Questions a Christian must consider in this issue: 1) Is God capable of creating the earth and all we know in any amount of time He desires? Six nanoseconds, six minutes, six days, etc
2) If God is not capable of doing the events noted in Genesis 1, then He is not capable of doing anything else in the Bible. This would also require the nullification of Cross. 3) The last part is the real goal of people who deny God the ability to create ex nihilo.
2) If God is not capable of doing the events noted in Genesis 1, then He is not capable of doing anything else in the Bible. This would also require the nullification of Cross. 3) The last part is the real goal of people who deny God the ability to create ex nihilo.
Indeed, God can take however long He desires to create the universe and all that is in it. The evidence is that God created the universe several billion years ago with the big bang, and that the physical laws He set into motion at that time then caused stars and planets to form, and later, life to evolve on at least one planet. I take that evidence at face value, since I do not believe that God is a liar who faked all that evidence--for what reason, to test our faith?
If you keep in mind that 6,000 or so years ago, when God revealed Himself to Adam and Eve, people were very primitive and the scientific method was rudimentary, at best. Adam and Eve would not have understood the big bang, the process of gravitationally driven coalescence of cosmic dust into stars and planets, etc. So God gave them the Cliff notes version and left the details for us to discover as our civilization developed. All I can say is that life is certainly a lot more interesting with new things waiting to be discovered. I thank God that He did not tell us everything about the universe up front, and left it for us to discover!