God created everything including Physics, Math, and Darwin's Principles. Perhaps they should be called God's Principles that Darwin discovered due to God's enlightening him. But our concept of time is based on the sun rising and falling. I picture God setting at a bench with the globe setting in front of him spinning it as he does his work. Seasons were not defined until several days in. There is no need for him to tie an absolute time reference to anything. I am not convinced that a day means 24 hours, but a collection of events that relate to an experience or idea.
The most basic unit of intuitive experience. Throughout the Scriptures we read of “day of rejoicing,” “day of
trouble,” “day of salvation,” expressions that commemorate a given day's
experiential quality. As a matter of fact, the Hebrew word y|#om,
meaning “day,” is the fifth most frequently used word in the Old
Testament. Though used for all sorts of common experiences, it came to
be used for marking special days of God's revelatory appearance, whether
to individual persons or to the nation. Most notably, there was a “day”
of Israel's election (Deuteronomy 9:24; compare Ezekiel 16:4-5), a “day” when God brought His people out of Egypt (Judges 19:30; 1 Samuel 8:8; 2 Samuel 7:6; Isaiah 11:16; Jeremiah 7:22,Jeremiah 7:22,7:25), but also a “day” of restoration (Zechariah 8:9-12). There was also a “day” of judgment ( Lamentations 1:12). A final day when God would judge the world was “the day of the Lord” (Amos 5:18-19; Isaiah 13:6; Zephaniah 1:7).
I feel we are farto presumptive when we make claims that evolution is not true. Science is God's creation. Yes we have limited knowledge of it, but it is sheer arrogance to believe that just because of a dogmatic interpretation of time that one day = 24 hours, which is actually never defined in the bible. We have know way of knowing how fast the earth was spinning. Personally I believe that the concept of a day is used more metaphorically than literally.
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