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| In the Bible, the
Book of Genesis, chapter two, verse seven, says,
"And the Lord God formed man of the dust of
the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of
life; and man became a living soul." Did the people of these times, for which the Bible was written, understand the concept of millions and billions of years? Did they have the modern technology to date geological samples? Remember, the Bible was written entirely in second person- that is, written with the only concepts of time and space that they knew at the time to describe the complicated task of building a world. Paul Davies states that, "failure of the human imagination to grasp certain crucial features of reality is a warning that we cannot expect to base great religious truths (such as the nature of creation) on simple-minded ideas of space, time, and matter, gleaned from daily experience" (Davies 19). Could a seven-day creation actually be describing a billion-year chain of evolution sparked by the hand of God- in much more simple terms in which an entire country- the ancient world- could understand? |