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Author Topic:   Peanut Gallery for the Keys/RAZD Debate
Jaderis
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Message 5 of 57 (406180)
06-17-2007 2:10 PM


Literal Bible?
One of the main problems I see with keys' argument (from a biblical literalist perspective) is that one cannot posit some kind of accelerated time in one breath and then claim that the Earth was created in 6 literal days (meaning that the days were exactly like the days of today) in another. It can't go both ways. Either time was the same as today or it wasn't and without any sort of biblical corroboration (no to mention scientific, but I'm just going with the bible for now) the argument for accelerated time or entire seasons within hours or weeks would definitely not fall under the "literal" category. Same with people's ages. Either Methuselah was really 969 years old or he wasn't and if he was then, why did trees grow so much faster then and not people?
Not only should keys have to show that trees grew differently then and/or that the cycle of seasons was somehow accelerated, but he should have to give a reason why. Of course, there is no biblical evidence for any of this, but it would be fun to see what he comes up with.

  
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