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@skdh Love to see the math on this.

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@sarahsalviander If they pop up on socials to spread anger and bile. It's not you they hate, but some part of themselves.

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@AshtonForbes @ncwish @GIshayu @skdh There is a locked vacuum though..

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@skdh Then check it manually anyway..

Sigh.

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Do citation checks only on MDS.

PDFs and word docs burn tokens.

Tell it to: 'check byte for byte the data, do not pattern match. Grepp byte for byte purely from the actual source paper, do not invent, or hallucinate values, if you cannot retrieve the data, say so. You will be audited on your work. Reputation damage to the sum of 1 million will occur if you fabricate or provide innacurate citations, audit again before delivery'

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@skdh Oh.... thanks...

*spends sunday, manually checking citations"...

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AI is absoloutely AWFUL at citations! It is the one thing it is absolutely crap at! You can burn a day of tokens trying and just get a loop of new hallucinations. Over 30% of the time.

AI finds it harder to lookup, read, a article, and actually bother to write down correctly what it saw, than full on 3 loop SUSY calcs.

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@skdh "Absolutely".. *smh*

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@sarahsalviander And finally

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I looked it up.

​Day 1 uses the word Bara (\text{בָּרָא}), which means to create something brand new out of nothing. "In the beginning, God created (bara) the heavens and the earth." This is when the actual physical matter of the universe, including the sun and stars, was brought into existence.
​Day 4 does not use bara. Instead, it uses the word Asah (\text{עָשָׂה}). Asah means to fashion, appoint, bring forth, or prepare something that already exists for a specific purpose.

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The Moon was forged in a planetary hit and run that nearly obliterated the Earth; The Theia collision.

And it would have reformed faster than the Earth. And both needed to exist in their pre-collision forms prior to the impact that resulted in what we know now as the earth and moon. Essentially the Earth and moon were created from one joint event, and the earth took longer to form up after than the moon, meaning the moon was complete first.

But yes... your point still stands. A step by step process that matches much of the physics determined order is quite hard to argue against.

The bit I take harder to be convinced by is saying it is 'exact'.

Changing the days to time periods also adds more problems. It means that the time between life arriving before the great lights were visible on earth is stretched by millions if not billions of years.

Can there be zero wiggle room, in a text so old, translated, where words have changed context over time? This doesn't make the bible wrong. But it could mean our interpretation of key words or meaning has changed over time.

Your own interpretation of 'lights appeared' ie visible from earth, instead of being formed at that time, is I would argue an interpetation. Same goes for days being time periods, not literal days.

What's wrong with concluding that a few more assumptions were made in the translation from one language to another. And time and an evolving language did the rest.

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@sarahsalviander And if you go by the Eden view..

Would I have grabbed an apple, and added that extra dimension of lived experience? Heck yeah. And would a creator have wanted me to? I think so. And I think HG Wells was of the same mindset.

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@sarahsalviander Lifes value is determined by the overton window of both ends of the spectrum of lived experience.

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@Aj2Parkes @jkbdts @sarahsalviander And the bible has been around for a very long time, it has been translated, and words have changed meaning.

The Bible could be the exact same, and the world around it could still change it's interpretation in that time.

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Now we are getting into nuance. Interpretation. That's fine, it's written in words.

We have laws that are written to insane levels of recirsive structural reinforcement to cover something as simple as the meaning of the word liberty.

And yet. The dictionary changes yearly, words change in definition, rendering these laws carefully written rules, null and void, or a complete rewrite.

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I agree with Sarah's compelling case that Genesis gets quite a few things right, and if a guy just made stuff up, he would be unlikely to get anything right.

But and here is the controversial bit. If there is a god, and gives people revelation, it's not going to be a telephone call where you take exact notes.

So hence I am middle ground I think... aligned to a pure science answer but also open to the idea people get knowledge from other sources. There is enough mystery left in both positions.

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I agree the heavens were made first according to the Bible. And yes, those were arguments from when I was a kid. And yes, light was created earlier. But... the 'greater light' was on day four.

But 'day and night' was clearly established before.. the extra detail for day four though is harder to reconcile. Alongside the moon.