Oct 15, 2017
On day three God created land with vegetation, grass, trees and seaweed/algae. This began photosynthesis and food for the creatures He was about to make. God instantly filled the vast ocean with all forms of aquatic life on the fifth day. Among the ‘swarms’ of things, He built ‘great sea creatures’—possibly the leviathan (Heb. ‘wreathed/coiled serpent/dragon’). These were enormous aquatic predatory reptiles that were the most powerful, fearsome, and untamable creatures ever made. While now extinct, they lived to the time of Job (c. 2000 BC). Their purpose was to show man humility—if they couldn’t contend with a creature how could they contend with the Creator (Job 41:1-34; Ps. 104:25, 26; Is. 27:1). By creating aquatic ‘kinds’, life didn’t evolve from the ocean but each species only modified intra-specie not into different species. Many species became extinct and some fossilized in a worldwide flood, yet many remain unchanged to this day, verifying the biblical designation of non-evolving kinds/species (Gen. 1:21; ‘living fossils’ coelacanth, ctenophores, elephant sharks, horseshoe crabs). Like trilobite eyes, God designed complexity from the beginning to show His power!