Don

Cheryl,

If evening is seen as poetic metaphor, it does not need to indicate time, I gave an example of evening meaning “less order” in contrast to morning meaning more order. That is, each creation day results in a further fulfillment of the ordering of reality according to God’s plan and use of the terms evening and morning is confirming that (to me).

Yes, God created time, and space, or in Einstein’s language, spacetime.

FWIIW, I do not use time synchronicity in my understanding of Gen 1. Part of the reason is that God can create over time, that is, the “creation days” can be times of proclamation of God’s activity that will take place over universe time in any order God wishes. For example, the first 3 days are anti-tohu (form) and the latter 3 are anti-bohu (void). I see this as a literary device that forms an ordered structure of forming the places for the occupants. But it does not need to mean that plants were physically created before the sun, for example. That is, science can investigate and perhaps discover that the sun was created before plants and that poses no problem.