[ATLian]

>The "days" in creation are not to be taken literally; i.e they
>aren't 24 hours. each "day" could be the equivalent of
>thousands or even millions of years.


Reggie,

you may have a point. When god warned Adam not to eat from the forbidden tree, he told him that "the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die". Well, we all know Adam didn't die on that day he ate the fruit, he actually lived for 930 years. So maybe in god's eyes, a day is 930 years...

But seriously, your viewpont above is a Christian apologist's viewpoint. The men who wrote the fable that we now know as the Biblical version of creation had no idea that there would come a time when we would prove beyond any doubt that the earth has been around for millions of years, not 6,000 years. When that was proved, then there was only two choices for Christians - either admit that the Bible is a hoax, or bring in a new re-mix to show how those days are actually not days as we know them, but are are instead periods that do add up to the millions of years proved by science.

The Bible clearly shows that those days were literal, not figurative:

Exodus 20:8-11: "Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it."

This clearly shows that the days he used to create the universe and our days are one and the same. Otherwise they wouldn't put both in the same breath if they meant different time frames. Think about it, it's ludicrous to say we should keep the sabbath day holy, then claim that the sabbath is a 1,000 year period instead of just Sunday (or Saturday for SDAs).

Also, the Bible says that god rested on the 7th day after creating man. If you claim that 7th day was a 1,000 year period, then you're claiming that for those 1,000 years god had no contact with Adam. That's obviously not true, we know he used to holla at and walk with Adam in Eden every day.

Plus, like I mentioned above, Adam lived to be 930 years old. Since he lived through both the 6th day (when he was created) and the 7th day (when god rested), then any change to those days screws up Adams age. If those days were millions of years, then suddenly Adam lived to be a million years old. Clearly that can't be the case.

Finally, since you argue that those days could actually be longer - as in years or generations - then can't I also argue that the days could be shorter i.e. each day could have been only 2 minutes long, or even just a nanosecond. If anything, that's a more feasible argument, coz why would an almighty god need eons to create something as miniscule as the earth? For him, a finger-snap would have achieved it all, ama?