In the beginning God made the universe in 6 days. Do you agree?

Question

The seventh day was for worship and rest.
This to my mind is totally preposterous considering the science that says that it has more or less taken billions of years, even up to the date of the Bible writings.

Answer 1

No I don't believe it, b/c I'm not dumb.

Answer 2

According to a Bible Concordance that I read years ago, part of the problem is that the word "day" in the first chapter of Genesis is an incorrect translation of the original manuscript which should have been translated as "heptad," or seven time periods. But how long were these time periods? The translators working on The King James Version decided that since there were seven days in a week, it probably was a day. But now with the work of geologists, we know that those time periods had to be much, much longer; a fact that fundamentalists refuse to accept because they believe in the infailability of the Bible.

Answer 3

First, if I said "the day of steam" or "the day of the mobile phone" would you think I was talking about literal "days", or periods of (undefined span) time? I hope you would think the latter.
Right, so when the bible says creation took seven days, it also does not mean literal days.
In this context could not a creation day actually be millions/billions of years?
This does not actually disprove evolution within certain limits, as species are evolving all the time. Look at the difference between cave man, and modern man.
This does not mean however that man came from monkeys.
On the fifth day God created animal (including monkeys etc, but not necessarily all together)
On the sixth day He created man.

On the seventh day he rested.

Before you ridicule this answer, just think and meditate on it.

Answer 4

Yes BUT. God created the earth and universe in what HE calls six days. Those days were not our 24 hour days. In Genesis we first see the earth, barren and covered with a great depth of water, having been there for some unknown period of time. Then the first thing created is a light source. It is not the sun. The days and nights are measured by this unknown light source (sun not created until the fourth day). Then like a baby in the mother's womb and the process it takes to go from there to adulthood, so the earth was surrounded by water and the process of creation began. The vegetation sprouted. Trees, grass, herbs, etc. all sprouted. Process. This creation process is divided by God into what He calls six "days". There were long processes and instantaneous creations in that process. Man did not know anything about the length of days until he was created, and he began to use the sun to base his days on. Man had no clue that the days God said He created the world in, were different. Before man, there was only God's perspective. Now with man there is only man's perspective here on earth. So the assumption that God created the world in 24 hours of our days is a gross misunderstanding which leads to the error of some saying the earth is only 6,000 years or so old.
No one can know exactly how long God's days were, but we can estimate that those days were very long.
Even Augustine realized the truth of this and called God's creation days "special days".

Answer 5

Earth's age is based on several things:

1) dating meteorites. When we find a meteorite from this solar system that has a similar composition to earth, you get many young ages, but the oldest and most common date to 4.6 Ga (billion years).

2) isotope trends. When you look at certain radiogenic isotope ratios that change with time, like Rb/Sr or U/Pb, you find that many rocks with differnt ratios of many ages form a line, and the line traces back to an origin of 4.6 Ga as well.

The oldest life is 3 1/2 Ga, the oldest rock is about 4 Ga, and the oldest date ever found is on the highly durable mineral Zircon from Australia, it's date is 4.2 Ga. So, there is no direct method, it is based on inferences. However, many different inferences lead to the same number 4.559 Ga (to be specific).

You would have to throw out everything we know and love about Geology to accept a young earth view. When you look at the Grand Canyon, how can you say that only took 6000 years to form? Any timeframe that is not 4.6 Ga is based on faith only.

Answer 6

It's total horse hockey. And what's worse it the creationist nut jobs in America are making advances in getting this nonsense added to school curriculums. In some parts of the USA creationism as stated in the Bible is taught as SCIENCE in classroom science lessons, and Science text books have a sticker slapped in them saying 'Evolution is a theory, and not a proven scientific fact.' It's shocking that people in such an advanced country can have such simple minded ideas - like little children that have no power of critical thinking. They also believe that the world is only like 6,000 years old, and fossils and so forth are either God testing our faith, or the Devil trying to trick us. Good grief! Even G.W. Bush buys this crap. Holy Cow.

Answer 7

Here we we go again, when someone knows bugger all about science they copy and paste half the bible or half the Koran.
I have just been watching a DVD of an excellent BBC documentary series called "Earth Story" I wonder if it was ever broadcast in USA? If you were to watch that and not be convinced about how the earth works, how it was formed and why geologists believe the age of the earth is millions of years old, then I am afraid nothing would.

Answer 8

God does not measure his days in 24 hours. You can't only read one scripture out the bible and say you don't understand. Continue you might want to start w/Romans 10:9 and 10. Scientist are men who live and die, and live by theories. God is Creator of the heavens and earth and also those scientists. Don't just take small fragments of anything, do a little research.

Answer 9

Honestly, science is constantly contradicting the bible. I am to the point that I believe that God exists but I am skeptical of the entire Bible. Some people believe that a day to God may be a lot longer than a day to us. I am a logical person, so it either makes sense or it doesn't.

Answer 10

I must say that I think that religion's version of how things came to be is a little inadequate, and that's being polite. According to Christianity, the world has existed for about 9000 years, but there is scientific proof that the Earth is some 4.6 billion years old. That's a pretty big margin of error.

Answer 11

Of course the Bible was written thousands of years ago and may have been written in a more simple style to make it easier for the mostly uneducated population to understand. And there may have been a time when a "day" had a different meaning or different length. I do agree that "God" created the universe and everything in it - there really isn't any other rational explanation for how everything came into being.