And we continue tonight in our study of the book of Genesis, chapter 1. Origins, day six, the creation…what a great, great time we have had doing this. I can’t think of a series I’ve done in recent years that has had the response that this one has had. And as soon as I have finished it, and that’s just the next couple of weeks we’ll actually wrap up the part about creation, we’re going to plan to put it on the radio and spreading it around the English-speaking world so that others will have the opportunity to come to grips with the great, great testimony of the book of Genesis.
In our study of Genesis we have come now to day six in God’s creation, the pinnacle of God’s creative work, creation of man out of nothing. Let me read, starting in verse 24 of Genesis 1, “Then God said, ‘Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind, and it was so.’ And God made the beasts of the earth after their kind and the cattle after their kind and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind. And God saw that it was good. Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.’ And God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him, male and female He created them. And God blessed them and God said to them, ‘Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and rule over the fish of the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves on the earth.’ Then God said, ‘I’ve given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth and every tree which has fruit yielding seed, it shall be food for you. And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the sky and to everything that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food and it was so.’ And God saw all that He had made and behold, it was very good. And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.”
Now there couldn’t be a more straightforward account of creation than that. It tells you exactly what God did on the sixth day. He created the land animals, dividing into three categories we find all of them…both the domestic animals indicated by the word cattle, and the more wild animals indicated by the term beasts of the earth, and then everything that walks lowly on the ground, or crawls, insects, reptiles, amphibians, rats and squirrels and etc., and etc.
Then having created that form of animal life already the day before, having created all the birds in the air and all the animals in the sea, God had completed His creation with the exception of man, finished it off as verse 26 and 27 indicates by creating man. All of that He did on the sixth day, actually a 24-hour period as indicated at the end of verse 31, an evening and a morning, a period of light and a period of darkness…that is to say one revolution of the earth.
Now the enemies of God and the enemies of the Bible have denied this revealed Word from God. They have claimed that man has evolved over millions and billions of years. And that modern man is the result of mutation. Modern man is the result of some…some random and yet self-willed genetic transformation. Man is the product of the survival of the fittest. That is not what the Word of God says. What I just read you couldn’t be more clear. It is also reiterated in the second chapter verse 7, “The Lord God formed man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and man became a living being.” And down in verse 19, “Out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, every bird of the sky, brought them to the man to see what he would call them. Whatever the man called a living creature that was his name. And the man gave names to all the cattle, to the birds of the sky, to every beast of the field, but for Adam there was not found a helper suitable for him. So the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon man, he slept then He took one of his ribs and closed up the flesh at that place and the Lord God fashioned into a woman the rib which He had taken from the man and brought her to the man.”
There you have the creation of woman. In both cases, the creation of man, the creation of woman, is a direct and immediate creative act of God. Over in chapter 5 of Genesis, the fifth chapter begins, “This is the book of the generations of Adam. In the day when God created man He made him in the likeness of God. He created them male and female and He blessed them and named them man in the day when they were created.” Repeatedly it says there was a day when God created man both male and female. That is what the Bible says.
Isaiah 45:12 echoes it, “It is I…says God…who created man.” Job 33:4, “The Spirit of God has made me.” Deuteronomy 4:32 talks about a day when God created man on the earth. This is repeated not only in the verses I’ve given to you but elsewhere as well. In spite of the clear teaching of the Bible, the clear teaching of Genesis and other passages of Scripture, evolutionists, some of them calling themselves Christians and therefore theistic evolutionists, that is that God caused evolution to bring man into existence, these evolutionists have tried against the clear testimony of Scripture that God created all these things in a day, tried to prove that man evolved, that everything evolved from a one-celled creature through water animals, amphibians, apes to finally the erect man who is then the pinnacle of creation.
But scientists though they deny the Bible have found it impossible to find proof for the evolution of anything, including the evolution of man. The reason they can’t find proof for it is because there isn’t any. You can’t find proof for something that didn’t happen. And evolution never happened and that’s why they can’t find any proof for it. In six 24-hour or solar days God made the entire universe, the earth and all its living creatures. And as we’ve been saying He did it about six or seven thousand years ago.
Now that does bring up the issue of fossils and I have to address this, I did a little bit last time, but I know many of you are students and even in elementary school in the later grades, certainly in junior high and high school and on into college you’re faced with the supposed fossil record that proves that man evolved from some kind of a four-legged apelike creature. How do we deal with the supposed fossil testimony that is used to prove evolution? Don’t scientists actually have missing links? It seems like every few years or every few months some scientist claims to have found some transitional ape-man form. Do they have missing links? The answer…absolutely not-absolutely not.
A most interesting scientific book called In The Beginning, written by Walter Brown who is a Ph.D from MIT, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. For 21 years Walt Brown was the chief of science and technology studies at the Air War College and professor at the Air Force Academy, a very fine scientist. He has exposed, as have many others, the lies of evolutionists trying to make their case. He writes that stories claiming that fossils of primitive ape-like men have been found are grossly over stated. For example, it is now universally acknowledged that Pilt-down man was a total hoax and yet it exists and has existed in text books for more than 40 years. Prior to 1978 the evidence for Ramapithecus consisted of a mere handful of teeth and jaw fragments. And as I told you last week, Ramapithecus was one of the largest species of transitional ape-man. We now know that it came simply out of some teeth and jaw fragments. It is now known that ramapithecus was just an ape. The dethroning of ramapithecus supposedly the first human, the dethroning has been a serious blow. We now believe, scientists believe, that ramapithicus was probably the extinct relative of an orangutan, nothing more.
“This article originally appeared here at Bible Bulletin Board.”