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The argument that pan6467 puts forth is pretty darned mainstream; it simply involves reading some of the statements in the Bible as metaphor, as hundreds of millions of Christians do.
But with the advent of the scientific age, there were and are those who insist on taking the Bible literally as written (or at least the parts that they're happy to talk about). So when it says, "The First Day," that's what they believe it was. A day, not the Pre-Cambrian era.
It's an argument that's impossible to win or lose. An omnipotent God could choose to create the universe in seven days, yet manufacture all the evidence of evolution and of billions of years of geological history upon the earth and among the stars. Of course, to my mind, that's the sort of God who enjoys coating toilet seats with superglue and tipping over occupied outhouses. Likes his little jokes, in other words.
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