I am not paying attention to distractions. The Universe is 13.7 billion years old, the Earth is 4.5 billion years old. Mankind is roughly 6000 years old. I show how it all went down from God's perspective, after all, Gen. 1 is the telling of Creation from God's POV, not Moses, he wasn't there.
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I as a 30 year Christian try to think outside the box of normality. Is the universe 6000 years old? Is the universe 13.7 billion years old? Do these two questions clash or is there a translation barrier !! This is how I think. I try to bring both poles of thought towards each other starting with the facts. We know the universe has to be over 6000 years old because we see light from stars that are millions of light years away, so we would have to be very naive to think the universe is only 6000 years old.
Onward to what Genesis says about creation, does it really say the universe or earth is 6000 years old? I don’t think it does, I think its a mistranslation of a primitive language that had only around 4000 words at the time Genesis was written, whereas the English language has 500,000 words. So many of the Hebrew words were used in multiple ways. For instance the original meaning of the Hebrew word
YOWM (Day) means “to be hot” and there are at least 50 other meanings listed in strong’s concordance’s lexicon of Hebrew words. A year, a month, a period of time, chronicles,
evening and morning (Beginning and end), age, perpetually, long, some time, whole, X required season, continually etc. etc., well you get the point.
YOWM or “To be hot”, what would this mean and why was it used since God is supposed to have given Moses the first five books of the Torah Himself. Well when the universe was spoken into existence by God, it took 400 million years for the first stars to form. So the first Day (to be hot) was the Evening (Darkness, 400 million years of darkness) and the Morning ( The stars started forming) and the first day was a
“period of time” and in my opinion it lasted from 13.7 Billion BC until 4.5 Billion BC (9.2 Billion years) when the Sun & Earth were formed. So lets take a second and look at the Bible and the WMAP research and see if this matches.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
2 And the
earth was without form, and void (not there yet, just commanded to come forth); and
darkness was upon the face of the deep(No stars yet, thus DARKNESS). And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters (This is key also, sunbeams must be reflected, our atmosphere with moisture REFLECTS these beams, just outside our atmosphere it is much, much darker !! )
3 And
God said, Let there be light: and there was light(Thus EVENING or 400 million years of Darkness, was followed by LIGHT or stars forming 400 million years later).
Now look below at the
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) which launched in 2001 and won many awards, they mapped the whole universe out. Below as we see, you had
Quantum Fluctuations which I contend is God, then you had
Inflation, followed by
Afterglow,
followed by 400 MILLION YEARS of Darkness !! Just like the bible says
in verse 2, and there was Darkness on the Face of the Deep !! Gods word is perfect, it is us who are confused. Dark ages mapped out by the WMAP, followed by what? The first stars forming at the 400 million year mark. Verse three says what? and God said “Let there be light” God is right again. We are looking at Creation from Gods POV, no man was there of course and with God he is not subject to time, he created time for us via this universe, but He is eternal and thus was never created. Remember the verse, a thousand years is like a day and a day like unto a thousand years unto God. In other words God lives in the past, present and future all at the same time. He is not from this universe, thus He has no need of being created, He is eternal.
So we had the
Big Bang, followed by
Inflation, followed by
Cosmic Microwave background where a
fter 375,000 years loose electrons cool enough to combine with protons.
The universe becomes transparent to light. The microwave background begins to shine. T
hen the dark ages/clouds of dark hydrogen gas cool and coalesce.
The first stars appear….
Gas clouds collapse, the fusion of stars begin, the first of which appears at about 400 million years after the big bang. So, when the bible says Darkness was on the face of the deep, God knew exactly what was happening in the very beginning !! The more we look for the answers, the more that science and the bible will converge, if both sides with differing viewpoints would only take their blinders off.
The second day (period of time) of course would be from the Earth & the Suns formation until the grasses and trees came forth on the Third day (period of time) then on the Fourth day it seems God set the Seasons or placed the moon in its perfect orbit where our seasons are not strange and chaotic, but orderly. I know the moon and earth is supposed to have collided. Anyway, that set the seasons, times, years etc. etc. Mind you, all of these ideas are rudimentary observations. A theory of how the things God says in His Holy word and science can both be factual. They are not meant to imply everything went down just so and in like manner, the dates of course are guesstimates, I wasn’t there. But what I do know is they were not 24 hour days, that is nonsensical to me tbh.
On the fifth day God created the sea animals/birds and what not, were the Dinos created here or with the land animals? The fifth day lasted 300 million to 400 million years or so. On the Sixth Day around 300–350 million years B.C. God created the land animals. During this period of time the Dinosaurs became extinct about 70 Million years ago.
Then during this “TIME PERIOD” (6TH DAY) God decided to create man 6000 or so years ago. Some might protest that men have been around much longer, but I offer this up, where is the data? Men are record keepers and we don’t have proof of men going back further. Now as per “MEN” being observed by scientists to have been around X Number of years,
I never said "animal like men" weren’t around,
I stated Human Beings were created 6000 years ago, when God placed His spirit in us and this is why we are immortal beings in that our souls can not die. We were at that point in time
“Created in Gods Image”. The other fossils and bones mean nothing, because scientists have no way of testing for God imparting His spirit into mankind and creating “Human Beings” with powerful intellects.
On the seventh day God rested, which only means He ceased creating the Heavens, the Earth, Mankind and Animals. So when we see stars and galaxies created today, it was ordered forth 13.7 Billion years ago. So its not necessarily either or. We need to start looking at things with an open mind, be we an atheist or a Christian.
P.S. Just something to think about. Einstein’s theory of relativity is in the very first verse of the bible, relatively speaking…LOL.
Genesis 1:1 In the beginning (TIME) God created the heaven(SPACE) and the earth(MATTER).
I believe in the old Earth creationism also. Plus, astronomy and the old age of the universe (13.8B years) is impressive, and makes me feel infinitely small in God's massive timeline of Creation. Honestly, since the Big Bang emitted a lot of light, redshifted in the form of microwaves (let there be light), that burst of light fortified my faith in God even further when I was 10-11 when I first learned about universe in an Astronomy magazine.
