Creation and science

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And look at your emphasis: "what God clearly says". It's not God talking here: it's*you.*You*are saying how we should interpret the Bible

God says " The beginning"....He says "six days". That isn't me talking.

As I said,*physical*death was already there. Anything else is fabrication. Instead, the text is clear it is talking about*spiritual*death.

It's clear?

Physical death was part of the curse caused by first Adam. If that is not true, then the physical death of Last Adam was unnecessary... and the gospel is weakened if not destroyed. Christ had to defeat physical death, (1 Cor. 15:26 "The last enemy to be destroyed is death.")...Death was not part of what God called "very good" in Gen.1:31

Also, consider Genesis 2:17 in the KJV reads "But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die"
Well... Adam did eat of the tree, and he did not physical die that day. So is the verse only referring to spiritual death / separation from God? No... The Hebrew actually suggests a dying process. A more literal translation would be "dying you shall die" or less literally "for as soon as you eat of it, you shall be doomed to die". http://www.accuracyingenesis.com/die.html
A few examples from other translations...
Young's Literal Translation
and of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou dost not eat of it, for in the day of thine eating of it -- dying thou dost die.'
New International Version
but you must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, for when you eat from it you will certainly die."
New Living Translation
except the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. If you eat its fruit, you are sure to die."

Well also know the curse resulted in physical death from verses that connect physical death to the physical resurrection.
1Cor. 15: 21 "For since death came through a man, the resurrection of the dead comes also through a man. For as in Adam all die, so in Christ all will be made alive"Also see Rom. 5:12-19

 

[iamaberean]

God did not create (Genesis 1:1) the heaven and earth without form and void (Genesis 1:2) it became that way. How many years, or billions of years transpired between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, we, including scientists, do not know, it could have been billions of years

I have come to believe that this is true.