Do you believe in galaxies?... no mention of those in Genesis. What is in the model of the universe that you believe in and how does that universe compare to the model created by science? How do Boolean standards enable your view?
Genesis is not a cosmology text book. There is no argument with science. It is a book about the development of mankind. It quickly runs through what would eventually be thousands of pages of scientific data/text regarding all that jazz. That's not the intent or heart of the story. Galaxies and what not. Genesis is simply this. God created everything from nothing. He made the water, vegetation, land, land animals, sea animals and then mankind. (I don't think I have the order right. I'm not looking at a bible right now). Seven is a number signifying completion in ancient Hebraic language. So six periods of time of creation, and one period of time for rest. The real heart of Genesis is after the few paragraphs establishing creation. The take away from the beginning is that God created the universe and everything in it, and a part of that creation was our planet, Earth, and most important of all our species.....man... The rest of the entire Bible, in one way or another, describes the only important take away from the opening chapters. The development of relationship and covenants with mankind. i.e. The fall man. The entry of sin. The internal sickness of the soul in mankind. The great flood, and re-generation of mankind under a new covenant. The formation of God's chosen people, the formation into Judges, the formation into kingdom, and most important out of the entire Bible, the need of man kind for salvation. God sending prophets regarding the coming of a saviour. and of course, at last, the fulfillment of all prophecy, and history. The whole point of everything. The incarnation of God as man, fulfilling ALL prophecy, and forever altering the meaning, and destiny of mankind. THAT'S the point. Not the tiny allusion to science in the first couple paragraphs that people spend so much time and ink on. These books were inspired by God, the creator of the universe. They don't intend to preclude Newton and Capernicus. Just as Newton and Capernicus didn't intend to preclude the Doctor's, Popes, and Saints of the Church. Faith and reason. Science and religion. They are not intended to be at odds with one another. They both have completely valid origin and pretext. They both have an intrinsic right to be here in the universe, and both have the authority to speak the truth to the point that they don't attack or attempt to dismiss or humiliate the other. Let scientists do what they are supposed to do.....measure and report on God's creation for potential use in invention and technology, (so long as the technology is moral in use). And let the Church do what it does. Describe how to live within God's creation so that we may live life to the full, keep within moral and ethical boundaries, and help us get to live with God for eternity. Working together would make more sense than scientists trying to use their skills to rove AGAINST God (which can't be done), instead of explaining how he DOES exist in spite of some things we haven't quite worked out yet. (the real job and the real challenge. Science shouldn't be conducted with a hatred toward God. It never was in the past. I doubt if it is now. There are just a handful of louder than most, atheist intellectuals who are vocal enough to want to bring about turmoil and discord. There are a small handful, relatively, of Christian anti-intellectual fundamentalists who, by the animosity towards science, which stems from, who knows what, wish also to bring about turmoil and discord, instead of just preaching the Gospel, and describing faith and morals (the job of the Church), and not telescoping in to the first three pages of a 1,200 page book meant to be a road map to the thoughts of God, and a document of the life, passion, death, and resurrection of God among us in Jesus Christ.
I'm probably not phrasing all this correctly. But it is my hope that this covers the main points, and is not taken as snark, anger, or any such thing. These are my observations as a man in a confused world, just like everyone else. It seems everyone wants all phenomena to be just one easy thing they can put in their pocket. It's just not. Existence is messy. It is because the describers of existence, whether inspired by God, or inspired by Pythagorius, are messy. People are messy. Life is messy. It's actually, I am coming to believe, constructed that way on purpose by our Lord, so that we maintain an element of humility, which keeps us honest, if we let it. We ALL need to be taken down a peg or two, lest we all become absolutists, and fundamentalists, yet we also need to stay tight enough that we don't become moral relativists. It's a fine line walking through a twisted crooked landscape, but that narrow road is the one the Christian is called to. Beware of leaving the road and getting caught up, by pride, with what lives on either side of the path.
