Evolutionist: How do you explain God creating the universe in seven days, even though "days" didn't exist yet?

Question

You can't. That's why we know God did it. Could you do that? Of course not. So much for your "theory", huh?

Answer 1

Man, you really got me there, church lady.

Answer 2

First, an aside to set up my answer. Remember when you were a kid ... or maybe you still are a kid, I don't know ...
And your mom says, "Take out the trash." But you're to busy playing a videogame or something, and you say, "In a minute, mom!"
Do you mean a literal minute, or are you speaking figuratively?
Figuratively, of course.

We have the same situation with Genesis. When the hewbrews left Egypt after 400 years, their culture had severely degraded. One of the consequences of the last couple hundred years of living in egypt was that they were not allowed to educated in almost any way. Even their understanding of years, and months were lost outside of the seasonal changes of the Nile River.

So as the hebrews are wandering through the desert, they start to wonder where it is that they came from. Moses writes a history for them.
You can refute this part if you want as hogwash, but that's up to you.
I think if God wanted to tell Moses exactly how everything was created, and how every law of the universe was enacted, He could have. However, the hebrews would not have been able to understand it at all.
Instead, God gave Moses a brief story that they people could understand - and here is the important part - the word used for 'day' in hebrew in this part of Genesis can, obviously, be used and translated into 'day.' But it can also refer to an unaccounted for expanse of time.
Kind of like when you tell your mom "In a minute."
Did you really mean minute? No, you meant a relatively short period of time.
Does the bible mean a literal day?
In my opinion, and many biblical linguest's opinions, no. It does not.

So the universe was created. Was exactly the way that Genesis says? No. Of course not.
Was it meant to be a literal science book?
No, of course not.
It was meant to give a people a brief account of their history and lineage that they could understand.
It's a metaphorical story, not a scientific text book.

Answer 3

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'Days' did not exist????? Don't know if you Christians READ something (other than your Holy Bible), but it's been proved long long time ago that PLANETS WHILR AROUND THE SUN, and that that very fact, causes DAY and NIGHT to occur. IT'S THEREFORE OBVIOUS, that since the very first instant, a tiny mass of dust and other components began to WHIRL around the SUN slowly getting bigger and becoming so the new planet-to-be, LIGHT went constantly on/off on its surface;) the concept of DAY, therefore (meant as the bright temporal space between two perdiods of GLOOM) HAS ALWAYS EXISTED since the SUN came into being.

You must really REALLY have the education and the brain of a chicken to believe that a white-bearded guy, 'created' the the Universe in 7 days;) I wonder...are there any schools, libraries, bookstores, TVs where you live?;) if there were, you'd know that the Universe 'DEVELOPED' through a process started billions and billions and billions and billions of years ago.

Answer 4

Believing in Evolution conflicts with God creating the universe in seven days. That is like asking Popeye if he exists or not.

The proof is there, the earth is much older than the minds that created the bible could comprehend.

Answer 5

God only created the earth in seven days if you believe he did there is no actual proof that the earth was created in seven days!!! Arrogance reigns supreme in the christian camp yet again. We simply dont believe what you do!

Answer 6

Yeah! I get it. It's so logical. I've never heard anyone explain it that way before. It's all so clear to me now. Oh wait! Aren't you the one who thinks that Chinese people are Satanists? Yeah...
Let me see if I've got your logic down right. You're a Christian. Right? You say incredibly ignorant things. Right? Therefore all
Christians are stupid. Right?
Thankfully it's not true...I mean the part about Christians being stupid, not what I said before that.

Answer 7

yeah so much for the millions of fossils that have been discovered and dated to 56 million years old.

and so much for the million fact backed with over whelming none-creatable proof!!!

so much for a book that's full of **** and your life revolves around it...dumb Ars!!!

it tkes like 500 billion years just to get one molecule as a solid substanse so the earth is likly to 6787688623432 billion billion years old!!!

Answer 8

They have never explained how a short-neck giraffe didn't starve before becoming a long-necked one.

The more I study evolution the more I believe it is a miracle for it to happen the way they said it did.

So, you can see evolution is a miracle but without G*d. They be as stubborn as can be the atheist.

Answer 9

Mr. Church Lady,

You gotta rise outta me.

Answer 10

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