Was the universe created in 6 24-hour periods?

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Ok first of all. Where is heaven and how can you reach it by a tower. Once you reach our upper atmospheres you could not survive so why would god even worry.

God wasn't worried, He was angered at the arrogance of men to think they do not need God and that their power exceeds God's power.

God sounds like he needs some prozac. If I made a little race of people and they thought that they could build a tower to prove that they are better than me I would be laughing at how stupid they are to think they can reach me. God knows that they are not better than him....is he really that egotistic that he needs to punish them for a deed which could have caused no harm. 

This is one of the few Old Testament passages that makes sense.

Those evil people built their ziggurat (a more descriptive word than 'tower', or, ugh, 'ladder') so that they could enter Heaven without facing God first (through death and judgement). Not to mention, those people, after building their sky-high ziggurat of mud and slime, would then idiotically proclaim to themselves, "Look at all of what we've done! We don't need no stinkin' god no more." At lot like secular humanists today in that regard.

God made Himself explicitly clear when He said that only His covenant people, and the other nations who respected them, could enter heaven.

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Ok first of all. Where is heaven and how can you reach it by a tower. Once you reach our upper atmospheres you could not survive so why would god even worry.

God wasn't worried, He was angered at the arrogance of men to think they do not need God and that their power exceeds God's power.

God sounds like he needs some prozac. If I made a little race of people and they thought that they could build a tower to prove that they are better than me I would be laughing at how stupid they are to think they can reach me. God knows that they are not better than him....is he really that egotistic that he needs to punish them for a deed which could have caused no harm. 

This is one of the few Old Testament passages that makes sense.

Those evil people built their ziggurat (a more descriptive word than 'tower', or, ugh, 'ladder') so that they could enter Heaven without facing God first (through death and judgement). Not to mention, those people, after building their sky-high ziggurat of mud and slime, would then idiotically proclaim to themselves, "Look at all of what we've done! We don't need no stinkin' god no more." At lot like secular humanists today in that regard.

God made Himself explicitly clear when He said that only His covenant people, and the other nations who respected them, could enter heaven.

I didn't really want to get into this argument as religious debates usually go nowhere, but I'll bite.

Couldn't God just have made it so that they didn't find heaven (which they wouldn't have), proving in a much easier manner that they can't outdo God?

True, religious debates often end up with useless dogma (as opposed to insightful Biblical commentary). Which is why I avoid those arguments as well.

Mankind is born with a desire to reenter paradise (at least in the Old Testament). Which is why they'd do anything to recreate it here on Earth, foolish as that is.

More importantly: would you want to live among a group where most people think they are gods, like those ziggurat builders? Or, worse, live in a country where one totalitarian is convinced he is god?