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Day-age creationism, a type of old Earth creationism, is an interpretation of the creation accounts in Genesis. It holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not literal 24-hour days, but are much longer periods (from thousands to billions of years).
The Genesis creation narrative is the creation myth of both Judaism and Christianity. The narrative is made up of two stories, roughly equivalent to the first two chapters of the Book of Genesis.
Creationism. Allegorical interpretations of Genesis are readings of the biblical Book of Genesis that treat elements of the narrative as symbols or types, rather than viewing them literally as recording historical events. Either way, Judaism and most sects of Christianity treat Genesis as canonical scripture, and believers generally regard it ...
Old Earth creationism ( OEC) is an umbrella of theological views encompassing certain varieties of creationism which may or can include day-age creationism, gap creationism, progressive creationism, and sometimes theistic evolution . Broadly speaking, OEC usually occupies a middle ground between young Earth creationism (YEC) and theistic ...
The framework interpretation (also known as the literary framework view, framework theory, or framework hypothesis) is a description of the structure of the first chapter of the Book of Genesis (more precisely, Gen 1:1–2:4a ), the Genesis creation narrative. [1] Biblical scholars and theologians present the structure as evidence that Gen. 1 presents a symbolic, rather than literal ...
Gap creationism (also known as ruin-restoration creationism, restoration creationism, or " the Gap Theory ") is a form of old Earth creationism that posits that the six- yom creation period, as described in the Book of Genesis, involved six literal 24-hour days (light being "day" and dark "night" as God specified), but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first ...
Genesis 1:5 is the fifth verse in the first chapter of the Book of Genesis, part of the Genesis creation narrative. In this verse, God names the newly created day and night.
Creationism is the religious belief that nature, and aspects such as the universe, Earth, life, and humans, originated with supernatural acts of divine creation. [1] [2] In its broadest sense, creationism includes a continuum of religious views, [3] [4] which vary in their acceptance or rejection of scientific explanations such as evolution ...