[Rastus]

I'm a creationist, but you don't see me flaming the thread. Personally, where Genesis 1:1-2 states, 1 In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. 2 The earth was formless and void...", there could have been a 4 billion year interval between verse 1 and verse 2, with the description of Gen. chapters 1 and 2 being not a creation story, but a re-creation story.

I could be wrong, since I try to avoid the flamefests on this board, but I don't think you're a big C Creationist. You believe in a Creator, but you don't insist on a young Earth or that people lived with dinosaurs, right? I'm probably right there with you.

[Larry Lucido]

but you don't insist on a young Earth or that people lived with dinosaurs, right?

Do I need to post a picture of Helen Thomas?

[Kenny Bunkport]

I should amend my comment, then. I believe in a God who is capable of anything, including creating all that we see in six days. He spoke, and it came into being. But I also believe that between verse 1 and 2 of Genesis 1, there could have been billions of years. Elsewhere in scripture there are brief references to a war in heaven, with angels who rebelled against God being cast down. It is possible that the casting of Satan and his demons down to earth ravaged the planet and probably a good section of our galactic neighborhood, and that what we see in v. 2 and beyond is a "re-creation," of sorts, with the plants, animals, and humans being placed on earth in the span of six day, even some 6,000 years ago, and God's Spirit now keeping demons in check so that they can't wreck complete havoc. It's possible, and it doesn't contradict a literal reading of Genesis.

The point is, not all the detail is given in Genesis, but while there were no "scientists" around then to observe and refute the Genesis narrative, we do have a written record handed down by oral tradition until Moses put it in writing, hence I will side with the written narrative as opposed to evolutionary speculation.