Oh, it's not your interpretation? Which verse mentions oxygen or carbon dioxide?
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The Genesis Account and Science
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I did, probably belatedly in life and comical in the overlooking, learn something from this thread.
The bizarre rejection of "theory" by the fundies here, as if it were a part of science that could be discarded in favor of "facts", points to a rejection of reasoning itself when applied to physical being. And that (here is the overlooked) is why fundies quote authority so much where others would argue the case.
If you don't accept what has been reasoned carefully from brute fact, you have no source of reality inclusive of sensory impression except authority. So of course you find authority convincing, and you expect others to find the word of some authority convincing as well. In fact, failure to be convinced by authority points to various character flaws, denial of authority-based reality (the only kind) seems a willful and juvinile delusion.
Quoting an authority is arguing the case, to a fundie.
The bizarre rejection of "theory" by the fundies here, as if it were a part of science that could be discarded in favor of "facts", points to a rejection of reasoning itself when applied to physical being. And that (here is the overlooked) is why fundies quote authority so much where others would argue the case.
If you don't accept what has been reasoned carefully from brute fact, you have no source of reality inclusive of sensory impression except authority. So of course you find authority convincing, and you expect others to find the word of some authority convincing as well. In fact, failure to be convinced by authority points to various character flaws, denial of authority-based reality (the only kind) seems a willful and juvinile delusion.
Quoting an authority is arguing the case, to a fundie.
I don't the think the Genesis account was meant by the author (God) to be taken literally, word for word. I think it's pretty clear to everyone here that, assuming a God, God could have created the entire earth, universe, waters, land, animals, and humans all in a matter of one nanosecond.
It's extremely absurd to think that God was counting the seconds down to make sure that he created everything in strict 24 hour days. Many two year olds would probably interpret this as literal 24 hour days due to their limited ability to reason. But knowing that God could create everything in one nanosecond or less, why would he slowly create things and extend it out to 24 hours??? Did he create the last atom right on the 23:00:00:01 mark? Of course not.
If anything the "days" in Genesis talk about "Eras" or "Periods of Time" which could really be billions of years in our time.
It's extremely absurd to think that God was counting the seconds down to make sure that he created everything in strict 24 hour days. Many two year olds would probably interpret this as literal 24 hour days due to their limited ability to reason. But knowing that God could create everything in one nanosecond or less, why would he slowly create things and extend it out to 24 hours??? Did he create the last atom right on the 23:00:00:01 mark? Of course not.
If anything the "days" in Genesis talk about "Eras" or "Periods of Time" which could really be billions of years in our time.
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