In 'The Creation of the World Part 2', Pastor Chuck Smith explores the complexities of creation as described in Genesis, contrasting it with evolutionary theories. He emphasizes the intelligence of God in creating the universe and the intricate design of life, particularly the cell, which he argues is far from simple. Smith discusses the existence of angels and the fall of Satan, suggesting a gap in time between the original creation and the current state of the earth. He also critiques the geological column and fossil records, proposing that they are better explained by the biblical flood. Ultimately, he affirms the belief in a powerful God who created all things and desires fellowship with humanity.

Oh, let the Son of God enfold you With His Spirit and His love Let Him fill your heart and satisfy your soul Oh, let Him have the things that hold you And His Spirit like a dove We'll descend upon your life And make you whole Welcome to The Word for Today Broadcast ministry of Pastor Chuck Smith Of Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, California Pastor Chuck is currently leading us on a verse-by-verse study Through the entire Bible And on today's edition of The Word for Today We'll once again be looking at the book of beginnings As we pick up in Genesis, chapter 1, verse 1 So let's sit back and follow along for the next half hour As we continue to learn more about The creation of the world Darwin, of course, postulated that man evolved Through a long chain of processes Which are known as fortuitous concurrences Of accidental circumstances You know, we evolved from the simple cell That's before we developed the electron microscopes That's before we discovered the DNA protein molecules And that's before a lot of the later discoveries Of the chromosomes and the genes and so forth And suddenly we find out, hey, it is not a simple cell It's probably the most complex thing in the whole universe With all of the code within it For what is to be formed from it All encoded, this one little cell And all of the codes that are within it Far from simple But the interesting thing, the cell within a frog Is far more complex from the man And so if we're in an upwards movement Then, you know, your next move will be probably towards the frog Because its cell is really more complex than that of a human But, in a science symposium called in Europe In which the greatest scientists of the United States and Russia and Europe Were brought together For the purpose of determining the possibility Of extraterrestrial communication from outer space Intelligent beings out there somewhere Trying to communicate intelligently with us here on the planet Earth The symposium was reported in a book Published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Back in 1975 And the book is entitled Extraterrestrial Communication And it is a symposium The title of the book The first paper that was offered to the scientists Was offered by a group of scientists from the United States Understanding what we do now about the complex cell And the complexity of the cell And the DNA molecule and all They put together All of the chance factors Of bringing the cells together In a random choice kind of a selection To determine what is the chance factor For the first protein molecule to develop By this fortuitous concurrences of accidental circumstances And it turns out that it would take 10 to the 28th power Fortuitous concurrences of accidental circumstances To create your first cell Well that's a pretty big number Because if you take and assume that they are correct In the 12 billion year life of the universe There's only been 10 to the 17th power seconds In the 10 billion years So you are assuming then that there are Trillions of these chance factors going on All over the universe at the same time In fact you have only 10 to the 25th power Grains of dust upon the entire earth So they would have to be interacting Billions of times every second Over the 10 billion years And still you don't have enough time For them to come together in an accidental form To form the first protein molecule So the only solution of course is Well the whole thing probably is 25 billion years old You know anything can happen given enough time Is the theory In the beginning God created You know that takes less faith for me Than to swallow the evolutionary theory I have no problem with an intelligent Powerful God, eternal Calling into existence a universe For he is an infinite God therefore he can do anything Now the universe that he would call into existence Would demonstrate his intelligence Through that form of life that he would put upon the earth There would be a demonstration of his intelligence And you can take the creation model And study the geological column which does not exist It's only a hypothesis There's nowhere in the earth you can go and dig down The side of a cliff and say Now here's the geological column from each period Progressing upwards Sometimes whole layers of Older Formations are on top of younger formations For miles Oh then they have the theory of the Overlaying crust and Everything is happening in 10 billion years But as I say there's a lot of good books to read on that You can read just as well as I can Now Just when God did create the heavens and the earth we do not know I do not believe that the Bible of necessity Would cause us to believe that it is just 10 Thousand years old It would indicate That Perhaps there is a gap of time between Verse 1 and verse 2 in Genesis For in verse 2 we read The earth was without form and void and darkness was upon the face Of the deep and the spirit of God Was hovering over the face of the waters Now The earth being without form and void does not sound to me like God's creation For as we read in verse 4 God saw the light that it was good Verse 10 God saw that it was good Verse 12 God saw that it was good Verse 17 God saw that it was good also verse 21 And verse 25 so The creation of God Was good Sometime And perhaps before God laid the foundations of the earth or maybe After he laid the foundations of the original earth God created other beings that are not human God created divine beings that we call angels They are in a different dimension than we They also were created in part In God's image and after the likeness of God for they were created Self determinate beings For God desired to receive And to have fellowship with them as well as he desires To receive and have fellowship with us And thus the creating of the angels as self determinate beings And one of the angels Decided to rebel against the authority of God and to advance his Self into the God state to be worshipped as God His name is known as Satan or Lucifer The dragon The devil But he at one time was one of the anointed cherubs He was at one time in a position of great honor Ezekiel tells us that he was perfect in beauty and perfect in wisdom And perfect in all of his ways until the day that he rebelled Iniquity was found in him And at that point he was cast out from his position Isaiah tells us That he said I will exalt my throne above The other angels I will sit in the congregation in the sides of the north I will ascend to the most high and I will be like the most high His willing against the authority and government of God And The book of Revelation would indicate that perhaps as many as a third of the angels Followed him in his rebellion And so they make up a second kingdom within the universe The kingdom of death and darkness That is now opposed to the kingdom of God The kingdom of light and life And God has allowed the second kingdom to exist So when was Satan created and the angels Where was the Eden that he inhabited For thou has been in Eden the garden of God And every precious stone was your covering When did this take place When did Satan fall No doubt sometime in the prehistoric periods before God created man Because Satan appeared to man very early in the fallen form in the garden Now one of the difficulties that I have With Dr. Morris's Literal Ten thousand year old earth or less is that our universe I feel that it doesn't give Room for the creation of the angels in the fall of Satan So I believe that there probably is a gap of time That does not explain the fossil records I believe that the fossil records are better explained by the flood And if you'll read Earth's in upheaval by Emanuel Velikovsky You'll find some extremely fascinating facts that are not brought out in your textbooks Concerning the discoveries of The bones of animals in caves crushed and animals which are natural enemies altogether Crushed and broken in caves as though by some violent force And he gives Just record after record Of these things all over the world Speaking really of a violent upheaval Which better Is described by the great flood of Noah And the fossil record where do you find fossils being formed in in tremendous amounts today Not on the ocean floor For actually they deteriorate and dissolve without being fossilized Fossils were formed by some convulsion of nature Where there was a The death of the animal or the breaking off of the plant And then the covering with sediment And the tremendous pressure Causing it to be fossilized Or you can find fossils You can create fossilized forms I have a friend who was a scientist Who was going to one of the national conventions of the scientists And he decided to have some fun And he took and created a Cast of a skull that did not look human It looked more like a humanoid It looked like the missing link actually And he deliberately designed it to look like that And he took it to the silicate springs up near Bakersfield Where if you will put a bone or something in that silicate springs It will fossilize it in six hours He left it in 24 hours to do a good job And went back with a story of digging in a cave And coming across with this fossil And it was interesting how that the brilliant men were Dating the thing as much as 90,000 years old and all you know And this was surely the missing link And he was the talk of the convention that year Until he confessed his hoax And was very nearly being dismissed from the academy of scientists You know when I went through the Oregon caves They explained to me how many millions of years It takes for those stalactites and stalagmites to form And how they were able to date the Oregon caves By the length of the stalactites you know And it was marvelous because they were able to take The mineralization and so forth, the build up and then the length of it And they can tell you exactly how long that thing has been forming Millions of years And that was a very common age dating factor Until they found under the Washington monument Stalactites that were five feet long And that thing was built in 1924 Pop goes the weasel, the king is naked If Genesis 1 deals with the original creation of the material universe It does not really deal with the actual beginning The gospel of John goes back before this Before the universe existed, God existed In the beginning, and John goes way back now In the beginning was the word and the word was with God And the word was God That's going back even before the material universe All things were made by him Now he comes to Genesis 1 The creation of God But how long did God exist? He's existed from eternity Again we have, our minds cannot deal with a timelessness The earth was without form and void Darkness was upon the face of the deep The spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters And so we see a universe An earth actually in the universe Not necessarily the universe itself But the earth without form and void, darkness Over the earth The spirit of God and interestingly enough Here in verse 2 we find the very first mention of the spirit of God Then God said, and the word God is Elohim In the beginning God, Elohim If you know anything about Hebrew language You know that the I-M is plural God singular is L-E-L And the Hebrew has a dual text The dual is Elah Elah God plural is Elohim In the beginning God Created And even there we have the indication of the trinity Or the triunity of God Father, Son and Spirit And the Spirit shows up right in verse 2 Actually the Son is there in verse 1 Because all things were made by Him And without Him was not anything made that was made So when you read, He created the heavens and the earth You have the Son involved He according to John is the creator The agent of creation And God said Let there be light And there was light And God saw the light that it was good And God divided the light from the darkness Now, interesting, God divided the light from the darkness And I'm sure that it was just meant that there's a division between light and darkness But the idea of God dividing the light is interesting Because we know that light is divided on the spectrum And we can divide light with a spectroscope And there is light even in the darkness But it is dark light The infrared You get down to that dimension where it's no longer visible to the eye But it still exists But it is dark to us And yet there is the infrared And below Light that is not seen So God divided the light from the darkness And God called the light day And the darkness He called night So the evening and the morning were the first day Now, this creates a problem in the minds of many people In that we do not read of God creating the sun and the moon God made two great lights Verse 16 The greater light to rule the day, the lesser light to rule the night He made the stars also Notice though God made That is, assembled Asa Not bara In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth The sun, the moon, the stars The earth itself But the earth was shrouded in darkness Covered with darkness Perhaps shrouded by dark clouds Perhaps in a dark nebula Many possibilities And it began to emerge and there was light But still covered by darkness Only the first rays of light now penetrating through the cloud covering So that it was possible to know that it was evening and it was morning For how could you have the evening and the morning aspect Unless the earth was rotating on its axis And you have, of course, the sun out there in its position But then the light holders and the light of the sun Allowed then to come through to 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