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Well, even if you could somehow shoehorn your personal belief into having this one particular verse agree with science (and I don't accept that it does btw), you could not explain HOW ancient men didn't know and incorrectly wrote in pretty much every other meaningful verse if they were allegedly dictated to by a God who knew everything, like Genesis 1:2 (KJV) , Genesis 1:6 (KJV) , Genesis 1:9 (KJV) , Genesis 1:12 (KJV) , Genesis 1:14 (KJV) , Genesis 1:16 (KJV) , Genesis 1:21 (KJV) , Genesis 1:30 (KJV) . How could they get so many other things wrong if it were that they wrote God's own words? It's almost as if you were just lucky to be able to take one verse out of context and declare it agrees with what Science says while ignoring everything else that doesn't agree with Science.
So, we know how solar systems form, from an accretion disc - the Sun would've already been lit, the solar system would've been a shooting gallery with the debris of first generation star(s) reforming into our solar system, the earth (or what would eventually become earth, because the Earth and Moon are likely the result of a collision of two similar sized worlds) wouldn't have any usable water to speak of (i.e. what water is there would still be in a gaseous or cloud state) and quite rocky, hot & molten. This doesn't agree with Gen 1:2
except there wouldn't have been water on the early earth to put a boundary between - This also doesn't agree with Gen 1:6
This happened the other way around, there was dry hot land well before there was water here. This too doesn't agree with Gen 1:9
So, the evidence we have doesn't show grass turning up until the Dinosaurs were well and truly established. This is not in accordance with Gen 1:12
Stars existed well before Earth and our own Sun did. In fact, the death of other stars is what our Solar System is made of. We have a second generation star as our Sun, this too also doesn't agree with Gen 1:14
Although the stars came before our Sun, water on Earth, let alone any living thing whatsoever that relies on it, didn't. This doesn't agree with Gen 1:16
So, Whales didn't come about until around 54 million years ago, well after Mammals were a thing, and of course Whales came from Land animals - not sure of this business between Gen 1 and Gen 2 so I'm just going to ignore it until you all work out who's right - that said, the science doesn't agree with Gen 1:21
Animals were eating each other well before there were even insects on land, let alone land animals of any kind. This doesn't agree with Gen 1:30 - Imaginings about future happenings can be addressed when....<ahem> or IF - it ever happens.
Well, as provided above, your one contorted verse taken out of context and made to fit what science has found, pales into insignificance when put back in context and placed beside all the other verses for comparison. This is what we would expect for a document written thousands of years ago by people who couldn't possibly understand the universe and how it actually works, as we do today. Sorry...
I'm not sure a God even exists.
But it isn't talking about the three elements inside EVERY living creature plus fire, it's talking about waters of the deep, which didn't exist as the Bible describes.
Well, No, the Bible explicitly says "Waters" - why are you separating from a plain reading and go to interpreting the Bible? there wasn't water in the form the Bible describes, so it doesn't conform with Science.
Of Course! so if their Theology is incorrect scientifically, then it doesn't match science then, does it?
I know, so Grass appearing before Dinos doesn't agree with Science then, right?
Right, so again this doesn't fit with science at all - How does the Earth and grass and seed bearing plants, etc exist before the first stars? (hint: they don't!), so another falsification of your "Bible agrees with Science" idea.
No, I don't. This isn't what many, many people don't get from your particular interpretation of the Bible. Also, if Adam was made first thing in Genesis 2, that too is equally incompatible with Science, since Humans share a common ancestor with all the other Hominids, as well as Apes, Haploids, Mammals, Placentals, Animals, Vertibrates, Chordates, Eukaryotes, so on *AFTER* all the other cosmos stuff happened to create plants, fish, liquid water, the earth, our solar system, Stars, our universe, etc.
I get so much more stuff correct than you do - Whales came from LAND ANIMALS which in turn came from water. so God couldn't have made them as Whales straight up because Science tells us they were Land Animals for a long time before going back to the water to live. Your biblical interpretation doesn't match what Science says.
That's not what it says, it says that everything that is an animal will eat plants. That disagrees with Science, because that has never been the case in all the history of land animals existing. so it still doesn't make any difference that you interpret it in your own unique way.
Well, again, No! You are adding magic interpretations to the Bible that aren't there. Where does it say it's a prophecy of some future thing that is yet to happen? A plain reading shows it as God instructing Adam and Even to have babies, subdue everything on earth and eat plants & fruit provided, or is it we're not allowed to eat fruits and plants yet? Sorry, still doesn't agree with Science. Dan 12:4 says nothing about Gen 1:28-31 being any kind of 'future prophecy' or anything, so you've made that up too. I didn't think the Bible allowed that... (?)
I know a majority of the science involved, it seems I know it way better than the Bible does, especially your unusual interpretation of it. Nothing you've said seems to have added anything of value to my understanding of it - if anything, you're just muddying the waters and making it harder for anyone to make sense of it, tbh.
