re: Study: All Humanity Comes From One Couple.................... You don't say

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Well I'm pretty sure God wasn't going to wait 13 billion years to finally create Adam and Eve

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Why not?

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Why not?

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Well, now that I know 13 billion years is only 7 days to him, yeah, why not I guess.

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I mean, its pretty much understood that Genesis wasn't seven literal 24-hour periods, outside of the Young Earthers. Dinosaurs throw that possibility out the window.

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I just don't think it matters if it was literally 24 hour periods or not. Whatever 7 days are to God, that's the time He did it in.

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Time doesn't exist to God. 13 billion years could be 7 days for him.

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And there in lies the rub, there is no evidence for God. That doesn't mean there isn't one, but it leaves room for people to not believe in one or claim ignorance. Not to mention that the God of the Bible (Less so than Allah) is a nightmare in terms of his definition.

Assuming God: One cannot be an all loving and just deity for having a endless punishment for finite crimes, being a major example of the contradiction of the Christian God. That is not to say he doesn't exist, but requires scriptures to be wrong in that he is all powerful, but not all loving or just. Or it requires that the scriptures are incorrect and the punishments for misbehavior are finite. (in the case of Islamic God, it's worse because Allah made you do it, he might as well have created the wrongdoers in hell to begin with)

Not Assuming God: Religion is control structure or was at the time the best explanation for events beyond human control.

So it comes down to if you can examine the information and maintain faith. Some are more than capable of keeping faith, but making some rejections to man made structures and scriptures become necessary. Some lose faith and I will ask that you neither gain or lose faith based on anything I say.

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I just don't think it matters if it was literally 24 hour periods or not. Whatever 7 days are to God, that's the time He did it in.

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That's what I'm trying to say. I grew up Baptist but probably consider myself more agnostic now. To me, the story in Genesis is the convenient way to explain creation to people of that time period, but it doesn't rule out any scientific theories on the creation of the universe. It's God, he can do whatever he wants however he wants.

And he had the help of the rock monsters.

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And he had the help of the rock monsters.

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The what?

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The what?

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He is referencing the Russell Crowe film Noah. In that movie, fallen angels came to earth and rocks got stuck to them when they fell. They helped Noah build the ark and got redeemed when they died defending it from a horde of people trying to jump aboard at the start of the flood.

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In that movie, fallen angels came to earth and rocks got stuck to them when they fell. They helped Noah build the ark and got redeemed when they died defending it from a horde of people trying to jump aboard at the start of the flood.

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That didn't come from the KJV. They must have used the Living Bible. That was an abomination... and that's being kind.

Sort of like the James Coburn character in the Noah miniseries that was tooling around the flood on a floating bicycle. Offered to sell Noah some stuff, if memory serves me correctly.