Ray, I know you've posted before that you accept the earth is old, is this "gap theory" or your own thinking? How old do you think the earth is?
The gap theory is one of two theories ALL scholars subscribe to. My sources are pro-gap theorists. Do you want to know why we are right and the YEC's wrong ?
Answer: Because science has proven the Earth of immense age. Therefore the gap rendering is correct based on the totality of Biblical evidence.
Ray: Genesis 1 has God telling Adam to "REplenish" the Earth.
RAZD: Is there a time-table for this? At what point in time does Adam step on the stage?
Time is conspicuously absent from Genesis. God told Adam to REplenish the Earth instead of plenish; which implies and supports the gap. Genealogically, Adam was created 5100 BC (source: Codex Alexandrinus)
Ray