Liane said in another post that "God did not create all the creatures in one day, but over several days."

Actually, according to the Bible text, quoted below, they were created over a period of two days, namely the fifth day and the sixth day, with Adam & Eve being created last, also on the sixth day:

Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarmers having a living soul; and let birds fly over the earth on the face of the expanse of the heavens.
Gen 1:21 And God created great sea-animals, and every living soul that creeps with which the waters swarmed after their kind; and every winged fowl after its kind. And God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:22 And God blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters of the seas and let the fowl multiply in the earth.
Gen 1:23 And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.
Gen 1:24 And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after its kind, cattle, and creepers, and its beasts of the earth after its kind; and it was so.
Gen 1:25 And God made the beasts of the earth after its kind, and cattle after their kind, and all creepers upon the earth after their kind. And God saw that it was good.
Gen 1:26 And God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the heavens, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creepers creeping on the earth.
Gen 1:27 And God created man in His image; in the image of God He created him. He created them male and female.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them. And God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply and fill the earth, and subdue it. And have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the fowl of the heavens, and all animals that move upon the earth.
Gen 1:29 And God said, Behold! I have given you every herb seeding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree in which is the fruit of a tree seeding seed; to you it shall be for food.
Gen 1:30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the heavens, and to every creeper on the earth which has in it a living soul every green plant is for food; and it was so.
Gen 1:31 And God saw everything that He had made, and behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day.

I would now like to ask Liane from which source she believes that they were created over several days, unless by several days she was referring specificly to the two days as stated in the above quote.

Two days is fine with me.

Well, I guess that takes care of this topic then.

It would help if we read the bible carefully and read between the lines. Before the record of the first day of creation Moses says that the water already existed. Unless you believe that the water is the creator you need to consider the wisdom of reading that record literally. Why did Moses begin his record the way he did? To pretend that there is not significance to that choice is to disregard the Bible.

Darius,

This topic is on the creation of the animals, not on the creation of water, therefore, your post is out of order, and this topic is closed.