Monday, November 21, 2005
creation
I've been thinking a bit about the evolution vs. creation vs. intelligent design debate. I'm sitting here reading The Alchemist and it was talking about a grain of sand containing the happiness found in God because a grain of sand is a moment of creation... and I was thinking about how God operates - how different it is from us. I have trouble believing that God created the whole world in just 7 days- at least in the way that we think of 24 hours of time. It's possible, yes, that God basically started pointing and zapping things into being - that could be done easily by God in that short amount of time. But what I know of God through my own desire and hunger to create things - I want to enjoy the process of creating - to get lost in a painting I am creating or enjoy the work my hands have to do while knitting something. And I think of the joy I feel when I create something. Then I think about the utter joy God had in creating me - I can imagine him laughing a deep, gutteral laugh as He formed my body - with a beaming smile on His face... and I think that maybe God would have wanted to take His time creating what we see around us - to put time and effort into it because it was and is close to His heart. When I care deeply about something, I want to take my time with it - to make it exactly how I imagine it. So, perhaps we need to stop thinking about the Word in terms of our own understanding, and instead look to the One who gave the Word to us and learn instead how to understand the depth of who He is - His character, His love, His grace. Maybe then we will get closer to understanding the details.
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super cool blog miss jenny p. This is very nice and clean looking. Super cool!!!
Hi Jenny - just happened across your blog and very touched by your comments about creation.
Yeah, think of a butterfly - or a little bird that knows to migrate 20 000kms across the world, and instinctively knows where to go. Or the smile of a baby (my wife and I have 2 kids - one 7 months, the other 3.5 yrs).
On the other hand I think of the power and vastness of the universe. But still awsomely beautiful
Very hard to imagine, for me, a random, accident, mutation based theory explaining how we've come about.
And first time I've ever thought about your point that the Creator surely would have wanted to take his time about it.
Regarding the length of each creative day I read the following in a journal:
The Creative Days—24 Hours Each?
Some fundamentalists claim that creationism rather than evolution explains pre-human history. They assert that all physical creation was produced in just six days of 24 hours each sometime between 6,000 and 10,000 years ago. But in doing so, they promote an unscriptural teaching that has caused many to ridicule the Bible.
Is a day in the Bible always literally 24 hours in length? Genesis 2:4 speaks of “the day that God made earth and heaven.” This one day encompasses all six of the creative days of Genesis chapter 1. According to Bible usage, a day is a measured period of time and can be a thousand years or many thousands of years. The Bible’s creative days allow for thousands of years of time each. Further, the earth was already in existence before the creative days began. (Genesis 1:1) On this point, therefore, the Bible account is compatible with true science.—2 Peter 3:8.
Commenting on claims that the creative days were only 24 literal hours in length, molecular biologist Francis Collins remarks: “Creationism has done more harm to serious notions of belief than anything in modern history.”
Interesting - and makes more sense to me than the single day idea. Perhaps it provides you with further insight too into how God could indeed have taken his time and enjoyed the creative process - not rushed through it with a bang. (Hard to imagine that when one looks at the diversity.)
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