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To: RaceBannon

>>Since when did GOd say a day or second
>>was anything other than a day or second?

Exactly - and that’s a significant crux in reconciling science with faith.

Some who hold a literal view of the Bible’s creation account insist that it was completed in 7 24 hour earth days. But as we see in Einstein’s special relativity - the progression of time is relative to the inertial frame(s) in which it is being observed.

>>Peter’s comment that a day is
>>like a thousand years

Completely reasonable that, relative to some other inertial frames in the universe, Peter’s statement is true.

As an inertial frame approaches the speed of light, the progression of time slows and a “second” would approach infinity.

It’s simply, beautifully, relative.


402 posted on 03/21/2009 11:43:55 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: LomanBill

For a photon, which travels at the speed of light, there is no time.


403 posted on 03/21/2009 11:53:57 PM PDT by Wacka
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To: LomanBill
Some who hold a literal view of the Bible’s creation account insist that it was completed in 7 24 hour earth days. But as we see in Einstein’s special relativity - the progression of time is relative to the inertial frame(s) in which it is being observed.

And somehow you think God incapable of translating the relative value to his audience? Heaven hath not the capacity to contain hubris such as on display here.....

404 posted on 03/22/2009 12:28:28 AM PDT by csense
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To: LomanBill
Not once did you refer to what God said to prove your point

you pointed to what man said

that clearly shows in your answers, you dont look to God for the source of your answers, you look to men for your source and use “God “ to verify what you end up believing

So, tell me, Was God lying when He said this?
Exodus 20: 9Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:

10But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:

11For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

God clearly and specifically said 6 days of Creation, while you can try to deny it, Here He clearly did.

So, tell me, Did God Lie?

412 posted on 03/22/2009 7:02:31 AM PDT by RaceBannon (We have sown the wind, but we will reap the whirlwind. NObama. Not my president.)
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