A stand-in sun?
This is the most accurate visual model we currently have of the motion of our solar system, and it would be quite difficult for God to explain the creation account from this point of view to the original audience of the time
agreed.. easy and obvious and inline with the text.That is always the convenient comeback when dealing with literal creation.
Yes, really.Not really when you consider just a small sunspot that formed the other day was the size of 3 earths.
And if the furthest seen by the new telescope is supposedly 13.6 billion light years away, then for all we know the universe came to an end eons ago. lolThere's no way our technology or even "Math" by itself can give solid proof it is remotely that old.
That is always the convenient comeback when dealing with literal creation.
So why do creationists who wish to take it literal have to fall back on God works in mysterious ways when literal doesn't cut it?
And if the furthest seen by the new telescope is supposedly 13.6 billion light years away, then for all we know the universe came to an end eons ago. lol
So existence will not blink out but only, depending on where life is in the universe, when it reaches them like in the Never Ending Story. Considering it hasn't even been 2000 years, no wonder the new Kingdom hasn't reached us yet.we will not feel the physical effects of whatever is happening at that location before the time it takes for light from that point in space to reach us.
So existence will not blink out but only, depending on where life is in the universe
Considering it hasn't even been 2000 years, no wonder the new Kingdom hasn't reached us yet.
on the contrary it would be VERRRYY easy to say "first I created the Sun then many years later I created the Earth and many years later I created plants".
The idea that the above sentence was farrr too difficult to convey to humans -- so what we got instead is "Genesis 1" which is not to be believed... " -- is a huge leap
That proposal is more difficult to "believe" than anything in Genesis 1
It would be difficult for people to understand heliocentrism, given that it wasn't discovered until hundreds of years later.
And of course that (heliocentrism) too was a flawed tossed-out-the-window option as well. But it didn't stop them from knowing what a 7 day week was/is.
You don't believe in heliocentrism?
Do you?
"Heliocentrism[a] is the astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe."
A lot of us today - do not believe that our Sun is at the center of the universe. People used to believe that.. they were wrong of course.. but they still knew what a 7 day week was.