It’s almost abnormal the way we worry about ourselves and measure all the shit when we have to know how much is our blood pressure, heart rate, sugar, how many steps we take in a day, how many calories we consume and we measure those not just on ourselves but on somebody else, too. Does it make any difference? At the same time, we live much less than if we don’t measure anything because the bad data makes us sick when we face them. We measure economic performance, corporate efficiency and at the end of the day notice that numbers are not missing from any of our sentences. Our brains are transformed, no longer contain historical connections, but numerical derivations, and if the stories do not correspond to the numbers, they become unreliable, since the numbers are only authentic. Numbers inevitably have units of measure, since numbers have significance in relation only to those. Yes, but units of measure exist only since the 18th-19th centuries when the Industrial Revolution took place, and those are not uniform either! And now I’m just talking about the more developed part of the world. In many places, even in the today's Africa units of measure are not in use. A few years ago, I was asked to bring two kilos of dried fish from Nigeria to Hungary. I went out to the Abuja market and when I asked for two kilos, they had no idea what I wanted. They showed me an empty tin can asking of how many I want like that? That was the benchmark! But at another table, the benchmark was a can of a completely different size.
The today’s man can’t even imagine the past where the market system of Abuja was normal.

And now let's move on to time. Let’s just say that time had no significance in the past. I am speaking about the time that our watch or mobile phone is measuring. Of course, the seasons and position of sun played an important role, as people adapted their lives, their agricultural activities and thousands more things to those. The man of the past lived his life in the present, so the alternation of periods also made sense in the present. They did not interpret time in relation to the past. At least not like we do it today. There were no times measured in centuries, millennia, those had a different meaning at that time. If it was said that one day, it could mean anything. The millennium, too. It did not consist of exactly a thousand years, but indicated a period what they wanted to separate from another period. The one who does not interpret the records of the past in this conception and takes seriously the periods of one year, ten years, or the indications of ages of certain persons, is making a great mistake. Thus, it may have happened that the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) was not born in 570 but in the Year of the Elephant. He was born at the time when Abraha wanted to attack Mecca with an army that marched with elephants. It was only calculated retrospectively by scientists who wanted to identify the age that this was in 570 according to Christ. This could only happen when modern tools for age identification, such as carbon isotope and others, were available.
Until then, the logic was a story-based identification of the ages.

We don’t have to go far, Julius Nyerere (1922-1999), the name of Tanzania’s ex-head of state means an "ant" because the year he was born there was an ant invasion in the country.
The biggest confusion can take place when determining the age of women who have lived in the past. The documents of the old times do not show that the particular lady is 6, 20 or 40 years old, but counted from which date? After all, it was not always counted from birth, but from female initiation, sexual maturity. This is how all sorts of misconceptions are propagated about marriages, early weddings, and others.

And now let us deal with the time of the creation of the world, according to this logic.

It is Allah Who has created the heavens and the earth, and all between them, in six Days, and is firmly established on the Throne (of Authority): ye have none, besides Him, to protect or intercede (for you): will ye not then receive admonition? (Quran 32:4)

(See also 7:54). The "Day" does not mean a day as we reckon it. viz., one apparent course of the sun round the earth, for it refers to conditions which began before the earth and the sun were created. In verse 5 below, a Day is compared to a thousand years of our reckoning, and in 70:4 to 50,000 years. These figures "as we reckon" have no relation to "timeless Time", and must be taken to mean very long Periods, or Ages, or Eons.

He rules (all) affairs from the heavens to the earth: in the end will (all affairs) go up to Him, on a Day, the space whereof will be (as) a thousand years of your reckoning. (Quran 32:5)

Our Day may be a thousand or fifty thousand years, and our years in proportion. In the immense Past was Allah's act of creation: it still continues, for He guides, rules, and controls all affairs: and in the immense Future all affairs will go up to Him, for He will be the Judge, and His restoration of all values will be as in a Day or an Hour or the Twinkling of an eye; and yet to our ideas it will be as a thousand years!

The angels and the spirit ascend unto him in a Day the measure whereof is (as) fifty thousand years: (Quran 70:4)

So, He completed them as seven firmaments in two Days, and He assigned to each heaven its duty and command. And We adorned the lower heaven with lights, and (provided it) with guard. Such is the Decree of (Him) the Exalted in Might, Full of Knowledge. (Quran 41:12)

For "Days", which may include thousands of years, see 7:54. They refer to stages in the evolution of physical nature. In the Biblical cosmogony, (Gen. 1:1-7 and 2:1-7), which reflects old Babylonian cosmogony, the scheme is apparently to be taken literally as to days and is as follows. - The first day
Allah created light; - the second, the firmament; - the third, the earth and vegetation; - the fourth, the stars and plants; - the fifth, fish and fowl from the sea; and - the sixth, cattle, creeping things, beasts on land, and man; - on the seventh day He ended His work and rested. Our scheme is wholly different. - Allah did not rest, and never rests. "His Throne doth extend over the heavens and the earth, and He feeleth no fatigue in guarding and preserving them"; - Allah's work has not ended; His activity still goes on: 32:5; 7:54; - man in our scheme does not come in with land animals; his advent is much later; - our stages are not sharply divided from each other, as in the above scheme, where the stars and planets having been created on the fourth day. Our stages for earth and heaven are not in sequence of time for the heavens and the earth. Our six stages are broadly speaking, - the throwing off of our planet from cosmic matter; - its cooling and condensing; - 3 and 4 the growth of vegetable and animal life; - 5 and 6 the parallel growth of the starry realm and our solar system.

So, whether it is the Bible or the Quran, we should never dispute them concerning units of measure. We have to observe the logic and to find parallels or differences in their logic, deductions and conclusions. On this basis, the theory of Creation in Islam differs from that of the Bible. It differs not in time but in logic. Furthermore, the six phases of creation listed are supplemented by the creation of life and then man, which is based on water. Creation in Islam is not a completed process, but an ongoing one what is continuous even today.