The Third Day of Creation

Question 1

Land (3rd year)

Answer 1

Heb. “Erets” is a singular word which means land, dirt (or figuratively matter).

Question 2

Dry Land (3rd year)

Answer 2

Many feel that this was one large single continent (Gen. 10:25, 11:8).
In 1912 Alfred Wagner proposed that primeval earth was one continent that drifted apart along the tectonic plates. Scientists of his day laughed at him.

Question 3

Green plant life and fruit bearing trees were created. (3rd Day)

Answer 3

• Notice that this is 24 hrs. before the sun was created.
• How do plants produce their food?
• Photosynthesis - leaves are plants food factories, they produce glucose through the process of photosynthesis
• Without sunlight most plants would wither and die within a week.

Question 4

Comparison of Creation & Evolution

Answer 4

●Earth created before sun & stars
●Earth 1st covered w/water
●Oceans 1st then dry land
●Life 1st created on land
●Plants created before sun
●Land animals created after birds
●Whales created before land animals

●Stars & Sun evolve before Earth
●Earth 1st molten rock
●Dry land evolves before oceans
●Life starts in oceans
●Plants evolve long after sun
●Land animals evolved before birds
●Land animals before whales

Question 5

Fossil Evidence (The Flood of Noah)

Answer 5

The flood is the most reasonable cause for the formation of fossils & of the fossil records. All land life would have died & many of the marine life in a flood of this magnitude. God’s design for the ark was planned for stability, not for travel, all the ark needed was to stay afloat.

Question 6

Fossil Evidence (Examples)

Answer 6

●Horsetail reeds normally grow 3 ft. high, fossils have been found that horsetail reeds were over 50 ft. tall
●Dragonflies normally have a 4 inch wingspan, fossils have been found with dragonflies 3 ft. wingspans.
●Fossil of palm leaves found in Northern Canada
●Fruit Trees have been found frozen with the fruit still on them in the New Siberian Islands
●Some catastrophic event must have occurred to cause these things to freeze so rapidly.

Question 7

Fossil evidence

Answer 7

With time & observation, it has become clear that geologic transformations result more from natural disasters than gradualism or drop by drop, grain by grain processes. Concrete doesn’t require millennia to harden; neither do sediments.

Question 8

The Third Day of Creation

Answer 8

Genesis 1:9-13

On the Third Day Elohim Creates Dry land