4.5 Billion years is really not a big number. 4.5 billion < 332 billion in dollars made in one fiscal year by a single oil company. 4.5 billion x 365 < a mol. In terms of all of earth’s ∆ in geology… 4.5 billion years is a really short process. Now, Speed is the scale how fast something moves, example: (10 cm/1 sec) is faster then (10 cm/2 sec) is faster then (10 cm/3 sec). Pace is the inverse of Speed, or how long something takes: (3 sec/10 cm) takes longer then (2 sec/ 10 cm) takes longer then (1 sec/ 10 cm). In terms of geology time scales..what is the pace of events happening on the 6th day in Genesis? Specifical, between Genesis 1:20 to 1:28; from what I read of Genesis 1:20..seems to be the start of Cambrian explosion (541 million years ago..beginning of multi cell life) and Genesis 1:28 to be the start of the cenozoic ere (300,000 years ago…the emergence of homo sapiens into the world).
It’s futile and foolish to try to fit the 6 days of creation into the sequence of earth history. The people who wrote the book had no concept of deep time or of any real sequence in the origin of the current world, and their concept of the universe was of a box surrounded by water. You will note that the 5th day includes birds and fish; no mention of trilobites or any other Cambrian life. The message is that God made everything, and the order isn’t all that important to the writers.
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