The Facts About Creation

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The Facts About Creation

• The six days of Creation

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The six days of creation

• In the beginning God created the heavens and the
  earth. Gen 11

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The six days of creation

• The earth was without form and void (waste
  empty, JND) and darkness was on the face of the
  deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the
  face of the waters.
• Gen 12

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The six days of creation

• In the beginning God created the heavens and the
  earth.
• The earth was without form and void and darkness
  was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of
  God was hovering over the face of the waters.
• Genesis 11-2

Time interval???
Rebellion judgment of Satan
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The six days of creation

• See the following Scriptures
• Isaiah 1412-17
• Isaiah 4518
• Ezek 2811-19

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The six days of creation

• Thoughts about the recreation of the earth
• Only the earth, not the universe is said to have
  been without form and void.
• The word translated was in verse 2 could also be
  translated became.
• Scofield (2002)

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The six days of creation

• the Hebrew expression for without form and void
  is used to describe a condition produced by
  divine judgment in the only other two texts where
  the two words appear in conjunction (Isa 3411
  Jer 423).
• Scofield (2002)

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The six days of creation

• Some Christians have used this unspecified
  interval to try to harmonize the ideas of
  scientists with Scripture since science MUST be
  correct!!!!
• This is called the Gap Theory

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The six days of creation

• Evolutionary timetable
• Universe began with a big bang 10-20 billion
  years ago
• Solar system arose 5 billion years ago
• Single celled organisms 3-4 billion years ago
• Man , 1-3 million years ago
• Modern civilization 5-10 K years ago
• Morris (2007)

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The six days of creation

• Evolutionist base their timetable upon
  radioisotope dating techniques which are NOT
  trustworthy since they make several assumptions.
• Closed system (no contamination of sample)
• Known amounts of daughter material at the start.
  (assume none present at start)
• Constant decay rate
• Morris (2007)
• See The Young Earth by John Morris

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The six days of creation

• In contrast, many reputable creation scientist
  today using Scripture as their guide contend that
  the earth is much younger.
• Even if one inserts every possible time gap in
  genealogies and elsewhere (which is clearly not
  warranted), the time of the creation of Adam
  would be no longer than say, 12,000 years(most
  likely, closer to 6,000 years). Morris, 2007.

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The events on the 6 days of creation
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The six days of creation

• The earth was without form and void (waste
  empty, JND) and darkness was on the face of the
  deep. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the
  face of the waters.
• Gen 12

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The six days of creation
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The six days of creation
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The six days of creation
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The six days of creation

• Were these 6, 24 hour periods?
• ..the Hebrew word yom, translated day, has a
  variety of possible meanings and sometimes can
  mean an indefinite period of time. The word
  occurs over 2000 times in the Old Testamentthis
  word almost always certainly means a solar day..
  (John Morris, 2007)

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The six days of creation

• Reasons for the solar day in Gen 1
• when the Hebrew word YOM is modified such as six
  days or the third day (as it is some 359 times in
  the Old Testament outside of Genesis 1) it always
  means literal day. (Morris, 2007)
• Use of evening and morning
• There are other Hebrew words for day that would
  imply an indefinite period of time but YOM is the
  only one that can mean a solar day.

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The six days of creation

• Read Exodus 208-11
• Here God establishes a weekly pattern for His
  people that refers back to His creation of the
  world in 6 literal (solar) days with a 7th day of
  rest.

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Some definitions
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Definitions

• Biblical creationism
• Supernatural creation of all things in six
  literal days by the God of the Bible.
• Evolution
• the idea that all of life has come from a common
  ancestor through a process of modification over
  time. Thus, man and apes are thought to have
  descended from an ape-like common ancestor. All
  vertebrates came from fish, which in turn came
  from an invertebrate. All life descended from a
  single-celled organism that arose spontaneously
  from non-living chemicals. Changes occurred
  through natural processes, including mutation,
  natural selection and genetic recombination.
• Morris (2007)

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• Theistic Evolution
• ..God may have either started the evolution
  process, and then left it to natural processes,
  or may have guided the evolution process.
• Morris (2007)

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• Progressive creation
• Sometimes called the day-age theory. The days of
  Genesis were long periods of time, roughly
  equivalent to the supposed geologic ages. Each
  basic category of life was created by
  supernatural intervention at various times
  throughout the age.
• Morris (2007)

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• Framework Hypothesis
• The idea that the Bible, when it speaks of things
  historic or scientific, is to be understood in
  the theological sense only, assuming that God was
  involved but not as actually recorded. Genesis is
  not to be taken as factual history.
• Morris (2007)