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The Origin of Life and the Universe

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be lights in the expanse of the sky to give
7 3 light on the earth." And it was so. God made
two great lights—the greater light to govern
the day and the lesser light to govern the
night. He also made the stars. God set them
in the expanse of the sky to give light on the
The Creation of the Heavens
earth. (Genesis, 1:14-17)
and the Earth
* O Lord, our Lord, how majestic is Your
* In the beginning God created the heavens
name in all the earth! You have set Your
and the earth. Now the earth was form-less
glory above the heavens... When I consider
and empty, darkness was over the surface of
Your heavens... the Moon and the stars,
the deep... (Genesis, 1:1-2)
which You have set in place, what is man...?
* And God said, "Let there be an expanse
between the waters to separate water from (Psalms, 8:1-4)
water." So God made the expanse and sepa-
rated the water under the expanse from the The Creation of Night and Day
* God called the light "day," and the darkness
water above it. And it was so. God called the
expanse "sky"... (Genesis, 1:6-8) He called "night." And there was evening,
and there was morning... (Genesis, 1:5)
* ... When the Lord God made the earth and
the heavens... (Genesis, 2:4-5) * As long as the earth endures, seedtime and
* You alone are the Lord. You made the hea- harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter,
day and night will never cease. (Genesis,
vens, even the highest heavens, and all their
starry host, the earth and all that is on it, the 8:22)
seas and all that is in them... the multitudes
of heaven worship You. (Nehemiah, 9:6) The Creation of the Heavens
* And God said, "Let the water under the sky Within an Order
be gathered to one place, and let dry ground * This is what the Lord says, He Who appoints
appear." And it was so. God called the dry the Sun shine by day, Who decrees the Moon
ground "land," and the gathered waters He and stars to shine by night, stirs up the sea
called "seas"... (Genesis, 1:9-10) so that its waves roar—the Lord Almighty is
* Thus the heavens and the earth were com- His name... (Jeremiah, 31:35-36)
pleted in all their vast array. (Genesis, 2:1) * Lift your eyes and look to the heavens:
* Praise the Lord, O my soul. O Lord my Who created all these? He Who brings out
God, You are very great; are clothed with the starry host one by one, and calls them
splendor and majesty... He set the earth on each by name. Because of His great power
its foundations; it can never be moved. and mighty strength, not one of them is
(Psalms, 104:1, 5) missing. (Isaiah, 40:26)
* Can you bring forth the constellations in
The Creation of Celestial Bodies their seasons or lead out the bear with its
* And God said, "Let there be lights in the ex- cubs? Do you know the laws of the heavens?...
panse of the sky to separate the day from the (Job, 38:32-33)
night, and let them serve as signs to mark

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