Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
Question: When it says that God created the heaven and the earth, was the earth in existence before and did God just bring order out of chaos on the first day or did He call the earth into existence on the first day of creation? The Evolution theory proposes that life on Earth began with simple organisms. Small organisms developed over millions of years into animals and finally into human beings.
This process, called ‘evolution’, was presented by Charles Darwin in 1859 and it has been adopted by many scientists ever since. Let’s unpack the two fundamental principles found in the above Darwinian statements: [1] Life began with simple organisms, meaning that something must have been in prior existence in order to produce. [2] It must have taken millions of years for the slow, and gradual development of life forms to evolve.
Thus, from the get go, creation, and the theory of evolution diverge, because of the differences that are to be found in their fundamental principles. With evolution, you must have some sort of prior raw material to work with. With creation, God does not necessarily need to use raw material. In creation God can act instantaneously, but in evolution, you must have millions of years to evolve.
Isaiah 40:26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.
May God add His blessing to the study of His word. “Good night” and God bless!