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by alas » Fri Dec 09, 2016 11:42 am
My mostly TBM husband and I talked this over, and neither one of us can comprehend this kind of thinking. It is like they take the Bible as not only true, but written by God himself, and word for word literal, rather than symbolic. When you consider that the people who wrote the Bible were trying to express a concept they didn't have words for, then maybe you shouldn't take it so literal. The people back then used symbols for things people could not comprehend like the amount of time that went into the creation of the earth. So, a day was symbolic of a period of time that could be eons. And because people didn't know about DNA, and mutations, they could not comprehend evolution, so the writers of the Bible just stated the bare fact that God did create the animals, from the simplest to the most complex and that there was some kind of order to it.
Perhaps if there was a true prophet today, he would write Genesis something like, "On the first time period, God created the Big Bang, thus creating the heavens and the earth. On the second time period, God set the stars including our sun in their current configuration, thus setting lights in the sky, and set the earth orbiting around the sun, with the moon orbiting around the earth. On the third time period, God cooled off the hot molten mess of earth, and put water on the earth, creating oceans and air around the earth, creating the heavens. Thus ended earth's Precambrian period. On the fourth time period, God got simple life started, and by causing small mutations in the genes, worked his way to slightly more complicated animals and plants, and thus made some simple creatures that swim in the ocean. On the fifth time period, God had some of those simple animals start reproducing on land and gave them chlorophyl and thus created the first plants, then later in the day worked his way to more complicated creatures and eventually created the dinosaurs who became the birds of the air, and simple Mammals. Thus ended Earth's Jurassic period. On the sixth time period, about midnight if you compare it to a twenty four hour period, God finally got around to mankind. On the seventh day, God rested while man started destroying the earth God created for him, but God was still resting and didn't knock mankind up the side of the head until mankind had melted the polar ice caps. Hopefully God wakes up from her rest soon and gives mankind a good chewing out about how fragile the balance of the Eco systems are that allow mankind to exist on this earth, otherwise God will be starting over with cockroaches to evolve an intelligent species that can survive with all the green house gasses we have released into the atmosphere.
Now, if I wasn't so lazy, I would have explained more about what God did during each hour of those day periods and how the earth was really hot back in the days when insects were huge and how God had the plants take oxygen out of the atmosphere and then die and get buried storing lots of extra oxygen as carbon dioxide, so that mankind would have marvelous fossil fuels to burn and muck the atmosphere, sort of like it was back when there was a greenhouse effect from lots more oxygen and how all that extra oxygen let insects grow huge. So, that is why God will be evolving huge cockroaches into an intelligent species after we have toasted ourselves off the face of the earth, all that extra....oh wait, now it is carbon dioxide, so maybe the bugs won't get any bigger.
