I don't see how anyone got 6000 years from the Bible...
I'm an ardent study of the bible and many other religious texts, and the Hebrew manusripts show two distict and very lengthy periods between the first two verses in Genesis.
I'm a believer in two creations over a very long period of time that would explain evolutionism and creationism.
God would likely be a member of a highly evolved race that "seeded" our world, possibly other worlds...
God could likely be from another "Universe" or "Dimension" and "seeded" what we currently "know" about the world and/or universe we see?
If we are fairly close to being able to do this ourselves as a species, why not another species "creating" our evolving system through some form of DNA "seeding"?
So "God" might be the singular name for this "highly evolved species" called "Gods", and the one named Jehovah was the one in charge of oversight of this "evolving" project.
The deity thing would be created by a Human species that has not yet "evolved" enough to comprehend who and what "Gods" are.
If the "seeding" was done with his/their DNA as the "base DNA" with which to work from, then we would then be "created in their likeness". We would truly be the "children of God" because of our DNA connection.
It would also explain the idea of a "primordial soup".
An easy explaination of "two creations" is just like anything in science, the first try might have failed and they tried again, and the long period of time between tries may have something with what might be neccessary to create the needed components for a "primordial soup" before trying again.
Or there was a real "war" in the heavens over doing such a project and the original project was destroyed, so after fighting about it, they started over.
I don't see a conflict with creation and evolution in this scenario. This sounds more realistic than many of the theories I've encountered.:)
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I don't see how anyone got 6000 years from the Bible... I'm an ardent study of the bible and many other religious texts, and the Hebrew manusripts show two distict and very lengthy periods between the first two verses in Genesis. I'm a believer in two creations over a very long period of time that would explain evolutionism and creationism. God would likely be a member of a highly evolved race that "seeded" our world, possibly other worlds... God could likely be from another "Universe" or "Dimension" and "seeded" what we currently "know" about the world and/or universe we see? If we are fairly close to being able to do this ourselves as a species, why not another species "creating" our evolving system through some form of DNA "seeding"? So "God" might be the singular name for this "highly evolved species" called "Gods", and the one named Jehovah was the one in charge of oversight of this "evolving" project. The deity thing would be created by a Human species that has not yet "evolved" enough to comprehend who and what "Gods" are. If the "seeding" was done with his/their DNA as the "base DNA" with which to work from, then we would then be "created in their likeness". We would truly be the "children of God" because of our DNA connection. It would also explain the idea of a "primordial soup". An easy explaination of "two creations" is just like anything in science, the first try might have failed and they tried again, and the long period of time between tries may have something with what might be neccessary to create the needed components for a "primordial soup" before trying again. Or there was a real "war" in the heavens over doing such a project and the original project was destroyed, so after fighting about it, they started over. I don't see a conflict with creation and evolution in this scenario. This sounds more realistic than many of the theories I've encountered. :)