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anywhere in the rest of the known universe and will never be found to have. The earth system did not
randomly develop. It was purposefully created as was the rest of the universe.

E. Origin of life
The question of how living systems could come into existence from nonliving chemicals has always and
will always be a mystery to materialistic philosophers, and modern evolutionary scientists. However, the
book of Genesis explains that all matter living and nonliving sprang into existence at the Word of the
eternally existing God of creation. The marvel of reproductive process, and the almost-infinite
complexity programmed into the genetic systems of plants and animals are inexplicably complex except
by special creation especially when the laws of thermodynamics and probability mean anything at all.
The account of creation in Genesis is the only rational explanation.

F. Origin of man
Man is the most highly developed and organized entity in the known universe. He is complex and
capable of very difficult and complex activities, thoughts, behaviors, and interrelations. To suggest that
man is nothing more than the random act of time and chance as organisms evolved through billions of
years of mutations and random occurrence is absurd.

Even more illusionary given the mathematics of probability. The true record of man’s creation is
recorded in Genesis.

G. Origin of the Sexes
God created all life, and He created it to reproduce asexually (not involving the fusion of gametes) or
sexually. In the case of sexual reproduction, He created MALE and FEMALE. From the beginning, He
created the world to reproduce itself and to become fruitful. When it came to making mankind, Genesis

1:27 says, “And God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and
female created he them.” It seems today that the medical and scientific community cannot understand
this basic fact: boys are born male, and girls are born female. In God’s creation, there is no confusion
about the sexes.

H. Origin of marriage
When you think about it, the idea that marriage as it universally exists today (or until recently) evolved is
preposterous. Marriage finds its roots in Genesis as monogamous, patriarchal, social stabilizing, and
procreative. Only after the fall do polygamy, infanticide, matriarchy, homosexuality, and promiscuity.

I. Origin of evil
The concepts of goodness, truth, beauty, love, etc. find their origin not in society but ultimately in the
Creator Himself. They are characteristics fundamental to His very nature and He has expressed them in
His creation. The presence of physical and moral evil in the universe is explained in Genesis. However,
evil is explained as temporary and a deviation from the perfect, as an intruder into God’s design. It is the
absence of the nature and character of God. God explains in Genesis that evil will exist for a season but
will ultimately be crushed through our kinsman redeemer.

J. Origin of language
Not only does Genesis describe the variety of languages that we hear, but also explains the difference
between the chattering of animals and the symbols, and specificity of human language. To think that
language could have developed by random chance from the grunting of animals to modern language is
absurd and the only logical account of language development is recorded in Genesis.

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