[imported_Wicked Steve]

This goes back to what I said about modern vs. ancient knowledge. They didn't know anything about the universe or hydrogen atoms or anything. They knew Heaven, Earth, and nothing else - stars were just lights from Heaven, and Earth was the only place God was really concerned with (as far as they knew).

What makes the people who talked to God schizophrenic, and furthermore, what does their perception have to do with what God told them about creation (obviously, they couldn't have been around to see it for themselves)? Again, why would God tell them he created everything in six days if it really took him a very long time? Did he want them to feel Earth was more special than it really was? Did he think they wouldn't be able to comprehend billions of years?

Finally, who wants to sit around and go, "and this is the lineage of [Adam/Noah/David/whover]?" Same boredom factor, to me.