Seeds in Creation

Genesis 1:11-12, 29
11 Then God said, “Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds.” And it was so. 12 The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. … 29 Then God said, “I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.”

God was purposeful right from the start. He knew exactly what He wanted to do and precisely how He wanted to do it. He chose seeds to establish replication. Everything needed for the new plant to come into being is contained in the seed. And each seed is absolutely unique to its kind. God did not choose to have one kind to gradually change into another kind. He did not decide to start with barely functional form and make one miniscule change at a time in one generation and then another miniscule change in the next generation. He had no need to experiment to see what would work and what would not. It is fair to say, not only from the Biblical record but from scientific evidence as well, that everything God created was perfect in its execution and functioned in every detail as He intended right from its beginning.

It is amazing to realize that in the more than 160 years since Darwin published his Origin of Species, there is not a single example of one “kind” gradually changing into another “kind.” Every “kind” that shows up in the fossil record, without exception, appears abruptly and in large numbers. There is no observable evidence of the gradual speciation Darwin talks about as resulting from survival of the fittest. The differences in finch adaptations observed in the Galapagos are still finches, not a new kind. Some scientists speculate that birds evolved from dinosaurs because their leg joints resemble dinosaur leg joints, except for being backwards, of course. Huh?

God’s creation is a marvel of miniaturization. He packs everything needed for each specie to replicate in a single seed. The sub-cellular structures and mechanisms are further examples of this. But the most phenomenal such example are the genetic instructions packed into the DNA strands using only four amino acids in various combinations. If the DNA strands from one cell were straightened out end-to-end, they would stretch for almost six feet long and about 50 trillionths of an inch wide.

“I give you every seed-bearing plant  … and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food.” Not only were the seeds useful for replication, but it turns out that God intended that bounty for the benefit of mankind. Since the time of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, man has become quite prolific at making an infinite variety of foods from the seed-bearing plants and tree nuts and fruits God created. Every fruit and vegetable one can imagine came from a seed. Breads, cakes, pies, jams, jellies, drinks, sauces, spices, every imaginable dish is ultimately made from some combination of these plants and fruits from trees.

“And God saw that it was good.”