Proof of evolution

[appolose]

akuma587 said:

appolose said:

 

I agree that the idea of God (in general) does not in any way lend itself to the ideas of either evolution or the Big Bang theory.

Yes, nothing (immediately) bars God from creating an apparently old universe; however, the theology I hold about the idea of God does.  My belief of God is that God inspired all of the writings of the Bible, that God is never wrong  and never lies, and that the Bible claims the Earth is 6000 years old, and, therefore, I am forced to conclude that both evolution (at least, historically speaking) and the Big Bang are untrue.  In conclusion, it is my specific beliefs about God that disclude evolution and the Big Bang.  Some, of course, think that the creation account is metaphorical, and, for them, Christianity and Evol. can coexist.

If that's what you were getting at (I'm having reading comprehension troubles to-deigh)!

Really, it does?  The Bible comes out and claims that the earth is 6000 years old?  I must have missed that.

You are mistaking what an earlier Christian scholar did by interpreting facts in the Bible to conclude that the Bible claims that the earth is 6000 years old.  Just because someone says that the Bible claims something is true doesn't mean the Bible actually claims that it is true.

How could the length of days even be measured before the sun was created?  What if those days were 24 and 1/2 hours, or 48 hours, or 6 million years, or 2 billion years?  I don't remember the Bible claiming that those days were 24 hours long.

According to the Bible, I can change sheep to speckled and spotted if I just put that pattern before their eyes when they have babies.  The Bible says it!  It has to be true!

Genesis 30:31-70 (King James Version)

 

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If the creation account is indeed historical, then one can follow the genealogies up from Adam to the time of Augustus (or whoever it was) and get an accurate count of what the Bible claims.  Whatever the Bible says narratively (if that's the word), it claims it (I think), and, for my understanding of Genesis, it is indeed narrative and not metaphorical.

It means day as in the usual 24 hour period because if it meant some other time period it would have used a different word (as "day" anywhere else in the Bible used such means what we mean).  As I think it's not metaphorical, it must mean what is usually meant by day.  Measuring time without the sun would be easy; revolution of the Earth.

Finally, the passage you gave doesn't indicate how that actually worked; who's to say God hadn't told him to do that, and would intervene miraculously if he did?