God's Creation Day Six:
God
Created The Animals of The Land
"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." -
Genesis 1:24,25.
God created all animals that live on
land that are both living and now extinct, including dinosaurs. There
are nearly thirty other places in the Old Testament that mention
"dragons", these are creatures we would now call dinosaurs.
Animals can only produce varieties of the created kinds (new breeds
and species). But they can never produce new "kinds" of
animals this in itself shows evolution is not biblical.
The
people who believe in evolution, who don't believe that God made
everything, also don't believe that dinosaurs and people lived at the
same time. We know that's not true because God told us that He made
land animals and people on the same day. The theory of evolution is
very different from what God tells us in the Bible.
God made
some other really neat land animals, two of which are really hard for
Evolutionists to explain. They are called the Pangolin and the
Platypus. Both the pangolin and the platypus are unique among
mammals, and all the evidence shows that they were created that way.
It looks like they didn't evolve from anything, but have always been
much the same as they are now, examples of the wonderful design and
variety of God's creation.
God Created Man
"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. And God said,
Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the
face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a
tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast
of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that
creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every
green herb for meat: and it was so. And God saw every thing that he
had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the
morning were the sixth day." Genesis 1:26-31.
After
making the land animals, God made man in His own image. How great a
Creation must man be to be made in the very Image and likeness of
God, clearly Man is fearfully and wonderfully made! Only man was
created with some of the characteristics of God. Only man can think
and plan and be creative. Man was created with a clear distinction
between he and the animals, not from evolved apes, but in the very
image and likeness of God himself. God separates man from the animals
by giving him authority over them. This also says that at one time
even large animals like dinosaurs, elephants and tigers all
peacefully lived with man, and obeyed him.
God was pleased
with the state of his creation. This implies that everything was
still perfect. Satan had not yet been cast from heaven, and Adam had
not yet sinned.
Some Evolutionists Believe Fossils Exist
in Perfect Creation
Fossils can not exist in a perfect
creation. Fossils are formed only when a creature has died, and no
death occurred in the Garden of Eden until Genesis chapter 3. Even
then it takes special circumstances for a creature to fossilize (they
need to be buried rapidly before they can rot. The conditions that
existed during the flood are perfect for fossilization, proving that
fossils were formed in the years after Adam and Eve sinned and are
not evidence of any prior judgment or inhabitants either from man or
animal.
Everything that exists in this world, all plants,
animals and humans alive and dead (or extinct) were created by God.
There are no creatures alive or dead that God did not create. You
don't need to see God to believe in him. He has given us enough
evidence of his existence in the world that he created, that if we
reject him we are without excuse.
