Genesis 1:20-23

THE FIFTH DAY

"And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the firmament of heaven. And God created the great sea-monsters, and every living creature that moveth, wherewith the waters swarmed, after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind: and God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth. And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day."

Just as Day 4 was parallel with Day 1, Day 5 is parallel with Day 2. Just as the waters and the firmament were in focus there, so are they here. This parallelism does not deny the chronological sequence of the six days. But, the creation of Day 1 of the heavens and the earth was followed by a special creation regarding the earth and its solar system in Day 4. In like manner, the seas and the dry land of Day 2 are on Day 5 endowed with the life for which they had been designed previously.

The great message of this day is that God created life, there being utterly no other possible source of it. The plain and simple implication of the passage is that God created all of the species of life mentioned here simultaneously. The balance in creation that is still witnessed by the ecological systems in nature could not have come into being except by fiat. Nothing is more unreasonable and ridiculous than the various hypotheses of evolution. If it could be proved, which is impossible, that all life originated from a single one-celled creature in some pre-Azoic sea, the existence of that one-celled creature with the potential to produce all that is alleged to have come out of it, in any such postulation, GOD ALMIGHTY is just as necessary to get that one-celled beginning; and it would have been in every way a creation just as magnificent and glorious as the simultaneous creation of myriad forms of life by one Divine fiat. Evolution as a means of getting rid of God is a false crutch indeed!

It is clear in this six-day sequence that, "The progress of God's creative activity was upward toward man."[10] In fact, the special thrust of this entire creation narrative is pointed squarely at the emergence of man upon earth as the crowning act of all creation!