RE: God created the world in 7 days. Define "Day"
September 22, 2010 at 1:48 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2010 at 1:55 pm by TheDarkestOfAngels.)
(September 17, 2010 at 10:29 am)Cerrone Wrote: I was browsing the forums and came across a mention of how christians always say "god created the universe in 7 days" but, what is a day exactly? He created the universe in 7 earth days? A day is different on every planet, it's longer shorter etc etc, so we measure the time of a day from that on earth by itself?
Evidently this "7 days" crap is further proof that the creation story was created by earth bound humans who believed the world was flat and had no notion of the time differences in terms of a day as they appear on other planets.
I'm throwing that out there; another huge flaw in the story
Six days, actually. On the seventh, an omnipotent being with limitless and ill-defined powers required time to recharge his batteries and bless his creation (he's working on the sabbath!!!) after spending most of the week creating this one planet and all the life on it and everything else.
Although I'm reasonably certain that a 'day' in genesis is just that.
God might be a genocidal monster in the old testiment, but if there's one thing he isn't is a liar.
If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach in the public schools, tomorrow you can make it a crime to teach it in the private schools and next year you can make it a crime to teach it to the hustings or in the church. At the next session you may ban books and the newspapers...
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
Ignorance and fanaticism are ever busy and need feeding. Always feeding and gloating for more. Today it is the public school teachers; tomorrow the private. The next day the preachers and the lecturers, the magazines, the books, the newspapers. After a while, Your Honor, it is the setting of man against man and creed against creed until with flying banners and beating drums we are marching backward to the glorious ages of the sixteenth centry when bigots lighted fagots to burn the men who dared to bring any intelligence and enlightenment and culture to the human mind. ~Clarence Darrow, at the Scopes Monkey Trial, 1925
Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. ~Ronald Reagan
