The Political Inquirer

It is presumptuous to assume that those who believe in straight fact-for-fact (by process of reason, when related to religious issues) are connected by irrational thought to narrow-mindedness and ill-conceit of others for their own lack of better knowledge or experience in a subject. For instance, I have been accused multiple times of limiting the greatness of God and his abilities for believing in a 24 hour, 6 day creation scenario and no other. I will elaborate on the reason and logic behind my belief.

Conscience is our magnetic compass; reason our chart.
~Joseph Cook born 1860

In this sense, I hardly think one could navigate a chart without knowing which direction he faced. This is my view of faith and reason. One cannot thrive without the other. Faith is blind without reason and reason futile without faith. This view, I’ve never heard from any other, though I hope to hear it more often. For many believe that either reason exists and thus follows and intellectual “worldly” knowledge, surviving without faith; however, others believe that faith is a sound base without the logic and reason of man to comprehend it.

In lieu of reason, there is faith. One may think that the earth is flat, but without reason he cannot test the nature of gravity or the assuredness of God’s Creation. He is left blind and without any proof or fact of his good opinion or will. This was the case of Scopes v. the State of Tennessee. William Jennings Bryan, though witty and intelligent, debated in court faith without scientific reasoning or process of fact. But he argued only his faith , which no man can know, rooted the Bible and God’s Creation. Clarence Darrow, the defendant, very educated in the subject of evolution, appeared to the crowd, jury, and judge as the winner of the case, by seeming to use quick reason rather than “blind” faith as Bryan. Darrow’s argument was that evolution had no conflict with the Bible. Had Bryan known that there are simple facts which prove this is not the case, he would have been capable of winning the argument; and, beyond measure, saved face for the Evangelicals of the time, hoping for his win.

Here are facts to back my statement:
1.)Whoever wrote the book of Genesis [assume Moses] wrote it as though any man who could read Hebrew would understand.
And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
~Genesis 1:5

2.)If one would simply use reason, he would know that “one hour” in English means “one hour” and cannot be denied. But in English, the word day could be taken for many meanings–as it has–such as: a long day, one thousand years, or millions of years. But in Hebrew, the word day in this context is of one meaning (just as “one hour” has meaning for “one hour” only). The word used is Yom, meaning “one day” consisting of 24 hours.

1. The Bible clearly teaches that God created in six literal, 24-hour days a few thousand years ago. The Hebrew word for day in Genesis 1 is yom. In the vast majority of its uses in the Old Testament it means a literal day; and where it doesn’t, the context makes this clear.
2. The context of Genesis 1 clearly shows that the days of creation were literal days. First, yom is defined the first time it is used in the Bible (Genesis 1:4–5) in its two literal senses: the light portion of the light/dark cycle and the whole light/dark cycle. Second, yom is used with “evening” and “morning.” Everywhere these two words are used in the Old Testament, either together or separately and with or without yom in the context, they always mean a literal evening or morning of a literal day. Third, yom is modified with a number: one day, second day, third day, etc., which everywhere else in the Old Testament indicates literal days. Fourth, yom is defined literally in Genesis 1:14 in relation to the heavenly bodies.

3. The genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 make it clear that the creation days happened only about 6,000 years ago. It is transparent from the genealogies of Genesis 5 and 11 (which give very detailed chronological information, unlike the clearly abbreviated genealogy in Matthew 1 and other chronological information in the Bible that the Creation Week took place only about 6,000 years ago.

[answersingenesis.org]

That a 6 day 24 hour Creation believer limits the ability of God is preposterous. But it only expands his ability, more so than any theory or view, because of the faith that God can do things beyond the span and comprehension of the human mind, and we are not all so holy to understand all things, omniscient. Universe by Creation also elaborates on God’s ability by purporting that there is plan and intelligent design in in the mind of God and that this world is not a spontaneous idea.

I do not claim that any one person who believes in an evolutionarily-created universe by God does not and cannot use logic or reason. I simply state that one who takes the view of literal interpretation is not caught up in a fake world of extreme religious conservatism. And I defend my position of the literal twenty-four hour six day Creation as fact and legitimate to argue to a point, which is wholly not a fundamentalist idea.