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.
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