[Tenacious 1]

“And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.” Genesis 1:2

That's the problem with Genesis. It's way short on details. I'll bet God used icy comets and other debris to fill the oceans. Same with light. Genesis should have been more specific about using a nuclear reaction to get the sun going to light the earth. And the whole 7 days thing? How long is one of God's days? I mean, for our God who has been, is and always will be in eternity, does he/she really keep a calendar based on how often our tiny world spins on its axis? You think he celebrates his own birth day?

Just some thoughts to ponder. We are such simple creations of our God. But the complexities of God's simple tasks are beyond our comprehension.

[12th_Monkey]

I agree, seems from the verse water was their already. I really have no problem with the comet seeding the Earth with water, it’s plausible.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

And the whole 7 days thing? How long is one of God's days?

Inherit The Wind
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Drummond: That first day, what do you think, it was 24 hours long?

Brady: [The] Bible says it was a day.

Drummond: Well, there was no sun out. How do you know how long it was?

Brady: The Bible says it was a day!

Drummond: Well, was it a normal day, a literal day, 24 hour day?

Brady: I don't know.

Drummond: What do you think?

Brady: I do not think about things that I do not think about.

Drummond: Do you ever think about things that you do thing about?! Isn't it possible that it could have been 25 hours? There's no way to measure it; no way to tell. Could it have been 25 hours?!

Brady: It's possible.

Drummond: Then you interpret that the first day as recorded in the Book of Genesis could've been a day of indeterminate length.

Brady: I mean to state that it is not necessarily a 24 hour day.

Drummond: It could've been 30 hours, could've been a week, could've been a month,  could've been a year, could've been a hundred years, or it could've been 10 million years!!

An excellent book on this very subject, Genesis and the Big Bang is worth the read.

[UCANSEE2]

Ponder I will.

That's the problem with Genesis. It's way short on details.

Even though some try to use it as one, the story in Genesis was never meant to be a scientific treatise.

I'll bet God used icy comets and other debris to fill the oceans.

One wonders how much water that would require. Here's a picture.

Same with light. Genesis should have been more specific about using a nuclear reaction to get the sun going to light the earth.

Then again, the audience that Genesis was written for were not nuclear physicists.

And the whole 7 days thing? How long is one of God's days? I mean, for our God who has been, is and always will be in eternity, does he/she really keep a calendar based on how often our tiny world spins on its axis? You think he celebrates his own birth day?

"Jews wrote the old testament, and if there's one thing that Jews are good at, it's bullshit."