[Dustbunny]

The problem is you fundies, who want to force it to mean that the universe is 6000 years old, when the Bible itself is clear that such is not the case ("...and a night shall be as a thousand years...".

I am a 'fundie' but have NEVER believed that the universe was 6,000 years old. The Bible uses what we know as time that has passed, I have always been sure that GOD's time frame is much vaster. A second to him could be like a million years to us.

[metmom]

Thank you. It's amazing how people seem to have "fundies" or "creationists" all labelled and categorized and then object when someone seems to categorize evolutionists.

[Wonder Warthog]

"I am a 'fundie' but have NEVER believed that the universe was 6,000 years old. The Bible uses what we know as time that has passed, I have always been sure that GOD's time frame is much vaster. A second to him could be like a million years to us."

Sorry, but if that is what you believe--you are NOT a "fundie"---whose belief setting is the "language absolutist" idea that creation happened in seven 24-hour days. Once you depart from that language absolutism, you are in there with us "parable Biblicists", who believe that the Bible cannot be interpreted "exactly as written", but requires interpretation based on both Church tradition and our current "state of knowledge" about the universe.