Man's quest for knowledge is timeless.
where man came from. How the earth was created. How the animals and plants came into existence. There is so much that is not known. It would be so simple just to believe what the bible tells us. God created earth and everything on it and on the 7 day he rested.
The problem is not in the believe that God created the earth in 6 days but how people take the bible so literally. For example that each day was 24 hours.
The bible in fact does not mention the age of the earth.
How the bible was used to date the earth.
James Ussher a Bishop took the genealogies of Genesis and used it to arrive at a date for when the earth was first created. That was Sunday, October 23, 4004 B.C.
It was taken for granted that the genealogies was completed. Recording the entire course of human existence and that the days were exactly 24 hours.
If this was so then it would mean that the earth came into existence a full thousand years after the domestication of the guinea pig.
If we look at Genesis 1, there are two days of the 6 that stand out. This is what is said in Genesis for the third day.
Then God said, "Let the earth sprout, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit after their kind, with seed in them, on the earth"; and it was so. And the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. (Genesis 1:11-12)
God did not plant fullgrown plants. God created seeds which he planted. This we can gather from the word sprout. Since fruit trees take several years to mature and produce fruit, the third "day" must have been at least several years long.
The sixth day was also a very busy "day." On the sixth day, God created the nephesh (soulish) animals, including the wild animals (carnivores), cattle (herbivores) and "creeping things" (rodents?) (Genesis 1:25).
Then God created Adam, the first man (Genesis 1:27, 2:7). He placed the man into a special garden that He had planted (Genesis 2:8). Again, God was playing farmer by planting the garden and letting it grow (Genesis 2:9). Adam was placed into the garden "to work it and take care of it" (Genesis 2:15). We don't know how long Adam worked the garden before God gave him another assignment.
However, it wouldn't have been much "work" if Adam was there for less than 24 hours. Next, God had Adam give names to "all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air" (Genesis 2:19). The process would have required Adam naming tens of thousands of species (minimum). Even naming one animal every ten seconds would have taken Adam several days, at minimum.
Then God put Adam to sleep and created Eve from part of Adam's side (Genesis 2:22-23). Adam's response to Eve's creation is also telling, since upon seeing Eve for the first time, Adam said "at last." This is not exactly the response one would have expected from a man who had waited for less than one day (or else Adam was the most impatient man in the history of humanity). So, we must conclude that the sixth day was much longer than 24 hours, and probably took at least several years, based on Adam's response.
Besides the biblical evidence that at least some of the Genesis "days" are long periods of time, Genesis 2:4 refers to all 6 days of creation as one day:
Scientists
Radio dating using lead ores suggests the Earth is around 4.54 billion years old, while the age of the Universe has been put at around 13.7 billion years. This has been established partly by looking through powerful telescopes at distant stars; the Hubble Space Telescope’s Deep Field Image shows galaxies over 13 billion light years away, in the first few hundred million years after the Big Bang.
Scientists never wanted to threaten religious believes. Scientists look for evidence to support their theories and religion believers look for things to support what they think are the true answers. As a result scientist have provoked hostility and panic from the religious believers.
When Edwin Hubble proved the existence of an expanding universe, the evidence was so convincing and the conclusion so irrefutable that it became the domain of common sense.
When Charles Darwin recognized evolution through natural selection, the unambiguous utility of its application to all facets of the natural world gave us a tantalizing avenue to pursue our origins.
With the Big Bang, evolution, and a wealth of other knowledge-based advances, science has inadvertently forced the reinterpretation of religion in places where its dogma is in conflict with overt truth
Religionists believe that God created earth in 6 days without sufficient evidence. All they actually got to work with is the bible.
Religious people find it difficult to believe in anything else that proves a contradiction in what they have been lead to believe. It's in the bible so it must be gospel.
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