[blue-duncan]

"There's a difference between quoting scripture and reading what it actually states"

And there is a difference between reading scripture and understanding it. Seven is used in scripture as the symbol of completion, perfection (seven seals, seven trumpets seven vials etc). You compare apples and oranges when you try to make days equal months equal years unless the scriptures tell us to in the particular instance, like when the Children of Israel go into exile for seventy years to fulfill the sabbath years they had ignored.

Further, the account of a six day creation in Exodus 20 is consistent with the Genesis record of creation and no where in scripture is the time of creation other than six days. The Exodus account is the Law and it uses the same Hebrew word for day that God used in Genesis. If He meant a different time period the Law would have been specific since He was going to provide a double portion of manna for the seventh day. If the Genesis day and the Exodus day were other than the usual sundown to sundown a lot of manna would fall on the sixth day.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thank you all for the pings!

If one is seeking to reconcile God’s revelation in Scripture to God’s revelation in nature vis-à-vis Creation week, he would be well advised to remember relativity and inflationary theory.

Time is relative. It is geometry.

For instance, while a week may pass in the vicinity of a black hole, 40 years may simultaneously elapse on earth. And if an object were to move at the constant acceleration of one earth’s gravity, while 25.3 years elapsed for the object, 5x10¹⁰ years would elapse on earth.

What this means with regard to Creation week is this: 7 equivalent earth days at the inception (or beginning) space/time coordinates of this universe (the big bang) is equal to roughly 15 billion years at our space/time coordinates on earth.

After all, God is the author of Scripture and He was the observer of “in the beginning”. I therefore assert He was using the term "day" relative to the "beginning" in Genesis 1.

I would also assert that man's calendar does not begin until Adam is banished to mortality in Genesis 4. For those following the 7,000 year theology (with the last 1,000 years being Christ's reign on earth) - we are more or less at year number 5766 according to the Jewish calendar.

The following link contains more information on the time issue and also this tidbit:

Age of the Universe

Nachmanides says the text uses the words "Vayehi Erev" - but it doesn't mean "there was evening." He explains that the Hebrew letters Ayin, Resh, Bet - the root of "erev" - is chaos. Mixture, disorder. That's why evening is called "erev", because when the sun goes down, vision becomes blurry. The literal meaning is "there was disorder." The Torah's word for "morning" - "boker" - is the absolute opposite. When the sun rises, the world becomes "bikoret", orderly, able to be discerned. That's why the sun needn't be mentioned until Day Four. Because from erev to boker is a flow from disorder to order, from chaos to cosmos. That's something any scientist will testify never happens in an unguided system. Order never arises from disorder spontaneously. There must be a guide to the system. That's an unequivocal statement.