Or should I have said ill-conceived. Look at how much mental gymnastics you must do in order for the Bible to conform to your viewpoint. It staggers the imagination and leads me to believe that you are not at all sincere in your postings and belief in the God of the Bible.
Good Day, Sir!
This is the only "assumption" I make:
- Use a meaning of the word yom that is entirely consistent with the word as used elsewhere in the Bible.
Here is just a teeny-tiny partial list of the assumptions that you have to make:
- Explain how light from galaxies billions of light years away reached the earth in 6,000 years.
- Explain how radiometric data shows the earth to be approximately 4.5 billion years old.
- Explain the red shift in an expanding universe
- If all sedimentary deposits were all laid down in the flood, why do primitive species appear at the bottom of sedimentary layers while more advanced species appear at the top? If these layers were laid down at once during the flood, we would expect to find mammoth bones in the same layers as ammonites. We don't.
- Explain deuterium abundance in the universe
- Explain the multiple reversals of the earth's magnetic pole as preserved in lava layers
- Explain the depth of carbonite deposits (the brilliant Dr. Walt is way out of his league)
- Explain Supernova 1987A
- Explain ice cores in Greenland showing 150,000 annual layers and ice cores in Antarctica showing more than 400,000 layers
- Explain element abundance in the universe given the lifetime of stars which can be determined from their spectrum
Like I said, you have to go through a lot more mental gymnastics than I do.
Tell me again the extent of your science education and career?
Good day, Sir! And a big ol' salute!
Too bad Einstein and his science has not been studied and built upon the way so many studying evolution have built upon Darwin. No, wait, I take that back considering how much evolutionary science is fraudulent and over-reaching. I would hate to see Einstein’s work mis-treated so.
You could have many of your questions answered if you would open your mind and read the many and varied creation scientists (with impressive credentials I might add). Einstein paved the way for explaining how the universe appears to be much older than it is. Gravitational Time Dilation simply shows greater and greater time stretching discrepancies when spanned over greater and greater distances.
I do believe there is a reason for the separate Biblical genealogies in the new testament too, showing how both Mary and Joseph had royal lineage. Other discrepancies may be explained as we get closer to His return but I’ll also point out that Revelation 22:18-19 warns against tampering with God’s Word. My thinking is simply that God would not need to provide this warning if mankind would never have tampered with any of His Holy Word.
Lastly, your science is not as airtight as you seem to think. Maybe you should re-examine all the times throughout history when science scoffed at the Bible and then later had to re-cant their high and mighty scientific conclusions. Assumptions are such an easy thing to overlook when most of the scientific community agrees with one another.
Whenever science disagrees with the plain and simple words of the Bible, I’ll take the Bible in every instance. My prayer is that many more ‘professing christians’ would take comfort and find wisdom and knowledge in doing the same.