The creation account in Genesis 1 is a "refurbishing" of the earth, that somehow came into a state of ruin following its original creation. It says that "in the beginning God made the heavens and the earth." It doesn't say "WHEN" He did that... nor how long it took Him to do it.
Then it says that "the earth WAS without form, and void." The word "was" is a form of the verb "TO BE," a "state-of-being: - is, are, was, were, am, become, became - and the translators had to choose the form of it that they thought best for what they considered to be the best contextual agreement.
The word they chose, "was," makes the account sound like God threw together a random blob of matter sometime way back when and called it the heavens and the earth. And that along with everything else... the earth, too, was less than perfectly made... a formless wasted mess, which this imperfect God had to come back later to correct, beginning in verse 3.
If God didn't make the universe "perfectly" the very first time around... then He isn't worthy to be called God. In which case, there is no God, and man and the universe is a colosal cosmic evolutionary accident afterall.
As it turns out, the very same "verb" form is used to describe the creation of Adam, where the translators decided to use "BECAME" instead of "was."
"...and man BECAME a living soul." (Gen.2:7)
It's logical to say that "man WAS a living soul, because he BECAME that way... and equally logical to say: "...the earth WAS without form, and void, because it BECAME that way..." sometime after it was created perfectly in the beginning.
All of this notwithstanding... the reality is that when God said, "Let there be light..." He wasn't creating the earth from scratch... from newly formed compacted matter. The earth was already made... in verse one, in the beginning [whenever that was]. The earth subsequently came into a condition of ruination and became totally covered by water [???perhaps to put out a fire??? See Luke 10:18]:
"...darkness was upon the face of the deep [an ocean-covered planet]. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters." (Gen.1:2)
Genesis recounts the RE-make of the earth that was wasted and destroyed by something. An earth whose foundation and orbit was intact. It speaks of six 24-hour days of refurbishing to establish a breathable atmosphere, the topographical raising of landmasses, the planting of vegetation and making a variety of living creatures... all in preparation for the creation of man, whom God made specially in His image.
The very first verse of Genesis 1, however, doesn't say how long it took God to make the universe and the earth "originally"... "in the beginning."
Time is physical. It's measured by the incremental "movements and orbits of the planets and stars."
Time didn't begin until the universe was made and set into motion... like a precision-made clock.
In the beginning, there were no "days"... no "hours"... no time. There was only "eternity"... the humanly inconceivable "absence of time."
In the Genesis account... God RE-created the earth in six days [not on a particular day]... six 24-hour days measured by the movements of the stars in a ticking universe that was already in existence.
In the beginning, however... before something later ruined God's perfect creation... we aren't told how long the original creation took. Our own human experience with making things [God gave man a spark of His creatability] reveals to us that it takes time to "ideate" and come up with a thought of something we need or would like to have. Time to formulate it in our mind. Time to put it onto paper... or into a computer program. Time to design, research and develop it. Time to prototype it and put it into production.
The infinite and intricate and lovingly thought out designs in nature reveal the perfection of our Creator. The perfect design of nature surpasses the best efforts of man to duplicate it, every time.
It stands to reason that the universe or the earth wasn't made on a particular day. It took God SIX days to RE-make the earth that was already in existence and in a state of disrepair.
According to the Bible the God in the first day of Genesis created the sky and the earth, the light and the darkness or day/ night.
According to the Bible, God created man from the dust of the earth, or the clay, and created Adam. This was all done on the sixth day of creation. This is the equivalent of our modern-day Friday.
On the 3rd day of creation, according to the Bible, God created dry land and plants.
On the sixth day, God created land animals and humans according to the Bible.
According to the Bible it took 6 days. On the seventh day he rested and blessed this day.
The first story told in the Bible is the story of the creation of the world. In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. God created evrything in six days, and on the seventh day, he rested.
According to the Bible, on the seventh day, God rested from all his work of creation.
from the day God created himAnother Answer:Some biblical scholars like Archbishop Ussher and Sir Isaac Newton, have calculated via the genealogies given in the Bible, that man was created in 4004 BC (Anno Domini) and this began the calendar for Anno Mundi - year of the world.
On the sixth day of creation, according to the Bible, God created land animals, including livestock, creatures that move along the ground, and wild animals. He also created humans, male and female, in his image, giving them dominion over the earth and all living creatures.
according to the bible the world started way before dinosoures were on th earth. the world has started when god set foot on this earth and created light,trees,and every thing else on the plantet before anything has set foot on this earth.
According to the Bible, on the seventh day, God rested from all the work he had done in creating the world.
The Bible is silent as to when butterflies and other insects were created. However, it is knwon that they have been around on earth for many millions of years.AnswerButterflies, along with the other insects, were created on Day 6 of the Creation week.