The Bible tells a person that God created the world in six days. This story can be a stumbling block for many people. It is not clear how to understand the six-day creation of the whole world.
Some points of the Bible should not be considered verbatim, but figuratively. It must be understood that the days of God’s creation of the world in the Bible do not imply a period of time of 24 hours (day). The fact is that the sun, moon and stars appeared only on the fourth day of creation. Therefore, until this time, talking about the day in the usual human sense is impossible. So it remains to think the day of creation as a period of time. What it was in duration is unknown. It can be argued that the planet was formed over thousands of years or even long periods of time. In this sense, we can talk about the evolutionism of the planet, as it is now proven that the world has developed. Christianity does not reject this, but adds that the planet developed according to certain laws established by God. It is no coincidence that the Holy Scriptures say that God has one day as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. Therefore, do not think literally the day of creation in modern time categories.
On the first day, God created the visible sky (like atmosphere) and light. This light was not a consequence of the existence of heavenly bodies, but the action of divine grace. Day and night appeared.
The second day was marked by the creation of the earth's firmament.
The third day - the creation of land and seas, as well as plants. It must be understood that there was no sunlight yet. Therefore, the plants received some other source of light (this is how the Christian narrative can be interpreted). Probably it could be that same divine light. Greens, trees and plants could be created by God before the rest of the animal kingdom so that the earth would be prepared for the perception of various other living beings.
On the fourth day, heavenly bodies appeared: the sun, moon and stars.
On the fifth day, the creation of the world was marked by the development of various forms of living beings, and on the sixth day, man was created.
As mentioned above, within the framework of each day, the processes of evolution of species of living things took place. However, all this was subject to a general natural law established by God. Darwin also said that it was the Lord who caused the emergence of certain evolutionary processes, since in God the beginning of the chain of formation of living beings.
Thus, the teaching of the Church does not contradict science in the theory of the multimillion-dollar formation of the world (an exception can only be the fact of a person’s origin from the direct action of God on the sixth day of creation, aimed at creating a unique new person who has spiritual qualities and carries the image and likeness of the Creator).
