[MHGinTN]

From God's perspective at the Big Bang, there have elapsed only six days ... we're into the seventh. Because of the stretching of spacetime, 15.75 years have passed in those six days, if the universe is viewed from our position. If you would like an excellent explanation of this concept, youtube Gerald Schroeder and Age of the Universe. Segments four and five are the most intense, best to watch first. Enjoy:

Part four http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAdDwLXO4Xg

Part five http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17zJhnWJOOU&feature=related

[Matchett-PI]

“Gerald Schroeder’s scheme for matching up the days of Genesis doesn’t work. He has to invent the idea that “waters above the heavens” is when the Milky Way formed, but the earth wasn’t even around at the time so the text is pretty meaningless if his interpretation is correct.

Also, he says that “let there be light” on Day 1 is when the cosmic background radiation thermally separated from the primordial plasma. However, the problem with that is the Bible describes the period before that event as having darkness on the surface of the earth’s waters, whereas the primordial plasma was intensely bright before the light decoupled thermally from it.

Just because the light had a very short mean free path (wasn’t yet statistically decoupled) doesn’t mean that it wasn’t there. The light in the primordial plasma was many times brighter than under a noon day sun on Earth today.

So again, if Schroeder’s interpretation is correct, then the Bible text makes no sense. Bottom line: he is really stretching to make his scheme work.” ~ Phil Metzger

[MHGinTN]

Hmmm, that should read ‘15.75 billion years have passed’ ...and in Schroeder’s explanation it was at the end of the inflationary period that ‘time grabs hold’ and we read ‘morning and evening, day one’.