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Creation Day 2: 6 Days of Creation or 13.8 Billion Years?
Because the universe (God's raqia ) has "stretched" or expanded outward 900 billion times larger since the moment of creation, t he six days recorded in Genesis 1 are not of equal duration. According to science, e ach time the universe doubles in size, our perception of time halves as we project that time back toward the beginning of the universe ( Genesis 1:3 ). The rate of doubling is very rapid at the beginning and decreases with time simply because as the universe gets larger and larger, even though the actual expansion rate is approximately constant, it takes longer and longer for the overall size to double. Because of this, the earliest of the six days of creation have most of the 13.8 billion years compressed with in them.
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* 13.8 rounded off to the nearest billion The chart above uses an exponential equation developed by Dr. Gerald Schroeder * that details the number of years as measured from our perspective of time compressed within each of the six 24 hour days of Genesis Chapter One, taking each day as one “half life.” The result gives an overall age of the universe of 13.8 billion years and also the number of those 13.8 billion years of cosmic history compressed within each of the biblical five and a half, 24 hour days of Genesis prior to the creation of the human soul of Adam. Starting with Creation Day One, the results are, approximately: 7; 3.5; 1.8; 0.9; 0.5; 0.2 billions of years compressed within each successive 24-hour biblical day. This is in close agreement with the NASA number of 13.77 billion years.
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