My Fallback Position On Genesis 1

I have written many blog articles defending The Functional Origins/Temple Inauguration interpretation of Genesis 1. This is the view most commonly associated with Professor John Walton of Wheaton College and is defended in his books “The Lost World Of Genesis One” and “Genesis 1 As Ancient Cosmology”. This view holds that Genesis 1 is not about material origins, but about functional origins. The days are 7 24-hour days, and over the course of these 7 days, God ascribes functions to everything in...