Genesis does not deny what chemistry tells us – that all life has a material substrate of common elements. In Genesis 1:11 this fact is implied for vegetation and animals: “Let the earth sprout vegetation”; and also in 1:24: “Let the earth bring forth living creatures.” In Genesis 2:7 it is explicitly said of humans: “The LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.” Therefore Genesis affirms that (human) life has a chemical base, but Genesis denies the reductionist addendum of the materialist – that
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