Walter,
God's perspective on time is very different from ours. (See Psalm 90:4 and
II Peter 3:8.) Your question seems to reflect a human perspective.
Gordon Brown
Department of Mathematics
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO 80309-0395
On Sun, 26 May 2002, Walter Hicks wrote:
>
> If we take the viewpoint that Jesus, is the Word and He created this
> universe as
> implied by the Gospel of John, then we can well ask why billions of
> years elapsed
> to achieve this? Certainly the Bible never implied that, and it
>only the recent
> interpretation of (Christian) scientists who say that:"If the
> universe appears to
> be 15 billion years old, then God must have created it 15 billion
> years ago." So
> why must this be so? If it is only the last several thousand years that are
> important to God, why need He need to use up 15 billion years of
> space time to do
> it ---- when a few thousand years are adequate? We don't know much
> about how God
> might do things but it is not difficult to believe that thousands of years of
> space time are far more economical to create than billions of years
> worth. (That
> makes for an awful lot of rather useless time and space just to keep some
> scientific purists happy.).
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