Six Days? Or a Million Years.. Notes on Genesis, Chapter One

The Genesis account of the creation of all things (ch. 1:3-31) is very
specific, in both the timing (six days), as well as the sequence.
Some claim to believe both the Genesis account and the "old earth"
theory too. The latter stretches the 'six day' period into 'millions
of years', thus, going along with 'scientific' evidence of the age of
the earth. The plain and simple truth, however, is that if 'old earth
creationists' are correct, then not only is the Biblical timing (six
days) incorrect, but the entire sequence of the creation events
described in Genesis is completely untrue as well--metaphorically and
otherwise.
While one could argue (supposedly) that each creation 'day' actually
represented a period of time that may have stretched over millions of
years, it could not justify nor explain the Biblically claimed
'sequence' of things created. For example, the Bible says that
daylight and the darkness of night were in existence beginning with
the "first day" of creation--but the sun, moon, and stars were not
created until the "fourth day". So even if those 'days' were actually
'millions of years' long, it would only make it more difficult to
believe the Genesis account. Creation happened just the way the Bible
describes, or the Bible is wrong--it's that simple.
The more science discovers the complexities of nature, the more
evidence there is of a Creator--One who 'spoke' and things
became--rather than one who 'intelligently designed' the universe,
through a process of eons of evolution. Man came up with that idea,
not God. And man (even much of the church) is constantly trying to
ignore the necessary ingredient of 'faith' in his understanding of
truth... It's not going to happen... Faith is not only required, if a
man is to be 'pleasing' to God (Heb. 11:6), but it is the first
requirement, if a man is to understand how "..the worlds were framed
by the word of God" (Heb. 11:3). One can choose only to 'believe' or
'not believe' the writer of Hebrews very next words... "...that the
things which are seen were not made of things which are
visible"--simply put... They did not 'evolve'.