Creation Vs Evolution
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In the beginning there were no cave men, no dinosaurs, no plants, no oceans, no mountains, no sun, no stars. There was nothing, not even space or time. Only God existed.
Then God spoke suddenly creating space, time, matter, and energy. Out of this sudden beginning all the galaxies, stars, and planets formed. Then God's spirit began to work over the surface of the ocean. Then God said let there be light and there was light. He called the light "day" and the darkness "night."
And God said, "let there be an expanse between the waters to separate water from water.
God called the expanse "sky"
Then God gathered the ocean water to one place so that the land would appear. Now there was not just water on the surface of the earth.
Then God produced plants on the land, plants of various kinds. These plants consumed carbon dioxide and water and, with the energy of the sun, converted them into food and oxygen.
Then God said let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from night, and let them serve as signs to mark the seasons and days and years. God also made the stars.
Then god said, Let the water teem with living creatures and let birds fly above the earth in the sky. So God create the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing.
And God said, Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to it's kind.
Then God said, Let us make man in our own image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish in the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.
So God Created man in his own image in the image of God he create him.
What do we mean by Evolution; We tend to use the words loosely, forgetting that words have specific meanings, modified only by the context in which they are used. If people would define their terms, and use words carefully, half the arguments would be settled before they begin. This is especially true of evolution debate. What then is meant by the term "evolution"?
Every one associates evolution with Darwin's theory and assumes that the two are synonymous. Evolution is a word that describes what has happened: life has evolved over centuries. The Darwinian theory is an attempt to describe how this evolution occurred. So we must distinguish between the fact of evolution and the theory of evolution.
The theory of evolution states that a process of change has taken place beginning with the raw material of inorganic matter from which life emerged spontaneously and change gradually into many life forms that existed in the past and those that still exist earth. Michael Archer of the University of New South Wales (1987) gives the following definition, which sums up the generally accepted understanding of the present form of the Darwinian theory: "The origin of life form prebiotic substance and the subsequent differentiation through
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