[Just mythoughts]

Any fair reading of Genesis is consistent with the general state of knowledge of the world at the time it was written. Thus it assumed that the world’s creatures were created in the final form, which is clearly not the case.

Genesis was penned by Moses over a thousand years after the fact. So what we are told up until the life of Moses would have had to be 'given' knowledge. Genesis says there was 'In the beginning' but give no clue as to when this was, and then we are told that the earth became without form and void: and darkness was upon the face of the deep. Other Scriptures, by different writers say there was a big flood prior to that flood of Noah, wherein NO flesh was saved.

In order to narrow the debate, I find it helpful to ask the following questions: Do you believe that the earth is around 4,500,000,000 years old? If not, how old is it? Do you believe that the universe came into being about 12 to 14 billion years ago? If not, how old is the universe?

I believe this earth is filled with evidence that it is multiple of millions could even be billions of years old. I do not know the actual number and I do not believe that any man knows either. The Bible describes an 'age' that *WAS* prior to this flesh *age*. However, humans were NOT in a flesh body as were creatures (dinos) and plant life, of which fossil remains have been discovered down through the years.

Do you believe that the first life forms on earth were primitive one celled organisms? If not, what were the first organisms? How long after the earth was populated by one cell organisms did the first mutlicellular organisms arise? What sort of organisms were these?

Answer to first question is I do not believe there is evidence of any 'hot' steaming primordial bowl of soup wherein a single cell got 'hot and bothered' and either split or united with another cell to form the first stages of what is now called ascendancy or descendants. If this is what took place then there would still be 'hot' steaming bowls of soup with the same activity taking place.

Thanks for your indulgence.

[onguard]

Thanks for your replies.

I think that one thing that has bothered me about Genesis is why it did not have some basic information about the nature of things that was unknown at the time. It would have been quite compelling if it had said that the earth went around the sun, or that the speed of light was 186,000 miles/second (or whatever it was in cubits), and that the speed of light is constant for all observers. Or that e=mc2. Facts all known by our Creator, and which would have won over a lot of doubters as the centuries passed.