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3321.—Creation of Fowls

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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Jan 17, 1911

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 38, No. 3.

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3321.—Creation of Fowls

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Kindly explain why Gen. 1:20 says the fowls were made out of the ground and out of the water.
The text does not state that the fowls were made out of the ground. "God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the living creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven." We know no reason why God could not create fowls from water as well as from the earth. And Genesis tells us this, for that is just what He did. Many of the fowls, too, are amphibious. Elements which entered into fowls were doubtless in either the earth or the water. The Lord chose the water.