The doctrine of creation affirms that God, who is the only one who has not been created and is eternal, has formed and given existence to everything that is outside of himself. He did it out of the blue with the word of his power, and everything was very good. According to the Scriptures, God created “the heavens and the earth fully formed and functioning in six days, about 6,000 years ago (about 4000 BC). The context of Genesis 1, as well as other places in the Bible, makes it clear that these days were ordinary 24-hour days.
God's original creation was perfect, without death or suffering. Creation is in stark contrast to evolution and unbelieving thinking. In addition, biblical creation supports many vital concepts in Christian theology. Evolutionists and some old earth creationists (those who mix their Christianity with the pagan evolutionary story of a big bang, millions of years and other evolutionary ideas) often accuse that scientists who believe in a young Earth have no real degrees and don't conduct real scientific research that could be published in secular peer-reviewed scientific journals.
Questions related to the length of the days of creation, the age of the earth and the relationship between creation and evolution, just by way of example, have fostered a great debate among Christians. It's hard to imagine that there is any topic within Christianity that has been responsible for more debate and disagreement than the doctrine of creation. Evil, which I consider an anti-divine stance, what the Bible calls godlessness, was not part of the original creation in any way. The biblical creation holds the Bible as the account of God as an eyewitness to the real events of creation, since God was the only one who was there to observe what happened from the beginning.
Undoubtedly, this is why Herman Bavinck, Francis Schaeffer and many others emphasized the importance of the doctrine of creation as, what Bavinck called, the “starting point of true religion”.
