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When I was small, I was only *lightly* taught that the earth was only a few thousand years old. I don't recall anyone specifying the 4004 BC creation date of Bishop Ussher, but nevertheless the earth's age was in the thousands, not millions or billions. But each creation day was just that, one 24 hour day.

As I got older, I considered that as God exists outside of Time -



- so a day for Him could be a thousand years, perhaps more. That would leave ample time for flora and fauna to multiply and spread across the world, at each step.

Then, of course, in high school and college bio classes, if you wanted an A you had to toe the party line of the billions of years, Jurassic Age, Neolithic Age, etc. But I still did not and cannot believe that humans evolved from animals. The demarcation line would be impossible.

And now I am reading some Christian literature that, while I believe it in other ways, insists that each creation day was just that, a 24 hr day.

What do others of faith think?

Oh...interesting. Then, could it be, that there was a 24-hr day of creation, and an unspecified time between that and the next Yom?

The animals did not appear in pairs: it does not mention that they did, until they were sent to Noah's Ark.


Genesis ch. 1: