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I believe God wants us to use his gifts, including the gift of reason. For example, God created the universe in six days. Taken literally that's 3,648 minutes. Perhaps the "day" in Genesis is allegorical.

So you believe that a period described as a "day," having a morning and evening means something besides a day?

What is the limit you see to God's abilities that would prevent him from creating the Universe in the allotted time?

What would the day represent in allegory, especially considering that it can't be an allegory for an evolutionary age, because plants exist before light and birds before land animals?

What does reason tell you about this: You're the Almighty. You've recently evolved lower creatures into one bearing your image and a very useful intellect. Do you:

A. Tell these creatures a story of the Earth they can fathom without science (so old you can't fathom it, seeds of life grow into greater and greater creatures, God carefully designs and places the heart and mind of Man, etc.)

B. Tell them a fairy tale about how you created the world in six days, and include items like plants existing before there was a sun, women resulting from orthopedic surgery and a talking snake?

I'm not as smart as God, but option A looks like the clear winner to me...unless option B is actually true. What's your take?

For many centuries revealed wisdom had it that the sun revolved around the earth.

Cite for me in the Bible where it states that the Sun revolves around the Earth.

Why are the Gnostic gospels not scripture? Did God tell you they are not his word?

Did God tell you they are? If not, why is the judgment of people in the early church somehow inferior to yours?

“So you believe that a period described as a “day,” having a morning and evening means something besides a day?

What is the limit you see to God’s abilities that would prevent him from creating the Universe in the allotted time?”

I always wondered why God took an entire day to create everything...Then I head the preacher suggest that He was establishing a pattern for Man who was about to be inhabiting a creation bound by the contraints of time.

God needed the mere instant for a thought (and that’s a God-thought, not a man’s thought) to bring about any and all He created