Even the science of mathematics has something to say about the Bible!
MATHEMATICAL PROBABILITY: ORDER OF CREATION
The Book of Genesis had described the order of creation, accurately. There are 13 definite claims by Moses alone (author of Genesis), as having been accomplished in the order given:
1. "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (v.1).
2. "And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep" (v.2).
3. "And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters" (v.2).
4. "And God said, Let there be light ... and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night" (vv. 3-5).
5. "And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament" (v. 7).
6. "And God said, Let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place" (v. 9).
7. "And let the dry land appear" (v.9).
8. "And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind" (v. 11).
9. "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years... " (vv. 14-18).
10. "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind" (v. 21).
11. "And every winged fowl after his kind" (v. 21).
12. "And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing and beast of the earth after his kind" (v. 24).
13. "So God created man in his own image" (v. 27).
Take note: We're talking only of the claims made in the Book of Genesis here.
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I notice that you leave out the creation of the Sun, Moon, and stars. Funny about that: it seems to be *completely* out of order.
Stars existed LONG before the Earth (and it's waters--which were *before* the first day). The Sun is what *makes* the difference between Day and Night (which the author of Genesis seems to be unaware of---formed on the first day). The Sun formed before the Earth and the Moon after that.
Then there is that whole 'firmament' on the second day to contend with (which, I note again, you omitted). What, precisely, is that? Separating waters above from waters below? Now, to be sure, the *ancient* belief system was that the sky was a solid bowl (later, a ball) above the Earth and the stars were on that bowl. That bowl was called, guess what, the *firmament*. It separated the 'material realm' of the Earth from the 'heavenly realm' about it.
Not exactly correct there either.
And about those 'waters' and 'the deep'. Exactly, which waters are these? Notice that they have a *face*, which means a surface. So we aren't talking about water in space here. We are talking about something like a grand ocean. Now, in the ancient world (before it was known that the Earth is spherical), it was widely believed that the Earth was a *flat disk* floating on an ocean. The sky was a dome on top of this. In this belief, the water was there before the Earth and the local deity raised the Earth out of the water (making dry land appear--the third day).
So, according to Genesis, there was water before the formation of 'the heavens and the Earth' and God was above these waters. Not exactly correct here either.
Next, we notice that plants, including those with seeds, are made on the same day as dry land appeared and *before* the Sun, Moon, and Stars the fifth day). But land animals didn't appear, in Genesis, until after those seeded plants (on the sixth day). This is, however, wrong. Seeded plants (Gymnosperms) are actually a fairly late development and appeared well after the first land animals. So the order here is wrong. Also, birds (winged fowl) appeared before land animals and at the same time as plants (fifth day). Again, this isn't consistent with the *actual* order revealed from the fossil record.
Overall, a fairly poor performance by Genesis, don't you think?