“The evidence from studying the Earth testifies to its great
age.
But what is time to God? Just another of his inventions. 7 days to one observer can be 4 billion years to another observer.”
Then how can you accuse God of lying as you did in post 25?
For your consideration....
The Age of the Universe by Dr. Gerald Schroeder
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1576941/posts
God doesn’t lie. That’s why the literal interpretation of Genesis is wrong.
"Gerald Schroeder's scheme for matching up the days of Genesis doesn't work. He has to invent the idea that "waters above the heavens" is when the Milky Way formed, but the earth wasn't even around at the time so the text is pretty meaningless if his interpretation is correct.
Also, he says that "let there be light" on Day 1 is when the cosmic background radiation thermally separated from the primordial plasma. However, the problem with that is the Bible describes the period before that event as having darkness on the surface of the earth's waters, whereas the primordial plasma was intensely bright before the light decoupled thermally from it.
Just because the light had a very short mean free path (wasn't yet statistically decoupled) doesn't mean that it wasn't there. The light in the primordial plasma was many times brighter than under a noon day sun on Earth today.
So again, if Schroeder's interpretation is correct, then the Bible text makes no sense. Bottom line: he is really stretching to make his scheme work."
God bless!
Phil Metzger (NASA Scientist (Physics) who is also a Christian)