The meaning of seed can be easily grasped. Seed is clearly the ability to reproduce a form of life in its own likeness. “Implanted,” says Henry Morris, “in each created organism was a seed programmed to enable the continuing replication of that same organism. The modern understanding of the extreme complexities of the so-called DNA molecule and the genetic code contained in it has reinforced the biblical teaching of the stability of kinds. Each type of organism has its own unique structure of the DNA and can only specify the reproduction of that same kind. There is a tremendous amount of variational potential within each kind, facilitating the generation of distinct individuals and even of many varieties within the kind, but nevertheless precluding the evolution of new kinds. A great deal of horizonal variation is easily possible but no vertical changes.”
I mean, look around, look at all the different looking people here. A lot of different looking people, all people. The exact limits of kind may be a little more challenging. We don’t exactly what Genesis meant but we do know limits were set. And we understand that. Organisms were to stay within their own kind. The biggest thing we could say is birds remain birds, and animals remain animals, and fish remain fish, and reptiles remain reptiles, and insects remain insects. And that itself halts the entire evolutionary process. That’s how God created.
So we have already talked about genetics and how genetics guarantees that no evolution can occur. It is absolutely impossible. Michael Behe, whom I mentioned, who wrote Darwin’s Black Box, not a Christian but literally questioning everything about evolution, devotes two chapters in his book to showing that as more is learned about the amazing complexity of cellular structure, the theory of chemical evolution is becoming more and more impossible. He says, “This stuff is the pre-biotic chemist’s nightmare.”
So what do you have? Go back to the text. In Genesis 1:11 and 12 you have the origin all vegetable life and you have not only its origin, but you have its orderly continuity fixed by means of certain seeds and kinds that perpetuate that life. Never has a plant evolved into something higher, only on the Sci-Fi channel…not in reality. In fact, if you study mutations and change in genetics, it’s always negative…it is always negative. It is always downward. The study of fruit flies has been something evolutionists have given their life to because it…fruit flies have such a short life span they can observe it over many generations. And the theory is you can see enough generations to see change, to see the evolutionary process taking place. The only problem is they take these fruit flies and in order to make them mutate rapidly, they bombard them with radiation, they radiate them. And radiation, exposure to heat, chemicals and radiation can create mutations, we know that. That is true, we understand that even in the chemistry of radiation that’s used with regard to cancer. It has the ability to cause cells to be killed and to change. But mutations do not create new structures. You may have in the study of fruit flies crumpled wings, oversized wings, and undersized wings, you may have double sets of wings, but you don’t have a new kind of wing. Nor does the fruit fly become a honey bee. Mutations, by the way, are very rare. And this is fortunate because they are virtually all harmful. They all decline. And in most cases mutations never even survive. That’s why evolution has been called “fact-free science.” Thought you would like that one.
So, what are we learning then? Genesis 1:1 to 12 shows us that the intelligent agent is the living God who on the third day of creation separated the land from the sea, caused plant life to sprout from the land. Two categories, plants which have their seed in them, trees which have their seeds in the fruit that comes from them…they therefore are able to replicate themselves throughout the end of time as long as a given species exists. God looked at it all in verse 12 and saw that it was good. And then God signs off again in verse 13, “And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.”
There was ereb and there was boqer. There was a 24-hour day, that is so clear. Those terms, evening and morning, are used more than a hundred times in the Old Testament and they always refer to a 24-hour day. God did it on the third day.
Let me close. Job 26 verse 7, God’s the object of this, the subject of it, “He stretches out the north over the empty space,” what a statement! He stretches out the north over the empty space. “He hangs the earth on nothing. He wraps up the waters in His clouds and the cloud does not burst under them. He obscures the face of the full moon and spreads His cloud over it. He has inscribed a circle on the surface of the waters,” that’s the horizon of the earth, “and the boundary of light and darkness. The pillars of heaven tremble and are amazed at His rebuke. He quieted the sea with His power and by His understanding He shattered Rahab, by His breath the heavens are cleared and His hand has pierced the fleeing serpent. Behold, these…I love this…are the fringes of His ways and how faint a word we hear of Him, but His mighty thunder, who can understand?”
When God..he’s talking about rain…and when God breaks into the darkness with light and rain and storms and lightning and fury and all of this, we’re just hearing a faint sound, a faint indication of His immense incomprehensible thunder. We’re only looking at the fringes of His ways. What a God we have!
Father, we thank You again for the Word which gives light in this most important and urgent area of creation. Thank You for this tremendous portion of Scripture and may we worship You all the more for the greatness of Your power, who call these things into existence which were not. You are the creator, You are our Lord and Savior and our great Redeemer and our friend, a friend to sinners. What a glorious truth that is. Thank You…thank You. Amen.
© 1997 Grace to You
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”
