Genesis Engineering

"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. The earth was formless and void, and darkness was over the surface of the deep." Now I don't know, but I been told . . . in school. . . it was somewhere, some time back in my school days, in a science class, that scientific discoveries have uncovered certain details about the ways and means by which the Creator God did all this creating. He set us a system of electrons, protons and neutrons. These would be the building blocks of His creation. He assigned an array of super-small particles - actually spinning arrangements of energy, that like to act like they've really got some weight to throw around. I mean, we might as well call a spade a spade: these little critters paraded around in an unprecedented way and they like to throw their weight around. We'll just call them "matter." I mean, it doesn't matter what we call them, but the point is, they act like matter - these miniscule components which would become the elements with which He would set up the Universe. So, yes, God created a Universe, which also included the earth and the heavens that we earthlings can see in he sky, built upon the building blocks of these "elements. Now then. . . God set up all this creation in an orderly, systematic way. He was creating a vast array of elements that would ultimately become a vast array of earthly material. He assigned names and values to these original building-block elements. The first element he put together with a proton in its center and an electron doing orbits around the proton. He called it 'Hydrogen.' Moving right along, he created a second element, 'Helium', which had two protons and two electrons. So God was on a roll; he wasn't about to stop there. I mean, he had some very big plans in His mind and He knew he was going to need a lot of stuff to work with. . . and stuff with variety, so that his Universe would ultimately become a fascinating creation and a cool place to live, and move, and have our being . . . for us humans who came along later. More about that later. The Lord of the Universe just kept on going. He put together a third element, which we call Lithium, and a fourth, which we call Beryllium. . . and then along came Carbon and Nitrogen and. . . when He got to number 8 he wanted to something special with it. So he got inspired and He named it Oxygen. He got a flash of inspiration and decided to pair the Oxygen with the first element, Hydrogen. So when he got them mated together. . . I mean it was a little like the Man and Women development that came later. . something very different from anything that had come before, water:

and there was water, which is why, later, back in the day, Moses wrote about it: . . . "and the Spirit of God was moving over the surface of the waters." As the Lord was on a roll he kept going. "Then God said, 'Let there be light', and there was light!" It was some pretty amazing stuff, don't you think? I mean, later, when Moses got inspired by God to report these developments to mankind, he wrote: "God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness. . ."

I mean, it was all good, y'all. And God got inspired, all along the way, in His whirlwind of creative inspiration. When he got to #14 in his system, He put together what we call silicon, so that we could have transistors and digital circuits in that century that we call "the 20th" . . . and on into the 21st century, as we can see now, as I'm writing in the year 2025, using silicon circuits that make this laptop operate like a real Apple ought to, not like the one Adam and Eve bit into that got them into trouble. But that's another story. Meanwhile back at the heavenly ranch. . .when he got to #24, God created Chromium, so that, back in the day when I first got my driver's license, 1966, I could have shiny bumpers on my old Chevy. But I digress. After He had gotten far, far along in that inspired Elements project, God created Gold for #79, so I could have this ring on my finger, which has never been off of my finger since 1980 when Pat and I got married. Furthermore, just to demonstrate how creative He is, God arranged for us to bring three brand new human beings into the world. Hallelujah! Furthermore, we know from Moses' account in Genesis, when God created Light, He saw that the Light was good! And I agree. It's all good y'all! I mean, he was shedding some serious Light on all this stuff, . . .what we call the earth, and the world, and Life itself (But that's another story, for later.) And if you believe all this, I've got real estate in heaven that I'll tell you about later. Glass half-Full