[PatrickHenry]

I don't suppose it would interest Azimov or other evolutionists that the Bible tantalizingly alludes to man existing long before Adam and going extinct?

"Tantelizing allusions" just don't do the job. There are too many outright declarations in Genesis that don't stand up to scientific scrutiny.

[eabinga]

I stumbled across this the other day, could anyone comment on this?

Creation Paradox, 1

"And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day." (Genesis 1: 3-5)

"And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth." (Genesis 1:16-17)

Comment

God creates day and night on the first day and then makes the stars and the two great lights (sun and moon) on the fourth day (Genesis 1:19). How can you have day and night on the first day without a star? To have a day, there must exist a rotating planet and a sun. Genesis proves that God (or more accurately, the authors of Genesis) could not have known about the structure of the universe, or even the difference between stars and planets.

[nightdriver]

"Tantelizing allusions" just don't do the job. There are too many outright declarations in Genesis that don't stand up to scientific scrutiny.

Could you be a little more specific?