Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church
Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church
Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church
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eproduce its own kind. That means a reptile’s egg cannot hatch a<br />
chicken! God put this mechanism of reproduction in plants and<br />
animals so that He does not need to keep on creating, but rather after<br />
everything was created according to God’s own perfect plan, God can<br />
“rest” on the seventh day.<br />
THE CREATION OF LAND ANIMALS:<br />
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after<br />
his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after<br />
his kind: and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth<br />
after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that<br />
creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was<br />
good. Ge 1:24-25<br />
Here we are told that God created all the land based animals, both<br />
domesticated (cattle) and wild (beasts) as well as “every thing that<br />
creepeth”. This last category includes rodents, insects and reptiles.<br />
Once again, each was created after his own kind, created once and<br />
for all with no possibility of one species turning into another.<br />
What does science tell us about this? Well, let us look into what<br />
scientists call:<br />
THE CAMBRIAN EXPLOSION:<br />
The Cambrian explosion is the geologically sudden appearance<br />
in the fossil record of the ancestors of familiar animals,<br />
estimated to take around 10 million years from 530 to 520 million<br />
years ago. It is accompanied by a similar pattern of<br />
diversification in organisms such as phytoplankton and the<br />
various colonial calcareous microfossils grouped together as<br />
calcimicrobes. The base of the Cambrian 542 million years ago is<br />
marked by an explosion of diversity in burrows, and strong<br />
geochemical perturbations, including excursions in carbon and<br />
sulfur isotopes.<br />
The Cambrian explosion has generated extensive scientific<br />
debate. Darwin saw it as one of the principal objections that<br />
could be lodged against his theory of evolution by natural<br />
selection, as have modern-day <strong>Creation</strong>ists. Scientists have also<br />
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