Creation Days Not the Same as 24-hour Earth Days
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Getting
our parameters right begins with knowing beginnings, but more than
that is being able to distinguish one beginning from the other. Most
think that Day 1 of Creation is also Day 1 on Earth. The Bible
explains that these two differ. It is on the fourth day of creation
that the first earth day commenced.
GENESIS
1:16-19
16
And God
made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the
lesser light to rule the night:
the stars also.
17
And God set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth,
18
And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light
from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
19
And the evening and the morning were the
fourth day.
The
doubt that we have to solve is how vegetation could exist when the
sun was made to bring light unto the earth only on the fourth day.
It
is scientific knowledge that vegetation can exist for some time
without the light of the sun upon which plants depend to produce
their food by the process of photosynthesis. We must remember that it
was on the third day of creation that God caused the appearing of dry
land from the globe of waters, after which He caused vegetation to
appear.
GENESIS
1:9-13
9
And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together
unto one place, and let
the dry land appear:
and it was so.
10
And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the
waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.
11
And God said, Let
the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the
earth:
and it was so.
12
And
the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind,
and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his
kind: and
God saw that it was good.
13
And the evening and the morning were the
third day.
From
these accounts, we understand
that two great parts of creation happened on the third day: the
appearing of the ground or the dry land, afterwards the appearing of
vegetation. This is wonderfully scientific considering that the book
of Genesis was written less than four thousand years ago, when people
could hardly understand that vegetation is necessary to hold soil on
its place and to prevent erosion! But the doubt is focused on this:
why was the sun necessary for plant life made only the following day
which is the fourth day?
As
I mentioned earlier,
there are plants that can exist for some time even without sunlight.
The
possibility is that since
vegetation and plant life were created at the end of the third day
(of Creation), the sun was made to shine immediately at the start of
the fourth day (Day 1 for Earth). This solves the scientific problem
involved!
While
it is true that the bud of a seed that grows tend to the direction of
light, it is also true that the budding process can start without
light. A seed planted below the surface of the soil where there is no
light will grow.
REVISED
STANDARD VERSION
I
CORINTHIANS 15:36-38
36
You foolish man! What
you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37
And what
you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of
wheat or of some other grain.
38
But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed
its own body.
This
will clearly erase the
doubt in the mind of one who understands the truth in the Bible and
in science, but certainly will be questioned by scoffers!
We
must also consider that when God said, "Let the earth bring
forth grass,” he did not say "Let the dry land bring forth
grass.” When God said, "Let the earth bring forth grass,” he
meant the ground in dry land and the ground under the sea to bring
forth plant life. It is worthwhile mentioning that “grass” –
the plant life in the depths of the sea sustain most of marine
creatures.
Back
to Creation,
at the dawn of the fifth day God said -
GENESIS
1:20
And
God said, Let
the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life,
and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of
heaven.
This
is a very scientific chronology of the account of creation in
Genesis! After plant life was caused by God to exist at the dusk of
the third day and the sun to give light unto the earth immediately at
the dawn of the fourth day, marine creatures were brought forth at
the dusk of the fifth day! What a wonderful scientific narration, not
found in any other book on earth! Here’s an excerpt describing the
Earth before as “barren landscape”
quoting researchers from Pennsylvania State University -
The
earliest evidence of land plants and fungi appears in the fossil
record around 480 million years ago. Before that, the Earth's
landscape was believed to consist of barren rocks, home to bacteria
and possibly some algae. But some have argued that it is quite
possible for land-dwelling plants and fungi to have been around much
earlier, but their primitive bodies were too soft to be preserved as
fossils in rock. (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/1482382.stm).
Science
affirms - as do atheists guess - that marine life existed before land
life. Richard Dawkins wrote that, being land-oriented now, one day he
will go back to the sea. Dawkins
is a British evolutionary biologist.
I MUST GO DOWN TO THE SEA
AGAIN
The move
from water to land launched a major redesign of every aspect of life,
from breathing to reproduction: it was a great trek through
biological space. Nevertheless, with what seems almost wanton
perversity, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned
around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial retooling, and
trooped back into the water again. Seals and sea lions have only gone
part-way back. (The Greatest Show on Earth by Richard Dawkins, Page
80).
THE
START OF HUMAN LIFE
Note
that marine life were brought forth first then land life.
GENESIS
1:24-25
24
And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his
kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his
kind: and it was so.
25
And God made the beast of the earth after his kind, and cattle after
their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after his
kind: and God saw that it was good.
Animals
like
cattle and creeping things were made by God at the dawn of the sixth
day of creation and humans towards the end of the sixth day.
(Creeping things are on dry land, not in the sea). This allows
millions of years of animal existence before mankind. This also
solves doubt about the existence of dinosaurs millions of years
before mankind! A day in creation is not a 24-hour day as other Bible
apologists claim!
ISAIAH
66:8
Who
hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall
the earth be made to bring forth in one day?
or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
brought forth her children.
The
earth was not brought forth in one (1) earth-day! The First to the
Fourth day of Creation happened before the sun was made
to shine
in the dome of the sky to light the earth, determining how an
earth-day is made!
This
is Part 4 of Possibilities and Impossibilities in the Bible.
More
to come.
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ReplyDeleteCreation Days not the same as 24-hour Earth days ...
ReplyDeleteOne day, determined by the star sun on Earth, was only possible when God made light there on the fourth day of YOUR CREATION on the planet.
Only by understanding this point, it would be possible to realize that the days of creation would not fit in literal days of 24 hours on the earth!
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I love this, coz I love the Bible and I love science, and the two are in agreement. But I must point out a flaw in your presentation. There was light earlier than you say: in verse 3 God said "Let there be light" but due to the enormous water canopy above, caused by the division of the waters, that light was diffused. The sun, moon & stars only appeared later, but there would have been enough light for vegetation. Incidentally, the 'luminaries appeared when the water canopy reached the Thermosphere, which is hot, and vaporised, allowing the sources of light to become visible. That water stored in the thermosphere, later came down again as the flood of Noah's day. Science has recently proved this as a strong possibility.
ReplyDeleteI love the Bible and I love science, and when true, the two never disagree. The Hebrew word translated as 'day' in Genesis does not mean a 24hour day; in fact the literal translation means 'epoch' or aeon, which can be a geological period of time.
ReplyDeleteI do have a point about the appearance of light. In Verse 3 God says "Let there be light" so light did appear before the sun etc were visible. We have to remember that Moses wrote this account under inspiration and wrote it as an observer at ground level. When the waters were divided, a vast body of water went up and any light would have been diffused by that canopy of water. When it reached the thermosphere, which is hot, the water would have vaporised, rendering it transparent and the luminaries [sun, moon stars] would have appeared. This is a recent scientific discovery, which also found that the thermosphere could contain enough water to cause the flood of Noah's time if it was released, but that water is no longer there. So 'WoW' the Bible really is scientifically accurate, albeit poetic in its descriptions.
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