I had a whole spiel worked out in my mind to help this poor chap but realized there wasn't much point. Better just to make him as self-aware as I can.
Actually regarding Creationism, I think the world was created in 7 days, except each day took two alternate lengths.
1: if you were standing in it then millions of years, and
2: if you were standing out of it from God's perspective, exactly 24 hours. The days may in fact run simultaneously. From God's perspective, it's a bit like running 7 DVDs players in fast forward from your couch so that each one only runs for 24 hours of viewing time, but as an actor within the film it could be a few million years story time depending on how fast it was fast-forwarded from the couch and how the scenes progressed in the storyline.
My point: Creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive when one's frame-of-reference for viewing the universe's startup events can switch between alternate yet equally valid perspectives.
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I had a whole spiel worked out in my mind to help this poor chap but realized there wasn't much point. Better just to make him as self-aware as I can.
Actually regarding Creationism, I think the world was created in 7 days, except each day took two alternate lengths.
1: if you were standing in it then millions of years, and
2: if you were standing out of it from God's perspective, exactly 24 hours. The days may in fact run simultaneously. From God's perspective, it's a bit like running 7 DVDs players in fast forward from your couch so that each one only runs for 24 hours of viewing time, but as an actor within the film it could be a few million years story time depending on how fast it was fast-forwarded from the couch and how the scenes progressed in the storyline.
My point: Creationism and evolution are not mutually exclusive when one's frame-of-reference for viewing the universe's startup events can switch between alternate yet equally valid perspectives.