moon would indicate the passing of lunar months and the sun the passing of solar years. The season that now “come to be” on the fourth “day” would no doubt have been much milder than they became later on. Now on the fifth creative day, God created the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about according to their kind and flying winged creature according to its kind (Genesis 1:20, 21) Note of interest that the nonhumans creatures with which the waters were to swarm are called “living souls.” This term would also apply to the Flying creatures that fly over the earth upon the vace of the expanse.” And it would also embrace the forms of sea and air life, such as the sea monsters, whose fossils remains scientists have found in recent times.

On the sixth creative “day” God created living souls according to their kinds, both domestic and wild beasts of the earth according to their kind, Genesis 1:24. However, the sixth “day” was not quite over. Genesis 1:26, 27 reads: “And God went on to say, ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving animal that is moving upon the earth.’ And God created the man in his image, in God’s image he created him; male and female he created them. So, apparently, it took god about 6,000 years to make the heavens and the earth. And if that being the case. the question remains: “Did man get here by evolution or creation?”