Since there is no indicator as to how much time passed during this gap, theorists place the

whole of Earth history in it. The light-distance problem facing young-earth creationists is

explained in gap theory by saying light had all the time in the world to travel from distant

stars during the gap. The dinosaurs are explained by saying they lived during the gap. The ice

ages and warming periods, polar reversals, fossil records, and numerous other Earth science

findings which are problematic to a young-earth theory are explainable (if slightly contrived)

in the gap theory. Yet the gap theory remains a theological option because it leaves the age of

man at roughly 6,000 years, and it leaves a literal six-day creation in place – but as are-

creation.

 Gap theory is not without holes however – most of them theological in nature. Why

did God, whose very essence is love, create a world with nothing capable of loving Him?

Why is there no explicit biblical support for this theory? Why is there no geological record of

a global cataclysm roughly six or seven thousand years ago that would have spurred God to

recreate the Earth? Why ishayahin Gen 1:2alwaystranslated “was” instead of “became”

unless translators (with a much deeper Hebrew background than a dude with a concordance)

are sure of its meaning?

 I personally believe that this theory could be partially correct, but it is so

unsubstantiated that I cannot assign it much value. To defend it while knowing the litany of

issues plaguing it would be academically dishonest. However, the other theories have no

shortage of holes either, so I try to use the parts of this theory that make sense, while keeping

an open mind to the possibility that it is flat out wrong.