Maybe "day" was a unit of work.
20 And God said, "Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the expanse of the sky." 21 So God created the great creatures of the sea and every living and moving thing with which the water teems, according to their kinds, and every winged bird according to its kind. And God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them and said, "Be fruitful and increase in number and fill the water in the seas, and let the birds increase on the earth." 23 And there was evening, and there was morning-the fifth day. 24 And God said, "Let the land produce living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals, each according to its kind." And it was so.
Here's a stumper:
How did a poor, dumb, quasi-literate, smelly Hebrew slave happen to come up with the correct order for evolution - fish, birds, then mammals?
You'll probably say that he copied from somewhere else, I disagree, but even if that were the case, how did the phantom faith(s) that Moses supposedly relied upon to write Genesis come up with this order for Moses to copy? There were no men to observe the process.
Or was it all just a happy accident? |