Where's Chico when you need him ?
In my somewhat facetious reply to the thread Look at me! I describe the 7 days of creation. But this order of creation is illogical and impossible contradictions occur when trying to fit Genesis' separation of creation into 7 periods (be them days as commonly refered to, or longer periods of time)
According to the 'writers' of Genesis, God created the Sun half way through the creation 'week'. They also explain what God did during the first "days". But without a sun, there were no actual days. Without a sun for the earth to rotate around there would be no "mornings" or changes in the time of day.
Likewise, without natural sunlight, plants could not have grown and survived. Plants were apparently created on day 3, before the Sun. If the length of 'time' is billions of years per 'day', then it is very much impossible that plants could survive before the Sun was created.
The Genesis writer(s) didn't understand the nature of darkness either. He said that God created light on day 1 (somehow before the sun and stars were made) and then "divided the light from the darkness" . Light, however, is not something that can be separated from darkness.
Light is an electromagnetic radiation from an energy source like the sun or stars, and darkness is merely the absence of light. Without light, there will automatically be darkness. No god is needed to separate or divide light from darkness. We know that today; but the prescientific Genesis writer(s) didn't.
Care to comment Chico ? (or anyone else)
According to the 'writers' of Genesis, God created the Sun half way through the creation 'week'. They also explain what God did during the first "days". But without a sun, there were no actual days. Without a sun for the earth to rotate around there would be no "mornings" or changes in the time of day.
Likewise, without natural sunlight, plants could not have grown and survived. Plants were apparently created on day 3, before the Sun. If the length of 'time' is billions of years per 'day', then it is very much impossible that plants could survive before the Sun was created.
The Genesis writer(s) didn't understand the nature of darkness either. He said that God created light on day 1 (somehow before the sun and stars were made) and then "divided the light from the darkness" . Light, however, is not something that can be separated from darkness.
Light is an electromagnetic radiation from an energy source like the sun or stars, and darkness is merely the absence of light. Without light, there will automatically be darkness. No god is needed to separate or divide light from darkness. We know that today; but the prescientific Genesis writer(s) didn't.
Care to comment Chico ? (or anyone else)
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