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"Doesn't matter. The Bible reiterates Morning and Night. That article can be missing all it wants, you don't get a super long eon, morning and night.'

How can you have morning and night before you have the Sun? The Sun wasn't created until the fourth day. Gen 2:4 defines the six days of creation and the seventh day of rest as an indefinite period of time. These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the LORD God made the earth and the heavens, (Ge 2:4).

Did God make the earth and the heavens in six days or one as the Bible says here?

Also, God rested on the seventh day and must be still resting because He hasn't started creating anything since. I think that seventh day must be still going on after all these thousands of years or you will have to say the Bible lied.

"What's more evolution as it has been presented to us, includes man. The Bible says God created woman from Adam's rib. So how do you reconcile that with evolution?"

No doubt about it, a literal reading of Adam and Eve makes the Bible wrong again. That is why you must read it as a spiritual metaphor for creation of the Spirit that separates humans from animals and is the image of God in us.

"It says each animal was created from the ground after it's own kind. I suppose that is subject to interpretation, but it's at best an extremely awkward way of saying "each animal was modified from the other animals"?"

This is a confusing passage for literalists. I will make it more confusing for you. Did you know that Adam and the Hebrew word for ground are the same word? So it is all speculation whether Adam came from ground or ground came from ground or animals came from Adam or animals came from ground or what.

I don't think anyone can understand this passage if taken literally, but that is just a theory.

How can you have morning and night before you have the Sun? The Sun wasn't created until the fourth day

It says God made light and divided it from darkness. Apparently God made light before He made the Sun. That's not surprising, given what else we are told in scripture. In Revelations, God lights up the city of God and it has no need for the Sun. Rev 22:5

Did God make the earth and the heavens in six days or one as the Bible says here Gen 2:4?

He made it in 6 as described in Gen 1. Gen 2:4 uses day as a period of time. Gen 2:4 should be understood in light of what has already been told you in Gen 1.

Also, God rested on the seventh day and must be still resting because He hasn't started creating anything since.

How do you know He hasn't created anything since? I think He's been working His butt off trying to keep us from destroying ourselves.

But supposedly the Ancient Hebrew rabbi's taught that the earth would exist for 6,000 years and the 7th 1000 years would be a period of rest. We think it was about 2000 years to the flood, another 2000 years to Christ, and the signs are thick that we are in the last days prior to the 1000 year reign of Christ.

No doubt about it, a literal reading of Adam and Eve makes the Bible wrong again. That is why you must read it as a spiritual metaphor for creation of the Spirit that separates humans from animals and is the image of God in us.

No, it makes modern science wrong about it's conclusion. There is tremendous doubt about reading that non-literally. What's more 2 Peter 3 even warns us that there will be a day when people say "everything continues as it has from the beginning" and thereby forget creation and the flood. That's an uncanny description of uniformitarianism and naturalism and the result has been writing creation and the flood of as metaphors.

"Did you know that Adam and the Hebrew word for ground are the same word? "

I didn't realize they were similar, but a little research and it sound to me like "adam" means man, "Adam" becomes a proper noun in relation ship to the first man, "adamah" means ground. One site said the relationship of adam to adamah is kind of like earth to earthling.

So it is all speculation whether Adam came from ground or ground came from ground or animals came from Adam or animals came from ground or what.

I'm not aware of any Hebrew scholars that have a problem reading this. I don't think Hebrew scholars have any problem reading it as God made man out of the ground and God made the animals out of the ground.

I don't think anyone can understand this passage if taken literally, but that is just a theory.

Nobody can understand the Bible if they limit God to man's knowledge. If you do that, the creation, the flood, miracles, the redemption, judgement, heaven, hell, angels, demons, the afterlife, none of it will appear real. You have to give God a little credit, if you are going to believe scripture.