Rapid Plant Growth in Creation Week

Seems like some professing Christians look for excuses to shove long ages into the plain reading of Scripture (like some atheists, who claim to reject it altogether), but the only way to get millions of years out of the Bible is to first put them into it through eisegesis. It's interesting that these same people claim to believe other miraculous things, especially the bodily resurrection of Jesus from the dead, but they get all het up about Genesis. Never could figure why they want to compromise on the Word of God, but I suspicion it's to look smart in the eyes of secularists.

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I reckon that it's a fair question, though to wonder about plants can accelerate from zero to fruit in such a short time. Part of their confusion may occur from expecting that plant growth then should be like plant growth now. If you study on it, you'll realize that we're talking about creation week — the whole thing is a series of miracles in a context of literal days. To say that days mean long ages or that plants need a long time to grow so God doesn't mean what he clearly says is plenty inconsistent.

One critic of 24-hour creation days has argued, “if the author were thinking here of 24-hour periods of time, what he would have to be imagining would be something like time lapse photography where the little seed bursts out of the ground and then erupts into this tree, grows up and pops out blossoms all over and then bam! bam! bam! all the apples pop out on the tree. I just can’t persuade myself that this is what the author was thinking of—that he imagined this looking like a film being run on fast forward.”

That owlhoot was using the fallacy of the argument from incredulity, but we'll leave that alone right now. To read the entire article, plant yourself in front of "Foliage in fast forward — Why rapid plant growth during creation week poses no threat to the biblical timeframe".