Genesis 1:20-23

This description goes along with what science to a certain point gets it right: that life comes from the sea or from water first. Also, according to today's knowledge of what they think the dinosaurs were (more like birds than lizards) it was birds that came along with the fish, not lizards. Moses mention "great whales" which in those days was a way to indicate huge creatures of the ocean.

Some Darwinist people at BYU claim that Darwin never said that men came from apes, but that we all have common origins. We have to be careful as to how far we will go after that concept though. Moses is not saying how animals and men were created, only that they were and had a purpose. So, science can try to play a part for our intellect and try to explain something there. We just have to be careful not to think that theories are laws. There are times that science get it right and times when it does not. To this day we call Darwin's ideas a "theory" and as such it does not have any more weight than what was taught before in school if we are to argue what is proven or not, than what the Bible says. The school system that forces us to recite that theory should let us recite the other too (if in fact we are to consider the Creation not truth but theory.) Instead, they removed teaching creationism totally from schools and push Darwinism (theory, not law, not certainty) down everyone's throat.

I think the agreat reason one would distort Darwin's theory of evolution to say that we indeed came from apes and that is a fact, is to say that Adam never existed. If the story of Adam were not true, then all that we read in Genesis would be a myth, a legend like the Romans and Greeks had. If that were true then Jesus would be an impostor because he and his disciples preached atonement, that Jesus was rescuing us from the fall of Adam. Darwin did reject God at one point in his life, but it was because of the death of his mother, and not because he thought he knew more than the Bible.

So, here we are: maybe natural selection exists. We do believe that men can go from walking standing to walking curved, from knowing how to make pyramids to beggars and illiterate. We believe in language being corrupt and going nonexistent at all - the opposite of evolution. Natural selection makes sense and maybe the creatures that are being mentioned in this first phase of creation, some of them, are long gone. Maybe a meteor did hit the planet and it went through the ice age and all that. Moses is not writing this to give a scientific description of how the planet came about, but as an introduction to the creation of men and that we are not an accident of a big bang - that we have a purpose, that there is a God, and that it all starts with a plan. Our world is not an accident, the fish, birds and animals, and the plants, oceans, and rivers are not accidents. This is an introduction to the message that we are part of a huge plan of exaltation.

I think that this is also a testimony that there is life out there, that like they say in Contact, "if we were the only ones in the universe it would be an awful waste of space." The chances that other "accidents" like this one happened are smaller than the chances that evolved (exalted) creatures work constantly and make life possible here and there. The US National Academy of Science published a booklet preaching evolution as if it was not a theory anymore but I found a nice refute to all their claims in this article for those who have time and want to read it:

Refute to N.S.A.

I loved this idea that I found in the internet too: a museum of the creation process with dinosaur exhibits and all. They explore the creation as told in the Bible and I think it is amazing!!! I plan to visit this place one day. Here goes:

The Creation Museum

But what is the practical thing for me with the creation of fish and fowl? The Lord created them and said: "be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth." He also said that God saw that it was good (he is always giving his opinion on the matter... I like it!) This is the first time that "be fruitful and multiply" appears in the Bible. This is usually connected with procreation and the animals follow the natural laws and are obedient to God unlike humans who, as they listen to Satan, use that power for leisure and profit (pornography) and perversions of all kinds (incests, same-sex, animals, etc.) We must understand that we think sentient life is only human, that a cat or a dog cannot "obey" God, that rocks and river cannot "obey" God and such. But on the contrary to that thought, the Bible says that all creatures were praising God in Revelations and other prophets that did see animals worshiping God. The Prophet Joseph Smith taught that the Earth is a living thing and obeys the laws applied to "her." The earth had its "baptism" during the flood which happened around a moment of ripened sin on its surface. The "death and resurrection" of the earth will happen eventually and we believe it will receive its paradisaical glory as in one of the articles of faith. The Lord "commanded" the waves and the wind and they "obeyed." Let's not fool ourselves. All around us there are creatures and elements that obey and unless we learn to do that, we may be considered not fit for the kingdom.

The difference between the elements, the animals and such and us is that we have the same structure and conscience of the Gods. We are bound to be Gods if we learn to give in to Heavenly Father's will. If we can show Him that He can trust us we can be endowed with His powers and create and make worlds without end. He wants to "recruit" us to this process but we are busy sometimes watching TV shows. That is OK as long as we know which way we are going and if we must choose between home teaching, missionary work, family history, and some worldly activity, we will choose the divine.

Maybe creationism, or the concept of the creation is hard for some of us to imagine but evolutionism should be hard to believe too - that is a theory of chances, ours is a theory of knowledge, of people that witnessed the process from God, the words of prophets. I have seen miracles enough in my life to believe that there is a God and I would rather believe that a man like Moses, Abraham, or Joseph Smith knows better about the creation that a kid that went to school and speaks pretty knows more than them. In the end, evolutionism does not create atheism but paganism... in the end, it is all part of the devil's work in this world to turn us into animals with brains to disobey so we can do things contrary to our divine nature.

I think the application of this part of the creation process for me is that I must be fruitful and that does not have to be procreate more, but be fruitful in doing more things that bless my life and that of other people. We can be more productive and more obedient and like the fish, enjoy peace, and like the birds... fly high.