20th January 2018, 11:46 PM
(20th January 2018, 11:25 PM)Bluelightning Wrote: Well, I'm pretty sure the "7 days" in the bible weren't actually 24 hour time periods, because that means if humans came in then, where would dinosaurs fit in xD. There are some really extreme Christians that believe it really is like that, the kind of people who put up billboards saying that evolution doesn't exist. I really dislike those kinds of people.
Long before the bible was written, the Egyptians built a system for hours in a day based off of decans, which is some constellation they used in astronomy. Each star rose at a specific time in the day, and each time a new one appeared, a decanal hour would pass. Sundials use part of or all of a 24 hour dial because they show the positions of the sun during the day.
A day on Earth is around 24 hours relative to the sun, but note that time is relative. A day on venus is 116 days and 18 hours in Earth time. So, if it took 3 days for God to make the sun, what celestial body did he use to keep track of that time? There's not really any good way of telling what time it is if the closest stars are Alpha Centauri A and B, 4.22 light years away.