Ok, let's say that is true.
It isn't, but let's just say it is.
What is the evidence for your preferred explanation? And no, bible verses are not evidence. And no, attacking evolution is not evidence for creation.
I suppose is not a bad idea to share how my view of creation was formed from the same evidences that we all see, plus my interpretation of biblical version of creation.
God designed and populated the earth, from preparing the landscape to creating living creatures and humans. The creation certainly took much more than 6 days x 24 hours, it was more like hundreds or even thousands of years. After completion, some changes limited to sizes and appearances can happen as living things adapt to weather or terrain, but otherwise, humans and living creatures were created, not evolved.
In Genesis chapter 1 and 2, the word 'day' does not refer to 24 hours. Instead 'day' denotes a stage of time. The word 'day' is used because it fits the prose of writing in religious manuscript ie you use the word 'stage' in science text book, but for religious writing, you use 'day'. Without knowing this, there will always be a lingering doubt at the back of your mind -- even if you think that the word "day" is figurative, without knowing why the Bible use the word (will come back to this later).
Each 'day' or stage -- if measured in our concept of time today -- can be weeks, years or even thousands of years. Each 'day' is not equal, it probably took less time to create the atmosphere (day 3) than to create sea creatures (day 5).
Our mortality and technology today influence our outlook. Most people live up to 60 or 80 years. Our mortality limited our view : It is quite a stretch for us to think that God could take thousands of years for creation, we want it to happen fast, but we should appreciate that He is timeless.
From living in a world of movies and technology today, we tend to imagine that God used a kind of CGI to quickly cover the earth with trees in 24 hours, then caused thousands of sea creatures to swim the next day, and later, beamed down thousands of land animals. That can happen in a movie, but why would God be in such a haste?
Instead He took pride and pleasure in His workmanship. He made different varieties of shrubs and trees that convert CO2 to oxygen, plus flowers to beautify the terrain. He meticulously designed different kinds of creatures -- horses, chestahs, ant-eaters, giraffes, owls, parrots, frogs, hammer-head sharks, turtles ... to list onlyv10 of the 500,000 different species. God said the creation was good -- but we cannot even begin to appreciate these two words. Instead of using a magic wand, God demonstrated and applies art and science n the intricate process. He is not a machine churning out goods in mass production, instead He was very involved.
The overwhelming evidences of millions of lifeforms around us defy the odds that all these could come together so well without a creator..
Did the creation take 100 years or 50,000 years? I don't know, but the overwhelming evidences of millions of well-made lifeforms is way too convincing to deny that there is God.
Fimally, to explain my interpretation of the word 'day' in Genesis: It is derived from understanding of languages, knowlege of various eastern orthodox beliefs, culture and religions, and knowing the use of words in religious contexts. The major religions such as Hindu, Islam, Buddhism, Chinese beliefs, judaism and Christianity are different, but they did have similar traits in thoughts and manner of writing.
Thanks for reading.
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