Welcome to Defenders, the teaching class of Dr. William Lane Craig.

Today, excurses on creation of life and biological diversity.

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When most people think of the doctrine of creation, they think exclusively of the creation evolution,

debate. But I hope that our study of the doctrine of creation over the last several months

has helped you to see how much richer the doctrine of creation is.

Still, the question of how God created life and the biological diversity around us is an important

and interesting aspect of the doctrine of creation.

And so I want to now take an excurses from our survey of Christian doctrine to discuss this

specific issue.

Let's begin with the interpretation of Genesis chapter 1.

As we saw Genesis chapter 1 and verse 1 is a statement of God's creation of the entire universe

X. Nehalo. And beginning with verse 2, the first chapter of Genesis then goes on to describe

God's creation of a wonderful environment

for human beings to live in, a habitable earth where man might live.

So we want first of all then to take up the interpretation of the remainder of Genesis 1 after verse 1, particularly in conversation

with what modern science and the biological theory of evolution has to say about the origins

of biological complexity.

So let's begin by reading the first chapter of Genesis, beginning with verse 2.

The earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep,

and the spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters.

And God said, let there be light, and there was light.

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