SCIENCE AGREES WITH THE BIBLE
Note: Professor
Robert Thorson, Geology Professor at the
From: Mark Rosenblit
Sent: Sunday, January 20, 2008
Subject: Science Agrees With The Bible
Unlike most others, I do not criticize Professor Thorson for poor faith, but rather for poor science.
If two Martians are driving on a road which circumnavigates the Earth, and they agree to stop for a meal at 5:00 pm, they will not know when to stop unless they also specify which 5:00 pm on Earth (i.e., which time zone) is intended by their agreement.
Similarly, any scientific analysis of the Hebrew Bible's account of a Six Day Creation must first seek to ascertain which Six Days is being described in the biblical text.
Although Professor Thorson assumes that the Bible is referring to six days as measured on Earth, the text itself and Science both refute that assumption. Since an Earth day is measured by the Earth's rotation on its axis, and since the Earth was not even formed until sometime during the Second Day, the Six Days of Creation cannot logically be Earth-based days.
Rather, they are Six Universal Days which can be converted to Earth-based time by analyzing the present rate of expansion of the extant Cosmic Background Radiation created by the Big Bang.
Since, by this measure, the present passage of Time has been stretched by a factor of approximately one trillion since the Big Bang, the Six Universal Days of the Bible are equivalent to the roughly 16 billion Earth-based years (i.e., 6 Universal Days x 1,000,000,000,000 Cosmic Background Radiation expansion factor / 365.25 for conversion of Earth-based days to Earth-based years) to which Science ascribes the age of the Universe.
Consequently, there is no substantial disagreement between the Bible and Science on the amount of Time that has elapsed from the Beginning.
Regards
Mark Rosenblit