I wonder why it seems that these things come in waves.
Have you ever been asked a question that you did not expect to be asked?
And then the next day somebody else asks the same question, and then the next day someone else?
Like you haven’t talked about this issue in months and then one week you find yourself talking about it every day?
That happened to me recently with six day creation.
I am a long way from an expert on science. But I am happy to answer the question as someone who works hard at understanding and interpreting the Bible.
Genesis one says that God created the world in six days. Days are days.
Anyway, the post up today at this other blog came at just the right time for me. It is a really, really good explanation of the issues involved and a straightforward claim that since the Bible says six days that is what believers should believe.
It written by John MacArthur. It is a foreword to a book honoring John Whitcomb. Here is a small part:
The apostle Paul closed his first epistle to Timothy by urging the young pastor to guard the deposit of truth that had been entrusted to him, “avoiding the profane and idle babblings and contradictions of what is falsely called knowledge” (1 Timothy 6:20-21). In the King James Version, the text famously speaks of “science falsely so called.”
Trying desperately to keep the biblical concept of eternity at bay, evolutionists have thus devised an alternative kind of infinitude. Every time a challenge to current evolutionary theory arises, geologists and astronomers dutifully tack billions and billions of eons onto their theories about the earth’s age, adding however many ancient epochs are deemed necessary for some new impossibility to be explained.
In the introduction to my 2001 book, The Battle for the Beginning, I suggested naturalism had become the dominant religion of contemporary secular society. “Religion is exactly the right word to describe naturalism,” I wrote. “The entire philosophy is built on a faith-based premise. Its basic presupposition—a rejection of everything supernatural—requires a giant leap of faith. And nearly all its supporting theories must be taken by faith as well.”
Christians should not be intimidated by dogmatic naturalism. We do not need to invent a new interpretation of Genesis every time some geologist or astronomer declares that the universe must be older than he previously thought. Nor should we imagine that legitimate science poses any threat to the truth of Scripture. Above all, we must not seek ways to circumvent the clear meaning of God’s Word, compromise our trust in the Creator, or continually yield ground to every new theory of falsely-so-called science. That is precisely what Paul was warning Timothy about.
Read the whole thing: