R.C. Sproul

And then we distinguish among the different kinds of flowers and among the different kinds of animals.

Remember when you were a student in elementary biology in junior high or in high school and you had to learn the classes and the phyla and the species and the genus and all of those different distinctions where you would group things together in one group and then look at their differences and break them up into subgroups.

That's what we do in science.

When you go to the doctor and you say, my stomach hurts, the doctor immediately goes through a checklist in his mind.

He examines you.

He, first of all, has to come up with a diagnosis before he can treat you.

And in that diagnosis, that knowing through the situation, he begins to discern, well, let's see, I know that you can have a stomach ache for 50 different reasons.

You could have indigestion.

You could have stomach cancer.

And he knows that indigestion and stomach cancer have certain points of similarity.

But it's the differences that the doctor has to know in order to be able to make the correct diagnosis.

That's science.

Careful analysis of the reality around us.

Well, that all began when God says, name the animals.

And in that process, God is demonstrating that he is giving authority over the earth to Adam and Eve.

Now, who names Adam?

Adam does not name himself, but God names Adam, indicating God's authority and dominion over his creature.

When they have children, the parents name the child, indicating authority that the parents have over the children.

And that was the custom in Israel, except on very rare occasions.

One of the most remarkable incidents in the New Testament takes place when?