Theoretical origin of life; earliest land life (Introduction)

by David Turell , Thursday, July 26, 2018, 01:22 (2312 days ago) @ Balance_Maintained

Tony: Now, I am not implying 6 literal days or anything, but merely pointing out that the bible doesn't specify whether he created each species or not, but it DOES specify that things were created at seperate times, which implies the prototypes were introduced when the time was right in terms of Earth's development.

Even if you don't believe the biblical narrative, you do have to wonder how they could write an accounting so damn close to what we have discovered. It should not be possible by our accounting of history.

You might be surprised how the Bible can be interpreted by ancient Jewish seers; this is taken from my book and quoted from 'Genesis and the Big Bang' by Gerald Schroeder:

“At the briefest instant following creation all the matter of the universe was concentrated in a very small place, no larger than a grain of mustard [the ‘grain of mustard’ was an ancient colloquialism for the tiniest imaginable speck of space]. The matter at this time was so thin, so intangible, that it did not have real substance. It did have, however, a potential to gain substance and form and to become tangible matter. From the initial concentration of this intangible substance in its minute location, the substance expanded, expanding the universe as it did so. As the expansion progressed, a change in the substance occurred. This initially thin noncorporeal substance took on tangible aspects of matter as we know it. From this initial act of creation, from this ethereally thin pseudosubstance, everything that has existed, or ever will exist, was, is, and will be formed.” This quote is from Nahmanides, written in the 13th century in Commentary on the Torah, Genesis 1:1!! He was a Biblical scholar and commentator, and also a mystic, an early member of a branch of Judaism called the Kabbalah. I am sure you are as astounded as I am that a 700-year old description of the Big Bang is so accurate."