Now, I've heard many explanations of a “day” being the same as a thousand years to God, which I can accept. What I can't accept, is the lack of availability for photosynthesis for plant life, since sunlight wasn't available yet.
That biblical rendition of the order of creation isn't scientific at all, since plants requirements for sunlight/ photosynthesis is a pretty well researched subject in the scientific world. And then there's the wholesale fabrication of a female Eve being created from Adams rib, as almost an afterthought for Adam's companion.
Sorry, as someone who believes a rational God would follow his own laws of physics, I've concluded that the Genesis account is not only inaccurate, it''s completely flawed scientifically.
Plants have somehow managed to survive a night in my exposure.
“Now, I’ve heard many explanations of a “day” being the same as a thousand years to God, which I can accept. What I can’t accept, is the lack of availability for photosynthesis for plant life, since sunlight wasn’t available yet.”
1. Light created on the first day.
2. You are assuming that everything has always worked identically to how it works today. The creation account in Genesis sets up an order that changes after the fall of Adam and Eve.
“Sorry, as someone who believes a rational God would follow his own laws of physics”
1. Miracles stand outside the laws of physics.
2. God stands outside the laws of physics - nor is He limited by created laws, anymore than by any other part of creation.
“I’ve concluded that the Genesis account is not only inaccurate, it’s completely flawed scientifically.”
I always smile when a human who knows so little about so much has judged the Creator so thoroughly.
You may want to spend the days between Christmas and New Years Eve reading Job. There is a message there for you.
Perhaps you are just comfortable hiding behind a scientific shield?
Females have two "X" chromosomes. Males have one "X" chromosome. If you were capable of creating a different category of human being with a male being the starting point, just what do you suggest be done differently?
“Sorry, as someone who believes a rational God would follow his own laws of physics, I’ve concluded that the Genesis account is not only inaccurate, it’’s completely flawed scientifically.”
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“The realisation of Truth consists in the ability to translate symbols, whether natural or conventional, into their equivalents; and the root of all the errors of mankind consists in the inability to do this, and in maintaining that the symbol has nothing behind it.”
-Thomas Troward, ‘The Hidden Power’, 1921