The first words of the Bible reads, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters [Genesis 1:1-2] (God 6)." The next paragraph states that the first day, God created light. The second--God separated the water of the sky from that of the water below. The third day God separated the water on the surface with land masses, where plants and vegetation arose. Next day, "God said, 'Let there be lights (God 6)," lights in the sky. The fifth day the water began to thrive with living creatures, followed by birds in the sky. On the sixth day God created land creatures and, "God said, 'Let us make man in our image, in our likeness [Genesis 1:26] (God 7)." "Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array [Genesis 2:1] (God 7)." The entire history of creation--in a couple pages of text. So it's pretty obvious that the intent of this writing isn't a scientific textbook accounting and it's pretty evident that each phrase and word is intended to pack power.

Any farmer can testify that plants do not sprout and grow in a day as any reasonable person will acknowledge that a biosherical creation, packed with living creatures, created in a week is a stretch of logic and simply a leap of blind faith. Not that God couldn't do it, actually He COULDN'T, not a righteous God. That would break all sort of laws of physics. God's smoother than that. So does this prove the Bible wrong then? Not neccessarily, but maybe one, little word translation, "day," has evolved over time, or the meaning could have changed at some point in history (i.e. the change in the word "gay" in one decade, in our lifetime). What if "day" originally meant "era," or simply a measurement of time? That one shift flattens the entire creation debate. Consider who the original audience of Genesis was and "day," if it wasn't a mistranslation, was simply understood in this fractal analogy. This consideration of day as an era isn't a stretch either as further in the Bible, a day to God is as a thousand years.



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