So far I’ve repeatedly demonstrated that OEC is not a sound theology because it cannot be explained without contradicting what is written in the scriptures. Creation is a miracle brothers & sisters, it can’t be explained by science and it does not coincide with what science tells us.
There is no doubt that Creation is a miracle. Hebrews makes that quite clear in chapter 11 that by faith we believe that the universe was created out of things that do not appear. So our whole universe, galaxies, stars, planets, our solar system, sun, and earth was created out of nothing that existed in the first place.
It is a miracle to us because it was designed and created by a person with superior knowledge, intellect and power, from a reality outside the finite universe that He created.
But there is no evidence that Creation can't be explained by science and that it does not coincide with the scientific evidence that is plain to see. It is not a matter of the Bible showing that science is wrong, but that science is continually showing us that the Bible is right.
The fact that creation took 6 "days", the Hebrew word "yom" meaning "epoch" as one of its five meanings, is proved to be right through scientific evidence that shows, without referring to the Bible, that the creation of the cosmos was in six stages. Atheistic scientists would say the same thing. Those who maintain that the meaning of "yom" is limited to the 24 hour day, are ignoring that "yom" has five meanings and each meaning is determined by the context. Therefore there is nothing to stop God creating the cosmos in six stages and yet rightly stating in Scripture that it took six "yom'"s to achieve it. The religious zealots who accuse scientists of heresy for saying that creation was not done in six 24 hour days, have a blind spot, not understanding the nature of the Hebrew language. Often these zealots are not Hebrew scholars, and most who had PhDs in Biblical languages have absolutely no difficulty in accepting that the word "yom" in the context of Genesis 1 describes epochs rather than 24 hour days.
These religious zealots have the same attitude as the Established Church zealots in Galileo's time who refused to accept his finding that the Sun did not revolve around the earth, but in actual fact the earth revolved around the sun. And the zealots refused to accept that the earth was round and not flat. They also had no idea of the nature of gravity when they believed that the world was totally encased in a dome of water above the atmosphere. Gravity would have prevented any body of water from remaining up there without immediately falling to earth. These zealots tend to accuse Christian scientists of being theistic evolutionists when these same scientists know that the cosmos was intricately designed and constructed, and did not come about by chance over billions of years, and that all life as we know it did not develop from an amoeba in a primordial soup. As the saying: "Rome wasn't built in a day", but rather designed and constructed over time and because we know that the Empire State building was not magically constructed in 24 hours, we know that the universe and our world was designed and constructed over a period of time although was nothing to God being outside of time, took billions of years within our space-time continuum.
In the context of Romans 1 where Paul said that those who did not have the Scriptures would be able to see God in His creation, if he had today's benefit of scientific evidence, he would without hesitation say to those who had not heard of the God of the Bible through the Scriptures, "Look at the scientific evidence and see the miracle of God's creation that shows that He really exists, and if you seek Him, you will find Him."
