Biology Bible Test Flashcards
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This is the majority view in most of your churches, and is the view that LCS holds. God made the earth in six literal 24 hour days, and then rested on the 7th day.
6 Day Literal Creation
Strengths of 6 Day Literal Creation
Literal, normative usage of “yom” (Hebrew for day), doesn’t interpose a system on top of the Scriptures to come to its conclusion.
Weaknesses of 6 Day Literal Creation
Disagreements with the modern scientific understanding of the fossil record, age of earth, etc. And doesn’t take into accounts other usages of “yom,” dischronologies with Genesis 2 (e.g. no plants on earth when man was made.)
The days that God created represent billions of years. The 6 days of creation are the same order as to the 24 hour view.
Day Age View
Strengths of Day Age View
“Yom” does have various usages in Scripture and greater alignment with modern scientific thought.
Weaknesses of Day Age View
Modern Science disagrees with the order of Creation, so day loses its scientific validity and “yom” typically means a 24 hour day, and, day age is reactionary to science.
The Genesis creation account was simply a gracious framework to teach the Israelites as to how God created the world. Day 1: Light and Darkness → Day 4: Sun, Moon, and Stars.
Framework View
Strengths of Framework View
Does not get into weeds on when the earth was created or necessarily how, Genesis is not a scientific book, and once seen is grasped (think the drawing of the days.)
Weaknesses of Framework View
Ignores the literalness of the Scriptures and would Moses or the Israelites understood the “framework” or is this just a modern reading of Genesis interposed on the text?
Championed by Augustine (Bishop of Hippo), similar to framework in that Genesis 1 is God graciously explaining creation in an understandable way, but that in reality all of creation was instantaneous.
Instantaneous View
Strengths of Instantaneous View
Augustine and Genesis is not a scientific book.
Weaknesses of Instantaneous View
Ignores the literalness and science shows progression (e.g. fossil records.)
Genesis 1 is simply symbolic, and the modern claims of macroevolution are true but are guided by God.
Theistic Evolution
Strengths of Theistic Evolution.
Aligns well with modern scientific thought.
Weaknesses of Theistic Evolution
Is Genesis 1 symbolic? IF Adam wasn’t real/ the first man, what do we think of sin? What about Jesus? Etc. Are we made in the image of God or are we just processes form lesser life forms?
What are the days of creation?
- Light and Darkness
- Waters above/below
- Dry Land and Plants
- Sun, Moon, and Stars
- Animals of the Sky and Sea
- Man and Land Animals
- Rest
Creation was “ex nihilo”
“Out of Nothing”
What are the themes of Genesis?
Work, Vocation, Expansion (Genesis 1:28)
What is the Future of the Earth?
Laid bare by fire (2 Peter), but fire is often seen as refining in Scriptures. Our hope is the New Heavens and the New Earth. Earth matters.
Humanity is here because of Macroevolution, first popularized by Charles Darwin. Issue: If we are only products of evolution, what is to be said of morality, ethics, love? Why not eat, drink, and be merry as the writer of Ecclesiastes says?
Secularism, Marxism, Postmodernism, etc.
Darwinian evolution; observed birds 🐦
Darwin
Founder of Planned Parenthood 👼
Margaret Sanger
Proponents of ___________ - There are favorable traits (often seen along the lines of race) that need to be passed down to form a more better human. Results: racism and abortion of children with down syndrome in nations such as Ireland.
Darwin and Sanger, Eugenics
Wrote the Abolition of Man (men are being made without chests), and the Space Trilogy, to show that when man tries to conquer nature, it is ultimately nature that conquers them, and they lose their humanity in the process.
C.S. Lewis
