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Many Christians have a hard time with the theory of evolution and the fact that the Universe was formed 13.7 billion years ago. What if you were to incorporate the theory of relativity into this. Think about this. God created the heavens and the earth in 6 days according to the bible. Maybe those six days were only relative to God and not the rest of the universe because God, being the supreme being, is traveling near the speed light. So to him he created animals and humans in mere seconds, but on earth these events happened over billions of years.

Does this make sense?

2007-01-05 07:48:05 · 13 answers · asked by E 5 in Science & Mathematics Physics

"Many Christians" is only from my experience growing up in a Christian family in the USA. I know this is not representative of the entire Christian population everywhere on earth.

2007-01-05 08:02:49 · update #1

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That's a pretty nifty theory. It does make sense but raises more issues aside from those already mentioned. That line of thinking implies that god is moving with some velocity (and if this is still day 7, that he is changing velocity) with respect to the earth. Due to relativistic length contraction, god is pretty tiny, by my rough estimation smaller than any massive particles in the universe.

If one cares to proceed with this line of thinking, I suspect one would conclude that god cannot be detected in any way.


Aside from this interesting logical excercise, science is a very useful tool for exploring the world around us. Religious faith is a wonderful tool for motivating people to live honest and righteous lives. Using the wrong tool leads to folly; nor do tools need to explain each other. Let's not overtax the two great inventions we have by misapplying them. We may end up breaking both.

2007-01-05 09:55:44 · answer #1 · answered by prime078 2 · 0 0

Attempts to justify biblical history via scientific means have never been successful, and probably never will be. General relativity isn't the answer here.
The only way to be a scientist and also a Christian is to view the bible as allegory. 6 days can't really mean 6 rotations of the earth or 6 24-hour periods (in any relativistic frame of reference). It has to stand for a much longer period of time. All of the characters and events in Genesis (and most of the bible) didn't really happen--they are just stories that are in some more abstract way representative of a deeper truth.

2007-01-05 08:18:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2 0

Yeah, I always thought that. Just because the bible says six days does not have to mean literally 24 hour days. What if a day to him is a millenium? And I do also beleive the Bible and evolution can coexist. I believe God created something that evolved into everything living thing we have today. Evolution is very apparent in the animals we observe everyday, and even in humans. How do bacteria become immune to certain antibiotics... they must evolve and become resistant to it. Evolution does not happen very quickly, but eventually natural selection leads to every bacteria have resistance against certain antibiotics.

2007-01-05 08:07:12 · answer #3 · answered by gravytrain036 5 · 0 0

right here is what one professor reported: "all of us understand intuitively that Darwinism can accomplish some issues, yet no longer others. The question is what's that boundary? Does the ideas content in residing issues exceed that boundary? Darwinists have on no account confronted those questions. they have on no account asked scientifically, can random mutation and organic decision generate the ideas content in residing issues." Dr. Michael Egnor professor of neurosurgery and pediatrics at State college of ny, Stony Brook Secondly, the thought of Abiogenesis, which evolution sits atop of and is the commencing factor of evolution isn't a medical concept in any respect, yet a hypothesis. there is plenty complexity that Michael Denton, Biochemistry PhD reported: “The complexity of the least perplexing properly-known type of cellular is so great that it is impossible to settle for that such an merchandise would have been thrown mutually suddenly via some form of freakish, quite unbelievable, adventure. Such an prevalence could be indistinguishable from a miracle.” So in spite of the reported uncomplicated differences considered in evolution, which bigger it to concept status, the plenty better undertaking is beginning of existence. The information factors to a miles better Intelligence. the least perplexing microbe interior the international grew to become into modeled via scientists and it required 128 desktops working concurrently for 9-10 hours, with precise ideas programmed into the desktops, so as to hold forth one occasion of cellular branch. and you think the hypothesis that this befell via random probability? for this reason scientists don't have a medical concept for Abiogenesis. So once you're explaining in great element pertaining to to the physique of awareness backing up evolution, do no longer overlook pertaining to to the physique of information that's no longer there, backing up Abiogenesis.

2016-10-06 12:06:25 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

That's is a unique theory. Consider this. It says God rested on the 7th day, but there is no mention of an 8th day. I believe that is because this is still day 7. That should give us an idea of how long those "days" really are. I believe you are right that time is different for God than it is for us.

2007-01-05 08:00:59 · answer #5 · answered by out of the grey 4 · 3 0

I ask ones a God believer about Darwin, and his answer was I don’t know about Darwin but it looks to me that we are going to be monkeys.
The world and the sun was made around the 4th day, from that point it is possible to say that one day is 24 hours long, but the days before that it is possible that it was les then 24 hours or more 30 hours a day or 30 trilliums of hours.

2007-01-05 11:09:58 · answer #6 · answered by Al Baur 1 · 0 0

There exists strong evidence to support both general relativity and evolution.
There is no evidence to support the existence of any super natural beings including Zeus, Odin, or God.

2007-01-05 13:57:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Distorting the truth to fit the preconceptions of reigious bigots is what got us into all that trouble in the Dark Ages. Lets not do it again, eh. Lets put religion behind us, where it belongs.

2007-01-05 07:59:07 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

Many Christians?
I don't think so. It is popular idea to keep the going around but I don't believe it is true.
I do know how ever if you dare say evolution is a theory evolutional fundamentalist will become unhinged.

2007-01-05 07:54:52 · answer #9 · answered by Max50 7 · 0 1

No. Relativity has to do with objects in motion or warps in space (such as gravity); it doesn't work in the way you are talking about.

2007-01-05 09:13:16 · answer #10 · answered by The Doctor 7 · 0 0

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