A preacher wouldn't say 1/2 a billion years ago rain became rock.
Wrong. The Gap Theory had been around for a long time before the events of this movie, which take place after WW1 thru the 20s and into the early 30s. As such, the father likely adhered to this theory (or another Old Earth theory), as many ministers still do today. I'm not saying it's genuinely biblical, just that some ministers embrace it and sincerely believe/preach it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gap_creationism#:~:text=From%201814%2C%20gap%20creationism%20was,Dutch%20Arminian%20theologian%20Simon%20Episcopius.
For those interested, here's an interesting & detailed comparison of the Young Earth Theory with the Gap Theory, plus other theories on the age of the Universe:
http://fountainoflifetm.com/2016/07/24/how-old-is-the-earth/
I should add that even Young Earth advocates who claim the Earth is about 6000 years old admit that the Earth
appears billions of years old and, in a sense,
it is. The Creator simply condensed the aging process of each phase of creation into six days sorta like those science videos where a plant is filmed over the course of many months and then the growth is condensed to seconds for viewers. If filmmakers can do this via cinematic wizardry I don’t think the Almighty would have a problem doing something similar with his initial creation of people, animals, plants, trees, mountains, canyons, planets, stars and galaxies. There’s even a blatant example in the Bible of God supernaturally condensing the growth-time of a plant in Jonah 4:6
https://biblehub.com/jonah/4-6.htm. So why wouldn’t the Creator be able to do the same thing when creating the Earth & Universe?
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