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Having made the case that Day 1 was 3.9 billion years ago, that Day 2 immediately followed Day 1, and and having described it all in terms of mainstream scientific hypotheses, some may say it calls the miraculous nature of those days into question.  First, let us recap.

It seems that God said to let there be light when Jesus and the Holy Spirit were hovering over the ocean, in the rain. The rain was part of the aftermath of a large meteor strike 3.9 billion years ago that blew away much of the existing atmosphere, and vaporized the existing ocean.  That vapor was now settling back through a worldwide rainstorm, and Jesus was watching the oceans reform below Him.  Without an atmosphere, …

Day 2 is the day when God separated the waters above from the waters below.  The implication is that there was a time when the waters in the sky were connected to the ocean.  God then removed that connection, creating a discernable space where there wasn’t one.  The question is whether there ever was such a time that can be established scientifcally.  The answer is yes.

It is generally believed among the scientific community that the oceans were first created when the clouds became overly saturated with water that had outgassed from a combination of meteor strikes and volcanic activity during the formation of the earth’s crust.  Combined with the cooling effects of the atmospheric moisture, there ensued …

The article “Evolution: The Ocean says NO!” argues that the oceans cannot be a billion years old because at the current rate of sedimentary deposits, it would only take 14 million years to reach the current level of underwater sediment we have today.  Assuming all the numbers used are correct, such as the amount of sediment deposited annually today and the thickness of current sediment, I have a problem with the following omissions within the article:

No mention of why or whether the long term rate of sedimentary deposits remains constant.  If such rates are not constant, then it calls the articles conclusions into question.
No mention of past and present river systems.
No mention of how land might erode with no rivers …

I found a post on a very interesting theory on evolution in Genesis.  Though disagree that most of the references in the blog refer to evolution, I do agree with his opinion that the verses in Genesis 1 of the “let the earth bring forth” variety are in fact direct references to evolution.  After all, it’s the earth doing it, though at God’s command.

I recommend reading the article above in its entirety.  While I may not agree that every verse referenced is to evolution, I agree with what may be the writer’s larger point, that the concept of progression from the simple to the complicated is integral to God’s plans.

“And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.  And there was evening and there was morning, one day.” - Genesis 1:5

This is the first sunset and sunrise that God experienced on the earth.  We know it was a sunset/sunrise because the context is day and night, the establishment of the light side of the earth’s sky and the dark.  We know it was God experiencing it based on the supposition that Jesus witnessed creation, because the Holy Spirit was hovering over the waters with Jesus, and because Jesus was God’s instrument of creation.  However, the creating of light in the sky surely took more than one solar day, so how could this be Jesus’ …

“And God called the light day, and the darkness He called night.  And there was evening and there was morning, one day.” - Genesis 1:5

This is a key verse to understanding the events recorded in the Creation account.  It builds on the context presented in verses 1 to 3, adding just enough detail for us to understand what actually constitutes a “day” of Creation.

We know that in Genesis 1:1 the terrestrial bodies and the earth were initially created; scientifically, we know this to be 4.5 billion years ago (Ga).  We know that in Genesis 1:2, the earth had not yet undergone the “formation” of God’s pronouncements, and the earth had no life.  We also know that the …

I encourage reading “A Fine Tuned Deception”.
Moreover, if religious dogma manages to breach the defenses of science, there is every reason to believe that it will proactively encroach on every other secular institution of society. The new stealth creationism is, in short, as dangerous as its older cousins, Intelligent Design and Young Earth creationism. It can and should be defeated in the same way they were.
I don’t think the author knows of Geocreationism, but she’d consider it dangerous.  Unfortunate, but one cannot avoid the defeat she speaks of, by avoiding the conflict! 

Genesis 1:4 - And God saw that the light was good; and God separated the light from the darkness

We know from Genesis 1:3 that God had Jesus remove any hindrance to neutralizing the darkness over the deep.  We also know that Jesus did it, and the light in the sky began to grow.  The scripture gives no indication how long the process took, though scientifically we know it could have been over a billion years.  What we do know is that the process, the “letting” of light, had begun, and at some point God saw the light, and He saw that it was good.

Also, God separated the light from the darkness.  This is interesting, apparently God wasn’t replacing all of …

Accepting the science of the early atmosphere could seem a little challenging.  There are widely settled theories about the early atmosphere, around 3.9 Ga (billion years ago), but the reasoning stems from the long-held belief that no ocean existed until around 3.9 Ga.  We now know from 4.4 billion year old zircon crystals that there was actually an ocean 500 million years earlier than originally thought.  So, if the evidence suggesting there was no ocean until 3.9 Ga is the basis for explaining the early atmosphere of that same era, what does that do to the mainstream’s theory of the early atmosphere’s composition?  Well, from this educated layman’s perspective, surprisingly little!

First Evidence of Continental Crust
Consider the premise that a molten earth cannot have an ocean; …