How many days after God created the Earth did he create Adam and Eve?
Gen 1:1 speaks of God creating the “heavens and the earth,” which took place likely billions of years prior to the beginning of the Genesis “days” of creation. So the Genesis account begins with the earth already in existence, and then describes the order in which God prepared the earth for human habitation. This preparation of the earth was done in six creative “days” or time periods, each of which was likely thousands of years long. So, God did not create everything in 6 literal 24-hour days. This is contrary to sound reason and true scientific evidence. The word “day” is used in many different senses in the Bible. It does not always mean a 24-hour period. Sometimes it means only the hours of sunlight, that is, 12, more or less. Sometimes it stands for a year. Sometimes it means the years during a certain generation. In several references a day is 1,000 years, and in some even longer. No doubt the days in Genesis chapter 1 were very much longer (thousands of years). But the Bible doe
