In this sermon, the speaker discusses the creation of the earth and the existence of a designer. They explain that on the first day of creation, God brought the earth out of darkness and created a distinction between day and night. The speaker emphasizes the design and complexity found in the universe and the human body, arguing that these cannot be the result of accidental combinations. They also mention the existence of angels, referring to the book of Job where God speaks of the angels existing when He laid the foundations of the world.

Shall we now turn in our Bibles to Genesis chapter 1, verse 1. The word Genesis in Hebrew means beginning, and so it is the book of the beginnings. And in Genesis we find the beginning of the universe, first of all, and then the beginning of the life forms within the universe. The beginning of man, the beginning of sin and death. Then we find the beginning of God's redemptive program by the beginning of a nation. The majority of the book of Genesis has to do with God's redemptive plan by immediately narrowing down in the genealogies to one family, from which family all the nations of the world are to be blessed. Now, at various places in the book of Genesis we will be given a listing of the genealogies of the people that were born and the ages that they lived and all. Let me say at the outset that God did not intend to give us a complete genealogical record of all of the families of the earth. Though Adam and Eve had many sons and daughters, their first two sons were listed because they were significant. Other sons and daughters were not listed. But then there came a son when they were 130 years old whose name was Seth. And he was listed because it was from Seth that we are going to follow a line. Now, Seth had many sons and daughters that are not listed. Only one is listed because that is where the line is going to fall. And so, each of them, though they had many sons and daughters, they are not a part of the record because they have nothing to do with the redemptive story of God. We are coming down from Adam on a certain genealogical line to Abraham. And that's the purpose, really, of these genealogical studies, to show you the line from Adam on down to Abraham. But many of the sons and daughters, no record, no names, nothing, because they are not important to the story of redemption. Just those families that have to do with the redemption of man are really followed. Some of them are followed just a few generations, such as Cain's, but then it's dropped because they really do not follow down into the redemptive plan of God. So, in as much as the word Genesis means beginning, it is only appropriate that the book begins with the words, in the beginning, God. When was that? How long ago was that? Our minds cannot even fathom or grasp. I can understand that infinity does exist. I surely can't understand infinity. I cannot understand timelessness, eternity. I cannot comprehend space. I can understand that it just goes out there and there is no end. I can understand that time can go back and there is no beginning. I can understand that time will go out and there is no ending. But to really comprehend it is beyond my capacity, my limited faculties. In the beginning, God. You can't go back any further than that. Now, there are certain people that would like to just eliminate the last word. They really don't want to retain God in their conscience or in their minds because their actions are opposed to what God has declared. And thus, the fool has said in his heart, there is no God. And the Bible, in Romans chapter 1, speaks of them as professing themselves to be wise. They have become fools, changing the glory of an incorruptible God, fashioning their gods like after corruptible beasts and creeping things. And because they did not want to retain God in their minds, God gave them over to minds that were reprobate, void of God. But if I eliminate God, I've got a big problem. In the beginning, what? In the beginning, a mass of gases floating in space. Well, that's not the beginning. Where did the mass of gases come from? Where did the space come from? Now, it seems that ultimately every child will ask you, where did God come from? And for that we have no adequate answer. He always existed. He is self-existent. He has existed from the beginning. But when I say, in the beginning, God, I recognize that the whole universe is not just here by accidental compression of gases and explosions and cooling off and the forming of planetary systems and a particular planet with special atmospheric conditions and hydrology kind of conditions that have made it possible to support a form of life upon it. It just so happened that the earth was 93 million miles away from the sun. It just so happened that the atmosphere became a combination of nitrogen and oxygen in a just so happened balance of about 79 to 20 with a 1% of variant gases. It just so happened that around the earth there was a blanket of ozone. It just so happened that there was a magnetic force also that is circulating around the earth, also protecting it from the cosmic rays. And it just so happened that there is about a two-third water to one-third land mass ratio. And it just so happened that in that water there was somehow a fortuitous combination of molecules, of protein that happened to come together in just the right time, at the right place, in the right proportions, under the right pressure and under the right heat and so forth. And spontaneously these generated into a first cell. But what is the chance of that just so happening? And if you really go ahead to figure it out, you'll find that the chances are extremely rare indeed. In fact, the chances are so great that it couldn't have happened just so. Within the universe we can clearly see a design. Certainly when we get to the human body we can see a design as we study the various aspects of the human body. The bloodstream, the nervous system and all of these apparatuses that God has built in. And all the checks and balances and all. They all cry out of design, the fact of design. And you cannot have design without the designer. In the beginning the designer. In the beginning God. An all-intelligent, all-wise being. And that is much easier for me to comprehend and to believe than it is for me to believe that the whole thing is just a vast series of accidental combinations. Because the chance of those accidental combinations are too remote. If you really get down to it and you want to study just the first protein molecule, you'll find that the chance factors for just the protein molecule are so great that if they are correct, and of course they keep making the earth older. When I was in school, I was taught the earth was 2 billion years old. Now the latest discoveries, and they're really not discoveries, they're just necessities that have arisen as they realize more and more how complex life forms are. That they realize that they could not have spontaneously generated in just 6 billion years. And so now they say the earth is 10 billion years old. And so when I went to school the earth was 2 billion years old, now it's 10 billion years old. But I really didn't go to school that long ago. But even at 10 billion years, grant them 10 billion years. That isn't enough time for the proper circumstances and the proper conditions and all to accidentally put together the first protein molecule. Even if you were putting these combinations together at the rate of a billion per second. I have a hard, I don't, I have, it's impossible for me to believe. At one time I thought, well maybe I am an atheist. And then I just couldn't handle that. It was harder not to believe in God than it was to believe in God. If you try to deny the existence of God in the beginning, then you have no basis to start from. And it just, it just leaves you totally without a foundation. In the beginning, God. Now the Bible doesn't tell us when that was, just the beginning. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The word created is the Hebrew word bara, which speaks of creating something out of nothing. A capacity that only God has. Man cannot bara. We cannot out of nothing create something. We create with the idea of asa, the Hebrew word asa, which is the assembling together of existing materials. Now the word asa is used in much of the creative acts here in the book of Genesis. The assembling of an order from pre-existing materials. But the existing materials from which the things were assembled were originally created. And how long ago, we don't know. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. But the earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved over the face of the waters. Now it is inconsistent with the nature of God to create something without form and void. To create something wasted and desolate. And thus many Bible scholars see a time gap between verses 1 and 2 of Genesis. A time gap between in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. And the next verse which declares, and the earth was without form and void. And darkness was upon the face of the deep. In Isaiah, the 45th chapter, it declares that God did not create the earth without form and void. But he created it to be inhabited. Now, there are several fields of thought concerning creation. And each one of them has its own peculiar problems. There are arguments for and against each concept. There is what is called theistic evolution. The acknowledging that God began everything, but then set it free to evolve. He formed the first protein molecule, but then he let it free to evolve into many forms of life. Acknowledging God in the beginning, but then it is sort of a God who is removed from his creation. Because now the creation develops on its own evolutionary processes. With God's hand having been removed. There is the theory that all of this happened just about between 6 and 10,000 years ago. And the universe in actuality is not any older than 10,000 years. That all of the guesstimates of man for the long period of time are just that, guesstimates of man. They are without proof. They are only theories. And that in reality, the universe is extremely young universe rather than an old universe as would be supposed. That the only reason why the scientists have sought to propound an old universe theory is to harmonize with the evolutionary theory which would demand an old universe because surely all of the life forms could not have evolved in a 10,000 year period. And that the fossils rather than having been laid down over aeons of time were actually laid down in one great cataclysm, the flood. And that the flood more accurately accounts for the fossil record than aeons of time during the evolutionary processes of the world. It is interesting that as far as we can ascertain, there is not any current fossils being embedded in the strata of the earth. That most of the mammals and leaves and everything else disintegrate and disorganize. That there are not fossils really being formed on the ocean floors. That there is that process of disintegration and incrustation on the ocean floor that takes place but not the developing of fossils now. So if the ocean is not presently developing a column of fossils then what were the circumstances that caused it to develop this long column of fossils in the past. Of course there are trees that grow up through several of the stratas of the fossilized forms. And how could one tree grow up through several millions of years? If you look at the fossil orders and the stratas in which they exist, it's difficult to explain how that you can have trees that grow up right through several millions of years of these fossil forms. How is it that you have the footprint of a man within the footprint of a dinosaur if the dinosaurs were extinct long before man ever inhabited the earth. There is an interesting new book called Ersinopebul by Velikovsky which is a great treatise against uniformitarianism which is the basis of the evolutionary theory. And he points out in this new book, Earths in Upheaval, how that there is definite evidence of a great cataclysm that has taken place upon the earth that suddenly destroyed masses of animal forms. And all kinds of bones mixed together from the various kinds of animals that do not have a natural habitat together which are naturally enemies. That yet their bones broken and crushed mixed together in caves in England and in other places showing that they were thrown in there violently by force and were buried in the sand together. And that there was some great cataclysm, a testimony against uniformitarianism. Now basically the evolutionary thesis is that all of the processes that are going on today have been going on for millions of years so that any of the life forms and all can be understood by the processes today. That there has been a uniformity to the whole cycles of life from the time that the planet first cooled sufficiently for the water bodies to be formed and all. And that all things are going on in a uniform way. Well the book Earths in Upheaval is just a very powerful demonstration against that particular theory. If you destroy that theory then you've really destroyed the evolutionary theory. And that's why so many scientists just without really good reason cry out against Immanuel Wilikovsky's works. But more and more his works are being tested and proved to be quite accurate indeed. There are those who say that the days of Genesis were geological eras. That the word day, yom, in the Hebrew has a variety of meanings which indeed is true. It is used some 1100 times in the Bible and it's translated 51 different time spans I think. Even to an indefinite period of time the day of the Lord, the yom of the Lord. An indefinite period. So that he say that the days of Genesis are indefinite periods of geological eras. But that of course as I say each of the theories presents its difficulties. If they be indefinite periods of geological eras the difficulty with that. Is that if God created the plant life upon the earth in the third geological era. And did not have the sun really shining in its position on the earth until the fourth geological era. How did the plant life survive for a whole geological era without the sun? And if God created man in the sixth geological era. And he rested in the seventh geological era. It means that Adam would have been kicked out of the garden at the earliest the eighth geological era. And thus was much older than the 912 years or whatever is described to Adam's life span. So that creates problems too. Now the idea that God created everything just about 10,000 years ago. Is an interesting idea and a interesting concept. Which if you look at it is difficult to argue against. There are scriptures that say for in six days God created heaven and the earth and everything that was in them. The fact that death entered with Adam's sin. Then how could the fossil record testify of death before Adam's sin? Interesting arguments. One of the difficulties with that particular. Well one of the things that makes it impossible to challenge. Is that how old was Adam the first day that God created him? He was one day old. Well then how could he have a full set of teeth? A fully matured body. We don't know if he had a navel or not. But he was created with age dating factors. In other words if you would look at Adam. The day he was created you'd say. Why he might be 35, 40 years old. Because he had certain maturation. Designs really that would testify to more than just a one day old. So there were already at his day of creation age dating factors. Thus God could have created the earth. And the universe with age dating factors. With fossils already there. Or with the galaxies already at a certain distance from the planet earth. So that God could have created it with age dating factors. Which if you would look at it you'd say. Well it's 10 billion years old. When in reality it was just created just a moment ago. And God is surely great enough and big enough to do it that way if he so desired. So that makes that particular argument a very interesting argument. And a very plausible argument. One of the major difficulties that I see with it. Is that it doesn't really give us. Much opportunity for the understanding of angels and their creation. When did God then create the angels. Now when God came to Job and began to challenge Job. In the 38th chapter of that book. God said to Job. Where were you when I laid the foundations of the world. And God speaks in the laying of the foundations of the world. When the morning stars sang together. Or the angels singing together. When God laid the foundations of the world. So the angels were existing when God laid the foundations of the world. So when were they created. And how is it that if they were created. The foundation of the world created one day. And then a few days later. Satan is in the garden tempting Eve. When did Satan fall. When did he rebel against God. And if he was such a new creature. And had been in heaven. Or been also in the Eden. The garden of God. And had a dominion. An authority. A reign. Until the day that iniquity was found in him. And then was cast forth. When did this all take place. Because Satan was there. Soon into the garden. To lead man astray. And how could it be that being created so newly. Could he have such influence over the other angelic beings. That he could draw with him in his rebellion a third of the angels. So that presents a difficulty to me. To the idea. That the earth just has existed for maybe six to ten thousand years. What is known as gap theory. Seems to me to be a very plausible explanation. And it is of course. Not without its problems completely. But I think the problems are not insolvable. Looking at it from the gap theory. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. How long ago we don't know. As God created the heavens and the earth. He also created the angelic beings. He created the earth to be inhabited. And so there were inhabitants upon the earth. There is even the suggestion that Satan perhaps. Ruled over the sphere of the earth. The anointed cherub that covereth in the garden of God. Every precious stone is covering and so forth. That in reality it was here upon the earth. That he had his dominion and his rulership. And that there were life forms upon the earth. Prior to the introduction of man. That there was plant life. And various life forms. But the earth became. And this is a possible rendering of the Hebrew in verse two. Rather than in the earth was. And the earth became wasted and desolate. How it became wasted and desolate. Is suggested that perhaps. As Satan's rebellion. The wrath of God was poured out. And the earth was sort of put in a deep freeze. Waters covered the face of the deep. The spirit of God moved over the waters. That the earth was just covered with water. Frozen and set aside for a period of time. A great ice age. Now there is a lot of evidence. To show that the earth has emerged from the last ice age. Less than ten thousand years ago. And for this I would suggest the book. Worlds in Collision. By Immanuel Velikovsky. And in this particular book. He points out the fact. Which is interesting indeed. There is a canyon being created by Niagara Falls. This canyon is being created at a constant rate. Of one foot a year. Niagara Falls coming over. Tremendous amount of water is eroding away. That shelf. At the rate of one foot a year. There is a hotel on the Canadian side. That a hundred years ago. Was built right at the edge of the falls. Now it's a hundred feet away from the falls. As the water keeps eroding away. At a fairly constant one foot per year. The canyon that has been formed by Niagara Falls. Is seven thousand feet long. And it would stand to reason. In the earlier time of the glacial regression. That the flow of water could conceivably. Have been much greater at that time. Than it is presently. And so the erosion rate could have been greater. Hardly lesser. And there are other evidences. That show that the earth emerged from the last ice age. Maybe less than seven thousand years ago. Which of course. Would be very interesting indeed. As we look at the account of Genesis. Which places man. Upon the earth. In his present form. Just about. Six thousand years ago. Now. What kind of life forms may have existed upon the earth prior. To the destruction. We don't know. God doesn't say. But man in his present form. Has existed on the earth. For about six thousand years. From the time of Adam. And so the. Adherence of the gap theory. See Genesis. One one. As original creation. And the rest of Genesis. As a process of. Recreation. As God began to recreate the earth. In order to place. Man in his present form. Upon it. And thus the days. Of creation in Genesis are actually. Recreate of days. As God is now. Setting the earth. To place. Man. Upon that earth. It is a very interesting. Theory indeed. A very plausible theory indeed. It would surely answer all of the problems that are raised. By the scientists who are seeking to prove that the earth. Has been here for several. Million or billion years. It surely would not be out of harmony at all. With. What God has said here in Genesis one. It is interesting that when Noah came out. Of the ark after the flood. When the inhabitants of the earth had been destroyed by the flood. The command of God to Noah. Was to replenish the earth. The same command that God gave to Adam. And to Eve. To replenish. The earth. Speaking of perhaps a pre-existence of. Forms of life. But man in his present form. Has only existed for about six thousand years. And there is no way that anybody can prove that. That is not true. So we look at Genesis. And we see. In chapter one the beginning. God creating the heaven and the earth. In verse two. We see the earth without form and void. Darkness. Covered with water. And the spirit of God brooding. Over the face. Of the deep. In verse three. The beginning of the. Creative acts. Of God. Notice in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Which would of course include the stars and all. But now we see. The first thing that God declares. Because the earth was covered with darkness. God said. Let there be light. And there was light. Now it could be. That the earth was in. A dark nebulae. That there was. No light. Coming to the earth. That in this darkness. This dark nebulae. That the earth just froze. The great ice age. It is interesting. That when we look at the creative days. Those forms of life. Such as plant life. That could have survived. In the earth. During an ice age. Are spoken of. As not being. Created. Barra. But being assembled. Asa. The assembling. But the life forms. That could not survive. A great ice age. Are spoken of. As being. Barra. Created. There are many. Forms of life. That could have survived. An ice age. And all they needed. Was the proper environment. To spring forth again. Out here in the desert. A few years ago. They had an unusual storm. And a lake. That had been dried for years. Was suddenly filled with water. And the next thing they knew. There was a form of shrimp. In the water. That somehow. The processes. Were there. Still in. The earth. Or whatever. When the water came. That was all that was necessary. To bring forth. This dormant. Form of life. And so there are many life forms. That can survive. There are some. That could not. When you get to the life forms. That could not survive. A great ice age. Then you come again. To the word. Bara. As God began to form. Or create. Out of nothing. The life forms. That could not have survived. A great ice age. Let there be light. The removing. Of those. Dark gases. Which we do not understand. But we do know. Exist in the universe. That seemed to shut out light. The dark clouds. Of the universe. Covered with a dark cloud. It would have frozen. And could have been. Out here in its orbit. Just a frozen mass. But now with the removal. Coming out into the light. And God saw the light. That it was good. And God divided the light. From the darkness. Now I'm sure that. As. This story was told. And as Moses later recorded. From the records. That were existent. They didn't realize. The scientific implications. Of God divided the light. But now with the. Coming of modern science. We have learned. How to divide the light. And light can be divided. Into many things. In the spectrum. You have. A division of light. And we know. That there are. On one end of the spectrum. Even light that you cannot see. In the ultraviolet. Short waves. On the other end of the spectrum. Other light that you cannot see. In the infrared. Division. Darkness only testifies. To the limitations. Of visibility. And light is actually divided. Into darkness. Into the infrared. Or the ultraviolet. On both ends of the spectrum. But then within the spectrum. Many divisions. Of light. Light is divided into. Light. Color. And sound. All three are basically. The same thing. Vibrations at different frequencies. Slow the frequencies. And the vibrations down. And you pick them up audibly. Increase them. And you see colors. And so the division of light. Very interesting statement. God called the light day. The darkness he called night. And it was evening. And morning. The first day. So on the first day. If you accept the recreation process. The earth was brought out of the. Darkness of the gases. And. Still shrouded with a fog. You could distinguish between. The evening. And the morning or the night. And the day. And God said. Let there be a firmament. The word firmament in the Hebrew. Is rock. We are. Which means a limit. A limitless expanse. Now describe for me. Space. The limitless expanse. Let there be a space. God said. In the midst of the waters. And let it divide the waters. From the waters. And God made this. Firmament. And divided the waters. Which were under the firmament. From the waters which were above the firmament. And it was so. And God called the firmament. Heaven. And the evening and the morning. Were the second day. So the creation of the atmosphere. Around the earth. But above the atmosphere. God put a great. Blanket of water. Suspended the water in the atmosphere. Above the earth. Now that water suspended. In the atmosphere above the earth. Would have done a tremendous. Thing as far as the climate. Of the earth is concerned. It would have caused. A mild. Equal kind of climate. Around the entire earth. It would have meant. That you would not have violent storms. It would have meant. That you would have had a balmy climate. Everywhere. Even up in the North Pole regions. It would surely explain. The discovery of the mammoths. In Siberia. Encased in ice. That were frozen intact. At some time in the history. Who were living in a tropical jungle. Because when they cut them open. They found tropical vegetation. In their digestive tracts. It would surely account for the forest. That one time existed at the South Pole. Because we have found the charcoal. Deposits under 200 feet of ice. This blanket of water. Around the earth. Would probably also have. Protected the earth. From many more of the cosmic. Radiations that are constantly. Bombarding the earth. Also the earth would have been. Protected by the greater magnetic. Force that existed at that time. That surrounds the earth. The earth is surrounded by a magnetic. Field. 136 years ago. A Dutch scientist. First measured this magnetic. Field. Each year since. We have been measuring the magnetic. Field around the earth. And we find that the magnetic. Field is diminishing. At a constant rate. In fact. This is the longest age. Dating factor that we have. As far as the earth is concerned. We don't have anything that we've. Been able to observe over 135. Years. But this magnetic field. This magnet around the earth. Is something that they've been. Measuring for 135 years. And we find that it is decreasing. At a constant rate. Now this magnetic field around the. Earth is very important. To life on the earth. It seems that it moves. In a sort of an eight. Coming through the heart or the. Center of the earth the equator. Flashes down through the equator. Comes up and surrounds around. The pole back and around. And it seems to have a. Interesting. Kind of an effect of. Shielding off. Or bouncing off. Much of the cosmic radiation. Is bounced off of this. Magnetic. Field that surrounds the earth. It's sort of a blanket of. Protection from cosmic radiation. We know also that there is. The ozone blanket. God talking to Job about the. Creating of their said he made a. Blanket around it. He made a moisture blanket. He made an. Electromagnetic field blanket. He also made an ozone blanket. Around the earth to. Make the earth inhabitable. By man. By shielding off these. Cosmic rays that are constantly. Bombarding these little. Rays that go shooting. What do they call them. Neutrinos or something to go. Right through the earth. I mean. You know you can't really feel yourself. They come right through and hit you from your feet up. You know as they're coming from the other side. And they go right through your body. But when they go through your body. They have an effect. Of. Causing a cellular. Breakdown. So that your cells begin. A mutation form. And aging process somehow. Gets involved with the cosmic. Rays. Breaking down the cells. And their ability to reproduce. Themselves sufficiently. And thus the aging process. They really believe is being caused. By the fact that we are being bombarded. By these cosmic rays. Now. With the water blanket around the earth. Giving greater protection. And with this. Electromagnetic field being. At a greater intensity. Bouncing off. It would stand to reason. That at the time of Adam. There was much less cosmic radiation. Coming through to the earth. So that man could conceivably. Live much longer. Periods of time. In fact as we study the human body. And the ability of the cell. To reproduce itself. Aging is some kind of a. Of a weirdness in nature. The breakdown of the cell. Is it is a abnormality. That it somehow crept in. The body is so designed. If it weren't for this. Beginning of the mutants. Within the cells and all. That you could just go on living forever. Your body would keep renewing itself. The cells would just keep reproducing themselves. And you could just go on and on and on. Living in this body. But somewhere along the line. There came a stray. Little neutrino or whatever. Introduction into the body. Of that which caused. And began to cause. The aging processes. Now prior to the flood. And at the time of the flood. This water blanket. That surrounded the atmosphere. Was removed. And at the removal. Of this water blanket. There was probably the removal. Of the protection. And thus after the flood. The life span. Dramatically. From an average of around nine hundred years. Down to an average. Of maybe a hundred years. Just almost overnight. Within one generation. The tremendous longevity. Was reduced. Because suddenly. The protective blanket. Was taken away. But God here. In the second day of creation. Created this protective blanket. This water. Suspended it in the atmosphere. Above the earth. And he separated the water. In the atmosphere from the water. And the. Firmament he called. Heaven. And the gathering together of the water. He called. Seas. Now. It is interesting. That he called it. Seas. Plural. Because at the time. Of the writing. Of Genesis. All they knew. Was one sea. The Mediterranean Sea. Really. Why seas? Plural. Because God knew. That there were many bodies of waters. Different oceans. And seas. And so the plural. Who wrote Genesis? Well. It is commonly accepted. That Moses was the author. But certainly. Moses had to get his material. From somewhere. It is conceivable. That Adam himself. Wrote the first record. This evening. I was just fooling around with. Some of the. Ages here in chapter five. And I came up with an interesting little fact. And that is that. Lamech. The father of Noah. Lived at. Was. No. I mean. Adam was still alive. When Noah's father was born. And they lived contemporary. For many years. So it is very possible. That Noah's father. Heard directly from Adam himself. About the Garden of Eden. And about their being. Put out of the garden. The angel that was put there. To protect and all. And Lamech. Told his son Noah. Lamech heard it directly from Adam. And Lamech told Noah. And Noah told his son. Shem and Japheth. And Shem was living at the time. That Abraham was born. So you really don't have the story. Passing through. Too many hands to get it down. Even as far as Abraham.