the idea of no creation after the first six days is a huge assumption that is not supported by biblical evidence. also, it changes the very nature of the universe. for instance, the rainbow may seem like a very simple thing. however. if the rainbow did not exist before the flood, then the properties of water and possibly a great many properties of the universe were VERY different.
I like your idea but I just think that god could hold all the porperties of physics the same and also not have a rainbow appear and then make the rainbow appear without changing any of the properties of physics. I only think this because, technically, he could do anything and trying to put limits on how things must be if he did things this way takes all of his magic powers away
for example, blue light is the only light that is maintained to any great depth since red and yellow are of too short a wavelength to be maintained. same reason the blue casts the color of the sky.
Actually, red light has a longer wavelength than blue light and this length is what cases it to be refracted and/or absorbed before it makes it all the way throught the atmosphere. The shorter wavelength light, blue, can make it through the gaps, so to speak, that the longer wavelengths cannot.
ABE: i forgot to answer the questions...
does the bible support more creation than 6 days. or was the original creation 'complete and perfect'.
There seems to be things that were created after the original six days, like your rainbow example. What about non-physical things, like the covenants, you wouldn't have to make a covenant if it already existed, ya know?
what impacts could such later creation have on the universe and could these explain the vast changes in humanity and animals demonstrated in the fossil record and jive them with what is described in scripture?
Like I said, I don't think these changes MUST have been made but I guess they could used to suppot creationism.
This message has been edited by Catholic Scientist, 03-21-2006 09:51 AM