To God a day is like a thousand years.
>>>Not all believers in Biblical creation have a “young earth” perspective
But how long ago was the Great Flood. This is the important date since all humanity - Australian Aborigines, East Asians, sub-Saharan Africands and Europeans are the descendants of just 8 people.
Agree wholeheartedly. My favorite is when young earthers say their view is the only literal interpretation of the Bible. As though Genesis 1's Hebrew word for "day" doesn't have as one of it's literal definitions as "era of unspecified length". Or that Hebrews 4 doesn't literally say that God's day of rest is still going on (stating that at least the seventh "day" of creation is not a 24-hour period).
Or that Genesis 1:11-12 says that in "day" 3 "...the earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit, with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good". Whew! Them were some very fast producing plants to go ahead and be spitting out seeds and fruit in just 24 hours! :)
Then on "day" 6 a simple man named "Adam" does all of these things (detailed in Genesis 2) in whatever was left of the one "day" after the animals were created: Adam was created, he cultivated the garden, named all the animals (including birds and fish), and got lonely enough to need a wife. :) I guess it's possible God gave Adam some kind of supernatural A-D-D mixed with genius to cause him to do all of that in one day and still be bored enough to be lonely. :) But since nothing in the text says God put that kind of miraculous power into Adam I think it's best not to assume it.
Well all believers need to realize God did not lie to us anywhere in the Bible. Further if they’ll read this free online book or watch about 4 hours worth of the videos that just might help them realize God is far bigger and more powerful than most give him credit.
Center for Scientific Creation
https://www.creationscience.com/