Creating by Extraction
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb that yields seed, and the fruit tree that yields fruit according to its kind, whose seed is in itself, on the earth”; and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, the herb that yields seed according to its kind, and the tree that yields fruit, whose seed is in itself according to its kind. – Genesis 1:11-12
We are still learning about how God creates. The third creation principle He used which we shall focus on today is extraction. God created some of His creations by extracting a new creature from an existing one. As we can see from the passage above, He extracted grass, herbs, trees and other plants from the earth. This was also the same principle He used in creating sea creatures, animals, ants and other creatures that creep.
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Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded (Genesis 1:20-21).
Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth the living creature according to its kind: cattle and creeping thing and beast of the earth, each according to its kind”; and it was so. And God made the beast of the earth according to its kind, cattle according to its kind, and everything that creeps on the earth according to its kind (Genesis 1:24-25).
It takes imagination to see the potential of a new from an old, or what can be from what currently is; and imagination is something God has plenty of. Not just that, He has endowed us humans with it when He made us just like Him.
It is refreshing to note that humans have also made several things through the process of extraction. Isn’t that the way we came by the various products that are extracted from crude oil? Further, sculptors, carvers, masons and other creatives have made many a beautiful creature by extracting them from what used to be.
More significantly, that is the process scientists are using for cloning, making a new from a part of another. Although that remains an issue of great contention in some circles. To put this in context, it is the same way God created Eve – by extracting a rib from the body of Adam.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall on Adam, and he slept; and He took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh in its place. Then the rib which the Lord God had taken from man He made into a woman (Genesis 2:21-22).
So, you can say that Eve was made from an extract of Adam, a reproductive clone in the context of science. Putting it this way, It is quite interesting to see how much science agrees with the Bible as well as how much the Bible can help us to make a sense of science. We just need to open up our mind and be willing to process happenings beyond what we have been told to be true or false, right or wrong.
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