The Gap Theory Examined

well, no, there's not. the grammar of original should indicate a few things, but it's hard to tell. they didn't mark the ends of sentances and such. mine puts that second part in the middle of the sentance:

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Genesis 1:1-3, JPS

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When God began to create heaven and earth -- the earth being unformed and void, with darkness over the surface of the deep adn a wind from God sweeping over the water -- God said "Let there be light"; and there was light.

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i think it makes much more sense that way. and it's closer to recent translations of the earliest hebrew versions we have, so...

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no.no, he's pretty much spot on.

i'm all about accuracy. you take the high road all you like, i'll stick to the route on the map.

um, yeah, i thought the text was pretty self-explanatory. the sun is created on day 4, along with the moon. both are placed in the heaven, which was made on day two.the jps renders it that way because it makes the most grammatic and logical sense. that section (day one) does not include the creation of heaven, or of earth (days 2 and 3). there is no gap described in the text -- this is a later reading designed to work out conflicts between belief and science. the text describes seven literal days, and nothing before it.putting something before it kind of defeats the whole purpose. genesis is describing origins, and here is the origin of heaven and earth. genesis starts, well, in the beginning. there can be nothing before that.

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that the gap theory does not fit the bible -- the primary thing it is designed around -- is objective. the theory is a way of reconciling the bible and science. if it does not fit either end of it, the "theory" is flawed.

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