EVIDENCES - GOD CREATED FULLY FUNCTIONING SYSTEMS

To accept the record of Genesis 1 and 2 one must first consider some facts concerning God's mind, character and his unlimited power. God created all things and yet he "dwelleth not in temples made with hands." Zophar begins a series of rhetorical questions in Job 11:7 with, "Canst thou by searching find out God?" God is not discovered by observing nature. He was in none of the natural phenomena that Elijah witnessed in 1 Kings 19:11-12. Elijah drew no conclusions from this frightful experience concerning what God would have him to do. God spoke to him in words he could understand, even as he had spoken to him to come to the place of the experience.

The angel Gabriel explained to Mary, in Luke 1:37, concerning Jesus' virgin birth, "For with God nothing shall be impossible." Gabriel's statement reveals the complete power of God. Paul will write later on in Romans 13:1, "For there is no power but of God." David, in Psalms 33:6, capsulated the creation record: "By the word of the LORD were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." This is consistent with Genesis 1:3 "and God said, Let there be light." God spoke the universe into existence. Extensive periods of time were not factors in the creation.

Those who accept the hypothetical scientific assertion of eons of time cannot accept the immediate appearance of fully functional physical and biological systems. If one finds a motorized vehicle in the woods with the engine running there are several necessary inferences. Since the engine is running there has been a being recently present capable of starting the engine. How long it has been there could be estimated by finding the rate of fuel consumption. It is obvious that the system was assembled before it was capable of running as discovered. All of this makes very good sense. It is completely logical. The logic is based upon knowledge of the machinery and mechanics of the vehicle. Over time, orderly thought and skilled labor produced this machine. All of this deals with man's material view of things.

God used 5 days to provide fully functioning systems necessary to sustain man. Adam was created on the sixth day as a fully functioning man both biologically and spiritually. Eve was made from Adam and was also fully mature, biologically and spiritually. Could God have done it in less "time?" What God MAY HAVE DONE is not at issue. The believer takes WHAT GOD DID OR SAID. Speculation leads to doubt. God DID create the heavens and earth "and all things therein" in six days. Light immediately was present in all the universe apparently traveling at the mean rate we know today as 186,000 mps. How is light coming from bodies which are apparently millions of light years from earth explained? The conclusion drawn is that since the light required several million years to reach us that it has necessarily been traveling all those years. This is not necessarily so. When light was spoken into existence did it begin at one point and fill the universe? The language does not suggest that it did. Genesis 1:21 says of the creatures of the sea: "—-every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly—." Other translations use "teeming or swarming etc." One is reminded of the undersea photographs of shoals of fishes like flocks of birds. Barely visible macroscopic life was present along with microscopic invisible to the naked eye. All of this came about immediately as God spoke. Uniformitarianism was not a part of God's miraculous creation.