The Logic of Creation 4

THE LOGIC OF CREATION #4

not allow even the possibility of evolution, since everything was created “after its kind” (Genesis 1:24), and since, after 6 days of creating and making things, God “rested from all His work” (Genesis 2:3), and so is no longer using processes which “create” things, as theistic evolutionists believe. Instead, He now is “upholding all things” (Hebrews 1:3) through His law of conservation–the “First Law.”

The entrance of sin into the world brought a disordering principle into the Creator’s perfect creation, in the form of God’s “curse” on the ” whole creation”–the princip[le of decay and death–the “Second Law.” Thus, the natural laws now governing the processes of the universe are not laws of origin and developement, as evolution requires, but of conservation and decay, in accordance with the truth of primeval special creation.

If we wish to know how long it took for God to make all things, we can learn this from His Genesis record–and only there–since we cannot legitimately project present processes back into the creation period.

That account says He did it in six days of worl followed by a day of rest, thus providing the pattern by which men and women were to order their daily lives throughout history. Ever since that first week, people have actually done this–even those who reject His account of creation!

“But how long were those days?” someone may still ask. Only God can answer that question, and He does define His terms! “God called the light Day,” says the account, in the very first use of the word “day” in the Bible (Genesis 1:5). The”day” thus is the light-period in the diurnil light/darkness cycle, which began on “the first day,” and has continued every day since.

“But what about the evidences for the earth’s great age?” others will ask. The answer is that there are no such evidences! All caculations that purport to give this kind of evidence are based on present natural processes, and, as we have seen, it is not legitimate to project these into the principle of decay, and these can never be assumed to have operated uniformily in the past.

Although Thermodynamics
specifies that all preocesses must be decay processes, the rate of decay depends on the science of kinetics–not thermodynamics. Every process functions at its own rate, which may, and does vary widely with time, depending on how the many “variables” which control it happen to vary.

If one allows for the tremendous acceleration of most processes at the time of the global hydraulic cataclysm described in Genesis, he will conclude that these processes, instead of pointing to the earth’ s great age, really point to the earth’s great Flood!

Even this brief summary demonstrates the logic of Biblical creationism.