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There was wide variation of opinion on how long creation took. Some said only a few days; others argued for a much longer, indefinite period. Those who took the latter view appealed to the fact “that with the Lord one day is as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day” (2 Pet. 3:8; cf. Ps. 90:4), that light was created on the first day, but the sun was not created till the fourth day (Gen. 1:3, 16), and that Adam was told he would die the same “day” as he ate of the tree, yet he lived to be 930 years old (Gen. 2:17, 5:5).

If you can manage to make this wholly, Biblically acceptable interpretation into hundreds of millions or even trillions of years, your embrace, of the theory of evolution as it stands currently, as compatible with Christian belief, is Biblically acceptable.

But, you can't. Do the math. It's just simple addition. 6,000 years and 1,000 years of rest.

Funny, that 6,000 year thing. Going back to time and faith, I honestly don't know, either, if the Earth and all that is in it, is 6,000 years old, but honest, believing Christians have made a good faith effort to put together the generations, and this is what they've come up with. I see no reason to argue against it. Arguing for it, is a matter of interpretation.

But, again, there is no way, whatsoever, to extend the Biblical timeline into even hundreds of thousands of years, in order to make it compatible with an evolutionary timeline.

Is the approval of the world so important to you? Because, that's what you're seeking, when you defer to man's knowledge over God.

But, you can't. Do the math. It's just simple addition. 6,000 years and 1,000 years of rest.

That's a good point. Even if we take seriously what Vaquero's high school priest had to say about it (and I don't, btw), you have creation stretched out over a mere 6,000 years. STILL not going to satisfy the materialistic evolutionists that the Catholic religion is hoping to appease.

Let's face it - this compromise stuff is pure nonsense. The only two realistic options are to believe in biblical special creation or in materialistic evolution. Consistency demands you hold to either one or the other. You can't stretch the Bible to make it include evolution, nor can you stretch evolution to make it consistent with creation.

As for me, being a luddite and all (though probably knowing much more about science that Vaquero), I'll simply go with the assumption that when God wanted to tell us something, He would just come right out and tell us. I see no reason to believe that if God had meant eras that were "billions of years", that He wouldn't have just come right out and said so, finding some way, given the limitations of the language, to express that concept. As it stands, He said "days", and specifically indicated that He meant that literally, through the use of the "evening and morning" motif. I see no reason to believe God lied to us about what He meant, as "theistic evolutionists" would have us to believe.