I have a question for you all and a theory developed from math, physics, and faith. Please read the entire theory before responding. This theory confirms and complements both faith and science.
Let me begin with a brief statement on conversion factors. We convert seconds into minutes into hours into days into weeks into years, mathematically. With this being established, is it possible that genesis chapter 1 is literal as well as figurative and symbolic?
Here is my theory. The first seven days, were days where the reference was the water. Call them water days, for sake of argument. Therefore according to psalms, “one day for God is a thousand years for man”, so 1 water day is 1000 years. This is one conversion. So, within 7000 years all of creation was created. Now 7 water days begins the formula of the theory. The water day is developed as a reference because in Genesis, the first verse describes entities existing. 1. The void, 2. The waters, 3. Darkness, and 4. God. Now the earth was the void without form. So the void can’t be used as a reference. Darkness is intangible and cannot be used as a reference. So all that’s left is God and water. Water is tangible and God is tangible, but only to the faithful, therefore I am using water as a reference.
We know its been about 8000 years since the flood. Therefore, by converting 8000 years to water days, we can now include that to the formula. 7+8=15 or 15,000 years. Sounds sound right? But it isn’t. The 8000 years since the flood is based upon a solar day. A solar day, is our 24 hr day. The sun was created on the third day, as St. Augustine, in the city of God, points out. Therefore, only 4 water days, or 4000 year could be added to the 8000 years right? Wrong.
A 24 hour day is again based upon the travel of the earth upon its axis. For 8000 years, the earths axis has been at a 5° tilt angle. What would a day be if the earth had a 0° tilt angle? For the earth itself was created between the first two days. During these days time did not exist. Time is a measurement of movement through space, therefore, the first two days do not exist in a solar day. Therefore, at some point while, the earth, plants and light came into being at the same time, when the sun and moon came into being. So measuring the age of these creations would hence may take millions or billions of years to develop if the sun existed, but the sun did not exist. Therefore, all time begins in the third day.
And with the earth, being created, popping into time, and perfect, that is with a 0° degree tilt angle, is 1000 years as compared to a solar day. This factor is not taken into consideration when calculations are made by evolutionists or big bang theorists.
So my formula is x + 4000 years + 8000 years, where x is the 3 days before the suns creation, 4000 years of the rest of creation and 8000 years since the flood. Now there is another variable to consider, how long was Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden? This us critical to the formula for accuracy. We do not know. What we do know is after God created man, God rested. This rest was for a thousand years. So we know that Adam and Eve were in the garden for at least a thousand years, that is solar years or one day, according to genesis, at least one day.
Then Adam and Eve sinned against God. This is interesting to note here because time or the solar day changes at this point, this is more proof that man’s sins effect creation. “The day you eat of the fruit…you shall surely die” was the warning God placed upon the tree of knowledge in Genesis chapter 3. As a result of Adam’s sin, the earth began the wobble, at what I assume as a 2 to 2.5 degree tilt angle. And after the fall Adam lived 950 years, then died. So for Gods warning to be taken literally, Adam died on the day he ate of the fruit, therefore, one day is 1000 years. So the formula I developed to this point is
X + (4000+Y)@ 0° tilt angle, + (8000)@5° tilt angle.
But there is more. By calculating the years from the fall of man until the flood we come up with approximately 1250 years. So the full formula is
X + (4000+Y)@ 0° tilt angle, + (1250)@ 2.5° tilt angle, + (8000)@5° tilt angle.
This is what I believe is the age of the earth from creation until now. This type of math must be solved vectorially to be accurate, however we have two unknowns. X is the first three days of creation. This is unknown, for “evening came and morning followed” we assume night but as St Augustine said, if the ancients intended to imply night they would have stated it but they don’t. Morning followed evening, or the light set, moved along the horizon, still illuminating the earth, then rose in the morning. This light, was the light not of the sun, but the light of God’s creation—light.
Here’s the formula again,
X +(4000+Y)@0° + (1250)@2.5° + (8000)
Where x is the first three days of creation, and Y is how long Adam lived in the Garden of Eden.
So, what do you all think? Is this possible? And if so, then, the bible can be taken literally. Oh yeah, know this, according to Genesis, the earth, from creation until the flood had a shield of water around it. This shield protected life on planet earth from UV light from the sun. When the shield was destroyed, the life span on planet earth was reduced. In addition, the weight of the water changed the rotation of the earth into the present day 5° tilt angle allowing the UV rays to have a major effect on life.
This effectively, is the cause of the death of the dinosaurs and the reduction of man’s lifespan.
Now I present this theory as evidence that science and the bible complement each other. And that knowing about these conversions, and calculating the change of the earth’s tilt angle it is possible and probable, that the earth could be 4.5 billion years old.
So is it possible that x+(4000+y)@0° tilt < + (1250)@ 2.5° tilt < + (8000)@ 5° tilt <= 4.5 billion years?