Old Earth Creationism: Creationists Who Accept an Old Earth
What is Old Earth Creationism?: Sometimes, special creationism accepts the existence of an old earth, such that an ancient earth is accepted, but not evolution itself. This requires rejecting a completely literal interpretation of Genesis, but not abandoning it wholly and not simply reading it as metaphorical in the manner of Theistic Evolutionists. When reading Genesis, Jewish and Christian Old Earth Creationists (OEC) can take a number of different paths: Day-Age Theory of Old Earth Creationism: Some Old Earth Creationists argue that the days during which events happened were not days as we know them they may have been millennia or more. This perspective is justified by the argument that nothing in the text specifies the exact length of the days being described, and supporters will often quote 2 Peter 3:8: One day with the Lord is as a thousand years to justify the idea that day in the biblical text need not mean a 24-hour day in our understanding. Gap Theory of Old Earth Creationism
