I am criticized for this take on scripture ...
God did his creation in six days and on the 7th he rested.
Days are defined as a complete revolution of the planet earth. Conceivable is that during the creation God didn’t start the earth spinning as we have it today until end of the sixth day. So if earth was almost stationary for six days those six days could have been centuries by today’s timing.
Whatcha think?
I think that the Bible makes for very good theology but very bad science.
Well, I’m not seeing what advantage that theory has over the “gap theory” (which already has its own disadvantages).
For one, there’s just the basic problems that come along with a non-rotating (or slowly rotating planet). The temperature variations between one side of the planet and the other would be extreme, and probably neither side would be very hospitable to life.
The other problem is, it doesn’t actually answer any of the objections that materialist scientists have with the Genesis account. In Genesis, man isn’t created until the sixth day, and the expulsion from the garden and the real beginning of human civilization on earth is after the seventh day. So you can stretch Genesis 1 out for thousands of years, or millions of years, but you’d still have a story that says man arrives about 5 or 6 thousand years ago, while scientists say man (just modern homo sapiens) has been around at least 100,000 years.
My take is a bit different. Mainly based on observing what Scripture requires.
Of living things Genesis requires that all were made before the woman. Not before the man because we are told that the Lord fashioned certain examples from the dust and presented these to the man to see what he would call them, and then after these was the woman made.
Of physical creation itself though there is a potential issue with the fact we use translated into English rather than transliterated, for, IIRC, the word used repeatedly as “create” is really to prepare. That leaves room for the earth being prepared from material on hand created at some point previous to Genesis 1:1 which itself is before the first day (the first day had both evening and morning). That means His saying “Let light be.” may be akin to His calling the dawn to say, as we might, it’s showtime!
Which is to say that Genesis 1:1 may capture the moment of the beginning of a new official epoch. This is not unprecedented in Scripture. The flood marks one age to the next. The giving of the Law may, but certainly the Cross marks a changing of times. And of course the MK will be different from this age and the New Heaven and Earth different from that.
So what Genesis requires is that, at a minimum, the Lord prepared this world, altering its conditions to specifically suit the life He was placing on it (said conditions specifically including any adjustments to that star and moon). We are not told about the beginning of the zero day before the first day, if He had immediately made all physical existence at that moment before He was hovering over the waters or if it was simply a day of no specific significance until He started history.
So if by Young Earth Creationism one means the story of the creation of life on this 3rd Rock then that is vital, but if you seek to demand more and address physical existence itself ... well that is superfluous to what we’ve actually been told.
The plants were created and put in place on the third day, but the sun and the moon not until the fourth. How many centuries was that?
LOL. No wonder you’re criticized for your take on Scripture.
With the way the sun distributes energy, the earth not spinning would be pretty crispy on one side after only a few days. A God who could create the world as we know it out of nothing by speaking doesn’t need any extra control of time.
Then the 6 days of creation could be figurative or literal, but how does that make a difference in how much He has proven He loves us?
And the same God could have suspended the natural law of water seeking its own level, but why would He?
Not a feasible proposition, since one side of the earth would be roasted. instead, I propose that perhaps when man sinned then death began, and so affected the basis for determining organic decay that even a 3-month old rock would test to be millions of years old.
Then there is speculation on Redshift are regards starlight.
>>George wrote, “God did his creation in six days and on the 7th he rested. Days are defined as a complete revolution of the planet earth. Conceivable is that during the creation God didn’t start the earth spinning as we have it today until end of the sixth day. So if earth was almost stationary for six days those six days could have been centuries by today’s timing. Whatcha think?”
All things are possible; but how would you fit in evenings and mornings?
Mr. Kalamata
Another translation of “day” is “era”. As in “back in the day of the dinosaurs...”.
And the Sun wasn’t created until the third(?) day.
God is the Creator. The Genesis account is a story about that - it isn’t a science text. Although imho it sure comes closer than what we think we know than a lot of other creation stories.
“Let their be light”.
But this is before the stars and the sun were created. I think the “light” is energy. And then, using E=mc2, we get the mass from that energy.
I’m not a young-earth creationist though.