Sorry, there is no need to believe that God needed any more than six literal days.
Some people believe that the human like foot prints were from angels that were assigned to take care of the dinosaurs.There have been human and dinosaur tracks found in the same rock bed. (How's that happen?)
Light is a physical element of energy.. God did not need "light" that we perceive with our eyes...God does not have a beginning. He is eternal. So if He says, "Let there be light," and then the light exists some physical creation must be that light. Therefore Genesis 1:3 would seem to be a verse that shouldn't be interpreted literally, just like any verse that uses the word "day" in the same chapter.
Sorry, there is no need to believe that God needed any more than six literal days.
Can you tell me why He would need more time?
Do you think it is beyond His capabilities?
Do you think He has fed us a false sense of time?
Why do you think He explicitly stated "There was evening, there was morning, the first day" for each and every day?
Do you think that God knew that people would slander His six day creation and fabricate nonsense about His timeline?
Actually it is quite good to 40 - 50,000 years.
The right translation is NOT "first day," but "Day One" ("Yom Echad"). Many English translations make the mistake of writing "a first day". There is a qualitative difference between "one" and "first."Can you explain why the fact that God was able to do all that in six literal days He actually did? That is no more logical than calling yourself a woman.
The question is: How long did it take to create all of that carbon?Actually it isn't. Because Carbon 14 is not a stable isotope and the more fossil fuels are burned on the planet the less stable / less accurate this measuring technique is.
This post contains quite a bit of misinformation. These claims and a great many others are addressed in a huge data base to be found at
An Index to Creationist Claims
I will take one of your claims as an example. You said "There have been human bones found in coal seams. (How's that happen?)".
God is eternal - good.God does not have a beginning. He is eternal. So if He says, "Let there be light," and then the light exists some physical creation must be that light. Therefore Genesis 1:3 would seem to be a verse that shouldn't be interpreted literally, just like any verse that uses the word "day" in the same chapter.
The canyon is a product of plate technotics more then whatever erosion took place.
The question is: How long did it take to create all of that carbon?
God is eternal - good.
Light is multI-dimensional. He created the physical realm with the physical light spectrum of particles and waves.
BUT, HIS ETERNAL LIGHT transcended from the spiritual realm (another dimension) into this new physical realm He created. And btw, on day 4, He gave us light from the sun and the outer most distant stars (also created on that day) instantly - we didn't didn't have to wait billions of years to see them. Adam looked up and saw them.
Some people believe that the human like foot prints were from angels that were assigned to take care of the dinosaurs.
Read your post. The long days as epochs of time is not so disturbing - its popular and I'm used to it. What was disturbing is that you think "the Fall of Man, man's first sin that affected the world, was an insignificant blip in the Genesis account! Wow!
I can make that claim, the Bible does, God does ... just many others have a problem with that because they have been indoctrinated with flawed dating methods and accept them. So it obviously bumps up against your 4.5 billion year earth.I did not say it took billions of years to create the other stars. I said because fossils and rocks that were made millions of years apart exist, there is no way you can claim God made everything in only 6 literal days.
The Bible wasn't written for His recollection or understanding, like we write a journal. It was for us, OUR REALITY, OUR PHYSICAL REALM WITH OUR 24 HOUR DAY, 7 DAY WEEK, MONTHS AND YEARS, ETC. He is not confined to time, He operates outside of time, so the words in the Bible are for our literal understanding. They weren't meant to be some abstract puzzle that we were supposed to symbolically figure. "Let's see, since the early is billions of years old and man only has been on earth millions - (you know, since Lucy) ... Then a day can't mean a day ... Thank you men of scientific thought, for helping me to interpret God's word". Oh brother, that's a big mistake!Its says 6 days in Genesis. That is for our benefit.
I believe God started everything. He knew that for Him it would be instant Creation. For us, time is very different.
CC: @ilovejcsogAs I noted earlier, Neanderthals were a different species, not just another name for homo sapiens.
Thousands upon thousands of dinosaur bones/fossils have been found and not one instance where any human bones/fossils have been found with them or in the same layer. Unless you look for photoshop pics and weird youtube videos by messed up people.
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