Re: Intervention Theory: An alternative to Darwinism and Creationism
It took a long time for humans to appear 
..Just remember NO ZAP and we were here..
In the 21st century with new sciences we will discover many things that we once thought so are not so..
But one thing we do know because of science it takes time for things to happen and it's impossible to
Zap a human and a world in 6 days..
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Even if aliens from another galaxy made the earth it still not gods it's science..
..Just remember NO ZAP and we were here..In the 21st century with new sciences we will discover many things that we once thought so are not so..
But one thing we do know because of science it takes time for things to happen and it's impossible to
Zap a human and a world in 6 days..
..Even if aliens from another galaxy made the earth it still not gods it's science
..Since the topic of this thread has turned to Judaism in the last few posts here is an opinion from a Jewish Rabbi on this topic.
Was Creation Really Seven Days?
http://www.thejewishweek.com/editorial-opinion/sabbath-week/was-creation-really-seven-days
Quote from: Shlomo Riskin
So why does the Bible express itself in terms of six days of creativity culminating in one day of Sabbath rest [Genesis 2:2]? Why would the Bible utilize the Hebrew word yom (day) with any meaning other than a 24-hour period?
The truth is that from the usage of the word yom it is possible to conclude the very opposite of the charedi dogma just cited. The Bible is not interested in conveying literal and chronological facts in its story of Creation. After all, the sun and the moon were not created until the fourth day, and it is specifically their movements which are the determinants for our 24-hour day. Beyond any doubt, then, yom in the context of the seven days of Creation cannot mean a literal 24-hour day.
Furthermore, Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed, interprets all biblical stories until the advent of Abraham as allegories, whose purpose is to convey moral lessons rather than historical fact.
And this certainly leaves the door open to maintain that One thousand (or one million) years in Your eyes is like one day [Psalms 90:4]. Each biblical day in the Creation story may well represent an epoch of thousands or millions or years.
The truth is that from the usage of the word yom it is possible to conclude the very opposite of the charedi dogma just cited. The Bible is not interested in conveying literal and chronological facts in its story of Creation. After all, the sun and the moon were not created until the fourth day, and it is specifically their movements which are the determinants for our 24-hour day. Beyond any doubt, then, yom in the context of the seven days of Creation cannot mean a literal 24-hour day.
Furthermore, Maimonides, in his Guide for the Perplexed, interprets all biblical stories until the advent of Abraham as allegories, whose purpose is to convey moral lessons rather than historical fact.
And this certainly leaves the door open to maintain that One thousand (or one million) years in Your eyes is like one day [Psalms 90:4]. Each biblical day in the Creation story may well represent an epoch of thousands or millions or years.
Was the creation accomplished in 6 days... plus a following day of rest?
From the standpoint of our simple determinations, we do not know because we were not there, and there are way too many things that could have happened that are way beyond our ability to determine.
For example. The whole plan of the universe existed in the mind of God "before" He started creation. Since God used a tiny amount of His great strength to create the universe, the fact that plants were created before the sun, moon, and stars... and the fact that the 24-hour day existed before the scribing of the planetary action by which we understand the 24-hour day... shows that God's power carried everything just as He had it written down in the Bible, no matter how we want to delude ourselves into thinking things happened.
