Sigh. As always, do you check into this stuff before you link to it? First comment on your first site:
1). Genesis 1: 11-19 According to this passage, plants appear on the THIRD DAY of creation although the sun is not made until the FOURTH! Now apart from the obvious problem this raises concerning photosynthesis, it actually raises an even bigger scientific dilemma involving the temperature of the planet at the time. With no sun to provide heat of any kind, I assume that the temperature of the atmosphere would be at or near Absolute Zero or –459 degrees Fahrenheit. Please explain what kinds of plants could hope to survive in those conditions.
Does this make sense with the first act of creation by God being “Let there be light” in Genesis? It doesn’t to me.
This fellow threw in all this nonsense about absolute zero and so forth without taking the Bible at its word that God created light, night and day, and so forth, first.
But, but, how could he create light without the sun? He’s God! If we humans can make light without the sun surely God can . . . It’s not a detailed description of creation, and if it was, do you think ancient Jews would have understood it or even have had the words to describe it? Do you think we could understand it today? I don’t.
(Q)But, but, how could he create light without the sun? He’s God!(/Q)
Sigh. The verse being quoted shows clearly that the events as portrayed in Genesis are in contradiction to what Science would tell us. I did vet them before posting. What is the source of visible light, and the engine that drives all life on Earth? The Sun. How could God make such a mistake? Did he make light and heat by some supernatural means, then say to Himself. “Hmm. I think I just figured out a BETTER way to make light and heat for the Earth - I’ll make a Sun powered by thermonuclear fusion!” Then, he magically wished away His Magical light and wished the Sun into existence. (What held the planets in place before the Sun was there? Or did they exist yet?) If God did decide to create a new kind of light (the Sun), then this proves He is fallible and not omnipotent, to wit; why didn’t He create the Sun in the first place? Also, if He is all-powerful (i.e., Omnipotent), then why did He have to rest on the seventh day? Science dispels with having to cop out with statements like “He’s God! He can do anything he wants!” Science demands an explanation for physical phenomena and does not resort to highly unrealistic supernatural explanations. Without the Sun the temperature on the Earth would fall to close to absolute zero. That is not nonsense, it is a provable fact. One would assume an omnipotent God would know His laws of physics better than, well, anybody, and create things in the Universe in the correct order. In Genesis, this does not happen. If Genesis is not a “detailed” description of Creation, then are the rest of the Scriptures the “detailed” Word of God? If they are only as accurate as Genesis, do you see the problem here? Why didn’t God, a perfect, omniscient, omnipotent being, create humanity so that we COULD understand his Word, and cause the Bible to be written in a way that we could not possibly misinterpret? Instead of designing us to fail?