"Day" in terms of the creation of the universe was never meant to be taken literally. People of faith also believe that the mysteries of God cannot be comprehended by man and that we need to put things into a perspective that we can understand and the "days" of the creation of the universe are just one example.
Howie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Todd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, March 12, 2002 11:19 AM Subject: Re: Evolution and Education > > Some Jewish explanations: > > > > I've heard one explanation that a "day" back then was not the same as a > > "day" now -- i.e. a day could have been thousands or millions of years. > > Well, if each day = 716,000,000 years, then after 6 days, you roughly get > the 4.3 billion years that scientists say the Earth has been floating > around. That come 1/2 way to evolution :) > > Or .. say a day is 500 billion-trillian years .. maybe the 6 days aren't up > and God is still doing some tweaking ;) > > The convenient thing about all of this is, if you have a theory that can't > be proven, you can make up whatever "rules" you need to support that theory > as the need arises. > > I've also heard of creationists that reject the "day is longer than a day" > theory, insisting that 6 days really does = 144 hours. I don't know what > rules they have come up with to rationalize that, but they would be > interesting to hear. > > Todd ______________________________________________________________________ Macromedia ColdFusion 5 Training from the Source Step by Step ColdFusion http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0201758474/houseoffusion Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
