[gleeaikin]

“And God commanded the Oceans to bring forth life”

If this is a correct translation, then it has very interesting implications. It was, just as science says, the Oceans (filled with complex organic chemicals) that brought forth life. God gave the command, but Ocean did the work, kind of like the Army. Maybe the command was a very large lightening bolt, or two, or many into the primordial organic soup.

[allmendream]

It is a correct translation. It doesn't say that God created life in the Ocean, but that HE commanded the Oceans to bring forth life.

The Bible says that God created our Sun and the stars. We look out into the universe and see that Stars are in the process of being created by gravity and nuclear fusion; this in now way entails that God is not creating THESE stars as well.

The “command” that God gave the Oceans needn’t be any more mystical than the means used to create the stars.

[allmendream]

Genesis 1:20
And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that has life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

[SeaHawkFan]

If this is a correct translation, then it has very interesting implications. It was, just as science says, the Oceans (filled with complex organic chemicals) that brought forth life. God gave the command, but Ocean did the work, kind of like the Army. Maybe the command was a very large lightening bolt, or two, or many into the primordial organic soup.

There is no evolutionist that still maintains the whole primordial soup argument. The mechanisms required for that to be true are simply impossible