Didn't WE invent the cycle and time length of a day? How do we know that our 'day' is the same length?
2006-07-06 13:52:05 · 20 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
how has this question sparked so many offending answers? So many narrow minded people on here!
And I dont see where I said we 'created' day I mearly stated that we named how long a day should be.
2006-07-06 14:04:52 · update #1
The length of a day is determined by the rotation of the earth. Haven't you ever noticed that about every 24 hours a big ball of fire rises from the East? If not, maybe you need to get out of bed earlier.
2006-07-06 13:57:31 · answer #1 · answered by Mama Pastafarian 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why would an omnipotent god need any time at all to create a universe? What stopped him from doing it in an instant? If he couldn't do it instantly, and needed a rest afterwards, then he's not sounding quite so omnipotent. Besides, god is supposed to be 'outside time' (so the religious folks will tell you). It's all nonsense, of course...
People will tell you "Oh well a day doesn't actually *mean* a day, it means... [insert dodge here]". However, in Genesis it says "[5] And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day."
Day and night, evening and morning. Sounds like a regular 24-hour day to me. To say "Oh well it doesn't actually mean a day, it really means 8 billion years for the first day and 3 billions years for the second day" doesn't sound very convincing to me. It just sounds like a desperate and futile attempt to save Genesis from being discredited by real scientific knowledge.
2006-07-06 21:20:59 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, day has always been considered the 24 hour period of one day and one night. (The big cultural variations are about the length of the year) The thing about the Bible stating that the world was created in 7 "days" is a bad misconception. The bible is translated from Greek, Hebrew and Aramaic. The specific passage in Genesis actual means "The world was created in 7 periods-of-time". When it was translated, the translators settled on "day" as the closest word to the original word. For all we know the word that means period-of-time could mean a thousand years. Everyone should be careful about taking the Bible word for word.
2006-07-06 21:03:32 · answer #3 · answered by Emi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that much of the bible is written in metaphor, as men of that time could not always understand what had happened very well, or might not have been able to articulate what they had been trying to say very well. I'd say the chances are pretty much 10000000000000100000000000000000000000 to 1 that the "day" mentioned in Genesis is not our "day". Personally, I believe that it was millions of years, and that during the length of a couple of those 'days', the dinosaurs lived and died. It's not because God isn't capable of insta-universe in 6 days or whatever, just that I honestly think He took his time. After all, He has eternity to wait.
2006-07-06 21:07:12 · answer #4 · answered by Felix Q 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, God ordained the length of a day during the 6 days of creation. the evening and the morning were the first day. if you read the creation in the Bible you will see that the plants were made one day before the sun. if the days were a thousand years like some people believe then how could the plants survive??
2006-07-06 21:01:46 · answer #5 · answered by kermit324 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The length of a day is based on the rotation of the planet. What do you think it was based on when the creation story was written? Morning and Evening==one day.
Why would it say 'day' in the Bible if it meant something completely other than what humans mean by 'day'?
2006-07-06 20:57:30 · answer #6 · answered by mikayla_starstuff 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Science has totaly 'blown' literal creationism off the planet, God did it. I have no doubt about that! To an infinite intelligent being {God}, time and distance are meaningless,the motion of the "arrow of time'is a thermodynamic thing!..as is entropy, all things change and decay,if it didnt, the universe wouldnt work!,Energy is released by decay,eg..the sun! All this was planned over billions of years by the CREATOR we call GOD, even the universal chaos {colliding galaxys} is a planned thing..No no..it was no accident..God did it!
2006-07-06 21:11:21 · answer #7 · answered by paranthropus2001 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually our day is different than the original. We go from midnight to noon to midnight. God originally set a day as evening to morning (or night fall to daybreak to nightfall).
Also until the 4th day the sun didn't even exist, so no one knows except God how a day worked before that, I suppose like a light switch, It was light for so long and then dark for so long.
2006-07-06 21:01:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm glad someone else thinks the way that I do. I think the reason A lot of things in the bible are written the way they are, so that it is easier for us to understand. For all we know a day could have been millions of years. I mean, He is God, right? And who's to say that evolution didn't play a part in forming the earth? Maybe that's the method that God himself used to form it!?? Quite insightful if I must say so myself...
2006-07-06 20:57:53 · answer #9 · answered by Hard Head 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sorry but a day is a day in the bible or reallife according to the people back then. The sun goes up and then it goes down, that's a day. even if it's not the same length, a day in the bible is definitely not a couple hundred million years.
2006-07-06 21:13:31 · answer #10 · answered by kevin k 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋