Thanks, Peter. May the Lord richly bless your efforts.
Keep up the good work! And, I wholeheartedly believe
that you deserve to appear immediately after our Bible
& Science link. I will earnestly pray for that to happen.
In Christ,
Jim Eisele
President
Genesis Defended
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Ruest [mailto:pruest@pop.mysunrise.ch]
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2002 3:07 PM
To: Jim Eisele; ASA
Cc: Armin Held; Dick Fischer; Stephen J. Krogh
Subject: Overlap of creation "days"?
Jim Eisele wrote (Sun, 28 Apr 2002 09:19:01 -0000):
> >> I) Even some people who back Gen 1 as real history are wrong in
> >> some places. Peter Ruest doesn't approach the issue fully
> >> correctly. Neither does Dick Fischer. But, I guess both of
> >> them are "too big" to see their own shortcomings. If given
> >> the opportunity, I fully intend to begin pointing these
> >> shortcomings out.
> ...
> Peter Ruest/Armin Held and Dick Fischer have done the hard work.
> I see my role as providing publicity. And, occasionally pointing
> out a weakness. So, here goes
>
> My main "beef" with Peter is that "he's quiet." He doesn't have
> a web page with the most current reconciliation between science
> and Gen 1. ...
>
> I do also have "technical criticisms." The "days" of Gen 1 clearly
> overlap (but the beginning of each day is before the beginning of
> the next day). ...
Of course, the "days" of Gen.1 overlap, but only in the sense that
whatever was initialized in a given creation epoch continues to
characterize all of the later ones - like new geological and climatic
conditions. And since all of Gen.1 is summarized by: "These are the
[toledoth] of the heavens and the earth in their being created"
(Gen.2:4), where "toledoth" is genealogy or phylogenetic tree (table of
lines of descent), it is reasonable to expect that after epoch 3, more
types of plants evolve, after epoch 5 more types of water and air
animals, etc.
Naturally, this doesn't imply that the "evening" ([^erev], transition
from one epoch to the next) of one epoch comes after the "morning"
([boqer], dawning of a new epoch) of the next one. In this sense, there
is no overlap.
Cf. http://www.asa3.org/ASA/PSCF/1999/PSCF12-99Held.html
Peter
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