Here is another descrepency.
Genesis 1:3, "God said let there be light, and there was light. God saw that the light was good. Then He seperated the light from the darkness. God called the light "day" and the darkness night".
So as of the first day of creation week, we have day and night. The scripture even verifies this by saying afterward-"And evening and morning came, marking the first day"!
Yet, we have in Genesis 1:16, "God made two great lights-the larger one (sun) to govern the day, and the smaller one (moon) to govern the night".
So we have here, God creating day and night on the first day of creation week....but God does not make the sun until the fourth day of creation week?
How was it that day and night existed before the sun was even created.....?
We now know in this modern age, that day and night are reconciled with the sun....the sun is our only source of light.
We now know in this modern age, that the moon is not a light....the moon only reflects the sun's light thats it!
It seems pretty obvious that the author of Genesis was not a divinly inspired person.
More likely, the author did not relize the immense size of the sun thousands and thousands of miles away, and did not realize it was the sun itself which gives us our only source of light.
More likely the author did not realize the moon was not a light in and of itself, the moon only reflects the suns light!
It is easy to see why the author would not realize these things. If we never developed the sciences and understandings we have today, we would probably think the same things based on our limited observations.
The first thing I need to say is that I am not an young earth creationist. I think evidence points to the the earth being more than 6000 years old...a lot more. That being said I think that the fact that evening and morning are discussed before the sun is visible tells us that "day:" or ("yom" in Hebrew) must mean something different than a 24 hour day because without the sun how would you know if its evening or morning. Add to that I think that most people look at the Genesis account being told from the point of view of some one standing in orbit and viewing what is happening on earth. However this is not the reference point from which the events are described, It says that God hovered above the waters. A lot of detail is skipped between verse 1 and that point, but let's start at that point. If someone had been above the waters what would they have seen? Sciences says they would see the earth cloaked with a think layer of gas blotting out the sun. and the stars and the moon. From the standpoint of verse 4, the moon, sun and stars were just made visible at that point just like we know from science that happened. I agree that the author did not how far away the sun was or the star or that the moon was reflecting sun light. So? Shane, is it your contention that the author was saying the sun was not millions of miles away or that the moon did not reflect sunlight? I think not. It is describing what a person would have seen had they been on earth at that time (floating in the air with God above the waters before land was created). It's not trying to give us every single detail or explanation. Does this conflict with science? No. Do all Christians agree with me? No. But although this is a controversy is doesn't show the Bible errant and it's not a salvation issue. Interesting? Yes. I think that this is what science is: Figuring out how God did it.
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=0caf7e80-f858-4bd7-b56c-6d5c2d07c19e)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=29194766-4aa8-4537-b8d9-b6d5b2879129)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=fa04974c-e889-468a-ba42-9e2fbc128532)
![Reblog this post [with Zemanta]](http://img.zemanta.com/reblog_e.png?x-id=0f233d42-0e1a-4408-9049-5162009c7847)