Creation account does not mention creation OF the planet.

Ah, but perhaps if we read extra-literrally, it doesn't tell you the time of the Earth's creation.It says the earth was created "In the beginning". It doesn't tell you whether that beginning was on the first day or many millenia before. God may have been hovering for billions of years.Then, when He is finally ready, God creates light and darkness and seperates them. That is the first day. The creation of the earth falls outside that day, but how far outside is not mentioned.

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No, time started at "The beginning", not at the first day. There can be time without a cycle of light and dark, can there not?'Day', according to the bible, is light that is separated from the dark. Before day, there comes darkness. When does day start? With daylight.Thus, the beginning of the first day was when God created light. This occurred after the creation of the earth. Therefore, one could argue that the earth was created a long time before the first day, with a extended period of 'hovering' or 'brooding' over the waters (or whatever God was doing then).

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Gen 1:4 "And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness."
Gen 1:5 "And God called the light 'Day', and the darkness he called 'Night'. And the evening and the morning were the first day."

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God first separated the night from day, then created the lights to do it. Actually, I think when it mentions that the morning and evening made the first day, and evening and morning weren't created until after the creation of the Earth, pretty clearly points to the Earth being made before the first day.Edited by Doddy, : fixed quote

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It's not needed, it just was the case. Genesis says God created the term 'day' to refer to a period of light, and the term 'night' to refer to a period of darkness. Not at all. Genesis speaks of the time between the first morning and evening being the first day. Thus, the creation of divided periods of light (for without this, you cannot have a morning) is precisely what the layout of the days depends on.

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