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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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To: Radix
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.

And you'd have the Biblical days of Creation, six of them in series and presented as such in the original, Hebrew context, with wildy divergent lengths, most of which have to constitute hundreds of millions of years, but the one with Adam being, what was it you claimed, 7,000 years, in order to accomodate evolution?

It's just bizarre, as I've mentioned before.

And, you apparently don't realize the significance of the term "deep time" in relation to evolution. I used it in the same context that the originator of the term, James Hutton, used it. He referred to geological time. Look it up.

636 posted on 09/05/2009 10:40:56 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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