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Quote by: nerdvincent  God created the earth in 6 days. How could we define a ''day'' when earth wasn't spinning? |
It's all in the translation. The hebrew word used in Genesis is "yom" has several meanings.
1. Day....as opposed to night
2. Day...as a 24 hour period.
3. A general time period
4. A year
5. A lifetime
Obviously, to conform to scientific evidence, christians claimed that the translation for the days in genesis were actually lifetimes or longer. The reason that argument fails, at least to me is this nifty reference I found:
Brown-Driver-Briggs' Hebrew Definitions:
yôm (Strong's H3117)
1. day, time, year
a. day (as opposed to night)
b. day (24 hour period)
1. as defined by evening and morning in Genesis 1
2. as a division of time
a. a working day, a day’s journey
As you can see, I have a hebrew dictionary specificly stating that the days in genesis were 24 hour periods. Even better evidence is that Genesis states "and there is an evening, and there is a morning -- day one." That in NO way suggests a time period of more than 24 hours, let alone hundreds or thousands of years.