Posted by:
Henry Bemis
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Date: October 05, 2022 03:27PM
"How any creationist reconciles that fact with a 6,000yo creationism fairy tale, is beyond me.
Francis Collins, who mapped the Human Genome and is a Christian, accepts the theory of evolution, he just figures God guided the process. Which doesn’t account for why interbreeding with Denisovans and Neanderthals 40k yrs ago is completely incompatible with a 6,000 y.o. Creationism narrative."
COMMENT: Of course, it is beyond you, because you have dismissed the idea, without much thought or research.
There are several competent and prominent scientists who have attempt to rationally reconcile 'young-Earth creationism' with evolution. They do this in a number of ways, all of which center around the nature of time.
One such author, Gerald L. Schroeder, a distinguished Jewish physicist, provides a comprehensive account of such a reconciliation. Schroeder notes that the Bible's timeline differentiates between cosmic time, and Earth time, claiming that Earth time in the Bible begins with the creation of Atom on the '7th day' while cosmic time covers the 'first 6 days'. So, the challenge is to reconcile the first 6 days of the Bible narrative with scientific understanding of cosmic time.
The essence of the claim, is that just as space expanded after the Big Bang, so did time, as established by the cosmic background radiation (CBR). In other words, the high frequency radiation emanating from the big bang 'stretched out' over cosmic time creating the wavelengths we see now in the CBR. From this we can infer a drastic difference in time as viewed from the Big Bang. Whereas from Earth's perspective, the time from the Big Bang is 13.8 billion years, from the perspective of the early universe, the time was 6 days. Here are a couple of quotes:
"The immense stretching of space since the big bang has strong implications for our cosmic clock. Waves of radiation that have propagated in space since the early universe have been stretched, expanded, by the same proportion that the universe has expanded. For example, as the universe doubled in size, the distance between wave crests (and hence the time between ticks of its clock) also doubled as the wave was stretched by the expanding space. For that clock, time would be passing at half its original rate. Again, please note that this time dilation relates solely to the stretching of space."
"This cosmic clock records the passage of on minute while we on Earth experience a million million minutes. The dinosaurs ruled the Earth for 120 million years, *as measured by our perception of time.* Those clocks are set by the decay of radioactive nuclides here on Earth and they are correct for our earthy system. But to know the cosmic time we must divide earth time by a million million. At this million-million to one ratio those 120 million Earth years lasted a mere hour. That's the peer-reviewed physics and the biblical tradition of this discussion."
(Gerald L. Schroeder, *The Science of God* (1997)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Schroeder