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john said:
[Are you suggesting that there was some sort of evolution after the original creation through which other species developed? Or, that possibly God created more species after the original creation was over?
Methinks the reason for your question is due to terminology, re: "species". Let me answer your last question first with a solid, "No!" <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" /> God ceased creating on the 6th day. I also do not hold to any form of "Theistic Evolution". Okay... now that we got that out of the way . . . I do not believe that every "type" of animal was created on the 5th day (Gen 1:21-23). The various "varieties" of animals which now exist, I believe did not exist at first, but rather they came to be over time through various changes and adaptations. For example, the big huff in the Northwest over the "Spotted Owl" which the humanistic environmentalists headed was because it is said that this bird is a "species". But I maintain that it is simply a "mutation", if you will, of the owl species. Perhaps a better example might be "albino" animals. They are not unique "species" but rather mutations of a much larger species.

I confess, I am no biologist and to be honest, I am more comfortable knowing what I don't know than I am with what I might know. :giggle" . . . with the exception of this one thing of which I am absolutely sure; the conclusions reached by unregenerate secular humanistic scientists should not ever dictate or influence how a believer interprets the Scriptures. An interpretation may be wrong. But let that error be grammatical, linguistic, and/or a failure to gather all the biblical data concerning a particular subject spoken of in a passage.

'Nough said! <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/rolleyes2.gif" alt="" />

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