Monday, January 2, 2017

Hugh Ross is wrong about Adam's final utterance





...it's translated 'at long last.' So several Bible scholars have concluded [that] this isn't a few micro-seconds at the end of a twenty-four hour day [...] between the creation of Adam and the creation of Eve. Therefore the sixth day must be a long period of time.


I find nothing remotely militating that a 24-hour model implies that Eve would have had to be therein created mere moments after Adam was created.

If God can specially create all the non-human animals, then He can do so in any short span of time, such as in an hour or three. 

Then He would have had most of the the rest of the sixth Earth-day to: (1) create Adam, (2) converse with Adam as they walk together to the garden, and (3) have Adam name the basic kinds of animals. 

That would have been plenty of time for Adam to begin to see, from the very first several exchanges of that conversation, the total seven nested recursions of a General and its Special:

   (1) The universe and his Earth.
    (2) Earth and her water.
     (3) The water and his cycle.
      (4) The water cycle and her life.
       (5) Life and its animal life.
        (6) Animal life and its human life.

   (7) the human male and his Woman. 



So, a long length of time between when Adam was made and Eve was made is not the issue here. The issue is anticipation, hope, and prediction, on the part of Adam. Without these, it would not have mattered if it had been either a billion years or a few hours: there could not have been any 'at long last' perception on Adam's part.

And how long need it take? Hugh Ross begins by posing what amounts to a grossly limited Straw Man fallacy. Then he concludes that it must have taken a long time, weeks or months at least. So his premise is wrong, and his conclusion is wrong, though the one follows from the other.





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