Detailed question: My question is regarding the creation story. How come plants were created before the sun? Were those nocturnal plants? As we know, plants need the sun to live. I’ve posted this question in other sites and I got answers like: Plants can survive 24 hours; There was already light on the first day; [...]
Answers about creation
There may have been a time when it could have been considered a reasonable question as to whether the six days of creation in Genesis 1 are literal or figurative. However there is now very strong evidence that the universe is billions of years old, so it cannot be six literal days. There is evidence [...]
There have been three ways of approaching this question. 1. The human-like remains predated Adam and Eve’s creation. Hominoids died out and are unrelated to modern humans. Strength: This idea allows a more or less literal reading of the creation record of Gen 1, 2 while at the same time attempting to reconcile it with [...]
Dinosaurs became extinct about 65 million years ago, long before any humans existed. The reason why scientists who study dinosaurs reached this conclusion is radiometric dating of the rocks in which dinosaurs fossils are found. Geologists by the early 19th century had worked out that fossils appear in the geological record in a specific sequence; [...]
God made all things, including all animals. Gen 1:21 So God created the great sea creatures and every living creature that moves, with which the waters swarm, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. Gen 1:25 And God made the beasts of the [...]
According to standard scientific predictions, the Sun will become a red giant in about 5 billion years. When that happens life on Earth would be impossible — in fact, as a red giant the Sun would expand to large than the Earth’s current orbit, so there would be no Earth. The Bible, of course, says [...]
Here Revelation alludes to the prophecies of Isaiah, where God says “I create new heavens and a new earth” (Is 65.17) and “the new heavens and the new earth which I will make shall remain before me” (Is 66:22). It is possible that in these chapters Isaiah is speaking figuratively of a spiritual renewal. In [...]
According to current scientific estimates the Earth is around 4.5 billion years old and the universe is around 13.75 billion years old. If these calculations are correct, even approximately so, then there were billions of years between the creation of the universe and the formation of our planet. Even then the Earth would wait over [...]
At the most basic level, if the Bible contradicts evolution, logically, one of them must be at least partly false. On the other hand, if they don’t contradict, they’re compatible and can be brought together. I’m going to suggest a way of approaching Genesis that I believe is compatible with evolution—but I don’t pretend that [...]
By the end of the 19th century archaeology had discovered many Mesopotamian texts containing creation and flood narratives remarkably similar to those in the Bible. Critical scholars came to believe that the Biblical narratives had simply been copied from earlier Mesopotamian myths.[1][2] The Biblical flood narrative in particular is still considered by some scholars to [...]
