7. And God made the firmament and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
8 And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.
9 And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so.
10 And God called the dry land Earth; and the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11 And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth, and it was so.
COMMENTARY: 1:11 Contrary to the modern evolutionists (who insist that all plants and animals developed over hundreds of millions of years from a single speck of life in the ocean) and theistic evolutionists (who claim the Bible allows for such processes by the use of such phrases as Let the earth bring forth), Genesis not only dates the creation of marine life (v. 20) as being after the creation of plants and fruit trees, but also reveals that fruit trees were created already bearing fruit whose seed is in itself. God produced a functioning and mature Creation. Plants were created full grown, as mature and adult organisms, with a superficial appearance of age. Similarly Adam and Eve were created as adults. The phrase after his (or their) kind is repeated 10 times in this chapter, and demands that adults of each "kind" would have to be created supernaturally to begin the life cycle. Moses uses the word kind 30 out of the 31 times it appears in the Old Testament. The word may require the separate creation of each species by God, but it does require at least the separate creation of families within orders.
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