A look at the Creation Worldview at the time of Calvin though his own commentary.

• 1: 1-11: 31: Created (bara) means brought into existence from nothing.
• The term for God is “Elohim”, which is a Hebrew plural word for a unity God.  It is a hint of the Trinity aspect of the nature of God.
• The earth was without form and void means shapeless chaos.  (The Gap Theory is unknown at this time)
• The meaning of the “deep” and the “waters” is not well understood by Calvin.
• The chaotic shapelessness quickly was resolved and shape took place first, and then light.
• The expanse was confused in Calvin’s explanation.  He could not see how water could be the outer limits of space, so the expanse must mean the air between the earth’s surface and the clouds.  Yet he admits that the text says water above the space (which is the abode of the heavenly bodies).
• He agrees that the Fourth Day is when God placed the Sun, Moon, and stars in the expanse.  He knows nothing of the expansion of space.  I assume that he did not know what Isaiah meant when he wrote of God “stretching out” the expanse.  Calvin says that God stretched out his “hand” to place the objects in the heavens.
• Calvin believed that everything reproduced after its own “kind”.  No Theory of Evolution here.
• Calvin says that God rested from his work on the 7^th Day.  He interprets this to mean that he ceased His creating, not that God was tired and need to rest.
• Calvin makes a minor mistake of attributing the text to Moses.  He does not emphasize that God is the real Author.  The words and definitions Calvin attributes to Moses, not God.
• Calvin was confused about the identification of the four rivers flowing from the Garden of Eden.  He says that two of them were the Euphrates and the Tigris, but could not identify the other two. Calvin recognized that he did not know enough.
• Calvin seems to be confused about the curse on the serpent and the ‘enmity” between its seed and her seed.  Calvin seems to identify her seed with Christ, but agrees that Satan is defeated. But the interpretation of the whole passage is blurred by his contemporaries in Biblical Theology.
• Calvin does not address the meanings of the names of the various characters in the Creation, Fall and Flood story.  He appears to have missed the connections with the names.
• Genesis 6: Regarding Sons of God, Daughters of men and giants born of these unions; Calvin considered the whole idea of Angels procreating with mankind (women) to be absurd.  Calvin considered that the Nephilim were merely men of stature, tyrants, mighty men and heroes, who fought for control of men.
• Calvin makes no mention of the dates and time (year, month, day and week) descriptions of when the Flood started, continued and ended.  Calvin said that he did not understand how Noah cared for the animals and prepared the Ark and all its provisions. (no ideas about hibernating and such).  Calvin did insist that the Flood was universal and destroyed everything except 8 people and the animals on the Ark.
• Calvin believed that the rainbow always existed, but now God gives it special meaning and makes it a ‘sign”.
• Calvin believed that the Tower of Babel was judgment against mankind for refusing to disperse over the whole earth.  He rejects the idea that when the text says concerning God, “Let us go down and ….” It means using Angels.  Calvin says it was the Triune God speaking.
• Calvin says that we are given enough information to determine the age of the earth. All one has to do is the math.

CREATION-1 Presuppositions and Assumptions

CREATION-2 Radiometric Dating

CREATION-3 The Fossil Record

CREATION-4 Dinosaurs in the Ark

CREATION-5 The Genesis Flood

CREATION-6 Natural Selection and Speciation

CREATION-7 The Origin of People Groups: Only One Race

CREATION-8 The Origin of Languages and Language Trees

CREATION-9  The Devolution of Languages, Part I

CREATION-10 The Devolution of Languages – Part II

Genesis 6  Format MS WORD (*.docx) Office -2007.  A discussion concerning Creation, conditions with man before the Flood of Noah, sons of God marrying the daughters of men, and who are the Nephilim? (By Jim Hovis)

Genesis_6_paper_jenkins Format MS WORD (*.doc) Office 2000, WORD-2003

Genesis_6_paper_jenkins  Format MS WORD (*.docx) A student analysis paper addressing Genesis 6 and the sons of God and the Nephilim. (By Levi Jenkins)

Book Review Leupold Format MS WORD (*.doc) Office 2000, WORD-2003

Book Review Leupold  Format MS WORD (*.docx)  A Book Review of a work produced by Dr. Leupold in 1942. Discussion limited to Genesis 1 and 6; the Creation and the Sons of God and the Nephilim.  A good conservative view in late 19th Century and early 20th Century. (Reviewed by Jim Hovis-approved)

Book Review Epp  Format MS WORD (*.doc) Office 2000, WORD-2003. A Book Review of “The God of Creation”, by Theodore Epp, 1972.  Discussion limited to Genesis 1 to 6 that covers Creation day 1-4 and the issue of Sons of God and the Nephilim. (Reviewd by Jim Hovis) (Approved)

Mission Statement CSFNM (Office-2007, *.docx format)

This a paper to define the Position of CSFNM with regard to Science, The Scientific Method, and the Scripture, specifically Genesis chapter 1-11. A short synopsis of our belief tenets (Statement of Faith).

Scientific Method A definition of the Scientific Method referenced above that we support and adhere to in our own endeavors in creation science research and development.