Chapter 10 seems more like a reiteration of the points made in the previous chapters. In case one wants to read the previous chapter, the link is here. This chapter is titled 'The Seven Days of Genesis 1 Do Not Concern Materials Origins'. The chapter merely reinforces the point that text of Genesis 1 provides an account of functional origin, not of material origins. The author adds that the fact that the text speaks of functional origin does not mean that God is not the creator of the cosmos. There are evidences in the biblical text that God is the creator of cosmos. For example, New Testament writers begin to be concerned about the material origins, which the author of Genesis was not, and thus provides theological reason that God is the creator of the cosmos.
Another point the author adds here is the point that the text does not really suggest for old earth or young earth. It does not say anything about the age of the earth. The age of the earth has to be deduced from scientific findings, not from the biblical text. However, once it is granted that the scientific findings about the age of the earth is correct, it raises a theological point whether death was there even before sin entered the world. The author argues that death of human enters through sin. But death as such, say, of plants or animals would have been there even before sin enters the world though Adam and Eve. The growth of plant which was created on day 3 requires death of at least cell. And Adam would have death skin (epidermis). It is not possible to imagine deathless life.
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