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initial creation surface consistent with the biblical revelation. The main features of the model presented are (1) its foundation on a philosophically and biblically consistent interpretation of the temporal aspects of relativistic physics. The model is based on presentism, not the eternalist view of time. (2) Recognition that the relativity principle says nothing about the existence of a universal cosmic time. Such a cosmic time is consistent with the inability to globally synchronize moving clocks (as in SR) and (in light of the freedom of motion by way of non-gravitational forces) with the inability to operationally detect, by way of local measurements, the value of such a global cosmic time. (3) The model otherwise utilizes the conventional mathematical structure of GR. And, as mentioned, the solution presented herein is a submanifold of the FLRW metric; and, by way of diffeomorphism invariance, it will thus reproduce the observational features of GR cosmological models (such as the FLRW metrics, for example). The only difference between the YEC space-time manifold and the FLRW space-time is the specification of the local time to the initial creation surface. It is that initial condition time function which specifies the YEC sub-manifold of the FLRW by way of the creation surface of simultaneity. And, as we have stated, GR can say nothing about which initial condition is to be accepted. The decision to accept one over another is motivated by philosophical and theological presuppositions alone. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Very special thanks to Robert E. Walsh for reading an early version of the paper and for his useful recommendations for improving its clarity. 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