On Day 3, Moses is careful to state that God caused the land to produced vegetation “according to their various kinds.” The order, beauty, and stability of the natural world around us all hang on this clause. And, like it or not, it cannot be reconciled with the evolutionary theory.

Music Credit: J. S. Bach, “Wir eilen mit schwachen, doch emsigen Schritten,” aria from “Jesu, der du meine Seele,” BWV 78 (Leipzig, 1724).