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I look at it like sure the Bible says the Earth was created in 7 days but who is to say those 7 days in the beginning were only 24 hours long? Couldn't the passage of a day have been a different measurement of time during creation? During these '7 days' could the dinosaurs have roamed the Earth?

We switched from saying God created the world in 7 days to He created it in 7 phases. That way it's not time-specific.

I checked out that in Job, that is very interesting. I never noticed it before and I believe that is exactly what he is talking about. Thanks for pointing that out.

Just be careful with how much stalk you put into science. It may explain some things, but God created this world and cannot be contained to simple 'box' in our minds. Something I tend to forget and struggle with.

As someone on the high functioning on the autistic spectrum, I tend to get carried away with subjects that capture my interest. Science is not one of them, though. So, I am glad we can talk about this without being ridiculed for believing in a higher power.

And, before someone asks, I am trying to figure out what kind of personality God would have to accept the mentally disabled.

A personalitly of love and kindness.

The Bible was writen by people who lived in a time where knowledge was very limited, and so they interpreted phenomenons the best way they could. It doesn't mean that there isn't a God and that he (or she) didn't create Earth. It just means that it was all put down in writing by men who relied heavily on their imagination and, as such, the Bible should be seen has an alegory. That is, we shouldn't take thing to literaly.
As a scientist, I believe in facts that are pretty evident - creation was an elaborate and long process, man evolved from primates over time, etc. As a christian, I believe in a greater force behind everything (call it God, or Nature, or Allah, or whatever you like it - it's all the same to me) that put things into motion. Maybe it's stupid to believe in both science and religion, but that's were faith comes in, and we all need a little to get us through life, don't we?

The Bible itself says a day to God is as a thousand years to man. So creation may have taken 6 days (God rested the 7th) but it was actually thousands of years. There is a movie out there that perfectly explains science and faith in God, and even has evidence to show how the Earth's age and change in conditions correlate to events in the Bible. I will have to look it up and share if anyone is interested.

The Bible was written by men who were inspired by the Holy Spirit, both Old and New Testaments. The New Testament is an eye-witness account to what Jesus Christ did and what happened in the early Christian Church by SEVERAL people. The Old Testament was written by the prophets and kings who actually had instruction from God about everything from famines to wars to predictions of the future. And history backs up a LOT of it.

I agree, we did not EVOLVE from apes. If we did, there would no longer BE apes as they ALL would have evolved, not just some. There is also evidence IN OUR DNA that God created us. Again, something I must look up and post again as my time here at the library is coming to an end. But yes, God and science DO CO-EXIST. And there were dinosaurs in the Bible, as well as many other creatures. I believe it could have been a Leviathan and not a whale that swallowed Jonah. And just wait for the creatures that will be coming (described in Revelation) like nothing you have seen before.