"We note first that mainstream science challenges not only the timescale of the Genesis creation account but also its order.
Genesis 1
- Day 1 – Water, earthly elements, then light
- Day 2 – Firmament, then oceans, atmosphere
- Day 3 – Dry land, then land vegetation, fruit trees, grass
- Day 4 – Sun, moon, stars
- Day 5 – Marine life, then birds
- Day 6 – Land animals, then humans
Mainstream science
- 14 billion years ago (bya) – light, light elements, then stars, galaxies, then heavy elements,water
- 58 bya – Sun
- 54 bya – earth
- 550 million years ago (mya) – first fish
- 440 mya – first primitive plants
- 360 mya – first land animals – reptiles
- 245 mya – first mammals
- 210 mya – first birds
- 140 mya – first flowering plants
- 70 mya – first grasses, fruit trees
- 2 mya – first tool-making humanoids
Note that the two orders differ at many places. For example, Genesis
has fruit trees first, then birds, and then land animals; mainstream
science has exactly the reverse. Genesis has the earth before the Sun
and stars; mainstream science has stars and Sun before the earth, etc."
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