God’s Creation of the Universe Revisited

Abstract

This is a  re-examination of the history of the origin of the universe as recorded in the Bible and an attempt to find out if God actually created man on the 6^th day, if not, which day did he create man. There is also the question as to when God actually completed his work of creation and whether there were different phases involved in the process of creation. The research method used is a case study of the creation of the universe, life, man, plants and animals and an analysis of records in the Bible. Findings are, that there were three phases in the process of creation and that the process did not come to an end on the 6^th day as the process continued on a day after the 7^th day on which God rested. The work also found that there were three other days of creation aside the first 6 days and are referred to as days 8, 9 and 10 bringing the total days of creation to 9 not 6.This work asserts that man was not created or did not come into existence on the sixth day.The main conclusions are that God did not create man on the 6^th day because the decision to create man on the 6^th day was only a pronouncement of a plan of action that was executed on the 8^th day and that the plan also included that of creating the woman. Since man was not created or did not come into existence on the 6^th day, the process of creation did not end on that day but continued on day 8 in which the man was formed and came into being. Also the creative work of God came to an end after forming the woman called Eve and establishing the marriage institution. Consequently, the process can be said to have been completed on day 10, the day the woman was created. That there were three phases in the process of creation and three other days of creation apart from days 1-6 which are days 8, 9 and 10.

Key Words:Creationism, Creationists, Palaeontology, Day- age theory, Gap theory, Phase,