frogprince: "So when the commandment says to rest on the Sabbath day, because God did, maybe it means that we should work for about six billion or so years, and then take a billion or so off to rest."

Works for me.

frogprince: "If the author of the Genesis account understood enough about the Big Bang to describe it as well as the language available to him permitted...how did he learn that much about it? Did God tell him? If so, how did God communicate that sort of knowledge to him?"

God invited him up for lunch... Navy beans and ham....the rest is history.

GfS