Yes. That's one of the many problem's with theistic evolutionary views. The idea that the Hebrew wording for literal days versus something one can subjectively inject eons and other massively expanded periods of time...no. They create far more problems with that view than answer questions. The disease, suffering and death issue alone is problematic for Ross and gang.
I recall Ross claiming that, before the fall and introduction of sin into the world, animals and the two humans on earth caused cells to die in the vegetation they ate, so therefore the "death" introduction is a faulty one.
What's at fault, however, is how Ross and gang define life. Cells are not 'alive'. When they expand their definition of 'life' to include the function of bio-mechanical machines like functioning cells, that's a problem...especially for someone like Ross who is NOT a biologist, chemist, or anything else he pretends to be an expert within.
To go one step further, his finding biologists and chemists to agree and endorse his thoughts in his books is not at all remarkable. Many a scientist has sold his soul to the evolutionary bias in creation. I can find 'scholars' with all kinds of letters attached to their names who would endorse a belief in the earth being flat, and they are out there. I work with an Engineer who believes the earth is flat, and that rockets going up into space is nothing more than a huge snow-job upon all us commoners....
Anyway, I can appreciate your take on all this, YF, and agree.
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