The problem of some here is a predisposition to disbelief in the power of God, while calling themselves people of faith. Those who've referenced scripture are right, the fifth verse of Genesis states, "And the evening and the morning were the first day." These Hebrew words for evening and morning have ordinary meaning of night, like after sunset, and morning, like daybreak. An effort was made to specify what sort of day the first day and other days of creation were, in terms of what we know as a 24 hour cycle. Also given the Word of God creates by His word, that the power of God is beyond imagining, demonstrably in no need of factory facilities or raw materials, the Bible creation account would clearly point to a young earth: God has all the wherewithal to do just that.
Interesting, also, that the young earth can't really be decisively debunked, for objections of quite competent creation scientists. So, if either case can be "proved," nobody here is prepared to categorically say anything, in terms of science, especially when truth cannot discount the unlimited power of God, beyond all human understanding. Such power is way beyond man's best science, which is, as often as not, a best guess, and that guess also often lame, with as many holes as a spaghetti strainer. Everybody knows that, when you shine a light on the Big Bang or evolution, the very sensibility flees. I'd go as far as to say, if it were possible the Lord could ever get in a rush, He could plant another universe in one day, as surely as He changed water into wine in an instant, without planting, growing, harvesting or processing any grapes. That's power! There's a Bible caution, about trying to elevate man, and reduce God, to, as if, meet in the middle, which is an unfaithful form of egomaniacal creature hubris,
2 Timothy 3:5 Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Those of you tearing at the Bible creation account, why don't you just admit you don't believe it, and that your Creator of Genesis has to be diminished and more conform to the creature? Add that, and you see this all over message boards, His thinking has to conform to yours, doesn't it, regardless clear scripture? Some of you need to go off somewhere and write your own Bible.
