3rd grade: History of the World - #6a creation

Lesson 6a

The 6th day of the World

God made living creatures on the dry land of the earth. He made them mature in order to multiply.

What Came First, the Chicken or the Egg?

by John D. Morris PhD

This age-old question really has a simple answer. Attempts to answer it, however, and attempts to get around implications of the simple answer are often quite convoluted.

According to the Creator of chickens, and the author of the Record of their origins, chickens came first. It was on the Fifth Day of Creation Week that He created "every winged fowl after [their] kind" (Genesis 1:21) complete with the DNA to reproduce that kind. Then He "blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply" (v.22) using that DNA. For the chickens this meant lay chicken eggs. Problem solved.

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Moving and growing

1. Skeletons and muscles

• Many animals have skeletons to support and protect their body and to help it move.
  

• The human skeleton is made of bone and grows as we grow. Our skull protects our brain and our ribs protect our heart and lungs.

• The skeleton bends at joints such as knees and ankles. Joints are where two or more bones join together.
• Muscles are attached to bones. When a muscle contracts (squashes up), it gets shorter and so pulls up the bone it is attached to. When a muscle relaxes, it goes back to its normal size. This is how skeletons move.

• Some animals, such as insects, crabs and lobsters, have a skeleton outside their body. Such skeletons are called exoskeletons.

2. Human life cycle

Genesis 1

24And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

25And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his kind: and God saw that it was good.