Genesis 1:20-23

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“...the waters [brought] forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven ... great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: ... God blessed them, saying, ‘Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.’”

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The definition of these “moving creatures” is minute creatures that multiply quickly and swarm and creep on the ground, such as insects like ants, lizards or small reptiles, quadrupeds, and other minute (small) animals. These small animals would serve in a food chain capacity as larger animals were created on Earth. The term “fowl” refers to birds and fowl and winged insects.

Job 26:5 tells us, “Dead things are formed from under the waters, and the inhabitants thereof.” Just as God formed all the land animals and the first man from the soil, we see also that all the things of the sea were formed from “dead” things at the bottom of the sea. The word “formed” here means to bring forth writhing, suffering, by torture, bearing, and longing.

Great whales were some of the larger inhabitants of the sea brought forth. The actual term means any of the creatures referred to by the name dragon, serpent, whale or sea monster. The term dragon is synonymous with the term dinosaur. There are many stories (thought ignorantly of as fables) that tell of people fighting dragons, which were actually not dragons but rather were dinosaurs. There have been dinosaurs witnessed to right up to recent times. The term sea monster was also known as river monster. This gives credence to the hundreds of citings reported by people claiming they have seen dinosaurs, such as the famed Lochness Monster, in rivers and reservoirs. These animals live under water in the many caves and channels therein (2 Samuel 22:16; Psalm 18:15; Isaiah 8:7). Included in this term also are great serpents and venomous snakes. Note: The creature most like the whale and one still believed to be around today (most likely from the same kind) is the Plesiosaurus. The root word for the word used for whale indicates the term elongated, thus the allusions to the longer still huge sea animals in this same family.

“Every living creature which moveth about, which the waters brought forth abundantly” refers to all the other creeping, swarming, or teeming things so abundant and multiplying in the sea. The seas are most abundant of creeping and crawling creatures of numerous kinds and quantities (not all have been discovered by man). The term here does not only refer to creatures that creep and crawl but also refers to those that “lightly glide around”, such as fish. As these creatures multiply they are a continuous food supply for man and animals (both in and out of the sea) alike.

Now the fowl are once more mentioned to multiply across the face of the water and the earth. Many birds got their food from the things that were in the sea and that came out of the sea. Over a short period of time they adapted to dwelling on things of the earth also. This time the term fowl is preceded by the term “winged” which means creatures that fly, such as some fowl, winged insects (in particular), and all sorts of birds.

Note: Groups of living organisms belong in the same created “kind” if they have descended from the same ancestral gene pool. This does not preclude new species because this represents a partitioning of the original gene pool. Information is lost or conserved not gained. A new species could arise when a population is isolated and inbreeding occurs. By this definition a new species is not a new “kind” but a further partitioning of an existing “kind”.