Obviously, creationists don’t believe in macro evolution, the process that is supposed to have created every single species from one little cell, and less than that, primordial soup, with nothing as its aid but billions of years.
There is, however, something about micro evolution, the process by which are derived the manifold variations of a species or kind, such as we find in horses, cats or dogs, etc., that give us a clue about the process or development of creation, namely that changes and adaptations in the matrix of creation do take place, such as the change from herbivorous pre-flood animals into carnivorous ones, equipped with the claws and fangs to become hunters, instead of the peaceable vegetarians they once used to be, according to the Bible.
I’m speculating that another, perhaps invisible but nonetheless tangible change took place in creation, presumably during the moment of the Fall of Man, when Adam and Eve changed pretty much everything through their introduction of (the knowledge of good and) evil into the world, as I have expounded on repeatedly.
It’s really only a speculation and a guess, but at least I’m democratic enough about it not to insist on teaching it to your kids every morning in school, and on every single nature documentary they’ll ever watch, unlike the colleagues from the evolution department…
My guess is that something happened to time on that eventful day when the first human couple chose to disobey God.
For one thing, there is no physical means to define a “day” during the first days of creation, since the dry land only appeared on Day Three, the stars (including the sun that our planet supposedly revolves around) on Day Four, and unless we assume that God simply called a “day” one revolution of the empty and dark void that the earth represented in its rough, watery stages around some fictive axis, there isn’t much else to go by.
It’s not really hewn in rock that one day must have consisted of the same 24 hours back then that it does today.
If Prof. Dr. Werner Gitt from Braunschweig, Germany is correct and there are really two different types of time, namely Chronos, our current time frame, and Cairos, the eternal “time” scope of God (the kind where one day is like a thousand years and thousand years like one day), then it might explain how Adam accomplished naming all the animals on Day 6 and still came up with the necessary energy for the first date in history, presuming that his clock or schedule was still tuned to Cairos, and Chronos, which will come to an end at the time of the Second Coming of Christ, by the way, was only installed after the fateful bite from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil…
If you’re one of the 99.9% of the world’s population who couldn’t care less about these things, never mind; it’s not as if such matters were as vital to your information as algebra, Latin or Nintendo, but it might be interesting to know that not only there once was a time without stress and anxiety, but we’re also going toward a new, in fact, eternal period of Cairos, the time scape of God’s eternal Now.
You may not have time right now to occupy your mind with such trivial matters, but you will then. Plenty.
Very interesting posts.
Thot you might be interested in latest signs of the times. as Armageddon edges closer:
The New York Times reports that the Euphrates, in the birth of civilization, is drying up. The river is significantly smaller than it was just a few years ago. Some officials worry that it could soon be half of what it is now.
As we know, the Book of Revelation prophesied the Euphrates river drying up as a sign of the End Times.
The sixth angel poured out his bowl on the great river Euphrates, and its water was dried up to prepare the way for the kings from the East. Revelation 16:12
Interesting postulation about Chronos and Cairos, but I beg to differ. If the days mentioned in Genesis are not literal days, then the 4th commandment in Exodus 20 regarding the Sabbath Day will have no meaning at all.
And to make sure readers of the Bible know for sure these are literal days, God inspired Moses to describe the passing of time at each stage of the creation with the phrase “and the evening and the morning were the … day.”
The order of creation regarding light and darkness, plants, sun, moon and the stars poses no problem to those who believe in creationism, except the evolutionists because plants need sunlight for photosynthesis to produce their source of food, and evolution-creationism which claims that God create the universe and us via the process of evolution is not going to help either.
Thank you, Timothy, for all your constructive input & feedback! I was surprised when I recently read in one of your comments that you actually live in Asia…
Your English certainly is impeccable, though.
Anyway, feel free to differ on this one. You weren’t the first (my wife did, too, ha!).
I’m not really saying that the first days of Creation necessarily have to differ from our 24 hr concept.
I just have an inkling that God’s concept of time is different than ours, and that some day we will return to perceive time the way He does, and possibly Adam and Eve did before the Fall.
It’s sort of based on what I learned from the two scientists Prof. Dr. Gitt and Humphrey Russell about time.
According to Russell, gravity distorts time, explaining why stars billions of light-years away can be seen, even if earth is only little more than 6000 years old…
It’s a bit of a mystery, and as i said, most people couldn’t care less, but I just happen to be curious about these things.
Anyway, thanks once again for being so refreshingly communicative!