The Gap in the Gap Theory

[TBC: The Gap Theory is the idea of a great gap in time between Genesis:1:1In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
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An argument of those who advocate the ‘gap’ theory is that the word ‘darkness’ suggests that something is wrong with the creation. But Isaiah:45:7I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
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Theologically, there is also a very grave difficulty with the ‘gap’ theory. The Bible says there was no sin or death until man brought them into the world. According to the ‘gap’ theory, however, there had already been billions of years of suffering and death in the world, represented by the fossils and the sedimentary rocks of the earth’s crust, which are supposed now to identify the geological ages. According to the ‘gap’ theory, at the end of the geological ages Satan sinned and was cast to the earth and then there was a great cataclysm, so that the geological ages with billions of years of suffering and death took place before Satan sinned and certainly before man sinned.

The Bible, on the other hand, says specifically that ‘by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin’ (Romans:5:12Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
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—Henry M. Morris (October 6, 1918 – February 25, 2006, American young Earth creationist, Christian apologist, and engineer. Considered by many to be "the father of modern creation science.”)