"THE RADICAL AFFIRMATION that the Lord created our world categorically contradicts the pronouncements of the world's thought leaders and of most leading scientists. It points to the existence of an Intelligence who invented and brought into existence everything in nature. The maintenance of the created world requires the Lord's continued sustenance. We are as yet unable to appreciate the degree of sophistication and the immensity of effort required for these accomplishments. The care of the planet was entrusted to humanity.

"Creation brings into sharp focus several important concepts:

1. The world in its entirety is the property of the Creator.
2. As the ultimate owner, the Creator holds us accountable for the way we use Earth's resources.
3. Our existence has a purpose. Even our cursory understanding of nature shows a function for all components, animate and inanimate. To us humans is granted an open-ended existence, with freedom to search out this purpose, to make choices and to implement them.
4. All living beings on Earth are interrelated by virtue of having been created as part of the global ecosystem. All humans arc genetically related, being descendants of Adam and Eve, through the lineage of Noah. We should seek to treat every human being as a blood relative.

"It is, in fact, possible to be a scientist and a creationist. It is permissible to interpret scientific data from a perspective other than naturalistic materialism. Creationism does not lower scientific standards, nor does it introduce magic into the laboratory. It acknowledges the existence of a supernatural Being who invented everything and brought it all into existence. As our concept of what "everything" includes continually increases, so does the credit that goes to the Creator.

* George Javor, Evidences for Creation, (Hagerstown, Maryland: Review & Herald Publishing Association, 2005) 9. 11.

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