My own research on the subject is very limited. I tend to take the most simplistic approach to Bible interpretation first. There is no indication in the text of a gap. Second, I depend greatly on my gut feeling ("Holy Spirit urging") when a doctrine is posited. In this case, a little red flag pops up. It seems to me that this is an attempt to reconcile secular science (read evolution) and the Scriptures. Just as it takes a greater than average faith to believe that God has perfectly and exactly preserved His every word so that I can hold it in my hand and read it, it also takes great faith to confront and reject the "proofs" of science about the age of the universe/earth, and hold fast to the plain truth of the Scriptures.
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