. Michael James from: academia.edu/1598580/St._Augustines_view_of_Biblical_Creation_versus_a_21st_Century_Day-Age_View What separates their philosophy from the Young-Earth creationists (who believethe universe in less than 10,000 years old as dictated by Biblical genealogy andliteralness) is the definition and use of the Hebrew word yộm, which translates to theEnglish, day. They argue that yộm [singular] and yamin [plural] are used in Scripture tomean daytime, a full rotation of the Earth [or what was believed prior to Copernicus –the Sun revolving around the Earth], and an unspecified amount of time (Ross 125).They go so far as to cite “Justin Martyr, Iraneus, Lactantius, Vicotrinus of Pettau, andMethodius of Olympus [as] explicitly endors[ing] six consecutive thousand-year periodsfor the Genesis creation days” and with Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and St. Augustine rejecting a 24 hour x 6 day definition (Ross 69). Therefore, the Day-Age viewis not new and did not originate with Ross and Archer. However, they do look uponGenesis from “the narrator’s vantage point [from] the surface of the Earth” (Ross 134)with the following sequence of events: • Creation of the entire physical universe • Earth’s primordial atmosphere too thick to allow penetration of light fromthe sun, moon, and stars • Clearing of interplanetary debris and partial atmospheric clearing toopaque • Formation of water vapor in the troposphere • Formation of continental land masses and ocean basins • Generation of plants • Transformation of atmosphere to translucent and occasionally transparent • Creation of small sea animals • Creation of sea mammals and birds • Creation of short-legged and long-legged land mammals [cattle] that canbe tamed and others that cannot be tamed [beasts] • Creation of humans (Ross 135)
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