by Valerie J Routhieaux

Created on: May 08, 2009   Last Updated: May 13, 2009

Creationism vs. Evolution

It is interesting to note that creationists believe the earth to be no more than 10,000 years old, and discount science in the dating of the earth and universe.

I am not a scientist, but I am a Christian who believes in Creationism. However, there is one point that fails to surface in the debates I have heard, and that is Genesis 1:1-2.

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.

2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. (KJV)

Verse one points to the fact that God created the heavens and the earth. Verse two points to a formless void where the Spirit of God hovered over the waters.

Now I can easily believe time is 10,000 or so years old, give or take a few thousand years, and the reason is simple, numbers.

It is interesting to me that the ages of the generations from Adam to Noah were mentioned in detail. It is also easy, with a calculator or other mathematical device, to determine that there were 1,656 years from the creation of Adam to the flood. This would be the second flood. It has been determined that there were four thousand years from the flood to the birth of Jesus. That would mean it was 5,656 years, and there have been another 2000 years since the birth of Jesus, give or take a few years with the change of calendars from Julian to Gregorian, the calendar currently in use. This means we are at 7,656 years, give or take.

Remember, the Spirit of God hovered over the waters in Genesis 1:2. I would speculate that verses three and following are not a statement of the creation of the world, or a retelling of the creation, instead it is bringing God's creation into the light as seen when God created the heavens and the earth in verse one.

Let is a very interesting word. I'm also not an English major, but when I say to someone let me have such and such, I'm asking for something that already exists.

God said Let there be light. The light already existed; He was just restoring it.

The only time God created anything in those six days of creation as we have come to know them, was on the sixth day. Genesis 1:26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

27 So God

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