Part two. Day two and three. Day two is here. God begins his creative work by ... well ... OK, making an atmosphere. There are a couple of things: first, 'firmament' — we know it is not firm at all; arguably, the sky is the least firm thing we have on this planet. Luckily, this word can be easily translated as 'expanse', so it sounds better and not so embarrassingly silly as to think that either God himself or his chosen scribe think that the sky is somehow solid. Then there is the issue ...

Part one. Introduction and day one. Genesis 1, all but two verses of it, covers a very short period of time. Specifically, verses 3-31 (last one) cover just under 144 hours, yet so much was done. First and, possibly, second verses may describe events that lasted the amount of time similar to 13.8 billion years — the current scientific estimate of the age of the universe. If so (and there is nothing definitive to indicate that it could not be so), then the God of the universe is capable of e...