Creationists like to say that god created the world in seven days and therefore evolution is not possible, but how long is one day?
Lets assume that god did tell the writers ofthe bible that he/she/it created the world in seven days. How do they know how long one day is for god?
Did god say "i created the world in 7, 24 hr periods? How do we know how god measures one day?
2006-07-12 03:13:54 · 9 answers · asked by urbanbulldogge 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
An Earth day is about 24 hours. The idea that the Genesis day was much longer is called creative tampering. If the writer had meant a thousand years or a million years, he would have said so.
On the seventh day 'God' rested, so we have the Sabbath. If a day was a thousand years, we should have some really *long* weekends.
2006-07-12 03:17:36 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
With the Lord a day is as a thousand years and thousand are like a day. 2 Peter chapter 3
This is the big debate. 7-non-consecutive 24 hour days, or 7-non-24 hour days, or seven non-consecutive non-24 hour days. I could not say.
2006-07-12 10:23:52 · answer #2 · answered by Makemeaspark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hello dear!
Day is defined as one orbit of the Earth around the Sphere of Apollo, the Sun!
Regarding what the Jews and the evolving from Judaism religions accept is something written for some illiterate people! They could not comprehend anything more than this, thus Moses, the high priest of Egypt, wrote in simple words and created and implied a religion to the slaves to get them out of His country! As we already know and proved what he wrote are acceptable by illiterate people!
2006-07-13 12:46:27 · answer #3 · answered by soubassakis 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
actually the hebrew word which is translated to mean day can be translated to mean any period of time
this is done in genesis 2:4-7, which states man was created the same day that the heavens and the earth were
2006-07-12 10:18:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
24 hours
2006-07-12 10:19:21 · answer #5 · answered by Amelia E 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Specific Biblical time is irrelevant. Times are mentioned in a general sense. Forty days or forty years is used to indicate a very long time. Extreme ages indicate very, very old.
Jusus taught in parables -- perhaps he learned to do that from studying the Torah with his teachers.
2006-07-12 11:14:43 · answer #6 · answered by Hatikvah 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
a day is 23 hrs. 56 mins.
we round up to 24 hours
those extra 4 mins. each day somehow add up to another day every 4 years, and that is why we have leap day(February 29th)
hope i helped
2006-07-12 10:20:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It also says in the Bible that a day is as a thousand years.
2006-07-12 10:20:21 · answer #8 · answered by Ring Ring Ring Bananaphone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A day is 23hours, 56 minutes. It is the time it takes the earth to rotate around a point in space.
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(if my time is off please correct me)
2006-07-12 10:17:11 · answer #9 · answered by Bacchus 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋