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- 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.
-