(February 21, 2015 at 11:49 pm)snowtracks Wrote: Some creationist will always support a 24 hour day literal interpretation that is propounded by the 'Institute for Creation Research' organization. Others though, recognizes that there are 4 'literal' interpretation of the word 'day' depending upon the context. One of the 4 meanings is "a long but finite period of time'. Currently, we are in the 7'th day which is between 100,000 - 50,000 years duration and will continue from now to Christ's 2'nd return (near the very end of the 7 year tribulation period) + 1000 years of Kingdom rule on earth. Then the 7'th day will end.And the reason that there are so many different explanations for that are because the Bible doesn't give that information directly, if at all. Not a single obvious clue as to how long the "creation days" were, nor why the "rest period" had to mean anything more than that, or why Christ would wait until the "eighth day" to return. Nothing. You make it up as you go along and then split with other groups over disagreement on stuff that none of you can know for sure.
That's what comes of reading and believing the book that god supposedly wrote: mass confusion to the point of schism. Great job, Yahweh.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
