104 Questions I Have About Creationism, including “Does God have a female counterpart?” (Updated: Now 107 – Last Update June 8, 2010)

I am sure that very little of this is original, but as I am reading the two different stories of creation in the bible, many questions come to mind.  This is a dynamic list of questions I have asked myself during my readings of Genesis Chapter 1.  It starts out kind of lame in the beginning, but it gets better, I promise.

The original list before proofreading was 100 questions.  Here they are, plus any I may have added along the way:

Genesis 1:1 “In the beginning God created the heavens and the Earth.”

1. What existed before the heavens and the earth?
2. How big must God be to make such a creation?
3. There are currently 118 elements on the periodic table.  Did God create the elements before he created earth?
4. Did God create the earth before he created the elements, did the elements that make up the earth “poof” into existence at the same time?
5. When God initially created the earth, it was “formless and empty,” but somehow the ‘Spirit of God’ was hovering over the waters.  What waters? 
6. How does water exist on a formless and empty void?
7. Was the earth then a big ball or mass of water that he somehow shaped in to a sphere?
8. To make the water, God would need to combine massive amounts of hydrogen and oxygen together.  Did he have one pocket full of hydrogen and then another pocket full of oxygen?  As one commenter said, he would need a double wide pocket of hydrogen to make H2O.
9. Assuming my pocket conjecture is correct, what process did God use to combine two elements of hydrogen together with on element of oxygen? 
10. Was this liquid water, solid water, or gaseous water?
11. The current volume of water on Earth is 326,000,000 (million) miles, but God had water on Earth first before he created the skies and the land, so there must have been more than 326,000,000 miles of water on Earth.  Did God have very large pockets to hold that much hydrogen and oxygen?
12. Did God use some form of unknown magic or scientific process to “poof” in to existence 326,000,000 miles of water that just so happened to be oxygen and hydrogen?
13. Did God experiment with various combinations of these elements before he settled on water?
14. Did God just know that he wanted something like water and “poofed” it in to existence?
15. When God created the heavens, did he create more than one heaven?
16. Is heaven in this sense God’s home?
17. Where did God live before he created his home?
18. Why didn’t God just create us where he already lived?
19. Is heaven, in this sense, everything else in the universe besides earth?
20. Earth alone weighs 6,000,000,000,000 (six trillion) kilograms.  (Granted, he hasn’t created land and sky yet, but he did already create the rest of the heavens.)  The mass of the Earth is 6,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kilograms.  (I don’t even know what that is in ‘illions).  The sun weighs, 1 duodecillion kilograms (two billion billion billion tons).  In pounds, the sun weighs 220 duodecillion.  Duodecillion is the fourteenth type of number in the “illions” section of numbers “millions, billion, trillion…”  That is just the Earth and the sun.  We already know that the solar system, has eight other planets, moons, asteroids, comets, etc., but the sun accounts for 99.866% of the solar system’s weight, so the solar system as a whole just weighs a little over 2,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 kg.  But that is just our solar system.  We live in a galaxy with roughly 200 billion other stars of which our star, the sun is a medium sized star.  But that is just one galaxy.  There are billions of other galaxies in the universe, likewise with hundreds of billions of stars like our sun.  So, when God created the heavens, did he create all of these stars, black holes, planets, moons, quasars, etc. at they same time as he created earth, or after?  Can you say, “Big Pockets”?
21. Since God did not add the stars, moon, and sun to the sky until the fourth day, then “heavens” could only possibly mean God’s home. (Or maybe just empty space)  So, which is it, did God create his home on the first day, or something else called the heavens that we have no idea what the bible could be talking about?
22. Still on the first day, “God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.  God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.  God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning – the first day. “ – Genesis 1:3.  But, as I mentioned in question 21, the sun and the moon and the stars had not yet been created.  What was God using for his light source?
23. Was God’s light source artificial on this first day, to hold the place of daylight until he had the energy to create the sun on his fourth day?
24. The sun is 4,700,000,000 (billion) years old.  The Earth is 4.54 billion years old.  This means that the sun was created first and that the earth was created millions of years later, starting as a mass of molten lava.  (Not water.)  So, this is really getting confusing.  Was it water or molten rock? 
25. Where did God get all of this material to create all of this stuff?
26. Genesis 6 – “And God said, “Let the expanse between the waters to separate water from water.” So God made the expanse and separated the water under the expanse from the water above it.  And it was so.  God called the expanse “sky.”  And there was evening, and there was morning – the second day.”  What is the water above it?
27. Is the water above it the sky?
28. Is the water above it the source of rain?
29. So, is the sky the expanse the separates the water below and the source of water above the sky? 
30. So, if we were observing the earth from the moon, should we see water above the sky, like a three layer dip?  Water, sky, more water?
31. If this isn’t the biblical explanation for rain, what other source of water would have been divided by the expanse He called the sky?
32. When the bible says, “He” does the bible mean that God is a male? 
33. If God is a male, what makes Him a male?  Not to be vulgar, but because of biological curiosity, does God literally have a penis?
34. If God has a penis, what is the purpose of his penis?
35. Does God have sex?
36. What would God have sex with?  God would have to be enormous in size, taking in to consideration the shear vastness of his creation.  (Like the weight of the sun).
37. If God had sex, did he reproduce?
38. Did God have sex with Mary later in the bible?
39. Did God shrink himself down to man size to have sex with Mary?  “My, what big pockets you have.”
40. Back to creation, Genesis 9-13 – “And God said, "Let the water under the sky be gathered to one place, and let dry ground appear." And it was so. ^God called the dry ground "land," and the gathered waters he called "seas." And God saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let the land produce vegetation: seed-bearing plants and trees on the land that bear fruit with seed in it, according to their various kinds." And it was so.  The land produced vegetation: plants bearing seed according to their kinds and trees bearing fruit with seed in it according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the third day.”  So the Earth came after water even though 4.5 billion years ago, Earth was a big ball of molten rock? 
41. Why did God create plants and grasses with seeds?
42. How could the plants survive without photosynthesis?  (See commenter RMD below for further thoughts on this question).
43. Where did the plants get their energy to create their own food since the sun had not yet been created?  (Even though we know that the sun formed before the Earth). 
44. Did the plants live off of this “artificial” light source that God was using to make day before he created the sun? 
45. Did the plants just choke for 24 hours until God rushed in to save them the next day with the creation of the sun?
46. Some have said a day is like a thousand years to God, or something like that.  Did plants live for one day or thousands of years without their source of energy, the sun?
47. Genesis 14-19: And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years, and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so. God made two great lights—the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars. God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth, to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the fourth day. So, is there where God creates the other heavens, the stars?
48. Since God didn’t create the stars until the fourth day, then I presume that the heavens he created on Day 1 was his home.  Unless…on day one, when God created the heavens, does the bible just mean that he created the “space” for the stars to exist within whenever he got around to it?
49. To the previous point, the Earth is spinning, or rotating on its axis at 1040 MPH (Miles Per Hour) at the equator.  The Earth is also orbiting around the sun at a speed of 18.5 Miles Per Second (1,110 MPH).  Our Solar System is moving through our galaxy, the Milky Way at 155 Miles Per Second (9,300 MPH).  Our Milky Way Galaxy (containing over 200 billion stars like our sun) is traveling in relation to our local group of galaxies at about 185 Miles Per Second (11,100 MPH). The universe is expanding and all of the galaxies are moving away from each other at a predictable pace.  Eventually the galaxies will be so far away from each other that people on Earth will not be able to observe any of the other billions of galaxies.  This is because they will have accelerated away faster than the speed of light. (186,000 Miles Per Second)  “Some objects once visible at half the universe’s current age of about 13.7 billion years are already invisible from the furthest vantage points, and in about 10 trillion years, only the local cluster of galaxies, including our own Milky Way, will be visible.” Thirteen point seven billion years ago?  Did not God build the universe and everything within it in six days, resting on the seventh, only 6,000 to 10,000 years ago?
50. How did God place everything in space on the fourth day in such a manner that all galaxies would be speeding away from each other at an increasing rate?
51. If God were to do what I ask about in the previous question, everything would have had to have begun from a central point.  How could this be possible on the fourth day?
52. Is there some way for the earth to have already existed?  Did God explode the galaxies of the universe into existence upon which when the resultant celestial bodies and energies get to earth, (already created on the first day), somehow capture earth in it’s wake in the sun’s gravity, pulling it along with the rest of the universe?
53. So, the purpose of the stars, sun, and moon was to mark the seasons, days, and years?  That seems like a lot of unnecessary work.  A standard calendar or executive directive would have probably served the purpose.
54. Finally, the sun is here on the fourth day to replace the presumably artificial light called day.  What happened to the artificial light?
55. If the artificial light called day was working, why create the sun? 
56. “If you could take the Sun apart, and stack up its various elements, you would find that the Sun is made of hydrogen (74%) and helium (about 24%). Astronomers consider anything heavier than helium to be a metal. The remaining amount of the Sun is made of iron, nickel, oxygen, silicon, sulfur, magnesium, carbon, neon, calcium and chromium. In fact, the Sun is 1% oxygen; and everything else comes out of that last 1%.”  So, the elements listed above either had to have already existed, or God created the elements first, and then combined them in to the manner above that allows the sun to do its job as an enormous nuclear reactor, providing all of the necessary energy for life to exist on earth.  Did God mix all of the elements of the sun together in some type of gigantic pot, or did he just “poof” it in to existence? 
57. What process did God use to place the sun in the sky roughly 93 million miles from Earth?
58. Was earth orbiting anything before the sun, or did God push the earth around the sun at the end of day four?  (Unless of course the earth hitched a ride from the “explosion hypothesis” proposed in question 52).
59. The moon is roughly the same age as earth, 4.5 billion years old, meaning that it is roughly 150 million years younger than the sun.  According the Universe Today, “The Earth and Moon were created as the result of a giant collision between two planets the size of Mars and Venus.”  How did God create both the sun and the moon on the same day, but the earth four days earlier?
60. The moon is a lesser light to govern the night, but we all know that the sun really lights the day and reflects off of the moon to give the light on a clear night.  So, is this the purpose of the moon?  To light the night?  There are 166 moons in our solar system, if you don’t count the three moons that orbit Pluto.  Where they created for the same purpose, to light the night?  It is interesting that God did not just create smaller, less powerful suns for the same purpose, but I digress.
61. “Scientists think that the lunar core is made of metallic iron, with small amounts of sulfur and nickel. Astronomers know that the core of the Moon is probably at least partly molten…Scientists believe that the mantle of the Moon is largely composed of the minerals olivine, orthopyroxene and clinopyroxene…The crust of the Moon is composed mostly of oxygen, silicon, magnesium, iron, calcium, and aluminum. There are also trace elements like titanium, uranium, thorium, potassium and hydrogen.”  Similar to the sun, did God have all of these elements in his pocket(s)?
62. How did God make the sun and the moon round?
63. Is there a reason why all of the bodies of the “heavens” are round instead of triangle, or square, or cylindrical?  “For smaller objects, like asteroids, the force of gravity trying to pull the object into a sphere isn’t enough to overcome the strength of the rock keeping it in shape. But once you get above a certain mass and size, the strength of the object can’t stop the force of gravity from pulling it into a sphere. Objects larger than about 1,000 km in size are able to pull themselves into a sphere.”
64. Is the fact that all of the celestial bodies of space are spherical an accident of creation or a plan of creation?
65. Did all of the celestial bodies in space start out as spherical objects when God created them, or did He empty out his pockets in the proper mixture of elements and then have them build themselves in whatever form he had previously designed, first creating the effect of gravity?
66. Did gravity always exist, as a side-effect of creation, just needing something to act on?
67. To the previous question, how many trillions of years did God exist before he decided to create everything?  What took him so long?
68. Did he just wake up and say, “I am bored, time to make things with the stuff I have in my pockets”?
69. Of what elements was God made of before he created the elements of which everything else is made of?
70. Genesis 20-23: “And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." And there was evening, and there was morning—the fifth day.”  When God did this, did he already know that 99.5% (literally, I am not making this up) of all species ever to exist on earth would go extinct?
71. “The National Science Foundation’s “Tree of Life” project estimates that there could be anywhere from 5 million to 100 million species on the planet, but science has only identified about 2 million.”  Why did God create such variation of species?
72. What other kind of birds are there other than “winged birds”?  (No Tom, Tyson chicken does not count.)
73. Did God create two of each of the 5 to 100 million species on the planet on day five, or did he create dozens, hundreds, thousands, millions, in order to make sure there were enough to find their mate?
74. On birds, where did God get the stuff to make its crown, bill, throat, breast, belly, foot, leg, tail, rump, wingbars, back, nape, eyebrow, eyes, tongue, heart, kidney, intestines, etc?
75. All living things on earth are classified as “organisms” by humans.  “An organism is any contiguous living system (such as animal, plant, fungus, or micro-organism). In at least some form, all organisms are capable of response to stimuli, reproduction, growth and development, and maintenance of homoeostasis as a stable whole. An organism may either be unicellular (single-celled) or be composed of, as in humans, many trillions of cells grouped into specialized tissues and organs. The term multicellular (many-celled) describes any organism made up of more than one cell.”  Did God create the cells, and the contents of the cells, and the individual purpose of the cells before he created all of the swimming things and winged things and plant things, or did the whole organism come in to existence at once on days three and five?
76. Why did God have to bless the living creatures he just created?
77. Is the blessing of God necessary before living things can reproduce? 
78. Is the blessing of God inherent in all subsequent generations of living things before they can reproduce, or does God require himself to bless each generation of organism as it comes in to existence?
79. Genesis 24-31:  “And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so. God made the wild animals according to their kinds, the livestock according to their kinds, and all the creatures that move along the ground according to their kinds. And God saw that it was good.  Then God said, "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground." So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. God blessed them and said to them, "Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air and over every living creature that moves on the ground." Then God said, "I give you every seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it. They will be yours for food. And to all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food." And it was so. God saw all that he had made, and it was very good. And there was evening, and there was morning—the sixth day.” Why did God create land animals humans on the same day?
80. How does land produce living creatures according to their kinds?
81. What did God mean when he said, “Let us make man in our image, in our likeness…”?
82. Who is “us” and “our”?
83. When God says, “Let us…” is He giving or asking for permission from whoever else he is talking about as he dictates his creation?
84. When God spoke to his created people, man and woman, what language did he use?
85. How did the man and woman that God created understand what God was saying to them?
86. Where the brains of man and woman pre-programmed to understand God?
87. Why did God create both a man and a woman instead of one human being that could just replicate itself when the time was right?
88. Was God prescient about the benefits of genetic diversity?  “There are many different ways to measure genetic diversity. The modern causes for the loss of animal genetic diversity have also been studied and identified.^[1][2] A 2007 study conducted by the National Science Foundation found that genetic diversity and biodiversity are dependent upon each other—that diversity within a species is necessary to maintain diversity among species, and vice versa. According to the lead researcher in the study, Dr. Richard Lankau, "If any one type is removed from the system, the cycle can break down, and the community becomes dominated by a single species."^[3]”
89. Couldn’t God have just made his creation without the need for genetic diversity?
90. When did inbreeding amongst families become an issue for the health of the offspring?  In today’s time, inbreeding “can increase the chances of offspring being affected by recessive or deleterious traits. This generally leads to a decreased fitness of a population, which is called inbreeding depression. Deleterious alleles causing inbreeding depression can subsequently be removed through culling, which is also known as genetic purging.”
91. Is our species weakened today as a result of this early inbreeding, or did the genetic problems of inbreeding only arise later in our history, some time after Noah?
92. Was there a genetic purging some time after the creation?
93. Was God aware of the issues of inbreeding when he created man and woman?
94. Again, what was the purpose of God blessing his own creation before the man and woman could reproduce?
95. Does this initial blessing apply to all future generations of reproduction, or does God have to bless each offspring of humanity before they can use their sexual organs for the purpose of which they were created?
96. What did God intend by allowing man and woman to “subdue” the earth?
97. God gave every “seed-bearing plant on the face of the whole earth and every tree that has fruit with seed in it,” to man and woman for food, and he gave “all the beasts of the earth and all the birds of the air and all the creatures that move on the ground—everything that has the breath of life in it—I give every green plant for food.”  Does this mean that humans can eat any kind of plant or fruit and all other “beasts” are limited only to things that are green? 
98. What were all of the swimming things supposed to eat if they were only provided green plants for food?
99. Back to “us” and “our”.  Is this biblical evidence that there is both a male and a female god.  God very well could have been talking to his wife, or significant other of the female persuasion when he created man and woman in Their image.  This explains the reason for the diversity between the two sexes.  If man and woman were created in “our” image, doesn’t this mean that there were at least two sexes of God?
100. Along these lines, when God said, “Let us…” was that perhaps an invitation to the female God to help him initiate the human creation?
101. Up until now, have we just always presumed that God was alone in his sexuality?
102. At some point, later in the bible, depending what book of the bible you are reading, the Kingdom of God will either come to earth, or all of God’s people will rise to heaven.  What will God do with everything he created then?
103. Will God’s creation return to a formless and empty void?
104. Why go through all of that effort if God could have just created the good people at his home and been done with it instead of putting everyone through so much misery?
105. Why did God say to the man and woman that they could eat from every tree and every fruit if he didn’t mean it?
106. Is there any other evidence of the possibility of a female companion of God in the bible?
107. Why is Genesis chapter 2 so different in the story of creation of man and woman than the story of creation in chapter 1?

As of right now, I have 104 107 questions related to the creation story in the bible.  I presume that many more will come and that others will provide me with questions that I had not previously thought of.  Expect this list to grow and expect a Part II, my questions related to the second chapter of Genesis in the near future.  Stay tuned and please feel free to contribute.

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