Let The Creatard Shitting of Bricks Begineth

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In other words, you're suggesting it was meant in the sense of era?  Unlikely, but if so there remains the more difficult problem of of how and in what order, not to mention what kind of universe god created.

Day One:  God creates heavens and earth and separates light from darkness. So light and darkness were all mixed up until the earth was created and after that they were neatly separated?

Day Two:  God makes a vault in the sky to separate the waters from the waters.  Wait a minute a vault in the sky holding back water.  Really?  Care to explain that one?  Didn't hear about any of the space launches hitting a vault.  No little trip through the vast sky born lake either.

Day Three: God gathers the water under the sky to make dry land and puts vegetation on the land.  Funny, but I thought the fish came first.  Maybe not.  But I'm sure ocean critters came first, if not actual fish.

Day Four: God add light to vault in the sky, the sun and moon respectively, also the stars.   Also he separated day from night.  Apparently they were all mixed up before. Ooops, didn't the stars come before the earth and the moon later yet?  Oh and how do you get vegetation before the sun?  

Day Five: God creates the fishes and birds.  Whoops, the birds come after the land born creatures.

Day Six: God creates animals on land including livestock.  And he created humans. Okay, livestock was a breeding process really, a little bit of man made evolution in fact.

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Oh but wait. . .that's only Genesis 1.  That's not how it really was, there's another creation account in Genesis 2.  This time god creates man before vegetation or rain, but there were streams.  Apparently without man to sow the seeds there could be no vegetation or at least that's what it says.  But, before that god had planted a garden to put man in. 

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  At some indeterminate time god had made the animals and now he asked the man to name them.  Then he made Eve out of Adam's rib.
That story doesn't work very well either.

I really don't think make the days into eras even begins to solve the problems with Genesis.

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Chapter 2 begins by stating a summary - ‘heaven and earth were created’… and ‘no plants had yet sprung up. But streams came on the earth…’ Then vegetation was next. * text below.
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* Genesis Chapter 2 --- Verses 4-6. This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created, when the Lord God made the earth and the heavens.
5 Now no shrub had yet appeared on the earth[a] and no plant had yet sprung up, for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no one to work the ground, 6 but streams[] came up from the earth and watered the whole surface of the ground.
Day 6 (creation of mankind portion) - some terms: ‘Soul’ - An interface between the material body and the nonmaterial spirit. ‘Spirit’ - nonmaterial part of man.

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Day 6 (portion before humanity) - The 6’th day mentions 3 specialized kinds of land mammals - the kinds most crucial to humanity’s needs. 1) Livestock 2) Wild animals 3) Rodents and hares. Livestock for agriculture, Wild animals to maintain the vitality of the herbivores, and some have been tamed to provide service and comfort. Creatures along the ground - used for warmth thru the cold weather cycles, medical research, etc.

Now the conditions are in place for God’s ultimate purpose for creating the world; God now turns His attention to shaping the first human.

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Day 6 - (Creation of mankind portion). Within the original language in “So God created mankind in His own image”, God used something ‘old’ (the dust to create the physical body), and something ‘new’ (something not found in previous life forms) which is the spirit. The manifestation of humanity spirit gives such things as consciousness of self, concerns about death and about life after death, conscience (awareness of right and wrong), language capabilities such as ability to carry on a conversation with another, capacity for abstract thoughts. These traits and others are found in every human being (or effortful repression). The spirit of man also gives unconditional immortality --- you may have noticed that the inward person doesn’t grow old unlike the outward person.
Next is Day 7 [hide] - The final long but finite period of time which we are currently in.

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The 7'th Day
After the 6’th day - the final act of God’s creative activity (man) for this universe - the 7’th day which we’re currently are in, hasn’t had any creation. The 7’th day (like the previously 6 days is again defined literally as a long but finite period of time as used in Genesis.) - Hebrew has 4 literal meaning of the word ‘day’ (yom) which one is used depends on context, etc.

In terms of creative activity, the scientific record affirms the continuance of the 7’th day - the cessation of aggressive speciation (occurs when a group within a species separates from other members of its species). Per the fossil record, new life forms proliferated though the million of years prior to human history. According to environmentalists Paul and Anne Ehrlich “It has been more than a century since Darwin started biologist thinking about speciation and the production of a new animal species in nature has yet to be documented *. Plants - no unequivocal new species - what new plants there are, most scientists believe are new breeds, strains of the old species.
God will resume His creative activity with the new creation after this current universe is destroyed for it will have served it’s purpose (“All the stars in the sky will be dissolved and the heavens rolled up like a scroll;”). The book of nature is one source of information, the other, the book of God’s revelation, gives some additional handy information.
* - Page 23 (ref from eBook public library).