Creation Statement - a pause before boxes and horses

Questions, we have questions. Radaractive is delaying the next segment of Behe's Box and Huxley's Horse to put out an outline of origins according to a creationist. What follows is a general narrative, an outline, of this particular creationist's view.

God Created - Genesis 1:1 - "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

Reading the narrative (the testimony of our star witness) of creation in Genesis, God creates the world in six days with man being created on day six. He makes all living things according to kind. "Kind" was already defined in a previous post. But, to repeat, The word for "kind" in the Hebrew is "miyn" and is defined by Strong's Lexicon of Old Testament Hebrew as:

"kind, sometimes a species (usually of animals) ++++ Groups of living organisms belong in the same created "kind" if they have descended from the same ancestral gene pool. This does not preclude new species because this represents a partitioning of the original gene pool. Information is lost or conserved not gained. A new species could arise when a population is isolated and inbreeding occurs. By this definition a new species is not a new "kind" but a further partitioning of an existing "kind"."

This was the definition for the differences in animals long before men decided to come up with words like "species" and "genus". A scientist may look at a Mercury or a Ford Crown Victoria and say that there are two species of car. But the manufacturer may say that they are both different types of the same kind, Ford. Just a matter of terms, you say? Not really, because the difference between the two comes out when looking at evidence of macroevolution. But that is for another post.

Interestingly, Genesis keeps a geneology of men from Adam all the way to Noah and it continues onward. During the time of Christ, a Jew could trace his genology all the way from Adam and there were books in the Temple that recorded this. Furthermore, it is of great interest that the famous "Mitochondrial Eve" would be calculated to have lived about 6,500 years ago by rather straightforward dating of the "mutation clock" used to determine how long ago she lived. Eve, the mother of all living humans, just as the Bible says. Darwinists use other methods to determine the dating of "Eve", usually coming up with a date of about 150,000 to 200,000 years ago. They will also say that Eve was just one woman within an entire population of already existing humans. There is no proof of this and no way to ever prove it, but it fits their scenario and so they say it. In short, both creationists and Darwinists look at "Eve" and point to her as evidence to bolster their position.

The Noahic Flood, a world wide flood that lasted covered the entire planet for 150 days and rendered the earth unihabitable for approximately one year wiped out most of land life (not including invertabrates, microorganisms, etc) on earth. The exception is Noah, his family, and the animals that were brought with him aboard the Ark, a large boat with dimensions equivalent to that of a large ocean liner. Genesis goes on to tell us that "Every living thing that moved on the earth perished—birds, livestock, wild animals, all the creatures that swarm over the earth, and all mankind." (Genesis 7:21) The word for creatures used here is for animals that generally have backbones, breath air, and live on the land. These are the kinds of animals that God caused to come to Noah to take with him on the Ark.

A world-wide flood is the kind of event that would explain the sedimentary layers of rock found around the world. Uniformitarians know that such rocks don't just happen and most of them posit catastrophic events to explain them. Limited by their philosophical bent, they will suggest that the rock layers are explained by dozens, no, hundreds of very large but local floods. These are the kinds of floods that would make the recent New Orleans experience look like a puddle. It is difficult to imagine all the catastrophes required and it is even more difficult to imagine how the records of such catastrophes are found all around the world.

But a world-wide flood explains the layering. The simpler forms of life would be buried first, and many of the higher forms would run to higher ground and evade death at the first. Once all of the earth was covered, the various currents associated with flooding would begin to leave layers behind and some sorting of animals and other remains would be done according to size and specific gravity.

You don't find dinosaur fossils in the Grand Canyon, but you do find dinosaur tracks. It is remarkable that largely without exception all dinosaur tracks point uphill. At first, paleontologists speculated that dinosaurs of this kind always backed downhill, which in retrospect is humorous indeed! According to Stephen Austin, the tracks show signs of being associated with water. In fact, testing proved that the likeliest scenario for the tracks was that the dinosaurs were completely or nearly completely under the water and running towards higher ground while making these tracks. The tracks are found on more than one level, indicating an inflow of water, fleeing animals, and then later another inflow and another herd of animals heading for higher ground.

A world-wide flood explains polystrate fossils and megabreccias, layers that are out of order or reversed, and other aspects of the actual layers found in the world. It explains why there is so much sedimentary rock.

The dynamic world-wide flood came complete with oceans that would be deeper, mountains that would thrust far higher than before and climatic changes. So much water in the coldest regions of earth, when the flood began to recede, would become ice and therefore there was a short "ice age" as large glaciers and sheets of ice extended out far beyond the poles, ice that would take years to eventually retreat to the polar regions as we have now.

After the flood receded and the passengers of the Ark were released, the animal population and also man spread out across the new and very different world. Many of the animal kinds that thrived in the antediluvian world were not suited to the differences in terrain and climate in the new world. Dinosaurs are said to continue to exist at the time of the writing of the book of Job and of course there are dragon stories (as well as flood stories) in cultures around the world.

The total human population in the world today is consistent with a population that began with one family about 4-4,500 years ago, which would be the time that Noah, his wife and his three sons and their wives stepped out of the Ark.

Briefly, the fossil record is full of animals of varied kinds. But a Darwinist would expect to find a continuum of animals changing from one thing into another and have to add corollary assumptions to explain why this is not so. There are up to 29 so-called transitional form possibilities that are being studied at this time and not one of them is compelling enough for the Darwinists to present as a certain transitional animal. The suppositions are humorous, in that whales are thought to have been large land animals who decided to go back into the sea after they had millions of years earlier decided to come onto land. Couldn't they make up their minds?

Siimilarities between the living organisms of the world are cited as a proof of macroevolution. But I say they are the proof a a common Designer, God. Just as art students study the similarities in brush strokes and colors, etc, to try to nail down works done by a particular artist, God has left us hints of his handiwork. DNA, amino acids, similarities in jawbones, the structure of limbs, all of which Darwinists try to shoehorn into evolutionary theory actually are evidences that one God created all things.

What a creationist would expect to find in the world today is this: Some kinds of animals will become extinct. Some will adjust to changing environs by adjustments within the kind already programmed into the DNA of the animal and produced by natural selection. Natural selection will bring about changes in the commonly found animals within the kind. Sometimes genetic information will be lost, limiting the kind but never will one see a kind of animal turning into a different kind. Salamanders may become largely blue, they may not be able to mate with red ones, but they will never become frogs. This is what is actually found in the world.

Darwinist scientists must continually make up fanciful stories about how the things that are could have come to be. Reading carefully what they post about early living things and how they would evolve into more complex beings, one is reminded more of the Brothers Grimm than Louis Pasteur.

The sedimentary rock layers, complete with fossils, are the record of a catastrophic world-wide flood. The result apparently changed one large continent surrounded by shallower seas into split continents with taller mountains separated by much deeper seas. Evidences of a resulting ice age are there. Formations such as the Grand Canyon fit into the scenario of receding waters through wet layers of not-yet-hard sediments, as do so many of the twisted and rolling rocks found in the wild. In fact, the rock record has anomalies that must be continually explained away if you are a uniformitarian.

We creationists are often ridiculed and asked large numbers of questions at once about what we post, while many of the points we present are left unaddressed. Ad hominem attacks are so commonplace as to be expected. No doubt more will be forthcoming after this post. But you who have open minds, go ahead and read through this. It may be outside of your belief system, but you do have to admit that it is entirely logical and fits with what is seen in the real world.