From: jsg1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (JONATHAN SCOTT GIBSON)
Newsgroups: talk.origins
Subject: Re: Lionel Tun: evolutionary relic.
Date: 21 Dec 92 04:56:54 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <ksand-191292144210@wintermute.apple.com>, ksand@apple.com (Kent Sand
vik ) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.133825@IASTATE.EDU>, danwell@IASTATE.EDU (Daniel A
>Ashlock) wrote:
>> Let me second a fellow poster:  Care to post the theory of creation?
>
>Yeah, I've asked about that one now for two years, and nobody from
>the creation field has provided me with one. It's really sad, and
>when there's a lack of a creation based theory (I deliberately left
>out Hoyle :-) ), then the next best thing you could do is to sabotage
>existing theories.
>
>Kent
>-------------------
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>
    Well, the theory of creation goes like this:
        In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.  And the earth
        was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep;
        and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters.  Then
        God said, "Let ther be light"; and there was light.  And God saw that
        the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness.
        And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.  And
        there was evening and there was morning, one day.  Then God said, "Let
        there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it separate
        the waters from the waters."  And God made the expanse, amd separated
        the waters which were below the expanse from the waters which were
        above the expanse; and it was so.  And God called the expanse heaven.
        And there was evening and there was morning, a second day.  Then God
        said, "Let the wasters below the heavens be gathered into one place,
        and let the dry land appear"; and it was so.  And God called the dry
        land earth, and the gathering of the water He called the seas; and God
        saw that it was good.  Then God said, "Let the earth sprout
        vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after
        their kind, with seed in them, on the earth"; and it was so.  And the
        earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind,
        and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God
        saw that it was good.  And there was evening and there was morning, a
        third day.  Then God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the
        heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs,
        and for seasons,and for days and years; and let them be for light in
        the expanse of the heavens to give light on the earth"; and it was so.
        And God made the two great light, the greater light to govern the
        day, and the lesser light to govern the night; He made the stars
        also.  And God placed them in the expanse of the heavens to give
        light on the earth, and to govern the day and the night, and to
        separate the light from the darkness; amd GOd saw that it was good.
        And there was evening and there was morning, a fourth day.  Then God
        said, "Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let
        birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens."  And
        God created the great sea monsters, and every living creature that
        moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, amd every
        winged bird after its kind; amd God saw that it was good.  And God
        blessed them, saying, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters
        in the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth."  And there was
        evening and there was morning, a fifth day.  Then God said, "Let the
        earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and
        creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind"; and it was
        so.  And God made the beasts of the earth and their kind, and the
        cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground
        after its kind; and God saw that it was good.  Then God said, "Let Us
        make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; amd let them rule
        over the fish of the sea and over the birs of the sky and over the
        cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that
        creeps on the earth."  And God created man in His own image, in the
        image of God He created Him; male and female He created them.  And God
        blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and
        fill the earth, subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over
        the birds of the sky, and over every living thing that moves on the
        earth."  Then God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding
        seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has
        fruit tielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of
        the earth and to every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves
        on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food';
        and it was so.  And God saw all that He had made, and beholf, it was
        very good.  And there was evening and there was morning, a sixth day.

                                Quoted directly fom Genesis chapter 1 in the
                                New American Standard Bible.
        That is the theory of Creation to whoever asked.  Someone had
        mentioned something about the fact that the world was created so
        perfectly gave them the creeps or made them feel uncomfortable.  The
        thing is, it was not created perfectly; God did not make man as a
        robot, He gave him freewill, to choose what to do.  That was where the
        fall of man comes in and that is where the idea of an imperfect world
        comes in.  The idea of Christianity has a lot of commitment in it;
        commitment to a God that you can't see, in a book that is old but
        inspired by this God, and commitment of one's life to this whole
        belief.  In this day and age, there is not much commitment.  There
        arso many families that are torn apart by divorce and who gets married
        anymore, why not just have children?  Former vice-president Quayle was
        right in what he said about the family values of this country, they
        have gone to pot.  The reason it is so hard for everyone to believe in
        Christianity is because it takes commitment to someone besides
        themself, and that takes alot, for people to give up their selfish
        ambitions.


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                        Jonathan Scott Gibson
                        JSG1@LEHIGH.EDU
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