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Day 1: The first 'light' was the removal of the dense cloud cover Earth had when it formed; 4.4-3.8 x 109 years ago.
With "
darkness was over the surface of the deep", Genesis begins around the the start of the Archean eon with a dense layer of clouds and gases which would have made it dark at the Earth's surface. During the early Archean
(about 3.0 Ga) the mantle was much hotter than today, probably around 1600 °C. This means the fraction of partially molten material was much larger than today. Gases escaped from the crust, and more gases were released by volcanoes, completing the second atmosphere.
The "
separating light from darkness" is the cooling of the Earth, the formation clouds and rain created by the oceans. By the start of the Archean eon oceans already covered the Earth. The new atmosphere probably contained water vapor, carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and smaller amounts of other gases. As the output of the Sun was only 70% of the current amount, significant amounts of greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere most likely prevented the surface water from freezing. Free oxygen would have been bound by hydrogen or minerals on the surface. Volcanic activity was intense and, without an ozone layer to hinder its entry, ultraviolet radiation flooded the surface.
Earth Science Lesson 1 Instruction, page 1
Formation of Earth and Life
History of the Earth - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Day Age Interpretation
Day 2: The formation of a stable water cycle; ~2.7 x 109 years ago
Day 3: Plant life forms on land; ~1.0 x 109 years ago
Day 4: The Earth's achieves it's current '
stellar day': the Earth's rotation relative to fixed stars, which has been and is still ever changing. See also Solar Day, Mean Solar-Day, and Sidereal-Day. Even the Moon's distance from the Earth has always been changing. This is the perpetual nature of evolution.
Day 5: Birds (Feduccia, A. 1995. Explosive evolution in tertiary birds and mammals. Science 267: 637-638, ~70 x 106 years ago),
whales (~50 x 10[SUP]6[/SUP] years ago) and sea mammals ("swarms of living creatures," where "creatures" is the Hebrew word nephesh, referring to soulish animals - those that can form relationships with humans) were created, which would correspond to the end of the Cretaceous period/beginning of the Tertiary.
Day 6: The "
beasts of the earth"
(the Hebrew word is chayyah, which is best translated as "wild animal," usually referring to carnivorous mammals [the extinct families Miacidae and Viverravidae, appeared ~50 x 10[SUP]6[/SUP] years ago or current families Canidae, Felidae, Mustelidae, and Viverridae appeared ~30 x 10[SUP]6[/SUP] years ago]) the wild and domesticated mammals such as cattle (the Hebrew word is behemah, from which we get the word behemoth, the artiodactyls, large grazing mammals, appeared ~15 x 10[SUP]6[/SUP] years ago) and rodents (mammals that "creep on the ground") were created.
Day 7: God kicks His boots off, cracks open a cold one and ti-vo's the latest episode of Braking Bad.
