WOW I really appreciate this response, I realize now that all I need to do to prove how ridiculous your points are is to just keep you talking because your doing a much better job that I ever could.
Better wait a bit before you take yur victory laps. Seems like one of your major premises has a couiple of glaring holes in it.
So let me ask you professor, because I’m trying to understand your logic
here, are you thinking that the sun revolves around the earth?
Not so's you'd notice. Dunno how you came to that conclusion. But we'll save that for further down the page.
Because if you put a light on one side of the earth, as the earth rotates it causes day and night, regardless of the length of daylight in the far northern & southern hemispheres.
Which kinda leads into the major problem you still haven't dealt with. But we're heading that way...
That point is moot because we still have prolonged periods of day and night today and it doesn’t prevent the earth from having evening and morning. Sunrises and sunsets are irrelevant because the light that God created would had the same effect as the earth rotates on its axis.
OK, I assume you're done now, so here's your problem:
Your lot declares, loudly and frequently that the the "days" of Genesis are 24 hours long. end discussion. And that could make sense if the sun existed from Day 1 of Creation.
But it didn't.
Now we've both agreed that light existed before the sun did. No problem there.
The problem is where the source or sources of that light were.
Now with the sun existing and providing the light for the earth, the 24 hour "day" is easy. It's the time it takes for one rotation of the earth, creating a defacto global "day" and "night", as observed from the equator.
If we're to take the Biblical definition of day and night quite literally, then the length of a day and a night varies dramatically with the latitude where one is. Depending on the season, the Biblical evening and morning may be days or weeks long. We can take the equatorial morning and evening times as global default, but the Bible makes no such distinction - darkness is evening, light is morning, punto.
But here's the biggest problem we have with your By-Cracky-It-Was-A-24-Hour-Day! position - it depends on the sun exiting as a light source, which, for the first 3 days of creation it definitely
did not.
For those few days, there was a light source or sources, that may or may not have illuminated the earth, which may or may not have been rotating at the same speed as it does now (if it rotated at all), and may or may not have provided illumination steadily as does the sun
But there was another light source!, you protest. Fair play, there was. But the question is, where was it in relation to the earth, and how consistently did it shine, and from what direction? Now y'all can declare that it in every way imitated the sun, and it may have.
But you don't
know that, now do you?
Yeah, there was light; stipulated.
But did it in every way imitate the sun so as to provide the 24 hour "days" required by your doctrine? Well, maybe it did, and maybe it didn't. You just don't know.
And what';s the easiest thing to do when you have a doctrine
that depends on something you don't really know from Scripture?
Simple. Make something up, something pious-sounding and sufificiently religious. and declare it to be true.
And so you do.
Dishonest? Sure. But
necessary, right? After all, a critical doctrine depends on it!
So just declare it to be the truth, and accuse anyone who doesn't buy it at full price a heretic and a misbeliever, and one who Doesn't Believe The Bible.
And so you have.
And so upon this most tenuous set of ill-contrived, conveniently invented suppositions, you declare the few paragraphs of Genesis which deal with the creation of the universe to be empirically and technically accurate, and a cornerstone of the Christian Faith.
Me? I'll stick with the Gospel.
