God fills the seas and the air on the fifth day. Up until now they had been empty. The evolutionists say that this happened over thousands of years. God said and it was created. It was no accident.

1 – The fish of the sea (vs. 20-21a)

It was God who created the fish of the sea. Fish are designed perfectly to swim in the water. Fish are protected from the water by scales and can breathe oxygen from the water with gills. God gave the fish gills to get the oxygen from the water. It was no accident.

There are more 9,000 species of fish alone. Why? God wanted the waters to teem with life. There are all kinds of leaving creatures in the water. We now know that you cannot have life without water. There is billions of microscopic life in one drop of water. A mackerel can lay 500,000 eggs at one time. God said and it was so.

Some fish are large and some small, some beautiful and some ugly. There is great variety that cannot be explained by evolution. Who gives the Salmon a road map? Who taught the Archer Fish to shoot a jet stream of water at an insect from under the water? The Sea Horse has no jaws or teeth but sucks small shrimp into his mouth. This did not happen by accident. It was the design of a Great God.

There is fixity in the species. We know from genetics that DNA determines the kind of fish. There is nothing random or by chance. God set that everything reproduced after their own kind. See Psalm 104:25.

2 – The fowl of the sky (vs. 21b-23)

The fowl are able to fly in the sky. It is amazing the large number of birds that there are in the sky. God did not want the skies to be empty. Birds are designed to fly through the air. How did this happen? Did it take billions of years? No, there was a creator.

The Chimney Swift builds a nest of twigs by gluing them to the inside of a hollow tree or a chimney not in use. He pastes the nest to the wall with a sticky material from his mouth. Where did he get the glue factory in his mouth? And why does the chimney swift have such a glue factory and other birds do not? To try to explain this phenomenon by “natural selection” or “random mutations” is ridiculous.

The woodpecker drills into the tree and 500 times a minute. How can it do this without a headache? Its head has a built in shock absorber. He chisels out a hole in solid wood as round as if measured with a compass. First he goes downward at an angle for about six inches, and then he goes directly down for about ten inches more. He is careful, while building his capacious home, to carry the chips away from the tree and scatter them at some distance to divert suspicion.

An eagle can see ten times better than a human being. The streamlined peregrine falcon can dive on its prey at speeds up to 180 miles an hour (some authorities say 250 miles an hour). And yet their great speed is under perfect control! The African eagle, swooping down at its prey at a speed of over 100 miles an hour can brake with “such stunning skill, by spreading wings and tail in an aerial skid-stop that it comes to a dead halt in the space of 20 feet!”

Have you considered how birds migrate? How can they find their way each year to the same place over thousands of miles? How do the next generation know? They don’t have any maps or air traffic control!

The birds did not come from the dinosaurs. God created each one after its own kind. It is coded in the genes. If God can bless the birds then he can certainly bless you. See Matthew 10:29.

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