Phenomena
Time. Time is nothing but the space betweens two events. It is a concept use to describe moment between events. The concept of time is so essential in the realization of the plans of God. His calculation is so different with that of man. A day for man may refers to the period when sun rises and sets down; or may refer to one complete rotation of the Earth on its axis, which is equivalent to 24 hours. Yet, a day to God may refer to hundreds or thousands of years. This only means that “a day” in each “days of creation” has no definite length of time and each day vary from each other’s. Thus, our thinking that the “days of creation” which is equivalent to seven days is an inaccurate calculation. It actually took place in approximately 7 billions years.
For God, time is a vital factor for His plans because creations are yet too ripe and plans are yet to be completed. After the angelic revolution in Heaven, and after the exile of Adam and Eve out from the Garden of Eden, the termination of God’s plans became possible only in the mind. God has to start repetitively because His plans are perfect. Our time is now moving towards the gradual realization of God’s plans.
The Origin of Man. The Theory of Evolution is True(?) Our search for the true origin of man will not be correctly answered if we will devote our answers only to the findings of science. Man has limited capacity thus his understanding, too. The theory proposed by science that evolution is responsible for the existence of man is just a fragment of the fact because it presents concepts limited only to the “naturality” of living things set by Natural Law. To understand extensively how man came to existence we must also seek answers from the first law that governed the first world which is the Divine Law. With these two laws, blended with the passing of time, we can clearly view how man set his first steps into the limelight.
God is the Planner, the Doer, and the Evaluator. Before creations, He planned for everything. He worked on and evaluated them. Since our focus is on the origin of man, we must start from the very beginning when God created the essential elements before He created man. He created first the “light,” then the Earth and the cosmos of matters (universe). And between each matter is a space called air or firmament. The cosmos is a limitless vastness of space with a center, like the solar system. The center is an immeasurable spherical light source called the primordial ball of light. In science, it is theorized to be the first thing appeared in the universe before the formations of stars and galaxies, including our solar system. Consequently, when this ball of light exploded (Big Bang Theory), the heavenly bodies formed. But, the Big Bang Theory ended there. No explanations were offered how and where this ball of light came from. The speculated events after the big explosion are all true and accepted facts because the nature is an open book of its unrecorded history of evolution, and all natural phenomena have their own pattern of re-occurrence. Suffice it to say that we have almost perfected the search and understanding from the end scenario of the explosion but never on how it actually got in there.
The “light” that God had first created and the primordial ball of light in the universe is actually referring to the same thing. The theory proposed by science is true and not in contrary to the Theory of Creation. It only lacks further explanations and subscription from the latter. Hence, there must be the blending of the two theories to end up this long time unending debate on the rationality of the two sides.
Through accurate mathematical configuration, scientists have calculated that the universe is already about 10 billion years old; the first living organisms came around 3 billion years ago; and man evolved around 15,000 years ago. Based on the comparison, man came to life last and has the shortest period of existence. In the timetable of creation, man was created on the last day (6th) of creation.
What makes the two theories different? Are they contradictory to one another or are they the same thing presented only to different points of view? In this part, I will present some points of correction to this once mistakenly accepted belief that the Theory of Creation and the Theory of Evolution are two different schools of thoughts. Instead, these theories are actually referred to one and the same theory viewed only from two different points of view, like seeing a coin on its two different sides. To understand this further let us review how the two theories explain each side.
The Theory of Creation: There is only one reference we can sight on how God created everything in nature - the Bible. But the Bible had been translated many times, and each translation may vary from the original one loosing its real sense? However, each translation may still carry the thoughts the original one supposed to convey enough to guide man on his way back to Godhead. Accordingly, each day in the days of creation, God created the following, as summarized in the Book of Genesis 1:1-31:
First Day - The light; He separated the light from darkness; He called the light day and the darkness night.
Second Day - The expanse between the waters; He separated the waters under the expanse from the water above it; He called the expanse sky.
Third Day - Made the waters be separated to one place so that a dry ground appear; He called the gathered water sea and the dry ground land; He created the vegetation over the ground.
Forth Day - The lights in the sky to separate the day from night; the signs to make seasons and days and years; He created the “greater light” to rule the day and the “lesser light” to rule the night; He also made stars.
Fifth Day - The creatures on water, and the birds to fill the sky.
Sixth Day - The animals on the ground; then, He created man to rule over animals and to take good care of the ground.
Seventh Day - The rest day after the long phases of creations; He blessed the day and made it holy.
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This message has been edited by R. Cuaresma, 02-24-2006 04:07 AM
R. Cuaresma
January 09, 1970
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