Let’s open our Bibles to Genesis chapter 1. We are continuing in a study of creation, the account of creation, the only authoritative account of creation given in the first chapter of the first book of the Bible, the book of beginnings, Genesis.
Let me read down through verse 13. “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and void and darkness was over the surface of the deep and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. Then God said, ‘Let there be light,’ and there was light. And God saw that the light was good and God separated the light from the darkness. And God called the light day and the darkness He called night. And there was evening and there was morning, one day. Then God said, ‘Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters and let it separate the waters from the waters.’ And God made the expanse and separated the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse and it was so. And God called the expanse heaven. And there was evening and there was morning, a second day. Then God said, ‘Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place and let the dry land appear.’ And it was so and God called the dry land earth and the gathering of the waters He called seas and God saw that it was good. Then God said, ‘Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them on the earth,’ and it was so. And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind and the trees bearing fruit with seed in them after their kind and God saw that it was good. And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.”
Now let me sum up what the Word of God in this much of Genesis has taught us about origins. With plain, understanding of the text, the inescapable account says that the eternal God created out of nothing without preexisting material the heavens and the earth, which simply means the universe. He created the universe as it is now in a sequence of six solar days, the first three of which we just read. He capped His creation, as we will find out, on the sixth day by creating man in His own image, an intelligent being with personality, with self-consciousness and cognition. This creation occurred in a period of one week of normal days, about 6000 or so years ago. And the entire creation was mature and aged at the instant of its creation. Death did not exist, nor any corrupting influence and the creation was good. Death and corruption entered the creation for the first time at the Fall of Adam and Eve which is recorded in the third chapter of Genesis. When they sinned in disobedience to God death entered the scene, prior to that there was no death. That means there could be no evolutionary processes because nothing died.
Later the surface of the earth was reshaped drastically and dramatically by the great universal Flood described later in the book of Genesis. A flood which rearranged the earth cataclysmicly as water rose literally above the mountains coming down from above and surging up from the bowels of the earth. As a result of that flood only eight people survived, Noah, his wife, his three sons and their wives and the animals survived which were in the ark and from that the replenishing of the earth occurred. That is the Genesis record.
And as I told you last week, science is not a hermeneutic. Science is not a principle for interpreting Genesis or for that matter any other passage of Scripture. And the accuracy of the Genesis account is no different than any other biblical text. All Scripture is given by inspiration of God. All Scripture is moved in the hearts of men, produced in the hearts of men by the working of the Holy Spirit so that they wrote down precisely what the Spirit wanted them to say. And Jesus summed it up when He said in John 17:17, “Thy Word is truth.”
Now from that foundation we must conclude that any form of evolution is a contradiction and a denial of the clear revelation of Scripture, and I mean any form…whether it comes from an atheistic evolutionist like Julian Huxley, or whether it comes from a theistic evolutionist like Hugh Ross, any form of evolution is a contradiction and denial of the clear revelation of Scripture which indicates that somewhere around 6000 years ago God created the entire universe as we know it in six 24-hour days.
There’s only one source of the account of origins and that is the Bible, the Word of God. And in particular and in specific, Genesis chapter 1. As I have been saying, there are no scientific facts that necessarily contradict the Genesis creation account, rather all true science supports the biblical creation teaching. It has to be that way because Genesis is true. Therefore all true science is in support of the Genesis account.
It’s a hard thing for people to admit this because science for so long has reigned supreme on the throne of contemporary thinking. Evolution has been a given…in fact it’s become an absolute in our society. But it is systematically coming apart at the seams. The more we know about the nature of the universe, the more we realize the utter impossibility of any form of evolution…even to the degree, and this is an interesting source to quote, that Robert E. Smith, a member of the western Missouri affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union whom you would know to be no friend of Scripture, says this, and I quote, “For the past five years I have closely followed creationist literature and have attended lectures and debates on related issues. Based solely on the scientific arguments pro and con, I have been forced to conclude that scientific creationism is not only a viable theory but that it has achieved parody, if not superiority over the normative theory of biological evolution. That this should now be the case is somewhat surprising, particularly in view of what most of us were taught in primary ad secondary school.” He goes on, “In practical terms, the past decade of intense activity by scientific creationists has left most evolutionist professors unwilling to debate the creationist professors. Too many of the evolutionists have been publicly humiliated in such debates by their own lack of erudition and by the weakness of their theory,” end quote.
Paul Ackerman has written a book called It’s a Young World After All. And in it he says this, some of you have been to Disneyland, I can tell. In the book he says this, “Let me be blunt on this matter. Evolutionists around the world have had to learn the hard way that evolution cannot stand up against creationism in any fair and impartial debate situation where the stakes are the hearts and minds of intelligent, undecided but nevertheless objective and open-minded audiences. Experience will prove that the same is true for the age issue as well. Evolutionist’s beliefs regarding the origin and development of life cannot withstand the scrutiny of an informed opposition and neither can evolutionists claim to the effect that the universe has existed for ten to twenty billion years and the earth for 4.5 billion years. To delay the collapse of widespread public acceptance of such claims, it will be necessary for evolutionist scientists to carefully avoid debate,” end quote. They cannot survive a debate and so they won’t debate.
Now there’s an illustration after an illustration about science, some facet of science that supports a young earth and a biblical account of creation. I’ve tried to give you a few as we go along. Here’s one that I find somewhat fascinating. Every once in a while you see on the weather report that there’s some indication of how many raindrops fell and it added up to a tenth of an inch or an half an inch or three inches or whatever. It’s not a very sophisticated test that they do to determine that. They just have a container with an open top and when it rains they measure how much water is in the container. You can do that science yourself. It rains a certain number of raindrops and it fills up the can to a certain level. They can then go out after it stopped raining and tell how much it rained by measuring the amount of water in the container.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
