gap creationism

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Noun

1. A type of [[Old Earth creationism]] which posits that the six days referred to in the [[Genesis]] account of creation are literal 24-hour days, but that there was a gap of time between two distinct creations in the first and the second verses of Genesis. The hypothesis states that this explains many [[scientific]] observations, including the [[age]] of the [[Earth]].

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