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 11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. 13 And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.– Genesis 1:11 to 13
Placing God’s creative pronouncement of Day 3 with the appearance of seeded plants on land does not fit into the Geologic Timeline.  The reason is because the sun, moon, and stars were visible in the firmament about 1.9 billion …

A reader David asked some excellent questions that I believe are of general interest to the blog, and so I think it appropriate to answer the questions here. 

> The idea of the Holy Spirit choosing to move to the
> other side of the earth to experience the day is still
> difficult for me to grasp. The Holy Spirit is spirit (duh!).
> He is everywhere at once if I understand the concept of
> omnipresence. Now, much greater minds than mine
> have been wrestling with Genesis for thousands of
> years. Nevertheless, what about this?

The question of the Holy Spirit’s omnipresence is an interesting one.  Well let’s first consider a similar question.  Is Jesus omnipresent? I think that’s an easier one to tackle.  Clearly, …

One of the arguments for Intelligent Design is that something designed is easily distinguished from something random.  Similar to art, you might not be able to define it, but you know it when you see it.  This argument is developed in the article “How to determine creation vs. evolution“, by Charles Colson.  Mr. Colson gives several examples of items that you would never mistake for a naturally occurring phenomenon.
Think for a moment of some common analogies. Imagine we are traveling through South Dakota and see a mountain with the faces of four presidents carved in it. Immediately we recognize the work of an intelligent agent. No one would mistake Mount Rushmore for a natural phenomenon.
I agree.  However, it …

GotQuestions.org give an excellent discussion on the differences between Theistic Evolution and Special Creation, including many of the difficulties that prevent Theistic Evolution from being accepted by many as a viable explanation for creation.  Following is an explanation for where Geocreationism either agrees with those difficulties, explains them, or gets around them. 

I suggest opening their article and reading along with my responses below:
Atheistic Evolution says that there is no God and that life can and did emerge naturally from preexisting non-living building blocks under the influence of natural laws (like gravity, etc). 
Geocreationism is not Atheistic Evolution.  I do not believe that life emerged “naturally” from non-living building blocks.  If God used non-living building blocks, then His …

I hope those at GotQuestions.com take no offense to my references to them and their website.  They have developed an excellent resource for answering biblical difficulties, and I would recommend them to any Christian who is looking for answers… so far, my only difference with them is on Creation.  However, their attitude toward Creation is spot on: Genesis 1 is the inerrant word of God, it’s historical, and it’s literal.  Of course, I think that literal account is of an old earth, and from there we part ways a bit… but my intention is to lead one to the same place, which is at the foot of the cross. 

The reason this is important is because many Young Earth Creationists believe that the Gospel starts …

Question:  “Does Genesis chapter 1 literally mean 24-hour days?” 

 
 
Here is an excerpts from gotquestions.org’s answer that I agree with:

“We can determine how “yom” should be interpreted in Genesis 1:5-2:2 simply by examining the context in which we find the word used and then comparing it’s context with how we see its usage elsewhere throughout scripture.” 

The context of the Genesis Days are from the perspective of God hovering over the deep.

 2 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface …

Question:  “Why are there two different Creation accounts in Genesis chapters 1-2?”
 

GotQuestions.org’s Answer:  Genesis 1:1 says “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…” Later, in Genesis 2:4, it seems that a second, different story of Creation begins. However, close examination of the text will show that what is recorded in 1:1-2:3 is an introductory summary of the events of creation, and that what begins with verse 2:4 is a more detailed account of the Creation of mankind. There is nothing in the two Creation accounts that contradicts. Genesis 2:4-25 should be understood as a further explanation of what happened in …

I found this great site called “GotQuestions?.org“  I agree with the vast majority of their site.  So far, I only differ on their Creation FAQs.  I thought it might be useful if I provided the Geocreationist responses:

Question:  “What does the Bible say about Creation vs. evolution?”Here are some excerpts from gotquestions’ answer:
“The vast majority of evolutionary scientists hold that life evolved entirely without ANY intervention of a higher Being. Evolution is by definition a naturalistic science.”

“Darwin’s goal was not to disprove God’s existence, but that is one of the end results of the theory of evolution. Evolution is an enabler of atheism.”

“According to the Bible, anyone who denies the existence of …

Genesis 1:9-11 (NIV)
 9 And God said, “Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear.” And it was so. 10 God called the dry ground “land,” and the gathered waters he called “seas.” And God saw that it was good.
 
Proverbs 8:29a
29 when he gave the sea its boundary
       so the waters would not overstep his command
 
Job 38:8-11
 8 “Who shut up the sea behind doors
       when it burst forth from the womb,

 9 when I made the clouds its garment
       and wrapped it in thick darkness,

 10 when I fixed limits for it
       and set its doors and bars in place,

 11 when …

As Phillip E. Johnson pointed out, “An essential step in the reasoning that establishes that Darwinian selection created the wonders of biology … is that nothing else was available,” but Christian “Theism is … the doctrine that something else was available” (my emphasis):
“Theists who accommodate with scientific naturalism therefore may never affirm that their God is real in the same sense that evolution is real. This rule is essential to the entire mindset that produced Darwinism in the first place. If God exists He could certainly work through mutation and selection if that is what He wanted to do, but He could also create by some means totally outside the ken of our science. Once we put …