Alan Shlemon makes an acute observation in his piece on the march of world views: from Theism to Naturalism via Deism.
The slide to Deism, in my view, is abetted by the rejection of the real-world significance of the 'real-world' succession of God's creative acts within our-world days.
The point of the sequence of days-as-we-know-them, as I've written, is to place God as real in our real world. Thus he is the real and relating God who has created the setting for real fellowship in real terms between his creature-in-his-image and himself.
The simple connection point of using our life-world terms (days) for his actions drives this in concrete terms.
God shows that he acts in the same history that we live in. He created the setting for that history and remains active and present in it, demonstrating this from his very first 'relationship' acts. There is no disjunct in God's relating presence, acts or commitments from the beginning of creation to its conclusion in the new creation.
