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1 | When did creation occur? | Genesis | pgs | 30318 | ||
Hi, I am 12. Does anyone know about when the world began? My bible's timeline goes back to 2400BC and it lists that Noah and creation were undated. Thanks, pgs - 6th grade Sunday School |
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2 | When did creation occur? | Genesis | oscar | 30645 | ||
Man, this is a hard question. To begin, what is the meaning of world? You mean the earth or the Universe? Anyway there is no record of such a dating. The Bible says that creation took place in 6 days, and if we want to stick to the Word, then 6 days are 6 days, and each day has 24 hours. Therefore the Word says 6 days of 24 hours, or 144 hours. 144 is an special number that means completion. We could interpret Genesis as: in as many hours as were need for its completion, still 6 days. It is important to notice that those days were different in length of our days, and of course, also the hours, this is specially true when we measure the time by our own reference frame, and there was no reference frame for us before the sun and the earth existed. You will study relativity later and you will find that time is a function of the mass, therefore different system should have different time measurements depending on their own mass, and also the mass is a function of the speed. Scientists has different estimates about the origin of the Universe, when God said "let's there be light". Some of them think in a young Universe and some others prefer to believe of an older Universe. The first group believes in a creation, they base their estimate in the background radiation on the universe, the rate of expansion of the universe, and some computer simulations that takes us to the origin. The second group believes in evolution and they try to push their timelines to accommodate their own believes of evolutionary processes, but even their best estimates run short of time. We believe in a young universe and we believe that the time is a unidirectional vector that points to the future, in the non existence of the past neither of the future, but a continuos present that projects into the future. I hope this give you some light. Oscar |
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