Secondly a day has always been the same as obviously the Earth's rotation hasn't changed since the Lord created it, and the plants wouldn't have survived millions and billions of years without a sun as indicated in Genesis.
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DAYS WERE ONLY 18 HOURS LONG back in the Proterozoic era, some 900 million years ago. Charles Sonett of the University of Arizona has studied records of ancient tidal deposits preserved in rock strata. Like tree rings, the periodicity of tidal sediments, or tidalites, provide an accounting of ancient times. Sonett's data, collected in Utah, Indiana, Alabama, and Australia, shows that long ago the day was shorter, the year longer, and the moon much closer. Indeed, as the moon recedes from the Earth (at a rate of 3.8 cm/year) it continues to slow Earth's rotation, thus extending the day further. (C.P. Sonett et al., Science, 5 July.) And that's your science lesson for the day, Jordan.
Therefore, from your logic and from the evidence we see, we can safely assume that Genesis is wrong... Unfortunately, you can't quite grasp that...
Wow, man, I hope your density doesn't turn you into a micro-black hole.
*bashes head against desk*
Well, refuting day-age creationism is a good start, but not by offering creationism as the alternative!
A day is normally defined as the time from one noon to the next. How do you define a "day" when the sun hasn't been created yet? Is it the time that will elapse between one noon and the next in the future when the sun is eventually created? The Bible doesn't say. What biblical authority is there to make such an assumption? The Bible just says God separated the light from the dark and called the light and the dark one day. It doesn't say how long the light and the dark lasted. Without the sun, "24 hours" would have no meaning, since an hour is defined as one 24th of the period from one noon to the next, and there's no sun to define noon. The whole thing doesn't really make sense.
They wouldn't even have survived ONE day if they were created before a sun. It'd be like trying to grow plants in a meat locker.
> Secondly a day has always been the same as obviously the Earth's rotation hasn't changed since the Lord created it
> the plants wouldn't have survived millions and billions of years without a sun as indicated in Genesis.
I doubt they would survive even one or two days.
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