God's Creation

I love this photo of the Giant Panda at the National Zoo in Washington. A friend's daughter took this photo who I'm envious of because the Pandas were never out the days when I visited. The photo is a reminder to me of how God created the animals according to their kind. My faith in a Creator God was challenged today at the local book club as we gathered to read the book, The Making of the Fittest, by Sean Carroll. The local group is a little 'left leaning,' so I expected some macro evolutionists would be present, and I'll loose no pride in saying that this group is more intellectual than myself. The writer went to great length to support the notion of an old universe; a chance that anything can happen; and that because we are here among the living creatures possessing DNA; that evolution must have occurred as Darwin theorized. I was asked by the group leader, what to me was more important to me, my believe in the creation, or my belief in the redemption (of Jesus); and my initial response was, redemption. The inference was that the credibility of Christians wanes as deep held beliefs in both are maintained, because in the view of science, the creation story (as told in Genesis) is an alogory. I'll maintain that our God is both Creator and Redeemer; in my view, the universe He created is complex in its nearly infinite dimensions to the cosmos; and is equally complex in the microscopic dimensions of the DNA molecule of life, and the proteins and amino acids that support that life. I believe that even if the world were 4.5 billion years old, that would not be enough time for chance to reveal what we observe in this one photo.

Genesis 1:24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.