Why Should Someone Be an Atheist?

[Fidel_Castronaut]

Why does the Bible need to say the universe is 13.7 billion years old rather than just simply saying it was created perfectly in Gen. 1.1? 13.7 billion years is perfect to me. Very patient too.

You said this:

The 6 days are not the creation but the restoration. In other words after God created perfectly over 13.7 billion years (Gen. 1.1), the sin of the inhabitants of earth's earliest ages sinned so much, He had to make it desolate and waste (v.2), killing off the dinosuars. But then He restored it summed up by the 6 twenty-four literal days.

The point, which you're either missing or wilfully ignoring, is that you're reading this based off an interpretation of the biblical text, nothing more. You're, in fact,applying retrospective reasoning to the text based on contemporary advances in knowledge that have nothing to do with the bible.

So, for us to consider your interpretation worthy of our time and consideration, you need to demonstrate where in genesis the bible says that the universe is 13.7 billion ~ years old and that god didn't create the universe in 6 days and rest on day 7.

Don't forget that the bible actually says that it was all done in 6 days, meaning not only is your interpretation wrong, it's actually blasphemous and reveals you to be a heretic.