• Buelldozer@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    Even the original wording could be read as eon instead of day.

    Most people don’t know that the Hebrew word “yom” (day) can be and is used to denote wildly different lengths of time.

    If anyone is interested you can read a fine destruction of the stupid “Young Earth” argument at the link I provided.

    The “Young Earth” people, both Christian and Jew, are trying to shoe horn something into the Bible that doesn’t fit and doesn’t need to exist. It’s nothing more than a desperate attempt to hold onto an old, wrong headed, and man-made theory.

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      2 months ago

      Thanks for that

      I don’t see why God must be incompatible with evolution or the Big Bang or really any of science. God created us to be clever, surely that includes using logic and science to learn about the world.

      Personally I’m agnostic and I try not to judge people. I do judge people who dismiss science and decide faith alone is better.

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      2 months ago

      The excuse that the Hebrew word for day could mean an extremely long period of time doesn’t work because plants and trees were created before the Sun and insects (pollinators).

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      2 months ago

      I skimmed that link and it’s pretty interesting, I’ll have to spend more time on it. I definitely liked the part at the end about God being the observer in this context, so what’s a day to him.