On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:20:14 GMT, <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>
wrote:

the Genesis account was not written to show the "how" of creation.
Rather, it covers major events in a progressive way.

Gensis is writen from the standpoint of people on earth. it describes
events as they would have been seen by human observers had they been
present.

It's still wrong about the order of events, no matter how desperately
you try to rationalize them.

The order in which life appears in the book of the history of life
written in the rocks of the earth differs from the order given in
Genesis 1.

Genesis 1
Day 3
Trees bearing fruit and flowering plants
Day 5
Swimming creatures and birds
Day 6
Beasts of the field and man

Now science has determined that the earth's ocean had life 3 billion
years ago, but sticking to the concept of "swimming and swarming"
creatures, let's say 600 million years ago.

The first land plants did not show up until 160 million years later.
Anything you could call a tree didn't exist until Devonian times,
another 40 million years after that. There were no flowering or fruit
bearing trees until Jurassic times, 250 million years later still,
about the time the first flying creatures appeared.

"Beasts of the field" in the form of amphibians, reptiles and
dinosaurs appeared long before birds.


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