Debate: Does God exist?
Side: Theism

It is correct that it was created in 6 days and the 7th He rested.I am merely stating that what God considers 1 day, and our natural minds on application of 1 day are different. I believe God was capable of doing it in 24 hours, but I don't think He did.God is eternal, no beginning and no end. So He had billions of years to do what He could have quickly done in 24 hours. And we know He could have because He brought forth very complicated life forms on days 5 and 6. The question isn't what God could have done, the question is what did God do?God is patient, and we know that many miracles of God happened by a recipe or a series of events building up to His purposed design. God is a Creator. So if we look at Him as a Creator, we know that creating is 1st thinking, drawing plans, designing, gathering materials, possibly excavating, preparing a foundation, sketching, building upon it, adding color, redesigning, reshaping, outlining, clarifying, expanding, differentiating, filling in details, giving it depth, completing it, signing it, presenting it, and enjoying it.We know God builds, precept upon precept, prophesy to fulfilment, and God is known for His Patience. So when creating it would make sense that He would establish creation through a similar process. So yes they were 6 days, but God created time. He Himself is timeless! Eternal! Without a beginning and without an end. From 1 end of galaxies to the other end of galaxies He is the Creator. The Archetetct! So I don't think by embracing the idea of what 1 day meant in Genesis 1 is heretic theology. I think it may be closer to sound doctrine than actual 24 hour days.Also when it comes to plants and vegetation throughout ALL the scriptures, these things are left to grow. Not forced but to establish a seed by God and then patient growth by God. We see God's patience for growth in many parables by Jesus, like the wheat and the tares. There are a few things God left to natural growth. In nature specifically, but then also shown through our understanding as the created ones, we can see them and easily God can give us understanding in spiritual applications. The spiritual precepts follow follow nature's examples. And growth is left to its own time. And everything that jumped into being is immediate creation. But vegitation and the foundation of creation is left to eternal time for growth. The creations that unfold in due time without jumping into being are Heavens and Earth, Water, Light, Darkness, Ground or Foundation, Oxygen, Air, Atmosphere, Gravity, Fruits, Vegetables, Grains, Seeding, Planting, Growing, and Physical Reproduction ie... 9 months to grow a baby. Out of this list the only growth that has time attached as a measurement is "Be fruitful and multiply" The 1st reproducing command He gave was to nature. But He didn't say to growth to "be fruitful and multiply to vegitation." He said told vegitation to follow a natural course, be orderly, re-seed, and simply grow. And also through this process He put into the earth every natural resource needed to sustain our lives. So aside from the plant growth showing God's spiritual implications, it also shows the depths of God's practical applications.The only instance I recall off the top of my head, Im sure there are others, vegitation growing by a command of God, also withered as fast as it grew by God's command. And that was in the story of Jonah's shade tree. The tree didn't remain because it had no depth in roots. It was a mere object lesson. Showing God can create growth, but the patience of God remains longer, and He makes roots deep. As He was showing His Patience and Mercy for Nineveh and for Jonah. Also recall the parable of the sower, 1 doesn't take root, 1 wither without depth, and the other bears fruit that remains because it's rooted in depth.So God established growth, but not superficial. He established depth that reseeds and causes new growth with depth, and in its own time, however long it takes, God gives it eternal time. But only "1 day" of eternal time. "Genesis 1: 11 Then God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees on the earth bearing fruit after their kind with seed in them”; and it was so. 12 The earth brought forth vegetation, plants yielding seed after their kind, and trees bearing fruit with seed in them, after their kind; and God saw that it was good. 13 There was evening and there was morning, a third day.He did not use the term "be fruitful and multiply" till day 5. He applied the phrase to creatures birds, fish, animals, and man. Applying the phrase to creations that He had completed in 1 day of man's time, governed by time made for and given to man. So we may number our days.Deut 11: 21 "so that your days are multiplied, and the days of your sons, on the ground which Jehovah hath sworn to your fathers to give to them, as the days of the heavens on the earth." When the 1st creations appeared in completed form. God used the term "Be Fruitful and ..."Genesis 1: 22 "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let birds multiply on the earth.” 23 There was evening and there was morning, a fifth day." And "Genesis 1: 24 Then God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind: cattle and creeping things and beasts of the earth after their kind”; and it was so. 25 God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.26Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let them rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” 27 God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. 28 God blessed them; and God said to them, “Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over every living thing that moves on the earth.Ecc 31 There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven—2 A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.3 A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.4 A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance.5 A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.6 A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away.7 A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak.8 A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.9 What profit is there to the worker from that in which he toils? 10I have seen the task which God has given the sons of men with which to occupy themselves.God Set Eternity in the Heart of Man11 He has made everything appropriate in its time. He has also set eternity in their heart, yet so that man will not find out the work which God has done from the beginning even to the end.