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Gap Creationists accept that science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth is in fact far older than can be accounted for by merely adding up the ages of Biblical patriarchs as given in the Book of Genesis where the age of each one's father at his birth is given and adding the "six days" of creation and thereby arriving at an age for the earth, which is essentially what Young Earth Creationists do, generally arriving at a conclusion that the Earth is only 6,000 – 7,000 years old. In order to hold the two seemingly-contradictory viewpoints that the Bible is inerrant in all matters of fact as well as faith and doctrine and that the Earth is very ancient, they must account for the supposition that certain facts about both the human past and the age of the Earth have been omitted from the Biblical account rather than falsified by it.
One approach to this problem is to state that between the six days of Creation and the Fall of Man and the subsequent initiation of human history there must have been a "gap" in the story of thousands of years, perhaps even tens of thousands or millions of years.
Many Gap Creationists postulate that this gap occurs between the seventh day, the one of rest, and the account of the Fall of Adam and Eve and hence that of Mankind though the agency of the temptation of Satan in the form of a snake. According to this theory, this amount of time would be sufficient for all of the geologic events which have happened to make the appearance of the Earth to be quite old.
Another popular approach is to assume that the gap occurs between Gen 1:1 and Gen 1:2. This postulates that the earth was initially created whole and complete and that all geologic events pointing to an old Earth (and, perhaps, even evolution) occurred before some event that throws the Earth into the chaos described in Gen 1:2. One explanation for the event that throws the Earth into chaos is the fall of Lucifer ( Satan), as the creation account does not describe when his fall occurred, but at least two Old TestamentThe Old Testament or the Hebrew Scriptures constitutes the first major part of the Christian Bible, usually divided into the categories law, history, poetry (or wisdom books) and prophecy. All of those books were written before the birth of Jesus. Canon o accounts, and one account recorded in the GospelFor the genre of Christian-themed music, see gospel music. Gospels are a genre of ancient literature concerning the life of Jesus. The word derives from the Old English word for " Good News", a translation of the Greek word , euangelion''. This refers tos as having been spoken by JesusImages of Jesus in which a halo is used to represent divinity. 6 4 BCE to c. 29 33 CE) is the central figure in Christianity, in which context he is known as Jesus Christ (from the Hebrew Yehošua , and Greek Chi;ριστ&sigmaf Chris, are presumed to describe the fall of Lucifer. Those who hold this viewpoint on when the gap occurred point out that the "clock" on the "six days of Genesis" could not have started "ticking" until the (re)emergence of light in Gen 1:3 as that verse indicates that is was the evening and morning that make the first day of Genesis, and light had to be present to initiate an evening.
However, this argument (that the light had to be present to initiate an evening) requires restricting the meaning of the Hebrew word "evening" (עֶרֶב) more narrowly that the Hebrew demands. While the word frequently is equivalent to the English word evening (the period of time just before until just after sunset), at times it is referring to the entire night when no light from the sun is visible. For example, in Job 7:4 the same Hebrew word is used and clearly refers to all of the night (which is how virtually all translations render it). In the passage in question (Gen. 1:5), "evening" and "morning" are said to constitute an entire day. Thus, the context strongly suggests that "evening" was meant to refer to "night" (the period of dark); and "morning", to "day" (the period of light).
The viewpoint that a gap took place between verses 1 and 2 makes the events within the "six days of Genesis" an act of re-creation (restoration of the Earth) rather than initial creation, and is part of the ideas held by some adherents of DispensationalismDispensationalism is a school of Bible interpretation that is associated with fundamentalist Christianity; the primary alternative within the evangelical community is covenant theology. It has been most influential in the United States, outside of which i as recorded by Clarence Larken in his book Dispensational Truth .
No satisfactory amount of time can be exactly derived by this group; some see it as being merely thousands of years at the most on the basis that "a day with the Lord is as a thousand years and a thousand years as a day" (see: Day-Age CreationismDay-Age Creationism is a type of Creationism that holds that the six days referred to in the Genesis account of creation are not ordinary 24-hour days, but rather are much longer periods (of thousands or millions of years). The Genesis account is then int). Others feel that it must be considerably longer than that to account for what mainstream science describes as the "geologic record"; this group is at considerable variance from what has come to be seen as classic fundamentalism.
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