God’s Creation
And why it can never be confused with the Big Bang
God’s account of creation is awesome. Man could never come up with His version of events because they appear illogical. This is another of the hundreds of reasons that prove the Bible is the word of God and proves that God is definitely supernatural. God created the world with specific laws that apply absolutely everywhere and to everyone, except to Him because He is the Creator.
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To demonstrate this, let’s analyze Genesis 1 and 2 (NLT):
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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth*. 2 The earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep waters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the waters.
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In the beginning, no big explosion, no dramatic Hollywood-like pivotal event, no strepitous loud trumpet and cymbal background sounds in crescendo that would get your attention and make you jump off your seat. God simply willed the existence of the heavens, that unfathomable expanse we call space, and in that space, God created Earth.
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*That first phrase in the Bible can also be translated “In the beginning when God created the heavens and the earth, . . .” Or also “When God began to create the heavens and the earth, . . .” which leads us to the second phrase which involves what is to be our planet. The Earth had no form, it was empty, it was dark, and covered with (dark) deep waters!
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So, there is no explosion, no forming of nebulae to give birth to galaxies, no aggregation and agglomeration of gases and debris to form planets. God first created space and a yet to be defined planet. From the description “formless”, “empty”, “darkness”, and covered with “deep waters”, we can infer that the Earth was completely covered with water. That is, it was a planet with no land. Because there was no land and no light, it appeared formless, empty and dark.
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3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And God saw that the light was good. Then He separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.”
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Here comes light! It is not the first thing that is created as insinuated by the Big Bang hypothesis. It comes after space and the empty Earth were created. It can be speculated that the source of light is the Sun, since God’s word is exclusively about His Spirit, His creation, His people, and His Son. Also, because the next phrase talks about day and night. With light and matter to block it, shadows are created. Since the Sun is at a fixed point in space and Earth spins along its axis, from a specific point on the surface each Earth’s turn is manifested by a period of light and a period of darkness, we call those two periods a day.
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And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
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Day 1 - God took a day to create space, the Earth still entirely covered with water, and the Sun. Could God create everything else that first day? Absolutely! But He took His time on purpose to establish the day of rest or Sabbath, as we will see at the end.
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6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.” 7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens. 8 God called the space “sky.”
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This section is very important in order to understand many things that will happen between creation and the flood. To many that read this section think this is confusing. It really is not. We know from the previous verses that the Earth was entirely covered with water. Now God is simply separating these waters, not vertically but horizontally, in two layers. Some of the waters will be above the Earth and some of the waters will be on Earth. The space between these two waters is the sky. The sky is the space near Earth that contains the air that we breathe or atmosphere*.
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​The waters that were placed above the Earth’s sky create a sort of cocoon at the edge of our atmosphere, which by the cold temperatures of space becomes clear ice. This clear ice has two main functions. It acted as a filter protecting God’s creation on Earth from the Sun’s deadly ultraviolet rays. This explains why people described in pre-diluvial times lived hundreds of years (See Genesis 5:3-32). People in post-diluvial times began to gradually live shorter and shorter periods of time. The clear ice shield also created a stable and buffered environment devoid of extreme temperatures, storm systems, or weather changes. This explains why people in pre-diluvial times did not have to protect themselves from the environment and why animal, vegetable, food, and human life was abundant during that period. In science, this is known as the Carboniferous Period.
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*Genesis 7:11-12 recounts that the waters during the flood came from the underground and from the sky. From the underground because the only existing continent at that time (Pangea) became subdivided by the forces that caused the continental drift, and from the sky because the protective layer of ice above our atmosphere melted precipitating enormous quantities of water. For more information about this subject visit the page “Atheistic/Scientific/Skeptic”.
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And evening passed and morning came, marking the second day.
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Day 2 - It took God an entire day to separate the waters on Earth forming the ice cocoon above the Earth, but the planet was still entirely covered with water below this cocoon. Could He had done it in one second, yes!
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9 Then 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.
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Now God raises a continent of land from the ocean that covered the Earth. As He does this, naturally the waters flow downslope back to the basin God calls seas. Science calls this initial continent Pangea. With Earth now with a continent, God populates it with vegetation. Seed-bearing plants and trees that grow seed-bearing fruit in order to reproduce themselves. Note that God did not plant seeds, He created fully grown plants and trees on the land. After doing this, God is pleased with His creative work. One detail to keep in mind is the fact that God creates things that would reproduce in kind. In fact, He repeats it to make a point: “Their seeds produced plants and trees of the same kind.” When God repeats something, it is because it is important for us to understand. Reproducing in kind refutes any notion of evolution.
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13 And evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.
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Day 3 – God does everything with a purpose and in deliberate detail. He does not form land on Earth until it is fully protected from the elements He himself has created. Once land is established, He populates it with mature vegetation so that His next creations can live and thrive. By this God demonstrates His immense love and care for everything He creates.
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14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years. 15 Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And that is what happened. 16 God made two great lights—the larger one to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also made the stars. 17 God set these lights in the sky to light the earth, 18 to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
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Here God creates the stars that we see from Earth. Of course, not all the starry lights we observe in space are suns, but they may be meteors, planets, comets, galaxies and constellations. These light emitters and light reflectors in space help us determine time of seasons, days, and years by observing their particular location in the sky. God also creates the Earth’s moon. At the end of the day, God is pleased with His creation. There is a digression here to emphasize the role of the Sun as the source of light for the day and the role of the moon as the source of light for the night.
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19 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.
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Day 4 – Before God continues with His creative endeavors, He decides to place signs in space that could be used by future creations to give them points of reference in the time-space continuum. The moon is placed at the exact distance from Earth to generate sufficient tide movement of the ocean in order to promote the necessary circulation, along with those forces created by the Earth rotation.
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20 Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let the skies be filled with birds of every kind.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the birds multiply on the earth.”
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God, now that He populated the continent with plants, which serve as food and shelter, creates birds of all kinds so that they can thrive. God also creates all kinds of fish and other aquatic creatures and organisms to populate the waters and sends them a blessing. Again, God stresses the point He made before; “each producing offspring of the same kind”.
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23 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day.
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Day 5 - Every day of creation is intentional and follows the feeding needs of the newly created organisms. Some birds feed on seeds, which they help propagate plants and trees by their droppings. Some other birds feed on fish and aquatic organisms.
24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what happened. 25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God saw that it was good.
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The Earth is vegetated, it has birds flying and nesting within, and there is fish and other aquatic creatures and organisms in the waters. God then creates the animals that live on land, and He is pleased with His creation. He creates animals of all sorts again with the caveat that they all “produce offspring of the same kind”.
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26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings* in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth**, and the small animals that scurry along the ground.”
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Now that the Earth is populated with all the animals He willed in the waters, in the skies, and on land, God is ready for His masterpiece. He creates human beings. Why masterpiece you may ask? Well, unlike all the other beings created so far, His creation now is in His own image and with the power to choose. Note that He is talking in plural; “Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us.” This I take it to mean that He refers Himself as the three un He claims in other passages in the Bible; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. God has charged humans with the responsibility to reign over other created beings. This means that we have the charge of caring for plants, birds, fish, and animals. In fact, the first task God gives Adam is to name each and every created being.
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*That first phrase can also be translated “man” which in Hebrew reads “adam”.
**The second phrase can also be translated “on all the earth.”
27 So God created human beings* in his own image. In the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.
In case you did not get it the first time, God emphasizes what He said earlier. When God repeats something, it is because it is important. God emphasizes that He created humans “in His own image”. This is important. We are not like the other animals created before us. We are special. We have been created in the image of God. We should not act like animals. God also emphasizes that we have been created male and female. There is no room for doubts or reconsiderations about our sexuality. Any such thoughts do not come from God.
*That first phrase can also be translated “the man” which in Hebrew reads “ha-adam”.
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28 Then God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that scurry along the ground.”
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God re-states with a blessing His wishes for mankind to reproduce abundantly, to reign and govern the other living things He has created for our benefit.
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29 Then God said, “Look! I have given you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit trees for your food. 30 And I have given every green plant as food for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is what happened.
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God seems to remind us of all that He has done for us. He recounts the plants that we can use for food, the plants that the animals on land and sky feed on, as well as all the animals on land. Everything that has life He created for our own benefit. God is almighty, yet He loves us specially.
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31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
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Day 6 – God is busy on His last day of creative work. He creates all the land animals on our planet. From the huge dinosaurs to the tiniest lizard. He creates all the invertebrates (insects, mollusks, annelids, arthropods, etc.) and vertebrates (amphibians, reptiles, mammals, etc.). Finally, He creates man. Genesis 1 is like an abstract of what happened during creation. He summarizes the creation of humans, and it is not until Genesis 2:7 that he gives us more details.
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2 So the creation of the heavens and the earth and everything in them was completed. 2 On the seventh day God had finished his work of creation, so he rested* from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and declared it holy, because it was the day when he rested* from all his work of creation.
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Day 7 – After the six days of creation, when God created space and Earth and everything in them, God rested, also translated as "ceased." This second translation option is probably more appropriate because God does not tire. The point God wants to make to us is that six days' worth of work is followed by a day of rest, which later is defined as the Sabbath (Exodus 16:23) when Moses tells the Israelites to “set aside what is left (of the manna on the sixth day) for tomorrow.” “Tomorrow will be a day of complete rest, a holy Sabbath day set apart for the Lord.”
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4 This is the account of the creation of the heavens and the earth.