30 Jun '22 14:06>1 edit
The hard core YECs, those over the event horizon, insist that “6 days” of creation is literal. But it cannot be, here’s why…
Firstly science (scientists) doesn’t know how life emerged on earth. Fine. Secondly they do know where Gold comes from, how it was created, along with all the other heavy elements such as iron.
Let’s take iron. Iron is essential for human life, it is present in trace amounts in the haemoglobin of our red blood cells for example.
But iron is only produced in stars at the time of their death. As a large star, on of the bigger ones, burns it’s fuel and starts depleting it, the explosive energy of the start decreases and gravity starts to overcome the outward explosive force and collapse the star. As this happens heavier elements are produced as the star crushes the atoms causing more intense nuclear fusion. It’s an increasing cycle of outward explosive force and inward gravitational force. Eventually only iron is produced at the stars centre and the fuel is exhausted. The big stars collapse at almost the speed of light and the resultant implosion is bounced back outward in a massive explosion ~ a supernova.
This phenomena ejects masses of heavy elements into the universe; iron, carbon etc, the ingredients of life. Science knows this happens, it is universally accepted.
Let’s acknowledge then that all these elements are in deep space drifting around, eventually joining a coalesce of collapsing material which makes a planet, the earth.
God then intervenes and initiates life. The process of creation of human beings.
YECs can argue that this process was accelerated on earth, but the time from the exploding stars to the earth being habitable is millions, even billions of years. So “day 1” cannot be literally 24 hours.
Thoughts.
Firstly science (scientists) doesn’t know how life emerged on earth. Fine. Secondly they do know where Gold comes from, how it was created, along with all the other heavy elements such as iron.
Let’s take iron. Iron is essential for human life, it is present in trace amounts in the haemoglobin of our red blood cells for example.
But iron is only produced in stars at the time of their death. As a large star, on of the bigger ones, burns it’s fuel and starts depleting it, the explosive energy of the start decreases and gravity starts to overcome the outward explosive force and collapse the star. As this happens heavier elements are produced as the star crushes the atoms causing more intense nuclear fusion. It’s an increasing cycle of outward explosive force and inward gravitational force. Eventually only iron is produced at the stars centre and the fuel is exhausted. The big stars collapse at almost the speed of light and the resultant implosion is bounced back outward in a massive explosion ~ a supernova.
This phenomena ejects masses of heavy elements into the universe; iron, carbon etc, the ingredients of life. Science knows this happens, it is universally accepted.
Let’s acknowledge then that all these elements are in deep space drifting around, eventually joining a coalesce of collapsing material which makes a planet, the earth.
God then intervenes and initiates life. The process of creation of human beings.
YECs can argue that this process was accelerated on earth, but the time from the exploding stars to the earth being habitable is millions, even billions of years. So “day 1” cannot be literally 24 hours.
Thoughts.