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Creation in Six Days: A Defense of the Traditional Reading of Genesis One is unavailable, but you can change that!

Creation in Six Days offers an exegetical, literary, and theological defense of the traditional interpretation of the Genesis account of six-day creation. Jordan’s account is primarily designed to answer any approach to the text of Genesis, such as the increasingly popular Framework Hypothesis, that pits the text’s literary features against its historical and narrative sense. Beyond his...

scientific reasons.2 Even so, no one suggested God took a vast amount of time. Augustine thought the six days were instantaneous. All accepted the biblical chronology and calculated the age of the earth from it. It has only been since the rise of modern science, including archaeology, that anyone has questioned the biblical chronology and traditional interpretation of Genesis 1. It is modern science, thus, that places a challenge before interpreters. If someone said, “I noticed contradictions in
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