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To: Radix
You're giving up the pretext of honest debate, and now resort to snarky, negative remarks having no apparent connection to the exchange between you and me this evening.

You were told, by me, in my first reply to you in this thread, that the 1,000 year interpretation of "yom" does not work for the evolutionary time line. See for yourself:


To: Radix
Light from the sun, moon and stars was established over the course of the six days (or millennia, if you want to go with that meaning of "yom") in Creation, Radix.

So, attempting to interpret Biblical Creation as being specific solely to mankind, on Earth, doesn't quite hold up to either a literal or allegorical reading. The truth of God, even presented as allegory, is not ever going to prove ultimately to be a lie.

394 posted on 09/05/2009 8:56:43 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry

630 posted on 09/05/2009 10:08:48 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: RegulatorCountry
The speed of light is something on the order of 186 thousand miles per second.

Are we now arguing about time & space here?

OK, lets argue about time and space and the meaning of the word “day” as translated.

A “day’ is 24 hours long. An hour is 1/24 th of a day.

A day is the time that it requires the Earth to rotate on its axis.

If the Universe is also rotating on its axis then it stands to reason that a universal day is longer than an earth day but also that a day might not be quite as long (or short) as one might initially suppose. It is all relative.

We can talk about black holes and even white holes or perhaps something known somewhere possibly as ‘grey” holes. We could. I do not care about those things here.

I say that the text refers to something translated as a “day” and that the word for “day”s not at all limited to a period that is defined as limited to a 24 hour period.

That is where I get my understanding from. The Bible and the dictionary. You can get your know from sources else.

633 posted on 09/05/2009 10:27:08 PM PDT by Radix (Obama represents CHAINS for posterity.)
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