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Title: The Created World A Creationist Perspective: Part 1
Source:
Answers In Genesis
URL Source: http://www.answersingenesis.org/articles/am/v3/n4/created-world
Published: Mar 1, 2011
Author: AIG Staff
Post Date: 2011-03-01 07:43:28 by A K A Stone
Keywords: None
Views: 18318
Comments: 24
Creationists develop models like these . . . by studying the facts of God’s Word and God’s world. In the beginning, the everlasting God spoke both time and the universe into existence. At first, the earth was without form and unfilled. Over three days, God gave form to the sky, sea, and land. Then, on the following three days, God filled these voids with abundant reminders of His glory. Included in the original material of creation was water, out of which God created the earth. This unique planet had just the right mix of chemicals and the right mass to hold a life-sustaining atmosphere. God then raised a landmass, similar to Rodinia (see below). As the waters rushed off the just-created continent, they scoured the surface and dumped trillions of tons of dirt at the edges of the continent, up to thirty miles deep. God created all sorts of bacteria to convert chemicals into useable forms and make them available to plants and animals. He stationed these bacteria in every corner of the globe, from the deepest parts of the crust to the sea and sky. God then filled the land with billions of energy factories, known as plants. From the first day of their existence, these plants were fully functional. In each plant hundreds of chemical processes ran in perfect symphony, harnessing the sun’s energy to provide food for living things. A bewildering variety of plants made up niches all over the earth. In the DNA of each “kind” of plant was a rich storehouse of instructions to produce a variety of offspring. For example, within the first grasses was information to produce wheat, rye, rice, bamboo, and fescue. By God’s command, the earth was bursting with ripe fruit and grains, ready to satisfy the needs of living things. On Day Four, God began the process of “filling” the universe. By His command a vast variety of astronomical objects burst into being, including comets, moons, planets, and stars. Each object was unique, beautiful, and fully functional. God placed the sun at just the right distance from earth to keep our planet warm. He set a moon in earth’s orbit with the right mass and distance for tides to cleanse the seas. As the earth spins, the sun and stars rise and set with clockwork precision, marking the passage of time for living things. At last, God was ready to introduce life into creation. He filled the ocean, sky, and land. Despite their differences, living things share many things in common—chemicals, genetic codes, and cell structures—to help them coexist in the same world. Such design shows the hand of a wise Designer. Like plants, animals were divided into “kinds” that can generate incredible variety. For example, the ancestors of the camel kind produced offspring as diverse as llamas, alpacas, and one-humped and two-humped camels. No living thing was alone. God placed them all into an astonishing array of fully functional communities, probably more diverse, beautiful, and integrated than anything we see today. Whether T. rex tromping through a cycad forest or trilobites swimming in shallow seas, each exotic environment reminds us how much living things depend on each other—and the Creator. God capped off this week by making humans in His likeness and giving us dominion over the earth. By the end, a beautiful tapestry of forms, colors, sounds, and tastes filled the earth. Communities lived in harmony, and all was “very good.” The stage was set for God’s most glorious work.
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#1. To: A K A Stone (#0)
Mornin' AK. Say, did you ever get back to me on that "Baby ones" comment. Curious is all. Thanx. James ;}
Little young ones. That is my belief. How far are you from Kentucky Cincinnatti area? Sorry I forgot to get back to you on that one.
Little young dinosaurs. During Moses. And you're stickin' with that. I'm in NW AR. Wal Mart/Tyson/Conoco-Phillips 66 country. And that's OK. Fits right in with this post. Thanx.
What are these that these fishermen caught in the 1970's? Could it possibly be millions of years old? Figure 1. Four of the photographs taken by Michihiko Yano aboard the Zuiyo-maru on April 25, 1977. A, B. Two front views of the carcass. These were the photos that inspired many to view the carcass as plesiosaur like. C. The only clear photograph of the back of the carcass, showing an apparent dorsal fin and myocommata along the spine (see Figure 5). D. The carcass on the deck, with the anterior end toward the right. A fifth photograph (not shown) is an almost identical view of the carcass on the deck, and provides no additional information. More at source http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/plesios.html
http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/paluxy/plesios.html Excuse me? Could you be more clear here? Like what happened after the 1977 pic. Where's a pic of the exoskeleton. I'll need more info before I go down that hole. Thanx. And the point here seems to be that dinos are here now? Oh yeah!!! Chickens evolved from dinos. No question. Evolution is alive and well. I agree.
He must be talking about alligators and crocodiles.
He must be talking about alligators and crocodiles. But we have to guess, don't we? And that must be his point. It's all so confusing so it can be whatever we want/won't it to be. ;}
And that must be his point. It's all so confusing so it can be whatever we want/won't it to be. ;} Prophecy and speculation seems popular right now. And since it all happens in the future we can never be wrong. lol
But this thread ain't speculation. AK's come out and said that jesus (no, correction, it was Noah) who brought baby TRex'es aboard the ark. Tick tock.
AK's come out and said that jesus (no, correction, it was Noah) who brought baby TRex'es aboard the ark. Tick tock. Since it's an oral tradition without one shread of timely written (even though forms of writing were around in the proposed era) documentation, I believe the whole event qualifies as speculation. And I'll speculate it's a test to see how much weirdness a worshipper will endure to call themselves a believer.
#23. To: Rek (#20)
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Worse. The believer has to fill in the blanks him/herself. Like a bad movie, where you have to spec on what happened between the bad edits. 8D #16. To: mcgowanjm (#15) But we have to guess, don't we? And that must be his point. It's all so confusing so it can be whatever we want/won't it to be. ;} Prophecy and speculation seems popular right now. And since it all happens in the future we can never be wrong. lol "first-draft-blog.typepad....ef0148c7a28c4b970c-320wi" Rek
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#2. To: mcgowanjm (#1)
#3. To: A K A Stone (#2)
Little young ones. That is my belief.
#6. To: mcgowanjm (#3)
#11. To: A K A Stone (#6)
(Edited)
More at source
#14. To: mcgowanjm, A K A Stone (#11)
And the point here seems to be that dinos are here now?
#15. To: Rek (#14)
And the point here seems to be that dinos are here now?
#16. To: mcgowanjm (#15)
But we have to guess, don't we?
#17. To: Rek (#16)
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#20. To: mcgowanjm (#17)
But this thread ain't speculation.
Replies to Comment # 20. And I'll speculate it's a test to see how much weirdness a worshipper will endure to call themselves a believer.
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