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1 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | DocSpock | 8258 | ||
So far, I see no scriptural objections, only (you'll forgive me) noises of disapproval. You will observe from my note - if that's what you are commenting on - that 6 literal days are not refuted. The only idea being presented is that rock and water existed in a planetary mass before these 6 days, and were created at an earlier time. Following this view, these six days of re-creation have not been converted into 'six periods of time'. Furthermore, this does not necessarily lend any credibility to carbon dating, since we have no knowledge of what vestiges of the old world, if any, remain, or how long the “gap” was. It is at this point we enter into real speculation. Whatever else you may have read, I do not feel that my comments, at any rate, are “designed to explain the unexplainable mysteries of God's creation”, neither do they deviate from the “plain language” of the Bible – the OT is Hebrew, and so it’s hardly surprising that our English translations can obscure occasionally the meaning, or the harmony between several corresponding scriptures, namely Gen 1:2, Isaiah 45:18, Jer 4:23. Anyhow, these notes have been offered as thoughts, not as didactic doctrine. I have my own queries too, but I think we would do better to express our doubts through scripture. These are my last comments on this topic, and I respectfully submit them to this forum. God bless. |
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2 | Time lapse between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:3. | Gen 1:2 | Makarios | 8277 | ||
DocSpock, I agree with you and was not offering any 'discredit' or disagreement to your earlier post. What you have written so far on the Forum has been very well thought out, and I appreciate your membership to the Forum! | ||||||
3 | Carbon-14 Dating Questioned? | Gen 1:2 | Jim Dunne | 10607 | ||
One thing in this thread really intrigues me - EdB's comment about the potential unreliably of carbon-14 dating. Is this a recent thing? If carbon-14 turns out to be unreliable, that would certainly have a tremendous impact on the sciences, not the least of which is Biblical Archeology. If anyone knows more about this, please post! Yours in Christ, Jim D. |
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4 | Carbon-14 Dating Questioned? | Gen 1:2 | Morant61 | 10614 | ||
Greetings Jim! I not a scientist and I'm operating from memory here, but I believe the problem with all of the dating systems is the assumptions involved in them. For instance, we know the rate of decay for whatever substance is being tested for. If substance A has a half-life of 10,000,000 years, and we find 1/2 A in the test result, then the age would be 5,000,000 years. The assumption though is that we began with A and not 1/2 A, or 1/4 A. All of the dating systems are basically circular arguments. We assume that evolution took place, devise a test based upon those assumptions, and lo and behold, they prove our assumptions. I hope this helps! Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran |
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