[grip_daddy]

Ernest,

Explaining away literal creation week is assuming correctness of science at the expense of God's possibilities and abilities, and at the same time misapplying the one day, one thousand years contextual biblical framing. Genesis is recorded in man's time, not God's timelessness which would falsify the need for Sabbath commandment as was given to Israelites.

On the existence of time, assume an empty space without matter and energy: Eternity exist in this space before any action, of which at the point when an entity is appended, there was a measurable duration which, in our limited ability to express concepts, we would term as time. For example, if you would measure time by an information carrier that travels from point A to point B at a speed given by t=0, the calculated time would be absolute.