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'''Gap creationism''' is form of creationism God created everything in six  days using 24 hour days. But between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2, there was a long time gap with a different earlier creation.
'''Gap creationism''' (or the '''Gap theory''') is a form of [[old-earth creationism]] that proposes a vast, indeterminate time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. It argues that God originally created the heavens and earth, but a pre-Adamic cataclysm—often linked to Satan's fall—destroyed it, resulting in the "formless and void" state of Genesis 1:2.

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Gap creationism (or the Gap theory) is a form of old-earth creationism that proposes a vast, indeterminate time gap between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2. It argues that God originally created the heavens and earth, but a pre-Adamic cataclysm—often linked to Satan's fall—destroyed it, resulting in the "formless and void" state of Genesis 1:2.