Does Genesis 1 describe history in chronological sequence?
144-hour interpretation, each “yom” is a 24-hour day, and the entire creation process occurred in six consecutive days. In a day-age view, each “yom” (usually translated into English as “day”) has one of its other meanings, “a period of time with an unspecified length.” Or creation might have occurred in six nonconsecutive 24-hour days, with long periods between each day. Or maybe in six “days of proclamation” God described what would occur during the process of creation. In a gap view, there was an initial creation (in Genesis 1:1), a catastrophe (in 1:2), and a re-creation on the earth (beginning in 1:3). In a framework view, the six days form a logical framework for describing actual historical events, but with events arranged topically instead of chronologically. Genesis 1:2 describes the earth as “formless and empty,” so there are two problems. The two solutions are to produce form, and to fill.
