Genesis1:14

Genesis 1:14 says, And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:  This is the creation of the stars, sun and moon.  They divide the day and night and set the seasons.  Verse fifteen continues, And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so.  The purpose of the stars, sun and moon were to light the earth.  I know that there is a lot of debate today about life on other planets, but the Bible tells us everything in the heavens was created to support the earth.  We either believe that or we don't.  Verse sixteen adds, And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also.  I believe that this was during the creation of the lights in the heavens and not a separate act after the other stars were created.  The sun lights the day, and to a lesser extent the moon lights the night.  Verse seventeen continues, And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,  Then verse eighteen concludes, And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.  Once more, God called His creation good.  Verse nineteen says, And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.  Another day of God's creative period had passed.  Verse twenty says, 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.  This is the creation of the fish and the birds.  Verse twenty-one states, 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. After the seas were full of life and the heavens filled with birds, God saw that it was good.  The birds did not evolve from the sea life, but were created separately.  We either believe this or do not believe God's word.  Verse twenty-two declares, And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth.  God blessed them and said for them to multiply. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.  That concluded the fifth day of creation.  Verse twenty-four says, And 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.  This is the creation of all the animals.  Once more, we are not told that the animals on land evolved from the fish or the birds, but they were created.  Verse twenty-five declares, And 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.  All the animals were created distinctive.  One did not evolve into something else.  We will stop during the sixth day and look at the creation of mankind separately.