Is there a standpoint from which the creation days in Genesis 1 are described as 24 hours per day?

[Burrawang]

@jammycakes

@Burrawang

It may surprise you to know that I have some experience in regulating coal and oil industry extraction works through stratigraphic mapping of rocks entrapping hydrocarbon fuel and groundwater aquifers. Some industry work I conducted included detailed mapping of geologic strata around mine extraction locations to understand the local hydro-geology and determine where monitoring bore locations should be placed to assist in preventing aquifer contamination from coal, oil and natural gas extractive industries.

I’m going to assume that you’re telling the truth here @Burrawang, and that you really do have the experience that you claim to have. I am going to recommend that others do likewise.

However, this does mean that you should expect to be held to a much higher standard in terms of the factual accuracy and technical integrity of your claims. In particular, you should be expected to know and understand the basic rules and principles of accurate and honest measurement. You should also be expected to understand and do any necessary maths when challenged, to substantiate your claims with evidence, and to make sure that the information you are providing in support of your position is kept up to date. You should certainly not be making claims that demonstrate an ignorance of GCSE level mathematics or the basic principles of how measurement works, nor should you be making claims that can be falsified with nothing more than a simple Google search.

People with limited scientific experience can be excused on the grounds of ignorance if they make claims that are inaccurate, incorrect, incoherent or outdated. Since you have told us that you have relevant experience in the field, you do not have the luxury of that excuse.

Thus it is incumbent upon your good self to be truthful and not make the outlandish accusations that you have leveled against me and other Christians who believe the Bible means what it so plainly says in earlier posts under this subject.

The fact of the matter is that you appear to have a jaundiced stereotype view of what people like myself believe.
The truth of all being discussed on this Biologos website, is one of worldviews through which an individual interprets the world we live in. As professing Christians, being truthful is a given, or at least it should be a given. We all have an audience of One in Heaven who sees all that we do. We should always be mindful of Him and make our actions, our words and thoughts in alignment with Jesus who showed us how to live.

We should not be surprised when we are attacked for what we believe, as we are not of this world and the world hates those that love the Lord and are His.

If I understand correctly from what you have inferred about yourself on a previous occasion, I’m certainly not sure, but see that it is possible that you once believed as I do now, that evolution is a deceptive unfalsifiable lie, devoid of any real supporting evidence and that belief in eons of the deeptime billions of years is just a modern myth that sets itself up against the truth of real creation about 6,000 Earth years ago as the Bible so clearly informs us through simple addition of the provided genealogies.

God Bless,
jon