Kethryn Mattingly

Ms. Koors
THL 106
6 March 2015
Creationism Accounts
Over the years there has been many debates on how the world was created.
Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, and even Science all have their own views and beliefs on
how the world is the way it is. In Genesis in the Old Testament, the creation is a sevenday process. The seven-day process is described through out the first chapter of Genesis
and gives insight on what God was doing on each day. God starts from scratch and works
his way through and creates the many attributes of the world that we know now.
The creation of the Earth starts in the first chapter of Genesis. From the
beginning, God had created heaven and earth. Then, on day one, God said, Let there be
light and there was light (Donald). He wanted to save us form the darkness so he needed
something to divide us from the light and darkness; on day two, God created Night and
Day. God needed something to separate the waters and so he created a firmament that
separated the waters below and the waters above; he essentially created the sky on the
second day as well (Donald). He continued on day three by creating something to contain
the waters; God created dry ground, which was known as land. Then he gathered the
waters into seas. He now needed something to fill the Earth, so God created grass, tress
that bared fruit, and vegetation that brought forth seeds (Donald). God was very pleased
with what he created so he continued to do more. On day four, he wanted to divide the
Day and Night even more, so God created signs for days, months, years, and seasons. He

also wanted the light to shine upon the Earth, so he created the sun for the day and the
moon and the stars so the Earth always had light (Donald). God was still very pleased
with his creations and continued to create more. On the fifth day, he wanted creatures to
rule the water; God created all of the living creatures in the seas including everything
from fish to whales. God also needed creatures to rule the air, so he created every winged
species of fowl there is to fly around the skies (Donald). God gave them his blessings so
the creatures may multiply and continue to live. After the fifth day, God was very happy
with his work but now needed a species to rule over all of the land he created. Then on
the sixth day, God created all sorts of animals to fill the earth and God was very pleased.
He now wanted to make a man in our image, after our likeness (Donald). God wanted a
creature to rule over all of the other creatures in the air and sea and on land. God
continued on the sixth day and created man. So God created man in his own image, in
the image of God created he him; male and female created them (Donald). Then God
blessed them, just as he had blessed all of the other creatures. Be fruitful, and multiply
and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and
over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth
(Donald). God gave mankind the ultimate rule over all of the creatures. God continued
and gave them all of the vegetation he had created to eat as well. God was very happy
with what he had created and on the seventh day, he rested to admire his work. He also
blessed everything he had created and made it all holy.
This creation account is from a Christian point of view from the first chapter of
Genesis. Christians believe that to create the Earth and everything within the Earth was a
seven-day process in which God did all of the work in day segments. Some people do not

believe that God created the Earth and everything on it. For example, Atheists, or people
sometimes from the Christian churchwho tend to side with the scientific approach
may believe that the Earth was created all through common descent or evolution.
Biological evolution, simply put, is descent with modification. This definition
encompasses small-scale evolution (changes in gene frequency in a population
from one generation to the next: and large-scale evolution (the descent of different
species from a common ancestor over many generations) (University . . .
Institute).
In general, this statement is saying that everything on this earth was created by evolution
through changes in gene frequency. Changes in gene frequency are referring to how
genes from the parents are passed down to the offspring; there can be a mutation in the
gene, a skip in generation, etc. This all leads to changes in the way the offspring is
formed and this can lead to new adaptations of a species. Generally speaking, scientists
believed that everything on earth is a descendent of a common ancestor, which can be
supported through fossil evidence. Evolution means that were all distant cousins:
humans and oak trees, hummingbirds and whales (University . . . Institute).
There are many creation accounts throughout the world that are believed by
many; these are just two of the many. Christians believe that God created anything and
everything on the Earth that we live on now. Atheists and others who may support the
scientific approach believe that the Earth was created through biological evolution and
descent from a common ancestor. Both ideas are supported through fairly factual
evidence, but know one truly knows the truth as to how the world was created.

Works Cited
Senior, Donald, John J. Collins, and Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan. The Catholic Study Bible: The
New American Bible. N.p.: n.p., n.d. Print.

University of California Museum of Paleontology, National Science Foundation, and

Howard Hughes Medical Institute. "An Introduction to Evolution." Evolution 101:.
N.p., n.d. Web. 23 Feb. 2015.