Speyside2 wrote:Anthony, the biblical Hebrew word translated as day is Yom. it has 7 or 8 meanings. This is common with older languages. They have less words with multiple meanings. Another meaning for Yom is time. I prefer this meaning because it makes sense to me. From a biblical standpoint the sun and moon were not created till the fourth Yom. So, I do not believe the 6-day/24-hour philosophy. Also, radiometric dating places the earth at 4 .5 billion years old. Radiometric dating is thought to be accurate + or - .5 billion years. This would make the earth between 4 and 5 billion years old. Of course, all of the above is only my opinion. Though I do prefer to form my own opinion as opposed to being told what my opinion will be.
I always tooks "days" to mean Eons or Epochs.
And try as the bible authors did to explain things, they did get the order wrong:
Day 1 - Light. Like the Big Bang
Day 2 - Firmament. Expansion, cooling and the beginning of planetary accretion
Day 3 - Earth, Sea and vegetation. This would be from the the Hadean eon to end of the Archean eon. Like 2.5 billion years.
Day 4 - Sun, moon and stars. Ok, so this happened days 1 through 2, with the moon showing up at the beginning of day 3.
Day 5 - Birds and sea creatures. So birds came after land animals (day 6). But let's just say this was the end of the Proterozoic through the Paleozoic.
Day 6 - Land animals and humans. This would have been a long day with us showing up in the last few moments.
You have to hand it to them that they didn't do so bad for a bunch of sheep herders.