what does the bible say about creation?

Day 1

Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God (ELOHIM) created the heaven and the earth. 

Genesis 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of ELOHIM moved upon the face of the waters. 

Genesis 1:3 And God (ELOHIM) said, Let there be light: and there was light. 

Genesis 1:4 And God (ELOHIM) saw the light, that it was good: and God (ELOHIM) divided the light from the darkness. 

Genesis 1:5 And God (ELOHIM) called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. 

Day 2

Genesis 1:6 And God (ELOHIM) said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.  

Genesis 1:7 And God (ELOHIM) made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.  

Genesis 1:8 And God (ELOHIM) called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day.  

Day 3

Genesis 1:9 And God (ELOHIM) said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. 

Genesis 1:10 And God (ELOHIM) called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God (ELOHIM) saw that it was good. 

Genesis 1:11 And God (ELOHIM) said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. 

Genesis 1:12 And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and God (ELOHIM) saw that it was good. 

Genesis 1:13 And the evening and the morning were the third day. 

Day 4

Genesis 1:14 And God (ELOHIM) 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:

Genesis 1:15 And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 

Genesis 1:16 And God (ELOHIM) made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. 

Genesis 1:17 And God (ELOHIM) set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth,

Genesis 1:18 And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God (ELOHIM) saw that it was good. 

Genesis 1:19 And the evening and the morning were the fourth day. 

Day 5

Genesis 1:20 And God (ELOHIM) 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. 

Genesis 1:21 And God (ELOHIM) 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 (ELOHIM) saw that it was good. 

Genesis 1:22 And God (ELOHIM) blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. 

Genesis 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day. 

Day 6

Genesis 1:24 And God (ELOHIM) 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. 

Genesis 1:25 And God (ELOHIM) 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 ELOHIM saw that it was good. 

Genesis 1:26 And God (ELOHIM) said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 

Genesis 1:27 So God (ELOHIM) created man in his own image, in the image of ELOHIM created he him; male and female created he them. 

Genesis 1:28 And God (ELOHIM) blessed them, and God (ELOHIM) said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.  

Genesis 1:29 And God (ELOHIM) said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. 

Genesis 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. 

Genesis 1:31 And God (ELOHIM) saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day. 

Day 7

Genesis 2:1 Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. 

Genesis 2:2 And on the seventh day God (ELOHIM) ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. 

Genesis 2:3 And God (ELOHIM) blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God (ELOHIM) created and made. 

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God (ELOHIM) , and the Word was God (ELOHIM) . 

John 1:2 The same was in the beginning with God (ELOHIM). 

John 1:3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. 

John 1:4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men. 

John 1:5 And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. 

John 1:6 There was a man sent from God (ELOHIM), whose name was John. 

John 1:7 The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the Light, that all men through him might believe. 

John 1:8 He was not that Light, but was sent to bear witness of that Light. 

John 1:9 That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world. 

John 1:10 He was in the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. 

John 1:11 He came unto his own, and his own received him not. 

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God (ELOHIM), even to them that believe on his name:

John 1:13 Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God (ELOHIM). 

John 1:14 And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth. 

John 1:15 John bare witness of him, and cried, saying, This was he of whom I spake, He that cometh after me is preferred before me: for he was before me. 

John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. 

John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (YAHUSHUA HAMASHIACH). 

African Genetics Study Revealing Origins, Migration And 'Startling Diversity' Of African Peoples

Date:

May 2, 2009

Source:

University of Pennsylvania. "African Genetics Study Revealing Origins, Migration And 'Startling Diversity' Of African Peoples." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 2 May 2009. <www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430144524.htm>. 

Tishkoff et al. The Genetic Structure and History of Africans and African Americans. Science, 2009; DOI: 10.1126/science.1172257

Summary:

Researchers have released the largest-ever study of African genetic data -- more than four million genotypes -- providing a library of new information on the continent which is thought to be the source of the oldest settlements of modern humans. The study demonstrates startling diversity on the continent, shared ancestry among geographically diverse groups and traces the origins of Africans and African-Americans.

The study demonstrates startling diversity on the continent, shared ancestry among geographically diverse groups and traces the origins of Africans and African Americans. It is published in the April 30 issue of the journal Science Express.

Researchers studied 121 African populations, four African American populations and 60 non-African populations for patterns of variation at 1327 DNA markers. The study traced the genetic structure of Africans to 14 ancestral population clusters that correlated with ethnicity and shared cultural and/or linguistic properties. The research team demonstrated that there is more genetic diversity in Africa than anywhere else on earth.

They also determined that the ancestral origin of humans was probably located in southern Africa, near the South Africa-Namibian border. Extrapolating the data, scientists were able to map ancient migrations of populations and determined that the exit point of modern humans out of Africa was near the middle of the Red Sea in East Africa. They also provide evidence for ancient common ancestry of geographically diverse hunter-gatherer populations in Africa, including Pygmies from central Africa and click-speaking populations from southern and eastern Africa, suggesting the possibility that the original pygmy language may have contained clicks. Overall, they demonstrate remarkable correspondence between cultural, linguistic, and genetic diversity in Africa.

"This is the largest study to date of African genetic diversity in the nuclear genome," said Sarah Tishkoff, a geneticist with joint appointments in the School of Arts and Sciences and the School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "This long term collaboration, involving an international team of researchers and years of research expeditions to collect samples from populations living in remote regions of Africa, has resulted in novel insights about levels and patterns of genetic diversity in Africa, a region that has been underrepresented in human genetic studies. Our goal has been to do research that will benefit Africans, both by learning more about their population history and by setting the stage for future genetic studies, including studies of genetic and environmental risk factors for disease and drug response."

Tishkoff says that there is no single African population that is representative of the diversity present on the continent. Therefore, many ethnically diverse African populations should be included in studies of human genetic variation, disease susceptibility, and drug response.

Anthropologists, historians and linguists now have at their disposal a completely new volume of research with which to test theories of human migration, cultural evolution and population history in Africa. Basic scientists, physicians and public health officials now have a foundation for illuminating the complex history of Africans and African-Americans, with implications for studies aimed at finding disease genes in these populations and learning which genetic differences make some individuals more susceptible to diseases like HIV, cancer or malaria.

This study also sheds light on African American ancestry, which they find originates predominantly from western African Niger-Kordofanian (~71 percent), European (~13 percent), and other African (~8 percent) populations, although admixture levels varied considerably among individuals. These results could have important implications for the design and interpretation of studies which aim to identify genetic and environmental risk factors for diseases common in the African American community, including prostate cancer, hypertension and diabetes.

The study was funded by the National Cancer Institute, the National Institutes of Health, the Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education at Vanderbilt University, the L.S.B. Leakey and Wenner Gren Foundation, the National Science Foundation, David and Lucile Packard and a Burroughs Wellcome Foundation Career Award given to Tishkoff. Genotyping costs were supported by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Mammalian Genotyping Service.

The study was conducted by Tishkoff, Alessia Ranciaro and Jibril B. Hirbo, formerly with the University of Maryland and now with the Departments of Genetics and Biology at Penn; Floyd A. Reed, also formerly with the University of Maryland and now with Department of Evolutionary Genetics at the Max Planck Institute of Evolutionary Biology; Françoise R. Friedlaender, an independent researcher; Christopher Ehret of the Department of History at the University of California, Los Angeles; Alain Froment of the Musée de l'Homme in Paris; Agnes. A. Awomoyi, formerly of the University of Maryland and currently with the Department of Internal Medicine at Ohio State University; Ogobara Doumbo and Mahamadou A. Thera of the Malaria Research and Training Center, University of Bamako, Mali; Muntaser Ibrahim and Abdalla T. Juma of the Department of Molecular Biology at the University of Khartoum, Sudan; Maritha J. Kotze of the Department of Pathology at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Godfrey Lema and Thomas B. Nyambo of the Department of Biochemistry at Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences, Tanzania; Jason H. Moore of the Departments of Genetics and Community and Family Medicine, Dartmouth Medical School; Holly Mortensen, formerly with the University of Maryland and now with the National Center for Computational Toxicology in the Office of Research and Development, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency; Sabah A. Omar of the Kenya Medical Research Institute; Kweli Powell of the University of Maryland; Gideon S Pretorius of the Division of Human Genetics, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa; Michael W. Smith of the . Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute; Charles Wambebe of International Biomedical Research in Africa, Nigeria; James L. Weber of the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Wisc.; and Scott M. Williams of the Department of Molecular Physiology and Biophysics, Center for Human Genetics Research, Vanderbilt University.

The researchers wish to acknowledge the indigenous populations who so graciously donated the DNA samples used in this study.