basically what it boils down to as this
going by the genealogies listed in the bible, creationist believe there is 2000 years between genisis chapter 1 verse 3, 4 and 5 and the Great Flood
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And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Then there is another 2000 years between the flood and the birth of Christ, then another 2000 years between the birth of Christ to today. If you read from what I quoted to Genesis Chapter 2 you will see each of the seven days, is indeed a day...evening and morning were the same as they are now.
What a lot of them DONT take into consideration is the time period between Genesis Chapter 1 verse 1 and verse 3
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In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
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There is nothing there that says that was the first day and nite, that comes later. THIS time period could have been anytime at all, the billions of years that the scientists say the earth could be, or as I've stated above, those of us that believe its more in the thousands. Nothing in the bible states what that time period is, but the people that believe its only 6k years dont acknowledge it. Its clear from the scripture that the creation of the earth itself was NOT day one.
I guess my "problem" is that billions or millions of years seems like an AWFULLY generic time frame and I have a hard time believing things to have been 100% without a doubt tested accurately.
Does that explain a little better for you Secret? (Sorry bout yesterday, my headache was really getting in the way of making me coherent)