Spontaneous Generation and Other Matters
 

This post inspired me, and I think it will inspire you. But more than that, Isaiah gives us a great insight into God’s creation:
Isaiah 59:5 They hatch cockatrice' eggs, and weave the spider's web: he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.

In this Chapter, Isaiah, in an uncharacteristic display of pessimism, states, in plain language, the condition of mankind – and, to say the least, it’s pretty disappointing. Isaiah is able to say these things because he knows what God is thinking.

Left to himself, Isaiah would have simply gone about life in the normal way and probably accepted hatching cockatrices’ eggs as a pretty normal activity – a job that your or my son could have done back in the day. However, God probably saw that Isaiah had a sonorous and authoritative voice and felt at home addressing crowds, and therefore did a small (for Him) miracle and changed Isaiah’s brain so that He and Isaiah had the Biblical equivalent of a “4G connexion”. Because of his “direct line to God”, Isaiah realizes that although God has given the world cockatrices, He did not mean them to breed prolifically and part of our job is to crush the eggs whenever possible.

As an aside, Isaiah takes on the role of the Food and Drug Administration and informs the people that Cockatrices’ eggs are poisonous (in the US, in last year alone, there were 24 deaths caused by cockatrices’ eggs.)

However, the interesting point here are the words “that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.” This gives us so much insight into the way that God is still “creating things”.

A lot of people might think that the creation of the “beasts of the field, etc.” has ended, and that nowadays there is “natural reproduction” and that is it. Of course, Christians know that this is wrong. And we know it is wrong because of Isaiah 59:5

The only possible meaning of “that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper” is that broken pieces of cockatrice eggshells become vipers – and this is how we get more snakes, or snakes where there were no snakes before. Science has no explanation for this at all – in fact, I have reviewed many “learned, peer-reviewed” academic papers and have found no reference to this means of generation whatsoever!

A clear case that “science so-called (1Tm:6:20)” is brushing the problem under the carpet and hoping nobody will ask the awkward question! Because “science so-called” has, as usual, no answers that would withstand Christian argument.

That one “kind” can give rise to another “kind” is well-known:

Ge:6:20: Of fowls after their kind, and of cattle after their kind, of every creeping thing of the earth after his kind, two of every sort shall come unto thee, to keep them alive.

But this would prohibit reproduction after the first generation. A man may not marry his sister or his mother, so there has to be another way of reproduction, and, in the way that snakes come from pieces of cockatrice eggshells, so many creatures arise from the most – to us – unexpected origins.

Let us take the humble “Barnacle Goose” – they come from a married couple of Barnacle Geese via an egg, OR from a barnacle:


And who among us could forget “The vegetable lamb of Taratary” a beast-plant that gives us a cottonlike material


Or even the Salamander that appears from the ashes of a fire, in a similar manner to a phoenix.

And so it is that the Bible contains not only all that you need to know, but it contains everything that you wish to know.

Re: Spontaneous Generation and Other Matters
 

That is very interesting. The eggs laid by those snakes, once they have generated, are not brittle at all so we know a cockatrice is not itself a type of snake and that cracking its eggs open would produce a baby cockatrice. It must be the remnant shards which break out into vipers. Could a fully grown viper actually become a cockatrice? (If they lived that long.)