Originally Posted by The_Real_Hawkeye
Originally Posted by DBT
But the time frame of six literal days of creation is given and described. If Adam/humankind evolved just as the evidence tells us, there is no need to invoke special creation or intelligent design...which is not supported by the evidence, fossil record, multiple extinction events, etc.

The time frame is allegorical.

God can command X,Y, and Z, and see that it is good, then move on to command A,B, and C, both billions of years before any of it actually takes place. Time duration and sequence is a thing for us, not for God. He doesn't live within the confines of such concepts.


It wasn't believed to be allegory in the past, some still don't. It was believed to be the inspired word of God describing how the world came to be, how it was created in literally six days, why the world has suffering/ the fall and the need for redemption, etc. Which doesn't work with allegory.

Now that it's been shown that the Earth is 4.5 billion years old and life has evolved from a common ancestor, microbes for 3 billion years, multiple extinction events, and nearly us in the last ice age, it is more convenient to call it allegory.