The Composition Of Living Things

"Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground," Genesis 2:7 states. The World Book Encyclopedia says: " All the chemical elements that make up living things are also present in nonliving matter." So all the basic chemicals that make up living organisms, including man, are also found in the earth itself. This harmonizes with the Bible's statement that identifies the material God used in creating humans and all other living things.

"According To Their Kinds." The Bible states that God created the first human pair and that from them all other humans descended. (Genesis 1:26-28; 3:20) It says that other living things, such as fish, birds and mammals, did the same, coming forth "according to their kinds." (Genesis 1:11m 12, 21, 24, 25) This is just what scientists have found in the natural creation, that every living thing comes from a parent of like kind. There is no exception. In this regard physicist Raymo observes: "Life makes life; it happens all the time in every cell. But how did nonlife make life? It is one of the biggest unanswered questions in biology, and so far biologists can offer little more than wild guesses. Somehow inanimate matter managed to get itself organized in an animate way.....The author of Genesis may have had it right, after all."


Continued- Next time: Historical Accuracy