As a creationist, YEC, OEC, ID proponent, guided evolution proponent, how do you imagine "creation" of species happens?
Is there a bearded man materializing from thin air and going to work on some clay?
(Isaiah 44:6) This is what Jehovah says, ...‘
I am the first and I am the last. There is no God but me.
(Isaiah 45:6) In order that people may know From the rising of the sun to its setting That
there is none besides me. I am Jehovah, and there is no one else.
(Isaiah 48:12) Listen to me, ...I am the same One.
I am the first; I am also the last.
(Revelation 22:13)
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end.
Think of a circle. Now think of the starting point of that circle. Can you point it out?
If we can then God poofed into existence. If we can't, then we understand the concept of no beginning and no end. God has neither.
Therefore
God did not poof from anywhere. God always was, and always will be.
The circle has no beginning and no end.
Do new species poof into existence? What exactly are the steps from a world without a given species to a world with that species?
(Genesis 1:11-13)
11 Then God said: “
Let the earth cause grass to sprout, seed-bearing plants and fruit trees according to their kinds, yielding fruit along with seed on the earth.” And it was so.
12 And the earth began to produce grass,
seed-bearing plants and trees yielding fruit along with seed, according to their kinds. Then God saw that it was good.
13 And there was evening and there was morning, a third day.
Let's take a seed, and plant it in Japan.
Now fly to America, and plant another seed.
Let's have the birds and the bees make some rounds.
What will we eventually see? Different species. Why?
The Bird and the Bees
The mechanisms for the varieties we see today, was set in place by our creator, at the Genesis.
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The “kinds” of animals selected had reference to the clear-cut and unalterable boundaries or limits set by the Creator, within which boundaries creatures are capable of breeding “according to their kinds.”
It has been estimated by some that the hundreds of thousands of species of animals today could be reduced to a comparatively few family “kinds”—the horse kind and the cow kind, to mention but two. The breeding boundaries according to “kind” established by Jehovah were not and could not be crossed. With this in mind some investigators have said that, had there been as few as 43 “kinds” of mammals, 74 “kinds” of birds, and 10 “kinds” of reptiles in the ark, they could have produced the variety of species known today. Others have been more liberal in estimating that 72 “kinds” of quadrupeds and less than 200 bird “kinds” were all that were required. That the great variety of animal life known today could have come from inbreeding within so few “kinds” following the Flood is proved by the endless variety of humankind—short, tall, fat, thin, with countless variations in the color of hair, eyes, and skin—all of whom sprang from the one family of Noah.
These estimates may seem too restrictive to some, especially since such sources as The Encyclopedia Americana indicate that there are upwards of 1,300,000 species of animals. (1977, Vol. 1, pp. 859-873) However, over 60 percent of these are insects. Breaking these figures down further, of the 24,000 amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, 10,000 are birds, 9,000 are reptiles and amphibians, many of which could have survived outside the ark, and only 5,000 are mammals, including whales and porpoises, which would have also remained outside the ark. Other researchers estimate that there are only about 290 species of land mammals larger than sheep and about 1,360 smaller than rats. (The Deluge Story in Stone, by B. C. Nelson, 1949, p. 156; The Flood in the Light of the Bible, Geology, and Archaeology, by A. M. Rehwinkel, 1957, p. 69) So, even if estimates are based on these expanded figures, the ark could easily have accommodated a pair of all these animals.
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