The Creation Completed

As a teenager I had the opportunity to learn to play the French horn. Being my mother a music teacher, I was able to advance in my learning and execution of the instrument which gave me the privilege of belonging, as a teenager, to the symphonic band of the university where my parents worked. I had to go out to different tours and even play at the 1990 General Association Session of Seventh-day Adventists held in the Indianapolis Colts stadium (RCA Dome back then).

I remember on one occasion, during practice, I made a few improvised modifications while playing our part. My instrument partner to my right, who was the second horn (I was third horn), confronted me nicely but firmly. He asked, "Do you think you're smarter than the composer?" To which I replied: "No." "Play then", he continued, "what is in the music score. "

The Bible says that "on the seventh day God finished his work which he had made" (Gen. 2:1-2). The text is emphatic and categorical. Makes it clear that after God completed his work, there was no need to add anything more. The work done during six days, of darkness and light each, the conditioning of the planet as well as the population of the same, was defined entirely so the text does not give space to suggest an evolutionary process from simple forms or from a common specie. In the brief biblical account of origins, as the Bible devotes the great majority of its message to inform us of the reality of our salvation, it points to the diversity of animals, of land and water, and birds created during the creation week.

Although nature presents the capacity of living organisms to adapt to different environments and natural contexts (micro evolution), the limited physical capacity of modification within a species to adapt to environmental challenges, does not give us evidence to conclude on the generation of different new species evolved from other species (macro-evolution). You and I have seen an orange tree producing oranges,  elephants which give birth to elephants, but never horses from onions.

From the complexity of the organism and its ability to survive in its environment points to a design. Assuming that through a macro evolutionary process came into existence all organisms on the planet is totally contrary to our observation and experience. We observed that life comes from life, why should we, then, assume that at one point in the history life came from no life (abiogenesis)? We've never seen it! And even the experiments that simulate the supposed conditions where life was supposedly generated, all required intelligence, why then would we assume that there is no intelligence behind life on this planet?

Assuming, based only through a logical perspective and experience of every living thing, many millions of years ago, by chance, the conditions were placed to, suddenly, emerge life. But not only that ... Life had to emerge long enough to develop a system for auto-reproduction. Logic as may seem the arguments of the Origin of Species without the intervention of an intelligent being, its foundation, the primary source of life, is totally illogical and fanciful, where have we observed this phenomenon? Because I've seen enough of life that comes from life, and that of an apple tree gives apples.

Following the previous assumption, that organism that came out of nowhere, and lived long enough to develop, through an evolutionary process, a system to auto-reproduce, after many years, the desired amount of years, developed a system which requires two organisms of the same species with different genetic and physical conditions to reproduce life. However, it took millions of years for that system to actually work. Meanwhile, the developing reproductive systems served for other purposes... Really?

In his infinite wisdom, God established, putting himself as an example, a sanctified and blessed system that would allow us human being, through our existence, to reaffirming our origin and originator (Gen. 2:1-3, Mark 2:27). From this perspective, the observance of the seventh day is not only a matter of doctrine, is a weekly exercise of alignment and loyalty where we recognize (Ex. 20:8, 11) our beginnings  Today, in the midst of a world in sin, through the keeping of the Seventh-day, we are reaffirmed in acknowledging where we come from, we are defined today in acknowledging who we are, and we are projected into the future, acknowledging our destination. God provided a twenty-four hour date, every seven days, to allow us to come boldly (Heb. 4:16) to him to rest in sanctification and blessing.