Original sentence: From this promising position however, many 'long day' OEC's subscribe to YEC flood theories or portions of such theories such as a preflood canopy or subterranean water sources as suppling the flood waters.It is possible however to take the  'long day' OEC viewpoint and look at the geological history of the earth for evidence of a recent global flood and there are a number of things that indicate that a recent global flood has indeed occurred.Old Earth Creationism accepts the evidence that the earth is billions of years old, and views the creative days in Genesis as starting with an already existing Earth.The OEC's who view the creative days as being literal days in length, have many of the same problems as Young Earth Creationists with the fossil record showing a very ancient origin of life on earth.While other OECs whom view the six creative days as six periods of time, each of unstated great length possibly many millions of years long, have few problems with the findings of animals and plants with great age and allows the OEC's to embrace the findings of science and accept what is known about the physical structure of the earth and it's history
Edited sentence: --4.159.41.163 14:43, 8 June 2007 (UTC).Old Earth Creationism believes that the earth is much older than the six or ten thousand years claimed by Young Earth Creationists.The OECs whom view the creative days in Genesis as long periods of time rather than just six literal days, accept the evidence of great age found in geology and the fossil record.This results in OEC looking for evidence of a recent global that merely flooded the world briefly and did not create the huge effects required by YEC.This results in a view point where there is no need to squeeze the creation of millions of years of geologic history or  the fossil history of life on earth, into an event that is supposed to have occurred in a time span of about a year.While a YEC flood is clearly disproved by the evidence in geology and many other areas of science, there is evidence that points toward the possible occurrence of a recent OEC type flood