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In the Air and the Sea

"And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: And God saw that it was good. And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day." (Genesis 1:20-23)

Now God begins to create animal life. We read here the fact that all the animals in the sea were created to reproduce after their kind; we also have the statement that fowl were created. Both of these creations are serious problems to those who try to postulate the process of evolution. The word in verse 21 which is translated whales means large sea creatures, but I would like to use the whale as an example.