So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. Genesis 1:27
It is the great creation chapter,
outlining the events of that first week of time when “the heavens and
the earth were finished, and....God ended his work which he had made” (Genesis 2:1-2).
---Despite the evolutionists, God is not creating or making anything in
the world today (except for special miracles as recorded in Scripture)
because all His work was finished in that primeval week.
---He is now
engaged in the work of conserving, or saving, what He first created.
There are only three acts of special creation—that is, creation out of
nothing except God’s omnipotent word—recorded in this chapter. His other
works were those of “making” or “forming” the created entities into
complex, functioning systems.
His first creative act was to call into existence the space/mass/time
cosmos. “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” (Genesis 1:1).
This is the domain that we now study in the physical sciences.
The
second is the domain of the life sciences. “God created...every living
creature that moveth” (Genesis 1:21).
It is significant that the “life” principle required a second act of
direct creation. It will thus never be possible to describe living
systems solely in terms of physics and chemistry.
The third act of creation was that of the image of God in man and woman.
The study of human beings is the realm of the human sciences. Our
bodies can be analyzed chemically and our living processes biologically,
but human behavior can only really be understood in terms of our
relation to God, whose image we share. " HMM