Re: Special Creation

I'd like to ask a question that will probably sound completely wacky.
I hope I can be free to ask it without folks thinking I'm advocating
some kind of nutty view, or that I read too much science fiction
(which, BTW, I do). Ok, so here it is: is there any literature that
considers the possibility that the Fall and/or the Flood were
cross-dimensional events? I've read (or tried to read) Schroeder's
book about Genesis and time, but I'm thinking about something a bit
more.

What if something like the multiverse theory is true? Could the
Garden exist in a parallell universe, with Adam and Eve being expelled
across dimensions into a much older Earth? Adam and Eve are expelled
from the Garden and a cherubim and a "flaming sword" are placed there
to prevent them from accessing the tree of life (Gen. 3:24). The
"tree of life" appears again in the New Jerusalem in Rev. 22. Could
this suggest physical locations that are not currently accessible to
us in ordinary space?

And/or could Noah have experienced some kind of relative time aboard
the ark, such that the Flood was ~5MYA but Noah experienced it as a
year? Could the ark have been travelling through "Planck space"?

Please -- I really am a rational guy, and I find all these discussions
fascinating and troubling at the same time. No suggestion here that
there's any reason to believe anything like the above. But maybe it's
possible that the ongoing work in quantum physics and cosmology will
provide options that we're not even dreaming about now?

On 3/2/06, Michael Roberts <michael.andrea.r@ukonline.co.uk> wrote:
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> There is absolutely nothing in the Plio-pleistocene that even remotely matches a flood as described by the Bible. The latest is the infilling of the Med and that actually would begin to sound a bit like the Biblical flood. IMO, there is little reason to remain literal believing in Adam and Eve if one has no flood. One might as well go allegorical/accomodationalist all the way to Genesis 12.
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> That's your only solution Glenn, it is better than stretching genesis like an elastic band as Adam Sedwick said in 1858.
Received on Thu Mar 2 10:12:11 2006