Intelligent Design - The Six Days of Creation

[updated] I have struggled with Genesis down through the years because the evidence--as presented by the scientific elite--we have in the world around us suggests that the Earth is more than four billion years old, but the Bible tells us that in six days was the world made and all that was in it (reference source). If you go to the beginning of Genesis 1:1-5, you see a reference that it was "In the beginning" that God created the heavens and the earth and there seems to be some wiggle room there for those that want a 4.x billion year old Earth to have existed with all manner of life on it before it became "void and without form". The problem with that is God said, "Let there be light" after that and if there wasn't light the way we understand light then nothing could have existed that we would consider life because life needs light, even if it is the light that exists within the cells of a living thing in the form of electrons, etc. Some old earth creationists believe that when God said that, he meant that light broke through the swirling firmament that covered prehistoric earth and for the first time reached the ground. I don't know about you, but when some scientist has to explain the book to me it diminishes the usefulness of the book as a tool for searching out the wonder of God and his creation. According the the Bible, the book of Genesis was dictated to Moses by God and I think that God must have wanted his people to understand what He was saying, so He would use terms that plainly explained the history of the earth. Not code words that some super brain would need to decipher for future generations.

I know that, "scientifically" this is hard for folks to believe, because the time it takes light to travel from the most distant stars is so great that it would take more than 13 billion years for the images we have seen from the Hubble telescope to get to us, so logically they must be at least 13 billion years old. Generally speaking, anyone who tries to prove God's existence with science is scoffed at and lambasted for the attempt. So, here's the deal. You can believe the Bible or not believe it, that leap of faith is entirely within your own power to make. I believe that if you want to explain God with Science and you have the knowledge and understanding necessary to do this you will succeed. This is because God tells us in his word that if we seek Him we will find Him. It also tells us that we will find evidence of Him in His creation. Most scientists don't like to consider Intelligent Design because it challenges the status quo, but isn't this what theory is all about?

I believe that God created the Earth and the stars and the planets and the animals and the people within six 24 hour days, otherwise we are being misled by the authors of the Bible, and I do not believe that the Word given to me; handed down carefully to me though thousands of years, was ever intended to mislead me. I believe for the most part, it is an accurate translation that I study because I believe that God wanted me to understand what is in there, and not require that a scientist explain it to me.

Most people, including scientists will acknowledge that they don't really have a clue how things got started, the first cell, the big bang, etc., they just accept the "most likely" proposition as "gospel". The few scientists that are actually brave enough to consider general relativity as it relates to the creation story will say that it is possible for the concept of a White Hole--the opposite of a Black Hole--to be the beginning of the universe as we know it. That on the edge of this expanding wave of creation, time could stand still relative to the point of origin, the pin prick where the wave originated. This is because it is essentially a gravity wave of vast proportions and gravity will dramatically effect time. So when this wave was travelling away from the Earth, an observer on the Earth might see the edge of it being billions of years old, yet from the perspective of the wave edge it might be very young. It is possible for time to almost stand still from the perspective of the gravity wave. So we can say it is 13 billion years old and not be in conflict with the six days of creation--a few thousand years ago--if we consider the effects of general relativity on the event from the perspectives of both the edge of the universe and the starting point of the universe.

Regarding the dinosaurs, I believe they aren't as old as scientists think. This is borne out by the discovery of organic tissue intact on "70 million year old" dinosaur bones (based on the strata they were found in) is sufficient evidence to this fact. And the scientists that discovered it would rather say it was miraculous that it survived intact and not simply admit that the strata they found it in is probably not 70 million years old.

If science is willing to follow through with its mandate and follow the evidence where it leads rather than get stuck in the dogma of protecting the theory of evolution, what would we discover? Scientists need to be free to consider other possibilities without fear of reprisals from their superiors.

Did you know that some of the most resistant scientists in the world to the principle of Intelligent Design, actually admit that it is possible that another "intelligent" entity "designed" life and seeded it on earth? This is how they answer the question, "Where did the first cell come from?" (See Ben Stein's, Expelled movie) They are essentially saying they will only believe in Intelligent Design for the first cell if the designer that created it came from evolution. The Bible starts by telling us that in the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. I don't know where God came from, but I do know that I would rather believe in Him than in the scientist that believes in aliens seeding the universe, because, at least with God I have a historical reference for His relationship with man. A documented period of time that demonstrates the interaction of man and God. These condescending scientists act like anyone who would believe what the Bible says about creation is an idiot and yet they get their information from a rock. The mind boggles. What do you believe?