"In fact, there are numerous usages in the Bible that this phrase, or variants of it, refers to continuous processes or activities. Exodus 18:13..."
18:13 "The next day Moses sat down to judge the people, and they stood around Moses from morning until evening."
Yea, Moses stood there for 100 million years!
24:3 "Aaron is to tend it regularly from evening until morning before the Lord outside the veil of the testimony in the tent of meeting."
Oh, it gets better! Aaron is to tend to the lamp for countless eons!!!
8:14 "He said to me, "For 2,300 evenings and mornings; then the sanctuary will be restored."
This one REALLY undoes you! The writer is refering to a long period - Six years and a hundred ten days - and does so not by some vague reference to "mornings and evenings" but by precisely counting the number of days in the long period.
Thanks for the laugh friend! - I really though you folks might have a point hidden in your argument somewhere. But now I see it's all bluster. Really, don't you have anything better than this??? I'd love to hear it.
You may choose to believe in an old earth if you want to but know this - you have no basis in Scripture for doing so.
"Young-earthism is perhaps the best example of the scandel of the evangelical mind."
Don't like scandals? Their integral to your faith!
"For the word of the cross is folly to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God. For it is written,
"I will destroy the wisdom of the wise,
and the discernment of the discerning I will thwart."
[Yea, Moses stood there for 100 million years!]
Your childish responses reveal your intellect on this subject. All of these verses refer to time periods other than 24 hour days. But you can't grasp that because, as a fundamentalist, you already have the answers. And you wonder why I have to be stern with you. It's like talking to a kid.
[This one REALLY undoes you! The writer is refering to a long period ]
Let's see here, you admit that this is an example of "mornings and evenings" meaning long periods, but it undoes me? How does that logic work?
Young-earthism is nothing more than a superficial, non-literal interpretation that is contradictory and ignores context. With logic like yours above, no wonder Darwin Fundies use it to claim Christianity is false.