The Pentateuchal Story of Creation

“…my conclusion is that the word day in Moses’ history of creation is to be understood in the sense of an age or era—a long period of time, how long I cannot pretend to say, distinguished from other time by something characteristic of it. The geologist, giving us the history of creation as he has learned it from the study of the rock-records of the earth, divides that history into eras in no way discrepant with those to distinctly marked in the Pentateuchal story.” Also allows for long gap between first two verses of Genesis (but not a re-creation).