Genesis - the Creation

When God is creating the heavens and earth, I assume his days are much longer than ours. Has anyone figured out how long they were in our time?

Did he create the dinosaurs first and they evolved into the animals we know now? Was Adam a caveman? It seems that period of time is missing unless it is combined and not mentioned in any detail.

Thanks for any information about this.

Yes, 2PT 3:8 indicates that days can refer to a very long time beyond 24 hours.

Science indicates that the dinos were created before mammals.

Adam might have been a caveman after departing Eden.

Yes, time periods are missing, because the purpose of the Bible is to answer why, not how.

Hope this helps. :^)

Welcome to CC. Why do you assume this? What in the text tells you that such an assumption is appropriate?

Did he create the dinosaurs first and they evolved into the animals we know now? Was Adam a caveman? It seems that period of time is missing unless it is combined and not mentioned in any detail.

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It appears to me that you've started with the secular assumptions about the Earth's history and are trying to understand the Bible in light of those. It's better to put all those ideas aside (with good reason that you'll learn later) and start with the word of God... the One who was actually there when it all happened.

Why assume anything? A day is an evening and a morning, according to God's word. That is one rotation of the earth. That's all that is clear. I don't know why people can't accept God's word as it is. There are rational explanations for every conundrum raised by those who doubt God's word.

God has not told us anything except that which we need to know. The Bible would fill a library if God explained every last detail. As for dinosaurs, it is possible that they were on Noah's ark. There is a description of a creature in the book of Job that is remarkably like a dinosaur. Evolution is simply impossible. DNA is a code that defines the characteristics of every living thing. A code occurring randomly is about as likely as an explosion in a print shop producing the complete works of Shakespeare.

Lack of understanding does not mean something is not true. I struggled with algebra at high school. That does not mean algebra is wrong. We may not understand God's word. That does not mean that it is untrue.

Check out a book called "In the Beginning" by Walt Brown. It can be downloaded for free. It answers a whole lot of questions.

Six 24 hour days as scripture states.

Exodus 20:
9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work:
10 But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates:
11 For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it.

The last time I checked 2PT 3:8 was part of NT Scripture, but you are free to ignore it, of course.

The Lord is asking man to work six days that coincides with creation. Is the Lord asking man to work 6,000 years before he rests?

According to your method of interpretation: Yes.

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We, at least me throughout the Bible are given "Cliff notes" and people take them, me included and make conjectures out of them, great! I see to not make doctrines out od what I might get from the conjectures I read about.
Therefore, watch out for making doctrine out of "Cliff notes"
Please see as in Corinthians The Foundation today stems only and presently, forever
Christ Crucified more importantly to me risen, where new life for people is given from Daddy PaPa, Father in love and mercy to give out freely as are given it first. We love, because he loved us first and this love overcomes fear, guilt and pride in us to live above whatever circumstances we are in, at least me, trusting, God has got and getting you to learn and grow in Father's Spiritual love and mercy for you too, given in the death, burial, now resurrection, death over with, we are living new in the risen Son, at least me
Thanks, as we all want to know and want love everlasting. Life everlasting is not the Flesh, it gets imputed to the flesh from God Father in risen son for us to live new in truth Love and mercy from God to all
Acts 17:28
for in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.

Yes, Adam was a caveman, and all men are cavemen.

When God told man to work for 6 days and rest on the 7th, He did not intend man to work for 6,000 years. One day on earth is an evening and a morning. Last I looked, that was 24 hours, not 1,000 years.

Just remember that you are going to have to explain to Peter at the pearly gates why you dissed him during your earthly days.

So is Psalm 90:4. which together with 2 Peter 3:8 makes clear that neither is an exact correspondence... therefore, the idea that God intended the 6 days of creation to be likened to 6,000 years is faulty at best.

My dear saint 2 Peter 3:8 does not apply to the creation days

Adam was the first garden variety.

2 Peter 3:8 is found in Genesis but not concerning creation days. It is also found in the gospels.

It's OK, I'm not Roman Catholic.

Authorized (King James) Version
Psalm 90:4
4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past,
and as a watch in the night.


Authorized (King James) Version

2 Peter 3:8

8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

It is conjecture, all the Bible is full of "Cliff notes" that people conjecture from and make troubles to one another over it all. Now worse having added Chapters and verses, straining out gnats, possibly swallowing camels, not well for my Soul The entire Bible without verse, I get to read the whole and see a gigantic love story from God Father and Son to us all. Son not known in the old, predicted to come to earth first, and has done that now and completed everything needed for us to be new in love and mercy to all, at least to me presently
However it is our free choice to choose, and then it works out or not, does it really matter? to choose is all tha tis left after that cross of Son, to me anyways. Man could not figure it out who Jesus was/is and that got him killed, by his being willing to love all as did do that. As evil regrets that now, getting him killed since Son is risen where new life is given free from Father to us. As, we the people are still trying to figure out the mysterious ways of God, wow Trust Daddy through Son you are reconciled, and new life is offered , accept this free gift, and be dead to your first birth willingly, since at that cross all sin is now condemned to flesh nature
Be dead to be alive as in Acts 17:28 tells me at least thanks
I understand Isaiah now in /Is 6:1-7