Rather Sad
June 25, 2002
Gary posted this and, to me, it's rather sad.
This same terminology was used for each of the first six days of creation. That verse, Genesis 1:5, is part of what leads me to believe that this section of the Bible can and should be taken literally. Literally to mean that God created the world and all that is in it in six literal 24-hour days...
I'm an engineer by trade and that training causes me to believe what I learn through and from science. But that training and those "beliefs" sometimes get in the way of God's truth.
Genesis 1:5 clearly ties night and day, as we know it, to a literal day of creation. Science tells us that the earth has been around for "billions and billions of years" to quote Carl Sagan.
Science is wrong.
And that's tough for me to believe because to do so, I have to admit that the claims and assumptions upon which science is based are incorrect. And that's tough, in part because I don't understand all of the science involved.
But I do understand that God requires me to believe - to have faith in Him and His Word. Even when I don't understand everything there is to understand, I need to have faith and believe.
Religion is a funny thing. At its best it allows our indomitable spirit to stand fast against odds overwhelming and depressing. It also calls people to the highest aspirations imaginable. The sadness, though, comes from religion's equal, if not stronger, ability to blot out our capacity for reason, to truly understanding the magic in the natural world, for the understandable, but impossible, goal to be always "right."
Posted by Jody at June 25, 2002 10:58 AM