Chapter 2—Creation: God’s Answer to Evolution
This chapter is based on
Genesis 1
and 2.
“By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host
of them by the breath of His mouth... . For He spake, and it was done;
He commanded, and it stood fast.”
Psalm 33:6, 9
.
As the earth came forth from the hand of its Maker, it was ex-
ceedingly beautiful. The fruitful soil everywhere produced a luxuriant
growth of verdure. There were no loathsome swamps nor barren
deserts. Graceful shrubs and delicate flowers greeted the eye at every
turn. The air was clear and healthful. The entire landscape outvied in
beauty the decorated grounds of the proudest palace.
After the earth with its teeming animal and vegetable life had been
called into existence, man, the crowning work of the Creator was
brought upon the stage of action. “God said, Let Us make man in Our
image, after Our likeness; and let them have dominion over ... all the
earth.” “So God created man in His own image: ... male and female
created He them.”
Here is clearly set forth the origin of the human race. God created
man in His own image. There is no ground for the supposition that
man evolved by slow degrees from lower forms of animal or vegetable
life. Inspiration traces the origin of our race, not to a line of developing
germs, mollusks, and quadrupeds, but to the great Creator. Though
formed from the dust, Adam was “the son of God.”
Luke 3:38
.
The lower orders of being cannot understand the sovereignty of
God, yet they were made capable of loving and serving man. “Thou
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madest him to have dominion over the works of Thy hands; Thou hast
put all things under his feet, ... the beasts of the field, the fowl of the
air.”
Psalm 8:6-8
.
Christ alone is “the express image” (
Hebrews 1:3
) of the Father,
but man was formed in the likeness of God. His nature was in harmony
with the will of God, his mind capable of comprehending divine things.
His affections were pure; his appetites and passions were under the
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