God made the plants before the sun because He knew that 6000 years down the road it would serve as a powerful refutation to evolution.
He also made the earth before the sun.
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Couldn't he have just sunk The Beagle ?
Jacob - the plants survived because they were made of meat.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein [there is] life, [I have given] every green herb for meat: and it was so.
Am I to understand, then, that God actually planned the creation of Earth in such a way as to disprove a concept that wouldn't even exist for another 6000 years? Doesn't he have anything better to do?
@Jacob
How did the plants survive without the sun to drive its photosynthetic process?
I think that a plant could live for a day without light. But surviving a day on a frozen planet. That'd be a sight.
So first there were just these random planets flying in random directions and then suddenly BAM, there was the sun? You didn't really think that through too well, did you? I think that if there was a god, he could make the world in such a way that the posit of evolution would not even need to come up. Instead, your god looks like an idiot. Well done.
By the way, Zadic, your post #91048 is spot on.
And you are ding-danged koo-koo bird! Yes you are. Yes you sure are! And he made snakes that used to be able to talk, but they got wiped out in a big flood, and then...
You are deranged beyond all repair.
Actually, it would be a powerful piece of evidence in support of creationism...if there was a single shred of evidence that this is the way it happened outside of the Bible. For this to be a viable argument, you have to already accept the Bible as 100% literal truth...and if you do that then you don't need to be convinced that creationism is true. It's like saying dead people know what happens after you die.
God made the plants before the sun because He knew that 6000 years down the road it would serve as a powerful refutation to evolution.
But it's not a refutation of evolution. It's scientifically impossible; therefore, it's a refutation of the accuracy of the Bible.
If God really wanted to refute evolution, he could do it in a minute: just create some completely new forms of life with no genetic relationship to anything else.
You say it serves as a refutation. Let me see the refutation. Unless, of course, you're referring to that obsolete collection of books known as the Bible, because the Bible is not evidence.
@The Jamo
So first there were just these random planets flying in random directions and then suddenly BAM, there was the sun?
...and now we have a bunch of planets, floating around in space. Now let's kick it up a notch with a big flaming ball of incandescent gas.
BAM! Sun.
So if something in the bible is possible, it proves the accuracy of the bible, but if it's impossible , then only God could have done it, proving the accuracy of the bible?!
"Wise men store up knowledge, but the mouth of a fool invites ruin." (Prov.10:14)
Jon wrote: "Neither of which makes any sense. Remember how the first words he speaks in the Bible are "Let there be light"?"
Yes, but if he's speaking, there must have already been sound!
The idiot that wrote about this stuff got the sequence all wrong. That's what happens when you don't show up at the event you're supposed to cover.
So much for infallibility, eh?
God created the plants before the Sun because the ancient goat herders who wrote this story were not aware of photosynthesis and didn't know that plants cannot survive without sunlight.
God created the Earth before the Sun because the ancient goat herders who wrote this story were not aware that the Earth was not stationary but instead travelled around the Sun.
Occam's Razor, bitch!
Confused?
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