Schroeder is the author of several books, including the just released "God According to God: A Physicist Proves We've Been Wrong About God All Along." But it's his 20-year-old "Genesis and the Big Bang" -- which seeks to reconcile the Bible with physics, cosmology and evolution -- that's still shaking the scientific and religious communities.
God created the universe in six days. Science says it took 15 billion years. How to reconcile those numbers? If you're Gerald Schroeder, the answer is simple: Do the math.
His thesis hinges on the fact that time is not a constant: It's relative, at least according to Albert Einstein. Schroeder insists that the biblical calendar begins with the appearance of Adam on the sixth day, not with the creation of the world. "Relativity," he says, "has proven the flexibility of time during those six pre-Adam days of Genesis."
Crticisms:
Peter Enns blasts the effort, saying it's "absurd that you can actually find physics in Genesis I."
But Karl Giberson,,,doesn't buy Schroeder's theory. "The Bible isn't set up with hidden codes based on 20th century science that couldn't have been understood by the writers of the text," he said.
Ken Ham, director of the Creation Museum and the organization "Answers in Genesis."
"The first thing I look at," said Ham, "is to question what is his ultimate motivation?"
,,,He said Schroeder "has accepted the secular view of 15 billion years as the age of the universe, so his ultimate motivation is to fit 15 billion years into the Bible's account. He then develops this model, to fit that model."
And this folks is partly why I believe (or disbelieve) in the way I do. They can't even figure out what the hell the first 2 chapters of the Bible are talking about when it uses the word day. Some believe in innerancy, infallibility, and inspiration of the text, some don't. Some are literalists other are more progressive in their reading. So who is right??
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