According To Their Kinds..

Does this progressive appearance of plants and animals imply that God used evolution to produce the vast diversity of liveing things ?
No. The record clearly states that God created all the basic " kinds " of plants and animal life..
{ Genesis 1:11,12,20-25 }

Were theses original " kinds " of plants and animals programmed with the abililty to adapt to changeing environmental conditions?
What defines the boundry of a " kind" ?
The Bible does not say..
However, it does state that living creatures " swarmed forth according to their kinds."
{ Genesis 1:21}

This statement implies that there is a limit to the amount of variation that can occur within a " kind."
Both the fossil record and modern research support the idea that fundamental categories of plants and animals
have changed little over vast periods of time.

Contrary to the claims of some Fundamentalists, Genesis does not teach that all the universe,
including the earth and all liveing things on it, was created in a short period of time in the relatively recent past..
Rather,
the description in Genesis of the creation of the universe and the appearance of life on earth harmonizes with many recent scientific discoveries.