Gordon wrote:
Cecil Moore wrote in news:YQXHl.5960$Lr6.2997
@flpi143.ffdc.sbc.com:

Brian Oakley wrote:
If you look at the word "day" as it is used in the Hebrew language in
the OT, it means in almost every instance, a literal day. So why would
we want to imagine that it would mean anything else when the Bible is
pretty clear.
How could a "literal day" possibly exist before God
created the Sun on the 4th "day"???

He created light on the first day.

Well, consistent with that, records seem to indicate there was a big
flash of it at one point. And if that was Him, then He is also
responsible for all the stars and planets which subsequently coalesced.
At which point there began an enormous and complex organic chemistry
project which, given the amount of time He's allowed it to work, has now
provided almost an infinite variety of results, including the inhabiting
of at least (and perhaps only) one of the planets with intelligent life.

There are of course a variety of simplified, abridged, and age (or
epoch) appropriate versions of this history, the actual scale of which
is only slowing revealing itself to us. So it's apparent that if a
creator created all of what is, then He is responsible for a far more
intelligent design than the history books give Him the credit for; far
too intelligent perhaps for us to comprehend. Or maybe He is the simple
minded guy with anger management issues they wrote about hundreds of
years prior to sanitation. I don't claim to know.

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