10. BIBLICAL CREATIONISM
BY DR. EARL PARVIN
June 4, 2019
LESSON TEN: GOD CREATED KINDS / LIFE PowerPoint: KINDS
I. OUTLINE
A. Gen. 1:11 “AND GOD SAID, LET THE LAND PRODUCE VEGETATION: SEED-BEARING PLANTS AND TREES ON THE LAND THAT BEAR FRUIT WITH SEED IN IT, ACCORDING TO THEIR VARIOUS KINDS.” AND IT WAS SO
B. Displays: GOD’S CHANGELESSNESS & LIFE GIVING: IMMUTABLE [Mal 3:6],
C. GOD CREATED KINDS = BOUNDARIES: LIFE, ORDER & PROCREATION
D. MEN OF SCIENCE OBSERVE: DEDUCE BY EVOLUTIONARY FAITH
E. CONCLUSION BY CREATION FAITH
II. LESSON
INTRODUCTION: We have established:
1. That our God, Elohim, is a Godhead, which means He exists in three distinct Personalities, all of whom were active in the Creation week.
2. Our Eternal God started the clock of time for HIS cosmos.
3. God created EX-NIHILO % Evolution by Natural Laws from existing things.
4. Then He created Space [heaven] as a place to put HIS cosmos
5. Next He creates Matter [earth] or elements all in suspension or solution in sphere of water, from which He will fashion everything & instill LIFE.
6. Next He interjected Energy: that which in the U. could neither be created nor destroyed, yet necessary for the operating cosmos.
7. The introduction of Light is necessary for life forms--- FIRST DAY
8. The Firmament prepared Space to receive the created celestial bodies he made & placed in specially organized places ---SECOND DAY
9. Then GRAVITY was created to hold everything fashioned in its space.
A. V. 12 THE LAND PRODUCED VEGETATION: PLANTS/grasses BEARING SEED ACCORDING TO THEIR KINDS AND TREES BEARING FRUIT WITH SEED IN IT ACCORDING TO THEIR KINDS. GOD SAW THAT IT WAS GOOD.
V. 13 AND THERE WAS EVENING, AND THERE WAS MORNING--- [THE THIRD DAY].
V. 20 AND GOD SAID, “LET THE WATER TEEM WITH LIVING CREATURES, AND LET BIRDS FLY… V.21 SO GOD CREATED GREAT CREATURES OF THE SEA AND EVERY LIVING AND MOVING THING WITH WHICH THE WATER TEEMS, ACCORDING TO THEIR KINDS, AND EVERY WINGED BIRD ACCORDING TO ITS KIND… [THE FIFTH DAY]
B. IN THIS FIAT, GOD IS DISPLAYING HIS ABILITY TO GIVE LIFE. [Job 12:10; Is 42:5;Ez 37:10; Jn 1:4 “In Him was life”; Acts 17:25;Rev 11:11] -- CHANGELESSNESS & WISDOM. “In wisdom you made them all: the earth is full of your creatures” [NIV Ps 104:24].
C. GOD CREATED KINDS. [H. meen or shaphak Gn 9:18] The first term usually means ‘species’. The second root term indicates it is genetic. The kind or species is DICTATED by the genes, as established by God. This means God is creating KNOWLEDGE as in DNA, which is the LANGUAGE OF LIFE. Timothy says: “…God gives life to everything…” [1 Tim 6:13; Neh 9:6; Acts 17:25].
1. God has so designed all LIVING THINGS to be self propagating. In vegetation, animal, avian, sea life & human… all were created mature [with seed in it { v.11}]. [Seed = H. zara ‘offspring’] “God gives it a body as He determined, and to each kind of seed HE gives it, its own body. All flesh is not the same: Man has one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another, and fish another” [I Cor 15:38-9]. NOTE: Inherent in the statement is the fact that God was giving LIFE to each KIND. Only life can beget life, according to the ‘LAW OF BIOGENESIS’ = Louis Pasteur, defines it: “living things come only from other living things, by reproduction”. These KINDS are LIVING [Gen 1:20, 24]. The moving creatures have the ‘breath of life’ [H: nephesh chaya ][Gen 1:30]. God breathed into them the breath of life [Gen2;7 NOTE; all life was vegetarian – and ate the “green herb for meat” [Gen 1:30]
2. This ‘life’ which God is able to ‘breath into animal & human life’ is in fact in the blood of the body: [H. = “the blood is the living being” Dt 12:23 {BDB p.659}. Thus the prohibition from eating blood & its sacrificial use.
3. Amazingly God created plants and animals to have built in cellular ‘factories’ which are very active. In animals and humans each cell has its own factory called ‘mitochondrion’ or ‘powerhouse’. In plants the source of energy is from the sun by Photosynthesis. In animal life, the power is generated by Chemical Action called ATP. God’s ingenuity is herein displayed in fabulous ways: The liver cell can have 2000 mitochondria producing power. The heart mitochondria can produce 615 different kinds of proteins. NOTE: Mitochondrion have their own DNA!
4. There is a lot of room for variety within the species, but no crossing over. Within the genetic structure there were BOUNDS. Many characteristics can change, as well as adapt to changes, but only within their kind
5. Biological diversity is a wonderful characteristic of genetics: -
-The estimated numbers of species varies broadly from 8 to 50 million, with 15,000 being added annually. BUT, no new KINDS of life.
--However, 1.5 million species are catalogued: 297,000 plants, 60,000 vertebrates [including 30,000 sp of fish], 950,000 sp. insects. [source IUCN 2007]. There are 5,513 living species of mammals: 25% are bats, then rodents. AiG suggests 2 million species of animals in 1500 KINDS, with 7,000 creatures were on the ARK.
-It is said that dogs are more genetically diverse than other animals, 493 species have been bred.
6. Taxonomy is the science of naming and classifying the various organisms. There are commonly 8 classifications: 1.Species, 2. Genus, 3. Family = KINDS, 4. Order, 5. Class, 6. Phylum, 7. Kingdom.
7. God specifically mentions the creation of vegetation = plants & trees; fish& bird life. [Scripture records 15 by name]. He then tells them, “be fruitful and multiply”. --This may well imply ‘diversification’ as well as numerically. Studies show that fish produce prodigious amounts of eggs: Salmon – 15,000, Herring 30,000, Cod up to 10 million, Ling – 150 million & Sunfish - 300 million.
8. Gen 1:21 mentions the “…great creatures of the sea: [tannim = long]. White sharks can be 40’ to 60’ long, Blue whale – 100’; Octopus span 40’; Giant squid’s body – 12’ with arms 40’; Jelly fish 8’ across with tentacles 120’. Now that is ‘long’! [Ps 148:7: Is27:1].
9. Birds are marvels with 10,000 species, grouped in 30 orders. Birds control the insect world which if left unchecked would destroy the earth.
10. Butterflies have 70,000 species and express the marvel of metamorphosis.
11. The fact of God creating KINDS, implies that he gave each the life principle. Only life begets life, called ‘PROCREATION’.
12. The subject of DNA will be discussed in lesson 12, although all life forms have DNA with its Genetic Code dictating KINDS
13. God built into animal DNA a number of other than the 5 human senses of: sight, smell, touch, taste & hearing. The ‘sixth’ sense of animals turns out to be numerous ‘super’ senses:
i. Motion sensors of spiders called slit sensilla, detects action on spider web
ii. Sonic sensors of bats = echolocation. Send out high frequency sound waves which bounce back.
iii. Magnet sensors of homing pigeons = magnetoreception. In beak is magnetite which enables it to respond to the earth’s magnetic field
iv. Electricity sensors of sharks = electroreception. Fish swim by sending electro-chemical signals to muscles which send out an bioelectric field which can be detected by ‘ampullae’ located in sharks snout. [works only in salt water]
v. Heat sensors of some snakes = infrared detectors called ‘pit organs’. Heat from warm blooded animals emit infrared radiation
Amazing how God created these senses with a brain which interprets the sensory information which Evolution could never have provided by Natural Selection. [Info from Answers Vol 8 #1, 2013]
11. God also created VOX Gene which is a DNA sequence producing a Protein which controls the growth in early life. This protein is found in most living things; therefore, amazing similarity is found in various Kinds. The Hand of God’s design herein is a real problem to Evolutionists because they believe in Convergent Evolution which predicts each Kind developed on its own. Similarity is a problem.
12. God’s creativity includes marvelous Order in His Creation. Nature displays an amazing numbering system called Fibonacci Numbers. These numbers are displayed such that optimum exposure to the sun is obvious. Phyllotaxis is the study of ordered position of leaves on a stem. There is a Golden Ratio to a circle which plants exhibit. We can exhibit this order in the Power Point. Just how all this happened by chance is unimaginable. ‘Fractals’ in the abstract world of numbers displays repeating patterns in nature.
D. MEN OF SCIENCE are still committed by Evolutionary Faith to the idea that life began from a single-celled organism through a process known as ‘symbiosis’. That includes all life forms, not just human or animal. It includes vegetation and trees as well. The Tree of Life seeks to portray how that could happen.
1. The NEW TREE OF LIFE portrays a horizontal gene transfer… before DNA had evolved to its present state. But when the tree is presented in Wikipedia, they print a disclaimer: but it cannot explain the full complexity of the situation.[16]
2. The PHILOGENETIC TREE seeks to see evolutionary relationships via molecular sequencing. Depends on unavailable data!
3. The evolutionist proposes a LAST UNIVERSAL COMMON ANCESTER [LUCA OR LCA]. This means the most recent organism from which all organisms descend… from 3.5 billion years ago. It is amazing that Darwin wrote about the descent of all organic beings from some primordial form “INTO WHICH LIFE WAS BREATHED”. [who or what did this ‘breathing’?]
4. Darwin’s grandfather wrote, “All warm-blooded animals arisen from ‘one living filament’, which the ‘First Cause’ endued with animality…” [First Cause?]
5. But from old they hang in there with an old French mathematician, Maupertius, who wrote in 1758, “the Species we see today are but the smallest part of what ‘Blind Destiny’ produced”
6. They believe that some asteroid killed off the dinosaurs millions of years ago. Many species of animals have indeed died since creation and continue to become ‘endangered’ or die. Most of this is caused by human reasons called HIPPO = habitat destruction, invasive species, pollution , population & overhunting. Ed Wilson suggests humans take a drastic measure: “devote half the earth’s surface to nature reserves. Do no more harm to the biosphere”.
7. 1999, Creationists have sought to present another ‘platform’ called, ‘BARAMINOLOGY’. It proposes to present the Kinds in Scripture as Baramins: [Gk Bara = create + min = kind] it means there are genetically unrelated organisms [genetic gaps] which God created.
--Diversification in a kind, came from a common ancestral stock.
--the Process involves: Classification [taxonomy] and Identification
Based on ‘Discontinuity Systematics”. There is no continuity, for each kind is its own system as designed by God. The Evolutionist has one ‘Tree’ of relationships. The Creationist has a ‘Forest of Trees’, for each Kind has its own tree of relationships, but no universal tree. The Universal Tree of relationships = is GOD the common Creator.
--Therefore, the question is to determine which organisms share common ancestry.
--There are four categories: [CRQ, Vol 37, #2, pp 82-91, 9/2000]
1. holobaramin, = all same ancestral stock [2-37,000 kinds]
2. monobaramin,
3. apobaramin, and
4. polybaramin.
--The beauty of this system is that it does not depend on religious literature, merely observation of reality. It is true science, without presuppositions. Merely following the data.
--OBVIOUSLY it is a work in progress which has a lot of detractors even among Creationists. Keep in mind, the Evolutionist world is working more by faith than science!
7. Let us note that the “Land produced vegetation” [1:11-12].
---Land is made up of ‘inorganic’ composition, yet vegetation is made up of unique ‘organic’ compounds. These organic compounds include: carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, phosphorus & nitrogen. These plants were created with these organic compounds in them, but after the sun is created photosynthesis does that job.
8. Perhaps one of the most spectacular problems for Evolutionists is what is called the CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION of animal life. E. formed 4.5 B. yrs ago. Two B. yrs later the first ‘prokaryotic life forms appeared. Then another B. for ‘eukaryotic’ life. One and half B. yrs later the Cambrian Explosion of only 10 million years animal life SUDDENLY appeared. It took another half B. yrs for humans to evolve. But, why the sudden appearance of animals? They do not know.
E. CONCLUSION: It seems to me that much ado is made about nothing
which Scientists can prove. In fact, they assume a ‘First Cause’ or ‘Blind Destiny’, when it was all supposed to happen by Natural Causes. That takes serious FAITH. These scientists have a problem finding any CONTINUUM of variations between species but this must be to make ‘microevolution’ work. Even the concept of ‘Macroevolution’ or ‘Punctualized Equilibrium’ leaves much to be desired. It suggests a ‘burst of speciation’ where one species suddenly splits resulting in a brand new species, followed by an ‘Equilibrium’ or ‘Stasis’ of 50,000 to 100,000 years. No suggestion or mechanism is offered for the ‘sudden split’. [Faith anyone?]
----It is amazing how God has step by step brought the processes necessary together at the precise time needed. They could not have evolved. The introduction of LIFE in living things created with maturity and KNOWLEDGE = DNA, already built in, so that they could reproduce themselves with numerous variety possible but with the limitation = within Kinds, or by means of the organic compounds which will ‘reproduce themselves’ so to speak, when the sun is in place to make it possible. Note: I Cor. 15:38 ”...each kind… HE gives its own body.”