re: #248 LotharBot

The “era” thing is a little better than “24-hour days”, but you still have to creatively reinterpret certain bits of it (ie, the sun/moon “become visible” in such-and-such era; they were created sooner). I’ve studied it pretty extensively, and it always feels like I have to twist and manipulate and violate the text to get it to fit into any sort of sensible timeline.

Naw, from what i understand of the Earth’s formation, if you were standing on the surface and watching everything in fast-forward, you wouldn’t be able to see through the soupy atmosphere until plant life had already taken hold.

But I absolutely agree that making a distinction in opposition to other religions is the major point of the myth.