How long did it take God to create the entire world?

Answer 1

7 Days (according to Quran)

Answer 2

How do we know that He (or She) is done yet?

One example: The Hawaiian Islands get bigger by volcanic action every year.

The Catholic Church does not take the stories of creation in the Bible literally. Catholics believe the book of Genesis tells religious truth and not necessarily historical fact.

One of the religious truths is that God created everything and declared all was good.

Catholics can believe in the theory of evolution. Or not. The Church does not require belief in evolution.

On August 12, 1950 Pope Pius XII said in his encyclical Humani generis:

The Teaching Authority of the Church does not forbid that, in conformity with the present state of human sciences and sacred theology, research and discussions, on the part of men experienced in both fields, take place with regard to the doctrine of evolution, in as far as it inquires into the origin of the human body as coming from pre-existent and living matter - for the Catholic faith obliges us to hold that souls are immediately created by God.

Here is the complete encyclical: http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/pius_xii/encyclicals/documents/hf_p-xii_enc_12081950_humani-generis_en.html

The Church supports science in the discovery of God's creation. At this time, the theory of evolution is the most logical scientific explanation. However tomorrow someone may come up with a better idea.

As long as we believe that God started the whole thing, both the Bible and modern science can live in harmony.

With love in Christ.

Answer 3

That a day can be longer than 24 hours is indicated by Genesis 2:4, which speaks of all the creative periods as one “day.” Also indicative of this is Peter’s inspired observation that “one day is with God as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day.” (2Pe 3:8) Ascribing not just 24 hours but a longer period of time, thousands of years, to each of the creative days better harmonizes with the evidence found in the earth itself.

Answer 4

Creationist Answer- 6 days, not changed to 6,000 years by some who reluctantly admit 6 days is a bit hard to believe.
Evolutionists- He didn't.

Answer 5

About 20 minutes. It was a quickie. God made this world for practice. That's why we don't see him around, he's off somewhere busy with the production model.

Answer 6

A few days. However, it is also said that our times are not his times, and considering that the events in Genesis follow the events in a standard core-accretion model of planet formation, you could say that God did it over the course of a few billion years.

Answer 7

That depends on the specific god and creation myth.

You didn't mean for real, did you? Because no gods have anything to do with the actual world.

http://www.cs.williams.edu/~lindsey/myths/myths.html
http://crab.rutgers.edu/~goertzel/creationmyths.htm
http://www.magictails.com/creationlinks.html

Answer 8

About 4.5 billion years, but first "he" had to create the Universe so first "he" had to spend about 12 billion years doing that before "he" could create our solar system.

Answer 9

6 days. See Genesis.

Answer 10

6 days?

Answer 11

a long time