[Windwalker]

Originally Posted by matcat

You have a few good points here, the bible describes the water as coming up from the earth, certainly could be from a meteor, but it is hard to say.

Now as far as the spinning of the earth changing time, this would mean the world's rate of spin would have had to dramatically slow down, I am not thinking this is the case, remember, the bible explains the life spans getting shorter because of sin. The wages of sin is death, doesn't mean instant death, but death eventually.

While such an event would have the ability to change earth's rotation, I was suggesting that perhaps, that may have knocked us into an oval orbit around the sun, that might have taken much longer for the seasons to change. That would have been the way early man would have had to measure years by. If the earth was in a smaller, circular orbit around the sun, originally, then an impact like that could have changed the orbit and it could mean longer time to change the seasons, and the means of measureing a year would have changed while man's life-span would have remained the same. Just a theory.