Biblical Creationism

When it comes to the issue of origins where should we look?  Scientists were not there to observe the beginning of creation.  So maybe we should look to the only one who was there.  God himself is the only one who was there and is the only one who can give us an accurate account of it.  God has revealed himself to us in the Bible.  It is the very Word of God and is therefore authoritative and inerrant.  

We must read Genesis as historical narrative because that is the way it was meant to be taken.  We must go with a straightforward interpretation of it.  God created out of nothing and he spoke the world into existence.  So how long were the creation days?  

The Hebrew word for day is yom.  It can mean the light period of a 24 hour day, an extended period, or a 24 hour day.  The natural straightforward interpretation seems to be a literal 24 hour day.  Each of the creation days features the words evening and morning as well as a numerical adjective for each day.  This provides supportive evidence for creation in six literal 24 hour days.  Also Exodus 20:11 and Exodus 31:12-18 support the interpretation of a literal 24 hour day. The Bible does not calculate the age of the earth but young earth creationism does seem to be correct.  

Old earth creationists employ either the gap theory or the day age theory.  The gap theory puts millions of years before Genesis 1:3.  This seems to be read into the text and there is no reason to believe there were millions of years before Genesis 1:3.  The day age theory see the creation days as long periods of time and not literal 24 hour days.  This does not seem to be the straightforward, natural interpretation of the text.  It seems to be an example of reading our own views into the Biblical text.    

The old earth creationists attempt to get millions of years to explain the fossil record.  They end up having death and suffering in the world before the sin of Adam.  The Bible plainly teaches that death entered the world because of sin.  Also God called all that he had created very good.  If he originally created a world of death and suffering would it be very good?  Much of the fossil record was laid down during the Genesis Flood.  

Attempts to get millions of years into the creation account of the Bible seems to be a compromise with secularism.  It is an attempt to get credibility with the secular academic world.  The natural reading of Scripture is for six literal 24 hour days.  The earth seems to be thousands of years old and not millions of years old.  Young earth creationism seems to be the Biblical position.