Let's just make it fit

It amazes me what lengths new earth thinkers will go to squeeze the creator into seven calendar days, when the bible does not presuppose that a day equals a day. Even our vernacular accepts that a day can mean an era, an epoch, a season, or a 24-hour moment of time.

The bible uses the word interchangeably – as in the moment Jesus stood in the synagogue to echo Isaiah’s words, “… to proclaim the year of God’s favor”, which ended up being 2,000 years. The 70 weeks of Daniel alluded to 490 years, the 3.5 days in the two semesters of tribulation implied 3½ years, and Peter confirmed that a day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day.

I have read a lot about neo-creationists views and as many rebuttals. The arguments range around Carbon 14 dating, sediment layers in the sea or on the moon, conservation of momentum and angular momentum arguments and so much more, all of which have been found to be as thin if not thinner than “a cup of homeopathic soup made from a dead pigeon that had been starved to death”.

Angular momentum intrigues me right now, for it argues that the spinning of the singularity must be preserved for all massive bodies. That assumes that what was almost certainly not mass, but pure energy, was spinning at all. However, as observed in say a moon of Jupiter, bodies can enter a system and be influenced by its gravity to trigger a new angular momentum state. 

Another argument is that plant life could not have survived from day 3 without sunlight, which only appeared on day 4. Yet, there was light from Day 1. So the neo-creationist will then try to squeeze the magical-mystical tour of the ages into another caveat, namely that the light that sustained organic growth was the light of Christ … and all along I thought the “God of the gaps” was either the way of the ignorant dark ages or of creative evolutionists.

Anything else would contradict John 1, so they argue, for John said, “In the beginning was the word and the word was with God and the word was God, and by Him all things were made and … He is the light that shines in a dark place and the darkness does not comprehend it”.

The problem now is that Jesus was, by implication, made … on the 1^st day. For God said, “Let there be light”. So now the creator was created. Of course that must fit somehow, and if it doesn’t we will further distort reality until it fits our script.

The Big Bang may not be fully refined and may yet evolve into something more elegant than we now accept, as happened to E=M or relativity. However, it was logically triggered by something external to it, for Thermodynamics confirms that nothing inside a system can move to a higher state of existence without an external stimulus.

Kalam argued that: everything that begins to exist has a cause; but the universe began to exist; Therefore: The universe has a cause.  In other words, Kalam, a Muslim scholar, argued that nothing comes from nothing. So what happened in the Big Bang?

Presumably, the energy inside the singularity was immense, as it probably had translated all available mass to energy to facilitate what many perceive as infinite density. That would not have been enough to trigger a Big Bang sequence, which was not an explosion or a bang but a rapid expansion from a pinhead of super-matter to a universe.

So what added the last straw and what defined its subsequent behavior? We know that the four primary laws of physics were defined well inside the first second of that event horizon, namely, the strong and weak nuclear forces, gravity and electromagnetic radiation. That is consistent with what God said to Job 38:5, "Who hath laid the measures thereof, if thou knowest? or who hath stretched the line upon it?"

That provides some clue of what happened next. To fulfil Genesis 1:3, light had to have been evident and it was, because Jesus the logos light of the world, the truth of God and the illuminator of every heart, created the electromagnetic and energy conditions needed for light to flood the universe.

That was not possible until then, because the singularity trapped all matter and all light inside itself, resulting in “… and the world was without form and void, and darkness was on the face of the deep”.

The creator was not a created light, but the creator or instigator of light. Through that, He triggered life. In effect, He also defined another law, the constant of energy that defines its relationship with mass and regulates all physical conditions, namely the speed of light.

From day 1 or the emergence of light, other logical phases occurred in line with Genesis 1, to drive the nothingness of the universe to its ultimate objective: the earth and its formation. Each phase logically enabled each subsequent phase until man could take His place on that dome.

So how then did the plants survive without sunlight prior to day 4? Well by the same light that still powers our world – the light of stars. Maybe earth wasn’t inside this solar system yet, who knows?

Maybe its formative heat bred a very dense atmosphere and high greenhouse conditions, which also facilitated the radiation needed for heavy elements, but which subsequently led to the dynamic changes that separated the sea and dry land on the same day as vegetation appeared.

Some argue that hydrogen trapped in the upper atmosphere might have enabled perpetual light, as starlight diffused through the atmosphere to light the earth. Whatever, we know that sunlight is not a condition for organic life, light is and whatever lit the earth sparked rapid organic growth.

I tend to feel that what is defined as another creation event was just the thinning of the atmosphere so we could distinguish the lights beyond our atmosphere, coincidental with the earth being trapped inside our sun’s gravity to commence its orbit and rotation, so that day and night started to rule.

Well, there is so much to say, but also a time to stop saying. 

I conclude by saying that whereas theists once had to defend that the universe and time had a beginning, the Big Bang resolved the dilemma, only for neo-creationists to dilute that victory with an insistence on timing that is not required by the biblical narrative and is certainly not irreverent. When will we learn to enjoy the only true side of truth that will ever prevail, namely Christ?  

(c) Peter Eleazar @ www.4u2live.net