[_ Old Earth _] Literal or Figurative 6 Day Creation

[coelacanth]

Wwe know from geology and astronomy that it did not happen anywhere in the neighborhood of 6,000 years ago; the earth and the universe are orders of magnitude older.

I agree, but this topic is not about when creation happened but how long creation took. But geology does suggest that it took longer than 6 literal days.

More specifically, these fields tell us that the universe is billions of years older than our earth, thus negating 6 literal days for everything. A day in the literal sense meant nothing anyway before there were planets near a star to rotate 360 degrees about their axes.

 

[lordkalvan]

More specifically, these fields tell us that the universe is billions of years older than our earth, thus negating 6 literal days for everything. A day in the literal sense meant nothing anyway before there were planets near a star to rotate 360 degrees about their axes.

Yes, and it all depends on what you mean by and how you define creation anyway: insofar as there was no such thing as 'before' the Big Bang - space-time only began with the Big Bang -the Big bang was itself the initiation of all creation as we understand it. In this sense, creation happened instantaneously, but as theory suggests a progressive sequence of events after this initial instantaneous creative impulse - heavy particles before light particle before stellar material, etc, the time elapsed from the creation of the Universe to the appearance of life on Earth is measured in billions of years.