At https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-syxid39kg
Hugh Ross says:
...it's translated 'at long last.' So several Bible scholars have
concluded [that] this isn't a few micro-seconds at the end of a
twenty-four hour day [...] between the creation of Adam and the
creation of Eve. Therefore the sixth day must be a long period of
time.
I find nothing remotely militating that a 24-hour model implies that
Eve would have had to be therein created mere moments after Adam was
created.
If God can specially create all the non-human animals, then He can do
so in any short span of time, such as in an hour or three.
Then He would have had most of the the rest of the sixth Earth-day to: (1) create Adam, (2) converse
with Adam as they walk together to the garden, and (3) have Adam name the
basic kinds of animals.
That would have been plenty of time for Adam to begin to see, from the very first several exchanges of that conversation, the total seven nested recursions of a General and its
Special:
(1) The universe and his Earth.
(2) Earth and her water.
(3) The water and his cycle.
(4) The water cycle and her life.
(5) Life and its animal life.
(6) Animal life and its human life.
(7) the human male and his Woman.
So, a long length of time between when Adam was made and Eve was made
is not the issue here. The issue is anticipation, hope, and
prediction, on the part of Adam. Without these, it would not have
mattered if it had been either a billion years or a few hours: there
could not have been any 'at long last' perception on Adam's part.
And how long need it take? Hugh Ross begins by posing what amounts to a grossly limited Straw Man fallacy. Then he concludes that it must have taken a long time, weeks or months at least. So his premise is wrong, and his conclusion is wrong, though the one follows from the other.
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