And the means by which God created everything is broken down in precise detail in the bible?
Let me put this way. In pool, can God get all the balls to go into the holes on the break of the rake? I think all would say yes. Do the balls have to go in instantaneously and simultaneously? Of course not. Now take that example and ramp it up a little bit to the scale of the universe. The goal is still the same, have a specific event occur - creation of Man. Does it really matter that it is done instantaneously and simultaneously? Just like the pool balls, they take their own path to get to the final outcome.
Arguing about the path and duration of the ball’s movements are meaningless, if the intent is the final event - Creation of man.
It doesn’t flipping matter HOW God created man, but that God did.
P.S - Can someone tell me the special biblical exception that allows for an old universe, but young earth? Genesis 1:13-17 doesn’t seem to lend much wiggle room, IMHO. There is TONS of scientific evidence to allow for an old universe.
Actually it does matter: man was a special creation -- taken from the dust of the Earth and having life breathed into him by God Himself.
To say that man evolved from other animals is to deny that man is special; this is even distinct from saying that evolution is the method for God's creation of animal-life.
Being made in God's own image is a big deal.
P.S - Can someone tell me the special biblical exception that allows for an old universe, but young earth? Genesis 1:13-17 doesn’t seem to lend much wiggle room, IMHO. There is TONS of scientific evidence to allow for an old universe.
2 Pet 3:8 -- But you must not forget this one thing, dear friends: A day is like a thousand years to the Lord, and a thousand years is like a day.
IOW, God is not bound by mere time. -- Also consider that a day is one revolution of the Earth WRT the sun... if there is no sun and no Earth, that is an undefined period.