From what I understand, a bitcoin block takes an average of 10 minutes to be mined.

The genesis block or first on the bitcoin blockchain (block 0) was on January 3rd, 2009.
The second block ever mined, took 6 days to mine, not anything near 10 minutes.

Some people say that Satoshi did this on purpose, so that it was like the Bible's account of the world being created in 6 days.

Does anyone have any other thoughts or theories on the genesis block and the time taken for the subsequent second block