If the andromeda galaxy is 2 million light years away, how could the earth have been created any sooner?
The earth could have been created yesterday. What you are asking is how could the universe (the “heavens”) been created any sooner. The answer is relatively simple: A careful reading of the “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth…” and then looking at how the words are used elsewhere in the same narrative, one quickly draws the conclusion that the “heavens” are anything above the “earth.” In the Old Testament, the “earth” often has a limited meaning having to do with where people lived. “The Good Earth,” for instance, does not refer to the planet, but the earth… the ground. The heavens, in like vein, refer to our planet’s atmosphere. Even then, the creation story is somewhat problematical for those who want to interpret it to mean six, 24-hour days. For the first day, there was no planet and our method of recording time is strictly based upon the rotation of the planet. Time is simply the method by which we humans record events and it is highly dependent upon the e
