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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
You do not have to be a scientist to know that evening and morning equals one literal day.

Perhaps but you might have to be a linguist to know that the translation you quote is not necessarily the proper one. For instance, if you read the Hebrew words as order and disorder rather than as morning and evening then "one literal day" is not really an issue. The most important part of Genesis is Genesis 1:1, "In the beginning, God created heaven and earth." That says it all right there. Indeed, science has affirmed that there was a creation event, something the non believers held fast against until the evidence became pretty solid. Albert Einstein was a hold out despite the fact that his field equations pointed directly to that fact.

If Chapter one of book one is not true, then none of it is true.

Why set yourself up to have a crisis of faith. God created the Universe. How He did it is not really very important. But my God, and I am a Catholic, is not a deistic god, he after all sent us His only Son for our salvation.

The scientists could create life from meatballs in the lab tomorrow and it wouldn't affect my faith a wit. They could genetically engineer eukaryotes into chimpanzees in the lab and it wouldn't touch my faith.

We can not know God's plan because we are not God. But we can have faith that God's plan is the plan.

225 posted on 11/07/2005 1:52:20 PM PST by jwalsh07
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To: jwalsh07
It's not a crisis for me. I believe the Bible. It says God made the earth in 6 days and rested on the seventh. I was just pointing out that if evolution is true, then the Bible is false to claim God made the earth in six days and then rested on the seventh.

Ex 20:11 -
For in six days the Lord made the heavens and the earth, the sea, and all that is in them, and rested the seventh day. Therefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it.

238 posted on 11/07/2005 2:00:23 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a disgrace to any people. Ps. 14:34)
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