Don

FWIIW, the words “evening and morning, day n” do not clearly indicate a solar day TO ME in these examples from Gen 1. For 1, evening and morning are the end points of what we call night, not daytime or a 24 hour day. For 2, evening and morning are terms that can be used in metaphors. There are GOOD reasons that Jews decline to insist that the creation days MUST be seen as the same as solar days.

I am an old earther for many reasons and short discussions here are not going to sway me. I would hope that others who believe that there is only one way to view origins texts on this would study views contrary to their own and see why they make sense to others, if not themselves.

In any case, I made a attempt at a helpfu