Let The Creatard Shitting of Bricks Begineth

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Even the English word 'day' requires context, i.e., " in their grandfather's day", or "day of the dinosaurs". The creation passages are completely harmonious with science when the Hebrew word 'Yom' is correctly interpreted in context as 'a long but finite period of time'.

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In other words, you're suggesting it was meant in the sense of era?  Unlikely, but if so there remains the more difficult problem of of how and in what order, not to mention what kind of universe god created.

Day One:  God creates heavens and earth and separates light from darkness. So light and darkness were all mixed up until the earth was created and after that they were neatly separated?

Day Two:  God makes a vault in the sky to separate the waters from the waters.  Wait a minute a vault in the sky holding back water.  Really?  Care to explain that one?  Didn't hear about any of the space launches hitting a vault.  No little trip through the vast sky born lake either.

Day Three: God gathers the water under the sky to make dry land and puts vegetation on the land.  Funny, but I thought the fish came first.  Maybe not.  But I'm sure ocean critters came first, if not actual fish.

Day Four: God add light to vault in the sky, the sun and moon respectively, also the stars.   Also he separated day from night.  Apparently they were all mixed up before. Ooops, didn't the stars come before the earth and the moon later yet?  Oh and how do you get vegetation before the sun?  

Day Five: God creates the fishes and birds.  Whoops, the birds come after the land born creatures.

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Day Six: God creates animals on land including livestock.  And he created humans. Okay, livestock was a breeding process really, a little bit of man made evolution in fact.

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Oh but wait. . .that's only Genesis 1.  That's not how it really was, there's another creation account in Genesis 2.  This time god creates man before vegetation or rain, but there were streams.  Apparently without man to sow the seeds there could be no vegetation or at least that's what it says.  But, before that god had planted a garden to put man in.   At some indeterminate time god had made the animals and now he asked the man to name them.  Then he made Eve out of Adam's rib.

That story doesn't work very well either.

I really don't think make the days into eras even begins to solve the problems with Genesis.

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Day 6 (portion before humanity) - The 6’th day mentions 3 specialized kinds of land mammals - the kinds most crucial to humanity’s needs. 1) Livestock 2) Wild animals 3) Rodents and hares. Livestock for agriculture, Wild animals to maintain the vitality of the herbivores, and some have been tamed to provide service and comfort. Creatures along the ground - used for warmth thru the cold weather cycles, medical research, etc.

Now the conditions are in place for God’s ultimate purpose for creating the world; God now turns His attention to shaping the first human.