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What point are you talking about?
 
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Then you're not doing science and further discussion will be unproductive. If you can ad hoc any rationalization you want, we're not on an even playing field.
I agree, my beliefs aren’t based on science they’re based on faith in God’s word.
 
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Or being created with hair & fingernails that never actually grew?
 
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I feel like that is the difference between reading the word of God and believing it.
 
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I’m not going to pretend to fully understand what you’re saying but it seems like you’re saying that all of the elements had to begin at the same state and be subjected to the same exposure over time. I don’t see why they couldn’t have been created just the way they are now if that’s what God intended.
 
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I've answered this probably half a dozen times already. Read some of my other responses please
I don't do wild goose chases. If you think one of your posts sufficiently answers what has been a persistent and vexing problem for YECism, then link to it and I'll address the content.
 
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I commend you on your honesty in admitting there are aspects you don't understand unlike others who take it a personal affront and try to destroy your credibility and reputation in the process.

Elements did not begin in the same state.
The first elements to form before the formation of stars were hydrogen, helium, and trace amounts of lithium and beryllium.
Heavier elements were formed later through mechanisms such as cosmic ray fragmentation, fusion in stellar cores and finally through slow and rapid capture of neutrons.

One of the objectives of the JWST mission is to detect Population III stars which are earliest stars formed only from primeval hydrogen and helium.
 
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We just see things from two polar opposites perspectives my friend. You see origins from a scientific standpoint and I see them from a biblical standpoint. We just don’t have enough information to rule out either one of these possibilities
 
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They’re separated by 6 days
We now know what causes the diurnal cycle, (the rotation of Gaia on her axis), the “daylight” being when that aspect of the planet is facing Sol; night when that aspect of the planet faces away from Sol.
According to Genesis Sol was not “created” until the fourth day.
Whence cometh the “days” that preceded Sol?
 
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How does one “determine” this without a sidereal-day?

God determined it.

When He saw the earth rotate once, He declared it the "first day."
 
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Why was it important to God when/if a “day” had occurred?

He used the six days [and day of rest] as a template for the work week.

Even incorporating them into the Ten Commandments.

Exodus 20:8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

God could have spoken the entire universe into existence in a split second.

But He took His time on purpose.
 
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Why did “God” need “rest”?
 
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Why did “God” need “rest”?

Not THAT kind of rest.

THIS kind of rest:

Genesis 8:4 And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

Joshua 11:23 So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.


It means He ceased.

Why did He cease?

He was finished with His work.
 
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