A billion years here, a billion years there, pretty soon you’re talking about a significant amount of time!
It’s funny when they add billions or take billions out everybody scratches their head. But if you say “I believe was done in several 1000 years 10- 20 or whatever” they go apoplectic.
that’s impossible, they say.
In the end, through some cosmology that we do not yet understand, it will turn out that God’s inspired account was always EXACTLY right.
People who miscalculate in the magnitude order of billions... are akin to the jeering residents of Jericho encircled by israeli’s on day 6... just before the walls caved in.
They are not laughing anymore.