Placing the Genesis summary over what we know

I have grown more in my knowledge of the subject of Genesis and how it outlines the creation account. So I removed my post from a long time ago that took one of the atheists I had talked to and his account of creation because I got a few points wrong and I am going to demonstrate how the Biblical account fits the scientific evidence.

The beginning - the big bang if that is what you want to call it.

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

This was actually a singularity that began spreading out, which is exactly what the Bible describes as well. This spreading out is a part of big bang cosmology and points back to a beginning of this universe from things not seen. Job 9:8 is one such passage. There are several more. Psalm 104 also touches on several of the creation events as does Job 38, 39, and 40. Hebrews 11:3 speaks of this beginning as one that is ex nihilo.

Then we move forward in time after this. Moses then describes the initial conditions of the Earth. From this point forward, all that is described is coming from the position of one standing on the surface of 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.

If you note the movie, How the Earth was Made, it uses these same exact words to describe the initial conditions of the Earth. It is without life and a water world.

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.

This demonstrates that the primordial gases of the Earth dissipated so that it was no longer completely dark and light could penetrate creating the day and night. This occurred with the creating of the moon. The impact of a large Mars sized asteroid hit this planet at the just right angle and at the just right speed to create our moon, which created day and night.

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.

This impact also allowed the water to exist in all three states - liquid, ice and vapor. The very next thing that occurs is that there is the building of water vapor. Apparently, this caused a great deal of rain.

The remarkable thing about this is the life had come into being at this point in the microbial forms. We are discovering now that the clouds are seeded with these microbes and probably cannot exist without them. The minutes these things can exist, they do exist.

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. 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.

Land begins to emerge and the plate tectonics that are so necessary for life here begin to form. The microbes are still doing a job on this planet transforming poisonous metals to usable ores.

Even though many of these trees did not actually come about until about 140 million years ago or at least it is assumed this is true, this process of photosynthesis began right here. Also, whenever life could exist, it did exist even if it went extinct for a period of time. This is when we see the first photosynthetic life called cyanobacteria doing the job of acclimating our atmosphere.

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 (had) made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he (had) 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.

According to astrophysics, the newer solar systems that they can view has a gaseous cloud around them. At this time that disipated completely and the earth was at a place where seasons etc could begin. Also the moon had slowed down the rotation of the Earth to a 23-24 hour day. And the Earth was able to circle the sun in one complete year. The moon and the sun had already been made. The word "made" in this text is translated correctly in the past tense. The sun was created on the first day. It had to be here for night and day to exist on the Earth.

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.

This is what we see next in the fossil record. We see that animals began in the oceans and then dinosaurs and birds. The word "great whales" is the word tanniyn, which means dinosaur. See: http://www.blueletterbible.org/lang/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?Strongs=H8577&t=KJV.

The birds are also created at this time. Then there is a huge cataclysmic event that destroys most everything on the planet including this huge sea dragons and creatures. This is seen in the geologic record as the KT boundary. There are no dinosaurs above this point and no placental mammals such as cattle below it.

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.

Almost immediately after this explosive event, there is another radiation event where life springs forth and is created.

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.

That is what we see next - man created in the image of God with attributes far above the animals. Then God rest on the seventh day and hallowed our seventh day as a result to keep holy. There was never an evening and morning on the seventh day because we are still in that day of rest, which is why we can enter into His rest. See Hebrews 4. Of course, now that we are in a new dispensation, every day can be holy.

There is no new creating events after the point that man comes on the scene. This is just a rough draft of an outline that shows how Moses got all these points in the right order without the aid of modern technology. Only a Creator could know these things. The things we test in science of our natural world fit the Genesis account along with the other creation accounts in the Bible.

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