[UCANSEE2]

And God called the firmament Heaven.

Everything made sense until this last statement. It doesn't seem to be addressed, at least in the excerpt.

[Raycpa]

And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.

Before the fall, from the beginning, God established an orderly world. "Evening followed by morning" describes a creation of divine order, not random events. Other god's are capricious but the true God is a God of order, a God fully in control of His creation working in an orderly manner. Evolution requires that we reject an orderly God fully in control, and accept a God who creates from chaos. The repetition of "evening followed by morning" indicates such order and control that its one major reason it is impossible reconcile scripture to evolution.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

In the beginning Maxwell said let the divergence of the electric field be charge over permittivity. And there was light. And Maxwell saw that it was good, so he said, let the divergence of the magnetic field be zero and there was electro-magnetism and he separated the electric from the magnetic and thus did Maxwell work through four equations and when he came to the fifth equation, Maxwell rested and Lorentz begat his force law.

Then Michelson built unto himself a mighty inferometer, that he might know, “In what coordinate system do these laws hold forth?” But the inferometer answered not this question. And by this were Lorentz and Fitzgerald sorely vexed. Seeing this, Einstein said,”The LAW of MAXWELL shall be valid in any INERTIAL coordinate system”. And thus saith the fool in his heart “It’s all relative.”, knowing naught of what he speaketh.

Here endeth our reading from the book of Jackson.

[Raycpa]

The waters, are a metaphor for peoples, in the later scripture.

Genesis itself separates the peoples.

[Just mythoughts]

According to Peter there are 3 different heaven/earth ages. The heaven/earth age that WAS Peter's words, was destroyed, there was a flood. Which is what Genesis 1:2 has a flood, it is describing the total and complete destruction of every living creature.. dinos... (well except for the soul/spirit intellect as is described what made the Adam alive.) as also told by Jeremiah in chapter 4:22-31. This is when Satan rebelled as described in Isaiah 14:12- and Ezekiel 29:12-.

Peter says in IIPeter 3:5 For this they willingly are ignorant of,

that by the word of God the heavens were of OLD, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water:

6 Whereby the world that then WAS, being overflowed with water, perished:

7 BUT the heavens and the earth which are NOW, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

8 BUT beloved, be NOT ignorant of this one thing,

that one day is with the LORD as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

[Stymee]

Proverbs 8:22 onward and many other places imply a much older earth than 6,000 years. Also, the light in verse is from the sun though it was not visible as a heavenly body because the sky (the first heaven) was not visibly clear until verse 14. The point of reference is established in verse 2 as upon the face of the waters (earth’s surface). God’s days in Genesis chapter 1 are ages of time and do not contradict the speed of light, radioactive decay and other laws of physics established in the creation.