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GE 1:3-5, 14-19 There was light ("night and day") before there was a sun. (Note: If there were no sun, there would be no night or day. Also, light from the newly created heavenly bodies seems to have reached the earth instantaneously though it now takes thousands or millions of years.)
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Night and Day for God who has his own way of tracking time.
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GE 1:12, 16 Plants began to grow before there was sunlight.
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Perhaps they used other ways of producing energy.
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GE 4:17 Cain builds and populates a whole city in only two generations.
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He liked to get busy what can you say.
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GE 6:4 There were giants on the earth at one time. (Note: No evidence exists to supports this assertion.)
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No evidence yet, there is no skeleton evidence for the missing link as well.
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GE 6:5 God is unhappy with the wickedness of man and decides to flood the earth to eliminate mankind. All living things including plants, animals, women and innocent children are also exterminated. (Note: This is like burning down a house to rid it of mice.)
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What exactly is wrong with this?
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GE 6:15 The size of Noah's Ark was such that there would be about one and a half cubic feet for each pair of the 2,000,000 to 5,000,000 species to be taken aboard.
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It was a local flood and by animals they mean what ever animals were in that region.
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GE 7:17-19 The flood covered the entire earth at the same time. (Note: There is no evidence of a worldwide flood, but rather of many, widespread, but local floods.)
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Again its a bad interpetation.
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GE 7:19-20 The flood covered the earth with water fifteen cubits (twenty plus feet) above the highest mountains.(Note: This would require steady, worldwide rainfall at the rate of about 6 inches per minute, 360 inches per hour, 8640 inches per day--for 40 days and nights--so as to cover the entire earth with an endless ocean 5 miles deep, thus burying 29,000 ft. Mt. Everest under 22 ft. of water. How did the author know the depth of the water? Did Noah take soundings? And where has all this water gone?)
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Again they are talking about a local flood.
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GE 8:20 Noah's first recorded action following the flood is to sacrifice one of every clean animal and bird. (Since so few animals were saved, this could be considered rather wasteful and defeating--especially given that the stated purpose of taking the animals aboard the Ark was to keep them alive [GE 6:20]. To see a discussion of the various ways this verse can be interpreted, and in turn the different ways to approach the Bible generally, see addendum.)
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A sacrifice that is painful is more important.
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GE 8:21 The odor of Noah's sacrifices was pleasing to the Lord.
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So?
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GE 9:12-16 God first creates the rainbow. (Note: Apparently the laws having to do with refraction of light were null and void prior to this time.)
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yep
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This is a book of mythology, and should be viewed as any other mythology is.
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It should be viewed through the language it was written in. Its like 5th graders reading Shakespeare and missing the entire point.