Why Creationism

But they didn't die that day. Which is what God says will happen:

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16 And the LORD God commanded the man, saying, "You may freely eat of every tree of the garden; 17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall die."

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So God's word didn't come true.After all if somebody said "Don't eat that orange, you'll die if you do", wouldn't you take that to mean that you'll die the minute - the day, at least -you ate the orange? And if I came by and said "whoever told you that you'll die is wrong. You can eat the orange." And if you did eat it, and didn't die, wouldn't you conclude I was right?Why does the meaning of those utterances change when we're talking about different fruit?

Maybe, but that's not a literal interpretation, don't you think?It literally says they'll die that day. Not that they'll start dying.If I told you "you're going to die today", wouldn't you assume I meant that you would be dead by the end of the day? Why is it then that you assume God meant something else by the very same words?

What death did you think I was talking about when I said it? If I was talking about a metaphorical, not literal, death, wouldn't I have said so when I said it?But I didn't qualify "death", and neither does God. I think it's safe to assume, therefore, that we're both talking about the same kind of death.

Unless God was wrong, which is my point. God can only be made correct here if you're willing to twist language to match your preconceptions, and that's hardly a literal approach to the text, don't you think? Only if you're already committed to God never being wrong. If you're willing to entertain the notion that God could make a statement in error, or lie, then the text makes much more sense, and you don't have to twist the words. That's the third option that you don't list - God's statements are literally inaccurate.

That's "omnipotent", and it's from the Latin, yo. And yet, science proves you wrong. Stuff is always coming out of empty space, at every point, at every moment. Something from nothing happens all the time at the quantum level.

Gosh, people who care about knowing stuff and not looking stupid, I guess. It may be largely constant, but over a very small scale, it fluctuates. This is a necessary outcome of the uncertainty principle.