Father George Coyne Interview (3/7) - Richard Dawkins
This is the full uncut interview with Father George Coyne which was omitted from Richard Dawkins' television program "The Genius of Charles Darwin" for Channel 4 in the UK. See more videos...
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[Father George Coyne] They had no curiosity about how old was the universe how did various things come to be. In fact, the stylistic view of the Genesis accounts of the creation of the world and everything in it, the style shows very clearly that they were trying to establish a kind of poetic structure to say that God was the source of all things. That's why he did it in 6 days. And that's why of you interpret it scientifically, you get all screwed up. Because light came on the first day but the sun and the moon on the 4th day. Well the reason light had to come on the first day is because you had to have a day structure. That's why at the end of each day of creation, and there was night and there was day. That's a poetic expression. ...
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[Father George Coyne] They had no curiosity about how old was the universe how did various things come to be. In fact, the stylistic view of the Genesis accounts of the creation of the world and everything in it, the style shows very clearly that they were trying to establish a kind of poetic structure to say that God was the source of all things. That's why he did it in 6 days. And that's why of you interpret it scientifically, you get all screwed up. Because light came on the first day but the sun and the moon on the 4th day. Well the reason light had to come on the first day is because you had to have a day structure. That's why at the end of each day of creation, and there was night and there was day. That's a poetic expression. ...
