God made the beasts of the earth according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and everything that crawls upon the earth according to its kind. And God saw that it was good.
God did not hand off His creative power to the earth itself, as if dirt had any such virtue; He commanded that these creatures come into being according to His design. The diversity He made, tame and wild, herbivorous and carnivorous, the harmless and the ravenous, shows His manifold wisdom displayed in a single day's work.
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Commenting on Genesis 1:24-25
All these creatures were made not by nature's bare force but by God's omnipotent hand. Every beast He formed exists for His glory and man's benefit. That they were all made in one day proves it was no slow or accidental process, but the deliberate work of the Almighty.
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From the beginning, God made each kind to produce its own kind through endless generations. The races of animals and plants have remained distinct from creation to this day because all future offspring were seminally included in those first creatures God formed.
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