The Genesis Young Earth Creation Science Model (GYECM) teaches that God created the entire universe less than 10,000 years ago during six consecutive, literal days (24 hours) , as we count time today on planet Earth, according to Exodus 20:11, Exodus 31:17, Genesis 1:1-31, and Genesis 2:1-25. A few scientists refer to the Young Earth Creation Model as the Young Universe Creation Model because it describes the supernatural creation of the entire universe. Young-Earth creationists disagree with atheistic evolution, theistic evolution, old Earth progressive creationism, geocentric creationism, and gap theory creationism. They embrace microevolution, which describes biological variation of all plant and animal kinds following an original perfect creation. They completely reject Darwinian macroevolution (biological evolution of primeval species into new species).
The Young Earth Creation Science Theory argues that natural selection and genetic mutations cannot create new genetic information under natural conditions; therefore, macroevolution is simply impossible. This theory teaches that secular scientists do not base evolution on the scientific method, which requires observation, hypothesis, experimentation, and theory. Because scientists cannot observe evolution or conduct experiments on evolution, Darwinism is based only on hypothesis and theory, which is speculation and conjecture, but not real science.
Scientists derive this creation theory primarily from Genesis chapters one and two. The language in the Genesis creation account demonstrates that God formed all creation into existence during six literal 24-hour periods with no times occurring between the days. This theory is supported by the fact that the biblical context requires a literal 24-hour period. The author’s description specifically describes the event in a manner where a normal, common-sense reading comprehends as a literal day: “And there was evening, and there was morning, the first day” (Genesis 1:5). Additionally, every sentence in the original paleo-Hebrew language begins with the word “and.” This is good Hebrew grammar because it indicates the author builds each sentence upon the preceding statement, clearly demonstrating that the days were consecutive and not separated by long periods or epochs. The Genesis creation history reveals that God’s Words are creative, authoritative, and omnipotent. God accomplishes His creative work primarily by speaking things into existence, which is another indication of the power and authority of His Word.
GOD’S CREATION METHOD
God creates by the power of His words. This means that God spoke the universe into existence from invisible energy, according to Psalm 33:9, Isaiah 45:11-12, John 1:1-5, and Hebrew 11:3. This explanation makes no sense until we study quantum physics and string theory where we learn the relationship between invisible energy and visible matter. All matter has atoms, which have protons, neutrons, and electrons. Within these subatomic particles are quarks. Beyond the quarks are smaller energy particles, which behave like vibrating strings, generating waves of energy. This means that the correct quantum vibration of energy can generate and shape matter. String theory demonstrates that quantum physics support the Genesis creation history. Today, the most self-consistent string theories propose 11 dimensions; four correspond to the three ordinary spatial dimensions and time, while the rest are believed to be curled up and not perceptible to humanity, according to some creation researchers.
God also creates through a process of first forming and later filling. The first three days describe God forming the universe while the last three days records God filling the universe, according to Dr. Weston Fields. In other words, God form the light on the First Day before filling the universe with stars, galaxies, planets, and moons on the Fourth Day. God formed the Earth’s atmosphere and ocean on the Second Day before filling the sky and sea with flying creatures and marine life forms on the Fifth Day. God formed a single landmass on the Third Day before filling the supercontinent with land animals and humankind on the Sixth Day (Genesis 1:1-31 NKJV). From Genesis to Revelation, God is always forming order out of chaos, light out of darkness, life out of death, and success out of failure. Today, God is continually forming and filling the lives of believers daily.
LENGTH OF THE CREATION DAYS
According to young Earth creationists, we can determine the exact time frame of the whole creation week because Genesis 1:1-31, Exodus 20:11, and Exodus 31:17 all say that God made the universe in six ordinary days before he stopped working on day seven. Yet, critics of the young Earth creation model point out that the Hebrew word for “DAY” has variable meanings. In Genesis 1:5, the author uses the same word as a term for a period of light. In Genesis 1:8 and Genesis 1:13 it appears to mean a day of 24 hours. In Genesis 1:14 and Genesis 1:16 it appears to refer to a 12-hour day. In Genesis 2:4, it appears to cover the whole period of creation. In passages such as Joel 3:18, Acts 2:20, and John 16:23, “that day” appears to mean the whole Christian era. In passages such as 2 Timothy 1:12 the expression seems to refer to the era beyond the Lord’s Second Coming. In addition, in Psalm 90:4 and 2 Peter 3:8, “With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like one day.” In Number 14:34, Ezekiel 4:6, and Daniel 9:1-12 a day refers to a year. However, young Earth creationists argue that many of these days are prophetic days related to biblical prophecy, but never the literal numerical days of Genesis history. The Hebrew words used for ‘day’ (YOM) and ‘days'(YAMIM) in Genesis Chapter One leave no room for long creation days. The author employs the words such as the first day, the second day in the Holy Scriptures to describe literal days. When it says one day, two days, six days and the like, it always means literal days. The use of the definite article ‘the’ in the designation of the days imply a literal 24-hour day. The specific mentioning of the day cycle, “it was EVENING and it was MORNING’” further supports a literal solar day in the rendering of the word day throughout Genesis chapter one. If these days represented long periods, no life would survive with long periods of light followed by long periods of darkness. Earth’s temperature would be unbearably too hot or too cold. Because all life is interdependent, living systems had to appear in a short time to stay alive for mutual survival. Adam was created on the sixth day, and he died 930 years later (Genesis 5:5), which does not allow any room for long evolutionary periods. Additionally, because the six days form three pairs (days 1 and 4; days 2 and 5; days 3 and 6), the timeframe of the creation week appears to have been short. In the first of each pair, God forms the realm into existence, which He later fills with the objects or beings, which He creates in the second pair. Therefore, God reveals the creation week to Moses through a process of first FORMING and later FILLING in six literal days.
THE FIRST CREATION DAY – UNIVERSE
On the first day, God forms the entire universe with the creation of time, space, and matter. The Holy Scriptures begins with the universe’s creation when Moses wrote the words “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth” (Genesis 1:1 NKJV). The word for beginning sketches the creation of time. The word for heaven describes the creation of space. And the word for Earth describes the creation of matter. In other words, this first verse describes formation of the space-time dimension along with invisible energy transformation into all matter, which is explained in Albert Einstein’s famous E=MC2 equation. This equation sketches the energy conversion into matter. The second verse describes the Earth after its original formation and after the universe’s creation: “Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness covered the Earth’s watery surface and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters” (Genesis 1:2 NKJV).
The original universe was unformed and unfilled because it had no galaxies, no stars, no planets (except Earth), and no moons. The darkness of outer space decorated the cosmos and only the planet Earth existed. The original planet Earth was unformed and unfilled because it existed as a gigantic mass of empty water (Genesis 1:2 NKJV). God’s Spirit moved on the watery mass and generated a spherical shape. All life on Earth depends on water to survive and function properly. Water allows plants to perform photosynthesis. Humans and animals need water to stay hydrated and for cellular respiration to work. Water contains the integration of hydrogen and oxygen (H2O). The Earth’s surface is the perspective of the entire creation history. This means that after Genesis 1:1, the author describes the whole creation account from the perspective of a geocentric orientation or from the view of the planet Earth’s surface.
God illuminates the first day when He said, “let there be light” (Genesis 1:3-5 NKJV). The light that reached the Earth was not natural sunlight. This form of light was electric plasma light originating from plasma matter somewhere in outer space because God did not create the galaxies, stars, planets, and moons until creation day four. Plasma is the four state or phase of matter. Pure Elements or chemical compounds can move from one phase to another when specific physical conditions are present. Scientifically, when the Temperature of a system goes up, the matter in the system becomes more excited and active then it starts moving to a higher energy state. If energy is added matter moves to a more active state. Physicists describe plasma as the fourth state of matter having positive and negative particles with overall zero or neutral charges at an approximation. Plasma does not have a definite shape or a definite volume. Plasma- occurs at very high temperatures. For example, when we heat water to about 1,500 degrees F it will become plasma. It is too cold for most matter to reach the plasma state on Earth. Our sun and small stars are made of plasma. The most remarkable feature of plasma is that under the influence of magnetic field, it may form structures like filaments or beams. Scientists and engineers can generate plasma with the application of an electric field on a gas. The plasma pulls electrons free from the atoms and they can move independently; the plasma charges individual atoms, even though the total number of positive and negative charges is equal, maintaining overall electrical neutrality. Solar wind is the plasma of charged particles coming out of the Sun in all directions, according to astronomer and researcher Barry Setterfield.
THE SECOND CREATION DAY – EARTH’S ATMOSPHERE
On the second day, God forms the Earth’s atmosphere when He divided the waters by creating the firmament. The pre-flood atmosphere was superior to the post flood atmosphere. This primeval atmosphere facilitated optimum genetic expression in all living systems, which contributed to the worldwide gigantism and longevity in all pre-flood life forms discovered in the fossil record. The Holy Scriptures describes this atmosphere as the firmament. The “waters above the firmament” describe the watery clouds surrounding the pre-flood Earth and the water in outer space. In other words, the firmament included the first heaven where the clouds move and the birds fly, and it included the second heaven where the Sun, Moon, and stars are located. However, the firmament did not include the third heaven where God and the angels reside. Additionally, God did not call this day good in the Masoretic Text, but in the Greek Septuagint God said this day was good.
The Earth’s pre-flood atmosphere contributed to the primeval longevity and gigantism observed in all living system found throughout the fossil record. This probably accounts for the much longer life spans of the patriarchs recorded in the Bible where they lived to be over 900 years. The formation of Earth’s atmosphere formed a barrier between the waters above and the waters below. The atmosphere is the Gaseous envelope that surrounds the planet Earth. Near the surface, it has a well-defined chemical composition. In addition to gases, the atmosphere contains solid and liquid particles in suspension. Today the scientific community has divided the atmosphere into five main layers: in ascending order, the troposphere (surface 10–13 kilometers); the stratosphere (50 kilometers); the mesosphere (50 to 80 kilometers); the thermosphere (80 to 480 kilometers); and the exosphere (from 480 kilometers). Most of the atmosphere consists of neutral atoms and molecules, but in the ionosphere, a significant fraction is electrically charged. The ionosphere begins near the top of the stratosphere but is most distinct in the thermosphere.
THE THIRD CREATION DAY – THE SUPERCONTINENT
On the third day, God formed a gigantic landmass, a vast ocean, and plant life. The formation of the Earth’s super-continent included three main layers: the crust (on the outside), the mantle (underneath the crust), and the core (the Earth’s center). God made the core with an inner core and an outer core. Creation scientists sometime refer to the supercontinent that God made as Pangaea. Before the global flood, Pangaea covered about half the Earth and a world ocean called Panthalassa surrounded Pangaea. Early during the global flood, Pangaea began to break apart. Its segments, Laurasia (composed of all the present-day northern continents) and Gondwana (the present-day southern continents) gradually receded during the early post-flood days of Peleg (Genesis 10:25 NKJV), resulting in the formation of the Atlantic and Indian oceans. This means that 50 percent landmass and 50 percent water probably covered the pre-flood Earth’s surface, according to many creation science researchers. Some of the Earth’s water was located in deep chambers beneath the solid ground. This means that during the third creation day, the Earth changed from a watery sphere into a planet with an irregular surface with ocean basins and a single continental landmass covered with plant life. The plant life existed in the super-ocean and on the landmass in great diversity (Genesis 1:9-13 NKJV).
The super-ocean Panthalassa existed with the supercontinent Pangaea during the pre-flood generations. This ocean included the Pacific Ocean to the west and north and the Tethys Ocean to the southeast. This ocean became the Pacific Ocean, following the closing of the Tethys basin and the breakup of Pangaea, which created the Atlantic, Arctic, and Indian Ocean basins following the great flood. Scientists often call the Pan thalassic the Paleo-Pacific (“old Pacific”) because the Pacific Ocean developed from the great flood to the Present. Today the ocean covers nearly 75 percent of the Earth’s surface and major oceans and smaller seas divided the supercontinent. Land and submarine topographic boundaries surround the three principal oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian. Scientists call the region the Southern Ocean, the waters encircling Antarctica. Landmasses and island arcs partially enclose important marginal seas, primarily in the Northern Hemisphere… The largest are the Arctic Ocean and adjacent seas, Caribbean and adjacent waters, Mediterranean, Bering Sea, Sea of Okhotsk, Yellow and China Seas, and Sea of Japan.
The formation of plant life with self-sustaining reproductive capability was among the first life forms made on planet Earth. All living systems possess either DNA or RNA. DNA means deoxyribonucleic Acid. DNA is the chemical substance of genes. The DNA structure includes two strands wound around each other in a double helix to resemble a twisted ladder and Francis Crick and James D. Watson first described this structure. Each strand is a long chain of repeating nucleotides: adenine (A), guanine (G), cytosine (C), and thymine (T). Likewise, RNA stands for ribonucleic acid and it consists of strands of repeating nucleotides joined in chainlike fashion, but the strands are single (except in certain viruses), and it has the nucleotide uracil (U) where DNA has thymine (T).
The DNA and RNA molecules actually carry the instructions for creating the biochemical information system we call life. DNA contains the actual blueprint for building life molecules, and RNA carries that information to other parts of the cell. We should think of DNA as being like a compact disk complete with complex information, and the RNA as the CD player. Without the RNA, the cells would have no way of understanding the information contained in the DNA, which is the information that will direct the protein molecules to form or repair living cells. The instructions for building RNA are contained in the DNA. This fact would be like having a CD that contained all of the instructions explaining how to build a CD player. However, if there were no CD player to play the information on, how could we ever get those instructions out? This means that DNA and RNA are chemically codependent because God created them into existence simultaneously, according to many creation science researchers.
THE FOURTH CREATION DAY – SUN MOON STARS
On the fourth day, God filled the universe with galaxies, stars, planets, and moons from the matter and energy created on the first day. These heavenly spheres were to function as markers for years, seasons, months, weeks, and days (Genesis 1:14-19 NKJV). The sun marked the day (sunset to sunset), the moon marked the month (new moon to new moon), and the stars marked the seasons (spring, summer, winter, and autumn). The pre-flood year was 360 days long, its month equaled 30 days, and its week equal seven days, according to some creation science researchers. Time as we know it began during this day; however, if we could measure the period of the first three days, each day would equal 24 hours in duration because Exodus 20:11 says God created all things in six days.
The light from the stars reach the Earth rapidly. The speed of light was faster during the creation week than it is today (300,000 km per second) because the speed of light has been slowing down since the creation week, according to astronomer Barry Setterfield. Animals and plants were able to survive faster light speed because the pre-flood atmosphere offered stronger protection from deadly outer-space radiation, according to Dr. Carl Baugh. The star light was also able to reach the planet Earth faster because of the gravitational space time dilation effect proliferating throughout the universe during the creation week, according to Dr. Russell Humphreys.
The creation of galaxies included billions of star systems and interstellar matter that make up the universe. The Galaxies vary considerably in size, composition, structure, and activity, but God arranges many of them in groups, or clusters, containing from a few galaxies to as many as 10,000. Each is composed of millions to trillions of stars. In many, as in the Milky Way Galaxy, astronomers can detect nebulae. Large fractions of the bright galaxies in the sky are spiral galaxies, with a main disk in which spiral arms wind out from the center. The Milky Way Galaxy is probably located near the center of the universe, according to Dr. Russell Humphreys. The stars in galaxies are massive celestial body of gas that shines by radiant energy generated inside it. The Milky Way Galaxy contains hundreds of billions of stars and only small fractions are visible to the unaided eye. The Sun is a star around which the components of the solar system revolve. God made this star system less than 10,000 years ago. The sun is the dominant body in our solar system, with more than 99 percent of its mass.
The creation of planets included large natural bodies orbiting the Sun or another star system. The word planet comes from the Greek for “wanderer,” because the planets’ positions change relative to those of the stars. The eight recognized planets that orbit the Sun are, in order of increasing distance, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. God created the moon to be the sole natural satellite of Earth. The moon orbits from west to east at a mean distance of approximately 384,400 kilometers. It is less than one-third the size of Earth. Its surface gravity is about one-sixth that of Earth and its gravitational pull is largely responsible for Earth’s tides. The Moon shines by reflected sunlight. It rotates on its axis in about 29.5 days, in exactly the time it takes to orbit Earth, and it therefore always presents the same face to Earth. However, that Moon’s surface reflects the Sun’s brightness at different angles as the Moon revolves around Earth, causing it to display different phases over the month, from new to full.
THE FIFTH CREATION DAY – FLYING CREATURES AND MARINE ANIMALS
On the fifth day, God filled the sky with flying creatures and the ocean with marine life forms. These creatures included fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, birds, and insects. The fossil record show that these creatures were larger in size probably because they lived longer in an environment designed for maximum genetic expression. God created many other life forms during the Fifth Day, but the author of Genesis only mentions the fishes and birds. God blessed them and said, “Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth.” (Genesis 1:20-23 NKJV). Furthermore, when God created all marine life forms and all flying creatures, this was probably the time when God made flying insects also. God made all of these creatures with the ability to perpetuate their kind through biological reproduction. The creatures made on Day 5 are the first creatures blessed by God.
The creation of marine reptiles included the ancestors of the Leviathan. The Leviathan is the marine animal described by God in the book of Job (chapter 41) as a terrifying fire-breathing sea monster. The author describes the creature as a strong beast with a tough outer “armor”. Strongmen could not pull out the beasts with fishhooks and no warrior dares to fight the animal. This animal breathed fire and snorted out smoke. The Leviathan is a reference to an extinct animal that was alive and known to those that lived during the pre-flood and early post flood eras. This animal was probably a plesiosaur, such as the Kronosaurus, others have proposes it was the giant armored crocodile Sarcosuchus. The creation of flying reptiles included the Pterosaurs. God designed their wings with a membrane of skin, muscle, and other tissues stretching from the ankles to a dramatically lengthened fourth finger. God made some kinds with long, fully toothed jaws, and long tails, while other kinds had a highly reduced tail, and some lacked teeth. Many sported furry coats made up of hair-like filaments, which covered their bodies and parts of their wings.
THE SIXTH CREATION DAY – LAND ANIMALS AND HUMANKIND
On the sixth day, God filled the Earth’s landmass with animals, and humankind. This day’s work included the creation of land dwelling insects, reptiles, and mammals, flightless birds, along with sauropod and theropod dinosaurs. God created many other living systems during the Sixth Day, but Moses only mentions a few creatures and humankind. The global flood and post-flood climatic transformations caused massive extinctions that decimated many land animal kinds created on the sixth day. Paleontologists find the remains of many pre-flood animal kinds within the fossil record. God replenished the post-flood Earth with animals with superior capacity to adapt to changing environments. (Genesis 1:24-31 NKJV).
BEHEMOTH
The behemoth is a large animal mentioned in Job 40:15–24 as God addresses Job. God’s description of this animal focuses on its great size and strength in comparison to Job’s smallness and human frailty. The biblical description uses the word behemoth to mean “anything of monstrous size or power.” Liberal skeptics identify the behemoth as a hippopotamus, a rhinoceros, or an elephant. However, the description of its cedar-like tail in Job 40:17 hardly fits the stubby or rope-like tails of those animals. Another theory is that Job 40 describes a dinosaur such as a diplodocus or an Apatosaurus. These sauropods were the largest of all land animals, they were marsh-loving plant-eaters with tails as long as trees, and they were all called “kings” of the beasts.
The author reveals that God created each living creature on the land “according to their kind.” This refutes the notion that all species of animals evolved from a single, common, primeval organism. It supports the scientific evidence that living creatures have adapted over time to their environment, while there is no convincing evidence that one species of animal has evolved into another. God created humankind in His own image. God saw everything that He had made, and it was “good” (1:4, 10, 12, 18, 21, 25, 31). It is interesting to note that God declared all that he had made on the sixth day “very good” perhaps to stress the relative significance of this day in comparison to the prior days.
Before God creates humankind, the Creator takes counsel with Himself (God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit), and “God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness’” (Genesis 1:26). These words are an early revelation of the Divine Trinity and they are part of the foundation for such, as God reveals an “us” within the Godhead. God makes humankind, and humankind is made in the image of God (men and women are made in God’s Triune image) and we are special above all other life forms. To emphasize this fact, God places humanity in authority over the Earth and over all the other life forms. God blesses humankind and commands them to reproduce, fill the Earth and subdue it. God announces that humankind and all other land animals are to eat plants alone. God’s creative work is complete by the conclusion of the Sixth Day. God formed the entire universe in all its beauty and perfection in six literal, consecutive, 24-hour days. At the completion of His creation, God announces that His creation was very good.
According to many creation science researchers, the first humans probably had medium-brown skin complexion before all the different ethnic populations came into existence during the early post-flood era. The Hebrew name Adam means red-man probably because God formed Adam out of the reddish-brown pre-flood Earth. Pre-flood humanity was a single ethnic population with minor variations in physical appearance because the pre-flood super-continent contained similar weather and climatic conditions worldwide. Pre-flood humans lived longer than all post-flood human populations because the pre-flood climate was designed for maximum genetic expression. The human remains of Homo Erectus, Homo Neanderthals, and Homo Sapiens belong to human beings who were living during the early post-flood era, but most of the remains of pre-flood humanity are primarily lost to history. Today, only Homo Sapiens (modern thinking man) remain alive generations after the early post-flood period.
THE SEVENTH CREATION DAY – SABBATH REST
On the Seventh Day, God concluded His work on creation; and He RESTED, not because God was tired, but because the seventh day of the creation week was a type of the Sabbath. This appears to reflect Exodus 20:11 when Moses wrote that “For in six days the Lord made Heaven and Earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the SEVENTH day; wherefore the Lord blessed the SABBATH day, and hallowed it.” According to the paleo-Hebrew in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Greek Septuagint version of the Holy Bible, this passage says that God CEASE from working (Genesis 2:1-2 NKJV and LXX), which indicates that God was never tired, but that God only stopped working on the seventh day. In other words, this day reveals that God is establishing a pattern of one day in the seven-day week for humankind to rest, to reflect, to worship, and to enjoy life. The keeping of this day will eventually be a distinguishing trait of God’s chosen people (Exodus 20:8-11).
THE NUMBER SEVEN
The seventh day shows the significance of the number seven. The first use of the number seven in the Bible relates to the creation week in Genesis chapters one and two. God spends six days creating the heavens and the earth, and then rests on the seventh day. This is our template for the seven-day week, observed around the world to this day. The seventh day was to be “set apart” for Israel and the Sabbath was a holy day of rest (Deuteronomy 5:12 NKJV). Thus, right at the start of the Bible, readers identify the number seven with something being “finished” or “complete.” From then on, that association continues because we find number seven in contexts involving completeness or divine perfection. Therefore, we see the command for animals to be at least seven days old before being used for sacrifice (Exodus 22:30). The command for leprous Naaman to bathe in the Jordan River seven times to effect complete cleansing (2 Kings 5:10). God commands Joshua to march around Jericho for seven days (and on the seventh day to make seven circuits), and for seven priests to blow seven trumpets outside the city walls (Joshua 6:3–4). In these instances, seven signifies a completion of some kind when we fulfill God’s divine mandate.
YOUNG EARTH CREATION SUMMARY AND ANALYSIS
Many creation science researchers believe the young Earth creation science theory is the most biblical and scientific view. They are convinced that this theory reveals how God created the Universe less than 10,000 years ago before renovating it and creating all known life forms on Earth in six consecutive, literal days (24 hours) , as we count time today on planet Earth (Exodus 20:11). One potential problem for this creation theory is the science of astronomy. If the light from a star is 10 million light years away, then that light presumably takes 10 million years to reach the planet earth, and astronomers are witnessing ancient history. While God could have created the light in such a manner to appear much older than it really is, how does an astronomer explain star explosions from distant places in the universe? Do astronomers witness explosions from stars that never existed? Do these explosions somehow exceed the known speed of light (300,000 kilometers per second)? Alternatively, is it possible that the universe is much older than young-earth creation science researchers believe it is? Many young earth creation astronomers answer these questions with scientific research indicating that the universe expanded rapidly during the creation week causing gravitational space time dilation, according to astrophysicist Dr. Russell Humphreys. Additionally, they argue that the speed of light was faster during the past than it is today, according to astrophysicist Barry Setterfield. In other words, the slowing down of light-speed along with the gravitational space time dilation effect makes the universe both 16 billion years old and less than 10,000 years old, according to Dr. Chuck Missler.
The Young Earth creation theory appears to be the most biblically consistent view because the Holy Scriptures reveal that God always create things fully functional and instantaneously with little or no time involved. For example, when Moses threw his staff down on the ground, God transformed it into a snake immediately (Exodus 4:3, 7:10-12) because no evolution was necessary for the Creator. Furthermore, Messiah Yeshua who is God manifest in human flesh (John 1-14, 1-Timothy 3:16) never used evolution or progressive creation to accomplish His miracles recorded in the four gospels. Therefore, the Young Earth creation view is clearly the most biblical because all other creation theories attempt to mix philosophical naturalism with biblical supernaturalism. Additionally, we must understand that the author never intended for the Genesis account of creation to be a complete scientific explanation of creation history nor did the author intended this history to be a complete catalogue of all the humans and animals living in the past. We should realize that it would have been impossible for any human author to write all this history. When Messiah Yeshua was resurrected, He showed His disciples many signs that John said could not all be written in a book (John. 20:30 NKJV). In other words, the primary purpose of Genesis creation account was to highlight the major creative acts of God, which portends God’s plan for humanity.
Genesis chapter one reveals the first account of creation, while Genesis chapter two discusses the second creation account by showing the details of the Sixth Day. The first chapter reveals that God calls the universe into existence in an orderly and symmetrical manner. The words UNFORMED and UNFILLED provide a structure for the six days of creation. The first three days of forming corresponds to the last three days of filling. The author presents God as the Supreme Being, who commands the universe into existence. The words “God said and God saw that it was good,” offers shape to the creation history because these key words introduce every act of creation, while emphasizing the perfection of God’s work. Each creation day begins in the evening and concludes in the morning because the ancient Israelites calculated the day from sunset to sunset, which explains why the author mentions evening before morning. The seventh day is the beginning of human history; therefore, it has no evening or morning. Genesis 1: 27 reveal that Humankind (man and woman) reflects God in a spiritual rather than a physical sense. God grants humanity the power and capability to rule, create, and make moral decisions. The creation history takes place over seven days because seven is God’s number of completion.
Finally, many critics of the Young Earth Creation theory argue that its supporters embrace hyper-literalism and over interpretation. Atheists and agnostics often attack the Holy Scriptures with Hyper-literalism because many critics of the Sacred Scriptures fail to understand that the Holy Bible uses the visual language of the Middle Eastern paleo-Hebrew culture and not the language of precise scientific description. Although the Young Earth Creation theory appears to be consistent with the Holy Scriptures, some biblical scholars and creation scientists reject this theory because they believe the Holy Bible and scientific observations are against its conclusions. Therefore, while this theory appears to be the most concrete and direct interpretation of the Genesis creation account, it ignores biblical creation passages outside of Genesis and it ignores huge volumes of scientific literature related to the subject of origins. This analysis does not mean the Genesis Young Earth Creation Theory is wrong, but the scientific community needs more science data to confirm the Genesis young Earth creation history.
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