How long is Genesis "evening and morning", the days of creation?
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probably! i never thought of that before- it akes way more sense than a normal day on earth
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You will find the answer to your question in the Bible book of Genesis, chapter 1.  Read verses 9-28.  But for the sake of others here who may not have a Bible, or don't wish to look these up, I will partially quote them here:\n\n11)  And God went on to say: “Let the earth cause grass to shoot forth, bearing seed, fruit trees yielding fruit according to their kinds...a third day.\n\n21) And God proceeded to CREATE the great sea monsters and EVERY LIVING SOUL THAT MOVES ABOUT, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind...a FIFTH day.\n\n26) And God went on to say: “Let us make MAN in our image...” 27) And God proceeded to create the man in his image,...MALE AND FEMALE, HE CREATED THEM...a SIXTH day. \n\n28)  Further, God blessed them and said to them: “Be fruitful and become many and fill the earth and subdue it...”\n\nSo, you see, every animal was created during the 5th symbolic day, including the dinosaurs, and Adam and Eve were created during the 6th. - - - But do read the whole passage from your own Bible, please.
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It was God who created the earth. The first couple chapters of Genesis explain that. It took 6 days and on the 7th day he rested.
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Some theologians believe that the creation "days" listed could have spanned eons.  However, this is different from "imaginary numbers," which in mathematics are numbers such as "i" or the sqrt of -1.  \n I know this wasn't a serious question, but you got a serious answer.  :o)\n\nI know I will get pounded for this, but this and other biblical "events" are more like allegorical stories - not to be taken literally.  \nThink metaphors, not written in stone - even the writing in stone bit.
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Of course they are.  It was a man who "decided" how old the universe was and he used man's lenght of Time to determine it. We have no idea how long God's day is. it may have taken 7 "days" but God's day may just be several billion years of our Time. I beleive in both evolution and creation and they both make perfect sense. Blessings and good luck.
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Open your Bible to the very first page (not the title page).  There, it says on the 6th day of creation.
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Both. The Bible says that to God a day is a thousand years and a thousand years is a day, basically meaning that God work in the infinite and time has no meaning to Him. It took God 7 days to create the heavens and the Earth, but who knows how long 7 of God's days really are? God created animals before he created man, who's to say that the first animals God created weren't Dinosaurs? I believe God created all things and when you find bones and footprints of really large creatures that are no longer here, then I believe God made those creatures along with everything else.
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My dads a christian minister, and he believes in evolution - he says that the creation story in the bible is like a parable, but in acutal fact it took much much longer than 7 days to create everything, and evolution is part of god's plan - it's how he created everything.  He says that evolution cannot be agrued with, as there are no holes in the 'theory' - it is a fact, not a theory,  so the only sensible way to look at the creation story is as a parable.
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Genesis 6:15 Make it 450 feet long, 75 feet wide, and 45 feet high. \n \nIt was the length of one and a half football fields and as high as a four story building.  The boat was exactly six times longer than it was wide - the same ratio used by modern shipbuilders.\nIt took Noah 120 years to build the boat.
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There are many theories on that one.  It might be that Adam and Eve were created along with the dinosaurs, and they could have lived in the Garden of Eden for millions if not billions of years before they took the fruit, with animals evolving around them.  Or, the entire process of creation took billions of years, and the 7 days is just a symbol of time, and not an actual space of time, in which case it took the earth several billion years to be created, along with everyone and everything on it.
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It could have been millions of years for all we know. The Bible is written in Hebrew. The word that translates into day refers to "a period of time". That was doubrful a twenty-hour hour period. Besides, if I day is measured by the earth's rotation around the sun, how would the creation of the earth and sun be measured? Days as we know them did not exist yet, because they sun and earth didn't exist yet. \nCouldn't have been timed on a stopwatch. \nSo yes, it was probably millions of years, years as we know them - so many revolutions around the sun.
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SOMEONE SAID GOD CREATED EARTH IN 6 DAYS, WELL IT REALLY TOOK HIM 7, IF U R INTERESTED ON THAT READ THE 1ST CHAPTER OF GENESIS, I RECOMMEND THE "NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION"(NIV)\nIT'S EASSIER TO UNDERSTAND.
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Hoo Boy!  If you take Genesis at face value, God made the universe, and laid down certain laws, physical principles, etc..  Man was later.  Man has made laws to regulate behavior, right wrongs, and to protect vested interests.
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The Sumerian (present day Iraq), Egyptians and Babylonians developed 60 minute hour.\n\nDividing the Day into Hours, Minutes, and Seconds\n\nThe Egyptians and Babylonians decided to divide the day from sunrise to sunset into twelve parts that are called hours. They also divided the night, the time from sunset to sunrise, into twelve hours. But the day and the night are not the same length, and the length of the day and night also changes through the year. This system of measuring the time was not very accurate because the length of an hour changed depending on the time of year. This meant that water clocks had to be adjusted every day.\n\nSomebody finally figured out that by dividing the whole day into 24 hours of equal length (12 hours of the day plus 12 hours of the night), the time could be measured much more accurately.\n\nWhy was the day and night divided into 12 parts? Twelve is about the number of moon cycles in a year, so it is a special number in many cultures.\n\nThe hour is divided into 60 minutes, and each minute is divided into 60 seconds. The idea of dividing the hour and minute into 60 parts comes from the Sumerian sexagesimal system, which is based on the number 60. This system was developed about 4,000 years ago.
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How could there be when they were the last in the creation sequence?  The Earth was not even here before Adam and Eve but for less than a week.  Go to Genesis and read for yourself the sequence of events and it will answer your question.\nDay 1-light-separated night and day\nDay 2-Land and sky(clouds, air, etc.)\nDay 3-VEgetation, all the plants\nDay 4-Sun, stars, moon\nDay 5-Animal life\nDay 6-Man-Adam \nDay 7-Sabbath day-blessed the day and made it holy\n\nLater made Eve from Adams rib bone, the first surgery ever recorded.
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God created the universe and everything in it in 6 days.  He rested on the 7th.  And what does that have to do with dinosaurs?
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This is a question that seems to come up a lot, but I love it anyway!\nIf the Bible is really God's word, then there is no problem at all with a literal 6 day creation story. (If you try to change that, then you have death before Adam sinned, and Eve could not be the mother of all living, etc ... disbelieving a literal 6 day creation will make you throw out more of the rest of the Bible than you get to keep.)\nI agree with the perspective that God could have created the earth with the appearance of age, created stars with light-years of light coming from them already, etc... I mean, if God can create everything, He can create it however he likes. (Side note on the age of the earth, did you know that according to evolution the earth is ageing millions of years per year? - Ask that one sometime!)\n\nBack when Darwin introduced the theory of Evolution to modern history (the idea goes back WAY before Darwin, but that's another story), he stated that for his theory to work, there must be evidence, and speculated on what it COULD look like - None exists today. Christians really dropped the ball on this one, and let this "theory" become equivalent to "science" (science must be observable and repeatable).\n\nIs there PROOF for creation? No (again, scientific proof must be observable and repeatable), there is not PROOF, but there is a lot more reasonable evidence that there is for creation.\n\nRegarding dinosours, the Bible actually speaks of them (and dragons) in the book of Job.\nSome remote cultures (The Congo, the Amazon, etc.) have recent (20th Century) stories of dinosaurs still living.\n\nThere's a lot more, but I don't want to get too long on you, so check out the link below for TONS more info, on this subject.