(In case you want to know, this exponential rate of expansion has a specific number averaged at 10 to the 12th power. That is in fact the temperature of quark confinement, when matter freezes out of the energy: 10.9 times 10 to the 12th power Kelvin degrees divided by (or the ratio to) the temperature of the universe today, 2.73 degrees. That's the initial ratio which changes exponentially as the universe expands.)
* The second day, from the Bible's perspective lasted 24 hours. From our perspective it lasted half of the previous day, 3.6 billion years.
* The third day also lasted half of the previous day, 1.8 billion years.
* The fourth day - .89 billion years.
* The fifth day - .45 billion years.
* The sixth day - .23 billion years.
When you add up the Six Days, you get the age of the universe at 14.07 billion years. [Nearly} The same as modern cosmology. Is it by chance?
But there's more. The Bible goes out on a limb and tells you what happened on each of those days. Now you can take cosmology, paleontology, archaeology, and look at the history of the world, and see whether or not they match up day-by-day. And I'll give you a hint. They match up close enough to send chills up your spine.
I did read the current article.
My "issue" with his argument is
* The first of the Biblical days lasted 24 hours, viewed from the "beginning of time perspective." But the duration from our perspective was 7.1 billion years.
How did he arrive at this specific break point. The universe continues to expand and it's not like there was a momentary stop and restart.
when he writes:
lasted 24 hours, viewed from the "beginning of time perspective."
Is he taking what we measure as 24 hrs and looking from outside the expansion? I think I have a rudimentary understanding about how time is different from within the expansion because points are getting farther apart.
I appreciate anyone's thoughts. I would love to be able to explain this in basic terms to doubting friends. It seems plain as day to me that the creation of the universe is the greatest example we have of how nature reveals God to us.
Ping to my previous post.