The fact is very little evidence points towards the bible being fact and much scientific evidence contradicts the bible directly. Geology in its entirety is contradictory to the bible, its simply impossible for the earth to be a mere few thousand years old, Astronomy is contradictory to the bible, the light from distant stars could simply have not reached us in the few thousand years the bible proposes the earth is old. Paleontology contradicts it, the fossil record doesnt make sense, why arent dinosaurs mentioned? How can bones millions of years old be a few thousand years old?
Science and religion arent incompatible, science and christianty are.
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that's a bit of a reach there. There are several interpretations of the Creation account, and it looks like you're familiar with the "young earth" or the creation account which literally ages the earth at around 6 or 7 thousand years. This is taken from the scripture that says "a day in God's eyes is as a thousand years". They took that and in turn figured that each creative "day" in the book of Genesis was a thousand years each.
However, in the Genesis account, God created the heavens and the earth first. And then a little bit after that came to be a first "day." So that means there was an indeterminate amount of time that occured from "in the beginning" and when light first came to reach the Earth.
Second of all, I don't recall there ever being an end to the 6th day of creation. This means that the 6th day from when humans were created is still going on until today.
And later on, the Bible goes on to describe the entire creation as created in one "day"
So really, the Bible writer intended to make demarcations in time periods in the creation account, but did not necessarily specify exact time periods.
So what of the scripture saying that one day being 1000 years? (2 Peter 3:8) Well first of all it's a simile and it was used to show that God's timeframe is different from Man's time frame. Peter could have said that one day in the eyes of God is like 1,000,000,000,000 years for humans and it probably would have made the same point. Though saying 1000 years would probably be a significant hyperbole for most people to understand. Kind of like saying "a picture is worth a 1000 words"
Memo to everyone:
Most people here are pretty familiar with scientific concepts and principles. However, I'm not sure if everyone is similiarly familiar with Biblical accounts. I ask that everyone please do their due diligence before making blanket statements about the Bible. Some have a lot of pre-conceived notions about the Bible, but those notions may not have come from the Bible at all (i.e. when the church once throught that the earth was flat and was the center of the universe).
And to quasi-quote Galileo:
Two truths shall never contradict each other. :-p
