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To: xzins

Your statistical example doesn't work, here's on reason why:

There are 358 yoms with an ordinal modifier that are considered 24hr days, so YECS claim the Genesis yoms are 24hr days. But 249 of those yoms are in the context of human activity. Genesis 1 speaks of divine activity, indicating diferent yoms (because God isn't bound by human time).

And quite obviously, as I posted, the ordinal modifer and "evening and morning" support this conclusion.

There's probably a half dozen examples like this that reveal that the YEC attempts to count yoms meaning this or that convienently ignore the whole picture.


171 posted on 06/01/2006 5:37:45 PM PDT by truthfinder9
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To: truthfinder9; P-Marlowe; Alamo-Girl; 1000 silverlings; Buggman; blue-duncan
Yes, my stats do hold because there isn't any hint of vast periods of time in this story.

The story's point is that God is "so" obviously God that He snaps His fingers and in a short week has an entire universe. Find me ANY hint in this story of sitting around drumming His fingers waiting millions of years for "let there be light" to finally finish baking in the oven. It ain't there.

Actually, the idea that God takes tens of billions of years to accomplish paints a particularly unusual type of God....in fact, no "God" at all.

More a putterer or a tinkerer type of God....A MIRACLE MAX of "The Princess Bride!"

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- A scientist was performing an experiment on the verbal reactions of fleas. He had trained a flea to jump on command. The scientist would command the flea, "Jump flea!" and the flea would jump. Then the scientist would proceed to pull off one of the fleas legs with a pair of tweezers and write a comment in his notebook.

The scientist did this many times until the flea had only one leg left. The scientist commanded, "Jump flea!" and the flea made its best effort to jump, which the scientist recorded in his notebook.

After he pulled off its last leg, the scientist again commanded the flea to jump, and after repeating the command many times without the flea responding he jotted down in his notebook, "After the flea loses all of its legs it becomes completely deaf."

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174 posted on 06/01/2006 5:48:50 PM PDT by xzins (Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It. Supporting our Troops Means Praying for them to Win!)
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