Dear Mike,

I am blessed to no longer teach Science in public schools as I, like many of your readers, have searched for an answer to our creation and time frame of history.

I’ve read everything you’ve written more than once and yesterday was reading your responses about the “Creation Week” and the gap theory.  God has led me to a possible explanation reconciling both the “old earth” and the “young earth” and, like your writing, it seems a revelation.

God’s word tells us his creature (creation) was subject to “the bondage of corruption”. Our vanity and ego from our beast ignores the creation part of the story. Today’s science is based on Aristotle’s (a pagan) assumption that “everything remains the same”. God has blinded our eyes through relativity to not recognize or be able to measure the corruption and aging of everything and so all our sciences are based on a faulty assumption. God gave us the moon and the sun to measure time, not seconds and hours, and there’s the problem. We assume that yesterday’s hour is the same as today’s hour and have absolutely no way to prove this to be true!

A NASA scientist named Anderson could not understand why radio signals from our Pioneer satellites leaving our Solar system, billions of miles away, showed they were accelerating TOWARDS the Sun. The explanation is easy to understand, if you have eyes to see, and that is those same radio signals are from the PAST! The past hours are not today’s hours, the past days are not today’s days. Everything continues to change but it’s very difficult to see or measure.

I agree with you and God that a day is measured by earth’s rotation. We measure that as 24 hours which is a man-made measurement and not God’s! It seems a likely possibility for the reconciliation many are looking for!

Thanks for listening.
Your brother in Christ,
B____

Hi B___,

Thanks for taking the time to send this, but I cannot agree that there is any way to reconcile scripture with what is known as theistic evolution. There is no gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 because we are specifically told that God created things “suddenly”.

Isa 48:3 I have declared the former things from the beginning; and they went forth out of my mouth, and I shewed them; I did them suddenly [Hebrew: pith’ôm,  instantly], and they came to pass.

Here is James Strong’s definition of the Hebrew word, translated ‘suddenly’ here in Isaiah 48:3.

H6597
pith’o m  pith’o m
pith- ome’, pith- ome’
From H6621; instantly: – straightway, sudden (-ly).

“They went forth out of my mouth” means exactly what we read in Genesis 1; they were spoken into existence. The only reason it took six days was for the spiritual lesson we derive from the fact that God decreed that six is the symbol of mankind, who was created on day six along with all the other beasts of the earth.

Rev 13:18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has a mind calculate the number of the wild beast, for it is the number of mankind, and its number is six hundred sixty- six. (CLV)

Ecc 3:18  I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

I do not pretend to be a scientist, but I do claim to believe God’s Word over “science falsely so- called”.

1Ti 6:20  O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

If I am wrong to believe that the “evenings and mornings” of Genesis one were not long ages of time, then God will deal with me accordingly, but my faith is in His word and not in so-called science which contradicts His Word, which tells us that He simply spoke the entire universe into existence “suddenly”.

Ken Hamm, who is a very orthodox Christian doctrinally, does a very good job of defending the word of God on this subject in his Answers In Genesis videos, which can be found on the internet. He answers all of the objections to the Biblical inference that the earth is just about six thousand years old.

Your brother in Christ,
Mike