Creation - St. Marys Coptic Orthodox Church

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