What am I describing Genesis or evolution?

Question

In the beginning there was void and darkness
Then light appeared and night and day appeared.
Then there was water below and sky above.
Then land appeared and oceans.
Plants appeared on the land
Then the sun, moon and stars became visible
Then animals appeared in the sea
Then animals appeared on the land
Then the conscious, thinking, intelligent human being appeared.

Yahoo seems to think this question should be posted under the science section.

I am assuming that after the big bang a gravity well would have appeared causing gaseous clouds and matter to rotate so causing night and day.

I am also assuming that in the early years of our planets existance the atmostphere would have been thick with vapour and when land and plants appeared the vapour would have been absorbed and photosythesis would have changed the atmosphere which would have thinned out and made the stars visible.

Questionable Mark you have hit the head on the nail. I personaly don't believe in Genseis and have absolute faith in evolution, the idea of which I don't think started with Darwin and is certainly applied to many areas of study. It is however, interesting that both evolution and Genesis describe the same sequence of events and does suggest that somehow mankind did know about evolution though didn't understand it. I believe in the existance of aliens visiting the planet and of the posibility of Atlantis existing and I know that God exists, so there are many possibilities of how such a parallel could have occured. I don't think it's a pure coincidence. One day we're going to be told there's a lot more to human history than we've been led to believe, there's a lot of evidence to support that at present.

Answer 1

You have left out ANY and all references to mechanisms. Therefore this is mythology. So it must be creationism.
Oh and for the record, Evolution says nothing about the origins of the universe. That's a branch of Science called Abiogenesis.
Look it up.

Answer 2

I think that is because you used phrases like "appeared" in it.

Darwin was an Angelical Theology Student who went Atheist after a kin of him died. I guess he just wanted to get even by removing all credit from the Creator. That seems to be the reason why the Catholic Schools still teach evolution along religion, they fail to clarify the reasons though.

In essence, you are describing both, As you see, a baby for the Christians comes to the world as a gift of God, but this baby is formed by God's prescribed natural process. If the baby does not receive the Spirit then he would be born dead.

So must have been with the world. Species and Men were created from the ground, then affirmed on natural intelligent laws.


Proverbs 3:19-20

19 The Lord built the earth by wisdom. He built the heavens by understanding. 20 By what He knows, the seas were broken up and water falls from the sky.


Proverbs 8:22-29

22 "The Lord made me at the beginning of His work, before His first works long ago. 23 I was set apart long ago, from the beginning, before the earth was. 24 I was born when there were no seas, when there were no pools full of water. 25 I was born before the mountains and hills were in their places. 26 It was before He had made the earth or the fields, or the first dust of the world. 27 I was there when He made the heavens, and when He drew a mark around the top of the sea. 28 I was there when He put the skies above, and when He put the wells of the waters in their place. 29 I was there when He marked out the places for the sea, so that the waters would not go farther than what He said. I was there when He marked out the ground for the earth.

Answer 3

You are trying to mix Genesis and evolution and come out with something acceptable. One does not have much relationship to the other except in sequence.

The Bang occurred and science explains the rest. The story the Jews concocted gives a sort of orderly or logical sequence. but it was not initiated by any god. It was the result of evolution stemming from the Bang.

The basic problem between the phantasy and reality is 6 days rather than billions of years., that Noah had all the animals that existed 5 ooo years ago on his raft This eliminates any possibility of Dinosaurs which went extinct 65 million years before noah was a gleam in his fathers eye. the biblical history and the real history of the world are quite divergent. The biblical account is filled with contradictions. Remember that the history of the universe was written by Jews, clearly announces that theya re the chosen people, and was taken from an older theology. christians merely picked up on that and modified it in the new testament, adding all the threats, anger and hatred.
Remember that the old testament also orders the father to stone his disobedient son and provides authority to sell his daughters. Do if Genesis is true - then so are these rules of family behavior.

Answer 4

YOU.... MISSED..... the TIME FRAME...!

.... ' DAY ! '

Or did you PURPOSELY...... Leave that .... OUT ?

(Genesis 1:1) In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

(Gen 1:2) And the earth was without form and empty. And darkness was on the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved on the face of the waters.

(Gen 1:3) And God said, Let there be light. And there was light.

(Gen 1:4) And God saw the light that it was good. And God divided between the light and the darkness.

(Gen 1:5) And God called the light, Day. And He called the darkness, Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

(Gen 1:6) And God said, Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

(Gen 1:7) And God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so.

(Gen 1:8) And God called the expanse, Heavens. And the evening and the morning were the second day.

Thanks for Asking ! RR

Answer 5

It isn't evolution. You've included elements of cosmology in this that have no relationship with Darwin's theory, and you've not once touched on the actual hypothesis of Darwin - which is that animal and plant lineages change over time via natural selection in order to adapt to changing conditions in their environment.

On the other hand, since that is a fairly crude (but not inaccurate) paraphrase of the sequence of Genesis 1, I suppose a case of sorts could be made that you've attempted the former.

Answer 6

I think Genesis

Geneisis one is a scientific tract, but not science as we understand it today. It is written in the science of it's time which is astrologically based, and it is more to do with numbers and concepts rather than observation, testing and questioning.

As it is a scientific tract of it's time it is dated, but it does have its value as it has influenced the way in which we approach things in a sequential manner especially as it had a strong infuence on nineteenth century scientists.

The purpose of Genesis one is not as a scientific tract, but a declaration of the power and wonder of the workings of the Elohim. It used the science and ideas of the time to convey it.

Truth should have precedence over ideology. Modern scientific investigations have revealed wonders that were unknown even a generation ago.

God is declared in Genesis one, but is not constrained or confined by it.

Answer 7

Sounds like genesis because the order is all wrong.

Night and day didn't appear until after the sun became visible.

Answer 8

I was under the impression that in Genesis it states that this is what God did. So I guess you have just described the evolution that occured after the creation of our planet.

Answer 9

Both. Its the source of these events that defines whether its creationist or evolutionist. If the reason the changes happened was a god then you would be describing Genesis. If it was simply a natural progression and adaptation then it would be evolution.

Answer 10

hmm apparently there was light before there were any suns (which is what stars are) and plants were able to survive without sunlight which produces the heat

interesting

Evolution would only be commenting on the plants and animals though.