outsider wrote:
It can turn into a semantic argument at this point.
God made the heavens and the earth, made light, divided day and night. After this God made land and then plants.
There was already day and night before there were plants.
If we had no sun would we have light or a day? Is the sun not a part of the heavens?
Maybe I just have a way of looking at it that I can't really describe but truthfully I see no contradiction.
Well, the Bible says explicitly that the sun was created on the fourth day, but the plants were created on the third. Your question about whether we can have day and night without the sun is a good one. Science says we can\'t, that day and night are meaningless without a sun. But the Bible says that there were day and night for three \'days\' before the sun was created, and if we\'re allowing a day to be an arbitrary amount of time it\'s a lot longer than that.
So I still see a contradiction without seeing any way to resolve it.
Still, it often happens that I\'ll have some issue or other with which I\'m struggling, and it\'ll seem insurmountable to me but it just doesn\'t bother other people at all. The reverse is also true -- sometimes others get hung up on this or that point while I, though unable to resolve the conflict they point out, am completely unbothered by it.
Perhaps this is just one of those cases. If so, I\'m perfectly happy to agree to disagree, and to close by reaffirming your central point about the fundamental compatibility between creation and evolution.
