20 ¶
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature
that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven. 21 And God created great whales,
and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth
abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw
that it was good. 22 And God blessed
them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and
let fowl multiply in the earth. 23 And
the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
24 ¶
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. 25 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.
In this passage we can see the origination of living
things from the sea and the earth. God calls for abundance. From the evidence
available some scientists have estimated the biomass or total life on earth, at
various points in their assumed epochs or time periods, to be 500 times the
biomass of earth we find today on an earth that was uniformly tropical in
climate. Based on the fossil evidence available to us, which does not show a
uniform progression of life from simple to complex as theoretical scientists
would have you believe, remains of tropical plants can be found all over the
earth. Fossil fuels such as oil, coal, and natural gas are thought to be by the
majority of scientists the result of an immense decaying biomass formed under
intense pressure over time.
Contradicting evolutionary theory God brought great
creatures of a large size into being in one day along with birds and other
fowls, or any winged creature.
A whale is a large sea creature and can be what we
today would call a mammal or it can be one of the many types of fish we
observe. The classification of mammal and reptile came after the Bible was
written and is purely man’s way of categorizing animals as the word mammal once had to do with the breast and a
reptile was any creeping or crawling thing, not just a snake, but included an
earthworm.
Cattle includes sheep and beeves or bovine creatures
useful to man.
Genesis
30:32 I will pass through all thy flock
to day, removing from thence all the speckled and spotted cattle, and all the
brown cattle among the sheep, and the spotted and speckled among the goats: and
of such shall be my hire.
Numbers
31:28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD
of the men of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of
the persons, and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
God divides creatures into categories based on their
usefulness to mankind although they are God’s property and He knows them all
and regards their lives very closely.
Psalm
50:10 For every beast of the forest is
mine, and the cattle upon a thousand hills. 11
I know all the fowls of the mountains: and the wild beasts of the field
are mine.
Matthew
10:29 Are not two sparrows sold for a
farthing? and one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.
And their uses by man are limited by God’s standards
of mercy and kindness.
Proverbs
12:10 A righteous man regardeth the life
of his beast: but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.
Luke
14:5 And answered them, saying, Which of
you shall have an ass or an ox fallen into a pit, and will not straightway pull
him out on the sabbath day?
2Samuel
12:3 But the poor man had nothing, save
one little ewe lamb, which he had bought and nourished up: and it grew up
together with him, and with his children; it did eat of his own meat, and drank
of his own cup, and lay in his bosom, and was unto him as a daughter.
And as we have seen in history and know, in fact, if
we are honest wild animals rarely are useful as domesticated companions of
mankind. A unicorn is a one-horned animal, probably the rhinoceros, which once
had a range from China to Spain as evidenced by the Lascaux cave paintings in
France.
Job
39:9 Will the unicorn be willing to
serve thee, or abide by thy crib? 10
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he
harrow the valleys after thee? 11 Wilt
thou trust him, because his strength is great? or wilt thou leave thy labour to
him? 12 Wilt thou believe him, that he
will bring home thy seed, and gather it into thy barn?
They reproduce after
their kind meaning no cat ever became a dog and, contrary to the musings of
theoretical scientists, no giant lizard ever became a bird. Fossil evidence
suggests there were a few prototypes of all of the species we have today.
Diversity within a kind is immense but there is no evidence that a dog-like creature
became a possum, so get over it.
Some final thoughts on evolution, as understood, for
this section. Standard evolutionary thought is that mutations cause changes in
an organism which are then selected for survivability which is called natural
selection. This is supposed to be how the original one-celled creature became
the diverse life on earth in spite of the relative genetic complexity of even
the simplest organism. However, this survival of the fittest breaks down on a
number of intellectual levels. One, a pod of shrimp, save for a few, being
eaten by a whale would more likely be called the survival of the luckiest,
wouldn’t you say? Two, creatures do live long enough to pass along harmful
mutations, of which most mutations are harmful or even deadly, so this survival
of the fittest also includes survival of the unfittest, too. Third, even
scientists who believe in evolution understand that basic structures like the
limb, wing, leg and foot, arm and hand of many creatures don’t reflect any
necessary survival trait that came into being but a common form that looks more
like the design of an engineer than an accident caused by brute forces of
nature working with accidental mutations. There are so many problems and
questions raised by atheistic evolution that are simply solved by believing
what God has said here through Moses.
One thing is sure. God loves diversity in nature and
has created an abundant and varied bundle
of life. (1Samuel 25:29)
It would appear to me that the living creatures that
surround the throne of God in Revelation 4:6-7 and Ezekiel, chapters 1 and 10
may be representative of the prototypes in the spiritual world for living
creatures on earth and, hence, what we are told about represent only a small
part of what we will see. It is important to note that Satan is one of these
cherubim, these spiritual creatures, as per Ezekiel 28, and we do get a glimpse
of animals, notably horses, in the spiritual world in 2Kings 6 and other
places.
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