From our series, "The Bible In Five" a 5 years examination of the Scriptures. Pastor Dave Kooyers , Valley Bible Fellowship, (707) 895-3212

2. The Book of Beginning

3.  Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heavens
and the earth.
 Broad brush overview
 What follows is an elaboration upon Gen. 1:1, fleshing
it out. Filling in the details about what, when, & how
God did Gen. 1:1.

4.  Gen 1:2
 Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was
over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was
hovering over the waters.

5.  Herbert Spencer (died in 1903) developed 5
“Categories of the Knowable”
 #1 Time
 #2 Forces
 #3 Action
 #4 Space
 #5 Matter

6.  These 5 elements/aspects are addressed in Gen. 1:1-2;
 #1 Space
 #2 Time
 #3 Matter
 #4 Motion
 #5 Forces (Energy)
 Gen 1:1-2 In the beginning (#2 Time) God (#5
Forces/Energy) created the heavens (#1 Space ) and the
earth (#3 Matter). 2 Now the earth was formless and empty,
darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of
God was hovering (#4 Motion) over the waters.

7.  Refined time dilation model appears in Journal of Creation
without fanfare, by Journal of Creation editorial staff
 Figure 1. By now, the waters above the heavens (Psalm 148:4) are
probably a thin veil of ice particles, or scattered planet-sized spheres of
water covered with thick crusts of ice. , Published: 25 June 2009(GMT+10)
 Unless you have attended one of Russ Humphreys’ seminars in the last
few months, or else read the Journal of Creation cover to cover, you
probably missed the birth of a new creation cosmology in the
December 2008 issue. Quietly tucked into the back pages of an article
by Dr. Humphreys on general relativity is a new answer to the light-
transit-time problem—to explain how light traveled from the distant
cosmos and reached Earth, all during one ordinary-length day on
Earth, the fourth day of creation. Humphreys used an equation he
derived in the August 2007 issue, a new solution to Einstein’s gravity
equations. The new solution accounts for the effect of the “waters that
are above the heavens” mentioned in Psalm 148:4 (Figure 1), and the
effect of God’s creating the material of the stars during the fourth day
(Isaiah 40:26)….

8.  Gen 1:3-5
 And God said, "Let there be
light," and there was light. 4 God
saw that the light was good, and
he separated the light from the
darkness. 5 God called the light
"day," and the darkness he called
"night." And there was evening,
and there was morning — the
first day.

9.  Isa 45:7 I form the light and create darkness, I bring
prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these
things.
 Rev 21:23-25 The city does not need the sun or the moon to
shine on it, for the glory of God gives it light, and the Lamb
is its lamp. 24 The nations will walk by its light, and the
kings of the earth will bring their splendor into it. 25 On no
day will its gates ever be shut, for there will be no night
there.
 Rev 22:5 There will be no more night. They will not need
the light of a lamp or the light of the sun, for the Lord God
will give them light. And they will reign for ever and ever.

10.  1:3-5. The pattern for each of the days of Creation is
established here. There is
 (a) the creative word,
 (b) the report of its effect,
 (c) God's evaluation of it as "good,"
 (d) at times the sovereign naming, and
 (e) the numbering of each day. …
 Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament

11.  Gen 1:3-5 And God said, "Let there be light," and there
was light. 4 God saw that the light was good, and he
separated the light from the darkness. 5 God called the
light "day," [yom] and the darkness he called "night."
And there was evening, and there was morning — the
first day [yom].

12.  The problem is, what is the meaning of [yom] .
 In English we have many meanings of “day”
 In my/your day, his day, in days gone by, your day will
come, 12 hours of sunlight (daytime), 24 hour day, we
lost the day, work day (8 hours), call it a day.

13.  HEBREW> yowm (yome); from an unused root meaning to be
hot; a day (as the warm hours), whether literal (from sunrise to
sunset, or from one sunset to the next), or figurative (a space of
time defined by an associated term), [often used adverb]:
 KJV - age, always, chronicals, continually (-ance), daily, ([birth-],
each, to) day, (now a, two) days (agone), elder, end, evening,
(for) ever (-lasting, -more), full, life, as (so) long as (... live),
(even) now, old, outlived, perpetually, presently, remaineth,
required, season, since, space, then, (process of) time, as at other
times, in trouble, weather, (as) when, (a, the, within a) while
(that), whole (+age), (full) year (-ly), younger.
 OT:3118 <oy
 yowm (Aramaic) (yome); corresponding to OT:3117; a day:
 KJV - day (by day), time.
 Biblesoft's New Exhaustive Strong's Numbers and Concordance

14.  1:3-5 …Regarding the word day (yôm) several
interpretations have been suggested. (1) The days of
Creation refer to extended geological ages prior to man's
presence on earth. (2) The days are 24-hour periods in
which God revealed His creative acts. (3) They are literal
24-hour days of divine activity. In favor of the third view is
the fact that the term yôm with an ordinal (first, second,
etc.) adjective means 24-hour days wherever this
construction occurs in the Old Testament. Also the normal
understanding of the fourth commandment (Ex 20:11)
would suggest this interpretation.
 Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament

15.  (1) The days of Creation refer to extended geological
ages prior to man's presence on earth. The “Day Age
Theory”
 (2) The days are 24-hour periods in which God
revealed His creative acts.
 (3) They are literal 24-hour days of divine activity. God
created in 6 regular, normal days. “Young Earth”
 God could have created in 6 seconds, months, or years.

16.  Ex 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day [yom] by
keeping it holy. 9 Six days [yom] you shall labor and
do all your work, 10 but the seventh day [yom] is a
Sabbath to the Lord your God. On it you shall not do
any work, neither you, nor your son or daughter, nor
your manservant or maidservant, nor your animals,
nor the alien within your gates. 11 For in six days [yom]
the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and
all that is in them, but he rested on the seventh day
[yom]. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day
[yom] and made it holy.

17.  Evening & morning
 Numerical adjectives
 Ex 20:8-11 "Remember the Sabbath day …. 11 For in six
days the Lord made the heavens and the earth….
 I don’t know any other way for the Holy Spirit to
indicate a normal day of creation.

18.  So, do I think the 6 days of creation are literal 24 hour
days?
 Absolutely not!
 Every 10 months we add a leap second to compensate
for the slowing of the earths rotation.

19.  6,000 years X’s 12 months=72,000 months
 72,000 months / 10 months = 7200 leap seconds
 7200 leap seconds / 60 seconds = 120 minutes
 120 minutes / 60 minutes per hour = 2 hours faster
 24 hrs. (approx. now) - 2 hours faster = 22 hour days
for Adam & Eve
 Now, let’s go back 1 million years .
 Our day would be 333 hours shorter.

20.  Day 1 = Light & Darkness

21.  Gen 1:6-8 And God said, "Let there be an expanse
between the waters to separate water from water." 7 So
God made the expanse and separated the water under
the expanse from the water above it. And it was so. 8
God called the expanse "sky." And there was evening,
and there was morning — the second day.

22.  What an intriguing statement.
 God makes many interesting statements about water.

23.  Job 26:10
 He marks out the horizon on the face of the waters
 for a boundary between light and darkness.
 Ps 136:4-9, 4 to him who alone does great wonders,
 His love endures forever.
 5 who by his understanding made the heavens,
 His love endures forever.
 6 who spread out the earth upon the waters, His love endures forever.
 7 who made the great lights — His love endures forever.
 8 the sun to govern the day, His love endures forever.
 9 the moon and stars to govern the night; His love endures forever.

24.  Prov 8:22-29 "The Lord brought me forth as the first of his works,
before his deeds of old;
 23 I was appointed from eternity, from the beginning, before the world
began.
 24 When there were no oceans, I was given birth, when there were no
springs abounding with water;
 25 before the mountains were settled in place, before the hills, I was
given birth,
 26 before he made the earth or its fields, or any of the dust of the world.
 27 I was there when he set the heavens in place, when he marked out
the horizon on the face of the deep,
 28 when he established the clouds above and fixed securely the
fountains of the deep,
 29 when he gave the sea its boundary so the waters would not overstep
his command, and when he marked out the foundations of the earth.

25.  Ps 104:1-3
 Lord my God, you are very great;
 you are clothed with splendor and majesty.
 2 He wraps himself in light as with a garment;
 he stretches out the heavens like a tent
 3 and lays the beams of his upper chambers on
their waters.

26.  Ps 148:1-6, Praise the Lord.
 Praise the Lord from the heavens,
 praise him in the heights above.
 2 Praise him, all his angels,
 praise him, all his heavenly hosts.
 3 Praise him, sun and moon,
 praise him, all you shining stars.
 4 Praise him, you highest heavens
 and you waters above the skies.
 5 Let them praise the name of the Lord,
 for he commanded and they were created.
 6 He set them in place for ever and ever;
 he gave a decree that will never pass away.

27.  Prov 30:4
 Who has gone up to heaven and come down?
 Who has gathered up the wind in the hollow of his
hands?
 Who has wrapped up the waters in his cloak?
 Who has established all the ends of the earth?
 What is his name, and the name of his son?
 Tell me if you know!

28.  Jer 10:12-13
 But God made the earth by his power;
 he founded the world by his wisdom
 and stretched out the heavens by his understanding.
 13 When he thunders, the waters in the heavens
roar;
 he makes clouds rise from the ends of the earth.
 He sends lightning with the rain
 and brings out the wind from his storehouses.

29.  Amos 9:5-6
 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
 he who touches the earth and it melts,
 and all who live in it mourn —
 the whole land rises like the Nile,
 then sinks like the river of Egypt—
 6 he who builds his lofty palace in the heavens
 and sets its foundation on the earth,
 who calls for the waters of the sea
 and pours them out over the face of the land —
 the Lord is his name.

30.  2 Peter 3:3-7 First of all, you must understand that in
the last days scoffers will come, scoffing and following
their own evil desires. 4 They will say, "Where is this
'coming' he promised? Ever since our fathers died,
everything goes on as it has since the beginning of
creation." 5 But they deliberately forget that long ago
by God's word the heavens existed and the earth was
formed out of water and by water. 6 By these waters
also the world of that time was deluged and destroyed.

31.  Rev 16:5
 Then I heard the angel in charge of the waters say:
 "You are just in these judgments,
 you who are and who were, the Holy One,
 because you have so judged;

32.  Genesis 1:6-8
 1:6-8. On the second day God separated the
atmospheric waters from the terrestrial waters by an
arching expanse, the sky. This suggests that previously
there had been a dense moisture enshrouding the
earth. God's work involves making divisions and
distinctions.
 Bible Knowledge Commentary/Old Testament

33.  No rain yet.
 Gen 2:4-6 When the Lord God made the earth and
the heavens — 5 and no shrub of the field had yet
appeared on the earth and no plant of the field had yet
sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the
earth and there was no man to work the ground, 6 but
streams came up from the earth and watered the
whole surface of the ground —

34.  No rainbow yet.
 Gen 9:13-14 I have set my rainbow in the clouds, and it
will be the sign of the covenant between me and the
earth.
 “Furthermore, the absence of rain Gen. 2:5) and the
rainbow (Gen. 9:13) is not only explained but required
by a vapor canopy, not by an atmosphere like that of
the present.” Dr. Henry Morris, Defenders Study Bible, pg. 5
 Long lives of patriarchs
 Hyperbaric , 6ft. Dragonflies, pterodactyls, 100ft. ferns

35.  Day 1 = Light & Darkness
 Day 2 = "Sky."

36. Bible Evolution
 1. Earth before sun  1. Sun before earth
 2. Oceans before land  2. Land before oceans
 3. Light before sun  3. Sun before light
 4. Land plants first  4. Marine life first
 5. Fruit trees before fish  5. Fish before fruit trees
 6. Fish before insects  6. Insects before fish
 7. Plants before sun  7. Sun before plants
 8. Marine mammals  8. Land mammals before
before land mammals marine mammals

37. Bible Evolution
 9. Birds before reptiles  9. Reptiles before birds
 10. Atmosphere between  10. Atmosphere above
two layers of water water
 11. Man brought death  11. Death brought man
into the world into the world
 12. God created man  12. Man created God

39.  New creation cosmology
 Refined time dilation model appears in Journal of Creation without fanfare
 by Journal of Creation editorial staff
 Figure 1. By now, the waters above the heavens (Psalm 148:4) are probably a thin veil of ice particles, or scattered planet-sized spheres of water covered with thick crusts of ice.
 Published: 25 June 2009(GMT+10)
 Unless you have attended one of Russ Humphreys’ seminars in the last few months, or else read the Journal of Creation cover to cover, you probably missed the birth of a new creation cosmology in the
December 2008 issue. Quietly tucked into the back pages of an article by Dr. Humphreys on general relativity is a new answer to the light-transit-time problem—to explain how light traveled from the
distant cosmos and reached Earth, all during one ordinary-length day on Earth, the fourth day of creation. Humphreys used an equation he derived in the August 2007 issue, a new solution to Einstein’s
gravity equations. The new solution accounts for the effect of the “waters that are above the heavens” mentioned in Psalm 148:4 (Figure 1), and the effect of God’s creating the material of the stars during
the fourth day (Isaiah 40:26).
 When the sphere reaches zero radius and disappears, Earth emerges, and immediately the light that has been following the sphere will reach Earth, even light that started billions of light-years away.
 Accordingly, the model says that early on the fourth day, God’s creation of Sun and planets nearby plunges Earth into a zone of timelessness. In the zone all physical processes, including clocks, come to
a complete stop. The spherical zone of timelessness expands out from the earth at the speed of light, engulfing the newly-created stars and galaxies. After reaching the most distant galaxies, the timeless
zone reverses itself and begins shrinking back toward the earth at the speed of light. As it does so, it uncovers the new galaxies, which immediately begin emitting light again. Some of that light goes
toward the center where the earth is, right behind the shrinking sphere of timelessness. Dr Humphreys: “When the sphere reaches zero radius and disappears, Earth emerges, and immediately the light
that has been following the sphere will reach Earth, even light that started billions of light-years away. On the fourth day, “An observer on the night side of the earth would see a black sky one instant,
and a sky filled with stars the next instant.”
 An observer on the night side of the earth would see a black sky one instant, and a sky filled with stars the next instant.
 This new cosmology springs from the same root as his 1994 cosmology in Starlight and Time, namely a cosmos with a center of mass, the earth near it (on a cosmological scale of distances), and
expansion of space. (Dr John Hartnett has two creation cosmologies that have these features as well.) However, Dr Humphreys likes his new model better than his old one, saying it is clearer and
simpler. Dr Hartnett agrees with that, saying that it solves the problem of time dilation for stars that are relatively near. We’ve decided to make Humphreys’ 2008 Journal of Creation article available
earlier than normal, here on the CMI website. He hopes to submit an article to the website soon explaining the new cosmology in simple terms—no equations or graphs, but possibly some animated
graphics. Warning: it will be understandable, but mind-stretching!
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 Dark matter and a cosmological constant in a creationist cosmology?
 Further reading
 Astronomy and Astrophysics Questions and Answers
 Related resources
 Starlight and Time DVD
 presenting by D. Russell Humphreys

Learn how practical physics using Einstein’s relativity explains how light could be seen on Earth during Creation week. Dr Russell Humphries presents over 2 hours of footage, including stunning 3-D
graphics in support of the Bible’s account of creation. (High School-Adult) 140 mins. While the content of this popular, illustrated presentation DVD is the same as one you may have with the same title,
it now includes extra features. Not only does it have a new cover design, it has also been ‘re-badged’ to feature the CMI logo and contact details and includes a 3-minute promotional segment.

Starlight and Time
 by D. Russell Humphreys

The Bible says the universe is just thousands of years old, and yet we can see stars that are billions of light-years away. Dr Russell Humphreys’ new cosmology addresses this issue with a fresh and
scientifically sound solution. This book not only contains an easy-to-read popular summary of this new cosmology, but also includes two technical papers which were very well received at the Third
International Conference on Creationism. The question of stars billions of light years away created in a time frame of a young earth is answered by an easily understood cosmology with both layman and
technical sections.