That from the outside of our space/time continuum he created all we can see in six mornings and evenings and, as I near the transition time into His presence, Him I believe,
God said no such thing! Genesis 12-50 is written in the genre of literature known as the “Historical Narrative.” Genesis 1-11 is written in a very different genre of literature that is not found anywhere else in the Bible, but is found in epic tales, sagas, myths, and legends— genres of literature in which there is typically very little, if any thing, that is historically accurate. The creation story in the Bible is just that—a severely redacted story! The rest of Genesis 1-11 is a series of severely redacted epic tales, sagas, myths, and/or legends. They have no historical value, but their theological value is immense! The three big Young Earth Creationist organizations are obsessed with what is not really in Genesis but they ignore that which is most truly there—and there is too much of that in this thread.
Some ancient Jewish rabbis continued to believe into the 8th century A.D. that Genesis 1-11 was an accurate, literal account of actual historic events. Ancient Christian scholars, however, were writing at least as early as the first half of the third century A.D. that Genesis 1-11 is not and could not possibly be a literal account of any events. However, in this thread, precisely the opposite is being assumed even though that assumption has no solid basis of fact.
Select Bibliography
Commentaries on the Hebrew text of Genesis:
Goldingay, John - B.C.O.T. 808 pages, 2020
Hamilton, Victor P. - N.I.C.O.T. 1,296 pages, two vols., 1990, 1995
Matthews, Kenneth A. - N.A.C. 960 pages, two volumes, 1996, 2005
Matthews, Kenneth A. - C.S.C. (Chap. 1-11) 622 pages, 2022
Sarna, Nahum M. JPS Torah Commentary 414 pages, 1989
Skinner, John - I.C.C. 552 pages, 1930, Second Edition
Speiser, Ephraim A. - A.B. 378 pages, 1987
St. Augustine, Vol. 1, - Ancient Christian Writers,
De Genesi ad litteram liber imperfectus, 285 pages, 389-415
St. Augustine, Vol. 2, - Ancient Christian Writers,
De Genesi ad litteram liber imperfectus, 302 pages, 389-415
von Rad, Gerhard - O.T.L. 440 pages, 1972 (German), 1972 (English), Revised Edition
Waltke, Bruce K. with Cathi J. Fredricks 656 pages, 2001
Wenham, Gordon John - W.B.C. liii, xxxviii, 353, 517 pages, 1987, 1994
Westermann, Claus – C.C. (Chap. 1-11) 636 pages, 1974 (German), 1984 (English)
Westermann, Claus – C.C. (Chap. 12-36) 604 pages, 1981 (German), 1985 (English)
Westermann, Claus – C.C. (Chap. 37-50) 269 pages, 1982 (German), 1986 (English)
Zlotowitz, Meir - ArtScroll lxxxii, 2,232 pages, two volumes 1977, 1986, (same contents as the original six volumes but bound in two volumes)