What do you think about god and the 7 days?

Question

The bible says god made the world in seven days..... un ntil he created man which really doesnt make any sense because we use science (applied knowledge) to discover evolution.....

Answer 1

This is a response to Omar, followed by a note to Damien --

You don't see any evolution???? Really?????

I have a suggestion. Have them infect you with TB -- the strain present in 2006 -- and then treat you with the drugs used effectively to treat TB in 1950.

WARNING You will die, whether you believe it or not -- because TB has evolved since 1950.

By the same token, where do you think SARS, HIV, Invasive Streph and Ebola came from? They all evolved out of other micro-organisms.

And as for humans -- you run right over to the geneticists and tell them that the gene strain that has emerged that is dominant and causes people to be born with six fingered hands doesn't exist and won't make everyone six fingered in 10 or 20 thousand years -- because evolution doesn't exist.

We are all transition species.

You are a transition species.

Evolution, as shown above, goes on every day.

Damien -- interesting post and I'm sure you meant well -- start with what is mentioned above, then read up on experiments done emulating conditions on early earth -- sorry to tell you this, but precursors to life (like amino acid chains) pop up spontaneously. There is some emerging consensus that there may be a natural paradigm toward life on rocky planets with water within the so called "green zone." What is certainly true is that under the correct conditions the building blocks of life emerge spontaneously. Once you know that those building blocks can emerge -- the rest is simply a matter of time. I have listed a website below that will give you a better understanding of evolutionary theory than you now have. I also suggest that to understand how the first cells came about -- you read "The Cell: Evolution of the First Organism" by Joseph Panno Ph.D.

Good luck to all of you.

Regards,

Reynolds Jones
http://www.rebuff.org
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Answer 2

Ever heard the joke about the man that talks to God and God tells him that in His eyes, a million dollars is a penny, and a million years is a second?

7 days could have been one heck of a long time, and God could have decided to make some slight modifications to his creations over those days. When have you ever build something and been completely satisfied with the way it looked after your first attempt? Almost always you go back and make it just a little bit better. That's my opinion on evolution vs. the 6 days of creation. Evolution doesn't contradict the Bible at all, people just vehemently assume that it does.

Answer 3

Depends if you take the Genesis account as a literal historical account or if you take it as a prose narrative or oral tradition which had been passed down which was meant to explain how the Jewish God did things differently than other creation myths of the time. I.E. Some have god or gods struggling with monsters to create the world, but the Biblical God merely speaks and it happens

Answer 4

He created the world in 6 days and rested on the 7th. The term day though doesn't necessarily mean 24 hours. The Bible is full of symbolism.

Answer 5

Evolution? Darwin? for thousands of years human are still the same, i see no evolution? did this evolution stop? how does your science prove that human were animals one day or even a germ as Darwin says??

Man are you looking deep? or just believe what you read or hear?
Send me an email with details please, about how human were monkeys, i want scientific facts, starting from cells.

Qur'an has it all. Allah the Creator is the only ONE that knows how everything started, and this is what He taught us though Qur'an. Read for God's sake.

Evolution..! lol

Answer 6

We did not discover evolution. If you knew anything about science you would know it is a theory.

I don't know where science and religion meet but I don't use the bible to find scientific proof.

Neither do I use science to find God.

But I use both for the purpose they were 'created' to discover life.

Answer 7

To God, there is no time. The seven days are a way to define time and explain things in order. In no way does Genesis mean that it was seven earthly days. God would have to be earth-bound to be bound to earthly time.

If you look closely at evolution, things evolved in the same order that they are listed in Genesis.

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Answer 8

I don't think it means 7 days as measured by humanity. Time is an illusion and is merely a tool of measurement for humanity to use in this world of relativity.

One day to God could be a hundred thousand earth years to us.

Answer 9

Six days God created the earth and all its fullness, man , animals etc, He rested on the seventh as an example to us.

Answer 10

6 days. They worshiped God on the Seventh.