No 32

(Which came first, the chicken or the egg?)

This age-old question can be answered very simply in the pages of Scripture. But first, let us examine how God in all His power and might, created the universe as well as the various life forms here on earth. In Hebrews 11:3, we read “Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.” In other words, God created all things ex nihlo; He created them from nothing. The universe was created mature and with the appearance of age. Peter further confirms this truth in his second letter with the following words “…that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:” (v 3:5b). The galaxies that we observe today with powerful telescopes (Hubbell) are really millions of light years away and the light we see from these galaxies really takes millions of years to get to us. What does that tell us? It tells us that, in a six-day literal creation process as the Bible states, God had to have created the light that we see as well as the stars themselves.

The same thing applies here on earth to all created life forms. God created mature fruit trees; He didn’t create seeds and left them to grow by themselves. All the animals were created fully mature; he didn’t create eggs so that they could become chickens. God created fully grown chickens which answers the above question; God created the chicken before the egg. Adam and Eve were created fully grown and capable of procreation. If a modern scientist were to travel in time and meet Adam one hour after his creation, he would see a fully-mature person with all the skills needed to tend to the garden of Eden, to name all the animals on earth and to speak daily with God (Genesis 2 & 3).