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Progressive creationism, also known as day-age creationism,
holds that the account of Genesis is true, but argue that the
Creation "days" were not 24-hour days. Instead it is believed
they lasted for long periods of time—or as the theory's name
implies: the "days" each lasted an age. According to this view,
the sequence and duration of the Creation "days" is
representative or symbolic of the sequence and duration of
events that scientists theorize to have happened, such that
Genesis can be read as a summary of modern science, simplified
for the benefit of pre-scientific humans. Some Day-Age
creationists suggest that the very brief account of creation in
Genesis was not intended as exhaustive, but rather a succinct
summary of ancient knowledge in the Levant. Many argue that the
Creation narrative is brief because it serves as an introduction
linking the rise of the Judaic ethnos to the dawn