Hiro, DVR, and a different perspective on the creation narrative

Recently, during a question and answer session at a college gathering, the question of creation vs. evolution came up and I'm not really sure what triggered it, but the character Hiro Nakamura and my DVR remote came to mind when I begin to try to understand the creation narrative. I guess the reason they both came to mind is that one of the major conflicts between creation vs. evolution is the argument that all of the geographical patterns seem to indicate that the earth was formed over a much longer time than a simple 24 hour day that is referenced in the Genesis account (and even then, I'm not sure that the word for 'day' in Genesis is specifically giving a specific amount of hours but that is a different argument altogether).

First of all, let me say that I don't doubt for a minute that God could have spoken the world into existence and in the time that it takes to exhale, the world was. God is big enough to do that and that is the bottom line of all of this...He did it. But I also think that our understanding of the whole argument is laden with assumptions and this is where the randomness of Hiro and the DVR remote come into play.

If you don't watch the show, Heroes, I need to explain the character Hiro to you. Hiro is a character who has the power to teleport back and forth through time but he also has the ability to stop time and move freely while the rest of the world is frozen in suspended animation. Basically, it's like Hiro has a DVR remote for life and he can simply hit the pause button and everything that is live pauses.

When we think about time and creation, we assume that God is bound and exists within it. We assume that during the 24 hour day of creation, God was bound by that time period....but what if God was making the earth and simply said "time out"? He could have taken eternity to make the earth (because He is eternal) and when He was done, he could simply hit the 'play' button and time would resume and the earth would be formed and by all scientific specifications, created in a twenty four hour time period...or less. I can just see God walking around the earth as it is frozen and hovering in space; studying it, molding it, shaping it, becoming small enough to walk on it's mountains, and then becoming big enough to reshape the very same mountains with His fingers. I think it would be consistent with God's revealed nature to say that He savored every moment of creating everything. He pondered and poured over every bit of it. And it could have happened in a moment and in a millenium all at once because He is God.

I think it can be helpful to wrestle with the whole question of 'creation vs. evolution' but I also think it is very pointless from a human perspective. There is so much information that we don't have. We can barely grasp the things that God has revealed directly to us about who He is, how in the world could we ever comprehend the things that He doesn't deem necessary to explain(and for our own good I'm sure). He simply tells us that He created all of it in six days and my guess is that He tells us in this way with those words because it is in terms that we can understand but I also believe that those words are exactly and fully true.