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Originally Posted by grip_daddy
Ernest,
Explaining away literal creation week is assuming correctness of science at the expense of God's possibilities and abilities, and at the same time misapplying the one day, one thousand years contextual biblical framing. Genesis is recorded in man's time, not God's timelessness which would falsify the need for Sabbath commandment as was given to Israelites.
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I think there is absolutely no basis to which creasionists should date the earth as 6000 years.It unbiblical and even against modern observations which clearly show that the Earth is 5 billion years.
the sabbath commandment applies to man,so God had to use man's time.
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On the existence of time, assume an empty space without matter and energy: Eternity exist in this space before any action, of which at the point when an entity is appended, there was a measurable duration which, in our limited ability to express concepts, we would term as time. For example, if you would measure time by an information carrier that travels from point A to point B at a speed given by t=0, the calculated time would be absolute.
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Its hard to imagine even how an empty universe could arise.assuming that the fate of the universe is a slow cold freeze where all the stars will burn out then these will still exist:
A gas particle or ion every cubic centimeter or decimeter,
Dark matter,
Dark energy,
Gravitons,
neutrinos.
and Quantum foam where particles are being created and destroyed instantly.
On the quantum level,the smallest level that a particle does not have locality or dimension. Thus the distinction between space and matter disappears on the quantum level,
but even granted that the universe is a vaccumm,devoid of anything,then how would you measure time with the information carrier?how would it move from point A to B?using which medium?how do you even define locations in a vacuum.