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Originally Posted by hannukah harry
geez. you don't need to be snarky. the explanation you gave doesn't bother me. it just doesn't make any sense. you're trying to reconcile your beliefs with reality. and that's all well and good. but maybe you wouldn't have to if you didn't take the stories of illiterate goatherders as fact rather than story.
the earth, to the best of our current knowledge, is 4.6 billion years. the universe is 13.7 billion. most likely, those numbers will get refined in the years to come, but they're not going to be far off from what we currently believe. the nice thing about science is that there's no problem with updating our level of knowledge and refining our information. there is no need for apologetics.
i think politicophile sums up what i want to say much better than i would be able to.
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Oh boy....I am not trying to reconcile my beliefs. You must show me the post where I say I believe in the literal interpretation of the Bible. For the record, I don't. That's why I thought if you checked my other posts you might come to this conclusion. The idea that the days of creation might be representative of a longer period of time was already mentioned in this thread, before I did. There's nothing to explain, except that the day for a year principle is in the Bible, and according to the theory of relativity, if you travel near the speed of light, a day may pass for you while a year goes by on Earth. There's a scientific basis if that helps. I am not conflicted in any way by my beliefs, I accept the Bible for what it is, and science for what it is.