Day 5- Genesis 1: 20-23 All fish, water reptiles/mammals, birds
For everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with gratitude; 
1 Timothy 4:4

Reading:
Praise the Lord from the earth, you great sea creatures and all ocean depths…
Psalm 148:7

So many times we see science changing it’s mind. Dinosaurs came from birds. Whales started out on land. Everything came from primordial ooze. Life started as a one-celled amoeba. (Where did THAT cell start from?) It’s more like every explanation gets a little more complicated, a little more outlandish. 

When Charles Darwin wrote his ‘Origins’, he had not set out to prove there was or was not a god. From what I can gather he was a ‘deist’, in that he believed in a ‘god’-or, rather a supreme creator of some sort-but rather than ‘creating’ everything this ‘god’ started the ball rolling, as it were and stepped back to watch how things went. So when we look at a bird, instead of seeing a complex creation we see a mass of cells that just ‘happened’. I wonder if Darwin ever stopped to think of the mathematical significance of the ‘chance’ that was needed for a fish to breath underwater instead of fly and the bird to fly through the air and not swim.

It isn’t enough to say ‘these things just happen’. The creation story invites us to look at every aspect and wonder not at ‘how’, rather to look in wonder at the whole. In doing so at some point we need to look at the evidence and instead of trying to explain it away, accept what is staring back at us. ‘God created…’ Let’s investigate the Creator, and in doing so we can start by truly seeing the creation as His creation.

Scriptural Concepts:
Worthy are you, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they existed and were created.
Revelation 4:11

It makes the depths churn like a boiling caldron and stirs up the sea like a pot of ointment. It leaves a glistening wake behind it; one would think the deep had white hair. Nothing on earth is its equal—a creature without fear.
Job 41:31-33

Prayer: