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Creation
Whether you believe God created the world or the universe is the result of the Big Bang, ask questions here about the creation of the beautiful and wondrous earth we live on.
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On day 4 of creation, God made the sun, moon, and stars to give light to the earth and mark the passing of time.
What day did God create the rain?
According to tradition, God set the rain-cycle in motion on the sixth day od Creation (Rashi commentary, Genesis ch.2).
Did God make everything in seven days?
Yes, according to tradition. Belief in Evolution is fraught with difficulties and it remains in fact a theory, open to dispute by people who choose to avoid ignoring its problems. It can neither be proven nor demonstrated in the lab (in its broader sense of giving rise to new organs or species. See:
Is there evidence against Evolution
God's wisdom seen in His creations
Belief in Creation and the Torah, on the other hand, becomes more and more substantiated over time:
Does archaeology support the Hebrew Bible
What is the evidence for a literal 6 day creation?
The evidence for a literal 6-day creation comes primarily from a literal interpretation of the Genesis creation account in the Bible. Some proponents argue that the Hebrew word "yom" (day) in Genesis refers to a literal 24-hour day. Additionally, the genealogies in the Bible are sometimes used to calculate the age of the Earth as around 6,000-10,000 years old.
Where do new species come from?
Generally when a species splits into two populations that are separated by some means that keeps the now individual gen pools from intermingling. This allows new alleles to arise in the separate populations and as time passes this frequency changes in alleles can give rise to new species.
What day did God create the planets?
The earth is a planet and seems to have been created before day 1 in the first creation account in Genesis. The ancients did not realise that the other planets were worlds as large as our own; they simply thought of them as lights placed in the firmament, just above the earth, which was the centre of the universe. Genesis says that God created the lights in the firmament on the fourth day.
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What happened on the eighth day of creation?
well in all actuallity there were tchnically on 6 days of creation and a day of resting. so there was no eighth day of creation.
When does day end, when does it begin, where does the night end, day begin.
What did God create on the fifth and 6th days?
Day by day, God created the universe and its contents (Genesis ch.1).God created the universe out of nothing (Exodus 20:11, Isaiah 40:28; Rashi commentary to Genesis 1:14; Maimonides' "Guide," 2:30).Note that the Torah, in describing the Creation, deliberately employs brevity and ellipsis, just as it does in many other topics. See the Talmud, Hagigah 11b.
- On day 1: God created the universe in general, light, and this Earth. The light was not the same as that of the sun. Rather, it was light that God created before the sun, and which emanated from a point in space without any physical source; like what we might term a "white hole."
- On day 2: God created the separation between the Earth and the upper atmosphere.
- On day 3: God separated the continents from the oceans, and created plants.
- On day 4: God created the sun, moon, and stars.
- On day 5: God created birds and fish.
- On day 6: God created animals and people.
- On day 7: God ceased creating, thereby creating the concept of rest.
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What day did God create the air?
Since the early centuries of the Common Era, tradition has held that Genesis 1:1 says "In the beginning God created heaven and earth." But as long ago as the eleventh century CE, the influential Jewish scholar, Rashi, said that Genesis 1:1 should really be read, "When God began to create" or "In the beginning of God's creation ". E.A. Speiser, in Genesis (Anchor Bible series), goes further and translates the sentence as: "When God set about to create heaven and earth - the world being a formless waste, with darkness over the seas... God said, 'Let there be light.' And there was light."
The creation account in Genesis 1:1 to 2:4a ( up to first sentence of 2:4) says there was a pre-existing watery chaos. The ocean was present and a wind (poetically, the spirit of God) moved across the surface of the waters. So the atmosphere - the air - was already present.
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What did god create on the 8th day?
In many religious beliefs, God is said to have rested on the seventh day after creating the world in six days. There is no mention of God creating anything on an eighth day in traditional religious texts.
Garrett Morgan is often credited with creating the first three-position traffic signal in 1923, which ultimately evolved into the modern stop light we use today. Morgan invented this device to improve traffic safety and regulate the flow of vehicles on the road.
How is creation scientifically proven?
Special creation by God (or for that matter, the gods of other religions) has never been proven scientifically. It is a matter of faith alone.
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Why do you have so many races of people on earth?
There is really only one race of people: the Human race. What people now define as races are in fact imperfect categorizations of different physical features that people who come from within a defined geographic area have in common. It is man's nature to box and to categorize, and the "races" are just another example of this tendency with no scientifically sustainable method of drawing hard lines between the "races".
What evolution do sloths have?
Sloths have evolved to have slow metabolisms, long claws for hanging on trees, and a specialized digestive system to break down their leafy diet efficiently. Their slow movement and greenish tinge help camouflage them in the treetops, protecting them from predators.
The intelligent design movement seeks scientific backings for creationism?
The Intelligent Design movement has been seeking scientific backing for creationism since the late twentieth century. Unfortunately for the movement, no such support has been forthcoming, nor is it likely to come, since so-called Intelligent Design is unsupported by facts or evidence.
9Then God said, "Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear." And that is what happened. 10 God called the dry ground "land" and the waters "seas." And God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, "Let the land sprout with vegetation-every sort of seed-bearing plant, and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit. These seeds will then produce the kinds of plants and trees from which they came." And that is what happened. 12 The land produced vegetation-all sorts of seed-bearing plants, and trees with seed-bearing fruit. Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
13 And evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.
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How can theological and scientific truths be explained in relation to creation?
It should also be noted that the Big Bang is a truth. Things such as red shift and the cosmological background radiation are proof that it happened. That is fact.
How it happened exactly is still under research, but it is believed the answer lies in dark matter. See "A Universe From Nothing" on YouTube for an hour long lecture on the current hypothesis concerning dark matter, virtual particles and other phenomena about this subject.
In the creation story why is it said that God rested on the seventh day?
In the Christian perception of God, he should never need to rest, thus making the seventh day an anachronism. However, the Jews wanted to know why they were required to hold the seventh day to be a day of rest. One version of the Ten Commandments says that God commanded the Israelites to respect the sabbath day because that was the day on which God rested.
What evidence is there to support the modern creation story?
The great German Mathematician Grollmitzer was experimenting with differential calculus (aka Kalkuluos in that time) when his long time Russian friend Swares Konkarow gave him an inspiration. Grollmitzer was also a friend of a Chinese biologist, know as Diana Tulip in England, and together they discovered a mathematical equation for evolution and modern creation theory. So, in a way, there is mathematical evidence that supports the Modern Creation Theory. Thanks to Konkarow,Grollmitzer, and Diana.
What is the difference between the Muslim creation story and the big bang theory?
The science of modern cosmology, observational and theoretical, clearly indicates that, at one point in time, the whole universe was nothing but a cloud of 'smoke' (i.e. an opaque highly dense and hot gaseous composition).
God says in Quran (meaning English translation):
Because the earth and the heavens above (the sun, the moon, stars, planets, galaxies, etc.) have been formed from this same 'smoke,' we conclude that the earth and the heavens were one connected entity. Then out of this homogeneous 'smoke,' they
formed and separated from each other.
God has said in the Quran:
Dr. Alfred Kroner is one of the world's renowned geologists. He is Professor of Geology and the Chairman of the Department of Geology at the Institute of Geosciences, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany. He said: "Thinking where Muhammad
came from . . . I think it is almost impossible that he could have known about things like the common origin of the universe, because scientists have only found out within the last few years, with very complicated and advanced technological methods, that
this is the case.". Also he said: "Somebody who did not know something about nuclear physics fourteen hundred years ago could not, I think, be in a position to find out from his own mind, for instance, that the earth and the heavens had the same origin."
This amazing matchings between the Quran scientific satements and the recent scientific discoveries and theories (which are called scientific miracles of Quran) confirms that Quran is God revelation and not man-made text.
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Who will give a guest lecture on Creationism?
The Institute for Creation Science and Answers in Genesis are just two organisations that have speakers available to give lectures on Creationism.
What happened on the 6th day of creation?
On the sixth day, God created all land-dwelling creatures. He also created Man ("Adam" is a derivation of the Hebrew word for man) from the dust of the ground. He brought all of the land animals and birds to Man to have him name them. When Man had finished this and there was found no creature like him, God said that it was not good for Man to be alone. He caused Man to fall into a deep sleep, during which He formed a wife for Man out of his side. When Man awoke, he saw his wife and named her Woman.
Note: Woman was not called by the name Eve until after the Fall in Genesis 3.
How did God make light on the first day?
According to the Bible, God created light on the first day by simply saying, "Let there be light," and separating it from darkness. This act of creation is often seen as the beginning of the process of forming the universe.
How old is the creationism theory?
If you're talking about the 'Creation Account', according to the Bible, it's as old as mankind.
According to Bible chronology, Adam was created in 4026 BCE.
Eve some time after.
The account of creation was written by Moses in 1513 BCE, when he was in the wilderness.
However, the heavens and the earth were created "in the beginning", long before mankind was created. The Bible never comments on how long ago that was, so the earth and the planets and the stars, etc, could have been around for billions of years before man was ever created. The creation account in the Bible only talks about the time when God turned his attention to the 'already existing' earth, to prepare it for life.
The story has different interpretations depending on which bible is being used as well as who is doing the interpreting. The first five days of creation are much the same in most bibles. It has always been my understanding that there were 7 days of creation. It's on the 6th day when the story seems to take a bit of a twist. God says '..let us make man in our image..'. For some scholars, it is believed and taught that God is simply 'stating'' that He is going to be creating man in His image but did not actually do it on the 6th day. On the 7th day God rested. So now we have 5 consecutive days of creation, and two days when God did not work, the 6th and the 7th.. Immediately following God's day off, the story says that God prepared a garden and begins the forming of Adam. Clearly, it is another day and God is back at work again. Although it is actually the 8th consecutive day, it is widely accepted as being the 6th day of creation. This particular interpretation seems somewhat incomplete. The story of creation as I have known it, was that God did in fact create ' mankind ' on the 6th day, that is to say He populated the entire earth with people of all races. It also seems to make the timeline more accurate. Six consecutive days of creation, the 7th day of rest and the creation of Adam and Eve on the following day. This seems more sensible of an interpretation. A point of interest happened while Caine was argueing with God saying that he had no place to go and that "..they will surely kill me.." Who are " ..they?". Certainly, there were other people on the earth before Adam and Eve.
