Here is a pretty good commentary…
Like many Christians, David Bush believes that the biblical account of creation is an ancient piece of poetry that was never meant to be a literal, scientific description of what happened as life appeared on the earth. Instead, it’s a faith-based explanation of why life exists, and how humans are to care for it. Science, on the other hand, has never answered the question of why life exists, even through endless proofs based on observation and replication by multiple sources. Science can tell us how things work, but it can never answer questions such as why the Big Bang occurred, or why the first bacterium appeared.
joe joe joe – such potentially inflammatory topics!! Actually I really enjoy discussions on religion, politics and what have you. The most interesting conversations are invariably the ones that most others are reluctant to have. OK my personal take is that the Bible was written as it is to be interpreted literally. So, for me 6 days is 6 days and that’s that. I don’t intend on getting into a conversation about why I believe that, and I don’t feel the need to justify it as though I should apologise or be ashamed as though my belief goes against everything logical and scientific bc that’s not how I see it. But I fully appreciate that others view things differently. Some people don’t believe anything written in the Bible, others believe it but take it with a grain (or bucket load) of salt. As long as you can respectfully agree to disagree, then life should still go on without the need for Crusades. 🙂 The problem is that most believers (regardless of what that belief actually pertains to) tend to try to convert or convince rather than just engage in a chit chat about their viewpoint. OK, best sign out before I appear to be doing that same thing! 😛
6 of whose days?
Prior to the existence of the earth and the sun which defines our concept of day, how “long” was a day? Would a being so vastly superior such that it was omniscient and omnipresent even experience time in the same way as someone so vastly inferior as ourselves?
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/8449/days.html