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NASB | Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Genesis 1:2 The earth was formless and void or a waste and emptiness, and darkness was upon the face of the deep [primeval ocean that covered the unformed earth]. The Spirit of God was moving (hovering, brooding) over the face of the waters. |
Subject: The GAP theory could be true. |
Bible Note: Contrary View .................................. Dear CDBJ, I have never been to the ICR website before, and after your post regarding what you found there, I checked it out myself. I did come across the idea that you mentioned about it not making sense for God to create using evolution because of all the suffering required and the inefficiency of it all. I agree with you that this is not the best reasoning against the "Gap Theory". However, I also came across the point that I'll quote below. I think that it, on the other hand, is very good. It talks about the "Gap Theory"s acceptance of the ancient age of the Earth (assumed due to the geologic record), followed by the re-creation narrative in the rest of Genesis 1. "Thus, acceptance or the geologic ages implicitly involves acceptance of the whole evolutionary package. Most of the fossil forms preserved in the sedimentary rocks have obvious relatives in the present world, so that the "re-creation" concept involves the Creator in "re-creating" in six days of the same animals and plants which had been previously developed slowly over long ages, only to perish violently in a great pre-Adamic cataclysm. The gap theory, therefore, really does not face the evolution issue at all, but merely pigeon-holes it in an imaginary gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. It leaves unanswered the serious problem as to why God would use the method of slow evolution over long ages in the primeval world, then destroy it, and then use the method of special creation it to re-create the same forms He had just destroyed." |