the fact is that no scientist has ever created Earth or a world wide flood or created life, and no scientist has observed that happening on its own either. So not sure how a scientist has a way to "repeat" it "a different way".
The description of the universe we see through telescopes is so vast we hardly can comprehend it.
100 neptune years is 16,500 earth years.
Our solar system is vast, and very unusual. We know it is unique, and have not found another like it.
It is hard to describe the size of the biggest stars you can see in our galaxy, and there are billions of galaxies, moving over billions of years. Using the simple speed of light we can calculate the galaxy is 100,000 light years across. So for light to travel from one side to the other will take 100,000 years and it has to be old than this.
The nuclear fusion taking place in the sun, is unexpected, and our recreation of it in a torus, as a power source helps us to understand some of the mechanisms going on.
A 6,000 year creation does not fit, unless you want to create a picture universe that appeared just to make us think it is real.
The creation story is very earth centric, day and night, which is a feature of an orbiting planet around a star. Why have a stepped creation with days and nights, when this is merely a spinning earth feature. I would suggest because this is about the creation of earth within a bigger setting, telling us about origins and purpose, and failure in our relationship with the creator. When did anyone hear a talking snake? But the stories put forward profound emotional and relationship messages, which speak now, in context.
However creation came about, only an earth centric view would speak to us, so we can understand.
For me a more profound cultural issue, is the belief all men are born equal. Clearly we are not, some have serious disabilities and others are fantastically gifted. Equally some are very social and integrated while others are really dangerous. On this backdrop we have a moral framework of measurement and control, which God delivered to enable us to prosper. It is this tension that creationists and fatalists have a problem with, ie. if God knowingly creates us with our impulses where is guilt and innocence?
It is why the creation story is not just a story but also a philosophy of origins and authority, which lawless people desire to undermine and let hedonism rule. Many nihilists think philosophy is the origins of morality rather than biology and emotional bonding. Once you realise we need to love and to be part of an integrated community, you begin to see how Jesus breaths life to all.
I personally hold to the creation of earth as a separate event to the universe in which we live, like a seed planted in a garden. Nothing is necessarily as it appears, because like all puzzles the key is to what works as created by the puzzle maker. This maker has created every excuse we need to reject Him if we want, but also to find love and life and live it to the full.
God bless you
