Valerie's interpretation of Genesis 1

[thoughtful (Valerie (non-scientist))]

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My concern here is that there simply isn’t any reason to think that Genesis 1 means something other than water when it says “water”. What you are doing is concordism in the extreme - trying to read what we know about physics into Scripture as if it’s been waiting there all along. I don’t think it is really plausible to suggest that the real meaning of the text (i.e. that “water” really means “quark-gluon plasma” or “dark matter”) is something that would have been totally alien the original audience.

A quark-gluon plasma isn’t water, and I don’t think it is unfair to say it is even stretching to put it into our categories of liquid or fluid as we understand them. At best, the primeval waters could represent a quark-gluon plasma in a very metaphorical way, without regard to literal composition. But then why not think the whole creation week metaphorically represents God’s creation of the universe, without regard to literal timing or order of events?

I’m not sure what your actually critique here is. The original audience would understand that water is water. And that light as created would not have a source, therefore it’s different that the light radiated from stars.

We know now that water is created from molecules of hydrogen and oxygen, but that’s a modern interpretation because of science.

We know that “waters” must be in the heaven Biblical Cosmography -> Primordial Waters = Fluid Dark Matter? so the only reasonable conclusion I see to make is that God didn’t make those waters as H20 on Day 1, but later on Day 3, those waters that were on the earth were formed to create water molecules as we know them. The waters separated on Day 2 into the heavens do not have to be H20.

Otherwise I must assume all the Bible passages I discuss in the link above are metaphor only. If science supports reading them in a plain way, I’m happy that science confirms the Bible.

This is no different than what Maury did with currents. Paths of the Seas | The Institute for Creation Research