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How Long Are The Days In Genesis 1? Why?
Interview questions:

1. How long are the days in Genesis 1? Why?

2.How old is the earth and life? Why?

3.Did man and apes share a common ancestor? Why or Why Not?

4.Where Adam and Eve real people? Why or Why not?

Interviewee 1 Answers:

1.Don’t know. Not specified.

2.The earth billions of years, life billions of years less then earth. Sciences has proven it to be true.

3.Don’t know. Don’t think there is scientific evidence one way or the other.

4.No. No evidence to say they were.

Interviewee 2 Answers:

1.24 hours. Don’t really know.

2.10,000 years. The genealogy in the Bible say so and the Bible is the word of God and it has never been proven wrong. Its the infallible word of God
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There is a prominent Hebrew Scalar who does not believe in biblical inerrancy and he says that he has no doubt that the writer of Genesis is trying to convey to the readers that the days are in fact 24 hour days.

2.There is no scientific evidence that can not be disputed on how old the earth is, Assumptions are a big part of both the evolutionary and creationist view. It just depends on how much evidence you need or which ones you are willing to except in order to believe what you do. It has been proven that radiometric dating is not a viable option, thank to Mount St. Helen. The fossil records, Distant starlight theory and Big Bang theory all show no concrete evidence for an old earth.

3.The lack of fossil records , to link both man and apes fossil records clearly speaks for them not having had one. Lucy the ape, depicted as having human hands and feet and which currently stands in the museum of natural history, is on display as one of our oldest ancestors. They claim that this is a replica of the fossils found in the dig, but really only 40% of the bones for Lucy were found, and non of them were the hands or
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2.If you add up the genealogy in Genesis 5 and 11 which is Adam to Abraham, Abraham to the exodus from Egypt, and the Exodus to king David, that then tells us the rest of the timeline we get 6,000 years as the age of the earth. This is what most Biblical creationist hold to.

3.There is no link that has been found to prove that man and apes share a common ancestor, Lucy which is what they clam is the link in reality does not work because only 40% of "her" as they like to say bones were found. Non of the feet or hands and from the bones that were found it turns out Lucy is not a "her" but a "him".

4.Every Culture has its own creation myth, but are true point of wither Adam and Eve were real is in that Jesus and Paul spoke of them as if they were real in the new testament. Jesus and Paul have been proven to be real people in history and the new testament has been proven to be an accurate source of information.

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