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A primary assumption of Geocreationism is that God the Father made the pronouncements recorded in Genesis 1, and Jesus responded by removing the insurmountable hindrance otherwise preventing the Father’s will.

For example, on Day 1, God told Jesus to “let there be light”.  So, Jesus did, by removing the causes of what was a dark and rainy sky.  On Day 2, God told Jesus to “Let there be a firmament.” So, Jesus did, by stopping the turbulent rain that occupied all the space between the clouds and the seas.  On Day 3, God told Jesus to “Let the waters be gathered into one place,” to “let dry land appear,” and to “let the earth bring forth grass” and seeded plants.  So, Jesus did, by removing what prevented, the absence of land… Jesus basically started plate tectonics.  On Day 4, God told Jesus to “Let there be lights in the firmament,” and so Jesus removed the hazy gases that prevented lights from being seen in the firmament, by kicking up photosynthesis a notch.

And so we see where Jesus did His work.  But does that really tell the entire story?

In my Review of “Plant Evolution Tour” - Part 1, I discussed how the earth has the building blocks and mechanisms for creating the biological building blocks of life, but not together or at the same time… yet, they were all created and put together against all seeming odds.  Now without knowing through faith that God is the One Who did it, I would undoubtedly argue that the odds just appear impossible, because we do not yet know the mechanism by which all biological building blocks were generated together.  I would argue that discovering one way of generating a biological building block is not an argument that it’s the right one, and that just because two mechanisms for generating two building blocks cannot occur simultaneously is not an argument against a third mechanism that can produce both building blocks together.  I would then conclude that it is only a matter of time before this unknown mechanism is found, and that the mechanism need not be God.  And you know what?  I’d be right.  From a strictly logical perspective, I’d be right.  However, it isn’t an argument against God being that mechanism either.

Given my witness of God’s presence and my understanding of the scriptures, it seems pretty clear that God interceded in the appearance of life, and at several places along the way.  It may well be that as we discover more of the physical mechanisms that God has put in place for the development of life, we will see that God’s focused touch was not precisely where our research has stopped, but a little farther along.  I have no problem with that.  What I do know is that there will always be more physical processes to discover, and that those actions taken directly by God will never be verifiably attributable to them.  Ever.  This means that the atheist will continually discover more of what God has done, without realizing which of their current impasses are precisely where God can be found.

Therefore, I acknowledge that the impasse science has reached in explaining the appearance of the most common biological building blocks may not be the precise location of God within the process, but in relation to the geological time-line, I find it to be close enough.  The problem however is that the times at which science predicts God’s potential involvement do not line up with Jesus’ responses to His pronouncements.  For example, God showed up 3.85 to 3.5 Ga to create the biological building blocks of life… as recorded in the first algae fossils.  He showed up again, as discussed in Review of “Plant Evolution Tour” - Part 2, around 2.7 Ga when prokaryotes combined to form the the first eukaryotes.

So in other words, God interacted with the creation some time between Jesus’ responses to Him.  What gives?  Why weren’t these actions recorded?  And was it Jesus acting again?

Well, I cannot answer the last two questions with any certainty.  However, it does appear that God’s focus in Genesis was on the removal of insurmountable hindrances, on acts of separation, on establishing His dominance over the creation.  Perhaps, He was merely simplifying the story for Moses.  After all, Creation is only the beginning of God’s purpose, not the end.

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