Did God make our galaxy in 4 days?

Question

Here's my logic:
God made the stars on the 4th day
The galaxy is made up of stars
God made the galaxy in 4 days.

oh yeah, you're right. It took him one day, but it was on the 4th day

oh yeah, you're right. It took him one day, but it was on the 4th day

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Answer 1

No - He made it on the 4th day - as you quote from the Bible :) It didn't take Him 4 days - He did it on the 4th day :)

Answer 2

Well, time is a relative commodity as Einstein pointed out.

For example, if you are 18 and your 36 year old mother decides to take a trip around Alpha Centauri at just less than half the speed of light when she returns you are 38 and she is 37. That's a fact. It's been proven.

Now, the Bible says it took 6 days to get to man and on the 7th day God rested.

Dr. Carl Sagan, the late Cornell Cosmologist, said man was created on the first second of the first minute of the first hour of the last day of the first month on the comic calendar.

So Dr. Carl Sagan says the universe is not even 1 month old yet.

The Bible says 1 week.

If you do the math that BOTH work out to 15 billion years which the cosmologists and geoligists say things are.

1 second into 1 minute in the last day of the month = 1 second before the first minute of the 7th day of the week.

The time lines can be matched.

If Carl Sagan is right, then the Bible is right.

Answer 3

Sigh.

Sure, "God make our galaxy in 4 days." Now let's just define what we mean by "God," and what we mean by "days," and "galaxy," and even "make." Wow, it turns out that our brilliant statement is entirely meaningless.

Because either words mean something or they don't. The problem with talking about "God," in the first place, is that the term is fundamentally indefinable. To define is to limit, and all our traditional "definitions" of God are merely impressive adjectives with the idea of limit removed, i.e. "omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent." If the human mind could conceive of God, God would evidently be less than that mind, which destroys the definition. The ideas that people THINK they have about God almost always reduce to meaningless sentimentalism. God = Good x Infinity. Well, great, but what does that really mean? Basically, that it gives you a warm feeling to say it.

And that's just the problem with dragging God into the discussion! Anybody who's ever been involved in biblical exegesis is aware of the spectrum of connotations given to the term "day" to excuse the evidently impossible "literalist" interpretation. But if we're actually trying to be honest, we ought to be able to admit that the authors of the scriptural texts plainly meant that the entire "universe" was created in 6 days-as-we-know-them, and that science has proved them incorrect on the matter, as on so many others. It's not the fault of those authors; it's just that human knowledge has actually progressed in the last several thousand years.

Answer 4

Um no, God did not make our galaxy in 4 days, it probably took much much longer. Maybe dozens of billions of years. Remember, that one day for God is not one day on earth. He does not live in a place that spins on its axis necesarily, so one day for him can be as long as he wants it to be.

Answer 5

Maybe. Does the number really matter?

More interesting how it will end and what will happen to people. How about the elements being melted by a great heat?

Answer 6

No. The story is fiction. Read any modern text on astrophysics to learn how it actually happened.

Answer 7

Nothing compared to a good lay friend.

Answer 8

Not possible. Not probable.