Talk:Old earth creationism

I have just imported Wikipedia's article Old_earth_crationism and deleted the WP template reference we won't be using. I am interested in doing something similar for the referenced articles about Gap Creationism and Day Age Creationism.

My own interpretation is also old earth creationst, but taking literally that God created the heavens and the earth in the beginning, predating the first day by some unknown time (similar to gap). I understand that God does not spell out literally when the Sun, moon and stars were created relative to the earth. A literal reading of Genesis one indicates the sun must exist prior to the first day, in order for that to be a normal literal day.

Specific references to the sun, moon, stars, and earth in Genesis one are about when they were made complete for His purposes, not about when each of them was created from nothing. There are other literal passages within Genesis one about for example the "land producing vegetation" or "land producing animals", which are not obvious miracles of God but a gradual process clearly taking multiple seasons and possibly multiple years. Classical creationism interprets the days of Genesis as 24-hour days in contradiction to other literal passages within Genesis one without resolving that contradiction.--Tim McCully 14:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)