Journal Journal: In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. 5
So, just the other morning, I was listening to this discussion of creation vs. evolution on the radio, and the question that came up over and over of the exact age of this ball of dirt we're living on.
Some people insist that the world is billions of years old. Others are adamant that it's only a few hundred thousand.
Here's my thought:
Einstein and Hawking have told us a few things about relativity, specifically, the idea that time really isn't the fixed constant that we think it is. And the theory goes that time is especially relative in certain hard-to-recreate circumstances. If the beginning of the universe isn't a hard-to-recreate circumstance, I don't know what is. I would be surprised if there weren't a lot of relativity going on back then.
From the theological perspective: Time is an aspect of this physical world in which we exist. God, Heaven, and the Host all exist beyond this world, in an Eternal state. Our senses just aren't all that prepared to grok what true timelessness really is. God's given us some clues, but we're very much accustomed to living by the clock and the calendar.
Add into the mix the fact that I've quite possibly overdosed on high-quality sci-fi in my lifetime.
So: Am I totally off my rocker to suggest that maybe a true seven-day creation and a billions-of-years creation may not be all that contradictory?
And I'll end with a joke from rec.humor.funny:
Mortal: What is a million years like to you?
God: Like one second.
Mortal: What is a million dollars like to you?
God: Like one penny.
Mortal: Can I have a penny?
God: Just a second...