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not allow even the possibility of evolution, since everything was
created "after its kind" (Genesis 1:24), and since, after 6 days of
creating and making things, God "rested from all His work" (Genesis 2:3),
and so is no longer using processes which "create" things, as theistic
evolutionists believe. Instead, He now is "upholding all things" (Hebrews 1:3)
through His law of conservation--the "First Law."
The entrance of sin into the world brought a disordering principle into
the Creator's perfect creation, in the form of God's "curse" on the "
whole creation"--the princip[le of decay and death--the "Second Law." Thus,
the natural laws now governing the processes of the universe are not laws
of origin and developement, as evolution requires, but of conservation and
decay, in accordance with the truth of primeval special creation.
If we wish to know how long it took for God to make all things, we can
learn this from His Genesis record--and only there--since we cannot
legitimately project present processes back into the creation period.
That account says He did it in six days of worl followed by a day
of rest, thus providing the pattern by which men and women were to
order their daily lives throughout history. Ever since that first week,
people have actually done this--even those who reject His account of
creation!
"But how long were those days?" someone may still ask. Only God can
answer that question, and He does define His terms! "God called the
light Day," says the account, in the very first use of the word "day"
in the Bible (Genesis 1:5). The"day" thus is the light-period in the
diurnil light/darkness cycle, which began on "the first day," and
has continued every day since.
"But what about the evidences for the earth's great age?" others will
ask. The answer is that there are no such evidences! All caculations that
purport to give this kind of evidence are based on present
natural processes, and, as we have seen, it is not legitimate to
project these into the principle of decay, and these can never be
assumed to have operated uniformily in the past.
Although Thermodynamics
specifies that all preocesses must be decay processes, the rate
of decay depends on the science of kinetics--not thermodynamics. Every
process functions at its own rate, which may, and does vary widely with
time, depending on how the many "variables" which control it happen to
vary.
If one allows for the tremendous acceleration of most processes at
the time of the global hydraulic cataclysm described in Genesis, he
will conclude that these processes, instead of pointing to the earth'
s great age, really point to the earth's great Flood!
Even this brief summary demonstrates the logic of Biblical creationism.
Index - Evolution or Creation