Prepared By:
Dr. Charles Ruark, Jr.
February 21, 2024

Creation Machine

How can we understand Genesis 1 in relation to modern taxonomy and the genetic (DNA codes) codes?

Then God said, “Let the waters below the heavens be gathered into one place, and let the dry land appear”; and it was so. ¹⁰ God called the dry land earth, and the gathering of the waters He called seas; and God saw that it was good. ¹¹ Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. ¹² The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. ¹³ There was evening and there was morning, a third day. —Genesis 1:9-13 NASU

Comment:

On Day 3 Jesus wrote the geologic history of the earth (fossil record). Jesus wrote this history by means of a massive incredibly powerful supernatural output with no preceding events, and He thus arrives at the earth’s dry surface, i.e., the current land topography and the current oceans and seas, both of which He is now ready to populate with currently existing organisms. I discussed this history in detail in the article titled “Fossil Record”.

By the end of Day 3, with the creation of the Plant Kingdom Jesus had created the Standard DNA Code. Seed is pure genetic code. Interestingly, green plants use this code for the DNA in their mitochondria as well as in their nucleus.

I think the above can be stated with a high degree of certainty. There are so far 24 known variations of the Standard Code. Humanity possesses the Standard Code and the variation known as the Vertebrate Mitochondrial Code.

There are five recognized taxonomic Kingdoms:

1. Plants
2. Animals
3. Fungi
4. Protista (any organism with a cell nucleus that is not a plant, animal, or fungus)
5. Bacteria and Archaea (single cell organisms without a cell nucleus or mitochondria)

The twenty-four variations in the genetic code (DNA code) can be understood as very minor changes to the Standard Code’s assignments of the 64 codons to the 20 amino acids and the stop or termination signal.

Therefore, all Life essentially possesses one code: the Universal or Standard DNA Code. The earth and the water being the only exceptions, the Standard DNA Code existed before the existence of the rest of the universe. This code has never changed or evolved.

Then God said, “Let the waters teem with swarms of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth in the open expanse of the heavens.” ²¹ God created the great sea monsters and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarmed after their kind, and every winged bird after its kind; and God saw that it was good. ²² God blessed them, saying, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” ²³ There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.
—Genesis 1:20-23 NASU

Comment:

Day 4 saw the creation (an instantaneous output without preceding inputs/events, as was the case with all the days) of the remainder of the Universe apart from earth.

Then on Day 5 Jesus created the “Microbes”, including the Kingdoms: Bacteria/Archaea, Fungi, and Protista. There are sixteen variations of the Standard DNA Code found in these kingdoms. There are ten alternative nuclear codes and six variant mitochondrial codes. Generally, these organisms are loosely classified as microbes; the exception being mushrooms which are fungi and multicellular. Bacteria and Archaea have their own code which is essentially the Standard Code. They are single cell organisms that do not possess a nucleus or mitochondria.

Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. ²⁵ God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good. —Genesis 1:24-25 NASU

Comment:

On Day 5 (with the creation of the birds) and then extending into Day 6, Jesus completed His creation of the Animal Kingdom. In addition to the Standard DNA Code that Jesus created on Day 3, Jesus created eight mitochondrial codes for animals:

Four Invertebrate Mitochondrial Codes:

• Invertebrate (arthropods/insects/spiders/round worms are examples) Mitochondrial Code, 2) Flatworm & Echinoderm (starfish) Mitochondrial Code, 3) Alternative Flatworm Mitochondrial Code, 4) Trematode (parasitic flatworms/flukes) Mitochondrial Code.

 

Four Vertebrate Mitochondrial Codes:

1) Vertebrate (fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals are examples) Mitochondrial Code, 2) Ascidian (sea squirts) Mitochondrial Code, 3) Rhabdopleuridae (small worm-shaped animals) Mitochondrial Code, 4) Cephalodiscidae (small worm-shaped animals related to the Rhabdopleuridae) Mitochondrial Code.

As you can see, there are three predominant genetic codes for animals and plants: 1) Standard or Universal Code 2) Invertebrate Mitochondrial Code 3) Vertebrate Mitochondrial Code

Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
—Genesis 1:26 NASU

Comment:

Along with Adam and Eve, all the animals in the Garden possessed the Standard DNA Code and the Vertebrate Mitochondrial Code. Green plants possessed the Standard Code for their nuclear and mitochondrial codes.

In summary with the creation of the Plant Kingdom on Day 3, Jesus created the original genetic code for all living organisms, i.e., The Standard DNA Code. On Days 5 & 6 Jesus created the remaining organisms comprising life as perfect, complete, and finished living memories. This includes Adam, Eve, the green plants and fruit trees, and all the animals named by Adam in the Garden. He did this by means of supernatural outputs (memories) with no preceding natural events. This method of creation is consistent with His healing miracles found in the New Testament where every healing was instantaneous.

Fundamentally, there is one Standard or Universal DNA code, and there always will be. The 24 minor variations do not represent or suggest biological evolution. Rather they suggest that Jesus varied the codon assignments in the nuclei of cells and in the mitochondria of cells, just a very little, for reasons known only to Him.

Acknowledgement: this article is based on the information found at the below website:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Taxonomy/Utils/wprintgc.cgi

The Genetic Codes

Compiled by Andrzej (Anjay) Elzanowski and Jim Ostell at National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.

Last update of the Genetic Codes: Jan. 7, 2019

NCBI takes great care to ensure that the translation for each coding sequence (CDS) present in Gen Bank records is correct. Central to this effort is careful checking on the taxonomy of each record and assignment of the correct genetic code (shown as a translation table qualifier on the CDS in the flat files) for each organism and record. 

Chlorophyta/Embryophyta group
chlorophyte/embryophyte group
NCBI BLAST name: green plants
Rank: kingdom
Genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Mitochondrial genetic code: Translation table 1 (Standard)
Plastid genetic code: Translation table 11 (Bacterial, Archaeal and Plant Plastid)
Other names:
common name(s) green plants
blast name
green plants
Lineage (full)
cellular organisms; Eukaryota 

Auth. Note: Translation table 11 is identical to the Standard Code