I don’t think I have ever heard the following view expressed by anyone else.

So, I might be a loophole. Or just ignorant.

I am happy to be put in either box.

Let me set the scene to start with. The challenge we have with the first few chapters of Genesis compared to the Big Bang theory and theory of evolution might be summed up as follows:

Most Scientists will tell us that there is substantial evidence to support the views that are now common in most schools and universities, namely: everything started with an infinitely dense tiny point (a ‘singularity’) which suddenly expanded – a process usually referred to as a ‘Big Bang’. Protons, neutrons, atoms, elements, stars and planets all gradually formed.

Next came Abiogenesis, the idea that, when conditions were right, a living cell can be formed from non-living materials, again over extended periods of time. Those cells must have replicated themselves to form complex molecules and...