So, God created the world in six days. It was about 6 thousand years ago (or maybe 8 thousand - with it being 6 thousand years before Christ - I have this a bit confused in my head..)

Here. Listen to this while you read.




Day 1 - First God separated the earth from the void, apparently covered with water. Then he created the cycle of day and night. This was before the sun, moon, planets, and stars, which came on day 4.

Day 2 - He separated the heavens from the water. Still no planets, moon or sun. Still no land.

Day 3 - God created the land, and put plants on it. Still no rest of the universe.

Day 4 - He created all the stars (I guess all the galaxies and such and quasars and black holes and what not), and the sun for the day, and the moon for the nights.

Day 5 - He created fish and sea monsters and birds. Birds were before land animals.

Day 6 He created living things on the surface of dry land. This includes the dinosaurs. Sure, there were dinosaurs back then. But all the living creatures were herbivores. No animals kill each other for food at that point.

God also created man on day 6.

So that's where it started. Everything was perfect. The plants were perfect, the animals were perfect. There were no diseases, no catastrophes. Just you know - Eden.

But God gave man free will and said don't use it to eat the fruit off this tree. Anything else is okay.

Well, we all know how that turned out. So God ended paradise. Because of man's sin, we ended up with diseases, and earthquakes, and tigers and such and horrible things that do nasty stuff to men. But it's man's fault because man used free will the wrong way.

Then there was the whole Caine and Abel thing, and humanity fell even further astray. So it went on like this for a while, with dinosaurs and such, only now some of them with big pointy teeth eating humans.

The next big bit of action is THE FLOOD. The flood is the explanation for a lot of how the modern world got the way it did. Sort of. See God told Noah he was going to flood the world, and he made Noah build an ark and bring two of every species of animal on board.

Well, apparently the dinosaurs didn't make it. This is why they aren't around any more. Not on the boat with Noah.

So the flood was a pretty big deal. Before the flood, there was just one continent - sort of like Pangaea - and while everything was flood over, it separated into all the other continents.

The flood also explains the fossils and deep canyons like the Grand Canyon. You see, the force for the flood started deep in the bottom of the ocean, and it churned up a lot of mud and a lot of the stuff settled at the bottom of the ocean, including some pretty strange looking creatures. The force of the flood carved a lot of canyons, and it settled down in layers, with the stuff from the bottom of the deep ocean going down in the first sets of layers, then other layers settled on top of those.

So then the flood ended, the ark landed, and the animals got off. Somewhere in the Middle East - probably.

You may wonder how the animals ended up back on the other continents. Well, when the flood happened a lot of trees got knocked down. They floated to the top of the water, and they stayed floating for a long time. You can see this if you go to Mt. St. Helens, where twenty five years after a volcano there are still these trees floating around in the lakes. So there were all these dead trees floating around in the ocean for a while, and sometimes some of the animals ended up on them, and then the ocean currents took them to the other continents.

Incidently, creationism does not mean that there was no evolution. In fact, evolution helps explain how Noah was able to transport all the animals on his ark. You see, after the creatures left the ark, they diverged into different subtypes. So, in Noah's time there weren't separate dogs and wolves and foxes and jackals and whatnot. There were "canids". After the ark, the basic "canid" mutated into a lot of different subtypes including dogs, wolves, etc., etc. Same thing with horses, only instead of diverging, horses adapted from these small deer like creatures.

Around this time there was also an ice age. The Bible doesn't mention it, but since men were near the equator to start with, it did not have much effect on them. But there is a lot of evidence of an ice age, and so there had to have been one after the flood, probably caused because volcanic ash from splitting apart Pangaea caused the earth to cool off for a few centuries.

So anyway, there we are with a fresh start. But it's not a totally fresh start, because we still have disease and catastrophes and carnivores. This is not a return to the state of Eden. Basically, God got rid everybody but Noah and his family, and God also got rid of the dinosaurs too.

Well, not long after this man screwed up again by building the tower of Babel. God has already promised no more flooding, and he apparently isn't ready yet to set fire to everything, but he has to show his wrath. So he made everyone speak different languages. And then the people dispersed across the face of the planet.

Next God decided on a chosen people with plans on eventually sending his only son to live with them. He picked Abraham and his descendents. He tought Abraham the word of God, and Abraham passed it on to his descendents, the Hebrews.

So, next the Chosen People of God managed to get themselves conquered and enslaved at least four and probably five times. From the Bible we know about the Egyptians, and the Babylonians, and the Persians, and finally, around the time of Christ, the Romans. We know that the Greeks conquered pretty much everything in the area including points north, south, east and west of Israel, and even though it isn't mentioned in the Bible, God's chosen people probably got taken up in that as well.

Then the Messiah came. God's Chosen People rejected him, and he got crucified. This might have been why God chose them, because getting crucified was the plan.

That last bit is getting a bit beyond our topic - ie creation, but just to round things out - eventually the Romans become Christians and then we have the dark ages, and at some point Christ will come back and restore things to perfection.

So anyway, on Thursday I visited the new Creation Museum just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio, and that is what I learned.

I also got a couple pictures of my brother 12 of 12's cats. 12 of 12 lives just south of Columbus, Ohio, so that was where I stayed when I went to the Creation Museum. I'll post the pictures of the cats when I get around to developing the film. They are pretty strange looking.