The problem with that idea is that God doesn’t say He used 6 epochs, He says He used 6 days.
The word “day” is used throughout the Old Testament, it always means “day,” not “epoch.”
> The problem with that idea is that God doesn’t say He used 6 epochs, He says He used 6 days.
Elsewhere He says that a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like a day — or words to that effect.
God is not time-bound like we are. He is eternal, moving at will thru time. Our world and existence comprises the dimensions of height, width, and depth, and is bound by time. His is not: he can move freely between any of these dimensions (and possibly more besides). And now, so can Jesus.
That is how God was able to turn back the sun, and that is how prophecy works. Time does not matter at all to God. That is how He knows the end from the beginning: he can move thru time as easily as we can walk up-and-down a sidewalk. Does He want to know what happens in a thousand years’ time? He merely goes and has a look.
Genesis 1 is a parable, written so that we can understand WHY things happened. Evolution tells us How.