> I am been having a wonderful time studying your views.
Wow. Thanks!

I thought your questions were excellent, and that the response was of general interest. I have therefore posted my response as my latest blog entry, here: http://geocreationism.com/2007/01/25/the-holy-spirits-omnipresence-and-the-first-day-of-creation/

The idea of the Holy Spirit choosing to move to the other side of the earth to experience the day is still difficult for me to grasp. The Holy Spirit is spirit (duh!). He is everywhere at once if I understand the concept of omnipresence. Now, much greater minds than mine have been wrestling with Genesis for thousands of years. Nevertheless, what about this?

Daniel’s 70 weeks clearly have a ‘gap’ between weeks 69 and 70. I am sure that many would shudder at the use of the word ‘clear’ in this context. Let me just say it is clear to me. When God spoke to Daniel, He chose not to mention the gap. Could this be the message of the creation week with the days that are called out actually being 24 hour days that were spaced in time quite a bit? Forgive me if this is just one of the many explanations that others have already shot down. It’s new for me.

One more thing and then I’ll stop bothering you. Most of the English translations have God ’separating’ the light and darkness in Genesis 1:4. The word that is translated as ’separate’ may also be translated as ‘distinguish.’ A literal translation of the words in the verse could be “and distinguished - God - between - light - and between - darkness.” The very next set of words has God naming the light and darkness. Having defined for us what constitutes a day/night, God could now start the count by calling out the first 24 hour day of the creation week. Could it be that Scripture is interpreting Scripture here by telling us how God distinguished, by naming, light and darkness, day and night, for us?