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| | |And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. | | |And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day. |
| − | |God named the light Day, and the darkness Night. And evening and morning came to be: the first day. | + | |God named the light Day, and the darkness Night. And evening and morning came: the first day. |
| − | |The Hebrew '''יום''' (''yowm'') means "day." In all its uses in the Bible, it most commonly means the solar day with which we are all familiar, i.e. twenty-four hours. | + | |The Hebrew '''יום''' (''yowm'') means "day." In all its uses in the Bible, it most commonly means the solar day with which we are all familiar, i.e. twenty-four hours. The phrase describing "evening and morning coming to exist" confirms this. By [[Judaism|Jewish]] custom and tradition, the day begins at sundown, not midnight. |
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| | |And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. | | |And God called the firmament Heaven. And the evening and the morning were the second day. |
| − | |God called this expanse the sky. And evening and morning happened: the second day. | + | |God called this expanse the sky. And evening and morning came: the second day. |
| | |The ancient Hebrews believed that the sky was in fact a solid object that separated two classes of waters. Some [[creation science|creation scientists]] took this to mean a water-vapor canopy that protected the earth before the [[Great Flood]]. The [[cosmology|cosmologist]] [[John Hartnett]] holds that the expanse is not matter, but is in fact the very fabric of [[space]], stretched out on Day Four (see below) to the limits of the known [[universe]]. | | |The ancient Hebrews believed that the sky was in fact a solid object that separated two classes of waters. Some [[creation science|creation scientists]] took this to mean a water-vapor canopy that protected the earth before the [[Great Flood]]. The [[cosmology|cosmologist]] [[John Hartnett]] holds that the expanse is not matter, but is in fact the very fabric of [[space]], stretched out on Day Four (see below) to the limits of the known [[universe]]. |
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| | |And the evening and the morning were the third day. | | |And the evening and the morning were the third day. |
| − | |Evening and morning came to be: the third day. | + | |Evening and morning came: the third day. |
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| | |And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. | | |And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good. |
| − | |So God created gigantic sea creatures and dinosaurs , and made the waters teem with every moving creature after its [[Baraminology|kind]], and every winged bird after its [[Baraminology|kind]]. God approved it because it was good. | + | |So God created gigantic sea creatures, and made the waters teem with every moving creature after its [[Baraminology|kind]], and every winged bird after its [[Baraminology|kind]]. God approved it because it was good. |
| − | | | + | |The largest of sea creatures included more than the great [[whales]]. They also included several species of marine [[dinosaur]]s, at least two of which (the Loch Ness creature and "Predator X", identified in the Bible as "Leviathan") survived the [[Great Flood]]. |
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