The Genesis Creation Renovation Theory argues that the creation week’s first day began in Genesis 1:2-3 following God’s original creation of the Heavens and the Earth (Universe) as described in Genesis 1:1. After God created the universe, the planet Earth existed as a water-covered planet for an unknown time (Genesis 1:2). In other words, God first created the physical universe of galaxies and stars before creating the planet Earth. God later renovated the Earth’s surface before placing life on the planet Earth (Genesis 1:3-31). The Genesis Creation Week days were six 24-hour days. God created the entire universe, the planet Earth, and life an unknown time ago (Genesis 1:1). This theory also argue that portions of the Holy Scriptures employ the language of visual appearance, but never the language of precise scientific description. Therefore, during the period of Genesis 1:1, God created the whole universe, but after Genesis 1:1 and beginning in Genesis 1:2, the author tells creation history from a geocentric Earth bound orientation or from the perspective of the Earth’s surface or from a geocentric orientation.
Some biblical scholars and creation scientists embrace the Genesis Creation Renovation Theory because this creation model appears to be consistent with biblical interpretations and modern scientific explanations about the order of creation. Their basic assumptions argue that the universe was already there with all the heavenly bodies. They believe the sun is located at the center of the solar system with planets revolving around the sun. The Earth is rotating on its axis and revolving around the sun just as it is today. However, the land mass was submerged in water, and there was a dark envelope over the Earth’s surface environment (Job 38:8-9; Genesis 1:2). In addition, the Genesis creation renovation theory rejects atheistic Darwinism, philosophical naturalism, secular materialism, theistic evolutionism, old Earth progressive creationism, gap theory re-creationism, young Earth heliocentric creationism, and young Earth geocentric creationism. The following information explains the Genesis creation renovation theory’s interpretation of the Genesis creation account.
Creation of the universe (Genesis 1:1)
Before the creation week started, God made the universe: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth” (Genesis 1:1). This single verse describes the supernatural transformation of pure energy into all the basic forms of matter (as expressed in Albert Einstein’s popular E=MC2 equation). In other words, the E=MC2 equation illustrates the energy transformation into galaxies, stars, planets, moons and everything else, which would eventually include all physical life forms and humankind. The next verse describes the planet Earth following its creation and sometime after the creation of the universe: “Now the Earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and The Spirit of God was hovering over the waters” (Genesis 1:2).
God did not produce the universe through some primeval cosmic accident. God supernaturally and intricately planned the conditions of creation. A mindless uncontrolled “big bang” would result in destruction and chaos, not the complexity, predictability, and life the scientific community observes today. On the other hand, what probably occurred was a great initial expansion of physical matter, which had just been supernaturally transformed from pure energy, followed by orderly development (from natural laws put into force beforehand by the Creator: gravitational force, electromagnetic force, strong nuclear force, and weak nuclear force) of stars, galaxies and everything else, is reasonable, rational, and logical. Therefore, what follows, in the seven 24-hour days on the Earth’s surface, is a description of the forming of substance already created in preparation for the creation of life and humankind.
While the Holy Scriptures offer no dates for the creation of the universe, many young Earth creation scientists believe God made the universe less than 10,000 years ago. According to astronomer Barry Setterfield’s research on the speed of light decay, the universe is approximately 8,000 years old (6,000 BCE). According to Dr. Russell Humphrey’s research on gravitational space-time dilation, God made the universe from a white whole roughly 6,000 years ago (4,000 BCE). However, old Earth creation scientists as Dr. Hugh Ross and Dr. John Lennox believe the universe is between 10 and 16 billion years old. According to Dr. Gerald Schroeder and Dr. Chuck Missler, the universe is both 6,000 and 15,000 years old because of the gravitational space-time dilation effect during the creation week. Secular scientists and academics argue that the universe is 13,700,000,000 years old, the planet Earth is 4,600,000,000 years old, and life evolved on Earth around 3,600,000,000 years ago. However, many of the age of the universe arguments from atheists, naturalists, evolutionists, theistic evolutionist, and progressive creationists originates from their belief in the corruptions of philosophical naturalism rather than scientific observations and unbiased experiments. Today, the secular scientific community has failed to develop the technology required to determine the precise age for the universe, planet Earth, or life. This type of technology is difficult to develop because dating the age of the universe with the substance inside the universe is like trying to determine the age of a watch based on the time it shows. This means observers cannot know the exact age of the watch or the age of the watchmaker, according to Dr. Lee Warren. The Holy Scriptures teaches that the universe came into existence supernaturally and each day of the creation week was 24-hours long.
Length of the Creation Days
According to the creation renovation theory, the creation week included seven literal days without gaps because Genesis 1:1-31, Exodus 20:11, and Exodus 31:17 all say that God made the HEAVENS and the EARTH in six ordinary days before He stopped working on the seventh day. However, critics point out that the Hebrew word for “DAY” has variable meanings. In Genesis 1:5, the author used it 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. Nevertheless, 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 always uses 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.
Creation Day One (GENESIS 1:2-5)
The first day began when God said “let there be light” (Genesis 1:3 NKJV). This form of light illuminated the Earth’s dark surface. God made the sun moon and stars in Genesis 1:1, but the creation scene shifts to the Earth’s water covered surface in Genesis 1:2. The original Earth existed in a condition of waste, emptiness, darkness, and lifelessness before God’s light penetrated the Earth’s thick dark atmosphere. God covered the entire planet Earth in a global sea following its original creation, according to modern science and the Holy Scriptures (Genesis 1:2). In other words, when God made the Earth in Genesis 1:1, He formed the crust, mantle, and core during the beginning, and He covered the planet Earth with water. The mantle lies between Earth’s dense, super-heated core and its thin outer layer, the crust. Earth’s mantle is a silicate rocky shell with an average thickness of 2,886 kilometers. The mantle makes up over 80 percent of Earth’s volume. The Earth’s surface would appear on creation day three (Genesis 1:9-10 NKJV).
When God said, “let there be light” in Genesis 1:3, some creation scientists believe that this was plasma light reaching the planet Earth somewhere in outer space (Setterfield, 2007). For many of these creation researchers, the plasma universe model better explains the Genesis creation account and the light sources. Nevertheless, other creation scientists believe that this form of light was supernatural light originating from the Creator Himself (Baugh, 2000) because the lights from the sun, moon, and stars were not bright or strong enough to penetrate the thick darkness surrounding the whole Earth on creation day one. God’s light is much brighter than the noonday sun because Paul said Messiah Yeshua appeared to him as light brighter than the noonday sun (Acts 9:15). The Earth’s primeval atmosphere was very dark that only God’s light could remove the darkness. We read elsewhere in Scripture that God is light (1-John 1:5 NKJV). The Lord Jesus said, “I am the light of the world” (John 8:12 NKJV). We read in Revelation 21:22-24 that the Earth’s inhabitants have no need of the sun because God’s light illuminates the Earth’s atmosphere (Baugh, 2000).
However, other biblical scholars contend that this day began with natural sunlight shining on the Earth; but, it would not be until creation day four when the sun, moon, and stars would be visible to an observer who was grounded on the Earth. The first act of creation was the allowing of light into existence; it was not the creation of light itself. Sunlight was the source of the light that fell to earth. However, it was impossible to see the sun because the sky was dark and cloudy. The planet Earth already existed when God began the surface renovation of the planet Earth on the first day of creation (Dr. T.V. Oommen, 2006).
Additionally, when the Spirit of God hovered over the water covered Earth before He separated the light from the darkness, the Creator revealed the perspective of the whole creation week. The author tells the entire creation history in Genesis 1:2-31 from the perspective of the Earth’s surface. We should imagine an Earth bound observer looking across horizontally and upward vertically from a geocentric orientation. Therefore, the planet Earth passed out of its dark history and into its bright future. Every day’s work was an advance on the previous day’s work, and every day begins with an EVENING and ends with a MORNING.
Creation Day Two (GENESIS 1:6-8)
On the second day, God separated the waters. There was liquid water, a global super ocean. Some of the water was in the form of a global super fog extending a number of kilometers up from the Earth’s surface. God’s “hovering over the waters” in verse 2 describes His being above that vaporous and watery atmosphere. God then caused more of the water to condense onto the Earth, which cleared up the sky (Genesis 1:6-8 NKJV). The expanse, called “sky,” is the atmosphere, or layer of air between the water-covered Earth and the clouds above. Because the Firmament is called Heaven, and by the word Heaven we are to understand the Earth’s atmosphere, implies that the newly created Earth had no atmosphere, and it was not adapted to the formation of clouds, which in the form of vapor designed to support water. God’s work on creation “Day Two” primarily included the adjustment of the atmosphere to the needs of the pre-flood Earth.
Today a few creation scientists believe that God created a transparent pre-flood vaporous water canopy surrounding the whole water covered Earth. However, many other biblical scholars and creation science researchers believe that the Hebrew word for firmament or expanse is an example of phenomenological language, where author describes things not in scientific verifiable terminology, but merely as they appear to the common observer. However, if the canopy theory were correct, then this would explain why plants and animals experience gigantism and longevity during the pre-flood generations. The creation of this pre-flood water canopy made the pre-flood Earth’s temperature warm worldwide. There were no major variations of temperature over the entire Earth because of the “greenhouse effect” created by the pre-flood water canopy in the stratosphere. The pre-flood water canopy theory explains the blocking of dangerous outer-space rays and ultraviolet radiation. This canopy prevented many genetic mutations of pre-flood plants, animals, and human beings.
This primeval atmosphere facilitated optimum genetic expression in all living systems, which contributed to the worldwide gigantism and longevity in all life forms discovered in the fossil record. During the pre-flood era, Adam lived 930 years, Seth lived 912 years, Enosh lived 905 years, Kenan lived 910 years, Mahalalel lived 895 years, Jared lived 962 years, Enoch lived 365 years, Methuselah lived 969 years, Lamech lived 777 years, and Noah lived 950 years. Many gigantic fossilized remains of fishes, amphibians, reptiles, mammals, and birds originated from the pre-flood and early post-flood eras. The Holy Scriptures describes this superior atmosphere as the firmament. God probably made the firmament as solids, liquids, gases, plasmas, and space. In addition, the author does not mention the repeated words, “And God saw that it was GOOD”, in this Day’s work, as it is mentioned of the other days’ work, according to the Hebrew Masoretic Text (MT) and NKJV. However, according to the Greek Septuagint, God’s work on the Second day was GOOD.
Creation Day Three (GENESIS 1:9-13)
On the third day, God formed a super-continent, a super-ocean, and plant life. The formation of the Earth’s super-continent originated from the Earth’s crust. The Earth has three main layers: the crust (on the outside), the mantle (underneath the crust), and the core (the Earth’s center). God made these layers in the beginning (Genesis 1:1), but God allowed the super-continent to appear on day three (Genesis 1:9-13). 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, which 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) eventually separated during the early post-flood days of Peleg (Genesis 10:25 NKJV), resulting in the formation of the Atlantic and Indian oceans. God probably covered the pre-flood Earth’s surface with 50 percent landmass and 50 percent water, with most of the water in the crusts of the Earth, according to many creation science researchers. Most 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. The super-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. Scientist often calls 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 God divided it into major oceans and smaller seas. The three principal oceans, the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian, are largely land and submarine topographic boundaries. Scientists sometimes called the Southern Ocean as the waters encircling Antarctica. Landmasses or 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. 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 and God created them into existence simultaneously, according to many creation science researchers.
Creation Day Four (GENESIS 1:14-19, NKJV)
On the fourth day, God allowed the sun, moon, and stars to appear. Before this day, the sun, moon, and stars were invisible. In other words, another significant atmospheric alteration happened on the fourth day of creation, this time over the ocean. The sky shifted from translucent to transparent, from clouded to clear, as if it were a moving picture. The Sun, the Moon, and the stars became clearly visible from the surface of the Earth because of that remarkable metamorphosis. God did not create these celestial bodies on the fourth day of creation. Rather, on that day, He made them visible and distinguished for the first time to an observer who was rather close to the surface of the Earth’s atmosphere (Ross, 2015). God transformed the upper atmosphere from a translucent sky into a transparent sky. The sun, moon, and stars were to “serve as signs to mark the seasons, months, and days.” The sun measured the day (sunset to sunset), the moon measured the month (new moon to new moon), and the stars measured the seasons (Genesis 1:14-19 NKJV). The appearance of the sun and the moon on the Fourth day was not a new creation. They had existed in the beginning (Genesis 1:1 NKJV). The words translated “made” in the 16th verse is not the same word as is translated “created” in verse one, and does not imply a “creative” act. What is meant here is that the clouds broke away and permitted the sun and moon to be seen, and from that time, they were appointed to measure the days, years, and seasons as we have them today. If light speed has remained constant since the beginning (Genesis 1:1), then these stars were there for millions and even billions of years ago because light takes millions and even billions of years to reach the Earth from the distant stars when traveling at 300,000 (186,282 miles per second) kilometers per second. However, if light speed was faster in the past than its current speed today, then light from distant stars could have reach the Earth in thousands of years.
The creation of stars and galaxies occurred “in the beginning” (Genesis 1:1 NKJV) and they included billions of star systems and interstellar matter that make up the universe. The Galaxies vary considerably in size, composition, structure, and activity, but nearly all are arranged 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, nebulae can be detected. A large fraction of the bright galaxies in the sky is 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. This star system is the dominant body in our solar system, with more than 99 percent of its mass.
The creation of planets occurred “in the beginning” (Genesis 1:1 NKJV) and they 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. The moon was created 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, the Suns lights-up the Moon’s surface at different angles as the Moon revolves around Earth, causing it to display different phases over the month, from new to full.
Creation Day Five (GENESIS 1:20-23)
On the fifth day, God created flying creatures for the sky and marine animals for the ocean. 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 only the fishes and birds are mentioned. 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 likely the time when God made flying insects also. All of these creatures are made with the ability to perpetuate their kind by biological reproduction. The creatures made on “Day Five” 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 creature is described as a strong beast with a tough outer “armor”. He cannot be pulled out with a fishhook and no warrior dares to fight him. 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. In addition, 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. Some kinds had 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. In addition, the work of the “Fifth Day” included the first creation of animal life forms in the sea and in the air. Here is the first time we come across the word “CREATE” since we read of the original creation of the Earth in Genesis 1:1. The marine life and fly creatures that were created on the “Fifth Day” are the same animals we observe today. The fossil remains of extinct gigantic marine animals and large birds God created them on the “Fifth Day”, but they became extinct a few centuries after the great flood of Noah’s generation.
Creation Day Six (GENESIS 1:24-31)
On the sixth day, God created land 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. Many pre-flood animal kinds are only found within the fossil record. The post-flood Earth was replenished with animals with superior capacity to adapt to changing environments. (Genesis 1:24-31).
God reveals that each living creature on the land is created “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 a divine 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. In addition, God’s creative work is complete by the conclusion of the Sixth Day. At the completion of His creation, God announces that His creation was very good. The fact that God declared all the six days of creation as good indicates that the creation week could not have been very long. Therefore, the period for the creation week was short.
In addition, according to many creation science researchers, the first humans probably had medium-brown skin complexion before all the different ethnic groups came into existence during the early post-flood era. The Hebrew name Adam means red-man probably because Adam was formed out of the reddish-brown Earth somewhere on the pre-flood Earth. Pre-flood humanity was made up of 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 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 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.
Creation Day Seven (GENESIS 2:1-3, NKJV)
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 clear from Exodus 20:11 and Exodus 31:17 because 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 Dead Sea Scrolls and the Septuagint version of the bible, this passage says that God CEASE from working, which indicates that God was never tired, but that God only stopped working on the seventh day as an example to humankind.
Analysis of the Genesis Creation Renovation Theory
The creation renovation theory teaches that Moses, who is the human editor of the Genesis creation account, did not employ the language of precise scientific description in the Genesis creation account, but the language of the human senses, which is how an earth bound observer would describe what he or she sees and hears during the events of creation. In other words, the author describes the creation events from a geocentric orientation with an Earth bound observer looking across the surface, looking outward, and upward to the heavens. According to this theory, Genesis 1:1 describes God’s original creation of the universe through a cosmic expansion event originating from God’s Supernatural Word. The Word of God created the space-time dimension, all the matter and energy, and all the laws of nature and ultimately all heavenly bodies including the Earth, Sun, Moon and stars. According to this theory, the narrative shifts forward in time and changes from a cosmic panoramic perspective to an Earthly surface perspective in Genesis 1:2 (the Earth was void and dark). After the creation of the universe, God’s light penetrated the darkness and illuminate, the Earth’s water covered surface (Genesis 1:3) on the First Day. The development of the hydrological cycle began on the Second Day (Genesis 1:6). The formation of a super-continent, super-ocean, and vegetation were all completed on the Third Day (Genesis 1:9-11). Atmospheric transparency occurred on the Fourth Day where the heavenly bodies became visible (Genesis 1:14). The creation of marine and flying creatures occurred on the Fifth Day (Genesis 1:24). The creation of land animals and humankind happened on the Six Day (Genesis 1:24-26). In addition, no additional creation happened on the Seventh Day (Genesis 2:2).
When we read the biblical words, ‘after its kind’ used each time a major branch of living things is created, the word ‘Species’ is sometimes appropriate. Darwinism has never demonstrated that one species (animal kind) can transform into another. All scientific observations and evidences indicate that such major transformations are genetically impossible under natural conditions. Creation science researchers do observe minor variations within a species, and Darwinists make the false assumption that given millions of years, one species would convert to another. However, the fossil record, the thermodynamic laws, entropy, and information science have all demonstrated that biological evolution is simply impossible. The Creation history properly ends halfway in Genesis 2:4 and not with Genesis 1:31.
The creation renovation theory teaches that the Rebellion of Satan occurred after the creation week (Genesis 1:1-31; Genesis 2:1-25 NKJV), and likely before the fall of humanity as described in Genesis Chapter Three. The origin of evil occurred after the Genesis creation week because God describes the Creation Week days as GOOD. Therefore, after serving God for an unknown time during the dateless past, Satan and his fallen angels were probably cast out of the third heaven and into the second heaven before they came to planet Earth shortly after the Genesis Creation Week. Another group of fallen angels came to planet Earth and they created many hybrid human populations before and after the great flood. The great flood of Noah’s day was a global event for the purpose of destroying the Nephilim human hybrid populations of the pre-flood era (Read Genesis Chapter Six and the Book of Enoch).
Finally, the creation renovation theory appears to embrace a more scientific creation model by avoiding the hyper-literalism of the young Earth creation model. This theory does not attempt to prove that the universe and planet Earth to be either young or old, but that the readers of Genesis understand the modern scientific creation order as revealed in the scientific method and the Genesis creation account. This creation model does not completely solve the problems in science and faith because many biblical scholars do not identify any time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. Many creation scientists and biblical scholars believe that the sun, moon, and stars were created on the fourth day rather than during the creative events of Genesis 1:1. This issue does not prove
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