02-05-2022, 12:39 AM
Thanks Torkel-
I am well aware of the points you made. That said, I am fascinated that modern science does offer support that very early Earth may have initially been a "waterworld", and that DRY LAND appeared later. Of course, there most certainly was land/harder surfaces under the oceans.
Genesis states that DRY LAND appeared later. It also states that life in the oceans came before appearing on land, which is correct. It is the order of those two things that I find so interesting. In the absence of modern science, those were pretty remarkable leaps.
As regards big bang theory, science has very little idea of what preceded it: nothing or perhaps quantum flucuations. It's very hard to prove what was happening in the absence of space/time as we now understand it, and almost becomes a matter of "scientific faith". "Let there be light" does seem to be a simple, elegant way of putting it.
I posted this piece in hopes that it would spur precisely the kind of comments that you offered. I do like stirring up the bees.
ps. Night and day obviously occur for the blind, so they don't have to be seen to be understood. Since the Bible is wide open to interpretaion, I "see" night and day as a cycle of one event to the next, with each cycle representing eons. I take almost none of the Bible literally.
I am well aware of the points you made. That said, I am fascinated that modern science does offer support that very early Earth may have initially been a "waterworld", and that DRY LAND appeared later. Of course, there most certainly was land/harder surfaces under the oceans.
Genesis states that DRY LAND appeared later. It also states that life in the oceans came before appearing on land, which is correct. It is the order of those two things that I find so interesting. In the absence of modern science, those were pretty remarkable leaps.
As regards big bang theory, science has very little idea of what preceded it: nothing or perhaps quantum flucuations. It's very hard to prove what was happening in the absence of space/time as we now understand it, and almost becomes a matter of "scientific faith". "Let there be light" does seem to be a simple, elegant way of putting it.
I posted this piece in hopes that it would spur precisely the kind of comments that you offered. I do like stirring up the bees.
ps. Night and day obviously occur for the blind, so they don't have to be seen to be understood. Since the Bible is wide open to interpretaion, I "see" night and day as a cycle of one event to the next, with each cycle representing eons. I take almost none of the Bible literally.