Overview
During the fifth day (also known as the Biotic phase) of Creation Week about 6,000 years ago, God created the early marine and aerial animals to populate the seas and the skies across the world.
Genesis 1:20-23 states: 20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.” 21 So God created great sea creatures and every living thing that moves, with which the waters abounded, according to their kind, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 And God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 So the evening and the morning were the fifth day. |
Geology and biology
The geological activity, now being subject to animal activity as well, during this time would have become relatively stable and slow, but no evidence of such geological work would remain today.
On this day, God had made the original species representatives and ancestors of all extant and extinct basic kinds of creatures being airborne as well as living aquatic lives - all genetically eqipped to produce the myriad of different species we see today as well as further back in history. |