How long was God creating the material universes? Though this is not stated in scripture, we do have some faces in Gen. 1:3-2:25 concerning the re-creation which are very interesting. God take one day to divide darkness and light on the planet earth (1:3-5): another day to divide the waters (1:6-8): A day to restore dry land (1:9-13): a day to regulate the sun, moon, and stars in connection with the restore earth (1:14-19): another day to create fish and fowl (1:20-23): and still another day to make man and land animals (1:24-31). With this in mind, let us consider how long it could have taken Him to create the 40,000,000,000,000,000,000,000(40 sextillion) stars which astronomers say are out in space. They tell us that each one of these stars is a sun to other planets like our sun is to our planetary system. We have 9 major planets and 31 satellites which, counting the sun, make 40 great bodies of material substance in this one system. If we suppose that each of the stars (40 sextillion) has the same in its planetary system, than there are 1,520,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 (1,520 sextillion) such bodies which take that many days (or more) to create. Reduced to years we should have the astonishing figure of 4,164,383,561,643,836,164,383 years to create these systems along. Why did God create and make the material universes? The answer is to be inhabited with intelligent, free moral agents, to whom He could reveal Himself, and who would enjoy His infinite blessing and goodness. WE are told that the earth was created to be inhabited and the same is true of other habitable planets( Isa.45:18;Eph.1:3-11; 2:7;3:9-11; Col.1:15-19;Rev.4:11; 12:12; 13:6; Dan.4:35). According to astronomers, about one-tenth of the planets, which number into the millions, are in a temperate zone and could sustain life.