THE BIBLE, THE GENESIS,
CREATION
Seven days?
Who has not wondered: seven days? Yes, who would not? -as we look at each other
askance, with a mean grin.
It is a fact that fewer and fewer people believe that God created the heavens
and the earth in seven days.
What about the dinosaurs? Well, by the time this question arises (a purely
rhetorical one, of course) we are already engaged in a discussion that might
embarrass even the toughest hooligans.
Usually, speaking of Genesis leads us, inevitably, to an irreconcilable division
between science and religion. Apparently, one overrides the other. If Genesis
says seven days, and science has proved there were six billion years, it all
indicates that something is wrong, obviously... in The Bible.
It is difficult for us to say that the analysis of science is wrong, apart maybe
from a hundred million years up or down. So, following this logic, we will base
this analysis on what science claims that were the early days of the solar
system and of our planet, the Earth, based on the current findings....