Genesis 1:11-12

Please turn with me to Genesis 1. From Genesis 1 on, seeds are genetically determined, pronounced and absolute in their individual identities. In Eden each plant bore fruit with seed according to its kind.

God's creation is still good to this day, even though it is agitated because of sin and has been ravaged and exploited by sinful people. God caused plant life to appear on the earth. The grasses, the seed-producing herbs, and the fruit-bearing trees. As we heard earlier in the sermonette, He decreed that each would reproduce according to its kind, which helps to make possible order in nature. So God was preparing the earth for habitation for humans and for animals and the plants and this would help provide them with food.

This phrase, according to its kind, implies that like produces like and therefore that the kinds or species are fixed and do not run into each other. In this little phrase, the theory of one species being developed from another is denied. In fact, it is forbidden. The earth was furnished for the maintenance and support of us. Provision was made by the immediate products of the upstart earth, which, in obedience to God's command, was no sooner made than it became fruitful and then it brought forth grass for the cattle and herbs for our health. Provision was also made for the time to come by the perpetuating of the many kinds of vegetables, which are numerous and various. Everyone and every living thing have its seed in itself according to its kind.