1) the account (New American Standard)
2) the generations (King James Version)
3) the account (Hebrew Interlinear)
The issue of how long it took God to create the universe and earth, etc comes from one of two viewpoints.
The Christian viewpoint is that the Bible is God's authoritative word and that Genesis 1 gives us the account of how and how long it took God to create the universe.
Science attempts to explain this but they leave out the possibility that God created. It is assumed in science that all this just happened.
If you google big bang or origins of life on earth you'll get a lot of theories on how we got here.
The big bang model incorporates assumptions to make it work. Take those assumptions out and the model falls apart and you're back to square one....how did we get here.
To believe all of this came into existence without God requires one to believe the following:
1) Something comes from nothing
2) Life comes from lifelessness
Which requires greater faith....believing In the beginning God, or the latter two choices?
You’re getting hung up on the word generations thinking it means great time periods. The Hebrew there can be translated as:
A day is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day, just a time period that might be any length of time.
As I said before I do not know I am just guessing, for lack of any thing else to use.
You may be right but until some one proves to me that God made the world in six literal days I will be convinced it took thousands of years.
And no one has to convince me of the crazy evolutionist scientists, they are just like the man made global warming scientists, a bunch of shysters.
I don`t believe in the big bang theory and come to think of I don`t even believe in the so called fossil fuel.