
Originally Posted by
Mattandstuff
Well assuming there is a God (I believe the evidence strongly supports this) and he created the universe, literally we are talking about a being in whose mind the very laws of physics were formed. If he does in fact exist I don't think it is outside reason to believe he is quite capable of creating everything in 6 days. But like I said with things like this you have no idea exactly what happened.
So God could have created everything as it was this morning with all our memories and all the scientific evidence to the contrary. But then that would make Him a liar and the Bible one of His biggest lies. Another really big lie would be that we are the slightest bit responsible for what kind of person we are. Well I suppose you have to think up some alternative that makes your ancient necromancer God seem reasonable by comparision. But frankly whether you say God did it this morning or you say that God did it 6000 years ago, I don't see much difference. The point is that the result are not independent of the method. Power you see is not the answer to every challenge, and accomplishing something meaningful usually requires something quite different. So I must quite disagree with you. What God wanted to accomplish, he could not accomplish in six days at all.
Since you say you have an open mind, lets challenge it a little. It is doubtful that this will do any good, because most protestants vastly underestimate the impact that tradition has on their thinking, but lets give it a try.
Consider Genesis chapter 6:1-4. Now someone not already programed to understand this according to tradition, might find all the places in the Bible that the phrase "sons of God" can be found and find that it always refers to God's chosen people. In that case, "the sons of God saw that the daughters of men were fair; and they took to wife such of them as they chose", becomes the very simple answer to the age old question of who did the sons of Adam marry, not their own sisters but the daughters of all those other members of homo sapien species which the Bible refers to as "men".
Then their children, the Nephilim are quite simply the "giants" among men, the leaders of human civilization, or as the Bible puts it, "the mighty men that were of old, the men of renown." If they were as long lived as chapter 5 suggests this is quite understandable indeed. Then suddenly something else back in chapter 4 that made no sense, now does. For if there are all these other "men" out there, then Cain's fear that he will be a fugative and that men will find him and slay him does not sound quite so weird when he and his parents are the only people alive on the planet.
Now compare this with the tradition that sees evolution and science as the enemy of God and so must take the Bible literally when it suits them and know that there were no other people on the earth because Adam and Eve were the first human beings, created by magic from dirt and borrowed body parts (though how you could call that human I will never understand). According to this tradition these "sons of God" in Genesis 6 were angels and that these had sex with women to give birth to giant human-like creatures. Some even go so far as to say that this represents a demonic pollution of the human race and that God's work of salvation was one of ethnic cleansing. This is certainly a hermeneutics that is quite palatable to racists, how about to you?

Originally Posted by
Mattandstuff
Isaiah talks about how 1000 years here on earth is equivalent to one day for God. I think it is a mix of all of them to be honest.
Well now, that is curious.
I am aware of Palms 90:4 "For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night", which is no doubt the inspiration for 2 Peter 3:8, "But do not ignore this one fact, beloved, that with the Lord one day si as a thousand years, and a thousand years is one day." But Isaiah? Hmmm... I cannot seem to find that one. Maybe you can help with that.