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To often science and religion are viewed separately. Understanding the universe around
THE EPISTLE TO
us is vital to finding truth. This comparison is an exploration similarities between modern THE ROMANS
science and Genesis. In this way, we can come better understand our world.

For ever since the world was cre-

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ated people have observed the
earth and sky. Through all things
THE ACCOUNT OF God made they can clearly see
CREATION His invisible properties. So they
OBSERVATIONS are without excuse.

OF MODERN
SCIENCE

18 THE CREATION
OF HUMANITY

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1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The
earth was formless and empty, and darkness covered the deep wa-
ters. And the Spirit of God was hovering over the surface of the wa-
ters. 3 Then God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. 4 And
God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from

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the darkness. 5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.”

And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
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According to the standard Big
6 And God said, “Let there be a space between the waters to separate
Bang model, the universe was born
water from water.” 7 So God made the space and separated the wa- during a period of inflation that Some scientists have claimed to see
ter under the space from the water above it. And it was so. began about 13.7 billion years ago. evidence of life in 3.8-billion-year-
8 God called the space “sky.” Like a rapidly expanding balloon, 14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day old rocks from Akilia Island, Green-
it swelled from a size smaller than from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and land. The researchers first reported
And there was evening, and there was morning—the second day. an electron to nearly its current size in 1996 in the journal Nature that
years. 15 Let these lights in the sky shine down on the earth.” And
within a tiny fraction of a second. isotopes (forms of an element with
2 PETER 3:8 that is what happened. 16 God made two great lights—the larger one
PSALM 90:4 different numbers of neutrons) in
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to govern the day, and the smaller one to govern the night. He also
But do not forget this A thousand years in those rocks might indicate ancient
one thing, dear friends: your sight are like a day Earth 4.4 billion years ago was flat made the stars. 17 God set these lights in the sky to light the earth, metabolic activity by some mystery
that has just gone by,
With the Lord a day is or like a watch in the and almost entirely covered in wa- 18to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the microbe. Those findings have been
like a thousand years, night. ter with just a few small islands, hotly debated ever since — as, in
and a thousand years
darkness. And God saw that it was good.
are like a day. new research suggests. Scientists fact, have all claims of early life.
came to the conclusion after an- Most recently, scientists reported
9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one 19 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.
alysing tiny zircon mineral grains in the journal Nature that they had
place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the
from a region of Western Australia discovered microfossils in Canada
dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And containing the oldest rocks ever 20Then God said, “Let the waters swarm with fish and other life. Let that might be between 3.77 billion
God saw that it was good. 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce found. “The history of the Earth is the skies be filled with birds of every kind.” 21 So God created great and 4.29 billion years old, a claim
vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit like a book with its first chapter sea creatures and every living thing that scurries and swarms in the that would push the origins of
with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. ripped out with no surviving rocks water, and every sort of bird—each producing offspring of the same life to very shortly after Earth first
from the very early period, but formed oceans. The filament-like
12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 Then God blessed them,
we’ve used these trace elements of fossils contained chemical signals
their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their saying, “Be fruitful and multiply. Let the fish fill the seas, and let the
zircon to build a profile of the world that could herald life, but it’s hard
kinds. And God saw that it was good. at that time,” says lead researcher
birds multiply on the earth.”
to prove that they do, researchers
Antony Burnham, from the Austra- not involved in the study told Live
13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day. lian National University. 23 And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day. Science.

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It’s also hard to prove that fos-
processes might have caused the
sils found in ancient rocks are

HUMAN BEINGS
odd carbon ratios, she said, so the
necessarily ancient themselves;
isotopes alone aren’t proof of life.
fluids have penetrated cracks in
IN OUR IMAGE, the rock and might have allowed
Since the publication of the 2015
paper, Bell said, the researchers
TO BE LIKE US. newer microbes in to older rock.
The researchers used samari-
have found several more of the
rare-carbon inclusions, which the
um-neodymium dating to arrive
24 Then God said, “Let the earth produce every sort of animal, each and good for food. In the middle of the garden were the tree of life scientists hope to analyze soon.
at the 4.29 billion maximum age
producing offspring of the same kind—livestock, small animals that and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 10 A river watering From what is known of this peri-
for the fossils. This method, which
scurry along the ground, and wild animals.” And that is what hap- the garden flowed from Eden; from there it was separated into four od, there would have been liquid
uses the decay of one rare-earth
pened. 25 God made all sorts of wild animals, livestock, and small headwaters. 11 The name of the first is the Pishon; it winds through water on the planet, Bell told Live
element into another, may mea-
animals, each able to produce offspring of the same kind. And God the entire land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 (The gold of that Science in an interview.
sure the age of the magma that
saw that it was good. 26 Then God said, “Let us make human beings land is good; aromatic resin and onyx are also there.) 13 The name There might have been granite,
formed the rocks rather than the
in our image, to be like us. They will reign over the fish in the sea, of the second river is the Gihon; it winds through the entire land of continental-like crust, though
rocks themselves, an issue that
the birds in the sky, the livestock, all the wild animals on the earth,” Cush. 14 The name of the third river is the Tigris; it runs along the that’s controversial, she said.
has also dogged claims of the
Any life that could have existed
27 So God created human beings in the image of God he created Earth’s oldest rocks. east side of Ashur. And the fourth river is the Euphrates. 15 The
would have been a prokaryote (a
them; male and female he created them. 28 Then God blessed them Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work
single-celled organism without
and said, “Be fruitful and multiply. Fill the earth and govern it. Reign Still, the fact that suggestive it and take care of it. 16 And the Lord God commanded the man,
membrane-bound nuclei or cell
over the fish in the sea, the birds in the sky, and all the animals that evidence of life arises right as “You are free to eat from any tree in the garden; 17 but you must not
organelles), Bell added. If there
scurry along the ground.” 29 Then God said, “Look! I have given the rock record begins raises a eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you was continental crust on Earth
question, said University of Cali-
you every seed-bearing plant throughout the earth and all the fruit eat from it you will certainly die.”18 The Lord God said, “It is not at the time, she said, prokaryotes
fornia, Los Angeles, geochemist
trees for your food. 30 And I have given every green plant as food good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.” might have had mineral sources
Elizabeth Bell in a SETI Talk in
for all the wild animals, the birds in the sky, and the small animals 19 Now the Lord God had formed out of the ground all the wild an- of nutrients like phosphorus. A
February 2016: Is the timing a
that scurry along the ground—everything that has life.” And that is imals and all the birds in the sky. He brought them to the man to see different approach to the hunt
coincidence, or were there earlier
what happened. 31 Then God looked over all he had made, and he what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living for Earth’s early life suggests
forms of life whose remnants dis-
saw that it was very good! creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the that oceanic hydrothermal vents
appeared with the planet’s most
livestock, the birds in the sky and all the wild animals. But for Adam may have hosted the first living
ancient rocks?
And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day. no suitable helper was found. 21 So the Lord God caused the man to things. In a paper published in
July 2016 in the journal Nature Mi-
The period that occurred before fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the
crobiology, researchers analyzed

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the rock record begins is known man’s ribs and then closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the Lord
prokaryotes to find the proteins
as the Hadean. It was an extreme God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and
Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast ar- and genes common to all of these
time, when asteroids and me- he brought her to the man. 23 The man said,“This is now bone of my
ray. 2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been organisms, presumably the final
teorites pummeled the planet. bones an flesh of my flesh; she shall be called ‘woman,’ for she was
doing; so on the seventh day he rested from all his work. 3 Then God remnants of the Last Universal
Bell and her colleagues said they
taken out of man.” 24 That is why a man leaves his father and moth- Common Ancestor (LUCA) — the
blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested might have evidence that life
er and is united to his wife, and they become one flesh. 25 Adam and first shared relative from which
from all the work of creating that he had done. 4 This is the account arose during this very unpleasant
his wife were both naked, and they felt no shame. all life today descends.
of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord time. In 2015, the research team
God made the earth and the heavens. 5 Now no shrub had yet ap- reported discovering graphite, a

peared on the earth and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord form of carbon, in 4.1-billion-year-
old crystals of zircon. The ratio of
God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work
isotopes in the graphite suggest-
the ground, 6 but streams came up from the earth and watered the
ed a biological origin, Bell and her
whole surface of the ground. 7 Then the Lord God formed a man
colleagues wrote in the journal
from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath
Proceedings of the National
of life, and the man became a living being.
Academy of Sciences.

8 Now the Lord God had planted a garden in the east, in Eden; and “There is some skepticism, which
there he put the man he had formed. 9 The Lord God made all kinds is warranted,” Bell told Live
of trees grow out of the ground—trees that were pleasing to the eye Science. Meteorites or chemical

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