"But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.--2 Peter 3:8"

This is what I wondered aloud in Bible Study when I was 18. Maybe Genesis was a parable like most of the bible, and the earth was not literally created in six days. I asked our pastor why evolution couldn't be the method God used to create.

And he called me an idiot. He was too preoccupied with shouting & stomping, being indignant and offended by the suggestion that he and a monkey have a common ancestor.

That was when I was 18. I'll be 36 this month and I haven't been to church since. I'm against religion, but it's nice to see a pastor giving his students permission to at least open their minds a narrow crack.

I don't know for sure, and YOU don't know either! Let's not fight about it.

But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.--2 Peter 3:8

Interesting, didn't know Bible had this concept. I happen to agree with this and believe in the same, though I'm not a Christian.

Agree with you 100% melizer.

Wow , Arifsali, what a shock! You think there might be something else you might agree with? Though, of course we know, you're NOT a Christian. (insert emoticon of your choice here).

wilhelm, there could be many more agreements, dialog is important because it brings the best of similarities hence I disagree with "Clash of Civilization" (but you'd disagree here, which is ok). The appropriate term should be "Clash of Ignorance", and here, the Lewis and Huntington are on opposite poles from where I'm coming from.

I will tell you my interpretation of 6 Days sometime when I feel like it. I personally don't see any conflict between evolution theory and faith based religion.

God was a chemist, a physicist, an astronomer, a biologist. He was most certainly an artist, a maker of all of our world's beauty. He was the lawmaker of all of the unseen forces that make "nature" orderly and predictable.

This presumes God to be a scientist, a craftsman, and an artist. The cuteness of such an anthropomorphization would pique God, if SHe/It minded human flouts.

How silly can you get, taking a 3000 years old seven-days myth as an extra-cerebral fact?

Finally, salvation has nothing to do with stars, nebulae, and black holes. In my humble faith, salvation is a private-personal-mental-psychic matter between me and my, in all respects, unknown God.

Johanna, Christian