Let's begin our discussion of this month with finding out the basics of both theories. To begin, we'll start with creationism since that's my own personal belief. If any of my readers can find any more information regarding the Big Bang, that would be nice. I have a lot of my own personal mini essays that I wrote for my geology class, but if any of you can find any articles in science magazines, etc, that would be really cool.


Creationist Theory

According to the Bible, the Earth begins its life "without form and void, and darkness was over the face of the deep." (Genesis 1:2) The creation of Earth as we know it begins with light and the separation of light and darkness, one being day and the other night. This is day one of God's creation of Earth. The second day begins with God creating the sky, which my ESV Bible refers to as "heavens". This is the only thing done on the second day.

The third day has a little more to it than the first two days. First, God begins by gathering all of the water in one place to allow dry land to appear. This land is the land we all live on but in its baby years. Though it doesn't say it here, my personal belief is that if all the waters were gathered in one place, all the land must have been gathered in one place too. This is Biblical proof of Pangaea, which we will get into later this month.

Now, God doesn't stop with just creating Earth on the third day. He also created all the vegetation around us. He created the fruit trees and the flowers, the trees and the grass. I'm not sure if He created weeds here or if that was a curse from the Fall. So, this ends the third day, and on the fourth God creates something more for the sky: He creates the stars, the Sun, and the Moon. With all the billions of stars we can see in our sky, it's no wonder that this was all God created in this one day. That must've been a lot of work.

Now, we move on to the fifth day. Here, Earth now has sea creatures and birds. Some creationists believe that some of these birds were the dinosaurs of the science theory. They explain the smaller creatures that have "evolved" from dinosaur fossils as being the adaptation of these large beasts learning to live after the Great Flood. Only God knows for sure, but it certainly does explain the fossils. After all, if you had to choose between a huge saber tooth tiger and its young cub, which would you rather have on the ark?

On the sixth day, God creates all of the Earth creatures: crawling bugs, mammals, and everything else in between. Then He created something unique to everything else He had created: Man. "Then 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 birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.'" (Genesis 1:26)

So, in a nutshell: In six days, God created everything that scientists say took billions of years. Yes, it seems unbelievable that all of this could be created in so little time, but wouldn't you rather believe you were created special than an itty bitty piece of a giant explosion? Wouldn't you rather believe you were created on purpose rather than a simple chance evolutionary object?